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[moonlord]

Hi,
I've started for the first time inside a preexisting human settlement - just to see what happens. A vast tribe of human guards and various noble humans are all wandering about doing not very much. I can't seem to kill any of the humans as their status is set to Friendly. How can I start to kill the humans and ideally use their skins to make leather clothing?

Cheers
ml

[Cthulhu]

Stupid MSNBC.com...

You'll have to be creative to kill them.  Collapse their castle or something similar.  I don't think you can wear them.

[Puzzlemaker]

Well, you can mod it so they are skinable... Or are all creatures skinable by default?

[Captain Xenon]

butchering something produces skin, skull, bone, meat, and chunks. if you want to wear human-leather then you need to make them butcherable, and assign human corpses to a stockpile near your butcher/tanner shops.

if you want to wear human bone armor, thats a lot easier to do.

[BurnedToast]

If I remember right, all you have to do is delete the butcherable_nonstandard tag from humans (in the /raw/objects/creature_standard.txt) and you will be able to butcher them. You do not need to make a new world to get it to work either (err.. I don't think you do anyway).

To kill them, as others have said you need to either drown them, make a cave in on (or under) them, or use magma. You can also use a ballista (they do friendly fire) - just wall them in with fortifications or channels (so they don't wander off) set up the ballista and fire away. It's a bit annoying for killing lots of them though.

If you don't mind cheating, it's even easier - you can just use dwarf companion to set them to be butchered and a dwarf will run up, grab them, drag them off to the butcher shop and chop them up - no modifications to anything needed. I'm not 100% sure they will turn the skin to leather though, you might still need to delete butcherable_nonstandard for that.

[I3erent]

Maybe you an use companion to make them "not friendly".

[umiman]

quote:If I remember right, all you have to do is delete the butcherable_nonstandard tag from humans (in the /raw/objects/creature_standard.txt) and you will be able to butcher them. You do not need to make a new world to get it to work either (err.. I don't think you do anyway).

I tried this. Doesn't seem to work. I don't think you can butcher civilized creatures normally since I also removed it off goblins, kobolds, elves, and dwarves.

[Footkerchief]

quote:Originally posted by umiman:
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I tried this. Doesn't seem to work. I don't think you can butcher civilized creatures normally since I also removed it off goblins, kobolds, elves, and dwarves.</STRONG>

It worked for me when I tried it a while back.  My dwarves immediately started butchering goblins, trolls, elves, etc.  Did you save the text file and restart the game?

[umiman]

Yes. Regenned a new world twice in fact, after deleting everything in the objects folder.

I'll try again, see what's up.

[moonlord]

After some fiddlin' I present my 5 step program for long pig long john goodness

1. Remove [BUTCHERABLE_NONSTANDARD] from creature_standard.txt - save files, restart game

2. Need to turn on gathering refuse from outside in

• rders menu with command
• [r]
• until "Dwarves gather refuse from outside" is shown

  3. Wait till goblins come along and slaughter some humans

  4. Butcher, then tan.. be patient...

  5. HOT DIGGITY shiny human leather!