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[mission0]

I've gotten a bit bored making my own mods for myself, so I've open up this thread to make mods for others. Describe what you are looking for in a mod and I'll either post it here or link it to you on DFFD.

[Praetyre]

I'd like to be able to play any of the vanilla civs (Dwarf, Human, Elf, Goblin, Kobold). Is it possible to work this, or would you have to have seperate mods due to the fact they would have different mechanics?

If you can't, then I'll take Human Fortress, since vanilla and mods already get you Dwarves, Goblins and Kobolds.

Also, I have a smaller, but really weird one. It's HFS related.

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I'd like a new kind of HFS with a sprite that looks like the Japanese Ronald McDonald, called "Donald", "Donarudo" or "Donald McDonald". It's pits would have bags labeled Happy Meals, and engraving of golden arches and food menus. It's ASCII symbol would be D, and it would come with a sprite if you preferred graphics. It would have some kind of Ran Ran Ru attack that caused your dwarfs heads to explode in a shower of gore. If it's possible, it would be even better if you could get it to spawn alongside Tentacle Demons.

People have made killer clowns before, this would be a sort of HFS version.

It would kick tremendous amounts of ass if you could get a special message replacing "Horrors! Demons in the Deep!" with something along the lines of "I'm Lovin It!" or "Donarudono, uwasa! Ashoo!" or even just a bizarre sneeze.

[warlordzephyr]

Just go into the entity_default file (in the raws) and cut [CIV_CONTROLLABLE] from dwarves and paste into whatever race.

I've probably got this horribly wrong but it's worth a try.

[Praetyre]

Just go into the entity_default file (in the raws) and cut [CIV_CONTROLLABLE] from dwarves and paste into whatever race.

I've probably got this horribly wrong but it's worth a try.

Ehh, I know that, but something just tells me it ain't that simple. There's bound to be a hell of a lot of weird stuff with trade, mining, diplomacy and the like.

[mission0]

Just go into the entity_default file (in the raws) and cut [CIV_CONTROLLABLE] from dwarves and paste into whatever race.

I've probably got this horribly wrong but it's worth a try.

That would work, and the way you would chose the race is from what city you pick at the embark map.

As for the HFS mod above that sounds fun give me a sec.

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this can go into the creature_standard file
        [CREATURE:RONALD_MCDONALD]
   [NAME:Donarudo:Donarudos:Donarudo]
   [TILE:'D'][COLOR:5:0:1]
   [MODVALUE:20]
   [FANCIFUL][DEFENDER]
   [trAPAVOID][CAN_LEARN][CAN_SPEAK][FIREIMMUNE]
   [liKES_FIGHTING]
   [GENPOWER:5]
   [BLOODTYPE:0]
   [CANOPENDOORS]
   [EVIL]
   [BUILDINGDESTROYER:2]
   [NOFEAR][NOEXERT]
   [PREFSTRING:Happy Meals]
   [BODY:HUMANOID_SIMPLE:2EYES:NOSE:2LUNGS:HEART:GUTS:ORGANS:THROAT:NECK:SPINE:BRAIN:5FINGERS:5TOES:MOUTH]
   [SIZE:12]
   [ATTACK:MAIN:BYTYPE:MOUTH:bite:bites:1:6:GORE][ATTACKFLAG_CANLATCH]
   [ATTACK:MAIN:BYTYPE:GRASP:ran ran ru:ran ran rus:1:20:BLUDGEON][ATTACKFLAG_WITH]
   [NO_DRINK][NO_EAT][NO_SLEEP]
   [ALL_ACTIVE]
        [ITEMCORPSE:TOY:NO_SUBTYPE:METAL:RAW_ADAMANTINE]
   [MALE]
   [STANDARD_FLESH]
   [HOMEOTHERM:10069]
   [SWIMS_INNATE][SWIM_SPEED:2500]
   [PERSONALITY:IMMODERATION:100:100:100]
   [PERSONALITY:FRIENDLINESS:0:0:0]
   [PERSONALITY:CHEERFULNESS:0:0:0]
   [PERSONALITY:TRUST:0:0:0]
   [PERSONALITY:STRAIGHTFORWARDNESS:0:0:0]
   [PERSONALITY:ALTRUISM:0:0:0]
   [PERSONALITY:COOPERATION:0:0:0]
   [PERSONALITY:SYMPATHY:0:0:0]

This goes in your item_toy file
[ITEM_TOY:HAPPY_MEAL]
[NAME:happy meal:happy meals]

Now your idea for a pit is a bit more complicated. I could create a whole new deep stone that is labeled happy meals but to the best of my knowledge I can't influence the engravings there to much, also the game won't be able to tell the difference between the two deep stones so you could embark onto a location with one or the other.The attack causing the Dwarfs head to explode in gore I have done to a point. I can't make the creature target a specific body part but I can still make whatever it hits explode. The horrors from the deep message can't be changed either since it is hardcoded along with what shows up in the deep. Overall I found this japanese Ronald Mcdonald funny.

[Praetyre]

It's that simple? Since, I heard people have had bugs with trade when playing as gobbos.

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Well, there is that unknown substance in the Tentacle Demon pits.. that seems to be something only found there, unless I'm mistaken. Weirdly, I heard someone found two other unknown substances (both liquids, one yellow, one brown), as well as the "filth". So, perhaps that has some coding enabling it to only show up in these pits.

Tis a shame the EXE is uneditable, since that's where the strings for engravings are stored.

[mission0]

It's that simple? Since, I heard people have had bugs with trade when playing as gobbos.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Well, there is that unknown substance in the Tentacle Demon pits.. that seems to be something only found there, unless I'm mistaken. Weirdly, I heard someone found two other unknown substances (both liquids, one yellow, one brown), as well as the "filth". So, perhaps that has some coding enabling it to only show up in these pits.

There would be some bugs but I haven't tried to play as more than one race before. I know that you can chose the race from the city you start from.

[Sensei]

I think there's a language file you can put it in, as a shape. But that just means it will pop up as a basic shape (along with all your squares, triangles and crosses) rather than have logical context.

Also, why does Donald have [genpower:5]? You know that's not used for anything, right?

[mission0]

I think there's a language file you can put it in, as a shape. But that just means it will pop up as a basic shape (along with all your squares, triangles and crosses) rather than have logical context.

Also, why does Donald have [genpower:5]? You know that's not used for anything, right?

Used one of the other HFS monsters as a template then shifted it around.

[EuchreJack]

It's that simple? Since, I heard people have had bugs with trade when playing as gobbos.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Well, there is that unknown substance in the Tentacle Demon pits.. that seems to be something only found there, unless I'm mistaken. Weirdly, I heard someone found two other unknown substances (both liquids, one yellow, one brown), as well as the "filth". So, perhaps that has some coding enabling it to only show up in these pits.

Tis a shame the EXE is uneditable, since that's where the strings for engravings are stored.

As for the Goblin Trade glitch, there are two problems with them, both easily fixed:
A) They don't start with domestic animals, thus they aren't suppose to trade (lack of horses and all that).  However, they still trade, but unofficially (aka no liason).  Add the [USE_COMMON_DOMESTIC] tag, or something like that, and they're good.  I had to struggle with this for two days before I found the answer.
B) They're set as [BABYSNATCHER], which means they hate everyone and everyone hates them, in vanilla DF.  Remove that if you want the gobbos to play nice with everyone else.

[Praetyre]

Alright, in regards to Donald, I have a few questions:

First, how do biomes work for HFS? I don't see one listed, so does that automatically set it to appear anywhere, like the ANY_MAIN token? Also, it has the [EVIL] token, yet can appear on any map, regardless of alignment. Also, what effect might creating a, say, altruistic Donald have? Would it have some strange effect, like him acting as a nurse to your dwarves?

[mission0]

Alright, in regards to Donald, I have a few questions:

First, how do biomes work for HFS? I don't see one listed, so does that automatically set it to appear anywhere, like the ANY_MAIN token? Also, it has the [EVIL] token, yet can appear on any map, regardless of alignment. Also, what effect might creating a, say, altruistic Donald have? Would it have some strange effect, like him acting as a nurse to your dwarves?

The [ENDING] or [DEFENDER] tags are what put a monster inside HFS. I'm not sure what effect altruistic would have. I'm sure it would still try and kill you though.

[Praetyre]

How are the graphics coming along for Donald?

[mission0]

Sorry I'm horrible at pixel art, it would probably be best to modify a previous clown graphic. Otherwise the one I will come up with would be a red and yellow blob of some sort... >_>