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[Teneb]

kinda been wondering is it possible to swap the silk template in the giant cave spider interaction with say magma or uhh spiders? because I wonder if it possible to spit spiders out on people?

I'm pretty sure it is impossible to spawn creatures without DFHack. Maybe the same for magma, unless you are ok with a "spatter" of magma.

[BlackFlyme]

Vermin can be created in some instances, as they can be treated as items.

I don't think interactions are one of those instances, though.

[Button]

kinda been wondering is it possible to swap the silk template in the giant cave spider interaction with say magma or uhh spiders? because I wonder if it possible to spit spiders out on people?

Spiders, no. Interactions can emit materials, but not objects. To spit spiders, you'd have to use a reaction. And they wouldn't be so much spit as... dribbled.

Magma, yeah, go ahead.

[thedonkified]

I mean with blood with a creature or with a liquid_glob attack interaction. If I set the material that this blood is made out of to have no melting point, would the blood never freeze into its solid form?

I'm asking this because I'm having trouble with an attack similar to that of a magma crab, but this attack uses the blood of my creature. There's a problem with arena mode testing where the blood freezes after landing on someone. Also, if I were to create such a material, how would I have it so that it's so hot that it melts people but still evaporates after a set amount of time?

Doesnt make sense. No melting point means it can't become liquid, basic physics. What you want is a very low MP.

Try high MAT_FIXED_TEMP for superheated stuff, and EVAPORATES.

I tried doing this, however something hit by the blood in arena mode would not get affected by it at all. Can someone help?

Spoiler: Here are the raws for the blood: (click to show/hide)

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[MATERIAL_TEMPLATE:HOTBLOOD_TEMPLATE]
[STATE_COLOR:ALL_SOLID:MAROON]
[STATE_NAME:ALL_SOLID:solid scorching blood]
[STATE_ADJ:ALL_SOLID:solid scorching blood]
[STATE_COLOR:LIQUID:MAROON]
[STATE_NAME:LIQUID:scorching blood]
[STATE_ADJ:LIQUID:scorching blood]
[STATE_COLOR:GAS:MAROON]
[STATE_NAME:GAS:boiling blood]
[STATE_ADJ:GAS:boiling blood]
[DISPLAY_COLOR:4:0:0]
[MATERIAL_VALUE:1]
[EVAPORATES]
(SPEC_HEAT:10000]
[HEATDAM_POINT:50000]
[IGNITE_POINT:50000]
[MELTING_POINT:9900]
[BOILING_POINT:50000]
[COLDDAM_POINT:9900]
[MAT_FIXED_TEMP:49000]
Density information.  Not used for very much, but it comes up in inventory weight and fighting.
[SOLID_DENSITY:2850]
[LIQUID_DENSITY:3300]
Not used.
[MOLAR_MASS:36000]
Used for blunt-force combat, measured in KPa.  Data scattered around the net (used compressive strength).  All very spotty.
[IMPACT_YIELD:120000] used marble
[IMPACT_FRACTURE:120000]
[IMPACT_STRAIN_AT_YIELD:100]
Not used.
[COMPRESSIVE_YIELD:120000]
[COMPRESSIVE_FRACTURE:120000]
[COMPRESSIVE_STRAIN_AT_YIELD:100]
[TENSILE_YIELD:15000]
[TENSILE_FRACTURE:15000]
[TENSILE_STRAIN_AT_YIELD:100]
[TORSION_YIELD:15000]
[TORSION_FRACTURE:15000]
[TORSION_STRAIN_AT_YIELD:100]
Used for cutting calculations in combat, measured in KPa.  Data scattered around the net (used tensile strength).  All very spotty.
[SHEAR_YIELD:15000] used marble
[SHEAR_FRACTURE:15000]
[SHEAR_STRAIN_AT_YIELD:100]
Not used.
[BENDING_YIELD:15000]
[BENDING_FRACTURE:15000]
[BENDING_STRAIN_AT_YIELD:100]
A unitless measure for how sharp the edge is for combat purposes.
[MAX_EDGE:1000]
Used for pressing oil into jugs -- anything greater than zero needs to be glazed first.
[ABSORPTION:100]
Determines what sorts of objects can be built with the item.
[IMPLIES_ANIMAL_KILL]
[ROTS]
[BLOOD_MAP_DESCRIPTOR]

[Rumrusher]

thanks for the answer, time to figure out how to write up a Raw that spits thermonuclear webbing so anyone caught in it will be roasted alive.
kinda been wondering how crazy dwarf fortress can get if you give everyone world constructions like wells, bridges, tunnels, roads. then set it up so that everyone likes every site so invaders will just take over everything?

[Max™]

I have done that, and the Victorian mod was kinda like that and yeah, it's crazy wars and shit all the time.

The roads is great for more crossable rivers in travel mode, and I now swear by swapping the humans building tombs for dorfs doing it, small steel gear is a reason to go rummaging around and risking mummies all day long.

[1D-1()T]

Is it possible to alter the curses received when an adventurer topples a statue? I've created a new curse that can be used by deities, but when statues are toppled only the original vampire or werebeast curse seems to be applied.

[scamtank]

By default, there's a bunch of different vampire/werewolf curses milling around. Assuming it's a random roll, your curse has like a 1/30 chance to come up at all.

[1D-1()T]

So if you alter vampire and werebeast numbers in world gen then the curse ought to come up?

[scamtank]

Yeah, there's parameters in custom world generation where it says how many Toady-flavored curses, vampirismismisms and other blights you want to generate on it. Your own interactions and curses should be separate from those.

[Vattic]

The last version I ported my modified raws to was 40.23 where the changes worked fine. I just tried to port straight from there to 42.03 and hit a problem where I can no longer remove materials from a creature if they are material_reaction_products of materials not removed from the creature.

For example removing leather but not skin from a creature produces the following error where it didn't before.

undefined local creature material set to default: TOAD LEATHER

Seemingly because leather is a material_reaction_product of skin.

Is this a known thing and are there any workarounds besides making otherwise identical versions of the materials without the reaction products?

[Deon]

It did produce the same error, it just did not log it into the errorlog.

[sv-esk]

I am trying to make material that gives improved SENSE_CREATURE_CLASS ability

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

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[CE_SENSE_CREATURE_CLASS:CLASS:BEAST_SENSE:164:4:0:1:START:0]
[CE_SENSE_CREATURE_CLASS:CLASS:HUMAN_SENSE:64:4:0:1:START:0]
[CE_SENSE_CREATURE_CLASS:CLASS:DWARF_SENSE:1:4:0:1:START:0]
[CE_SENSE_CREATURE_CLASS:CLASS:ELF_SENSE:140:4:0:1:START:0]
[CE_SENSE_CREATURE_CLASS:CLASS:GOBLIN_SENSE:151:4:0:1:START:0]
[CE_SENSE_CREATURE_CLASS:CLASS:ANIMAL_PERSON_SENSE:154:4:0:1:START:0]
[CE_SENSE_CREATURE_CLASS:CLASS:FLYING_THING_SENSE:239:4:0:1:START:0]
[CE_SENSE_CREATURE_CLASS:CLASS:CRAWLING_THING_SENSE:145:4:0:1:START:0]
[CE_SENSE_CREATURE_CLASS:CLASS:SWIMMING_THING_SENSE:160:4:0:1:START:0]
[CE_SENSE_CREATURE_CLASS:CLASS:GENERAL_POISON:15:4:0:1:START:0]
The game reads it from  top to bottom, and sense tiles does not override each other.
So human, that has classes HUMAN_SENSE, CRAWLING_THING_SENSE, SWIMMING_THING_SENSE and GENERAL_POISON will be sensed as 64 tile, rather than 145, 160, or 15.

I added classes to all main sapients and all megabeasts like this:

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[CREATURE_VARIATION:DWARF_MOD]
        [CV_NEW_TAG:NATURAL_SKILL:DISCIPLINE:3]
        [CV_NEW_TAG:CREATURE_CLASS:DWARF_SENSE]


[CREATURE_VARIATION:HUMAN_MOD]
        [CV_NEW_TAG:NATURAL_SKILL:DISCIPLINE:3]
        [CV_NEW_TAG:CREATURE_CLASS:HUMAN_SENSE]

[CREATURE_VARIATION:ELF_MOD]
        [CV_NEW_TAG:NATURAL_SKILL:DISCIPLINE:2]
        [CV_NEW_TAG:OUTSIDER_CONTROLLABLE]
        [CV_NEW_TAG:MAXAGE:500:1000]
        [CV_NEW_TAG:NATURAL_SKILL:DODGING:2]
        [CV_NEW_TAG:CREATURE_CLASS:ELF_SENSE]

[CREATURE_VARIATION:GOBLIN_MOD]
        [CV_NEW_TAG:NATURAL_SKILL:DISCIPLINE:3]
        [CV_NEW_TAG:OUTSIDER_CONTROLLABLE]
[CV_REMOVE_TAG:BONECARN]
        [CV_REMOVE_TAG:NO_DRINK]
        [CV_REMOVE_TAG:NO_EAT]
        [CV_NEW_TAG:MAXAGE:100:300]
        [CV_NEW_TAG:CREATURE_CLASS:GOBLIN_SENSE]
Then added  one line
[CV_NEW_TAG:CREATURE_CLASS:ANIMAL_PERSON_SENSE]
to animal man and leggless animalman CREATURE_VARIATION in the c_variation_default.txt
so all 50+ animal man will have their own sense class without modifying their raws.
And then added classes to STANDARD_FLYING_GAITS, STANDARD_CRAWLING_GAITS and STANDARD_SWIMMING_GAITS in the c_variation_default.txt like this:

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[CREATURE_VARIATION:STANDARD_FLYING_GAITS]
[CV_NEW_TAG:CREATURE_CLASS:FLYING_THING_SENSE]
[CV_NEW_TAG:GAIT:FLY:Maximum Flight Speed:!ARG4:10:3:!ARG2:50:LAYERS_SLOW:STRENGTH:AGILITY:STEALTH_SLOWS:50]
[CV_NEW_TAG:GAIT:FLY:Faster Flight:!ARG3:5:3:!ARG2:10:LAYERS_SLOW:STRENGTH:AGILITY:STEALTH_SLOWS:20]
[CV_NEW_TAG:GAIT:FLY:Fast Flight:!ARG2:NO_BUILD_UP:5:LAYERS_SLOW:STRENGTH:AGILITY:STEALTH_SLOWS:10]
[CV_NEW_TAG:GAIT:FLY:Fly:!ARG1:NO_BUILD_UP:0]
[CV_NEW_TAG:GAIT:FLY:Slow Flight:!ARG5:NO_BUILD_UP:0]
[CV_NEW_TAG:GAIT:FLY:Hover:!ARG6:NO_BUILD_UP:0]
So flying, land and water-only creatures that are not sapients and not megabeasts will be sensed distinguishable.
All procedural creatures have non-standard gaits. Some of them have GENERAL_POISON class - so 15 tile for them.
edit: They actually use standard gaits. But if you extract raws from the save file you will see gaits as separate tokens.

Since i am not going to release my own mod, I'll leave it here. Just in case if someone finds it useful.

Is there a way to sense zombies and cursed creatures? (with custom secret interactions but without transforming creatures).

[WillowLuman]

Is there a way to make sure a [BLOCK_NAME] for a material transfers to constructions made from those blocks?

[scamtank]

Nah, that's totally a hardcoded string inside the executable. Boulders make rough walls, wood makes log walls, bricks make block walls. Period.