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[Dunmeris]

http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=22151.msg240207#msg240207

This post details which ethics actually count towards starting wars.
The personality of the leaders also affects this somehow, but i havent seen details about whats important there. But if your monarch/whoever can declare wars is required to be of a caste (or species as a whole) with consistently the right personality to start wars, they should be more likely to do so.

I did some research on this a while back, but either I never posted my results or it's buried so deep I can't find it. I asked Toady One what traits affected declarations of war, then jacked those traits up to max in every race. The result was a world so warlike that even civs of the same race would attack each other.

Do you remember what the traits were by any chance? I mean, the very different civs fight plenty, but the three very similar pseudo-European feudal ones seem to very very rarely if ever go to war with each other (not counting cults).

[Ulfarr]

Is there a way to assign different symbols for a custom race's cities on the world map? I can't seem to find any reference in the wiki or the raws.

[Klisz]

Is there a way to assign different symbols for a custom race's cities on the world map? I can't seem to find any reference in the wiki or the raws.

Unfortunately not; the symbols are tied to site type (fortress, city, forest retreat, etc.).

[Ulfarr]

I was afraid that was the case. Thank you

[Fish Preferred]

I mean, the very different civs fight plenty, but the three very similar pseudo-European feudal ones seem to very very rarely if ever go to war with each other (not counting cults).

1 Make sure they each have at least one completely opposed ethic with another; [ETHIC:OATH_BREAKING:PERSONAL_MATTER] is sure to rustle a few feathers for an entity with [ETHIC:OATH_BREAKING:PUNISH_CAPITAL].

2 Toady mentioned that part of the calculation is the personality of their leaders, but didn't specify which traits, so you could try tweaking their creature files to have very low TOLERANT and very high HATE_PROPENSITY, and/or GREED, and/or CONFIDENCE, and/or AMBITION, and/or VENGEFUL, and/or THOUGHTLESSNESS to improve the odds that they consider war a viable option.

3 You should give the opposing entities conflicting spheres. For example, DARKNESS conflicts with DAY, and TWILIGHT conflicts with DARKNESS and DAY, so a civ with one of those spheres is more likely to clash with civs upholding the other two.

 
EDIT:
Come to think of it, I wonder what would happen if you made creatures with [SPHERE:FIRE] and put them in an entity with [RELIGION_SPHERE:WATER]. Would they hate themselves?

[Dunmeris]

I mean, the very different civs fight plenty, but the three very similar pseudo-European feudal ones seem to very very rarely if ever go to war with each other (not counting cults).

1 Make sure they each have at least one completely opposed ethic with another; [ETHIC:OATH_BREAKING:PERSONAL_MATTER] is sure to rustle a few feathers for an entity with [ETHIC:OATH_BREAKING:PUNISH_CAPITAL].

2 Toady mentioned that part of the calculation is the personality of their leaders, but didn't specify which traits, so you could try tweaking their creature files to have very low TOLERANT and very high HATE_PROPENSITY, and/or GREED, and/or CONFIDENCE, and/or AMBITION, and/or VENGEFUL, and/or THOUGHTLESSNESS to improve the odds that they consider war a viable option.

3 You should give the opposing entities conflicting spheres. For example, DARKNESS conflicts with DAY, and TWILIGHT conflicts with DARKNESS and DAY, so a civ with one of those spheres is more likely to clash with civs upholding the other two.

 
EDIT:
Come to think of it, I wonder what would happen if you made creatures with [SPHERE:FIRE] and put them in an entity with [RELIGION_SPHERE:WATER]. Would they hate themselves?

Thanks, but I mean, naturally the ones with very different ethics and spheres hate each other and fight all the time (as do individual tribes within the tribal civs). But these three very similar pseudo-Medieval European feudal civs get along way too well and I want them going at each others' throats for incredibly petty reasons, just like real Medieval European feudal states.

Cranking up VENGEFUL and maybe GREED on the noblemen is a very good idea though, can't believe I didn't think of that. I'll try that and see if it makes them fight more (they've already got high VIOLENT, CONFIDENCE, AMBITION and lowered TOLERANCE though I could certainly try raising/lowering those a bit more). Thanks.

[Ceques]

Hey everyone,

So I'm modding a new race, and I want to make them have a linguistic flare much like how [LISP] works with snake people - except instead of repeating 'S's, it would add a word at the end of a sentence. I'm pretty unsure of how to do this; obviously it wouldn't work by altering language files, and there's no way to come up with a new raw for [LISP], so is there any way to use any of the replace text functions (like BODYGLOSS or something) to replace all periods with a word + a period? Would there be any side effects to it, if so?

Thanks.

[Teneb]

Hey everyone,

So I'm modding a new race, and I want to make them have a linguistic flare much like how [LISP] works with snake people - except instead of repeating 'S's, it would add a word at the end of a sentence. I'm pretty unsure of how to do this; obviously it wouldn't work by altering language files, and there's no way to come up with a new raw for [LISP], so is there any way to use any of the replace text functions (like BODYGLOSS or something) to replace all periods with a word + a period? Would there be any side effects to it, if so?

Thanks.

Impossible, except maybe with DFHack, but you'll have to ask the people who write scripts for it to be sure.

[Ceques]

Another quick question: I've noticed that in b_detail_plan_default, there is a body detail plan called 'STANDARD_HEAD_POSITIONS' that arranged all the head features and the like. But, it includes references like '[BP_RELATION:BY_CATEGORY:LIP:AROUND:BY_CATEGORY:TEETH:100]'. There is no such category as 'TEETH', but there is 'TOOTH', as seen in body_default under [BODY:TEETH] (where everything is in [CATEGORY:TOOTH]).

Am I just misunderstanding something here? Surely it should reference TOOTH, not TEETH?

[Sver]

I've noticed it too sometime ago, seems to be a small mistake on Toady's part. Personally, I've edited the b_detail_plan_default to use TOOTH instead.

[Dunmeris]

So I differentiated the feudal civs a bit more, and made nobility in general a bit more warlike.

So, I have an idea. I'd like to make a flying carpet, perhaps acting something like a cloth minecart that flies. Is such a thing even conceivable, even with DFHack?

[Teneb]

So I differentiated the feudal civs a bit more, and made nobility in general a bit more warlike.

So, I have an idea. I'd like to make a flying carpet, perhaps acting something like a cloth minecart that flies. Is such a thing even conceivable, even with DFHack?

You cannot mod minecarts. The best you can do is a "flying carpet" creature that is a mount and available only as pets.

[Eric Blank]

But dfhack can almost certainly "launch" a "flying carpet" tool and its occupants. Rumrusher would know all about that.

[scourge728]

How would I go about making plants that give metals when you harvest them?

[TomiTapio]

How would I go about making plants that give metals when you harvest them?

Something like this:
[REACTION:MAKE_METALNAME_FROM_PLANTNAME1]
   [NAME:process metalplant1]
   [BUILDING:QUERN:NONE]     [BUILDING:MILLSTONE:NONE]
   [REAGENT:reagentplantA:1:PLANT:NONE:NONE:NONE] specify which plant, for details see item token: http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2014:Item_token
   [PRODUCT:100:1:BAR:NO_SUBTYPE:METAL:__metalname__]  [PRODUCT_DIMENSION:150]
[SKILL:SMELT]
maybe 5 or 8 plants go in, one bar-stack of elite metal comes out. Or one plant in, 25% chance of one barstack.