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[Eric Blank]

Finally, FINALLY, FINALLY found out why my reactions were missing. [BUILDING:<BUILDING NAME>:<BUILDING KEY>] was missing the "<BUILDING KEY>" part. I swear when I noticed I spent about three minutes just staring in disbelief at my own imbecility.

If you haven't had moments like these at least once a month, you're not modding right.

[Rekov]

How would I change the type of biome a civ gets placed in during world creation. For example, if I wanted elves to spawn in colder forests, not just the tropical ones?

[BlackFlyme]

Change their START_BIOME and BIOME_SUPPORT tags in their entity file to the biomes you wish for them to settle in the most.

Here's the biome token list, if you need them.

[Jerry The Hellbound]

https://youtu.be/mfnVO-YiXcM
Using this. I unlock that really weird part in my mind when token coding.
Btw what do the guys like Putnam or ZM5 (especially when you start to see his 7 sin stuff ) hear or watch to get to that really weird part of their mind?

[Putnam]

i listen mostly to the entire homestuck discography on shuffle

[ZM5]

Mastodon, Disturbed, Amon Amarth and Manowar. Why?

Didn't think I'd get called out on here, tbh.

[Jerry The Hellbound]

Mastodon, Disturbed, Amon Amarth and Manowar. Why?

Didn't think I'd get called out on here, tbh.

Curiousity really. Wondering what'll get me to go crazy on the gory way to kill an enemy when ingame

[Roach]

I am trying to mod in dwarven headbutts (this can only go well). Below is what I have so far:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

   [ATTACK:BITE:CHILD_BODYPART_GROUP:BY_CATEGORY:HEAD]
      >> still uses bite skill - it's a similar movement
      [ATTACK_SKILL:BITE]
      [ATTACK_VERB:headbutt:headbutts]
      [ATTACK_CONTACT_PERC:100]
      [ATTACK_PRIORITY:SECOND]
      >> quad velocity (I think)
      [ATTACK_VELOCITY_MODIFIER:4000]
      >> "inject" with dizziness?
      [ATTACK_FLAG_WITH]

I have questions three:

• Have I got the velocity multiplier right? I'm assuming it works the same way as weapons but I remember reading something on the wiki that threw me off. I'm trying to headbutt at 4x normal velocity to simulate the fact that getting headbutted really hurts, not 4000x.
• How do I implement adding a "dizzy" effect upon the headbutt hitting? Will I need to use the inject whizzbang that scorpions use? I'm not sure if I'll go through with this but it's a neat idea.
• Most importantly, how do I get this to work? I got "[ATTACK:BITE:CHILD_BODYPART_GROUP:BY_CATEGORY:HEAD]" by just knocking the teeth bit off the end, but that doesn't work in arena mode. I've a feeling it has something to do with the :BITE: bit, but I've no idea how to add a new token of that type to the game (or even what that token is), and swapping it out for :PUNCH: didn't work. How do I make dorfs smack folks with their noggins?

[ZM5]

I am trying to mod in dwarven headbutts (this can only go well). Below is what I have so far:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

   [ATTACK:BITE:CHILD_BODYPART_GROUP:BY_CATEGORY:HEAD]
      >> still uses bite skill - it's a similar movement
      [ATTACK_SKILL:BITE]
      [ATTACK_VERB:headbutt:headbutts]
      [ATTACK_CONTACT_PERC:100]
      [ATTACK_PRIORITY:SECOND]
      >> quad velocity (I think)
      [ATTACK_VELOCITY_MODIFIER:4000]
      >> "inject" with dizziness?
      [ATTACK_FLAG_WITH]

I have questions three:

• Have I got the velocity multiplier right? I'm assuming it works the same way as weapons but I remember reading something on the wiki that threw me off. I'm trying to headbutt at 4x normal velocity to simulate the fact that getting headbutted really hurts, not 4000x.
• How do I implement adding a "dizzy" effect upon the headbutt hitting? Will I need to use the inject whizzbang that scorpions use? I'm not sure if I'll go through with this but it's a neat idea.
• Most importantly, how do I get this to work? I got "[ATTACK:BITE:CHILD_BODYPART_GROUP:BY_CATEGORY:HEAD]" by just knocking the teeth bit off the end, but that doesn't work in arena mode. I've a feeling it has something to do with the :BITE: bit, but I've no idea how to add a new token of that type to the game (or even what that token is), and swapping it out for :PUNCH: didn't work. How do I make dorfs smack folks with their noggins?

1. You should test it in arena, I put something like 400 on natural slashing attacks for one of my races and it causes lots of damage only on naked targets of a similar size - armored targets are protected from it and so are most bigger targets.
2. Yeah, unfortunately that's the only way to have a interaction-on-hit right now, AFAIK.
3. That's because you have the CHILD_BODYPART_GROUP there. Its used for biting so that it AFAIK randomly selects one of the bodyparts attached to the body part (in case of biting it looks for teeth attached to the head) on an attack - if it was just tagged [ATTACK:BITE:BODYPART:BY_CATEGORY:TEETH] it would have several entries for biting for each individual set of teeth as it would with individual hands for punches.
For a headbutt you just want [ATTACK:PUNCH:BODYPART:BY_CATEGORY:HEAD].

[Roach]

<helpful things>

You da man, thanks very much.



I'm curious: what's the difference between ATTACK:PUNCH and ATTACK:KICK?

[ZM5]

I don't think there actually is any, tbh, all that really matters is how you set up the tokens that come after it. DFwiki doesn't have anything about it, either.

[Nahere]

Presumably it would be whether it uses the striker or kicker skill.

[ZM5]

No, that's determined by the [ATTACK_SKILL:X] token.

[BlackFlyme]

I'm curious: what's the difference between ATTACK:PUNCH and ATTACK:KICK?

Those are the attack IDs.

[Putnam]

And duping them is something you should not do because doing that replaces earlier ones. Your dwarves can only headbutt instead of punch now.