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[ArchimedesWojak]

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[delphonso]

Depends on what you want.

Making dwarves with metal skin is pretty easy.

Making a new civilization of two-headed sentients, with their own unique workshops and products requires a lot more work.

[ArchimedesWojak]

Depends on what you want.

Making dwarves with metal skin is pretty easy.

Making a new civilization of two-headed sentients, with their own unique workshops and products requires a lot more work.

Understandable

My Goals Are Too Ambitious

[delphonso]

I wouldn't say that - there is also DFHack, which you can use to pull off all sorts of nonsense. I recommend the DF Discord modding channel for live advice, I found that infinitely helpful when I was getting started.

[Eric Blank]

wait we have a discord modding channel


My advise for custom races is to copy-paste existing races, and mess with them. Don't forget to change the creature ID string at the beginning of the definition or things get fun!

[MC]

I'll say what I say to my friends. Learning to mod dwarf fortress has a much softer learning curve than learning to play it. Getting something to work flawlessly the first time probably won't happen, but once something goes wrong it's normally pretty obvious what you need to fix.

[delphonso]

I'll say what I say to my friends. Learning to mod dwarf fortress has a much softer learning curve than learning to play it. Getting something to work flawlessly the first time probably won't happen, but once something goes wrong it's normally pretty obvious what you need to fix.

This is quite true.

It can also be as entertaining as the game. My first modded creature died because I attached their head to their ass and they kept suffocating.

[MC]

I somehow managed to accidentally add in inheritable birth defects to my previous modded race. If they were born too small they'd be missing their skull and ribs. Or at least, I think thats what was causing it. It had to be something inheritable because how common it was varied a lot between different civs.

They also applied a syndrome so strong I couldn't cure it even with memory editing. Fun.

[ArchimedesWojak]

i tried to create a badass orc race

they ended on getting curb-stomped by kobolds during worldgen

[MC]

huh. Kobolds shouldn't be curbstomping anything, let alone orcs. The size difference alone should make the matchup impossible. Did you copy and modify a different creature/entity and if so which ones?

[ArchimedesWojak]

from scratch

[MC]

hmmmmm, well thats harder to figure out without the raws. Losing to kobolds is pretty hard though, so I'm going to guess they either had some problem that kept them from fighting at all, or there was something in the entity raws that caused them trouble. Wooden weapons, lack of livestock, or lack of materials to make weapons/armor out of could have done it.

Easy way to narrow down if it was the entity or the civ would be to add them as an additional creature token to say, humans, and see how the perform there.

[Kyubee]

I created an orc race once and they almost always took over most of the world.

[ChaosPotato]

I'm trying to create what are essentially plant orcs, but the game doesn't like my custom tissues and decided to make them entirely out of teeth instead.

edit: So, uh, I found the problem, apparently I forgot to put [OBJECT:TISSUE_TEMPLATE] at the start of my tissue template file.

[Lidku]

Kobolds beating Orcs.... LOL