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Dimmi

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Garbage?
« on: September 11, 2008, 12:51:56 pm »

I am thinking about the possibility to create "random" garbage in a fortress. Something that makes a sewer usefull maybe. My first idea was to create vermin that dies on instant and leaves a garbage "corpse". Is there a way to instantkill spawning vermin? My second guess was to change the behavior of "eating"...something like plants that leave seeds when eaten. Is it possible to make a dwarf drop an item if he eats food?
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G-Flex

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Re: Garbage?
« Reply #1 on: September 11, 2008, 04:16:30 pm »

I'm confused. Edible plants ALREADY leave seeds behind when eaten; that's how you keep getting them.

Also, you might be able to make vermin die immediately if you mess with their raws to do something like, I don't know, make them aquatic but spawn out of water. However, anything that makes them die immediately MIGHT screw up their world populations, if the game goes by that at all.

The problem is that these vermin would spawn in weird places, whether there should be trash there or not. Although, actually, some might spawn closer to things like food (flies and such). So try it out.
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Re: Garbage?
« Reply #2 on: September 11, 2008, 07:36:03 pm »

[HEATDAM_POINT:0]

Should make the vermin instantly die of heat the minute they enter the world.
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Dimmi

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Re: Garbage?
« Reply #3 on: September 12, 2008, 02:55:16 am »

the thing about the plants is: if i can edit the dropping of seeds i can make the plants drop trash instead...is there a "reaction" for eating?
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