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[toast]

Stupid giant cave swallows occasionally kill a stray dwarf, and then pick off the other guys as they try and collect the pieces. hopefully i have this all under control...but if not, if i remove (probably just cut it out for now) the cave swallow code, will the game crash? if not, will it change, or would i need to take it out before starting a new fort?

[Untelligent]

Nope. If you add or remove a new entry, you have to generate a new world before the removal/addition takes effect.

On the other hand, you can CHANGE an existing entry and keep your current fortress. Changing the size of the devil-birds to around 1 or 2 should make them easier to deal with.

[Metalax]

Another way to get rid of them from your fort would be to set their maxage to a low number. They should then all keel over of old age shortly after you reload the fort.

[Greiger]

I would just remove their hearts and lungs from their body entries.  I havent tried it but it should work.  

Forgetting those parts on a custom creature without specifically preparing it with the no breathe and blood tags seem to cause them to die almost immediately.

[GRead]

removing entries will cause a world genned with those entries to crash, while added entries simply won't show up. I'm not sure if you can fix this by modding the raws or not; I'd read somewhere that changes to the raws won't apply to existing instances of a creature, only new ones.

I.E., I make elephants size 6. The elephants on the map will stay size 16, but any new elephants that wander in or get born will be size 6. I have not confirmed this personally, however.

[toast]

that is great advice guys thanks. i recently slaughtered maybe 20 of them, but if they get in the way again, i will try some of that. thanks