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[UselessMcMiner]

I'm having issues with crashing and night trolls

Is the crashing being caused because theyre trying to kidnap creatures with chitin/that dont have skin?

[UselessMcMiner]

Or is it because there are some genderless creatures I forgot to remove/fix?

What are all the above ground *men that are genderless?

[Eric Blank]

I couldnt name all of them im sure, but they include snail men, slug men, Moon snail men, leech men, and worm men. night creature crashes could be caused by not having a lair and/or habit tags, or not having spouse_converter and converted_spouse on appropriate castes. Have to have both, two castes, one tag on one the other on the other.

[Nepptu]

I have no idea whether or not this has been asked already, but I'm struggling with the basics of Transformations like Werewolves etc. at the moment.

My intent is that when you drink this creatures blood it'll trigger a transformation in another specific creature, which is permanent. I've read the wiki, but have no idea how to approach this.

It's like drinking a vampires blood to become one, except it functions more like a Werewolf in the sense you transform into an entirely different species.

[Eric Blank]

If you dont need it to be contagious like vampirism, you can select the blood material in the creature you want to cause the transformation, and add a syndrome transforms whatever drinks it, like this:


   [USE_MATERIAL_TEMPLATE:BLOOD:BLOOD_TEMPLATE]
      [SYNDROME]
            [SYN_NAME:transformation]
            [SYN_AFFECTED_CLASS:GENERAL_POISON]
            [SYN_INGESTED]
            [SYN_NO_HOSPITAL]
      [CE_BODY_TRANSFORMATION:START:0] - start but no end flag
         [CE:CREATURE:your creature ID here:caste ID here]

If it needs to be tracked during worldgen and passed on to additional drinkers, you'll have to copy the vampirism example in the example raws, and use the CE_BODY_TRANSFORMATION part under the effects where the vampirism effects are added. It might not work, still, but its worth a shot

[5sanon]

trying to make a worm-like creature, and want them to be hermaphroditic. are there problems with having [MALE] and [FEMALE] in the same tag?

[Demonic Gophers]

trying to make a worm-like creature, and want them to be hermaphroditic. are there problems with having [MALE] and [FEMALE] in the same tag?

As I recall, if you put both in the same caste it just uses whichever is last on the list.  Unless this has been changed and I missed it, it's stored as a variable instead of a flag, so a caste that is both male and female is unfortunately impossible.

[5sanon]

trying to make a worm-like creature, and want them to be hermaphroditic. are there problems with having [MALE] and [FEMALE] in the same tag?

As I recall, if you put both in the same caste it just uses whichever is last on the list.  Unless this has been changed and I missed it, it's stored as a variable instead of a flag, so a caste that is both male and female is unfortunately impossible.

what if i have a male creature that lays eggs?

[TomiTapio]

what if i have a male creature that lays eggs?

LAYS_EGGS just changes the female caste to output eggs instead of baby creatures.
https://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2014:Creature_token#LAYS_EGGS

[Rekov]

Do Polar Bears, Ice Wolves, Yetis, etc. have anything in their raws that better enables them to survive in freezing biomes? I couldn't find anything obvious, but I thought I'd get a second opinion.

Is there any reason why a dwarf would be any worse off than a polar bear on a glacier?

[5sanon]

Do Polar Bears, Ice Wolves, Yetis, etc. have anything in their raws that better enables them to survive in freezing biomes? I couldn't find anything obvious, but I thought I'd get a second opinion.

Is there any reason why a dwarf would be any worse off than a polar bear on a glacier?

probably this:
   [BODY_DETAIL_PLAN:STANDARD_TISSUES]
      [SELECT_TISSUE:HAIR]
         [INSULATION:200]

[Rekov]

It must be that, though I don't begin to know exactly how much protection it applies. I don't know anyone whose ever had a dwarf freeze to death.

[TomiTapio]

It must be that, though I don't begin to know exactly how much protection it applies. I don't know anyone whose ever had a dwarf freeze to death.

Wiki lists the lowest survivable temperature -- every material has a COLDDAM point.
Probably some cold-breath monsters cause freezing death.
https://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2014:Temperature

[Rekov]

As an aside, I've been trying to create a plant-based creature, that could be butchered for edible plants. I used plump helmet man as the inspiration, but unfortunately, I don't think this is currently possible:

Code: [Select]

A body made of vines.
[USE_MATERIAL_TEMPLATE:SM_VINE:STRUCTURAL_PLANT_TEMPLATE]
[STATE_NAME:ALL_SOLID:vine]
[STATE_ADJ:ALL_SOLID:vine]
[STATE_NAME:LIQUID:melted vine]
[STATE_ADJ:LIQUID:melted vine]
[STATE_NAME:GAS:boiling vine]
[STATE_ADJ:GAS:boiling vine]
[PREFIX:NONE]
[EDIBLE_VERMIN]
[EDIBLE_RAW]
[EDIBLE_COOKED]
[MEAT]  <- butchered vines aren't stockpiled without this
[BUTCHER_SPECIAL:MEAT:NONE]
[MEAT_NAME:NONE:vine:vine]
[TISSUE:VINE]
[TISSUE_NAME:shambling mound vine:shambling mound vines]
[TISSUE_MATERIAL:LOCAL_CREATURE_MAT:SM_VINE]
[HEALING_RATE:100]
[SCARS]
[MUSCULAR]
[FUNCTIONAL]
[STRUCTURAL]
[RELATIVE_THICKNESS:2]
[CONNECTS]
[TISSUE_SHAPE:LAYER]
[TISSUE_LAYER:BY_CATEGORY:ALL:VINE]
The [EDIBLE_RAW] and [EDIBLE_COOKED] tags seem to be enough for the resulting 'vines' to be edible/cookable, however without the [MEAT] token, they won't be stored in a food stockpile. The best I can do then is to create a meat that is merely named like a plant. It's stored in meat barrels, and counts as meat.

Similarly, I tried creating a shearable tissue layer of leaves with the hope that they could be used for plant thread, but without having played around with this too much, I don't think it's possible.

The problem at its core is that you can't control the item token of the butchering/shearing yield. When you butcher/shear you get MEAT and CORPSEPIECE, and you don't have any control over that. You could make a custom reaction to turn a "leaf" corpsepiece into plant thread, but you couldn't get a sheared product to work with the default plant processing reaction.

Unless I'm wrong, and anyone has some other thoughts about this?

[Atkana]

The problem at its core is that you can't control the item token of the butchering/shearing yield.

The material token BUTCHER_SPECIAL lets you change the item that's created when something of that material is butchered from MEAT:NONE to whatever you want. If you want it to yield plants, use [BUTCHER_SPECIAL:PLANT:NONE].