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[Huesoo]

Make a octupos oriented body file with 12 arms instead of one please? Im decent at modding dwarf fortress but this stuff makes me have a stroke. Thanks in advance.

[3]

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[BODY:OCTOPOD]
[BP:UB:head][UPPERBODY][HEAD]
[BP:LB:body][LOWERBODY][CONTYPE:UPPERBODY]
[BP:LEG1:first arm][CONTYPE:LOWERBODY][LIMB][GRASP][STANCE]
[BP:LEG2:second arm][CONTYPE:LOWERBODY][LIMB][GRASP][STANCE]
[BP:LEG3:third arm][CONTYPE:LOWERBODY][LIMB][GRASP][STANCE]
[BP:LEG4:fourth arm][CONTYPE:LOWERBODY][LIMB][GRASP][STANCE]
[BP:LEG5:fifth arm][CONTYPE:LOWERBODY][LIMB][GRASP][STANCE]
[BP:LEG6:sixth arm][CONTYPE:LOWERBODY][LIMB][GRASP][STANCE]
[BP:LEG7:seventh arm][CONTYPE:LOWERBODY][LIMB][GRASP][STANCE]
[BP:LEG8:eighth arm][CONTYPE:LOWERBODY][LIMB][GRASP][STANCE]
[BP:LEG9:ninth arm][CONTYPE:LOWERBODY][LIMB][GRASP][STANCE]
[BP:LEG10:tenth arm][CONTYPE:LOWERBODY][LIMB][GRASP][STANCE]
[BP:LEG11:eleventh arm][CONTYPE:LOWERBODY][LIMB][GRASP][STANCE]
[BP:LEG12:twelfth arm][CONTYPE:LOWERBODY][LIMB][GRASP][STANCE]
[BP:MOUTH:beak][CONTYPE:LOWERBODY][MOUTH][SMALL][APERTURE]
Based on a faintly realistic octopus design (bar the twelve limbs, of course). Also of note is that real-life octopuses have three hearts, in case you didn't know that already.

[NewoTigra]

If they don't need all 3 hearts to live you could make 1-2 of them fake hearts, would make it tougher as internal attacks would have a lesser chance of impacting the 'real' heart if there were a couple of decoys.

[3]

I'm honestly not sure how DF's circulation system works, but supposedly the way lungs work is based on the number of damaged lungs versus the total number of lungs, and I wouldn't be surprised if the game's circulation system worked in the same way.

When it comes to IRL octopuses, Wikipedia says that two of the hearts are used to pump blood through the gills - effectively replacing lungs, then, so it's probably better to make them vital, or even giving them [BREATHE].

[Deon]

Nah, it takes to kill 1 heart for the creature to die, the same applies to a brain, thus hydras are highly vulnerable.

[3]

Can just tag the other two hearts as breathe organs, then.

[NewoTigra]

replace lungs with

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[BODY:RESPIRATORY_HEARTS]
[BP:HEART2:secondary heart][CONTYPE:UPPERBODY][BREATHE][INTERNAL][SMALL]
[BP:HEART3:tertiary heart][CONTYPE:UPPERBODY][BREATHE][INTERNAL][SMALL]maybe?

[Huesoo]

Thanks I was going to make a massive kraken creature. So do i just copy paste it to bodydefault.text?

[slink]

lol, it's a dodecapod, not an octapod.   

[Huesoo]

So i put it in and now im making the creature raws. Do i put in [12tentacles] or what?

[Lancensis]

Octopii also have their esophagus running right through their brain, so I guess you'd want the raws to reflect that. The question is, would you connect it to the brain, or the mouth? It's all very confusing.

[3]

So i put it in and now im making the creature raws. Do i put in [12tentacles] or what?

First put the code in a body-formatted file (body_default would be easiest, yes).
Now add OCTOPOD to the creature's body (you'll also need the heart(s)/lungs, brain, etc).

slink: Correct, but I have a habit of naming creatures after order-genus classification and "optopod" (as in "octopoda") is most appropriate for this sort of thing.

[NewoTigra]

Whenever I actually think about it, all we were asked to do was to make a few tentacles, & style.
As I had nothing else to do _{(except school work)} I did that and then have gone on to create some form of monstrosity that has 3 hearts instead of lungs, a throat and mouth (beak) attached onto said hearts and god-knows-what-else stuck on in random places for no apparent reason!
It's like an artifact body-part tag.

Once the next release is out I am going to have so much Fun with the random body parts tag.
That and internal 'fake' diversion body parts to prevent instant internal kills. With poison of course.

Spoiler: slight derailment (click to show/hide)

Come to think of it...It could have a mostly-fixed structure and then just some of the parts randomly generated. A guaranteed killing machine that doubles as a source of Body Horror and nastiness.
Addition poisonous unnecessary internal organs for greater toughness!
Steel Plated Skin!
Exploding Corpses!(we can do that already though I think)
MULTIPLE SCYTHING CLAWS OF PERMADEATH AND MAGMA SPEWING ORIFICES!

/end repressed mad biologist monologue

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