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[Putnam]

About ~500%, I think.

[Stirk]

Well that would mean it takes like a hundred steps for one tick to go by-considering you go by time at perspective in adventure mode.

[Putnam]

Well that would mean it takes like a hundred steps for one tick to go by-considering you go by time at perspective in adventure mode.

A tick is the minimum amount of time for anything to happen at all.

[Maklak]

I have a question about attribute rates. There are these two tokens: MENT_ATT_RATES and PHYS_ATT_RATES, which default to something like [500:4:5:4]. 500 is called "cost to improve" and the rest of them are about rusting. Does the attribute train faster with lower cost to improve, that is would [100:4:5:4] train five times as fast?

[Shalderave]

Hello ladies and gentlemen of the Dwarf Fortress modding community, as you can see I just signed up but not to worry, I've done plenty of lurking to find the answers myself before bothering anyone. I do want to thank you all for being so helpful and useful to someone who just got started...and who wanted to stomp around the world as a forty foot metal giant.

My question today is this; if I take the bronze colossus' RAW from within the creature_standard.txt and changed its tissues from bronze to steel, with the appropriate capitalization and so on, would that also change my adventure mode colossus to have steel skin as well? or would I also need to change all instances of 'bronze' to 'steel' except for its name, as to not mess up any coding? I got roughed up, not killed, hard by a necromancer and his minion's silver letter openers and apparently colossi do not regenerate; I want my big stompy robot to be a little bit tougher, for cathartic reasons.

From this:

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...[TISSUE:BRONZE]
[TISSUE_NAME:bronze:bronze]
[TISSUE_MATERIAL:INORGANIC:BRONZE]
[MUSCULAR]
[FUNCTIONAL]
[STRUCTURAL]
[RELATIVE_THICKNESS:1]
[CONNECTS]
[TISSUE_SHAPE:LAYER]
[TISSUE_LAYER:BY_CATEGORY:ALL:BRONZE]...
To this:

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...[TISSUE:STEEL]
[TISSUE_NAME:steel:steel]
[TISSUE_MATERIAL:INORGANIC:STEEL]
[MUSCULAR]
[FUNCTIONAL]
[STRUCTURAL]
[RELATIVE_THICKNESS:1]
[CONNECTS]
[TISSUE_SHAPE:LAYER]
[TISSUE_LAYER:BY_CATEGORY:ALL:STEEL]...I haven't touched the name so it'd still be known as bronze colossus so as to not screw with the piece of coding within entity_default.txt that let's me play with him.

If I am correct so far, and even if I'm not, is there also any way that I can only modify my colossus adventurer to be made out of steel and not the random NPC's? If I forget to change them back before I play fortress mode, that's quite a level of masochism I'm not ready to enjoy quite yet.

[i2amroy]

1)You are correct on your first assumption that changing it to steel in just the creature will work just fine.
2)However this will change all bronze colossuses into steel ones. If you just want your adventurer to be made of steel, then you will need to create a new creature that can only be used in adventure mode and is different from the normal bronze colossus. This will require a regeneration as you will be creating a new creature.

[Shalderave]

Thank you very much, I had a feeling it would work. As for creating a separate entity, that would be interesting and far more convenient when I start playing Fortress mode more often; but for now I think this will work fine. I deleted all my worlds because I hadn't done anything and one of them kept making me lag, poor generation choice, also if I meet another colossus it'll be the wrestling match of the century.

Especially now since I've turned the Bronze Colossi into this

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[CREATURE:AVATAR_ADAMANTINE]
[DESCRIPTION:Avatar of a long forgotten God, inscribed with the phrase "I am become Death, Destroyer of worlds."]
[NAME:adamantine avatar:adamantine avatars:adamantine avatar]
[CASTE_NAME:adamantine avatar:adamantine avatars:adamantine avatar]
[CREATURE_TILE:'C'][COLOR:6:0:0]
[MEGABEAST][DIFFICULTY:15] 11 or higher does not get assigned as adv mode quests
[ATTACK_TRIGGER:80:10000:100000]
[FANCIFUL]
[NOPAIN][EXTRAVISION][NOBREATHE][NOSTUN][NONAUSEA][NOEMOTION]
[NOTHOUGHT][NOEXERT]
[NO_DIZZINESS]
[NO_FEVERS]
[BUILDINGDESTROYER:2]
[LARGE_PREDATOR]
[NO_DRINK][NO_EAT][NO_SLEEP]
[SPHERE:METALS]
[SPHERE:STRENGTH]
[SPHERE:WAR]
[NOT_LIVING]
[CANOPENDOORS]
[NOT_BUTCHERABLE]
[BIOME:ANY_LAND]
[EQUIPS]
[NOFEAR]
[PREFSTRING:height]
[NOBONES]
[BODY:HUMANOID:2EYES:2EARS:NOSE:HUMANOID_JOINTS:5FINGERS:5TOES]
[NO_THOUGHT_CENTER_FOR_MOVEMENT]
[TISSUE:ADAMANTINE]
[TISSUE_NAME:adamantine:adamantine]
[TISSUE_MATERIAL:INORGANIC:ADAMANTINE]
[MUSCULAR]
[FUNCTIONAL]
[STRUCTURAL]
[RELATIVE_THICKNESS:1]
[CONNECTS]
[TISSUE_SHAPE:LAYER]
[TISSUE_LAYER:BY_CATEGORY:ALL:ADAMANTINE]
With back ups of course.

[dirkdragonslayer]

I was wondering, is it possible to have stats be innate, like all dwarves are good at wrestling, or all dwarves are legendary farmers. also, is it possible to affect speed without having them walk at lightspeed?

[Putnam]

I was wondering, is it possible to have stats be innate, like all dwarves are good at wrestling, or all dwarves are legendary farmers. also, is it possible to affect speed without having them walk at lightspeed?

1. Yes, with NATURAL_SKILL.

2. Yes, the SPEED token. Less than 1000 is faster than normal, more than 1000 is slower.

[smakemupagus]

Yep, caste level skill called NATURAL_SKILL.
http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2012:Creature_token#N

Speed is quantitative, normal is 900, it's really a "turn delay" so higher numbers are slower.
http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2012:Speed
You can set your speed lower than 900 but higher than whatever corresponds to "lightspeed".  But, they'll do everything faster, not just walk.

ed.  rar ninjad

[dirkdragonslayer]

so like [WRESTLER:5] or is that wrong

[smakemupagus]

[NATURAL_SKILL:<Skill_token>:5]

Check to see whether Wrestler is a valid skill token.  I think it is not.
http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2012:Skill_token

[Putnam]

[NATURAL_SKILL:WRESTLING:5]

[Greiger]

Ok, I have a stupid question.  It's probably some super basic thing but so far all my attempts have ended in failure.

I wish to play a custom race for fortress mode.  This I have already done, and pretty thoroughly.  But dwarves might as well not exist while I'm playing them.  I want to fix that, I want to get dwarven traders, and even sieges should I piss them off.  I have spent far too long playing DF with dwarves effectively missing.

What do I need to do to make this happen? I've cloned the mountain entity once and gave them a number of humanlike tags but that didn't seem to do the trick.  Are there specific tags that need to be added, removed, or modified?

[Furtuka]

Is it possible to create an interaction that will increase a certain skill to a higher level and then lower it back to what it was before?