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[ancistrus]

Can someone write the line in a reaction that produces wool cloth of any kind?
I tried [PRODUCT:100:10000:CLOTH:NO_SUBTYPE:WOOL:LLAMA] and a dozen variations but no success yet.

[MagmaMcFry]

[PRODUCT:100:1:CLOTH:NO_SUBTYPE:CREATURE_MAT:LLAMA:WOOL][PRODUCT_DIMENSION:10000]

[ancistrus]

[PRODUCT:100:1:CLOTH:NO_SUBTYPE:CREATURE_MAT:LLAMA:WOOL][PRODUCT_DIMENSION:10000]

That produces a "llama skin cloth"

[BlackFlyme]

[PRODUCT:100:1:CLOTH:NO_SUBTYPE:CREATURE_MAT:LLAMA:WOOL][PRODUCT_DIMENSION:10000]

That produces a "llama skin cloth"

That's because there is no WOOL material or tissue in vanilla. Animals that give wool have their hair renamed using:

Code: [Select]

[SELECT_MATERIAL:HAIR]
[STATE_NAME:ALL_SOLID:wool]
[STATE_ADJ:ALL_SOLID:wool]
[YARN]
Try changing WOOL to HAIR in the reaction, and let us know if that works.

[ancistrus]

[PRODUCT:100:1:CLOTH:NO_SUBTYPE:CREATURE_MAT:LLAMA:WOOL][PRODUCT_DIMENSION:10000]

That produces a "llama skin cloth"

That's because there is no WOOL material or tissue in vanilla. Animals that give wool have their hair renamed using:

Code: [Select]

[SELECT_MATERIAL:HAIR]
[STATE_NAME:ALL_SOLID:wool]
[STATE_ADJ:ALL_SOLID:wool]
[YARN]
Try changing WOOL to HAIR in the reaction, and let us know if that works.

Works, thank you.

[golemgunk]

what determines whether or not a creature will come back as a ghost in fort mode?

edit: also, if a syndrome is applied to someone twice, will the timer on it's effects be reset?
eg: if you cast DROWSINESS:SEV:500:PROB:100:START:0:END:1000 on someone a second time before END:1000 has passed, will  it add 1000 more "time units" to that count, or will it start it's own timer or something else?

[Meph]

Civ-members that have not been buried/engraved on a slab come back.

[golemgunk]

Civ-members that have not been buried/engraved on a slab come back.

sorry, I should have mentioned: I'm more specifically wondering if there was something I could do to prevent it, aside from memorials, like if it's related to the [INTELLIGENT] tag or something.

I'm trying to make a race that works kind of like an insect colony with a fairly high birth/death rate, and I think it'd be weird if they had some big memorial for dumb guys they didn't really care about. I guess I can deal with it though if there's no way around it.

[MagmaMcFry]

I'm pretty sure there's no way around it.

Edit: Actually I'm pretty sure DFHack can do something about it.

[Meph]

dfhack can delete ghosts, you might be able to find a coder that can write you a script that automatically deletes all ghosts as soon as they turn up.

[IndigoFenix]

What are the limitations of worldgen reactions?

Can you, for example, have a civ that produces a certain kind of plant and then come trading drinks or clothing made from that plant?  What about gems, wood, or stone?  (I'd like to avoid the 'crate' trick if possible.)  Also, is there any way of making adventurers from a certain civ wear clothes exclusive to that civ through the use of reactions alone?

[Meph]

Crate trick is only for finished goods of specific materials.

All things in the entity file will work, but custom reactions that make items dont work. So if you have "make rusty steel sword", they dont trade rusty steel swords. But if you give them "make rusty steel bar", they will trade rusty steel metal items.

Plants work the same. If you give them the plant as base material, then they make the items from it. You cant give them "epic drink", but if their biomes shares "epic plant" then they make it themselves. Same with inorganics and creature mats.

All custom material bars (lets say a wood-bar) will appear in misc-section, thats how I do it. I actually use creature soap, but whatever.

[TheOnlySolitaire]

Hi guys,
Okay I have a LOT of questions.
I'm sorry, I've just been working on a big project, and whenever I have come across something I don't understand, wanted clarification on, or confirmation it could be done, I have put it on a list and worked on something else in the meantime.

Some may be rather stupid, if so my apologies; I still haven't gotten my head around some aspects of modding DF.

I've spoiler-ed the questions into groups, and they are all numbered for ease.


First 10

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

1) Can you force a entity creature to (nearly)always appear on mounts?

2) Is there any way to force non-player entity creatures to carry multiple weapons, like a sword and axe? I'm pretty sure you can't, but a definitive answer would be nice.

3) Does a position that has a squad, ie a General or a Lieutenant, only get the squad if the player is controlling the General/Lieutenant? Or does worldgen also spawn/allocate these? I'd like nobles in the world to have retinues.

4) Is there a way to force a creature caste into some professions and/or noble positions and/or exclude it from others?

5) Is there a way to prevent non entity creatures from getting positions in their new entity - ie can I prevent captured entity creatures from gaining noble positions, but not prevent non entity creatures from becoming part of the civ?
(For clarification, I'm trying to make auxiliaries)

6) How do you stop the 'law-giver' position from existing? Or is it needed for something?

7) Can you force a specific caste to be prevented from certain labors?

8 ) Do merchant nobility actually work? And do you make a monarch position that isn't governed by hereditary succession, by simply removing [SUCCESSION:BY_HEIR] and replacing it with [ELECTED] or is there more to it than that?

9) What does [SUCCESSION:BY_POSITION] actually do/mean? Ie, how is it used?

10) If it does what i think it does, can you set multiple [SUCCESSION:BY_POSITION] positions, so that for example the Monarch position is taken from one of several other positions? Ie having a monarch drawn from a pool of barons and counts?

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Second 10

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11) Does a 'spy' position exist/would it be a feasible profession/position to make if not? Something like the thief, but not just stealing items - something like the trap spotting human diplomats do.

12) Is there a thread or place containing a list of language files that people have made? I have searched but haven't found anything.. Especially interested in real world languages, such as Japanese, Icelandic, Chinese etc 

13) Can you give creature castes room requirements, like nobles have?

14) What do I need to do to make an entity have it's own plants/pets list?

15) Is there a limit on how many plants etc can be added?

16) If 2 entities have access to the same plant, how do I make one of those entities produce a specific good with it, that the other cannot? Ie entity 1 making a drink or food from plant A , but entity 2 only makes food from plant A.

17) Is there a place that can show/explain to me how to make my own sprites?

18) Is there a limited number of sprites you can make?

19) can weapons be given effects such as 'latching on' akin to biting or make grabs/locks like wrestling? 

20) Can I make multiple different entities, with different workshops/reactions both controllable in Fort Mode?

Thanks guys

[MagmaMcFry]

Assuming you aren't using DFHack:

1) No

2) No

3) Squad members are culled in worldgen.

4) You can use [ALLOWED_CREATURE:<creature>:<caste>] for positions, and for professions, you cannot stop specific castes from working, but you can make sure they never get good at it with [SKILL_RATE:<skill>:NONE:1:1:1].

5) As above, you can use [ALLOWED_CREATURE:<creature>:<caste>] to allow only the entity's creature to become a position holder in that entity; but you cannot stop immigrants from accepting any profession.

6) Law-givers appear when you have [VARIABLE_POSITIONS:LAW_MAKING] enabled.

7) No you can't, but you can discourage some labors (see answer 4).

8) No, and there's nothing more to that.

9) Use [SUCCESSION:BY_POSITION:<position1>] in position2 to make replacements for position2 be picked from people currently in position1.

10) I believe not, although you can have the monarch draw from counts and the count draw from barons.

11) No

12) Masterwork DF has lots of pseudo-real-life languages, you can find them in language_all.txt.

13) No

14) Impossible

15) You can have thousands.

16) You can make the plant production process a custom reaction, then use [PERMITTED_REACTION:<name>] in only one of the entities.

17) http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=118085.0

18) You won't reach the limit

19) No

20) Yes, you can select the technologies they are able to use with [PERMITTED_JOB:] and [PERMITTED_REACTION:].

[TheOnlySolitaire]

Thanks Magma, shame about 13, i'm trying to make a caste driven set of entities, reflecting the rich and poor as well as different races and professions.

I am using DFhack as it happens, but I doubt I could make any scripts etc to get what I want anyway..

I found Masterworks language.txt thanks, had a lot of useful languages in it, but are there any more?

EDIT: Nevermind, I found a thread.