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[Chevaleresse]

I had a fairly successful adventurer who managed to retain all of her limbs and motor function without any savescums or quick dips into the raws to make goblins detonate violently upon  existing. I found a slab in a camp and read it, and didn't gain the "Animate corpse" power. My adventurer is an immortal creature, but a peek at Legends reveals that she did, indeed, learn the secrets of life and death. What gives?


EDIT: I also still get hungry, tired, etc.

[Orange Wizard]

Sounds like a bug. I've never seen this happen before.

[DrKillPatient]

EDIT: Whoops, wrong thread. Too many tabs. Sorry

For the record I agree with InsanityIncarnate!

[Chevaleresse]

Anyone care to test this for me? I can upload the save. The race I'm playing as is modded in a sense, but they're just elves that can trance and that belong to a different entity. I also made a couple animals trainable that aren't normally and I think I messed with grazer values, but otherwise the game is vanilla.

[Kolnukbyne]

As far as I know immortal creatures are unable to become necromancers but I'm not sure if that is still a feature in the current version.

[Orange Wizard]

I think that means that NPCs of that race don't get the immortality goal and start seeking immortality, because they already are immortal.
I don't think it affects their actual ability to gain necromancy powers.

[Chevaleresse]

I dun goofed and died to a pack of dingoes, then confirmed the exit, forgetting that the character would vanish. I think I have a copy or two of that world where testing could continue, though.

[Rumrusher]

I think that means that NPCs of that race don't get the immortality goal and start seeking immortality, because they already are immortal.
I don't think it affects their actual ability to gain necromancy powers.

just checked the raws.

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[I_TARGET:A:CREATURE]
[IT_LOCATION:CONTEXT_CREATURE]
[IT_REQUIRES:MORTAL]
[IT_REQUIRES:CAN_LEARN]
[IT_REQUIRES:CAN_SPEAK]the code states the person needs to be mortal to gain the ability to raise the dead. so goblins and elves are unable to raise the dead or learn this skill due to being immortal creatures.
not really a bug since it's been that way since necromancy ever was in. oh well atleast there still murk for goblins and elves to get the taste of spawning undead.
the solution for your problem is to naturally give your race necromancy since you're already causing gobbos to explode and immortal.

[Chevaleresse]

I wasn't actually making gobbos explode, I was just joking. The race I'm playing as is a little overpowered but when I say immortal I mean "won't die of old age," not "unkillable."

[Orange Wizard]

"Immortal" here means "can't die of old age". Although according to Rumrusher's post, that's enough to make necromancy a no-go.
"Unkillable" is not a thing in DF. Everything has a weakness, even if it's just dropping a bridge floor on them.