I created a new magma creature (a slightly nerfed GCS, looking for an easier way to get a silk provider, and find normal cave spiders HIGHLY ANNOYING), but it won't spawn.
I genned a new world, checked magma in a few spots... ok, imps. I'll fix THAT: remove the biome flag from imps. OK, now check a few spots... firemen/magma men... ok, I'll fix THAT, too: remove biome flag from firemen, magmamen. Check a few spots... NO magma creatures at all?!?
I took the GCS creature, added the relevant tags from the fire imp (including the body temp stuff, so it shouldn't die or have its skin catch fire or anything). I've tried all kinds of tag combinations... about the only thing I haven't tried to swapping the names of the creatures (IMP_FIRE and SPIDER_MAGMA - you know, the names the game cares about) to see if the it's just hardcoded or something, and I'll probably try that tonight.
Has anyone else been able to make new creatures that will actually be placed in magma like Fire Imps?
Other problem: I had a bunch of new reactions for several things, all added to reaction_standard.txt, and everything was working fine, but I was thinking about adding some more, so I split the file, placing all the generic stone smelt reactions (very small chance of getting any of the metals that can appear in a stone in large clusters or veins) and the "dummy" reaction (make all stones economic) in reaction_stone.txt. I gen a new world, and.... none of the reactions in that file appear. hmm...
Yes, it has OBJECT:REACTION at the top - I created it by copying reaction_standard.txt, then deleting out all the stuff I didn't want from reaction_standard in the new file and deleting out all the stuff in the new file from reaction_standard. I downloaded Dig Deeper to see how they did it, so I tried renaming the file to reaction_standard_extended (like Dig Deeper), but that still doesn't work (yes, I genned another world to see).
?!? What's going on with THAT?!?
(For now, I can just put it all back in the same file, but it's annoying, and several people have said that there's a cap on how many reactions will work in one file.)