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[RandomNumberGenerator]

Alright, well I got an idea for a fortress were everything is made from either metal or stone; no wood. However, I've run into a slight problem. It seems that beds can not be made from either stone or metal, and must be constructed out of wood. Same goes for axles and waterwheels/windmills. While I'm at it, lets make mechanisms from metal as well. I have some modding experience, but I have never modded Dwarf Fortress before, so I have a two questions:

1) What files do I need to modify to enable these new metal objects?
2) Would this break my current save games?

[Simmura McCrea]

reaction_standard.txt

And if you modify the existing reactions, no.

[Granite26]

I think that metal mechanisms is not something you can do?

However, you may be able to mod 'ironwood', that is, make a log out of iron that counts as wood

[Simmura McCrea]

Code: [Select]

[REACTION:GOLD_MECHS]
[NAME:smelt gold mechanisms]
[SMELTER]
[PRODUCT:100:1:TRAPPARTS:NO_SUBTYPE:METAL:GOLD]
Replace gold with whatever material you wish.

[RandomNumberGenerator]

Hmm... reaction_standard.txt only seems to contain reactions for forming metal bars, coke, and wafers. No furniture. Am I missing something?

[Sutremaine]

Every item in the game uses the same four-part ID system (as you can see if you open a saved embark profile) and there isn't any code to tell the game which IDs are smeltable and which aren't, so furniture is as valid a reaction product as bars of metal.

As a slightly different and more realistic example, there are no edible dyes in the game and no vial-extract crops that can be grown. That doesn't mean the game can't do it, just that it doesn't.

[RandomNumberGenerator]

Every item in the game uses the same four-part ID system (as you can see if you open a saved embark profile) and there isn't any code to tell the game which IDs are smeltable and which aren't, so furniture is as valid a reaction product as bars of metal.

As a slightly different and more realistic example, there are no edible dyes in the game and no vial-extract crops that can be grown. That doesn't mean the game can't do it, just that it doesn't.

Good to know. I'm still clueless on how to make metal beds though.

[Sutremaine]

[PRODUCT:100:1:BED:NO_SUBTYPE:METAL:[whatever]]

[Grimlocke]

I think that metal mechanisms is not something you can do?

However, you may be able to mod 'ironwood', that is, make a log out of iron that counts as wood

You can make metal mechanisms at the forge from metal that has [ANY_USE]. Just open matgloss_metal and add [ANY_USE] to iron, or whatever you like. With iron you get magmasafe mechanisms. Pretty usefull.

Also, making metal logs doesnt seem to be possible. I tried with [PRODUCT:100:1:WOOD:NO_SUBTYPE:METAL:IRON] But that just created logs called 'wood', worth only 3, and weighting a massive huge lot. Attempts to make it out of bone, stone, cloth, cheese and elf tallow soap also failed.

I find that odd, as when I try to make metal ballista parts, it does ask for 'metal logs'. I guess its an unfinished part of the game.

[RandomNumberGenerator]

What files are things like cabinets and chairs defined in? It seems like it would be easier to mod it in there...

[Teldin]

What files are things like cabinets and chairs defined in? It seems like it would be easier to mod it in there...

Furniture is hardcoded, and cannot be modded.

[forsaken1111]

It seems like you could simplify this if you're willing to gen a new world.

Make a new wood type called 'iron struts' or something, and a smelter reaction which takes 1 iron bar and outputs 5 iron struts. Since the struts would be counted as wood, because you told the game they are wood, you could make metal strut beds etc. Just a thought, and you can change the name obviously. (Ironwood, as someone else said? Metal supports? whatever)

As for mechanisms, can't you already make them out of the ore stone before it's smelted? They should have the same properties as the metal, though in some cases less value. All ore is, to my knowledge, also magma-safe.