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[lastofthelight]

I'm playing around with modding, experimenting, and I'd like to know if the following RAW settings are valid:

(to be shoved in a creature_something file)

[Creature:Faerie]

   [NAME:faerie:faeries:faerie]
   [TILE:'f'][COLOR:3:0:1]
   [FLIER]
   [FEMALE]
   [BENIGN]
   [CANOPENDOORS]
   [BUTCHERABLE_NONSTANDARD]
   [MAGICAL]
   [LIGHT_GEN]
   [SMALL_REMAINS]
   [DAMBLOCK:-1] [CHILD:2][BABY:1]
   [GOOD]
   [FLEEQUICK]
   [NARROW]
   [POPULATION_NUMBER:25:50]
   [BLOODTYPE:M]
   [TRANCES]
   [EXTRAVISION]
   [INTELLIGENT]
   [SPEECH:elf.txt]
   [SPEED:540]
   [WEBIMMUNE]
   [NATURAL]
   [MISCHIEVIOUS]
   [NO_SLEEP]
   [PREFSTRING:gossamer wings]
   [ALL_ACTIVE]
      [BODY:HUMANOID:2EYES:2EARS:NOSE:2LUNGS:HEART:GUTS:ORGANS:HUMANOID_JOINTS:THROAT:NECK:SPINE:BRAIN:5FINGERS:5TOES:MOUTH]
   [ATTACK:MAIN:BYTYPE:MOUTH:enspell:enspells:1:1:HEAT][ATTACKFLAG_WITH]
   [SIZE:1]
   [BIOME_ANY_TROPICAL]
   [STANDARD_FLESH]
   HOMEOTHERM:10067]
   [SWIMS_LEARNED][SWIM_SPEED:2500]
   [PERSONALITY:IMAGINATION:20:65:100]
   [PERSONALITY:ARTISTIC_INTEREST:30:60:100]
   [PERSONALITY:INTELLECTUAL_CURIOSITY:10:55:100]
   [PERSONALITY:ACTIVITY_LEVEL:30:55:100]
   [PERSONALITY:CHEERFULNESS:40:70:100]
   [PERSONALITY:EXCITEMENT_SEEKING:20:65:100
   [PERSONALITY:EMOTIONALITY:40:65:100]

The idea came around from playing around with an alternate install and messing with raw settings, and noticed that when I added the [female] or [male] tag to a species, it still showed up on the worldgen screen as having cities; abeit the only members were those whom survived from the initial worldgen and the species were relatively rare.

Set aside for the moment the fact that I'd still  need to complete the entity file, and that the [magical] tag does nothing. Also, the rational for the one point [heat] attack is a sortof 'zap of light' at people. I only gave them a damage modifier of -1 because they have such a small size, I didn't want to gimp them too much.

Though, I am curious as to how monster creatures like Harpies reproduce - it may not reproduce intelligence races, but I know it can't /only/ generate harpies (or the other species with [female] or [male] at year 1.

[ June 01, 2008: Message edited by: lastofthelight ]

[Sean Mirrsen]

Several errors:

Size is too small for a non-vermin. The game will warn you of that.
Extravision is not infravision. As in, it means sight without eyes, not seeing in the dark.
"Web-immune" for a faerie isn't strictly true, but that's my opinion.
I advise a custom body for such a small creature - "You hack at the faerie in the left upper arm with your Iron Greataxe" doesn't sound right to me.
Attackflag_with doesn't go well with mouth attacks. Not that it causes errors, it's just that the resulting message is odd.
Homeotherm lacks an opening bracket. Excitement seeking lacks a closing bracket.
And tropical biomes don't work well for rapid testing - worlds smaller than standard don't have those temperature regions.

Other than that, I suppose it's alright. Oh, and add wings to them, I think that would be correct.

[Deon]

No MAGICAL please!
It definitely adds crashes, I experienced this when I've added this to wizard race. Also it allows strange things like "at peace with wildlife".

[Erom]

quote:Originally posted by Deon:
<STRONG>it allows strange things like "at peace with wildlife".</STRONG>

Which would be totally appropriate for faeries, wouldn't it?