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[Shaostoul]

Thanks for that Mephansteras.

[Haspen]

Ah, dammit.

Gotta change it then :3 Thanks guys. Look for more of my questions

Those new raws are still confusing me...

[darkflagrance]

Hey, if I remove [RESPONSIBILITY:UPGRADE_SQUAD_EQUIPMENT] from the Arsenal Dwarf, he won't randomly assign new crap to my army in the middle of a battle, right?

[Mephansteras]

Random thing I just discovered from Toady:

Items created in a workshop appear at the place where the dwarf does their work.

I learned this because was seeing if I could create a poison gas trap. I'd been hoping that the item would show up in the middle of the workshop, but no such luck. Still doable, but you'd have to either sacrifice the dwarf or make dwarves immune to whatever the poison was.

[darkflagrance]

Can I have a different creature description for each caste? For example, can I have male dwarves be "short and bearded creatures fond of industry" and females "short creatures who ponder jewels and the shapes of the stone"?

[Daywalkah]

Can I have a different creature description for each caste? For example, can I have male dwarves be "short and bearded creatures fond of industry" and females "short creatures who ponder jewels and the shapes of the stone"?

You can do this. I find it hilarious that female dwarves are described to have beards.

[Chuckster]

Hello I'm pretty new to modding DF and having trouble with breath attacks for a creature.
So I have a material template and the token assigned in the creature, but every time I test it in the arena it just shoots a solid glob that passes through every hit.

Do I have to actually set a layer of that template for the creature to use?

Here's the template name

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[MATERIAL_TEMPLATE:BULLET_BASIC_TEMPLATE]and the token I use for the creature

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[MATERIAL_BREATH_ATTACK:BULLET_BASIC_TEMPLATE:Bullet:SOLID_GLOB]

[Azgog]

Didn't feel like starting a new thread for this, so I'm asking this here.

I'm having a slight problem with my worldgen not placing custom creatures. They're in a file named creature_new. Does it have to be linked to something or what am I missing here? I put some stuff to pre-existing creature files earlier and some of it worked. Custom named creature files from mods seem to work though, so it's probably something i'm doing wrong rather than something up with the game.

[Knight Otu]

Didn't feel like starting a new thread for this, so I'm asking this here.

I'm having a slight problem with my worldgen not placing custom creatures. They're in a file named creature_new. Does it have to be linked to something or what am I missing here? I put some stuff to pre-existing creature files earlier and some of it worked. Custom named creature files from mods seem to work though, so it's probably something i'm doing wrong rather than something up with the game.

Did you remember to add

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creature_new

[OBJECT:CREATURE]to the top of the file?

Hello I'm pretty new to modding DF and having trouble with breath attacks for a creature.
So I have a material template and the token assigned in the creature, but every time I test it in the arena it just shoots a solid glob that passes through every hit.

Do I have to actually set a layer of that template for the creature to use?

Here's the template name

Code: [Select]

[MATERIAL_TEMPLATE:BULLET_BASIC_TEMPLATE]and the token I use for the creature

Code: [Select]

[MATERIAL_BREATH_ATTACK:BULLET_BASIC_TEMPLATE:Bullet:SOLID_GLOB]

Try the following instead of the current MATERIAL_BREATH_ATTACK:

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[USE_MATERIAL_TEMPLATE:BULLET:BULLET_BASIC_TEMPLATE]
[MATERIAL_BREATH_ATTACK:LOCAL_CREATURE_MAT:BULLET:SOLID_GLOB]I'm pretty sure material templates cannot be used as materials.

[Azgog]

Did you remember to add

Code: [Select]

creature_new

[OBJECT:CREATURE]to the top of the file?

Yep, that was it. Thanks man.

[Chuckster]

Try the following instead of the current MATERIAL_BREATH_ATTACK:

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[USE_MATERIAL_TEMPLATE:BULLET:BULLET_BASIC_TEMPLATE]
[MATERIAL_BREATH_ATTACK:LOCAL_CREATURE_MAT:BULLET:SOLID_GLOB]I'm pretty sure material templates cannot be used as materials.

Well now they are shooting their own body parts disguised as bullets. This just causes massive bruising and no actual bullet effects on impact...
Well I need to finish making them have metal skin, but isn't there a way to specify what material or item you want them to attack with?

[Azgog]

Worldgen still doesn't place some creatures from the file, any idea why that might be? The creatures that aren't placed are primarily evil, which might be one reason since I genned a world that doesn't have large good/evil areas (to prevent the creation of good/evil mountain ranges and oceans), so could it be just that there isn't enough room for them? Some of the creatures include swamp trolls and  mountain trolls which are basically identical to vanilla trolls except for different size and skin colour, so I don't think there's anything wrong with he code.

[Knight Otu]

Well now they are shooting their own body parts disguised as bullets. This just causes massive bruising and no actual bullet effects on impact...
Well I need to finish making them have metal skin, but isn't there a way to specify what material or item you want them to attack with?

They're not shooting body parts, just like a GCS doesn't inject its body parts. I suspect that your bullet material might not be strong enough, thanks to the existing material problems (partially because cloth appears to be too good at blocking damage). A solid glob attack with INORGANIC:IRON rather than LOCAL_CREATURE_MAT:BULLET works well enough against an unarmored character, bruises a character clad in rope reed, and is rather ineffectual against characters clad in iron.
Slade on the other hand, can be deadly even if blocked by cloth. Try increasing the density of the bullet material.

Worldgen still doesn't place some creatures from the file, any idea why that might be? The creatures that aren't placed are primarily evil, which might be one reason since I genned a world that doesn't have large good/evil areas (to prevent the creation of good/evil mountain ranges and oceans), so could it be just that there isn't enough room for them? Some of the creatures include swamp trolls and  mountain trolls which are basically identical to vanilla trolls except for different size and skin colour, so I don't think there's anything wrong with he code.

Yeah, if there aren't evil (enough?) regions of the needed biome, those creatures may end up not being placed, though sometimes, there are other factors at work. If they all worked when they were in a pre-existing file, this may simply be bad luck. Try increasing the evil parameters in worldgen for a test. The changed trolls, however, might have a different issue - if you changed their Biome away from subterranean chasm to a overground biome, you also need to either remove the underground depth tag, or, if you added the biome, change the depth tag to 0:3 .

[Chuckster]

Thanks, the bullet is dense enough since it's lead 
Just didn't notice the smashed bones, but I wish it would work like a "bolt" in the game.

Now if there's only a way to make the creature use the material from a certain part of it's body and when that part's lopped off then it would start using the attack.

[Nikov]

I am trying to make herbal soap, where golden salve replaces lye and creates high-value soap products. Unfortunately I don't know how to use the golden salve in the reaction. Extensive searching yields nothing and a thread for itself seems excessive.

[REACTION:MAKE_HERBAL_SOAP]
   [NAME:make herbal soap]
   [BUILDING:SOAP_MAKER:CUSTOM_H]
   [REAGENT:A:1:NONE:NONE:NONE:HERB_VALLEY:EXTRACT]
   [REAGENT:B:1:GLOB:NONE:NONE:NONE][REACTION_CLASS:TALLOW][UNROTTEN]
      [HAS_MATERIAL_REACTION_PRODUCT:SOAP_MAT]
   [PRODUCT:100:1:BAR:NONE:GET_MATERIAL_FROM_REAGENT:A:SOAP_MAT]

What am I doing wrong?