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PopeRichardCorey

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Why won't my cats explode?
« on: April 04, 2009, 05:00:37 am »
I just started playing this game recently, and tonight I got bored with normal play...  So i decided to play around with Cats with a homeotherm of, oh, say, forty-thousand urists, and maybe the sort that would sever on break?

My first few tests were excellent; I embarked with ~200 cats, and fire and death and peasants bleeding to death for some reason.  Then I started trying it in some Goblin cities, was disappointed to find that they were friendly and so wouldn't kill off the lone straggler after the burning death consumed their dwarven visitors...  And decided to try spreading the cats out a bit before detonating.  But they won't detonate.  They just walk around as they always do.

Help me make the cats go boom?
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vagel7

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Re: Why won't my cats explode?
« Reply #1 on: April 04, 2009, 03:47:22 pm »
the title "escaped lunatic" fits you...
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A_Fey_Dwarf

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Re: Why won't my cats explode?
« Reply #2 on: April 04, 2009, 03:54:30 pm »
Try:
Code: [Select]
[CREATURE:EXPLODING_CAT_DOMESTIC]
[NAME:exploding cat:exploding cats: exploding cat]
[TILE:'c'][COLOR:4:0:1]
[VERMINHUNTER]
[PETVALUE:5]
[CARNIVORE][NATURAL][PET]
[LARGE_ROAMING]
[COMMON_DOMESTIC][BENIGN]
[PREFSTRING:aloofness]
[BODY:QUADRUPED:TAIL:2EYES:2EARS:NOSE:2LUNGS:HEART:GUTS:ORGANS:THROAT:NECK:SPINE:BRAIN:MOUTH]
[BODYGLOSS:PAW][SEVERONBREAKS]
[SIZE:3]
[MAXAGE:10:20]
[ATTACK:MAIN:BYTYPE:MOUTH:bite:bites:1:6:GORE][ATTACKFLAG_CANLATCH]
[CHILD:1][CHILDNAME:exploding kitten:exploding kittens]
[FAT:1]
[DIURNAL][FIXED_TEMP:30000]
[IGNITE_POINT:10060]
[HOMEOTHERM:10070]
[LAYERING:100]
[SWIMS_INNATE][SWIM_SPEED:2500]
[MUNDANE]
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SolarShado

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Re: Why won't my cats explode?
« Reply #3 on: April 04, 2009, 04:12:32 pm »
i lol'd at the thread title...

@fey: what, didn't change the prefstring? ;D
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Re: Why won't my cats explode?
« Reply #4 on: April 04, 2009, 10:18:49 pm »
the new one should be 'entrancing blaze'
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Re: Why won't my cats explode?
« Reply #5 on: April 04, 2009, 11:46:17 pm »
I believe you need to add the tags [MENTOS] and [DIETCOKE].
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kefkakrazy

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Re: Why won't my cats explode?
« Reply #6 on: April 05, 2009, 01:02:42 am »
They don't seem to like to explode if you modify the settings post-embark. For me, at least, they won't detonate if they existed before the change, but any new cats that spawn may. For example, I lost a couple immigrants when one of them had a pet kitten and said kitten spawned with a surface temperature several times that of the Sun.

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