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[Rhenaya]

Other problems with .19:

Rhenaya's Thunderbluss: it's ammo indended to be made by specific reaction from a set of metals. Now it shows up in crafts workshop and can be made from bone or wood.

If the ammo is listed as permitted in the entity file, it will show up at the crafts shop.

Remove the listing from the entity file, and use custom reactions to make the ammo.  I don't think you can give custom reactions to the forge, so make a custom building, for example a "shot tower" and put the ammo-making reactions on that.

Removing the ammo from the entity won't prevent your dwarves from using it in fortress mode, although it will cause problems in adventure mode and for caravan guards if the Thunderbluss is listed and the ammo not.

i just updated this mod to use the new container tags for using actual powder in bags instead of blackpowder bars

also: if you read the included readme it states exactly what you need to copy into the entity file, if you do this with the weapon/ammo tag like with crossbows this mod wont work at all because it then handles the weapons just like crossbows without the whole blackpowder hassle, you will be able to make thunderblusses out of any weapon metal, bones or wood and same for the ammo. instead of the normal reactions.

allthough for npc civs (like humies or goblins) you need to add this so the npcs use it

[Thundercraft]

If this works, you would only have to add one or two lines of text to each creature, instead of all those other alterations you mentioned. And if doing this by hand sounds too tedious, you might consider searching for some sort of free "text parsing" utility to automatically insert the line(s) of code based on certain conditions. I haven't used one, myself...
But you could try Googling for "text parser download free" or variations thereof. Though the utility would have to be able to insert text or do a text Replace.

Recently, I decided I needed such a tool myself. And I found out the search terms I was looking for was "Batch Text Replace". And here are some free software I found in the results:

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TextCrawler 2.0 (freeware)
Handy File Tool 1.04
BatchReplacePro 2.43
Batch Replacer 3.9
SCR freeware search-and-replace
Multiple File Search and Replace 2.2
Quick Search and Replace 1.0.03010
MultiFind 1.51

Of these, it looks like TextCrawler might be the most powerful - at least from what I was able to glean from websites and documentation. It supports advanced regular expression searches using standard VBScript / JavaScript expressions and includes at least some documentation. So that's what I'll try.

Quick Search & Replace and BatchReplacePro both seem to support regular expressions, but the latter does not seem to have much documentation (unless it's built into a help system).

I could not tell if Multiple File Search & Replace supports regular expressions or not. But it says it's designed for website development and programming. And it has a rule-editing mode to specify certain search parameters.

Anyway, these tools should come in handy for modding a lot of raw files simultaneously. Or even just to search and replace a lot of stuff in a single file. But there is the matter of learning to use it (and, in the case of using regular expressions, learning the expressions).

[ammy55]

Anyway, these tools should come in handy for modding a lot of raw files simultaneously. Or even just to search and replace a lot of stuff in a single file. But there is the matter of learning to use it (and, in the case of using regular expressions, learning the expressions).

ya know notepad++ supports regex and has a find (and replace) in files feature

and on another note it would appear i cannot use "[NATURAL_SKILL:MINING:15]" to start with legendary miners in fortress mode or is there a workaround

[Sirdrake]

Anyway, these tools should come in handy for modding a lot of raw files simultaneously. Or even just to search and replace a lot of stuff in a single file. But there is the matter of learning to use it (and, in the case of using regular expressions, learning the expressions).

ya know notepad++ supports regex and has a find (and replace) in files feature

and on another note it would appear i cannot use "[NATURAL_SKILL:MINING:15]" to start with legendary miners in fortress mode or is there a workaround

You should be able to i do it all the time ^^ check you have spelt it right and is in right area

[Fullmoon]

i just updated this mod to use the new container tags for using actual powder in bags instead of blackpowder bars

also: if you read the included readme it states exactly what you need to copy into the entity file, if you do this with the weapon/ammo tag like with crossbows this mod wont work at all because it then handles the weapons just like crossbows without the whole blackpowder hassle, you will be able to make thunderblusses out of any weapon metal, bones or wood and same for the ammo. instead of the normal reactions.

allthough for npc civs (like humies or goblins) you need to add this so the npcs use it

Ok, will try. Any idea about burning remains?

[billybobfred]

Two little things.

[BODY:HUMANOID:2EYES:2EARS:NOSE:2LUNGS:HEART:GUTS:ORGANS:2HEAD_HORN:HUMANOID_JOINTS:THROAT:NECK:SPINE:BRAIN:SKULL:5FINGERS:5TOES:MOUTH:FACIAL_FEATURES:TEETH:RIBCAGE]

I took the dwarven BODY tag and added the bolded bit. That should just give them two horns on their head, and not do anything weird and unexpected, right? (in particular, it doesn't matter where I put 2HEAD_HORN within the BODY tag, does it?)

And if I want my modded creature to have multicolored blood, how would I do that? Hello there, castes! If I put [NOCTURNAL] in the main creature definition and [DIURNAL] into a caste, will they combine to bizarre effect or will the caste overwrite the main?

[D_E]

Shouldn't do anything weird.

Where you put body parts in the BODY tag determines where they are on the wound list.

You must put body parts after the part they attach to (for example, 2HEAD_HORN attaches to the head, so it must appear after the head in the BODY tag.  Dwarves' heads are declared as part of HUMANOID, so 2HEAD_HORN has to be somewhere after HUMANOID.  Like you have it).

[billybobfred]

If I give one of my castes AMPHIBIOUS, will that be sufficient to make them land- and sea-capable? Or will I have to give them swimming as a natural skill to avoid some kind of issues or another?

[3]

It won't make any difference either way - dwarf AI forces them to avoid water whenever possible (they consider it "dangerous terrain".

On a non-player civ it'd work, and they'd path correctly and such.

[ammy55]

You should be able to i do it all the time ^^ check you have spelt it right and is in right area

whats the right area i have it between [DIURNAL] & PROFESSION_NAME in creature_standard
http://pastebin.com/e2AP2Y7G natural skill tags start at line 274

[Knight Otu]

Natural skill and playable entities don't quite interact nicely. In adventure mode, I've found that not allocating any skill points to a natural skill allows the natural skill tag to act normally, but allocating skill points to it overwrites that value. The same may be true in fortress mode, but I admittedly haven't tested that myself.

[billybobfred]

I could be wrong, but I thought it was asking for raw experience values, which would mean you need 20000 for Legendary, or 29000 for Legendary+5. 15 would be just into Dabbling.

Are all your dorfs Dabbling in all their stuff? Or is it just mining that doesn't get to be Legendary?

[Knight Otu]

Nope, natural skill asks for skill level, not experience.

[Sirdrake]

You should be able to i do it all the time ^^ check you have spelt it right and is in right area

whats the right area i have it between [DIURNAL] & PROFESSION_NAME in creature_standard
http://pastebin.com/e2AP2Y7G natural skill tags start at line 274

Try under the CREATURE_SOLDIER_TILE:2

[ammy55]

can someone direct me to the corner of shame it seems i forgot to make a new world after changing the raws