I'm trying to add starfish (among other animals) into Vanilla DF, and I've run into a perplexing snag. My starfish don't appear in the object testing arena, but when I check the errorlog, nothing shows up about them. I did a ctrl-F search of the entire document, and didn't find a peep about them. There were a bunch of errors relating to the custom body I gave them, but I've already fixed them. The game didn't know what fuchsia is, so I removed that color from the creature. I even changed the name from STARFISH to SEA_STAR to see if maybe that was the problem. Every single error it once had has been tracked down and eliminated, but it still doesn't show up.
Here's the raw for my starfish:
[CREATURE:SEA_STAR]
[DESCRIPTION:A small invertebrate with five limbs and five-fold symmetry. ]
[NAME:sea star:sea stars:sea star]
[CASTE_NAME:sea star:sea stars:sea star]
[CREATURE_TILE:'*'][COLOR:4:0:0]
[PETVALUE:100]
[FREQUENCY:100]
[LARGE_PREDATOR][BONECARN]
[AMPHIBIOUS][NOBONES]
[APPLY_CREATURE_VARIATION:STANDARD_WALK_CRAWL_GAITS:9000:8900:8825:8775:9500:9900] 1 kph
[APPLY_CREATURE_VARIATION:STANDARD_CRAWLING_GAITS:9000:8900:8825:8775:9500:9900] 1 kph
[NATURAL][VERMIN_GROUNDER]
[CANNOT_JUMP]
[BIOME:ANY_OCEAN]
[POPULATION_NUMBER:200:600]
[CLUSTER_NUMBER:50:100]
[PREFSTRING:five arms]
[PREFSTRING:bizzare appearance]
[BODY:BODY_HEAD:STARFISH_5_ARMS:HEART:MOUTH:GUTS]
[BODY_DETAIL_PLAN:STANDARD_MATERIALS]
[REMOVE_MATERIAL:HAIR]
[REMOVE_MATERIAL:BONE]
[BODY_DETAIL_PLAN:STANDARD_TISSUES]
[REMOVE_TISSUE:HAIR]
[REMOVE_TISSUE:BONE]
[BODY_DETAIL_PLAN:MOLLUSC_TISSUE_LAYERS:SKIN:FAT:MUSCLE]
[HAS_NERVES]
[MUNDANE]
[USE_MATERIAL_TEMPLATE:ICHOR:ICHOR_TEMPLATE]
[BLOOD:LOCAL_CREATURE_MAT:ICHOR:LIQUID]
[CREATURE_CLASS:GENERAL_POISON]
[GETS_WOUND_INFECTIONS]
[GETS_INFECTIONS_FROM_ROT]
[USE_MATERIAL_TEMPLATE:PUS:PUS_TEMPLATE]
[PUS:LOCAL_CREATURE_MAT:PUS:LIQUID]
[BODY_SIZE:0:0:200]
[BODY_APPEARANCE_MODIFIER:LENGTH:90:95:98:100:102:105:110]
[MAXAGE:5:10]
[ATTACK:BITE:CHILD_BODYPART_GROUP:BY_CATEGORY:HEAD:BY_CATEGORY:MOUTH]
[ATTACK_SKILL:BITE]
[ATTACK_VERB:bite:bites]
[ATTACK_CONTACT_PERC:100]
[ATTACK_PENETRATION_PERC:100]
[ATTACK_FLAG_EDGE]
[ATTACK_PREPARE_AND_RECOVER:3:3]
[ATTACK_PRIORITY:MAIN]
[ATTACK_FLAG_CANLATCH]
[ALL_ACTIVE]
[NO_SLEEP]
[NO_DIZZINESS]
[EXTRAVISION]
[CASTE:FEMALE]
[FEMALE]
[CASTE:MALE]
[MALE]
[SELECT_CASTE:ALL]
[SET_TL_GROUP:BY_CATEGORY:ALL:SKIN]
[TL_COLOR_MODIFIER:RED:1:BLUE:1:GREEN:1:PURPLE:1:PINK:1:SCARLET:1:RUST:1:BRONZE:1:JADE:1:SEA_GREEN:1:CRIMSON:1:RED_PURPLE:1:CERULEAN:1:SLATE_GRAY:1]
[TLCM_NOUN:skin:SINGULAR]
And the raw for it's custom body:
[BODY:STARFISH_5_ARMS]
[BP:ARM1:first arm:STP][CONTYPE:UPPERBODY][LIMB][CATEGORY:ARM]
[DEFAULT_RELSIZE:1000]
[BP:ARM2:second arm:STP][CONTYPE:UPPERBODY][LIMB][CATEGORY:ARM]
[DEFAULT_RELSIZE:1000]
[BP:ARM3:third arm:STP][CONTYPE:UPPERBODY][LIMB][CATEGORY:ARM]
[DEFAULT_RELSIZE:1000]
[BP:ARM4:fourth arm:STP][CONTYPE:UPPERBODY][LIMB][CATEGORY:ARM]
[DEFAULT_RELSIZE:1000]
[BP:ARM5:fifth arm:STP][CONTYPE:UPPERBODY][LIMB][CATEGORY:ARM]
[DEFAULT_RELSIZE:1000]
On a side note, either the animal person or giant variant crashes the game outright when I try to go into the arena, but I haven't even started dealing with that yet. I'm hoping fixing the base creature will correct whatever that problem is. I'm stumped. Any ideas?
EDIT: I realized I forgot to give them a brain. The custom body used to have it's own THOUGHT token, but I had to remove it to make it work right. Before you ask, no, giving them brains didn't make them appear in the arena.