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[ajg1g12]

I love dwarf fortress.
I'm trying to embark on harder starting places now, but I'm not all that keen on thrips-men, tiger-men. or anything-men in particular.

Anyway I could perhaps get rid of them altogether?

Thanks,

AJG

[Magistrum]

exclude the their names with the information in the raws. or you can put them a very low boiling point and let they make a "poof" and dissapear!

[Larix]

Dealing with annoying animalpeople _is_ the main challenge of savage biomes; they're not really more difficult otherwise. Apart from the few that spawn badgers, honey badgers and wolverines - those _do_ get fairly interesting in animalpeople and giant form.

You can of course wipe them from the raws, turn your dwarfs into goblins (i.e. edit their ethics so they find nothing wrong with butchering sentients) or ... embark in a non-savage biome that has actually challenging features like an aquifer, no trees or saltwater. Or just deal with the animalmen; they're mostly irritating but harmless.

[Magistrum]

Flood the world with magma, that solve almost everything!
But as larix said, if you want a savage biome for the challenge, just put some marksdwarves to patrol the surfasse, so they kill almost  everything wich can walk.

[GiglameshDespair]

I just find them annoying when EVERYTHING  that comes onto my map is animal people. There aren't even giant animals, just a steady stream of useless animal people.

[rawrcakes]

The best method of dealing with this, is modding your civilization to be able to butcher and eat sentients. This should make the animal people equally useful as convensional animals.

If you don't want to mod, however, you're stuck trying to exterminate them. Good luck.

[laularukyrumo]

Yeah. There are plenty of people who share your sentiment, that the animal people contribute little to the game aside from making more interesting/valuable savage animals harder to come by.

One thing you can do is delete any such animal entry from the raws, thus permanently excising them from the lands. MAKE SURE YOU BACK UP YOUR RAWS IF YOU DO THIS, AS IT IS SUPER EASY TO FUCK UP.

Alternatively, you can go through the files and add the following lines to the very end of each offending creature:

Code: [Select]

[SELECT_MATERIAL:ALL]
[BOILING_POINT:0]
[STATE_COLOR:ALL:PINK]
[STATE_NAME_ADJ:ALL:poof!]
Note that you must have temperature enabled for this to work, but if you do, any time you get an animalman loaded onsite, it will boil into a harmless cloud of pink "poof!" material, and will be dead. Something else will likely arrive in short time. Over time, you'll either get non-animalmen, or they'll eventually all die and you'll get non-animalmen.

[Tirion]

Just add [DOES_NOT_EXIST][FANCIFUL] to the entries defining animalmen in c_variation_default.txt. It will banish them into the realm of decorative engravings with a single line of code. Requires a world regen, though.

[gabandre]

would adding    [CV_NEW_TAG:FREQUENCY:5] to c_variation_default help?

[Eric Blank]

It would probably be more successful if you added [CV_REMOVE_TAG:FREQUENCY] beforehand, to ensure there is no conflict with whatever frequencies they would have by default. Tirion's idea of using [CV_NEW_TAG:DOES_NOT_EXIST] and [CV_NEW_TAG:FANCIFUL] is probably the quickest and simplest way to be rid of them altogether. I believe it may still be possible to go into specific creature definitions for those animal-men you want to keep and add:
   [GO_TO_END]
   [CV_REMOVE_TAG:DOES_NOT_EXIST]

That may or may not cause them to continue to exist...

[EvilBob22]

Ooh, I'll try
  [CV_REMOVE_TAG:FREQUENCY]
  [CV_NEW_TAG:FREQUENCY:5]

I like the idea of animalmen, so I don't want to get rid of them all-together.  I find savage biomes very un-savage with 20 different kinds of animalmen showing up, and maybe one or two kinds of giant creature (if you are lucky enough to get that).

[Eric Blank]

Yeah, I actually added GOOD to animalmen for my games. I prefer they show up largely in good-savage biomes.