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[Shoruke]

I thought it would be fun to have magical attacks in DF, since there's damage tokens (burn, heat, cold, gore) that dwarves can't normally use. So I made a 'sorcery' mod, where the sorcerers have godly attacks (ranged weapons that do 300 of gore, burn, or cold damage for instance), but have weak defenses. My sorcerers can KO a demi-megabeast with one shot, but if the beast clobbers them, they're out for the count.

The force spells are fun. It's a ranged attack that does 300 bludgeon damage. It's actually really funny to watch a sorcerer shoot, say, a mountain goat, and it goes flying.

I'm considering introducing some seriously badassed megabeasts and common monsters, to balance my mod out a bit.

Any comments? questions? Stuff like that? Go ahead and post.

[Dasleah]

I have a question.

What's the point of telling us about this awesome mod if you're not actually going to show any of us exactly what's in it? How can we comment on something that we can only take your insistence on how awesome it is?

[Warlord255]

How are you executing these "spell" attacks; modified crossbows? If so, any user with a skill level above Novice will be able to destroy everything.

[Plank of Wood]

How are you executing these "spell" attacks; modified crossbows? If so, any user with a skill level above Novice will be able to destroy everything.

I'm pretty sure anything that's at least a dabbling mason with a few rocks and instructions on how to build a wall can block it given the time.

[Shoruke]

Yes, it's basically modded crossbows... but since you can only tell your active civilization to use certain weapons (short swords, spears, etc... you can't tell them to use morningstars, for instance), I made it so that there's different spell types for the different kinds of weapons. For instance, if you tell a sorcerer to use a mace, he'll go pick up a fire staff and some fire spells.

Here's some of the raw code...

item_weapon.txt

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[ITEM_WEAPON:ITEM_WEAPON_FLUX_STAFF]
[NAME:flux staff:flux staves]
[DAMAGE:60:GORE]
[WEIGHT:10]
[SKILL:HAMMER]
[RANGED:HAMMER:FLUXSPELL]
[TWO_HANDED:5]
[MINIMUM_SIZE:7]
[MATERIAL_SIZE:5]
[STICK_CHANCE:0]

[ITEM_WEAPON:ITEM_WEAPON_FORCE_STAFF]
[NAME:force staff:force staves]
[DAMAGE:60:BLUDGEON]
[WEIGHT:10]
[SKILL:SPEAR]
[RANGED:SPEAR:FORCESPELL]
[TWO_HANDED:5]
[MINIMUM_SIZE:7]
[MATERIAL_SIZE:5]
[STICK_CHANCE:0]

[ITEM_WEAPON:ITEM_WEAPON_NATURE_STAFF]
[NAME:nature staff:nature staves]
[DAMAGE:60:HEAT]
[WEIGHT:10]
[SKILL:CROSSBOW]
[RANGED:CROSSBOW:NATURESPELL]
[TWO_HANDED:5]
[MINIMUM_SIZE:7]
[MATERIAL_SIZE:5]
[STICK_CHANCE:0]

[ITEM_WEAPON:ITEM_WEAPON_SEVER_STAFF]
[NAME:sever staff:sever staves]
[DAMAGE:60:SLASH]
[WEIGHT:10]
[SKILL:AXE]
[RANGED:AXE:SEVERSPELL]
[TWO_HANDED:5]
[MINIMUM_SIZE:7]
[MATERIAL_SIZE:5]
[STICK_CHANCE:0]

[ITEM_WEAPON:ITEM_WEAPON_FROST_STAFF]
[NAME:frost staff:frost staves]
[DAMAGE:60:COLD]
[WEIGHT:10]
[SKILL:SWORD]
[RANGED:SWORD:FROSTSPELL]
[TWO_HANDED:5]
[MINIMUM_SIZE:7]
[MATERIAL_SIZE:5]
[STICK_CHANCE:0]

[ITEM_WEAPON:ITEM_WEAPON_FIRE_STAFF]
[NAME:fire staff:fire staves]
[DAMAGE:60:BURN]
[WEIGHT:10]
[SKILL:MACE]
[RANGED:MACE:FIRESPELL]
[TWO_HANDED:5]
[MINIMUM_SIZE:7]
[MATERIAL_SIZE:5]
[STICK_CHANCE:0]

[ITEM_WEAPON:ITEM_WEAPON_DIGGERSPELL]
[NAME:digger:diggers]
[DAMAGE:70:PIERCE]
[WEIGHT:50]
[SKILL:MINING]
[CRIT_BOOST:2]
[TWO_HANDED:5]
[MINIMUM_SIZE:5]
[MATERIAL_SIZE:4]

item_ammo.txt

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[ITEM_AMMO:ITEM_AMMO_FLUX_SPELL]
[NAME:flux spell:flux spells]
[CLASS:FLUXSPELL]
[DAMAGE:300:GORE]

[ITEM_AMMO:ITEM_AMMO_FORCE_SPELL]
[NAME:force spell:force spells]
[CLASS:FORCESPELL]
[DAMAGE:300:BLUDGEON]

[ITEM_AMMO:ITEM_AMMO_NATURE_SPELL]
[NAME:nature spell:nature spells]
[CLASS:NATURESPELL]
[DAMAGE:300:HEAT]

[ITEM_AMMO:ITEM_AMMO_SEVER_SPELL]
[NAME:sever spell:sever spells]
[CLASS:SEVERSPELL]
[DAMAGE:300:SLASH]

[ITEM_AMMO:ITEM_AMMO_ICE_SPELL]
[NAME:ice spell:ice spells]
[CLASS:ICESPELL]
[DAMAGE:300:COLD]

[ITEM_AMMO:ITEM_AMMO_FIRE_SPELL]
[NAME:fire spell:fire spells]
[CLASS:FIRESPELL]
[DAMAGE:300:BURN]

creature_standard.txt

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[CREATURE:SORCERER]
   [NAME:sorcerer:sorcerers:sorcerous]
   [SPECNAME:FEMALE:sorceress:sorceresses:sorcerous]
   [TILE:1][COLOR:3:0:0]
   [GENPOWER:3]
   [INTELLIGENT]
   [trANCES]
   [BENIGN]
   [CANOPENDOORS]
   [PREFSTRING:magic]

[BODY:HUMANOID:2EYES:2EARS:NOSE:2LUNGS:HEART:GUTS:ORGANS:HUMANOID_JOINTS:THROAT:NECK:SPINE:B

RAIN:5FINGERS:5TOES:MOUTH]
   [MAXAGE:90:110]
   [ATTACK:MAIN:BYTYPE:GRASP:punch:punches:1:2:BLUDGEON][ATTACKFLAG_WITH]
   [ATTACK:SECOND:BYTYPE:MOUTH:bite:bites:1:1:GORE][ATTACKFLAG_CANLATCH]
   [CHILD:2][BABY:1][liTTERSIZE:1:2]
   [DAMBLOCK:-2]
   [FAT:2]
   [SIZE:7]
   [EQUIPS]
   [DIURNAL]
   [CRAFTSMAN_NAME:crafter:crafters]
   [FISHERMAN_NAME:fisher:fishers]
   [HAMMERMAN_NAME:flux caster:flux casters]
   [SPEARMAN_NAME:force caster:force casters]
   [CROSSBOWMAN_NAME:nature caster:nature casters]
   [AXEMAN_NAME:sever caster:sever casters]
   [SWORDSMAN_NAME:frost caster:frost casters]
   [MACEMAN_NAME:fire caster:fire casters]
   [PIKEMAN_NAME:meleer:meleers]
   [BOWMAN_NAME:marksman:marksmen]
   [SPEECH_MALE:human_male.txt]
   [STANDARD_FLESH]
   [HOMEOTHERM:10067]
   [LAYERING:10]
   [ALCOHOL_DEPENDENT]
   [SWIMS_LEARNED][SWIM_SPEED:1500]
   [PERSONALITY:INTELLECTUAL_CURIOSITY:0:55:100]
   [PERSONALITY:STRAIGHTFORWARDNESS:0:55:100]
   [PERSONALITY:IMAGINATION:0:55:100]
   [PERSONALITY:SELF_DISCIPLINE:0:45:100]

Entity_default.txt

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[ENTITY:PLANET]
   [CIV_CONTROLLABLE]
   [CREATURE:SORCERER]
   [trANSLATION:HUMAN]
   [DIGGER:ITEM_WEAPON_DIGGERSPELL]
   [WEAPON:ITEM_WEAPON_FLUX_STAFF]
      [AMMO:ITEM_AMMO_FLUX_SPELL]
   [WEAPON:ITEM_WEAPON_FORCE_STAFF]
      [AMMO:ITEM_AMMO_FORCE_SPELL]
   [WEAPON:ITEM_WEAPON_NATURE_STAFF]
      [AMMO:ITEM_AMMO_NATURE_SPELL]
   [WEAPON:ITEM_WEAPON_SEVER_STAFF]
      [AMMO:ITEM_AMMO_SEVER_SPELL]
   [WEAPON:ITEM_WEAPON_FROST_STAFF]
      [AMMO:ITEM_AMMO_ICE_SPELL]
   [WEAPON:ITEM_WEAPON_FIRE_STAFF]
      [AMMO:ITEM_AMMO_FIRE_SPELL]
   [ARMOR:ITEM_ARMOR_ROBE_CHAIN:COMMON]
   [ARMOR:ITEM_ARMOR_ROBE_HEAVY:COMMON]
   [ARMOR:ITEM_ARMOR_ROBE_LIGHT:COMMON]
   [ARMOR:ITEM_ARMOR_SHIRT:COMMON]
   [ARMOR:ITEM_ARMOR_CLOAK:COMMON]
   [GLOVES:ITEM_GLOVES_GLOVES:COMMON]
   [GLOVES:ITEM_GLOVES_GAUNTLETS_MYSTIC:COMMON]
   [HELM:ITEM_HELM_WIZARD_HAT:COMMON]
   [GLOVES:ITEM_GLOVES_GAUNTLETS_MYSTIC_CHAIN:COMMON]
   [PANTS:ITEM_PANTS_PANTS:COMMON]
   [PANTS:ITEM_PANTS_ROBE_BOTTOM:COMMON]
   [PANTS:ITEM_PANTS_ROBE_CHAIN_BOTTOM:COMMON]
   [SHIELD:ITEM_SHIELD_MYSTIC_SHIELD:COMMON]
   [SHOES:ITEM_SHOES_SHOES:COMMON]
   [SHOES:ITEM_SHOES_SOCKS:COMMON]
   [SHOES:ITEM_SHOES_BOOTS_SORCERER:COMMON]
   [SHOES:ITEM_SHOES_BOOTS_BATTLE:COMMON]
   [SIEGEAMMO:ITEM_SIEGEAMMO_NUKE]
   [trAPCOMP:ITEM_TRAPCOMP_GORESPLOSION]
   [trAPCOMP:ITEM_TRAPCOMP_FLAMEPILLAR]
   [trAPCOMP:ITEM_TRAPCOMP_FREEZING_CLOUD]
   [CLOTHING]
   [SUBTERRANEAN_CLOTHING]
   [CURRENCY_BY_YEAR]
   [CURRENCY:COPPER:1]
   [CURRENCY:SILVER:5]
   [CURRENCY:GOLD:15]
   [SELECT_SYMBOL:WAR:NAME_WAR]
   [SUBSELECT_SYMBOL:WAR:VIOLENT]
   [SELECT_SYMBOL:BATTLE:NAME_BATTLE]
   [SUBSELECT_SYMBOL:BATTLE:VIOLENT]
   [SELECT_SYMBOL:SIEGE:NAME_SIEGE]
   [SUBSELECT_SYMBOL:SIEGE:VIOLENT]
   [SELECT_SYMBOL:ROAD:NAME_ROAD]
   [SELECT_SYMBOL:TUNNEL:NAME_TUNNEL]
   [SELECT_SYMBOL:BRIDGE:NAME_BRIDGE]
   [SELECT_SYMBOL:WALL:NAME_WALL]
   [SELECT_SYMBOL:REMAINING:ARTIFICE]
   [SELECT_SYMBOL:REMAINING:EARTH]
   [CULL_SYMBOL:ALL:SUBORDINATE]
   [CULL_SYMBOL:ALL:EVIL]
   [CULL_SYMBOL:ALL:UNTOWARD]
   [CULL_SYMBOL:ALL:NEGATIVE]
   [CULL_SYMBOL:ALL:UGLY]
   [CULL_SYMBOL:ALL:NEGATOR]
   [WOOD_PREF]
   [METAL_PREF]
   [GEM_PREF]
   [STONE_PREF]
   [INDOOR_FARMING]
   [OUTDOOR_FARMING]
   [USE_CAVE_ANIMALS]
   [USE_ANIMAL_PRODUCTS]
   [COMMON_DOMESTIC_PACK]
   [COMMON_DOMESTIC_PULL]
   [COMMON_DOMESTIC_MOUNT]
   [COMMON_DOMESTIC_PET]
   [USE_MISC_PROCESSED_WOOD_PRODUCTS]
   [EQUIPMENT_IMPROVEMENTS]
   [ITEM_IMPROVEMENT_MODIFIER:RINGS_HANGING:500]
   [ITEM_IMPROVEMENT_MODIFIER:BANDS:350]
   [ITEM_IMPROVEMENT_MODIFIER:SPIKES:50]
   [ADVENTURE_TIER:4]
   [FRIENDLY_COLOR:1:0:1]
   [DEFAULT_SITE_TYPE:CITY]
   [liKES_SITE:CITY]
   [TOLERATES_SITE:CITY]
   [TOLERATES_SITE:TREE_CITY]
   [TOLERATES_SITE:CAVE_DETAILED]
   [CAN_HAVE_MILITARY_SITE_LEADER]
   [START_BIOME:ANY_GRASSLAND]
   [START_BIOME:ANY_SAVANNA]
   [START_BIOME:ANY_SHRUBLAND]
   [BIOME_SUPPORT:ANY_WETLAND:1]
   [BIOME_SUPPORT:ANY_DESERT:1]
   [BIOME_SUPPORT:ANY_FOREST:2]
   [BIOME_SUPPORT:ANY_OCEAN:3]
   [BIOME_SUPPORT:ANY_LAKE:3]
   [BIOME_SUPPORT:ANY_GRASSLAND:3]
   [BIOME_SUPPORT:ANY_SAVANNA:2]
   [BIOME_SUPPORT:ANY_SHRUBLAND:2]
   [BIOME_SUPPORT:ANY_RIVER:1]
   [DIPLOMAT]
   [MERCHANT_NOBILITY]
   [DIPLOMAT_BODYGUARDS]
   [MERCHANT_BODYGUARDS]
   [PROGRESS_TRIGGER_TRADE:0]
   [ACTIVE_SEASON:WINTER]
   [SIEGER]
   [MAX_STARTING_CIV_NUMBER:100]
   [START_GROUP_NUMBER:10]
   [MAX_POP_NUMBER:10000]
   [MAX_SITE_POP_NUMBER:120]
   [RELIGION:PANTHEON]
   [WANDERER]
   [BEAST_HUNTER]
   [SCOUT]
   [IMPROVED_BOWS]
   [PERMITTED_JOB:MINER]
   [PERMITTED_JOB:CARPENTER]
   [PERMITTED_JOB:BOWYER]
   [PERMITTED_JOB:WOODCUTTER]
   [PERMITTED_JOB:ENGRAVER]
   [PERMITTED_JOB:MASON]
   [PERMITTED_JOB:ANIMAL_CARETAKER]
   [PERMITTED_JOB:ANIMAL_TRAINER]
   [PERMITTED_JOB:HUNTER]
   [PERMITTED_JOB:TRAPPER]
   [PERMITTED_JOB:ANIMAL_DISSECTOR]
   [PERMITTED_JOB:FURNACE_OPERATOR]
   [PERMITTED_JOB:WEAPONSMITH]
   [PERMITTED_JOB:ARMORER]
   [PERMITTED_JOB:BLACKSMITH]
   [PERMITTED_JOB:METALCRAFTER]
   [PERMITTED_JOB:GEM_CUTTER]
   [PERMITTED_JOB:GEM_SETTER]
   [PERMITTED_JOB:WOODCRAFTER]
   [PERMITTED_JOB:STONECRAFTER]
   [PERMITTED_JOB:LEATHERWORKER]
   [PERMITTED_JOB:BONE_CARVER]
   [PERMITTED_JOB:WEAVER]
   [PERMITTED_JOB:CLOTHIER]
   [PERMITTED_JOB:GLASSMAKER]
   [PERMITTED_JOB:STRAND_EXTRACTOR]
   [PERMITTED_JOB:FISHERMAN]
   [PERMITTED_JOB:FISH_DISSECTOR]
   [PERMITTED_JOB:FISH_CLEANER]
   [PERMITTED_JOB:CHEESE_MAKER]
   [PERMITTED_JOB:MILKER]
   [PERMITTED_JOB:COOK]
   [PERMITTED_JOB:THRESHER]
   [PERMITTED_JOB:MILLER]
   [PERMITTED_JOB:BUTCHER]
   [PERMITTED_JOB:TANNER]
   [PERMITTED_JOB:DYER]
   [PERMITTED_JOB:PLANTER]
   [PERMITTED_JOB:HERBALIST]
   [PERMITTED_JOB:BREWER]
   [PERMITTED_JOB:SOAP_MAKER]
   [PERMITTED_JOB:POTASH_MAKER]
   [PERMITTED_JOB:LYE_MAKER]
   [PERMITTED_JOB:WOOD_BURNER]
   [PERMITTED_JOB:MECHANIC]
   [PERMITTED_JOB:SIEGE_ENGINEER]
   [PERMITTED_JOB:SIEGE_OPERATOR]
   [PERMITTED_JOB:PUMP_OPERATOR]
   [PERMITTED_JOB:CLERK]
   [PERMITTED_JOB:ADMINISTRATOR]
   [PERMITTED_JOB:TRADER]
   [PERMITTED_JOB:ARCHITECT]
   [WORLD_CONSTRUCTION:TUNNEL]
   [WORLD_CONSTRUCTION:BRIDGE]
   [WORLD_CONSTRUCTION:ROAD]
   [ETHIC:KILL_ENTITY_MEMBER:PUNISH_CAPITAL]
   [ETHIC:KILL_NEUTRAL:ONLY_IF_SANCTIONED]
   [ETHIC:KILL_ENEMY:ACCEPTABLE]
   [ETHIC:KILL_ANIMAL:ACCEPTABLE]
   [ETHIC:KILL_PLANT:ACCEPTABLE]
   [ETHIC:TORTURE_AS_EXAMPLE:ACCEPTABLE]
   [ETHIC:TORTURE_FOR_INFORMATION:ONLY_IF_SANCTIONED]
   [ETHIC:TORTURE_FOR_FUN:UNTHINKABLE]
   [ETHIC:TORTURE_ANIMALS:UNTHINKABLE]
   [ETHIC:TREASON:UNTHINKABLE]
   [ETHIC:OATH_BREAKING:UNTHINKABLE]
   [ETHIC:LYING:PERSONAL_MATTER]
   [ETHIC:VANDALISM:PUNISH_SERIOUS]
   [ETHIC:TRESPASSING:PUNISH_SERIOUS]
   [ETHIC:THEFT:UNTHINKABLE]
   [ETHIC:ASSAULT:PUNISH_SERIOUS]
   [ETHIC:SLAVERY:UNTHINKABLE]
   [ETHIC:EAT_SAPIENT_OTHER:UNTHINKABLE]
   [ETHIC:EAT_SAPIENT_KILL:UNTHINKABLE]
   [ETHIC:MAKE_TROPHY_SAME_RACE:UNTHINKABLE]
   [ETHIC:MAKE_TROPHY_SAPIENT:PUNISH_EXILE]
   [ETHIC:MAKE_TROPHY_ANIMAL:ACCEPTABLE]
   [WILL_ACCEPT_TRIBUTE]

[woose1]

Tried the slash staff out and it is fasinating to watch people get decapitated from 50 feet away.

[Jurassiced]

this sounds like a very nice adventure mode mod o.-

[Deon]

Yeah, I've got wizards and sorcerers in my Middle earth mod some time ago and I second that it's really fun to freeze people over and throw fire blasts at goblins .

[Shoruke]

Thanks for the feedback people, keep it coming 

Oh and... try the flux spells. I started an adventurer with maxed out flux casting, and shredded a minotaur's head... but only after ripping it's arm and it's leg off. Then I tried to kill a cyclops, and mangled one of it's legs, then it hit me once and that was that.

[Tormy]

Damn you shoruke!!! Now I really can't wait for the magic arc....

[Shoruke]

Okay I just tried playing an adventurer with maxed out flux caster (flux staves/spells do gore damage).

Wolves, various woodland creatures, and goblins all fell to my staff and spells... Most of them fell in several pieces, with their blood scattered in several directions. Then I fought the demon that rules the goblins' fortress, and... well, demons are BADASSED. Holy schist. After about 6 shots of 300 gore damage each, from a 'Great' flux caster, you'd think the demon would have at least slowed down. But it seems to have killed me by tackling me and falling on top of me.

Still, it's awesome to shoot stuff and watch their body parts go flying off.

[Deon]

I am a bit jealous about this stuff, Shoruke . Nothing personal, just fact. I mean, when I had such things as a part of big mod, noone noticed, but when it comes as a separate mod everyone is excited xD xD xD.

I enjoy it too btw.

[Poltifar]

Wow, I'm gona have to try this mod. But from what I've been reading up to now, I think the slash spells are the most fun

[Shoruke]

I modded in some civilizations myself... nothing fancy, I just took elves and goblins, made them eviller, made them reproduce more... Now the evil dudes keep winning world gen. The humans only have even a single civilization half the time, the dwarves always have 2-3 civs (but they only control one tile of area), and the sorcerers usually have 2 good size civs and 1 small civ.

I did another maxed out flux caster adventurer... nobody from the sorcerer civilizations seems to mind when I just walk into their shops, take their stuff, and walk out again. Is it because I kill their megabeasts for them?

Anyway, I killed four megabeasts, some named wild animals, and several dozen wolves...one of the megabeast caves was in a terrifying biome, I think, so everything was skeletal. Even the cyclops. I wonder how it found the air to talk when it has no lungs. But it was really funny blowing the limbs off a skeletal troll, one by one, and it's still trying to kill me. It was like the Black Knight in Monty Python.

Me: *shoots off an arm*
Troll: "I can still win!"
Me: *shoots off the other arm*
Troll: "I can still fight!"
Me: *shoots off a leg*
Troll: "So help me I'm gonna win dammit!"
Me: "How do you even talk at all?" *shoots off head*
*The Troll has been shot and killed*

Then I went to the orc encampment (I modded them in myself... they're basically oversized goblins that don't feel pain or fear), killed some orcish miners and masons, and then an orcish marksman shot me from off-screen. I went into legends mode, looked myself up, and apparently they took my body and impaled it upon a spear.

[Zorgn]

I am a bit jealous about this stuff, Shoruke . Nothing personal, just fact. I mean, when I had such things as a part of big mod, noone noticed, but when it comes as a separate mod everyone is excited xD xD xD.

I enjoy it too btw.

The big mod aspect was the problem, I'll bet. I take these small bits of code here and there and blend them into my own personal version that has only what I want.

Some people just don't like hobbits.