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[Jerry The Hellbound]

Is there a way to poison someone to slow down or stop bleeding with a syndrome?
Like say, I'm trying to massacre some dwarf as retribution for killing my favorite ally, I want the guy to suffer as much as possible and lose as many limbs as possible as war trophies. And this is the thing I love about DF and the community, were all psychotic.

[BlackFlyme]

Have the interaction remove the HAS_BLOOD tag for a while. Then they shouldn't be able to die of blood loss.

[Sagus]

Is there a way to create a syndrome that can change the material of a creature's body part for a set amount of time? For instance, I'd like to give a race the ability to turn their claws into steel for a few seconds. Is that possible, using interactions and syndromes?

[Putnam]

Not without transforming the whole creature.

[Sagus]

I see, thanks.

Is there a way for sydrome transformations to be timed?

[Putnam]

Yeah, they can end and start like any other syndrome effect.

[Immortal-D]

First time here, not ashamed to admit that DF modding is surprisingly daunting   Anyways, I am wondering if there are any recommended methods for comparing the contents of 2 RAWs.  For example, I am examining item_helm from 2 different mods to see what they changed compared to vanilla.  My first approach was to toss all 3 files into Excel and do a comparative lookup.  Due to the spacing differences however, this is not as efficient as I had hoped.  Any tips are much appreciated

[Bogus]

there is for example win merge, but it suffers from similar problems. when it comes to comparing raws from 2 different vanilla versions it does it good job tho.

if you want to keep your own mod up to date with future versions of df, i have found it best to compare the vanilla versions and then make changes to your own raws. most of the time the raws dont change a lot between different df versions.

[TheFlame52]

Okay, let's talk about interactions that resurrect the dead. Specifically ones that resurrect old dead bodies that aren't considered resurrectable. How do I do it on a large scale that doesn't crash the game?

Part of the resurrection is that the creature in question is briefly transformed, then turns back into a fully healed creature. This means I can use [IT_REQUIRES:FIT_FOR_ANIMATION] as part of the interaction, which in turn means I can resurrect old corpses. But if two body parts from the same dwarf are both resurrected at the same time, the game crashes. I know I could autodump destroy all the extra body parts, but sometimes the limbs are in a coffin or something and that option isn't available.

So how can I accomplish this without crashing the game or using DFhack?

[Dirst]

I'm not sure how different corpse pieces work with syndromes, but you might be able to give the first animatable bit a syndrome that will (if they are still linked to the same unit) render all other bits untargetable.

[TheFlame52]

No, it doesn't work like that.

Actually what I was never quite sure about is what the crash was happening for. I thought it might be when two of the same person were resurrected, but it might also be when someone with no data is resurrected, like a caravan guard. When I was animating people instead of resurrecting them I saw quite a few nameless peasant limbs that weren't peasants before.

[ZM5]

I don't know about ressurecting multiples of the same person, but I never had issues resurrecting nameless peasant skeletons in tombs and such - though they would just bleed to death or suffocate. Haven't tried doing it along with making them transform for a single tick so they'll be fully healed when they turn back to normal.

[TheFlame52]

I think I would need to do some testing in fort mode to see which it is. It doesn't crash at all in arena mode, probably because the creatures there aren't part of a player entity.

[Bozdogan]

[REACTION:MAKE_WOOD_BLOCKS_FOUR]
   [NAME:make wood blocks (4)]
   [BUILDING:CARPENTER:NONE]
   [REAGENT:wood:1:WOOD:NONE:NONE:NONE]
   [PRODUCT:100:4:BLOCK:NONE:GET_MATERIAL_FROM_REAGENT:wood:NONE]
   [SKILL:CARPENTER]

Whenever the action is completed in-game ''dwarffortress.exe has stopped working'' pops up
Whats wrong?

[Nahere]

Did you generate a new world first?