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[stuntaneous]

is it possible to create armour (or clothing) that would protect against heat, namely to get ya little dwarves walking around in magma?

if not, i'd love to get a quick all-round view on the limitations of editing and creating raws. better to cut my dreams down nice n early before i get too excited 

[Lancensis]

Well, I think the best you can do is just make the armour out of magmasafe materials, and make it as damage resistant as you can. It's possible it'll protect the dwarf a small amount. A fully HFS-clad dwarf was observed charging an enemy across a few tiles of lava in The Nameless Fortress and was undamaged, so I guess magma is possible to resist. Armour doesn't impart any specific heat resistance to the dwarf however. Just general damage protection.

As for what you can and can't do with the raws? Hmmmmmm. Well, you can't use extracts in reactions, can't breathe fire in adventure mode, and can't smelt beer out of rock. You can, however smelt vermin, add as many new animals, vegetables and minerals as you like, have them burst into flame at whatever temperature you want, and add dirty words in the fanciful creatures folder so that your dwarves will occasionally like [CENSORED] for their [ALSO CENSORED].

[hughesdylan]

Not to mention completly change how the geology of the world works, create whatever smelter reactions you want, add new weapons, metals, armor.. Honestly DF has a really complex and interesting modding system. Im greatly enjoying it.

[Deon]

It's the only fantasy game I know which is easy to be turned into Fallout/wasteland or zombieland game.

[Lancensis]

Or The Night Lands, if you're feeling adventurous

[stuntaneous]

haha, ah man. awesome, thanks a lot. there's hope yet, i suppose i could dilute the effect of magma by bumping up the amount of damage the little guys can take and increasing the damage other creatures do respectively.

im also really impressed with the [fanciful] idea, haha. i've already gone overboard with the prefstring's in an effort to spruce up their colourful language 

cheers.

[immolo]

haha, ah man. awesome, thanks a lot. there's hope yet, i suppose i could dilute the effect of magma by bumping up the amount of damage the little guys can take and increasing the damage other creatures do respectively.

im also really impressed with the [fanciful] idea, haha. i've already gone overboard with the prefstring's in an effort to spruce up their colourful language 

cheers.

You could also edit the Dwarves creature entry and add in [HEATDAM_POINT: 25000].

[i2amroy]

If I remember correctly the [COVERAGE:xx] tag is what defines how well clothing protects creatures from temperature and contaminants. If you bumped this to insane levels, you might make clothing that could protect them rather well from the effects of magma.