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[Raptor_a22]

Ah, there was a typo in the object declaration. It's working now.

[jesusmod]

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all right, I have a massive list of how-to's to ask about, mainly because I'm too lazy to go through all 117 pages to do this... how would I go about creating a... dwarven powered armor caste? like, have a reaction that gives dwarves affected by the stone to have the ability to use an interaction that changes them to the special caste, which is basically a dwarf with a thick, specially named metal skin over its body, special body parts like forcefields, swordguns, shields and the like, with the dwarf turning into the power armored caste only in combat situations? and would the dwarf be able to retain it inventory through the transformation? also, how would I be able to create a regenerative healing spell without the dwarf it's used on losing it's inventory? would I be able to add an interaction that temporarily gives a dwarf an adrenaline rush-type ability that consists of heightened movement speed, to-hit chance, and a flyer tag(to simulate a jump)? would it be possible to add a metroid-style ice beam ability to said powered armor dwarves, and since these abilities are pretty overpowered, how would I go about creating a zerg race that breeds like crazy, are all glass cannons in combat with extremely powerful natural weapons, are hostile to everyone, and basically zerg rush in sieges? how would I go about making them "balanced" in comparison to the overpowered powered armor caste I'm trying to add? and I'm also unfamiliar with how the body_detail_plan actually works, especially since I'm trying to add all these new materials and abilities into the masterwork mod for a weird, pseudo-sciency twist. I have pretty limited experience with all of this stuff, and the only actual modding stuff I've done was just creating weapons, armor, clothing, and other, non-organic things. I've never actually created my own creatures before, mainly because I was too afraid to try it because of how complicated it seems, and because the first time I tried to modify my dwarves, I forgot to give them skin...

TL;DR: space marine dwarves and zerg rushing zergs, how to?

[Putnam]

Creatures turning into other creatures during combat situations can pretty much only be done with USAGE_HINT:FLEEING unfortunately.

[jesusmod]

oh... well, could the other things be done?

[Putnam]

Oh, no, it could pretty much all be done. You could even have a playable zerg race where queens give birth to maggots that will turn into random zerg.

[Revanchist]

Please elaborate Putnam!
That was like putting a bone in front of a dog, or beer in front of a sober dwarf, or a fantastic device in front of a modder so define it please. I'm craving ingenuity right now.

[Putnam]

Ok. Only one of many tests proved to work.

You need to transform a NON-PET creature to a dwarf. Make a dwarven caste with low pop ratio, call it slave, give a few custom profession names and so on.

Make a creature that can be transformed. Easy.

Problem: The creature has to be friendly. How to get a friendly creature ? Buy it as a pet. Oh, wait a second.

The Solution: Make a pet creature. Has 3 castes. Male, Female and Slave. Male pop ratio is 1, female pop ratio is 1, slave pop ratio is 10000. Make male/female caste a pet. You can now buy a pet that only gives birth to NON-PET creatures. These still do no work though. Give the Slave-Caste creature that gets born a secretions with a transformation syndrome, that transforms them into a dwarf. Slave gets born, gets transformed into slave-caste dwarf. And DONE, you have a working slave. This is so far the only solution i found.

This can be done with zerg creatures just as easily.

To be exact, you could have the secretion do multiple transformation interactions, each more likely than the previous, each one being a frame apart:

5% ultralisk
15% queen
25% mutalisk
35% hydralisk
45% baneling
100% zergling

This will give a 55% chance of being a zergling, with the rest of the chances being a lot of probability crap.

[Revanchist]

Wasn't there someone a while ago who said they couldn't get a transformed creature to transform a second time.
Meaning that creature A>creature B> creature C wouldn't work, it would have to go A>B>A with time, or some other solution>C.
I was hoping for a larval stage that could grow to a random caste, or something else inside that original entity.
EDIT: missed your edit. That would work for a creature that was born in it's entity though, right?

[Hugo_The_Dwarf]

you can farther transform a creature after a transformation only if it is dead.

EDIT:
Surpised Meph posted that info Putnam but I don't know if that will work for the zerglings, unless you where playing as them

and the transformed pet will only do labors and drafting to the military is impossible unless they do something notable and become a HISTORAL figure

[Putnam]

Yes. You can transform creatures into creatures of the same caste.

The main problem with all this, though, is that it would require the POP_RATIO of all the castes but the maggot to be exceedingly low, which would cause problems in worldgen.

I think a better way to go about it would be to have all the castes have something like "grub" or "maggot" as their child name.

you can farther transform a creature after a transformation only if it is dead.

The important part is that the first few transformations don't actually transform. In fact, the method I posted relies on the fact that transformations don't stack.

[Revanchist]

I guess my personal special will have to wait, and I just compensate for it until the system becomes more lenient or computer-useable.

[NotErich]

How would I  designate sand as a reagent? If [POWDER_MISC:NONE:<MATERIAL>:NONE], what is the material?

[Hugo_The_Dwarf]

You can do about 2 different ways:
1.
   [REAGENT:sand:1:POWDER_MISC:NONE:INORGANIC:SAND_TAN]
   [REAGENT:sand container:1:NONE:NONE:NONE:NONE]
      [CONTAINS:sand]
      [PRESERVE_REAGENT]
      [DOES_NOT_DETERMINE_PRODUCT_AMOUNT]
or
2.
   [REAGENT:sand:1:NONE:NONE:NONE:NONE][REACTION_CLASS:SAND]
   [REAGENT:sand container:1:NONE:NONE:NONE:NONE]
      [CONTAINS:sand]
      [PRESERVE_REAGENT]
      [DOES_NOT_DETERMINE_PRODUCT_AMOUNT]

with number 2. [REACTION_CLASS:SAND] has to be added to all INORGANICs with [SOIL_SAND]

1. targets a spacific type of sand
2. targets all materials that are Classed as SAND

[Revanchist]

Does anyone remember the way to have a creature continue growing indefinitely(until death)? I seem to have forgotten the tag.

[Hugo_The_Dwarf]

   [BODY_APPEARANCE_MODIFIER:HEIGHT:75:95:98:100:102:105:125]
      [APP_MOD_IMPORTANCE:500]
                          [APP_MOD_RATE:10:DAILY:0:1000000:0:0:NO_END]
   [BODY_APPEARANCE_MODIFIER:BROADNESS:75:95:98:100:102:105:125]
      [APP_MOD_IMPORTANCE:500]
                          [APP_MOD_RATE:10:DAILY:0:1000000:0:0:NO_END]

is my guess

EDIT:
Wiki

APP_MOD_RATE
Rate (integer)
Scale (DAILY, YEARLY)
min:max of growth
start year:start day
end year:end day
 setting the growth rate of the modifier. The last two tokens can be replaced by NO_END to have growth continue indefinitely.