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[GoreTaco]

Just post any idea that could be possible with some modding, and maybe some answers too.

I thought it would be cool to have a spider who's extract was boiling, so when it bit someone they'd be injected with magma. Now that's a death.

[Flaede]

Just post any idea that could be possible with some modding, and maybe some answers too.

I thought it would be cool to have a spider who's extract was boiling, so when it bit someone they'd be injected with magma. Now that's a death.

tried it. didn't work.
ALso - you can't get the extract and dump it down murder holes on things.
the problem? It will light the dwarf trying to dump it on fire, and you can't just dump the vial, because vials (Even glass ones) don't break when dropped - no matter how far they fall.
in the next big version it might, though, since boiling gold blood is possible.

[Flaede]

Ok. My turn for a question:
 - EDITED: I went on to ask something totally not requiring modding

[Im_Sparks]

Something like kobold camp, except with better housing, better fishing, trees drop more wood? What's up with that. Also, magma pipes on EVERY map.

EDIT: Oh, and when setting parameters for world creation, it should custom tailor the map; not just keep random mappin' till it finds the BINGO

[Flaede]

parrots. can you make pet parrots talk and stuff without being a civ type entity?
what happens? will they comfort your dwarves?
can they be "Vermin" sized? or do they have to be larger.

[NewMartianEmperor]

Robots! They would need an advanced new civ type to have them though, would it be possible for more of them to be made without actually reproducing?

[Flaede]

Robots! They would need an advanced new civ type to have them though, would it be possible for more of them to be made without actually reproducing?

If I recall, people have done it, not sure how, but they technically reproduce. They just don't make "children", just full fledged copies of themselves.

If this helps, there's an older ROBOTS mod in the file depot http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=374 you PLAY as robots in that one, though. Not sure how you'd go about making them pets.

[Patarak]

Robots! They would need an advanced new civ type to have them though, would it be possible for more of them to be made without actually reproducing?

With the new tissue system and stuff, I'm quite sure it would be possible. Having them not reproduce would just be silly though. They'd die out eventually.

Can you get things to breed with NOGENDER?

[NewMartianEmperor]

Can you get things to breed with NOGENDER?

That's what I was asking, or trying to ask anyway.

[userpay]

Can you get things to breed with NOGENDER?

That's what I was asking, or trying to ask anyway.

Just build them at the smelter! I'm accually interested in "producing" animals due to a quote that was on the from page of the wiki, sounds like it would be funny.

[Flaede]

Can you get things to breed with NOGENDER?

That's what I was asking, or trying to ask anyway.

Just build them at the smelter! I'm accually interested in "producing" animals due to a quote that was on the from page of the wiki, sounds like it would be funny.

except that (unless something drastic occurred for 40d) currently any animal you "build" at the smelter will be a vermin. Wild and not tame, no less.
Sure, you can have little clockwork tic-tok things running around, but you can't smelt fillsize animals in a reaction yet.

[Rysith]

I believe that to smelt animals, you smelt an instantly-dying vermin and have it produce an ITEMCORPSE of the animal that you want.

On that note: a creature that ITEMCORPSES a copy of itself. A Phoenix, or something of that nature.

[Flaede]

I believe that to smelt animals, you smelt an instantly-dying vermin and have it produce an ITEMCORPSE of the animal that you want.

On that note: a creature that ITEMCORPSES a copy of itself. A Phoenix, or something of that nature.

I`m so sticking this on the mythbusters thread. I don`t believe it. (but I want to)

[Neoadept]

No dice, ITEMCORPSE has the same vermin problem.

Idea:  A stone that has an IGNITE_POINT just over natural temperatures and a "trigger" stone that has a FIXED_TEMP just over that but low enough not to immediately damage the dwarf.  In theory we could set up controlled fires this way.  This is entirely possible, the trick is finding the temperature range that would allow it to happen.

[Flaede]

No dice, ITEMCORPSE has the same vermin problem.

Idea:  A stone that has an IGNITE_POINT just over natural temperatures and a "trigger" stone that has a FIXED_TEMP just over that but low enough not to immediately damage the dwarf.  In theory we could set up controlled fires this way.  This is entirely possible, the trick is finding the temperature range that would allow it to happen.

I was told that currently stones do not actually use the  fixed temp tag, Sadly
but if you test it, then we can be sure! I so want this one to be true, you have no idea.