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[kiwiphoenix]

Hello, everyone.
I was just wondering if anybody knew a way to make a used-defined demon use weapons and armour.
I'm interested in replacing the procedurally-genned horde with an infernal legion of (humanoid) supersoldiers.
Is this even possible? Can one define them an entity without removing them from hell in the process?

[samanato]

As far as I know, the procedurally generated demons can only be removed in advanced worldgen by setting demon number to 0.  It is possible to make custom demon creatures however.  There's no way to give them real equipment by raw modding though, and I don't know of any DFHack scripts that would trigger armed demons.

[Meph]

Testing is very difficult so I never figured out if it really works, but a LAYER_LINKED entity of cavern creatures with DEPTH:5:5 might work. But I am really not sure about that, its just the best thing that I can think of.

You could make custom demons that have EQUIPS and use a interaction to trigger a dfhack script to spawn a few weapons on their tiles, but I am not sure how often they actually do pick them up.

[smakemupagus]

Meph, nobody tested your demons yet?!

edit... ah, i see, the custom demons are creatures, not an entity

[kiwiphoenix]

Testing is very difficult so I never figured out if it really works, but a LAYER_LINKED entity of cavern creatures with DEPTH:5:5 might work. But I am really not sure about that, its just the best thing that I can think of.

You could make custom demons that have EQUIPS and use a interaction to trigger a dfhack script to spawn a few weapons on their tiles, but I am not sure how often they actually do pick them up.

I'll poke around a bit in my v34 copy and see what happens - never thought to try LAYER LINKED level 5.
Thank you!

[Mohreb el Yasim]

Testing is very difficult so I never figured out if it really works, but a LAYER_LINKED entity of cavern creatures with DEPTH:5:5 might work.

In my tests they worked (but was in DF2012), but they needed at least 1 randomly generated demon to exist. (if none was set the hell was not populated). this experience i based on the population reports from the world generation.

[YAHG]

It may be possible to cheat by attaching "swords" to their hands as part of thier body, and giving it appropriate materials and attack types . I have not tested this either though, but should be arena testable.