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Emerald Salamander

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Changing Dwarf Fortress
« on: February 04, 2012, 03:05:18 am »
I really wanna play around with things for the creatures in dwarf fortress but i have no idea what or where to go to do it. I would like to make it so dwarfs don't have to eat and drink as well as other things. Could some-one please make a video to show me what to do? Many people have told me what to do through text but this really doesn't help. So could some-one please make a video to show me how to change any creature i want to change like maybe giving goblins 5 arms or something... Well i  have said it enough so could some-one please make a video?
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Putnam

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Re: Changing Dwarf Fortress
« Reply #1 on: February 04, 2012, 03:08:37 am »
The modding is purely text, so the video would be nothing but text anyway.
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Hugo_The_Dwarf

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Re: Changing Dwarf Fortress
« Reply #2 on: February 04, 2012, 10:27:57 am »
Quote from: Putnam on February 04, 2012, 03:08:37 am
The modding is purely text, so the video would be nothing but text anyway.
Seconded

I think maybe some of us advanced modders should get together to make a step by step guide on how to start modding.
But when I think of doing it I get too complex, because what is a simple modification?
When I mod I go all out.

@Emerald Salamander
I would read the Modder's Workshop Thread, There has been several good beginning questions asked there. I even have a fair amount of questions I asked in there. It might be alot of reading but the mechanics on how to do the modifications have been explained indepth.
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Re: Changing Dwarf Fortress
« Reply #3 on: February 04, 2012, 01:15:18 pm »
Quote from: Hugo_The_Dwarf on February 04, 2012, 10:27:57 am
Quote from: Putnam on February 04, 2012, 03:08:37 am
The modding is purely text, so the video would be nothing but text anyway.
I think maybe some of us advanced modders should get together to make a step by step guide on how to start modding.
But when I think of doing it I get too complex, because what is a simple modification?
When I mod I go all out.

http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/Modding_guide
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Hugo_The_Dwarf

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Re: Changing Dwarf Fortress
« Reply #4 on: February 04, 2012, 01:19:10 pm »
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Re: Changing Dwarf Fortress
« Reply #5 on: February 04, 2012, 04:07:51 pm »
The default raw files are usually commented by toady as well, giving some insight into what different tags do and such... for everything else, there's the wiki!
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