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[StupidElves]

I am going to up front right now, I am no good at modding but I often have great ideas for mods.

I was wondering if it would be possible to make a mod that allows for mad scientist to be a profession? Like, they can gather old body parts and patch them together to make patchwork zombies at a special work station? Then later the patchwork zombies could learn to behave in society much as the original monster in the book did.

Then other scientists could have different buildings to work with, and then they could have their own siege weapons be made, like Tesla Coils and Plasma Coils.

Perhaps another type of scientist could create patchwork creatures that work as pseudo chimeras? And then these pseudo chimeras could be trained for war.

Think this is too insane? Think that it should be tried anyway? And, finally, think it could work?

[polle]

Something like macabre mood choose a random body detail plan and stick it together.

[StupidElves]

Yeah, and that would lead to a legendary patchwork zombie of the highest quality. It could be adorned with menacing spikes of bone or some other material.

Perhaps one would have to make bolts at the forge? Each patchwork zombie requires two neck bolts to be animated.

[Meph]

Cough cough... Masterwork DF Warlock mode.

[StupidElves]

There is a difference between a warlock and a mad scientist. What a scientist does is far greater than magic. It is science.

[Meph]

Maybe. But the race is designed to be made of mad scientists. You dont get migrants (only two waves) and no kids. All civ members are made from corpse parts.

[StupidElves]

That sounds interesting, but it is not what I'm thinking of.

I just looked over the mod, and it does have some of the elements that I'd want. Mainly the dwarves being patchwork. But I was thinking more along the lines of building the patchwork zombies as cheap labor, and then after a while they can do the other things that regular dwarves can do. And since they are sewn together and reanimated, I figured that they'd do quite well in the military where if they get torn apart they will just be put back together again by the mad scientists.

Another part would be the lack of patchwork animals, those could be trained as war animals as well as kept as pets by dwarves who like patchwork creatures for their "Macabre look and feel."

Also, the mod doesn't appear to have Tesla Coils nor Plasma Coils. Those are a must.

[Meph]

Selfbuild and upgraded pets, as well as tesla coils, are ib the Gnome mode. But the pets are automatons/clockwirk, and the race is good-aligned.

I think if you want exactly what you describe, you will have to learn modding and write it yourself.

[StupidElves]

Yes, that is as I feared.

Could anyone give me a tutorial on how to mod DF?

I've only ever modded two games; Minecraft and Skyrim. Not the two best games for reference when it comes to DF.

[IndigoFenix]

The construct-creature script can be used independent of the gnome mod.  It works with organic materials now, so you could in theory make a creature out of the bodies of dead animals and have it take on all their material properties.  To be fair, there wouldn't be much point in this since most creatures are made up of the same kind of stuff anyway.

If you made a hybrid of gnomes and warlocks they'd be pretty much exactly this.

[StupidElves]

The point of it is that I think it would be cool to have mad scientist as a profession in DF. That's the only point.

[Hugo_The_Dwarf]

rename a skill/profession? and have all reactions and such go off of that skill

[StupidElves]

Alright, so something useless. Like Lye Makers.

Also, when I put in the creatures name should it be

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[CREATURE:PATCHWORKZOMBIE]
or should it be

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[CREATURE:PATCHWORK_ZOMBIE]?

[Hugo_The_Dwarf]

up to your naming conventions. I personally like using "_"s for separating names just so it's easy for 'me' to read. you could name it PWZ if you wanted.

[StupidElves]

Alright, thanks.

Also, I want to be able to control the patchwork zombies without the use of any outside programs. How would I do that?