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[Humaan]

Hi, I'm Humaan. I got the game and I'm just wondering... how do I mod?

Now don't go to the raw's and object's thing. I can get to those and such. What do I edit to mod the game. Is it the random jibberish page (probably not), or the text file?

One more question. How do I make a creature? I know about tokens and such, but could someone actually post something to get started on making creatures?

[Shoruke]

1) open your DF folder
2) go into the raw folder
3) go into objects
4) select the appropriate .txt file that you want to mod. Since you are attempting to create a new species, you probably want creature_standard.txt, or you could make you new .txt document and call it creature_modded.txt (or whatever).

At this point it REALLY helps to have an intimate knowledge of how DF works...

5) you go here and use the tokens you want. It helps to look at the other creatures in the .txt file a bit first, and use them as a reference.

[LegoLord]

Hi, I'm Humaan. I got the game and I'm just wondering... how do I mod?

Now don't go to the raw's and object's thing. I can get to those and such. What do I edit to mod the game. Is it the random jibberish page (probably not), or the text file?

One more question. How do I make a creature? I know about tokens and such, but could someone actually post something to get started on making creatures?

I made a really good example using Santa once.  It's probably somewhere in my list of posts . . .

[Humaan]

Thanks...

Although looking at creatures, this may be harder then once thought...

[LegoLord]

Haha!  I found it!  Top of page 60 in my list of posts (as of right now).

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

OK, say you want to make a Santa Clause creature; it would have the same body as a human, except that it might have this stuff, which you can just put in the body_default.txt.  Body modding is fairly complex, so you should wait for that until you get the hang of creature, entity, item, and matgloss modding.

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[BODY:COAT_RED]
[BP:RCOAT:big red coat][CONTYPE:UPPERBODY]

[BODY:HAT_JOLLY]
[BP:JHAT:jolly red hat][CONTYPE:HEAD]

[BODYGLOSS:BOOT:foot:boot]

[BODYGLOSS:MITTEN:hand:mitten]
Would replace the old creature entry body data as thus:

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[BODY:HUMANOID:COAT_RED:HAT_JOLLY:2EYES:2EARS:NOSE:2LUNGS:HEART:GUTS:ORGANS:HUMANOID_JOINTS:THROAT:NECK:SPINE:BRAIN:5FINGERS:5TOES:MOUTH]
[BODYGLOSS:BOOT]
[BODYGLOSS:MITTEN]

The creature entry would be titled [CREATURE:SANTA_CLAUSE].  You can just copy humans and change the [CREATURE] tag.  It is important that it is in all caps.  In creature entries, only names (in this case [NAME:Santa Clause:there's only one Santa:clausish] being the name, plural form, and adjective form) and the [PREFSTRING:x] tags can be in lower case or have spaces.  Change the entry in the [PREFSTING] tag to "jolly gut."  This will make it so that you will occasionally see "Urist McChild likes there's only one Santa for their jolly gut.

  You can change [FAT:3] to [FAT:7] which will make him give more fat when butchered and make him more resistant to cold.  This can also be done by increasing the number on the [LAYERING:X] tag.

The [TILE:'U'] can be changed to [TILE:'S'].  Changing [COLOR:3:0:0] to [COLOR:4:0:1] will make his tile bright red instead of cyan.  Color combinations can be found on the wiki by searching "color."  If you use a letter for a tile instead of a four digit tile code listed on the wiki, you need to put an apostrophe on either side.  I made an "invisible" race once because I didn't know that, and it was hard to play with them. 

Change [BENIGN] to [GOOD]; this will make it show up only in good areas.  If you don't like Santa, you can make it [EVIL] instead, which functions similarly to [GOOD], only that it makes him show up in evil areas.

Since it isn't a creature that we are sure exists in the real world, remove the [MUNDANE] tag, unless of course you really believe in Santa.  To make him only move around at night, change [DIURNAL] to [NOCTURNAL].  If you feel that the 60 to 120 years is too short or long a life for a Santa, change the numbers of the [MAXAGE:X:Y] to the range you want the game to use when randomly generating his lifespan.  For example, to make it so that he lives between 1000 and 1500 years, enter [MAXAGE:1000:1500]

If you don't want him picking up and using items and weapons, remove the [EQUIPS] tag.

Of course, for him to actually show up, you need to add a biome tag, such as [BIOME:GLACIER], or you can add [MEGABEAST] or [SEMIMEGABEAST], which will make it so that he will attack your fort and you will occasionly find quests to kill him in adventure mode.

For your creature entry, you should get something like this:

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[CREATURE:SANTA_CLAUSE]
[NAME:Santa Clause:there's only one Santa:clausish]
[TILE:'S'][COLOR:3:0:0]
[GENPOWER:3]
[INTELLIGENT]
[CANOPENDOORS]
[BENIGN]
[PREFSTRING:jolly gut]
[BODY:HUMANOID:COAT_RED:HAT_JOLLY:2EYES:2EARS:NOSE:2LUNGS:HEART:GUTS:ORGANS:HUMANOID_JOINTS:THROAT:NECK:SPINE:BRAIN:5FINGERS:5TOES:MOUTH]
[BODYGLOSS:BOOT]
[BODYGLOSS:MITTEN]
[SIZE:7]
[MAXAGE:1000:1500]
[ATTACK:MAIN:BYTYPE:GRASP:punch:punches:1:2:BLUDGEON][ATTACKFLAG_WITH]
[ATTACK:SECOND:BYTYPE:MOUTH:bite:bites:1:1:GORE][ATTACKFLAG_CANLATCH]
[CHILD:12][BABY:1][MULTIPLE_LITTER_RARE]
[FAT:7]
[EQUIPS]
[NOCTURNAL]
[BIOME:GLACIER]
[SPEECH_MALE:human_male.txt]
[STANDARD_FLESH]
[HOMEOTHERM:10067]
[LAYERING:70]
[SWIMS_LEARNED][SWIM_SPEED:2500]
[MUNDANE]
That's all folks! (for now; you should have a basic understanding of creature modding at this point, but there is more advanced stuff that can be done)

Oh, and Happy Holidays!