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[Person]

Could I have a small guide on item corpse? I'm going to be using it a lot in something I'm working on, so I'd rather not have to make separate posts for every single item type.

[smakemupagus]

It's fairly simple,  The syntax is just [ITEMCORPSE:<item token>:<material token>] 

Fortress defence "Blendecs" are one example that comes to mind; some fraction of them drop some tin ore (the others drop basically nothing, i.e. a simple evaporating stone).

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[CREATURE:BLENDECFD]
<...>
   [CASTE:FEMALE]
      [FEMALE][ITEMCORPSE:STONE:NO_SUBTYPE:INORGANIC:VAPORSTONE_FD]
   [CASTE:MALE]
      [MALE][ITEMCORPSE:STONE:NO_SUBTYPE:INORGANIC:VAPORSTONE_FD]
   [CASTE:MALE_TIN]
      [MALE][ITEMCORPSE:STONE:NO_SUBTYPE:INORGANIC:CASSITERITE]
   [CASTE:FEMALE_TIN]
      [FEMALE][ITEMCORPSE:STONE:NO_SUBTYPE:INORGANIC:CASSITERITE]

[Putnam]

Wiki articles:

Item token
Material token

[thistleknot]

I want to prevent animals from trampling grass when penned.

How can I do this?  I know in mwmod this doesn't happen, but in vanilla I have a hard time with animals dying I guess because they trample all their grass.  Either way, I'd like the trampling of grass into brown to stop, any love guys?

[WillowLuman]

What is their [GRAZER] set to? They might be eating the grass. Alternately, give them [GRASSTRAMPLE:0]

[thistleknot]

grazer is set to 120

[WillowLuman]

Then they are eating grass every 12 turns, meaning they need vast areas to survive. In the pens, they eat it before it can grow back. Increase that by about 20 times, should help greatly.

[thistleknot]

thx, I'd rather not mod it, if I can set one to 20 spaces, then I will

[smakemupagus]

according to
http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2012:Pasture
you need about 169 tiles (13 by 13) for each creature with grazer 120

as Hugo mentioned, if you made the grazer = 120*20 = 2400, each creature would need about a 3 by 3 amount of pasture.

[WillowLuman]

Only rabbit sized animals can live in 1x1

[evictedSaint]

Unless I'm mistaken, you can also set up each creature up for adoption.  With an owner, the dwarf will (usually) automatically feed them before they starve to death.

[i2amroy]

Unless I'm mistaken, you can also set up each creature up for adoption.  With an owner, the dwarf will (usually) automatically feed them before they starve to death.

While this might work for smaller animals (rabbits and goats) just about anything larger then a goat will still starve to death if the dwarf gets even the slightest bit busy due to the fact that "feed pet" is a very low priority task.

[Glitch(TMG)]

A question just occurred to me, after reading something in another modding thread...

You'd need to put  [CHILD:1]  into them and
   [CASTE:FEMALE]
      [FEMALE]
   [CASTE:MALE]
      [MALE]
at the end of their raw.
But I believe that would work for new world only.

^ On the question of creature reproduction, which then made me think of something that I -hope- is not true...

Has Toady not put in anything like asexual reproduction for creatures in this game?

[Putnam]

He hasn't.

[i2amroy]

He hasn't.

You could simulate it in-game with a "clone" reaction that has a very long cool down, but even that won't be simulated during world generation.