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[brolol.404]

I imagine it still needs some surface biome defined - there shouldn't be subterranean chasms on the surface.

Yeah. I meant if you left the surface biome tags alone. So the creature has both surface and underground biomes would it spawn in both?

[Eric Blank]

Yeah, they will appear both above and below ground just fine. I used this on witch lights, they show up both in caverns and swamps.

[brolol.404]

Yeah, they will appear both above and below ground just fine. I used this on witch lights, they show up both in caverns and swamps.

Awesome thanks!

[MachoNacho]

Is it possible to make an entity build underground cities?

[Quaksna]

Depends on what would suit you. The closest thing are dwarf fortresses, it's just a surface entrance to underground chaotic complex...

The thing is that when it comes to sites, we modders can't do much. The types are all hardcoded, so all you can do is to make an entity build human-like hamlets and towns, goblin-like dark pits and fortresses (generating an unique HFS master per entity and stuff around that in order to work), dwarf-like fortresses and hillocks, and kobold-like sites... These patterns. You can set them to be playable in fort mode regardless on their site type.

I think best think that would suit you is dwarf fortress. What I know from my testing, it seems terrain also plays role when it comes to site building, having a fortress-entity that didn't settle in mountains made them start with one single fortress (capital) in starting biomes, and build just hillocks afterwards. Setting [DEFAULT_SITE_TYPE:CAVE_DETAILED] makes them also do hillocks, maybe if you restricted the biomes only to mountains they wouldn't.

By giving them [DEFAULT_SITE_TYPE:DARK_FORTRESS] may give 'em sort of underground settlements as well, but it would come with the goblin civ traits, and you probably don't want that.

Give it a shot.

[Ulfarr]

On the wiki it says that you need to have your fort made into a barony before the other civs start sending their diplomats to you. Does that mean that customs civs need to have a land holder position with the [RECEIVE_DIPLOMATS] responsibility too? 

Right now I have a non land holder with that responsibility but I haven't receive any diplomats in any of my test runs, though that might be due starting new forts frequently.

[MachoNacho]

Is it possible to make a race that settles in all deserts, regardless of good/evil/savagery, WITHOUT making them at peace with wildlife?

[AshTheTiefling]

Is it possible to make a race that settles in all deserts, regardless of good/evil/savagery, WITHOUT making them at peace with wildlife?

Yes, if you make a custom civ, you can change the biomes they settle in, not sure if you can specify alignment though. (no clue what at peace with wildlife has to do with it, however, it's never been a problem for me.)

[ZM5]

You'd just omit the peace with wildlife token from either their entity or creature file (I don't remember if it still does anything when put in the entity file).

[CheeznWhine]

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What are you trying to do? I don't know if that works, but a player-only race is definitely possible.

The creatures that don't exist don't have anything except a name, a colour, a gender and a preferring. The bare minimum to get them engraved on walls.

I am planning on making a new creature (for every non intelligent creature in my mod) that COPY_TAGS from the non intelligent creature and adds CAN_LEARN, OUTSIDER_CONTROLLABLE and DOES_NOT_EXIST to it.

Basically an easy way to make all of my non intelligent creatures playable in adventure mode (and able to gain skills) without having these new creatures show up in the world. The alternative being to remove POPULATION_NUMBER, FREQUENCY, BIOME, etc.

Could you try

[CV_CONVERT_TAG]
  [CVCT_MASTER:FREQUENCY]
  [CVCT_TARGET:XX]
  [CVCT_REPLACEMENT:0]

I cannot seem to even get convert tags to work... or I don't understand them

[Logariter]

How can you make a tissue layer group with multiple types of tissue?

[pisskop]

Im looking at my old 40.xx mod files, and Im wondering how compatible they are with the new version....

Are they any new or obsoleted tags, and have any major changes been made to the core lineup [i.e changes to dwarf weight or the hardness of steel or farming mechanics or civ defs or interactions]?

[ZM5]

Im looking at my old 40.xx mod files, and Im wondering how compatible they are with the new version....

Are they any new or obsoleted tags, and have any major changes been made to the core lineup [i.e changes to dwarf weight or the hardness of steel or farming mechanics or civ defs or interactions]?

The actual creatures/metals havent changed much (I think the STRANGE_MOODS token was added to dwarves and can be assigned to other races) - OUTSIDER_CONTROLLABLE is now a creature-level token rather than a civ thing. Some animals also got typos in their descriptions fixed IIRC.
For civs, the instrument types are gone, replaced with procgenned ones, ADVENTURER_TIER stuff is gone, replaced with [ALL_MAIN_POPS_CONTROLLABLE] (CIV_CONTROLLABLE is also renamed to SITE_CONTROLLABLE), some new jobs were added (bookbinder, etc.) and some new tool types (pedestals, display cases). I'd recommend looking through the vanilla 44.12 civ files for how stuff looks like now.

[TomiTapio]

Im looking at my old 40.xx mod files, and Im wondering how compatible they are with the new version....
Are they any new or obsoleted tags, and have any major changes been made to the core lineup [i.e changes to dwarf weight or the hardness of steel or farming mechanics or civ defs or interactions]?

Edit: Oops, wasn't DF 2012.

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Not compatible, you need to spend lots of hours to update if you have like 60 new creatures.

My guide to updating from DF 2012 to DF 2014: http://dffd.bay12games.com/file.php?id=12296

I guess all the sizes and values stayed the same. But new format on attacks timings.
Took me 21-28 hours to bring OldGenesis from 2012 to 2014...
(every single attack and creature..  materials (leaf token, tears, sweat, spit)..
658 creatures! Heckk! Everyone's speed, swim speed, and attack.
delete 11 personality lines, keep 9...
globs meatsured like bars now.)

ps. size of a tile is: "I think for the purposes of the minecarts it turned out to be 2m x 2m x 3m with 10 clicks / second" -Toady One
pps. use WinMerge or other "source code comparing tool" to visually inspect vanilla DF raws changes between 40.xx and 44.12.

[Enemy post]

40.xx is DF 2014, the final 2012 version was 34.11.