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[dragginmaster]

But I do not know anything about modding (yet) so I want to know if it is posible to create a creature that eats useless stone types?

[Keldane]

It depends on how you want to go about it. If you want them to eat the stone directly, then I don't believe that's possible without making it possible for everyone to eat said stone. Alternatively, you could make it so that the race you want to eat the stone can use a custom reaction that turns it into an edible product - I'm pretty sure I saw that someone had an old adventure mode reaction that turned any item into meat, allowing him to stave off hunger by converting random items into food (insert joke about "Sword Meat" here).

[NonconsensualSurgery]

Fortress Defense Mod has a workshop reaction that "eats" useless stone by turning it into a gas.

The problem is that all reactions in fortress mode require a workshop. An adventurer can easily transmute rocks to muffins or a gas all by itself but a custom fortress creature cannot. The rock to muffin reaction would need to take place in a workshop.

[dragginmaster]

Ok well that wouldn't really be what i had in mind. I figure a free roaming animal could nibble away and make lugging them around a non issue, with a workshop i'd still have to carry them around.

Thanks guys!

[Meph]

What you want is possible.

Edible_vermin tag is what you want, and a vermin that eats food and has a high pop ratio. Your cats would kill it though. But they should be able to eat it, and no one else, so no free food for dwarves.

Take note that I never tested this, so good luck testing it.

Add [EDIBLE_VERMIN] to all inorganic materials you want to be eaten.
Add [VERMIN_GROUNDER][VERMIN_EATER][PENETRATEPOWER:99][FREQUENCY:50] to your creatures you want to be able to eat stone. Must be a vermin though.

Please report your findings, I think the idea is very interesting

[dragginmaster]

Just add those tags to a specific creature and it will work?

A specific vermin only? So rats, not dogs. Or could i make cavys vermin, tame them let them do it?

Lastly, no need to generate new world after making these changes?

Will be glad to add !!science!! Knowledge

[telamon]

Add [EDIBLE_VERMIN] to all inorganic materials you want to be eaten.
Add [VERMIN_GROUNDER][VERMIN_EATER][PENETRATEPOWER:99][FREQUENCY:50] to your creatures you want to be able to eat stone. Must be a vermin though.

this sounds like it would work, but wouldn't those vermin also eat your food? With such a huge penetratepower they'd rip through your barrels like they were made of paper... solution to that is to edit all the [EDIBLE_VERMIN] tags out of plant_standard.txt, I suppose. That'll protect your plants from vermin altogether.

[IT 000]

Add [EDIBLE_VERMIN] to all inorganic materials you want to be eaten.
Add [VERMIN_GROUNDER][VERMIN_EATER][PENETRATEPOWER:99][FREQUENCY:50] to your creatures you want to be able to eat stone. Must be a vermin though.

[VERMIN_GROUNDER][VERMIN_EATER][PENETRATEPOWER:99][FREQUENCY:50]

[PENETRATEPOWER:99]

 

"Hello Dwarves that's a very nice everything you have there..."

(For reference most of the time it's only one or two.

[Meph]

Yeah, skip the penetrate power.

The more important question is: If granite is an vermin-edible material, will they also eat your granite-tables, chairs, doors and slabs ? I would assume they eat the stored ones, but not the constructed ones.