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[StagnantSoul]

I'm wondering how I could make a civ use bone weaponry and armour. I did some testing in arena mode, using dfhack's changeitem, and bone cutting weapons come up better than obsidian and wood, but worse than copper. How would I get a civ to make, wield, and widely use bone and obsidian weaponry? And leather and bone armour?

[Meph]

Your own civ members can be assigend bone armor and weapons by using "use specific item" in the military:equipment screen, and you pick out the item one by one.

Other civs, allies and invaders, will never use bone weapons or armor.

You can make a metal which has all the properties of bone, call it "bone", and they will use it, if you give them a free reaction to produce it. It wouldnt naturally occur in the world, but traders and invaders would arrive with "bone" items.

[StagnantSoul]

I guess I'll have to work on replicating bone as a metal then.

[Raidau]

Your own civ members can be assigend bone armor and weapons by using "use specific item" in the military:equipment screen, and you pick out the item one by one.

Other civs, allies and invaders, will never use bone weapons or armor.

You can make a metal which has all the properties of bone, call it "bone", and they will use it, if you give them a free reaction to produce it. It wouldnt naturally occur in the world, but traders and invaders would arrive with "bone" items.

Well, that all is true only if you dont use scripts, mat_type/mat_index pairs of bone materials may be assigned to entity resource lists, thus making them think bone is their armor material, so they will spawn with bone armor (and presumably trade that armor too), I only did short test of this in 34.11, but that worked, siegers came in with bone armor on them (i was using dwarf bone for goblins, you can use whatever you wish and assign any mats to armor list)

[Meph]

Nice, could you point me to the script you use?

[StagnantSoul]

Oh, and can you show me how to make that script run? I don't quite understand Dfhack enough to do stuff like that.

[Raidau]

Nice, could you point me to the script you use?

I did it manually using gm-editor, the data for melee weapons stored in df.global.world.entities.all.<entity ID>.resources.metal.weapon
there are pairs of mat_type and mat_index values, which encode the materials. Its not hard to make a script to add bones to weapon mats to all EVIL civs (i think best run it with SC_WORLD_LOADED event


Well i added random material of my modded dwarf that could be bone or whatever you wish.

[Raidau]

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