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[Wiles]

I was wondering if anyone knew what the vermin tag PENETRATEPOWER does

[Bullion]

i could take the morally empty route and suggest the obvious.

[Zurai]

I believe it has something to do with how far from their "source" they appear (ie, cave spiders appear up to about 20 tiles from an underground river/lake), but I havn't done any tests to confirm that, and the only thing I see it on at a quick glance is the rat. So, take with a grain of salt.

[Toady One]

It controls the ability of vermin to find a way into containers when they are eating food from your stockpiles.  Wood and cloth objects roll a 0-9 and if it greater than the penetrate power, their contents escape for the time being.  Other objects roll a 0-99.

[Toady One]

When did I become a Bay Watcher?  I wonder if I'm still an admin on these boards...

edit:  Maybe it's only in the Modding forum.  Weird.

edi2:  There.

[ December 29, 2007: Message edited by: Toady One ]

[Wiles]

Thanks Toady!

[AlanL]

Finally, a real reason to make metal containers instead of wood   :p

Also, I finally have an explanation to why my barrels kept breaking open.

[ December 29, 2007: Message edited by: AlanL ]

[Toady One]

It doesn't destroy the barrel objects, if that's what's happening.  That's a bug of some kind (there was one report, was that you?), and it would be nice to have a save right before that happens, though it might be hard to arrange for one.

[penguinofhonor]

Wait, is that what the [GNAWER:gnaw:gnawed] tag does?

[turboburrito]

Man, I always thought penetrate power let vermin go through walls or something.  I was hoping to mod in some kind of ghost monster thing.  

[Toady One]

Gnawer gives small animals a chance to break their way out of captivity in cages of certain materials.

[penguinofhonor]

Really now? Hmm... Gnawing their way out of the cages and into a cat's mouth and then directly into the air around them as miasma.