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[lwCoyote]

My question: How does DF know which RAWs to use? Like, can I grab a monster list RAW from, say, MW, and just stick it in my RAWs directory and it will get used?

[BlackFlyme]

Addendum:
Is there any real point to the growths on crops, like strawberry leaves, that aren't stockpilables?

I don't know about new raw additions in the last month other than gelding. I believe that useless plant bits such as most types of leaves are just for realism/making autumn a prettier time of year, but I may be wrong.

My question: How does DF know which RAWs to use? Like, can I grab a monster list RAW from, say, MW, and just stick it in my RAWs directory and it will get used?

So long as it's put in properly, yes. The game won't differentiate between mods. It looks for valid objects within the raw folder, and loads them from there.

[smakemupagus]

My question: How does DF know which RAWs to use? Like, can I grab a monster list RAW from, say, MW, and just stick it in my RAWs directory and it will get used?

So long as it's put in properly, yes. The game won't differentiate between mods. It looks for valid objects within the raw folder, and loads them from there.

Although, Masterwork is a pretty comprehensive mod that has a lot of interdependencies, so grabbing stuff from it into vanilla will not work in general.

[BlackFlyme]

I guess I should have elaborated a bit more.

If the creature was made using only vanilla resources, then it should transfer just fine. If the creature uses new tissues, materials, body parts/plans, etc., then those will have to be transferred over as well to keep the creature functioning properly. Or alternatively, the creature would have to be adjusted to remove those dependencies.

In a similar vein, objects meant for one version of Dwarf Fortress may not work properly if ported to another. A good example would be the way movement works in the current version compared to version 0.34.11. The old speed tokens were replaced by new gaits, meaning every creature had to be given its own movement speeds, or else be restricted to a single gait. Or as another example, the new trees, which went from taking up a single tile in the game to being able to extend above the Z level they grow in, and were given the ability to host growths such as leaves and fruit.

However, I don't quite know how DFHack-dependent objects would be ported over. I don't know much about how the utility works.

[Putnam]

Masterwork runs into every single problem BlackFlyme mentioned.

[StagnantSoul]

If I have a civ where the sizes change based on castes, will that effect who can and can't wear armour?

[Valikdu]

The armor may be too heavy to wear for the smaller castes.

[Sergarr]

How does the game determines the "small" and "large" adjectives for armor? Does armor has a hidden size parameter?

[BlackFlyme]

An armour's size is relative to the race that made it, and whether it will be considered large or small would depend on the race viewing the item, and how large that race is relative to the race that created the item. However, I don't really know how it determines if a race can wear another race's armour or not.

I believe that a race can wear any clothing made by their own race, even with dramatic size differences between castes. But that's based on some screwing around I've done in the previous version and the fact that children can wear regular clothes despite being 1/4^th the size of an adult.

[Badger Storm]

Is there any way that toying with the raws could change your migrant waves from having almost no kids at all to having like 7 of them, every single wave?  For what it's worth, I'm pretty certain I didn't even touch the raws for the dwarves.  Only thing I did was copypaste in my custom animal right under the unicorn.

[Ladygolem]

If you want to limit children in migrant waves, lower the childcap in the .init file.

[Badger Storm]

This is such a sudden change though.  Perhaps it's because I'm playing on a one-big-continent landmass instead of a map that's split off into two or more smaller continents?

Also, I'd like to limit migrant brats while leaving room for the birth of my own dwarflings.

[StagnantSoul]

Can I put the large serrated disk's [HITS:3] in a standard weapon? Or is that only effective in weapon traps?

[BlackFlyme]

That's a trap component token. It cannot be placed on other item types.

[StagnantSoul]

Ah, okay. So a trident would have no triple hit ability.