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[Dame de la Licorne]

I have no experience modding, so I hope someone here'll be able to point me in the right direction.  I want to make creatures such as cows and camels, etc, milkable.  
1) What do I have to change in the raws?
and
2) Do I have to gen a new world for the changes to take effect?
Thanks.

[JT]

There's not a lot to it:

[EXTRACT :(animal)'s milk:foregroundcolor:backgroundcolor:brightness]
[MILKABLE:frequency] //the creature can be milked once every frequency frames
[EXTRACT_COOKABLE] //the dollop can be cooked and eaten
[EXTRACT_SIZE:10] //speculation: 10 weight units per dollop?

See CREATURE:MAGGOT_PURRING in creature_subterranean.txt.

Bear in mind that MILKABLE is broken, however, due to the fact that both males and females can be milked.  So if you add a milkable flag to cows, cows' milk in Dwarf Fortress will probably taste much saltier than usual.

[ November 13, 2007: Message edited by: JT ]

[Dame de la Licorne]

Thanks!  And will I need to gen a new world?

[Earthquake Damage]

I never realized the missing token was why I couldn't milk cows.  I figured there was some bug that rendered non-vermin unmilkable.

[Bouchart]

If I wanted cows to be milkable every 3 months do you know what the frequency would be?  There doesn't seem to be any way to determine that.  Thanks in advance.

[Dame de la Licorne]

The milking thing doesn't work.  In another thread someone said that milking was currently hardcoded so that only animals that can be picked up can be milked, so it looks like this'll have to wait until Toady changes the coding.  Oh well, I've put into the suggestions.

[I3erent]

ya he said it is hardcoded

[Hague]

So, what happens if you set the cows to [VERMIN_GROUNDER]?

[Armok]

quote:Originally posted by Hague:
<STRONG>So, what happens if you set the cows to [VERMIN_GROUNDER]?</STRONG>

Then adventurer mode will be fun!  
"The spinning live cow strikes the child in the head!"  

What I want to say is that making them vermin will have loads of side effects, vermin and normal creatures are fundamentally different in that vermin is handled like items rather than creatures by the game.

Edit: it would however probobly succeed in making them milkable.

[ December 22, 2007: Message edited by: Armok ]

[TheSpaceMan]

The dangerous part is if your dwarfs are hungry.
"Chasing vermin for food."

[Hague]

So what if they have the [VERMIN_GROUNDER] and [LARGE_ROAMING] tokens? Also, doesn't creature size become relative to how "heavy" the creature is? Cows are relatively large and so would probably weigh too much to be thrown very far (if at all)

[penguinofhonor]

Bugs would happen. Vermin, I've heard, are nothing like regular animals in code. Which I would be inclined to believe, considering vermin can disappear every few steps. And they don't seem to mind falling into magma.