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Author Topic: Make a 'Hostile' Construct for Dwarf Live Battle Exercise - is it possible?  (Read 778 times)

Aboth Ber

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I had idea for my dwarfs... I wish to make a custom workshop and reaction to enabe my dwarf builld a mechanical construct (or creature) that will labelled as enemy (just like gobblins and kobolds) with 'harmless' attacks. So I can get my dwarfs to had live battle exercise in a controlled manner...
The problem is... I don't know is it possible to make the construct to act as a 'hostile' creature and if it indeed possible I don't know how...
Any kind of help is much appreciated...
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You can make a material that evaporates at room temperature and traansforms, say, cats into a "Construct" creature of some kind that has OPPOSED_TO_LIFE. Bonus: Make the former cat's owner, if any, attack it.
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Hugo_The_Dwarf

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Acually there is a way to do this with just one creature which is then 2 Aboth Ber how good are you at interactions?

If your good pick these apart and butcher them for your own needs:

Spoiler: Creature example (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Body (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Interactions (click to show/hide)
« Last Edit: July 03, 2012, 12:40:43 pm by Hugo_The_Dwarf »
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Meph

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Yes, it is possible and a very nice idea. Might I steal it for my mod, in the near future ? I have everything more or less setup for creature spawning, all that is missing is the actual training-creature.

EDIT:Oh, and the creature will be "freindly" but you can still attack it by command. Or give it CRAZED or OPPOSED TO LIFE. Havent tested those, but should work.
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Yup for a TC that in haitus until toady allows more things to be moddable, has these evil rats in caves. If you're not carefull it's like opening a rat infested HFS
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Attack by command? won't it give him FUN cascade? Also you might want to do it very tough but with 1 weakness (say to obsidian or bismuth bronze). So that he will be almost immortal until you want to kill him - then you use a dwarf with obsidian sword and he one-shots him:)
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Attack by command? won't it give him FUN cascade? Also you might want to do it very tough but with 1 weakness (say to obsidian or bismuth bronze). So that he will be almost immortal until you want to kill him - then you use a dwarf with obsidian sword and he one-shots him:)

It only causes a !!FUN!! party if its a enity member.
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Aboth Ber

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You can make a material that evaporates at room temperature and traansforms, say, cats into a "Construct" creature of some kind that has OPPOSED_TO_LIFE. Bonus: Make the former cat's owner, if any, attack it.
Great for domestic pet control.... *grin*

@Hugo
I see... It give's me idea...
I think about something like this:
A custom workshop (say name: BOT WORKSHOP) - they make bot from mechanism and wood... (don't ask how it suppossed to move)
The Product is a immobile creature (can't move) (say name: DEACTIVATED TRAINING BOT)
The only problem is: Can the Immobile Creature can be moved by dwarf?
Then pasture the creature near another custom building (say name:BATTLE SIMULATOR) that had reaction that produce ACTIVATE BOT (boulder) that soon evaporate and with interaction, transform DEACTIVATED TRAINING BOT into ACTIVATED TRAINING BOT...
I think this is possible with sufficient raw manipulation from raws you provide...

So, I want the BOT to attack (and increase Armor or Dodge skill) but will not kill or harm my dwarf... I thinking if I make the bot material from light material (Featherwood?) and the bot attack goes like this:
[ATTACK_CONTACT_PERC:1000000] (a very large surface with light material and zero creature strength should not harm the dwarf)
[ATTACK_PENETRATION_PERC:0]
it will not harm the dwarf... correct me if I wrong...
And to make it quite resilient, It will not had blood so it can't die by bleeding... Then I thinking to make the Head Part from very hard material like Steel, so it can't die easily... or there is another option? (i don't want anything like Giant Sponge...)
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