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Karzack

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ITEMCORPSE
« on: December 13, 2007, 07:25:00 pm »
I am trying to get a creature to drop a new metal I have made.  This will be the only way to get this new metal.  But I can't seem to get it to work, all I get are crashes.  I know I am missing something but I just can't seem to get it to work.  I have tried a few different things but I still get crashes.

Or is this not possible, I am assuming that it is and I am just missing something.  And now I'm frustrated so I can't think straight.  =\

If it helps it's...

[MATGLOSS_METAL:DRAKE_SCALE]

I have the creature made, just having a minor hangup here.  =)

Or, if I could get them to drop "bars" so I don't need to do any smelting that would be nice.  Although Drake Scale Bars don't sound right to me.

Ok, need to go get the frustration level down so I can start making sence and stop rambling...

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Vanigo

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Re: ITEMCORPSE
« Reply #1 on: December 13, 2007, 08:15:00 pm »
If you want it to drop ore, you'll also need to add a new stone type. Something like:
code:
[MATGLOSS_STONE:DRAKE_SCALES]
[NAME:unworked drake scales][COLOR:2:2:1][TILE:238]
[ITEM_SYMBOL:238]
[METAL_ORE:DRAKE_SCALE:100]
[SOLID_DENSITY:2000]
[VALUE:20]

should work. It'll still need to be smelted into bars before it can be used, although you could have it be smelted into wafers instead by adding the [WAFERS] tag to the metal. In any case, the ITEMCORPSE tag you'll want is this:

[ITEMCORPSE:STONE:NO_SUBTYPE:STONE:DRAKE_SCALES]

If you want it to drop bars (or wafers) instead, use:

[ITEMCORPSE:BAR:NO_SUBTYPE:METAL:DRAKE_SCALE]

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THLawrence

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Re: ITEMCORPSE
« Reply #2 on: December 13, 2007, 08:19:00 pm »
A quick glance says that this should work. You have to regenerate the world after adding the DRAKE_SCALE metal type. Then this can be put into any existing creature  block.

code:
 
[ITEMCORPSE:BAR:NO_SUBTYPE:METAL :DRAKE_SCALE]

This should work.


Beaten to it.

[ December 13, 2007: Message edited by: THLawrence ]

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Karzack

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Re: ITEMCORPSE
« Reply #3 on: December 13, 2007, 09:50:00 pm »
Awesome, got it to work.  I knew I was missing something, the stone type completely slipped my mind, big thanks. Now I need to do a touch of tweaking.

The wafers tag makes more sense then bars, but I noticed there are some items that want drake scale cloth now.   :)  But thats minor, I still like the wafers instead of bars.  Tried to extract strands from the scales but it asked for adamantine.

Thanks again.

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Vanigo

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Re: ITEMCORPSE
« Reply #4 on: December 13, 2007, 09:57:00 pm »
Oh, if you want strands, you should change METAL_ORE to THREAD_METAL. (I'm not sure if you have to generate a new world after this or not.)
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Karzack

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Re: ITEMCORPSE
« Reply #5 on: December 14, 2007, 12:27:00 pm »
Not really interested in strands so I haven't looked into it.  But that is a good bit of info to know.
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Alfador

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Re: ITEMCORPSE
« Reply #6 on: December 14, 2007, 01:22:00 pm »
Well hey, a more common metal that uses the strand extraction techniques would be great training for dwarves who are going to be working with adamantine later.
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Karzack

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Re: ITEMCORPSE
« Reply #7 on: December 14, 2007, 06:43:00 pm »
Well, if anyone is interested.  Although I can't say that I have tested it a whole lot though.  The drake is kind of an elephant dragon hybrid.  I used the elephant and then added dragon qualities.  It is meant to be a harvestable creature.  Some of the values I'm not sure what to set at, age, child, etc.

code:
creature_drake
[OBJECT:CREATURE]
[CREATURE:DRAKE]
   [NAME:drake:drakes:drakish]
   [TILE:'D'][COLOR:4:0:0]
   [LARGE_ROAMING]
   [MODVALUE:10]
   [FIREIMMUNE] 
   [GENPOWER:3]
   [PREFSTRING:hard scales]
   [POPULATION_NUMBER:15:30]
   [CLUSTER_NUMBER:3:7]
   [BENIGN][MEANDERER][NATURAL][PET]
   [PETVALUE:1000]
   [BODY:QUADRUPED:TAIL:2EYES:NOSE:2LUNGS:HEART:GUTS:ORGANS:THROAT:NECK:SPINE:BRAIN:MOUTH]
   [BODYGLOSS:CLAW_FOOT]
   [DAMBLOCK:1]
   [SIZE:16]
   [MAXAGE:50:70]
   [ATTACK:MAIN:BYTYPE:MOUTH:bite:bites:1:6:GORE][ATTACKFLAG_CANLATCH]
   [CHILD:12][CHILDNAME:drake hatchling:drake hatchlings]
   [FAT:10]
   [ALL_ACTIVE]
   [BIOME_ANY_LAND]
   [ITEMCORPSE:BAR:NO_SUBTYPE:METAL:DRAKE_SCALE]
   [STANDARD_FLESH]
   [SWIMS_INNATE][SWIM_SPEED:2500]
   [HOMEOTHERM:10040]

And here is for the 'drake scales'

code:
matgloss_scales
[OBJECT:MATGLOSS]
[MATGLOSS_STONE:DRAKE_SCALES]
[NAME:raw drake scales][COLOR:4:0:0][TILE:238]
[ITEM_SYMBOL:238]
[METAL_ORE:DRAKE_SCALE:100]
[SOLID_DENSITY:2000]
[VALUE:40]
[MATGLOSS_METAL:DRAKE_SCALE]
[NAME:drake scale][ADJ:drake scale][COLOR:4:0:0]
[VALUE:40]
[SPEC_HEAT:500]
[MELTING_POINT:12718]
[BOILING_POINT:14968]
[WAFERS]
[ARMOR]
[BLOCK_PERC:150]
[SOLID_DENSITY:2000]
[DEEP]
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