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[Zanzetkuken The Great]

This one? http://dfscratch.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Main_Page

Yes.

[Poldon]

I have found the presence of a Regent from the very start of the Formic fortress to be somewhat annoying, and have since checked the raws and noticed that none of the conditions set for them are met even at the point I am playing. The only thing I can find that looks wrong is that [LAND_HOLDER:1] is entered twice. I'm going to try removing one of them and see if that helps.

Edit: Didn't fix it.

[WillowLuman]

I'm just realizing now how amazingly impoverished our basic word vocabulary file is. All the adjectives included are clearly for the Halfling perspective, and we're missing many basics such as ones that describe age, direction, or order. Also, we need to update it to include the names of the other races, as currently the only race names anyone has words for are "halfling", "hound", "mallard", "tiger", "dragon", and "tit".

[Putnam]

Okay

* Putnam suddenly realizes every word he add will have to have 3 corresponding translations

[WillowLuman]

Let the creators of each language come up with the translation for the word.

Here's an idea. Every time you want to use a world in the game but can't find it, POST IT HERE. I'll start:
-New, Old
-Haven
-Harbor
-North, South, East, West
-Fire
-Ice
-Wind
-Tree (have appletree, but not tree)?
-Shovel, Pick, Axe
-Weapon

[Vgray]

Why do Halflings have to use English words at all?

[Poldon]

Well I just had an instance of Trade Depot Explosion as the Formics. There is still something causing caravans to explode when they attempt to unload. I'm going to reload the save and see if I can gather any information.

[WillowLuman]

Why do Halflings have to use English words at all?

Here's how language in DF works:

The vocabulary words that the game uses are all defined in a great big txt file, in English. Each "language" is a collection of translations for those English words, for instance [T_WORD:DAGGER:urist]. Every language must have a translation for every word in the basic vocabulary, or else you get names that include " " because the game generates names based on the basic vocabulary, and displays the translation of it.

Our basic vocabulary was originally created under the mistaken assumption that each language could have it's own "words.txt" file, so it began as an "ABC's for Halflings dictionary". Then many more words were added after this was corrected. But we're still missing many needed words, thus all languages are somewhat "hobbit-flavored" because of the basic vocabulary the translations are based on.

[Putnam]

Think you quoted the wrong word.

[WillowLuman]

Fixed.

Anyway, no language has a word for "tree", but everyone, even bloodthirsty swamp lizards, has a word for "appletree". In fact, carnivorous swamp lizards have a word for "tea" but not for "blood" or "meat"

[Putnam]

word.

I worded the wrong word.

Anyway, I found this in STL's insects file:

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[MILKABLE:WATER:9600]

Should be WATER:NONE. Odd amount of malformed material tokens, actually.

[Vgray]

I know that.

But is the Halfling word for "Hill", "Hill"?

[WillowLuman]

Halflings use the translation file "language_english_halfling", as it makes sense for them to speak simple English, being creatures of the pastoral English countryside.

By contrast, the Formic word for hill is "khabarim"

[Putnam]

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reaction_hivestuff_putnam

[OBJECT:REACTION]

[REACTION:CHURN_BUTTER_PUTNAM]
[NAME:churn butter from milk]
[BUILDING:KITCHEN:CUSTOM_B]
[REAGENT:milk:1:NONE:NONE:NONE:NONE][HAS_MATERIAL_REACTION_PRODUCT:BUTTER_MAT][MIN_DIMENSION:150]
[REAGENT:container:1:NONE:NONE:NONE:NONE][CONTAINS:milk][PRESERVE_REAGENT][DOES_NOT_DETERMINE_PRODUCT_AMOUNT]
[PRODUCT:100:5:GLOB:NONE:GET_MATERIAL_FROM_REAGENT:milk:BUTTER_MAT]
[SKILL:COOK]

[REACTION:MAKE_CHEESE_PUTNAM]
[NAME:make cheese from milk]
[BUILDING:KITCHEN:CUSTOM_C]
[REAGENT:milk:1:NONE:NONE:NONE:NONE][HAS_MATERIAL_REACTION_PRODUCT:CHEESE_MAT][MIN_DIMENSION:150]
[REAGENT:container:1:NONE:NONE:NONE:NONE][CONTAINS:milk][PRESERVE_REAGENT][DOES_NOT_DETERMINE_PRODUCT_AMOUNT]
[PRODUCT:100:5:CHEESE:NONE:GET_MATERIAL_FROM_REAGENT:milk:CHEESE_MAT]
[SKILL:CHEESEMAKING]


I've made these reactions for a hive creature I've also made and now I need somewhere to put them. Whose playable entities can have these?

[WillowLuman]

That would go great for the halflings, except for one problem:

We don't actually have any creatures that lactate at the moment. Some can be "milked", yes, but in much the same way as one would milk a snake. None of them actually produce milk or even something analogous to it. We have a milk template, but not milk creatures.

This is something you could remedy