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[Badger Storm]

Since I've been modding again, the game has been crashing.  A lot.  Like 50% of worldgens and embarks.  Nothing about it in errorlog, and mods seem to be working as intended.

I'll have to do some detective work, but does anyone have any ideas?

[Meph]

Since I've been modding again, the game has been crashing.  A lot.  Like 50% of worldgens and embarks.  Nothing about it in errorlog, and mods seem to be working as intended.

I'll have to do some detective work, but does anyone have any ideas?

Without you posting the mod, no one can help you.

[Boltgun]

Did you make a creature with too much descriptors?  These crash the game sometimes when it tries to generate too much population.

[ArKFallen]

This responds to multiple posts and each response is spoilered for length

And how to change this code to actually poison dwarves, when working with this material. I set it so that arsenic weapons and other metallic materials can be created. So you can trap e.g. goblins in toxic arsenic cages or shoot at them with toxic arsenic bolts. Full code of arsenic:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

I think SYN_CONTACT only really activates when something is coated in a substance. Like how walking through water, blood, or pus can coat your feet in the substance.
So the only way aside from DFHack witchery is probably to have it only usable in a custom workshop with one of the products being poisonous boiling stone.

Using the latest 0.40.24 starter pack, with Phoebus tileset. With my own custom color scheme which has the strange effect of turning Vomit cyan, despite green being green in my color scheme, for some reason it changes vomit to cyan.

Could anyone help me locate or change the color of Vomit via the raws?  (what a glorious thing to bother modding, isnt it?)
I'd also like to change the Cherry leaves & fruits to PALE_PINK and PINK respectively (the tile "contaminants" that fall on the ground), i tried to, both in displayed_color and state_color, but didnt seem to work (perhaps it doesnt affect savegames, even if said savegames are updated via the launcher?).

Thanks! Been googling "blood raws" and "Dwarf fortress vomit raws/color" for an hour, literally only find disgusting stuff not related to my question, LOL.
Some things are just a bitch to google for, aren't they? 

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Vomit is a hard-coded material so changing its color specifically will require editing the DF program.

As for the contaminants be sure you edited the raws in the data\save\savename\raw\objects directory. Each save has its own raws and I don't have any experience with pre-packaged DF to know if the launcher takes this into account.

Blood is in material_template_default and each creature has its own (veiled) reference to blood so that can be edited on a creature by creature basis.

I have a couple of questions:

In order to be able to encrust gems onto weapons, I'd have to create a custom workshop, correct?
With this workshop, can I restrict the types of gems that can be encrusted? For example if I want only Emeralds, Sapphires and Rubies to be encrust-able and gems like diamonds to not be.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

I think you can achieve this with vanilla and micro-ing stockpile-workshop connections. As for doing the mod thing
 

Code: (http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2014:Reaction#Products) [Select]

[IMPROVEMENT:<probability>100:<reagent name, often A or B>A:<improvement type>COVERED:<material token, can use material classes to make the reaction only choose materials with that class>]The things outside of <> is what I recommend for a start. Here's a more complete one with less obvious info.

Code: [Select]

[REACTION:ENCRUST_WEAPON]
[NAME:encrust a weapon]
[BUILDING:CRAFTSMAN:NONE]---At craftsdwarf workshop
[REAGENT:A:1:WEAPON:NONE:INORGANIC:NONE][PRESERVE_REAGENT]---the INORGANIC:NONE means it must be made of a material whose ID goes INORGANIC:X
[REAGENT:B:1:SMALLGEM:NONE:NONE:NONE][REACTION_CLASS:ENCRUSTING_GEM]
[IMPROVEMENT:100:A:COVERED:GET_MATERIAL_FROM_REAGENT:B:NONE]
[SKILL:ENCRUSTGEM ]
you'll need to add [REACTION_CLASS:ENCRUSTING_GEM] to the gem-able materials you want to encrust with.
 Making gems unable to be encrusted is impossible, you can even cut rock and encrust it on things.

When the product is finished; is it possible for me to 'change' the values of the item, making the item better? I.e. decreasing the impact area of hammers for better penetration but not actually changing the material the base weapon was made from(I'm guessing it's just an easy raw edit but I'd like to confirm this).

No, it is not possible to make the product better after improvements. To make it better you need to change the base weapon which is only possible by destroying the old one + all improvements and makes a new one.

[scamtank]

Well... no, the vanilla jeweler jobs don't leave any room for weapons. It's either items that are finished goods, furniture or ammunition. That's it. With the flags they have, not even falconne's DFHack reaction tweaker GUI can sneak weapons into the task.

[ArKFallen]

Well... no, the vanilla jeweler jobs don't leave any room for weapons. It's either items that are finished goods, furniture or ammunition. That's it. With the flags they have, not even falconne's DFHack reaction tweaker GUI can sneak weapons into the task.

Hm. I thought there was a jeweler job that was more or less a 'just encrust a thing'. Most of my gems go into a vault anyway.
Thanks for the info!

[Badger Storm]

The decorate with bone/horn/ivory labors can and will encrust anything, weapons included.  (Oddly, despite much googling I have yet to see anything carved out of a creature's hooves...)

[scamtank]

Yeah, no. The most I've seen too is like the foot of a deer used to cap off a knife handle or something. There's a reason why whale/elephant ivory is a Thing for scrimshanders despite the difficulty in finding the stuff. There's just enough in a hoof to scrawl a pattern on its surface, but you can't, like, make a pipe out of one.

[Urist_McDagger]

I have a couple of questions:

In order to be able to encrust gems onto weapons, I'd have to create a custom workshop, correct?
With this workshop, can I restrict the types of gems that can be encrusted? For example if I want only Emeralds, Sapphires and Rubies to be encrust-able and gems like diamonds to not be.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

I think you can achieve this with vanilla and micro-ing stockpile-workshop connections. As for doing the mod thing
 

Code: (http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2014:Reaction#Products) [Select]

[IMPROVEMENT:<probability>100:<reagent name, often A or B>A:<improvement type>COVERED:<material token, can use material classes to make the reaction only choose materials with that class>]The things outside of <> is what I recommend for a start. Here's a more complete one with less obvious info.

Code: [Select]

[REACTION:ENCRUST_WEAPON]
[NAME:encrust a weapon]
[BUILDING:CRAFTSMAN:NONE]---At craftsdwarf workshop
[REAGENT:A:1:WEAPON:NONE:INORGANIC:NONE][PRESERVE_REAGENT]---the INORGANIC:NONE means it must be made of a material whose ID goes INORGANIC:X
[REAGENT:B:1:SMALLGEM:NONE:NONE:NONE][REACTION_CLASS:ENCRUSTING_GEM]
[IMPROVEMENT:100:A:COVERED:GET_MATERIAL_FROM_REAGENT:B:NONE]
[SKILL:ENCRUSTGEM ]
you'll need to add [REACTION_CLASS:ENCRUSTING_GEM] to the gem-able materials you want to encrust with.
 Making gems unable to be encrusted is impossible, you can even cut rock and encrust it on things.

When the product is finished; is it possible for me to 'change' the values of the item, making the item better? I.e. decreasing the impact area of hammers for better penetration but not actually changing the material the base weapon was made from(I'm guessing it's just an easy raw edit but I'd like to confirm this).

No, it is not possible to make the product better after improvements. To make it better you need to change the base weapon which is only possible by destroying the old one + all improvements and makes a new one.

Cheers.

Gemsetting doesn't work on weapons. I'm still unsure how to do this though, a new workshop is looking like the only option however.
My best guess would for it would be to reforge the weapon into a new one using the base weapon and the gem as material so it turns into something like <iron battle axe>+<ruby>=<upgraded iron battle axe>. I am not that accustomed to the raws yet though, and this could prove to be an impossibility.

Edit: Also, encrusting was a bad choice of words. What I wanted to do was more like combine a weapon with a gem and end up with a new weapon.

[Urist McGoombaBrother]

And how to change this code to actually poison dwarves, when working with this material. I set it so that arsenic weapons and other metallic materials can be created. So you can trap e.g. goblins in toxic arsenic cages or shoot at them with toxic arsenic bolts. Full code of arsenic:

I think SYN_CONTACT only really activates when something is coated in a substance. Like how walking through water, blood, or pus can coat your feet in the substance.
So the only way aside from DFHack witchery is probably to have it only usable in a custom workshop with one of the products being poisonous boiling stone.[/spoiler]

Thx for your response. Probably a future update of DF will allow those kind of things.

[Rex Invictus]

It's not that hard to do. :p

Like he said, just make a material with a really low boiling point and have it create that material when it spawns. Big cloud of poisonous dust, dead dwarves.

[Baleur]

Cant believe vomit color is hardcoded. So pissed off right now. Cyan vomit. 
Rich world problems. Except, DF is free and not region locked, so I guess this makes it a global international problem.
I'll submit this issue to the UN and ASEAN councils at once.

[Valikdu]

Something weird happened to at least some of my plants in 40.24. They just disappear when they're harvested.

They have the same code as used in previous versions, as do their materials.

Spoiler: Two disappearing plants (click to show/hide)

[PLANT:CATA_CAP]   
   [NAME:catalyst cap]
   [NAME_PLURAL:catalyst caps]
   [ADJ:catalyst cap]   
   [USE_MATERIAL_TEMPLATE:STRUCTURAL:STRUCTURAL_PLANT_TEMPLATE]            
      [MATERIAL_VALUE:1]
   [BASIC_MAT:LOCAL_PLANT_MAT:STRUCTURAL]   
   [PICKED_TILE:6][PICKED_COLOR:5:0:1]
   [GROWDUR:600][VALUE:1]      
   [USE_MATERIAL_TEMPLATE:SEED:SEED_TEMPLATE]     
      [MATERIAL_VALUE:1]     
      [EDIBLE_VERMIN]     
   [SEED:catalyst spawn:catalyst spawn:5:0:1:LOCAL_PLANT_MAT:SEED]   
   [SPRING][SUMMER][AUTUMN][WINTER]   
   [FREQUENCY:50]   
   [CLUSTERSIZE:5]   
   [PREFSTRING:squeaky sounds]
   [WET][DRY]   
   [BIOME:SUBTERRANEAN_WATER] 
   [UNDERGROUND_DEPTH:1:3]   
   [SHRUB_TILE:58]   
   [DEAD_SHRUB_TILE:58]   
   [SHRUB_COLOR:5:0:1]   
   [DEAD_SHRUB_COLOR:0:0:1]


[PLANT:C_FERN]   
   [NAME:changeling fern]
   [NAME_PLURAL:changeling ferns]
   [ADJ:changeling fern]   
   [USE_MATERIAL_TEMPLATE:STRUCTURAL:STRUCTURAL_PLANT_TEMPLATE] 
      [STATE_NAME_ADJ:SOLID:changeling fern]   
      [STATE_NAME_ADJ:SOLID_PASTE:changeling fern pulp]
      [PREFIX:NONE]
      [STOCKPILE_GLOB_PASTE]
      [DO_NOT_CLEAN_GLOB]
      [MATERIAL_VALUE:10]
      [EDIBLE_VERMIN]
   [BASIC_MAT:LOCAL_PLANT_MAT:STRUCTURAL]   
   [PICKED_TILE:13][PICKED_COLOR:2:0:1]
   [GROWDUR:4000][VALUE:10]
   [USE_MATERIAL_TEMPLATE:SEED:SEED_TEMPLATE]     
      [MATERIAL_VALUE:5]     
      [EDIBLE_VERMIN]
   [SEED:changeling fern pod:changeling fern pod:6:0:1:LOCAL_PLANT_MAT:SEED]   
   [SPRING][SUMMER][AUTUMN][WINTER]
   [FREQUENCY:30]   
   [CLUSTERSIZE:2]   
   [PREFSTRING:wierdness]   
   [WET][DRY]
   [BIOME:SUBTERRANEAN_WATER]   
   [UNDERGROUND_DEPTH:1:3]   
   [SHRUB_TILE:126]
   [DEAD_SHRUB_TILE:126]
   [SHRUB_COLOR:2:0:1]   
   [DEAD_SHRUB_COLOR:0:0:1]

[MATERIAL_TEMPLATE:STRUCTURAL_PLANT_TEMPLATE]
   [STATE_COLOR:ALL_SOLID:BROWN]
   [STATE_NAME:ALL_SOLID:plant]
   [STATE_ADJ:ALL_SOLID:plant]
   [STATE_COLOR:LIQUID:BROWN]
   [STATE_NAME:LIQUID:none]
   [STATE_ADJ:LIQUID:none]
   [STATE_COLOR:GAS:BROWN]
   [STATE_NAME:GAS:none]
   [STATE_ADJ:GAS:none]
   [DISPLAY_COLOR:6:0:0]
   [MATERIAL_VALUE:1]
   [SPEC_HEAT:3000]
   [IGNITE_POINT:10508]
   [MELTING_POINT:NONE]
   [BOILING_POINT:NONE]
   [HEATDAM_POINT:10250]
   [COLDDAM_POINT:9900]
   [MAT_FIXED_TEMP:NONE]
   [SOLID_DENSITY:1200]
   [LIQUID_DENSITY:NONE]
   [MOLAR_MASS:NONE]
   [IMPACT_YIELD:10000]
   [IMPACT_FRACTURE:10000]
   [IMPACT_STRAIN_AT_YIELD:1000]
   [COMPRESSIVE_YIELD:10000]
   [COMPRESSIVE_FRACTURE:10000]
   [COMPRESSIVE_STRAIN_AT_YIELD:1000]
   [TENSILE_YIELD:10000]
   [TENSILE_FRACTURE:10000]
   [TENSILE_STRAIN_AT_YIELD:1000]
   [TORSION_YIELD:10000]
   [TORSION_FRACTURE:10000]
   [TORSION_STRAIN_AT_YIELD:1000]
   [SHEAR_YIELD:40000] used pine
   [SHEAR_FRACTURE:40000]
   [SHEAR_STRAIN_AT_YIELD:1000]
   [BENDING_YIELD:10000]
   [BENDING_FRACTURE:10000]
   [BENDING_STRAIN_AT_YIELD:1000]
   [MAX_EDGE:1000]
   [ABSORPTION:100]
   [STRUCTURAL_PLANT_MAT]
   [ROTS]

They DON'T disappear if I just summon some with DFHack, only if they're harvested from a plot.

They also can't be harvested from the ground (the shrub doesn't get selected).

[Sver]

If a civilized creature is mortal and lacks [MALE]+[FEMALE] tags, will its civilization die out during world gen?

[TheFlame52]

If a civilized creature is mortal and lacks [MALE]+[FEMALE] tags, will its civilization die out during world gen?

I would also like to know this, I would like demons to die out in worldgen