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[GregHayes]

Blizzard Men: Not actually made of ice. So I'm not sure it's possible to make anything out of water. Magma Men, however, are made of magma.

[Zangi]

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[CREATURE:CAVE_FISH_MAN]
[COPY_TAGS_FROM:FISH_CAVE]
[APPLY_CREATURE_VARIATION:ANIMAL_PERSON]
[CV_REMOVE_TAG:AQUATIC]
[CV_ADD_TAG:AMPHIBIOUS]
[APPLY_CURRENT_CREATURE_VARIATION]
[GO_TO_TAG:BODY]
[CV_REMOVE_TAG:BODY]
[APPLY_CURRENT_CREATURE_VARIATION]
[BODY:HUMANOID:SIDE_FINS:DORSAL_FIN:TAIL:HEART:GUTS:ORGANS:NECK:SPINE:BRAIN:SKULL:MOUTH:RIBCAGE]
[GO_TO_END]
[SELECT_CASTE:MALE]
[CASTE_NAME:cave fish man:cave fish men:cave fish man]
[SELECT_CASTE:FEMALE]
[CASTE_NAME:cave fish woman:cave fish women:cave fish woman]
[GO_TO_START]
[NAME:cave fish man:cave fish men:cave fish man]
[DESCRIPTION:A humanoid creature with the head of a blind cave fish.  They live in colonies in watery regions far underground.]
[POPULATION_NUMBER:30:50]
[CLUSTER_NUMBER:5:10]
[MAXAGE:60:80]
[CREATURE_TILE:'f']
[COLOR:7:0:1]
[EXTRAVISION]

Interesting piece of code...  So I believe I'll be screwing around with the animal kingdom and see how if a surface world would work...

[Untelligent]

Anyone figure out how to make a creature out of glass (or use glass in the smelter)? It seems to be absent from the material templates and inorganic raws.

[GregHayes]

So I'm trying to create some fascimile of water so that I can have an ice-based breath attack, but the best I can do is a white substance that freezes at room temperature:

EDIT: Oh, right, I can just add water's melting and boiling points. Duh.

[Sir Reginald Bathwater]

Can someone help me out with breath weapons? I'm trying to make creatures which shoot fireballs of varying strength and explosiveness for a DOOM based creature mod. I currently have no idea what I am doing, and have created an Imp, which does not yet have a fire attack.

[Untelligent]

Can someone help me out with breath weapons? I'm trying to make creatures which shoot fireballs of varying strength and explosiveness for a DOOM based creature mod. I currently have no idea what I am doing, and have created an Imp, which does not yet have a fire attack.

You can't alter the "explosiveness" of material breaths. You probably can't alter the "strength," either, depending on what you mean. The standard [FIREBREATH] and [DRAGONFIREBREATH] still work, though.

[Sir Reginald Bathwater]

Ah, I meant having them with different temperatures, so that some burn things more when the hit. Explosiveness as in spreading fire around.

Also, it seems that you can't give seperate castes different tiles.

[Untelligent]

I think convection still doesn't convect very well in DF, so making something hotter wouldn't necessarily set more things on fire (aside from setting things on fire that have a higher ignite point). Your best bet is probably to stick with the standard firebreaths for now, though I suppose you could have creatures that could either shoot a superhot glob or emit puffs of superhot gas.


As for my own mod, I started porting another creature into DF today. The first time I got the Ninety-Nine Bottles of Beer On a Golem into the arena without getting the errorlog mad or without the golem falling over right away, instead of shooting beer at me it shot chunks of eye tissue. Every turn. After a while the entire south half of the arena ring was covered in eyeballs. It was bizarre. Now it's shooting chunks of frozen beer, despite me specifying LIQUID_GLOB, but it's still progress.

[LordHavoc]

I've successfully created a new reaction to alchemize lead into titanium, as well as the shop where the reaction takes place, and, of course, the product: titanium.

The problem is that the reaction will show up on, and be performed if assigned from, the job manager screen, but that I can not seem to have it performed on the shop's job assignment menu (which is blank).

Does anyone see any obvious problems in my reaction code:

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[REACTION:ALCH_TI_PB]
[NAME:alchemize titanium from lead]
[BUILDING:ALCHEMISTS_LAB:CUSTOM_T]
[REAGENT:A:150:BAR:NO_SUBTYPE:METAL:LEAD]
[REAGENT:B:1:MEAT:NONE:CREATURE_MAT:GIANT_OLM:LIVER][UNROTTEN]
[PRODUCT:100:1:BAR:NO_SUBTYPE:METAL:TITANIUM]
[SKILL:ALCHEMY]

Add:
[PERMITTED_BUILDING:ALCHEMISTS_LAB]
and
[PERMITTED_REACTION:ALCH_TI_PB]

to the entity_default.txt under the [ENTITY:MOUNTAIN] section

[Captain Mayday]

I'd like to invite people to join us in #dfmodding on irc.newnet.net

It's a lot easier to make progress in understanding this stuff in realtime, and we've already had some rather nice (read: ungodly) success stories.

[Lofn]

I can't seem to connect to newnet, I keep getting told I can't connect to the server.  esper.net and sorcery.net both work fine.

[Untelligent]

I'd like to invite people to join us in #dfmodding on irc.newnet.net

I tried to go to that irc.newnet.net place, but all I got was a page with "It Works!" in large bolded text after loading for a long time.

[Rumrusher]

is there a raw change that can make killing friendly units okay.
or do I need to wait for a utility that grants that right to off nobles.

[Untelligent]

I decided to change the Ninety-Nine Bottles of Beer on a Golem's beer-shooting attack to be a trailing vapor flow instead of a liquid glob for now. After I slew it I wandered around the arena ring for awhile and painted the whole thing green. Maybe I'll turn down the nausea severity.

I don't think you can kill your own units yet.

[Dasleah]

For those of you who are having trouble connecting to the IRC, just click here to connect with Mibbit.

Right now I'm having issues with using a creature variation to apply appearance-based tags. It seems to only bother applying the new fur / skin / eye colours to the new creature's left eye and and rear right foot's fourth toe.

Hurm.