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[se05239]

How would one go about to create an "aura" style syndrome that generates positive feelings?

[Eric Blank]

Ive used a dissolving stone trick (boils at just below room temperature, has a set temperature just above that) with inhaled syndrome for stuff like that. Its not super reliable (i would guess it actually takes effect about 25-30% of the time) as the creature has to actually breathe while enveloped in a cloud of the substance, but if its something that is created frequently enough and lasts a while then it should take effect. So the source would matter; is it coming from a creature you can pasture in highly trafficked areas that just gives off the substance or a material emission interaction a dwarf gets from somewhere else, or a reaction at a workshop you'd want to micromanage.

The actual syndrome can just cause positive emotions and personality changes, theres a syndrome tag for both, its present in alcohol.

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So my game has been crashing frequently in fort mode, playing as my antman civ, and im not exactly sure why. I updated to the latest version to make sure it wasnt the crash bugs from raids. Seems to happen at random, like when i tried to view a unit or just idly waiting for things to happen (while my raider squads are at home), im wondering if it could be one of my various creatures is broken, but i havent had any luck with finding one and theres no errorlogs being created at all. I was going to try the usual dwarf civs to see if the problem is solely with my new civ, but id like to know if anybody is aware of any other crash bugs im not?

[Jazz Cat]

How would one go about to create an "aura" style syndrome that generates positive feelings?

Can you add a material-emission interaction to make the creature constantly shoot water into the air? Turn the thing into a walking waterfall/mist generator?

[Putnam]

probably better to just have a once-daily interaction with no max number of targets which works on GREETING which has a CE_ADD_EMOTION which adds some good emotion

[ZM5]

How would I go on about having a contact syndrome add additional symptoms with enough exposure?

I'm trying to add a "healing rain" that increases recuperation at first, but if you stand long enough in it it would start to seal the eyes and mouth, leading to blindness and suffocation. I guess I would have to use the concentration tokens like in alcohol, yeah? How do those work exactly?

[Warlord255]

[SYN_CONCENTRATION_ADDED:100:1000] only increases intensity of a syndrome over time, so it's not quite suitable for the all-or-nothing of having your blindness/suffocation syndromes.

A low-PROB set of horrifying symptoms is the way to go. Statistics and averages being what they are, you'll get the desired effect of someone eventually suffering the hideous side-effects with too much exposure. Unfortunately, there's no way to batch-group different CE_X symptoms to the same probability, so you'd have separate rolls for blindness and suffocation.

[Mediterraneo]

Hello everybody, I have a question:

I'm trying to write an entity which can only tame one and only one creature - which is always present (the easy part with ANIMAL tags).
Is there an easy way to exclude all other creatures from taming, without messing with all of the creature files?

I'd like the entity to be a few-files businness, easy to add to existing mods and to update to new versions.

[Warlord255]

Exclusive civ creatures is super easy now. Just delete COMMON_DOMESTIC from the entity file to get rid of all those pesky mules and geese, and add something like this:

   [ANIMAL]
      [ANIMAL_TOKEN:VORACIOUS_CAVE_CRAWLER]
      [ANIMAL_ALWAYS_MOUNT]
      [ANIMAL_ALWAYS_SIEGE]
      [ANIMAL_ALWAYS_PACK]
      [ANIMAL_ALWAYS_WAGON_PULLER]
      [ANIMAL_ALWAYS_PET]
      [ANIMAL_ALWAYS_PRESENT]

Remove whichever tags don't apply, and repeat for any additional animals you want to appear.

[Mediterraneo]

Thanks Warlord: but that's the easy part.

My problem -probably it was unwisely worded -  is with excluding all the other creatures from the entity access.

I don't want my entity to have access to any other animal.

How to?

Spoiler: My less than ideal solution (click to show/hide)

My less than ideal solution would be to add an [ANIMAL_CLASS:VANILLA] to each and every one of the creatures of the raw, and to use [ANIMAL_FORBIDDEN_CLASS:VANILLA] to the entity.
But I want my mod to be easily composable and maintained through the versions. Is there any more elegant solution?

[TomiTapio]

Exclude GENERAL_POISON class of animals?

[Eric Blank]

Literally only give them that one creature. What warlord posted uses the creature ID, not a creature class, so its only selecting that particular creature. Delete every other thing giving them access to other animals, and they wont have any others.

[JAK]

When I add in modded armors the game seems to pick a selection of them randomly at worldgen and forget the rest. I don't know why that's happening and can't find mentions of this anywhere. I've also reviewed all the information I can find on the wiki.

[Eric Blank]

Thats normal behavior for the game, if you set their rarity to COMMON or anything below. If you use FORCED, iirc, that ensures the armor is always present.

[JAK]

Thats normal behavior for the game, if you set their rarity to COMMON or anything below. If you use FORCED, iirc, that ensures the armor is always present.

Sick, that worked! Thanks!

[Warlord255]

Thanks Warlord: but that's the easy part.

My problem -probably it was unwisely worded -  is with excluding all the other creatures from the entity access.

I don't want my entity to have access to any other animal.

How to?

Spoiler: My less than ideal solution (click to show/hide)

My less than ideal solution would be to add an [ANIMAL_CLASS:VANILLA] to each and every one of the creatures of the raw, and to use [ANIMAL_FORBIDDEN_CLASS:VANILLA] to the entity.
But I want my mod to be easily composable and maintained through the versions. Is there any more elegant solution?

Deleting all the COMMON_DOMESTIC stuff seemed to work for me. However, this only affects what animals the civ will tame - which in turn they can bring in cages, or offer products such as milk/cheese. Wild animals will always be hunted and their respective meats/leathers offered. It may be possible to curb this by removing all ALLOWED_JOB and PERMITTED_BUILDING pertaining to meat/leather acquisition, so maybe give that a try if you're just trying to make merchants who only bring products from one animal.

Removing ANIMAL_TRAINING as a job may work to stop taming in worldgen, but I can't be sure since it's no longer a RESPONSIBILITY entry in entity positions.