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[Splint]

I believe this short video will accurately represent my anger at being unable to apparently see little things like that.

Thank you for the help. Even has the right amount of time as I scan and see the problem.

[Jazzeraint]

because you can't make a mod making use of it and it isn't in the raws

Boo. :/ I want to mod ALL THE THINGS.

[XhAPPYSLApX]

I get the basic gist of modding, but I really don't know how to mod in gummy bears, like how to mod the skin to be made of gummy material, so that my adventurer can eat it. And if you want to ask why gummy bears... Because gummy bears dammit

Basically, I really don't know how all the ligaments and bones and such fit in the creature record sheet.

[Dirst]

Try starting with a Sponge Man, but made from a material that is edible raw.  Then see if your adventurer can eat the corpse.  If not, you'll need to figure out an edible corpse item such as the fruit of a plant with no natural biomes.

[XhAPPYSLApX]

Try starting with a Sponge Man, but made from a material that is edible raw.  Then see if your adventurer can eat the corpse.  If not, you'll need to figure out an edible corpse item such as the fruit of a plant with no natural biomes.

Thanks for the quick reply, and thanks for the info I will see to this, hopefully I'll be able to have megabeast gummy bears by the end of the day

[Jazzeraint]

In looking at modifying items to reduce clutter, could one make an item that takes up multiple body slots? Like [underwear] that acts as Loincloth & Socks, or [peasant outfit] that acts as Leggings, Tunic, Socks and Shoes? Just getting back into modding and haven't done items before, so thanks~

Since the coverage of an item can be modified, thoughts on removing half of the clothing / armor items and just replacing them with items that offer full coverage and are considered both, e.g. [insulated shoe] or [sock and boot]?

[BlackFlyme]

With the way the system is set up and items are categorized, it is not possible to make an article of clothing that acts as multiple types.

Upper body pieces of clothing are defined by beginning with the [ITEM_ARMOR:ID] tag, while lower body items are [ITEM_PANTS:ID], feet are [ITEM_SHOES:ID], and so on.

The bare minimum that a creature needs to wear to avoid negative thoughts is something on its upper body, something on its lower body, and something for each [STANCE]-type body part it has. Creatures do not care about the coverage that a piece of clothing has. Otherwise the only thing that people would make their non-military wear would just be simple robes.

[Muffinator]

I believe this short video will accurately represent my anger at being unable to apparently see little things like that.

Thank you for the help. Even has the right amount of time as I scan and see the problem.

Oh you arent the only one, in trying to create my first creature mod I messed up by:

• Forgetting [OBJECT:CREATURE]
• Forgetting the file name needs to start with creature_thennamegoeshere.txt, instead of the other way around.
• It's b_detail_plan, not body_detail_plan
• Most important, that my creatures weren't showing up at all because I didn't put them in the raws folder.
  

And it took a separate edit every time to figure out all this...

[Muffinator]

I get the basic gist of modding, but I really don't know how to mod in gummy bears, like how to mod the skin to be made of gummy material, so that my adventurer can eat it. And if you want to ask why gummy bears... Because gummy bears dammit

Basically, I really don't know how all the ligaments and bones and such fit in the creature record sheet.

What I'd do, would be to look at the modding guide on the wiki, where they break down how creature raws are assembled, they look at the bronze colosssus. Since they replace every tissue and material and all that with bronze, just do the same, with "gummy" and make some gummy material, just take bear raws and use the same tricks used to make the bronze colossus bronze!

As for the gummy material, I'd recommend just using physical characteristics of Gelatin, which is the gelling agent primarily used in gummies. In fact, gelatin blocks are used to simulate human flesh for ballistics testing! You might have seen this on Mythbusters. So its a stretch, but you could default to using human flesh material properties if you cannot find more accurate numbers.

 I'm still a noob though... not sure if this helps.

[XhAPPYSLApX]

I get the basic gist of modding, but I really don't know how to mod in gummy bears, like how to mod the skin to be made of gummy material, so that my adventurer can eat it. And if you want to ask why gummy bears... Because gummy bears dammit

Basically, I really don't know how all the ligaments and bones and such fit in the creature record sheet.

What I'd do, would be to look at the modding guide on the wiki, where they break down how creature raws are assembled, they look at the bronze colosssus. Since they replace every tissue and material and all that with bronze, just do the same, with "gummy" and make some gummy material, just take bear raws and use the same tricks used to make the bronze colossus bronze!

As for the gummy material, I'd recommend just using physical characteristics of Gelatin, which is the gelling agent primarily used in gummies. In fact, gelatin blocks are used to simulate human flesh for ballistics testing! You might have seen this on Mythbusters. So its a stretch, but you could default to using human flesh material properties if you cannot find more accurate numbers.

 I'm still a noob though... not sure if this helps.

As am I, I only really know how to edit attributes, and the colors of hair, skin and eyes. And any kind of help is good, thanks for the info

[Jazzeraint]

With the way the system is set up and items are categorized, it is not possible to make an article of clothing that acts as multiple types.

Upper body pieces of clothing are defined by beginning with the [ITEM_ARMOR:ID] tag, while lower body items are [ITEM_PANTS:ID], feet are [ITEM_SHOES:ID], and so on.

The bare minimum that a creature needs to wear to avoid negative thoughts is something on its upper body, something on its lower body, and something for each [STANCE]-type body part it has. Creatures do not care about the coverage that a piece of clothing has. Otherwise the only thing that people would make their non-military wear would just be simple robes.

Sorry, I think I failed to adequately express myself.

I was thinking that, instead of there being Socks, Sandals, Shoes, Low Boots and High Boots, that, say, the first three are removed, and Low / High Boots are renamed to Low / High Boot and Sock, respectively, to remove a lot of the item types from cluttering the world. (Since my initial idea of having an item count as multiple equip spaces isn't workable~)

[BlackFlyme]

Ah, decluttering. My bad then for misunderstanding. There are a few mods that streamline the game by doing that. And others that add a lot more variety to what items are available.

Totally something that can be done. Just be sure to go into the entity files as well to make sure that the various entity item permissions are consistent with the items that exist.

[Dirst]

Is there a way to make a specific creature, or a specific tissue/material, take extra damage from a certain weapon?  Modding the creature or the weapon or using DFHack are all on the table.

In particular, I'm working on a new mod with a stone megabeast, and I'd like picks to be extra effective (or... less ineffective).  If that works, I'll probably back-port it to The Earth Strikes Back as well.

[HereticUK]

I've just tried my first foray into modding Dwarf Fortress and I was pretty pleased with the result for my first time. I added a new ranged weapon and ammo type, both of which can be found in the game and equipped at the embark screen. However, in Fortress mode I can only craft the arrows. The bow shows up in the crafting list but when I add it to the job queue, nothing happens. No crafting at all. But when I remove it from the queue, the job list resumes as normal. What am I doing wrong? Is it because I set it as a training weapon (so that it can only be made of wood) and then set the material cost to 6?

EDIT: I managed to fix this. Turns out that the game doesn't like ranged weapons tagged as [TRAINING]. I removed the tag and it works perfectly now.

[Chevaleresse]

Is there a way to ensure that worldgen civs have access to materials (and therefore items made from them) sourced from reactions? I want my worldgen elves to have access to my modded infused wood, to make them less pathetic.