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[icer667]

is it possible to create a new skill for ranged weapons?

for example, when it's [RANGED:CROSSBOW:BOLT], what is the :CROSSBOW: for? Do i need to change other things to change :CROSSBOW: to something else and have the game still work?

[ThatZommy]

is it possible to create a new skill for ranged weapons?

for example, when it's [RANGED:CROSSBOW:BOLT], what is the :CROSSBOW: for? Do i need to change other things to change :CROSSBOW: to something else and have the game still work?

I think you could set it to be any combat skill, but I'm not sure.

Also, is it possible to set syndromes used by interaction attacks to localized? As in, if I have a touch interaction, would that work? I have a feeling it wouldn't, but I don't know, and it'd be nice to have localized necrosis for this magic-y thing I'm working on.

[Evaris]

Right, well, it's been a while since I've done much new with material values, however as my interest has come back in doing so, I'm trying to remember / relearn how to apply real world material value to the RAWs. 

And the wiki hasn't exactly been too in depth there, so I'm moderately lost at the moment. 

[Teneb]

is it possible to create a new skill for ranged weapons?

for example, when it's [RANGED:CROSSBOW:BOLT], what is the :CROSSBOW: for? Do i need to change other things to change :CROSSBOW: to something else and have the game still work?

I think you could set it to be any combat skill, but I'm not sure.

Pretty sure you can set it to any skill, and I mean any. It dictates which skill it uses to shoot things.

Also, is it possible to set syndromes used by interaction attacks to localized? As in, if I have a touch interaction, would that work? I have a feeling it wouldn't, but I don't know, and it'd be nice to have localized necrosis for this magic-y thing I'm working on.

Don't think so.

[milo christiansen]

My lho plant for the Underhive settlement mod is acting really weird. You can grow it in farm plots just fine, but when your settlers go to harvest it you don't get anything. (they harvest the plant, there is no result returned) This does not effect any of the other farmable plants, most of which are nearly identical.

Here are the raws for the Lho plant:

Code: [Select]

[PLANT:LHO_GUTTER]
[NAME:gutter lho][NAME_PLURAL:gutter lho][ADJ:gutter lho]
[PREFSTRING:intoxicating aroma]
[PREFSTRING:noxious fumes]

[USE_MATERIAL_TEMPLATE:STRUCTURAL:STRUCTURAL_PLANT_TEMPLATE]
[MATERIAL_VALUE:4]
[EDIBLE_VERMIN]
[BASIC_MAT:LOCAL_PLANT_MAT:STRUCTURAL]

[USE_MATERIAL_TEMPLATE:DRIED:LEAF_TEMPLATE]
[STATE_NAME_ADJ:ALL:dried lho leaf]
[PREFIX:NONE]
[DISPLAY_COLOR:4:0:0][STATE_COLOR:ALL:BROWN]
[MATERIAL_VALUE:6]
[EDIBLE_VERMIN]

[USE_MATERIAL_TEMPLATE:SEED:SEED_TEMPLATE]
[MATERIAL_VALUE:4]
[EDIBLE_VERMIN]
[SEED:gutter lho seed:gutter lho seeds:15:0:0:LOCAL_PLANT_MAT:SEED]

[AUTUMN][WINTER]
[WET]
[BIOME:ANY_LAND]
[BIOME:SUBTERRANEAN_WATER]
[UNDERGROUND_DEPTH:0:1]
[GROWDUR:600]
[FREQUENCY:90]
[CLUSTERSIZE:5]

[PICKED_TILE:5]
[DEAD_PICKED_TILE:5]
[PICKED_COLOR:10:0:0]
[SHRUB_TILE:5]
[DEAD_SHRUB_TILE:28]
[SHRUB_COLOR:10:0:0]
[DEAD_SHRUB_COLOR:8:0:0]

Help?

[scamtank]

Got an example of one of those nearly identical sibling plants? There must be some kind of difference.

[Eric Blank]

I've got no ideas. Code looks good and it appears in game. Haven't been able to embark with the stuff, but the shrubs do appear in the wild. However, every single one of them I've managed to spot has been dead. Never seen a live shrub. So I can't get ahold of seeds to farm. That's solely aboveground, though. Haven't spotted any underground.

[milo christiansen]

I figured it out, it's a bug in DF. It seems that any plant lacking one or more of the following properties is not harvestable:

* An edible main material
* A mill result material
* An extract material (vial or barrel)
* A thread material
* I may be forgetting/missing one

Surprisingly the presence of a drink material is not enough.

Once I added a "dummy" extract it worked fine. Apparently this was broken when all the plant changes were made in .40? (I think it was .40) Anyway, I'll go report this on the bug tracker in a minute.

[Dirst]

I figured it out, it's a bug in DF. It seems that any plant lacking one or more of the following properties is not harvestable:

* An edible main material
* A mill result material
* An extract material (vial or barrel)
* A thread material
* I may be forgetting/missing one

Surprisingly the presence of a drink material is not enough.

Once I added a "dummy" extract it worked fine. Apparently this was broken when all the plant changes were made in .40? (I think it was .40) Anyway, I'll go report this on the bug tracker in a minute.

It doesn't need to be an extract or mill product, I think just about any reaction product works fine.  Plants like this one:

Spoiler: Example gem vine (click to show/hide)

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[PLANT:TESB_VINE_EMERALD]
[NAME:emerald vine][NAME_PLURAL:emerald vines][ADJ:emerald vine]
[USE_MATERIAL_TEMPLATE:STRUCTURAL:STRUCTURAL_PLANT_TEMPLATE]
[MATERIAL_VALUE:3]
[EDIBLE_VERMIN]
[BASIC_MAT:LOCAL_PLANT_MAT:STRUCTURAL]
[USE_MATERIAL_TEMPLATE:FRUIT:FRUIT_TEMPLATE] Not edible, but will stockpile with other plant growths.
[MATERIAL_REACTION_PRODUCT:SPIRIT_MAT:LOCAL_PLANT_MAT:DRINK] Note the non-standard _MAT
[MATERIAL_REACTION_PRODUCT:SEEDS_MAT:LOCAL_PLANT_MAT:SEED] Note the non-standard _MAT
[MATERIAL_REACTION_PRODUCT:GEM_MAT:INORGANIC:HIDDEN EMERALD]
[STOCKPILE_PLANT_GROWTH]
[MATERIAL_VALUE:333]
[PICKED_TILE:37][PICKED_COLOR:2:6:0][DEAD_PICKED_TILE:182]
[WET][DRY][BIOME:SUBTERRANEAN_WATER][UNDERGROUND_DEPTH:4:4]
[VALUE:3]
[USE_MATERIAL_TEMPLATE:DRINK:PLANT_ALCOHOL_TEMPLATE]
[STATE_NAME_ADJ:ALL_SOLID:frozen emerald spirits]
[STATE_NAME_ADJ:LIQUID:emerald spirits]
[STATE_NAME_ADJ:GAS:boiling emerald spirits]
[STATE_COLOR:ALL:EMERALD]
[MATERIAL_VALUE:2]
[DISPLAY_COLOR:2:0:1]
[EDIBLE_RAW]
[EDIBLE_COOKED]
[PREFIX:NONE]
[DRINK:LOCAL_PLANT_MAT:DRINK] May want to remove this, to avoid the still's standard reactions.
[SPRING][SUMMER][AUTUMN][WINTER] Underground plant, so seasons should be irrelevant.
[USE_MATERIAL_TEMPLATE:SEED:SEED_TEMPLATE]
[MATERIAL_VALUE:333]
[EDIBLE_VERMIN]
[EDIBLE_COOKED]
[SEED:emerald seed:emerald seeds:2:0:1:LOCAL_PLANT_MAT:SEED]
[FREQUENCY:50]
[CLUSTERSIZE:5]
[PREFSTRING:emerald clusters]
[SHRUB_TILE:18]
[DEAD_SHRUB_TILE:18]
[SHRUB_COLOR:2:2:1]
[DEAD_SHRUB_COLOR:6:0:0]
[GROWTH:FRUIT]
[GROWTH_NAME:emerald cluster:emerald clusters]
[GROWTH_ITEM:PLANT_GROWTH:NONE:LOCAL_PLANT_MAT:FRUIT]
[GROWTH_DENSITY:1000]
[GROWTH_HOST_TILE:BRANCHES_AND_TWIGS]
[GROWTH_TIMING:120000:200000]
[GROWTH_DROPS_OFF_NO_CLOUD]
[GROWTH_PRINT:18:37:2:14:1:120000:200000:3]


Drop their fruit upon maturing, and the plant itself seems to vanish.  Maybe add a dummy reaction product to the structural material to see if that lets it stick around.  Without a specific reaction to use that reaction product, you don't run the risk of messing up vanilla reactions.

[milo christiansen]

Sorry if I wasn't clear, by extract or mill I mean a material used by the MILL or EXTRACT_BARREL and EXTRACT_VIAL tags. I did not test adding material reaction products to the main material, so that may work too.

[Qev]

For a lark I decided to mod in glass weapons and armor (Morrowind, ho!), but I've noticed that glass crossbow bolts neither get equipped nor stored in ammo stockpiles.  Are they just not functional in the current hodgepodge of code?

[pikachu17]

Is there any way to make a fort mode civ be able to make certain weapons/armor in a mood, without being able to make them otherwise?
Is there any way to make swords have hilts(possibly being made of a different material)?

[scamtank]

Is there any way to make a fort mode civ be able to make certain weapons/armor in a mood, without being able to make them otherwise?
Is there any way to make swords have hilts(possibly being made of a different material)?

Sure, just define stuff and don't give the civ permissions or reactions to make those. Moods should ignore all availability constraints.
Not conventionally, no. Defining whole new improvements is still strictly Toady's lot.

[pikachu17]

Is there any way to make a fort mode civ be able to make certain weapons/armor in a mood, without being able to make them otherwise?

Sure, just define stuff and don't give the civ permissions or reactions to make those. Moods should ignore all availability constraints.

what do you mean by permissions? do you mean that if I simply define the weapon/armor in a item file, but don't have a [WEAPON:FOO] or [ARMOR:FOO] tag in the entity file, it will still be able to be created in a mood?

[BlackFlyme]

Yes. So long as it exists, it may be created in a mood, even if the civilization doesn't normally have access to it.

Not very useful for some ranged weapons, since ammo will be incredibly scarce without the ability to make more in-fort. I've ended up with blowguns and bows a few times, which was annoying.

I think a few mods make use of this to make special, incredibly powerful weapons that would only rarely show up as part of a mood.