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[minimod]: Gender names for domestic creatures
« on: September 03, 2008, 03:33:11 am »
Minimod: Gender names for domestic creatures

Summary
This tiny mod adds gender specific names to domestic animals to make managing them easier. It's so simple that any beginner modder can do this, but I thought I just provided mine as an easy reference.

The original file is based on DF ver 28.181.40c. (should be relatively unchanged from prev versions)

Content
Changes the following names where each row has the format:
(creature):   (male), (female)
dog: dog, bitch                             
cat: tomcat, queen (corrected)
donkey: jack, jennet                           
horse: stallion, mare                             
mule : (no changes as mules are non reproductive anyway)

Note that adjective is unchanged (still the original race name).  What this probably means in common game term is that you will still get donkey leather instead of jack leather or jennet leather.  But I could be wrong :)

Installation

  • Backup {dwarf fortress directory}/raw/objects/creature_domestic.txt.   You
    can restore this file if you want to remove this "mod".
  • Copy creature_domestic.txt from below and replace the content of creature_domestic.txt with it.
  • You need to restart the game for it to take effect!

Uninstall
Just restore creature_domestic.txt (You DID backed it up did you not?)

New content for creature_domestic.txt:
Spoiler (click to show/hide)
« Last Edit: September 03, 2008, 12:46:24 pm by sphr »
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Re: [minimod]: Gender names for domestic creatures
« Reply #1 on: September 03, 2008, 09:49:06 am »
Huh, Sphr, you've made a useless gameplay-wise but funny flavour-wise thing :).
I don't think that it's viable as a stand-alone tweak and it will be lost in time (note that there're no replies yet) but if you make it as a part of Mod Base, it will take it's place there for anyone to use and won't be lost.
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Re: [minimod]: Gender names for domestic creatures
« Reply #2 on: September 03, 2008, 09:52:42 am »
in mode base you could make it to work for all animals no? like dog male dog female (i would prefer this version because bitch is not a nice word, and stallion, mare i won't ever remember ...
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Re: [minimod]: Gender names for domestic creatures
« Reply #3 on: September 03, 2008, 09:54:34 am »
Bitch is not a bad word. The original usage for it is completely devoid of any derisive meaning. And the original usage is "female dog", so there's nothing wrong with called a female dog a bitch, since that's essentially what it is.
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Re: [minimod]: Gender names for domestic creatures
« Reply #4 on: September 03, 2008, 09:59:11 am »
ok but in the other hand these words are hard to remember ... all version of femal/male animals ... can't we put simpli just a male/ female in the name ... and in this case it could be generalized for modbase too to be a small code of some lines only...
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Re: [minimod]: Gender names for domestic creatures
« Reply #5 on: September 03, 2008, 10:31:30 am »
I don't think that remember stallion/mare is harder than remember dog/cat. Anyway :).

Well, it's useful now, I didn't think of it before. Now you can know the creature gender without looking into it's profile.
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Re: [minimod]: Gender names for domestic creatures
« Reply #6 on: September 03, 2008, 10:50:07 am »
i dont know Deon dog/cat are words you learn in your first year learning english but to be honest i never heard befor stallion/mare or the others ...
and a simple male female should be easier to mod in then approprieat names for all race (and all race that can be modded in) it need just a generic mod like the one with all kind animal man's
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Re: [minimod]: Gender names for domestic creatures
« Reply #7 on: September 03, 2008, 11:03:36 am »
Stallion = cool car. I've learned it's almost before "cat".

Mare... Nightmares in Heroes and other games are pretty common :).
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Re: [minimod]: Gender names for domestic creatures
« Reply #8 on: September 03, 2008, 11:08:44 am »
Quote from: Mohreb el Yasim on September 03, 2008, 09:52:42 am
in mode base you could make it to work for all animals no? like dog male dog female (i would prefer this version because bitch is not a nice word, and stallion, mare i won't ever remember ...


English is a funny old language ...
Stallion and Mare are the standard names for male and female horses, so you'd need to remember that in real life too.

Cats should be 'Tom' and 'Queen' for male and female respectively.
Female dogs are bitches, it is perfectly ok to use the word bitch when talking about dogs.
Male Elephants/Cattle/Crocodiles are 'Bulls', the females are 'Cows'.
A female mule is a 'Molly'


Elephants are domestic dwarffortress creatures right? :)

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Re: [minimod]: Gender names for domestic creatures
« Reply #9 on: September 03, 2008, 11:49:16 am »
Great Mod! Just yesterday I was cursing about my tileset changing the gender symbols so that I had to think of my horses as the bag-gender and the amulet-gender. This will be of great help when it comes to butchering.
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Re: [minimod]: Gender names for domestic creatures
« Reply #10 on: September 03, 2008, 12:40:49 pm »
the only purpose of this so called mod (barely qualify as one) is just to make handling of domestic animals better because: Gender sign is not shown when caging/chaining.  This makes it particular difficult say if I want to release all male cats but keep female cats in cages.

And I don't intend to do anything more to this "mod".  It's just a side effect of what I have done to my game and found somewhat useful so I sort of tossed it out.  People who don't need it can ignore it.  People who liked the idea may want to do it properly (e.g. put it into modbase compatible format).  People who are lazy can just use it direct.  It's no rocket science :)

As for the actual terms... kiffer.geo  is right about cats.  I found a children's website here.  Female cats should be Queen.  I got pussycat off wikipedia and used it without much thought or verification (only wanted them to be distinguishable).

By domestic creatures, I meant those found in creature_domestic.txt rather than domestic in the common way (one could argue all tame creatures are domestic).  Elephants are found in other files.

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Re: [minimod]: Gender names for domestic creatures
« Reply #11 on: September 04, 2008, 03:34:00 am »
Quote from: kiffer.geo on September 03, 2008, 11:08:44 am
Quote from: Mohreb el Yasim on September 03, 2008, 09:52:42 am
in mode base you could make it to work for all animals no? like dog male dog female (i would prefer this version because bitch is not a nice word, and stallion, mare i won't ever remember ...
English is a funny old language ...
every language have it ...
ok i watched that homepage and it is funnyt alll kind of animals ... :D
will this mod work withouth world regen?
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Re: [minimod]: Gender names for domestic creatures
« Reply #12 on: September 04, 2008, 04:56:55 am »
Quote from: Mohreb el Yasim on September 04, 2008, 03:34:00 am
will this mod work withouth world regen?

It only involves changes to names so no need to regen.
Then again, if it involves regen, I wouldn't do it... ;D
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Re: [minimod]: Gender names for domestic creatures
« Reply #13 on: September 04, 2008, 09:22:37 am »
Quote from: sphr on September 03, 2008, 03:33:11 am
Minimod: Gender names for domestic creatures

Summary
This tiny mod adds gender specific names to domestic animals to make managing them easier. It's so simple that any beginner modder can do this, but I thought I just provided mine as an easy reference.

The original file is based on DF ver 28.181.40c. (should be relatively unchanged from prev versions)

Content
Changes the following names where each row has the format:
(creature):   (male), (female)
dog: dog, bitch                             
cat: tomcat, queen (corrected)
donkey: jack, jennet                           
horse: stallion, mare                             
mule : (no changes as mules are non reproductive anyway)

Note that adjective is unchanged (still the original race name).  What this probably means in common game term is that you will still get donkey leather instead of jack leather or jennet leather.  But I could be wrong :)

Installation

  • Backup {dwarf fortress directory}/raw/objects/creature_domestic.txt.   You
    can restore this file if you want to remove this "mod".
  • Copy creature_domestic.txt from below and replace the content of creature_domestic.txt with it.
  • You need to restart the game for it to take effect!

Uninstall
Just restore creature_domestic.txt (You DID backed it up did you not?)

New content for creature_domestic.txt:
Spoiler (click to show/hide)


We need to add in ducks, so that when people have lots of male ducks in their ponds they'll be like:
"OAMG drakes in my pond I'm a gonna die!"
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Re: [minimod]: Gender names for domestic creatures
« Reply #14 on: September 04, 2008, 08:42:35 pm »
Excellent small mod, great idea for flavor.

Also,

War bitches.

Awesome.

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