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Drawde

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Gender and caste question
« on: March 02, 2012, 09:11:03 pm »
I understand how the castes work in regard to gender, having made a creature before where the genders are vastly different.  But how do you make a creature with different castes that can be either gender?
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Re: Gender and caste question
« Reply #1 on: March 02, 2012, 09:40:38 pm »
make four castes

(male type 1)
(female type 1)
(male type 2)
(female type 2)

sorta like that i guess...
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Re: Gender and caste question
« Reply #2 on: March 03, 2012, 02:42:06 pm »
Once when using Runesmith I accidently changed a peasants gender when looking at there misc. tab.  I didn't figure this out until I checked one of my companions relationships and found that she was married to the peasant.(She was also her/his aunt and the peasant was 12, so that was a weird relationship anyways) Because of modding I had clear evidence that it didn't change his/her caste, so I used Runesmith to change him back.

Why that's relevant is with the new interactions system that could be done in reverse.  Has anyone checked to see if caste changed individuals can have kids?  Are Female and Male tags that can be added/removed?
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Re: Gender and caste question
« Reply #3 on: March 03, 2012, 04:52:39 pm »
Not the tags themselves, but you can transform creatures into a different caste.
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Re: Gender and caste question
« Reply #4 on: March 04, 2012, 08:29:43 am »
What happens if two dwarves are married, and the husband becomes a woman? (Males don't give birth, so if the opposite happened neither would give birth, but would two married women both give birh?)

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Re: Gender and caste question
« Reply #5 on: March 04, 2012, 03:58:24 pm »
Quote from: GreatWyrmGold on March 04, 2012, 08:29:43 am
What happens if two dwarves are married, and the husband becomes a woman? (Males don't give birth, so if the opposite happened neither would give birth, but would two married women both give birh?)

...Oh, god, what's happened to me? I wasn't always this crazy!
That was actually the case, but since it was adventure mode, there was no pregnancy, if pregnancy does occur in fort mode it would mean that spores aren't exclusive. 
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Maybe that the dwarves never died and everyone is just shunning them.
"Wait, what are you doing?  I don't want to go in there!  No, I'm still alive, you can't do this to me!  Is Anybody listening?  Hello... Can someone let me out?  Help me!  Is anyone there?  I'm running out of air!"

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Re: Gender and caste question
« Reply #6 on: March 04, 2012, 04:12:33 pm »
Quote from: Jilladilla on March 02, 2012, 09:40:38 pm
make four castes

(male type 1)
(female type 1)
(male type 2)
(female type 2)

sorta like that i guess...

Note that you can use the USE_CASTE tag to copy an existing caste and make a new caste based on it.

Code: [Select]
[USE_CASTE:NEW_CASTE:OLD_CASTE]
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