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[shadowclasper]

Will the libraries allow you to learn other stuff as well? things besides spells? Like creating vile tonics and new kinds of minions and such? Cause it'd be pretty cool if the warlocks had more than just spells going for them. I made a post about it earlier, but I guess in totality it was just too silly and complicated.

edit: also, is there some way to 'control' which spells a warlock will cast? Or will they just go around using them at will?

[zlurker]

Oh right something I noticed about the warlock's manual. It mentions in Get Started: Pets: Warlocks dont do pets. You will be lucky if you find some evil animals like grave cats, barghests or brook trolls. Take them if you like, but mind that they will be attacked by undead beings, just like any other wildlife. Still good for early meat, bones and blood. But in Warlocks, under undead pets, this: Rare Evil Creatures at embark. Sometimes a warlock civ tames creatures that live in evil biomes, like gravecats, barghests, brook trolls... Warlocks make sure that these are not attacked by the undead, and you can buy and embark with them. Its a rare occasion though.

So are embark pets attacked by the undead or not?

[jaxy15]

I found a bug. I taught a warlock a bunch of spells and sent him to fight a forest spider, but when he used one of the AoE ice spells, he died instantly.

[Meph]

Warlocks do have this:

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[SELECT_MATERIAL:ALL]
[COLDDAM_POINT:NONE]
[HEATDAM_POINT:NONE]
[IGNITE_POINT:NONE]
I had hoped that this would solve that issue.

Did he die of frostbite?

[jaxy15]

He ran over to the spider, used frost nova, the combat log said he was numb and bam, he died. Also, summoned blood beasts are hostile.

[Meph]

Thank you.

I did my own tests, the ice spells are all fine, except the frost nova, which does friendly fire. Ups.

Bloodbeast has CRAZED token, thats an easy fix. I just make a caste without the token.

[shadowclasper]

Warlocks should have a plague fire spell. Sets things on fire, but also gives enemies the black plague.

They should also be able to send diseases and plagues against enemy civs.

[Meph]

I am thinking about plague ammo for catapults, for the Blight Fletcher. Or the Blight Siegeworks. A bit more virulent than the normal diseases.

Plague fire makes no sense, things that burn die anyway.

[shadowclasper]

Well the idea is that you hit with a small fire burst on one target, and then have a larger syndrom released in the form of smoke. ANything that doesn't get lit on fire will get infected.

[SharpKris]

any idea on creating Abominations? say like using 10 souls and multiple body parts to create a large slow pile of corpses? could act as a pet or use the golem system from the dwarf counterpart by using lots of bone and corpses to create an Abomination and then activating it?   

[shadowclasper]

any idea on creating Abominations? say like using 10 souls and multiple body parts to create a large slow pile of corpses? could act as a pet or use the golem system from the dwarf counterpart by using lots of bone and corpses to create an Abomination and then activating it?

would be pretty cool. I also like the idea of bone gardens that turn into skeleton defenders if we can get that too.

[Baffler]

Having some trouble getting the construct skeleton reaction to work. I've got a coati bone totem, a coati bone stack(2), some cotton fiber thread, and a coati soul. None of these items are stockpiled.

Edit: Just stored the soul in a phylactery, the reaction still says I'm missing reagents.

[LMeire]

I was lucky enough to generate a civ that domesticated barghests and blood wolves; but the animals I embarked with are listed under "other" rather than "pets and livestock", so I can't do anything with them. (Update: Attacking the animals for meat caused a loyalty cascade.)

[Urist McTeellox]

Warlocks Alpha v0.2 merged into SWP-alpha with thanks!

[shadowclasper]

Question?

How does hunting work when someone doesn't actually have the ability to gain proficency in a weapon? For example, ghouls can't use any ranged weapons as far as I know. Will they just go into a constant 'cancel job' loop because they're equipping a weapon they can't use? or do they just equip it and not use it?

Cause if they're just going to grab a ranged weapon, and then not use it. Then why not just make sure that they grab something like a bolos which will use the lashing skill for hunting, and let them at it? Or a Javelin? Or similar?