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[forsaken1111]

First I'd like to get this out there: Yes, I am insane.

Now, I would like to play in a world made entirely of metal. I want the ground to be metal ores of all types, with rarer ores (gold) clustered/veined through common ores (iron). I, being fairly new to modding DF, don't know how to do this. Could someone give me a quick and dirty method I could experiment with? It's a bit daunting to dive into right away.

[Phantom]

first remove all matter from DF.
Create new game
 
Profit

[forsaken1111]

first remove all matter from DF.
Create new game
 
Profit

  I should explain that this desire comes from memories of the metal worlds in Total Annihilation.

[LOSNR]

You'll have to remove all stones or their layer/environment tokens, add layer tokens to the ores, and then edit any ores that rely on stone layers.

For a simple mod, backup all matgloss_stone files in your raw\objects, delete every normal stone except obsidian(remove IGNEOUS_EXTRUSIVE from it, though), remove all existing environment tokens from ores, and add

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[SEDIMENTARY]
[IGNEOUS_INTRUSIVE]
[IGNEOUS_EXTRUSIVE]
[METAMORPHIC]
to any metals you want to cover the world.

Add

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[ENVIRONMENT:SEDIMENTARY:VEIN:100]
[ENVIRONMENT:IGNEOUS_INTRUSIVE:VEIN:100]
[ENVIRONMENT:IGNEOUS_EXTRUSIVE:VEIN:100]
[ENVIRONMENT:METAMORPHIC:VEIN:100]or

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[ENVIRONMENT:SEDIMENTARY:CLUSTER:100]
[ENVIRONMENT:IGNEOUS_INTRUSIVE:CLUSTER:100]
[ENVIRONMENT:IGNEOUS_EXTRUSIVE:CLUSTER:100]
[ENVIRONMENT:METAMORPHIC:CLUSTER:100]
to anything that you want to be "rare."

The next world you gen should be made completely out of metal, but won't have any flux.

If you want to make a bit more advanced mod, the wiki has a section on matgloss tokens.

[Sensei]

Yes, you can change the 100 number to something less to decrease the commonality.

You might also want to make a metal/crystal with the [SOIL] tag, capable of growing things. Otherwise the only place you be able to grow crops is mud.

[forsaken1111]

Interesting, I will poke around now that I have some idea what I'm doing. Thanks very much all of you. LOSNR that should be very useful as a starting point.

Sensei, I may do that adding in a crystalline layer and reflavoring the plants as crystalline growths. Hell if I get a wild hair I may take this to the limit and mod the game into a mirrodin-esque world.

[Atlas]

Yes, you can change the 100 number to something less to decrease the commonality.

You might also want to make a metal/crystal with the [SOIL] tag, capable of growing things. Otherwise the only place you be able to grow crops is mud.

W-w-w-w-w-w-w-wait!


So, if i added the tags like this?

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[MATGLOSS_METAL:BRASS]
[NAME:brass][ADJ:brass][COLOR:6:6:1]
[VALUE:7]
[SPEC_HEAT:377]
[MELTING_POINT:11656]
[BOILING_POINT:14068]
[SOLID_DENSITY:8550]
[SEDIMENTARY]
[IGNEOUS_INTRUSIVE]
[IGNEOUS_EXTRUSIVE]
[METAMORPHIC]
[SOIL]
I would create layers of brass that can be farmed on?

[Captain Mayday]

No, you need to do it with stone types. Not to say you couldn't simply make brass a type of stone, though.

[Sensei]

Oh yeah... sadly, farmed soil does not yield stone and of course cannot be smelted.

...I guess it's really soft crystal. You can change the tileset to make soils look like crystals if you have to, I think. Or you can be hardcore and rely totally on mud farming and eating the crystal monsters (give them a very high cluster and popcap, so there's enough).

Eat by your sword!

[Poltifar]

This would make an awesome from-scratch mod. Remove all current creatures, and add new ones of crystalline/metallic varieties. Dwarfs might be made of iron, elves of pink crystal, humans of bronze, etc.

[ousire]

This would make an awesome from-scratch mod. Remove all current creatures, and add new ones of crystalline/metallic varieties. Dwarfs might be made of iron, elves of pink crystal, humans of bronze, etc.

rose quartz. oh my god. elves are so the perfect match for rose quartz. i love it! XD

someone must make this metal and crystal world. now. a community fort with this would be awsome.

[ItchyBeard]

I made a personal mod which is along the same lines except it includes just:
* Obsidian (replaces all rock types).
* Black sand (replaces all soil types).
* Metal veins + gems
* Tower-caps (replaces all trees).

I can't remember if I nuked all other above ground foliage or not (at work currently so can't check).

There's a few problems with the mod which makes it feel incomplete. As there are less vein types, there's a proportionally higher number of metals veins and gems. This means that there are metal veins and gems everywhere which gets really annoying.

After playing with the mod for a bit though I found that the world was a little boring. At least there's none of that evil blue rock. Nice for 'perfect' fortresses or OCD though.

Be warned - if you're making a similar mod, be very careful about the following things:
* Some gem types occur in specific veins. You will need to reassign these gem types somewhere else if you want to preserve them.
* Things can get really screwy if you fail to nuke your objects directory after changing terrain raws. We're talking psychedelic colored flashing landscapes here.

I'll see if I can find it and zip it up somewhere.

[ousire]

We're talking psychedelic colored flashing landscapes here.

sounds awsome

[ItchyBeard]

I made a personal mod which is along the same lines except it includes just:
* Obsidian (replaces all rock types).
* Black sand (replaces all soil types).
* Metal veins + gems
* Tower-caps (replaces all trees).

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I'll see if I can find it and zip it up somewhere.

Found and uploaded: http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=1263

Do with it what you will.

[forsaken1111]

I'll look at the mod a bit later this week. If anyone would like to collaborate, I think the metal world mod would be a lot of fun. We could have iron dwarves eating crystalline growths and raising herds of gemspiders to butcher.

Can you butcher a creature with an itemcorpse? Like, could we have some tame gemspiders which, when butchered, dropped a gemstone in the shop instead of skin/bones/meat/fat/chunks?

Also, Gemspider web clothing sounds fun.