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[Orange Drink]

i have recently stated to mod dwarf fortress, and i made a race of dark elves and made an evil plant that can be turned into a metal at the smelter. it works fine for dwarves but i cant get dark elves to wear it. what do i need to do in order to make this work?

EDIT:it's probably to do with the entity file.

[Foa]

i have recently stated to mod dwarf fortress, and i made a race of dark elves and made an evil plant that can be turned into a metal at the smelter. it works fine for dwarves but i cant get dark elves to wear it. what do i need to do in order to make this work?

EDIT:it's probably to do with the entity file.

Meh, call them, erm, harvesters, or ore vine/plant/thing/bush...

[Orange Drink]

i have recently stated to mod dwarf fortress, and i made a race of dark elves and made an evil plant that can be turned into a metal at the smelter. it works fine for dwarves but i cant get dark elves to wear it. what do i need to do in order to make this work?

EDIT:it's probably to do with the entity file.

Meh, call them, erm, harvesters, or ore vine/plant/thing/bush...

Actually, i called it Shatterweed, b/c its so hard weapons will shatter when hit, but now i realise thats unrealistic b/c the name only makes sense if it has the same strength as adamantine, which it doesnt.

EDIT: have now called them stoneweeds.

EDIT: no, shatterweed sounds best.

[eerr]

is the metal armour produced "narrow"?

[Orange Drink]

how the hell do i do that?

[Foa]

how the hell do i do that?

Don't, and also, can you smelt it into Shatter plate, or at least Shatter wafers.
Wafers = Metal Clothing
3 Wafers + Smelt = Bar = Non-Cloth Items

[Orange Drink]

how the hell do i do that?

Don't, and also, can you smelt it into Shatter plate, or at least Shatter wafers.
Wafers = Metal Clothing
3 Wafers + Smelt = Bar = Non-Cloth Items

that's a good idea, but i was asking how to make dark leves wear it, not how to make the plant work.

[Gondana]

I bet the Dark-Elves will have the [NARROW] tag wich prevents them from wearing anything that isn't desighned for NARROW creatures.

If that dousn't help, then place;
   [ARMOR:ITEM_ARMOR_PLANT_ARMOUR_THINGY:COMMON]
Into the races defoults, modifying the tag as necesry.

[Orange Drink]

I bet the Dark-Elves will have the [NARROW] tag wich prevents them from wearing anything that isn't desighned for NARROW creatures.

If that dousn't help, then place;
   [ARMOR:ITEM_ARMOR_PLANT_ARMOUR_THINGY:COMMON]
Into the races defoults, modifying the tag as necesry.

right, now i realise there might be something wrong with the metal the plant turns into.

[Jay]

I bet the Dark-Elves will have the [NARROW] tag wich prevents them from wearing anything that isn't desighned for NARROW creatures.

If that dousn't help, then place;
   [ARMOR:ITEM_ARMOR_PLANT_ARMOUR_THINGY:COMMON]
Into the races defoults, modifying the tag as necesry.

Uh.
Stuff that NARROW creatures create is automatically NARROW.
Same with STOUT (dwarves).

[Orange Drink]

umm. . . none of this is actually helpful at the moment . . .

[Footkerchief]

Uh.
Stuff that NARROW creatures create is automatically NARROW.
Same with STOUT (dwarves).

Does that apply to armor created via reactions as well?  What about itemcorpse?

[Orange Drink]

nope, it's not the metal thats wrong, must be to do with the entity file.

i've got an idea. i'll give the dark elves MINOR_METAL and make shatterweed bars cheaper (right now they cost 500 dwarfins each ).

EDIT: damnit, it didn't do nothing! a tried METAL_PREF, but ended up making them have steel sheilds and clothing with hanging platinum rings.

[i2amroy]

Since you are just creating a metal at the smelter, not a full suit of armor, there is really no way that I can think of for making them appear with that metal other than making it very weak and using the [WEAK_METALS] tag or making it very strong and using the [METAL_PREF] tag. Other than that, there isn't really a way to limit the use of a specific type of metal.

[Orange Drink]

Since you are just creating a metal at the smelter, not a full suit of armor, there is really no way that I can think of for making them appear with that metal other than making it very weak and using the [WEAK_METALS] tag or making it very strong and using the [METAL_PREF] tag. Other than that, there isn't really a way to limit the use of a specific type of metal.

whats the maximum BLOCK_PERC for a metal to be counted as a weak metal?