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[Arowhun]

I've been watching some BBC earth vids, and I came up with an idea for a mod. Basically, all vanilla creatures are removed and replaced with insects. The civs would comprise of ant colonies, termite colonies, bee colonies, and other colonizing insects.

I'm wondering if its possible to make a special "queen" bug that rules each colony, and acts as the only part of the colony that produces offspring. I plan on making the lifespan of the lower classed "worker" bugs very short (maybe 2 years and they drop dead), so its necessary to keep the queen reproducing to keep the colony running. Migrants should stop after the first two waves, if possible. If the queen dies, the fort should die soon afterwards because the population should quickly drop.

Oh yeah, and I'd also like the bugs to have no emotions, so they get no tantrum spirals. The idea is that they are mindless bugs, and are more than willing to give up their lives for the greater good of their colony, like bugs are in real life. They should feel no pain too.

[Managrimm]

No emotions and no pain is easy. Guaranteeing that you start with the queen and can't get another might be harder. Maybe you could try making a syndrome that turns a regular unit into the queen unit caste and set her pop ratio to 0, but then only your fortress would end up having one, I'd think. I also don't know how you'd keep players from just repeating this process if they lost their queen, but maybe someone else has an idea.

Does anyone know if it's possible to mess around with the Evil zone's weather affects either by removing them and replacing them with different ones or giving certain creatures immunities to them entirely (preferably the former)?

[Demonic Gophers]

Yeah, you can add your own regional effects, for Evil zones and otherwise, and set the randomly generated ones to 0 in advanced world gen.


A transformation syndrome that changes one of your workers into a very rare caste is the most effective way I know to get a single queen.  Might want to give that caste the PET token, so she doesn't have to be married to provide your fort with all its kids.

[Atomic Chicken]

I'm unsure whether this is the right place to ask this, so please excuse me if the question is off-topic.

If I were to create items made of a creature's blood using a reaction or the createitem script, is there anything I can manually do with gm-editor or similar to prevent the frozen blood item from melting into a pool of blood, without messing around with the creature's raws?

[Meph]

I'm unsure whether this is the right place to ask this, so please excuse me if the question is off-topic.

If I were to create items made of a creature's blood using a reaction or the createitem script, is there anything I can manually do with gm-editor or similar to prevent the frozen blood item from melting into a pool of blood, without messing around with the creature's raws?

No, but you can give the creature a second material, called also blood, which is solid be default. You make a material template, for example SOLID_BLOOD, which is a copy of blood but with different melting point, and use this for your items. The player ingame will never see the difference.

[Managrimm]

What would I set the desired Evil/Good square counts to in adv world gen if I wanted roughly the same evil, good and neutral biomes?

[MagmaMcFry]

Depends on your map size and biome variance, which controls the ratios of small/medium/large biomes. If the default worldgen counts are accurately distributed, you can just take the six values and scale them equally until their sum is 2/3 of the total map square count (for example 17x17 for pocket worlds).

[hanspeter]

Is there a way to reduce the chance of motor/sensory nerves being severed or, if not, is there a way to make them heal? [TISSUE_TEMPLATE:NERVE_TEMPLATE] is not motor/sensory, so it doesn't work.

I'm tired of every dwarf who ever got within 30 tiles of a hostile losing the use of legs and arms forever, with a 100% chance of all nerves being severed (at least that's what it feels like) when the hostile as much as sneezes.
I'm not against dwarves losing the use of their limbs. It's just way too often.

In a related question: How would I go about making dwarves lose eyes, ears, teeth, nose, fingers, toes etc. more often instead of the whole limb in one go? I like my dwarves battlescarred, but still useful.

[MagmaMcFry]

For the dwarves, you could remove the dwarves' [HAS_NERVES] tag. AFAIK there is no other way of having dwarves get less nerve damage without making them tougher in other ways.

And to make the dwarves lose specific bodyparts more often, you could try making them larger, for example like this: [RELSIZE:BY_CATEGORY:FINGER:10]
Another option you could try is to remove the [SMALL] tags on the dwarves' bodyparts.

[Hugo_The_Dwarf]

Is there a way to reduce the chance of motor/sensory nerves being severed or, if not, is there a way to make them heal? [TISSUE_TEMPLATE:NERVE_TEMPLATE] is not motor/sensory, so it doesn't work.

I'm tired of every dwarf who ever got within 30 tiles of a hostile losing the use of legs and arms forever, with a 100% chance of all nerves being severed (at least that's what it feels like) when the hostile as much as sneezes.
I'm not against dwarves losing the use of their limbs. It's just way too often.

In a related question: How would I go about making dwarves lose eyes, ears, teeth, nose, fingers, toes etc. more often instead of the whole limb in one go? I like my dwarves battlescarred, but still useful.

Like MagmaMcFry said make the little limbs bigger and remove the SMALL (however removing SMALL will let them show up on the v>w menu (instead of only when damaged))

As for the nerves I'd just remove [HAS_NERVES] since having any MUSCULAR(muscle) tissue that is torn/cut in a LIMB,GRASP,STANCE,JOINT body part will cripple it and any CONNECTIVE_TISSUE_ANCHOR(bones/exoskeleton) that is broken will also cripple the "LGSJ"s and if you are at it I'd remove [SETTABLE] from bone tissues too just so they need a splint to heal instead of the odd time that a traction bench is needed (due to a current bug that I hope toady has fixed for the next version, dwarves get put in traction, but never get taken out even if healed)

[hanspeter]

Thank you both for your answers. I think I got it, just need to play around with the numbers a bit until it fits me.

As for the nerves I'd just remove [HAS_NERVES] since having any MUSCULAR(muscle) tissue that is torn/cut in a LIMB,GRASP,STANCE,JOINT body part will cripple it and any CONNECTIVE_TISSUE_ANCHOR(bones/exoskeleton) that is broken will also cripple the "LGSJ"s

So it should be possible to remove [HAS_NERVES], create "fake nerves", with a tiny relsize that never heal and add them next to the bone in order to recreate the [HAS_NERVES] tag, just with a very low relsize, shouldn't it?

[Hugo_The_Dwarf]

Thank you both for your answers. I think I got it, just need to play around with the numbers a bit until it fits me.

As for the nerves I'd just remove [HAS_NERVES] since having any MUSCULAR(muscle) tissue that is torn/cut in a LIMB,GRASP,STANCE,JOINT body part will cripple it and any CONNECTIVE_TISSUE_ANCHOR(bones/exoskeleton) that is broken will also cripple the "LGSJ"s

So it should be possible to remove [HAS_NERVES], create "fake nerves", with a tiny relsize that never heal and add them next to the bone in order to recreate the [HAS_NERVES] tag, just with a very low relsize, shouldn't it?

You can add the fake nerves as [SMALL][INTERNAL][NERVOUS] body parts and layer them with a [FUNCTIONAL] tissue named "tissue" or just a tissue layer. Personally both are a bit over the top but would recommend the bodypart  method, because combat logs would show:

"The goblin slashes the dwarf in the upper arm tearing the muscle and tearing the upper arm's nerves tissue" have to play with naming a bit but that would be how it would go in theory.

[Atomic Chicken]

I'm unsure whether this is the right place to ask this, so please excuse me if the question is off-topic.

If I were to create items made of a creature's blood using a reaction or the createitem script, is there anything I can manually do with gm-editor or similar to prevent the frozen blood item from melting into a pool of blood, without messing around with the creature's raws?

No, but you can give the creature a second material, called also blood, which is solid be default. You make a material template, for example SOLID_BLOOD, which is a copy of blood but with different melting point, and use this for your items. The player ingame will never see the difference.

Thanks Meph

[Eric Blank]

So, I'm rewriting my spellcrafts mod's secrets and spells, and I've run into a conundrum with trying to add some form of "aeromancer" as one of the elemental disciplines.

Spoiler: What I have tried (click to show/hide)

The thing is, there isn't any such thing as air in DF, and trying to simulate it with fake "air" materials, interactions and such hasn't been easy. I've tried using a breath flow, but you can't use a syndrome/interaction to add a creature class to a creature that learned the secret that will make it immune to a syndrome with SYN_IMMUNE:yourclasshere. So, unless I go so far as to force anyone who learns aeromancy to transform into some sort of air creature that already has a creature class for immunity to its own powers, aeromancy powers cant have attached syndromes that the caster could pick up, or the caster could end up much worse off. No trailing gas flows and no web sprays with syndromes attached (I noticed that a web spray which sprays a material with a low boiling point sprays both webs and that material in gaseous form, which affects the caster). Using web spray without a syndrome can be useful in trapping targets, but you cant add/remove web_immune to the caster, either. A dust flow would work as a form of attack, but a dust flow would be very dangerous to the caster as well and could not be used without affecting the caster. Liquid globs seem to work ok, I tried just calling the material "air burst" but that doesn't change the fact you're being struck by a (low-density) liquid that does not boil at any point, and syndromes dont seem to take effect reliably. Liquid spatters also work, but wont boil until someone walks through them, sort of like a trap, or they just outright evaporate.

I've also tried making interactions that can be used against a target, either giving the target a syndrome that hurts them directly or lets them do an interaction they think is an attack but is really an undirected dust flow that may have a syndrome attached. That's pretty amusing, but the thing is that interactions on targets dont seem to be temporary and thus every time you leave/reload an area with either your adventurer or a companion in tow, the syndrome takes affect again, even if the syndrome's effect is short-lived. Which means it effectively functions as a permanent curse.

Does anyone have any idea how to make a plausible "air mage?"

[Putnam]

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