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[Hugo_The_Dwarf]

Has anyone done any science on these tokens?
ON_BREAK, CAVE_ADAPT, MILK_COUNTER, GROUNDED_ANIMAL_ANGER

They are counters for interactions, so I think I can make dwarve that are on break have a "dwarf1 is bored and looks around" "dwarf2 starts smoking a pipe while on break" (and actually adding a smoke effect) and so forth for ON_BREAK

I could make vampire dwarves that get positive effects the higher their CAVE_ADAPT counter is, so they are weakened if they go into the sun (no bonus) but get stronger and faster and so forth, while staying away from the surface.

MILK_COUNTER would allow a creature that has to be milked constantly, otherwise it goes berserk. It would add fun. Add a highly instable creature that gives high-value milk (or any other liquid, venom probably) that has to be attended. Imagine a sort of giant insect that builds up venom, and if it is not milked/venom taken out, it will start attacking people around it, just to release the build-up venom. That would make farming/herding this kind of animal a lot more interesting. (FUN)

GROUNDED_ANIMAL_ANGER is similar. Too many dogs on one spot, constantly clawing at each other? One goes berserk. Or starts a rabies infection. Teaches people not to stack 100 pets in one place.

EDIT: Post Fail

Their first part is doable to an exstent. As you would have all dwarves smoking pipes. you can however make it so whatever interaction that dwarves auto-cast on themselves, has a bunch of "idle" effects, and the interaction is timed for a month? So all effects are cosntantly shuffled. Say you have "Dwarf starts smoking 50%" and "Dwarf takes out deck of cards, plays go-fish 50%" sometimes a dwarf on break will smoke, or play go-fish, or do both at once.

The other two ideas erm... A bit much? I for one would not bring those types of creatures along for the fact of "I don't want more micro-managent" I know you will make it optional... Right?

Also why pasture 100 animals on 1 tile when you can place 100 animals in a cage?

[i2amroy]

Alternatively you could use the milk counter to make a creature that transforms after a certain amount of time without needing it to excrete anything to infect itself with a syndrome. All you need to do is make it so that the creature is only actually milkable with a higher value then whatever would cause the transformation. So if the creature transforms when milk counter = 10,000, then you would only make them milkable at 10,001. It would actually be a much better work around then most others right now.

On the other good side you could have a creature that makes special milk if it isn't milked for X amount of time.

As for the 100 animals idea, it would certainly make dog cage-bombs more exciting.

[Sutremaine]

Does egg size have any effect on the viability of eggs?

I added the following lines to voracious cave crawlers, and while the female has been laying eggs they're pale grey and don't appear on the Kitchen screen. They do get taken to the food pile and they appear in the egg list on the stocks screen. They didn't hatch despite being sat on for a long time (several months), and the door to the nestbox was locked as soon as the female was in there.

Beneath the CASTE_NAME line:
   [CHILD:3][GENERAL_CHILD_NAME:cave crawler hatchling:cave crawler hatchlings]

In the female caste:
      [LAYS_EGGS]
         [EGG_MATERIAL:LOCAL_CREATURE_MAT:EGGSHELL:SOLID]
         [EGG_MATERIAL:LOCAL_CREATURE_MAT:EGG_WHITE:LIQUID]
         [EGG_MATERIAL:LOCAL_CREATURE_MAT:EGG_YOLK:LIQUID]
         [EGG_SIZE:8]
         [CLUTCH_SIZE:10:40]

Can you even mod an existing fortress so that creatures that weren't genned with egglaying can now do so?

[i2amroy]

I believe that yes, you can mod an existing fortress to have egg layers where there were none.

As for egg size, I know that it has no effect upon the duration of time it takes for an egg to hatch, but for viability? I don't believe that it does by I don't know if anybody has done any actual science on the matter.

[Teneb]

Question: when making a buidling, how can I set a tile's colour to be that of the construction material?

In this case I'm making a workshop that will require a table (and only that), how can I make so that the table keeps the colour of the one used to build it?

[Hugo_The_Dwarf]

[COLOR:1:1:MAT]

so instead of COLOR:1:1:0:0:1] for gray

[COLOR:1:1:MAT]
will make the tile take on the color of the first build mat item.

[Teneb]

Thanks, it helped quite a bit.

[anthony62490]

Trying to mod my first new creature into the game. I would like the sand dunes to be covered in colonies of DESERT PENGUINS.

I've made the creature itself without too much trouble, but the problem comes when I try to map it to a Phoebus texture.
raw\graphics\graphics_custom.txt

graphics_custom

[OBJECT:GRAPHICS]

[TILE_PAGE:CUSTOM]
   [FILE:phoebus/newtiles.png]
   [TILE_DIM:16:16]
   [PAGE_DIM:10:4]

// *****************************************************************
// CUSTOM ANIMALS
// *****************************************************************

[CREATURE_GRAPHICS:BIRD_PENGUIN_DESERT]
   [DEFAULT:PHOEBUS_ANIMALS:0:0:AS_IS:DEFAULT]
   [CHILD:PHOEBUS_ANIMALS:0:1:AS_IS:DEFAULT]
   [ANIMATED:PHOEBUS_ANIMALS:0:2:AS_IS:DEFAULT] zombie
   !!!!!SKELETON:PHOEBUS_ANIMALS:0:3:AS_IS:DEFAULT] skeleton

Here is newtiles.png


Instead of using the 0:0 coordinates for newtiles.png, DF is using the 0:0 tile for animals.png. So the penguin looks like a cat and it lays eggs.
Have I missed a crucial detail, or do I need to incorporate my new tileset into animals.png?

[TomiTapio]

[TILE_PAGE:CUSTOM]
.....
[CREATURE_GRAPHICS:BIRD_PENGUIN_DESERT]
   [DEFAULT:PHOEBUS_ANIMALS:0:0:AS_IS:DEFAULT]

ask for the CUSTOM tilepage you just declared, not the PHOEBUS_ANIMALS tilepage.
[DEFAULT:CUSTOM:0:0:AS_IS:DEFAULT]

[smakemupagus]

When I run the following reaction:

Code: [Select]

[REACTION:RAID_ELF_ORC]
[NAME:Raid elvish camp]
[BUILDING:ORC_RAIDERS:CUSTOM_E]
[REAGENT:A:1:TOOL:ITEM_TOOL_LONGBOAT:NONE:NONE]
[REAGENT:B:5:WEAPON:NONE:METAL:NONE]
[REAGENT:coins:5000:COIN:NONE:INORGANIC:RUSTY_IRON]
[PRODUCT:50:1:TOOL:ITEM_TOOL_LONGBOAT:GET_MATERIAL_FROM_REAGENT:A:NONE]
[PRODUCT:50:1:TOOL:ELF_LOOT_CRATE:GET_MATERIAL_FROM_REAGENT:A:NONE]
[SKILL:SIEGECRAFT]

In game, the reaction tip says that for the reagent B it is looking "rock" weapons.  In fact, it takes 5 metal weapons just fine.  I know from the wiki that METAL is simply an alias for INORGANIC so I'm not too surprised there was a problem.  Do you have any suggestions so I can get it to say the in game text to match the reaction?

[Putnam]

Rock means "Inorganic", which includes all metals, so you're fine there.

METAL isn't actually a material type anymore since 31.01; it's an alias for INORGANIC.

[smakemupagus]

Sorry I ninja edited while you were replying.  Yeah, the reaction works fine, I just didn't want the in-game tip to mislead any players more than necessarily.

[Meph]

Quick question:

Do underground megabeasts work ? Like this:

GIANT_CAVE_ETTIN
Description: the blind, albino cousin of the ettin
MEGABEAST
UNDERGROUND_DEPTH:1:1

I would love to test it, but with megabeasts arriving to rarely I wondered if this thing would turn up at all, turn up on the surface, or turn up in cavern 1. I know layer-linked entities ignore the underground-depths and do sieges/ambushes in any cavern...

[i2amroy]

I don't believe that underground megabeasts work in the sense that they will attack from underground and still be announced as a megabeast, but I'm not 100% sure on that one. I believe that if you did this they would just turn up on the surface if they did attack.

[Meph]

Ok, thanks. I was looking for this "xyz has arrived" to be announced. Anyway, I do have another idea/question:

A creature that can resurrect bodyparts and transform them into a copy of itself. The catch: It can only target ITS OWN bodyparts for this. That means a squad of hammerdwarves will kill it, a squad of axedwarves will die and create 25 more creatures.  It would make a great megabeast, because you need a special tactic to defeat it.

The question is: Can I restrict it to target only its own bodyparts ?