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[UltraTobs]

I'm new to modding dwarf fortress, and from thinking about it, this question does sound kinda dumb, but, is there any way to change anything about your character? height, face, etc. are randomly generated.. any way to change it, so I could make a character of my choosing?
Edit: I'm talking about Adventure Mode.

[Putnam]

DFHack is the only way. Appearance modifying is really hard.

[UltraTobs]

Looked through the Dfhack commands in the GitHub, looks as if there are only 2 adventure mode commands: swap bodies and show tools... or I just don't know what I'm doing?

[Putnam]

gui/gm-editor is how you'll edit your guy with DFHack. Like I said, it's hard.

[Blastbeard]

You can make creatures that are copies of your race of choice and edit the appearance tags to your liking. It takes some trial and error to get it right, but once you know what you want it's as easy as copy and paste. For instance:

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[SET_BP_GROUP:BY_CATEGORY:EYE]
[BP_APPEARANCE_MODIFIER:CLOSE_SET:100:100:100:100:100:100:100]
[APP_MOD_NOUN:eyes:PLURAL]100 is the middle value for appearances, and doesn't generate a line of text in the creature's description. If you wanted a specific value, you would have to toy around until you found the value for what you wanted, repeating until the creature looks exactly the way you want it.

It's not perfect, though. You would have to make a dummy entity and then you would have to play as an outsider, unless you want a civilization of clones running around. The upside is that it allows you can take certain... "Creative liberties" without affecting a major race. Subtle things like higher attributes, or more drastic changes such as replacing the bone material with steel.

[Max™]

You can add castes with those traits.

[UltraTobs]

Thank you guys for your help, dfhack is a great help to me. I can change my size modifier, but is what is that changing? My overall size? My height? If I change it to a high number then look at my description, it says I'm Very Large for a Human. But it says "incredible muscles over a small build" What does that mean? I'm large but have a small build at the same time? What does that mean?

[FortressBuilder]

Toady mentioned being able to somewhat influence the character's appearance in the next version.

[vjmdhzgr]

You can add castes with those traits.

Specifically castes with [POP_RATIO:1] and making the other normal castes have [POP_RATIO:9999] or something meaning that you effectively never meet that exact clone in play and even if you do there's basically no chance of encountering 2 so it wouldn't be too strange.