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Impending Doom

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[INTELLIGENT] and [SPEECH] tags and pets.
« on: August 20, 2008, 10:15:28 pm »
I've been trying to mod in a race of talking, intelligent pets for dwarves, and I have some questions:


* Will they speak/strike up conversations with dwarves in fortress mode?

* Will they make friends/other relationships?

* Will I only succeed in totally destroying my copy of DF in a blaze of glory?
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Re: [INTELLIGENT] and [SPEECH] tags and pets.
« Reply #1 on: August 20, 2008, 11:23:46 pm »
I seem to recall someone modding snakemen (I think..) to be tamable then capturing a few, and they did chat with dwarves (and get stat boosts from it like dwarves do).

I don't really remember many details, you might be able to find it with a search though.
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Re: [INTELLIGENT] and [SPEECH] tags and pets.
« Reply #2 on: August 20, 2008, 11:32:24 pm »
You can't view the thoughts of pets, I think, so you can't see relationships.  They do chat, though... at least with each other.  Since they don't have much else to do, they'll tend to get high level conversation skills.

I'm not sure if they'll converse with your dwarves or not.
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Re: [INTELLIGENT] and [SPEECH] tags and pets.
« Reply #3 on: August 21, 2008, 12:33:11 am »
But only if they have the [INTELLIGENT] tag or both the [CAN_TALK] and the [CAN_LEARN] tags. If they don't fit one of those two criteria, they will still talk, but they will not gain any stat bonuses for it.
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Re: [INTELLIGENT] and [SPEECH] tags and pets.
« Reply #4 on: August 21, 2008, 12:38:46 am »
Alright, thanks all. This is sort of what I was hoping for.
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