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[SirHoneyBadger]

Thrin: You may be right about that...

What I stated was as it appeared in my Fortress, but it's entirely possible that the default "profession" for a given dwarf is simply their highest applicable skill. I'll run a few tests this weekend to confirm that.



By the way, please feel free to PM me concerning this thread/modding in general--especially if you've got any questions that noone else has answered yet.

Again, I can't guarantee that I'll have answers, but I will try to find them. Please keep in mind that I possibly might be more slow and/or less accurate, than other sources of information.

[Max White]

Hello folks!
So now that I think I have the habit of selecting and creating castes, I'm wondering...

Can you somehow select all children as a caste?

[Max White]

BEST THING EVER!
My lion men built a temple in a climate that was too hot for water, so it all evaporated and what was left looked very similar to a coliseum. But that's not the best part. There were several dead body at the bottom and the tribe leader was the only one left walking around in there carrying a wooden short sword.

They built a coliseum and the tribe leader kicked ass!

Yes, I know it was all just coincidence, but what a coincidence! But it brings me to my next point. Why do my civilizations have dead bodies in there unit list, and not others? Its annoying when the tribe leader dies because they don't get a new one!

[Hakar]

i did the same, "make" a fur template and it works too. i don't know, my version "feels" better to me.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

[TISSUE_TEMPLATE:FUR_TEMPLATE]
   [TISSUE_NAME:fur:NP]
   [TISSUE_MATERIAL:LOCAL_CREATURE_MAT:HAIR]
   [THICKENS_ON_STRENGTH]
   [RELATIVE_THICKNESS:1]
   [SUBORDINATE_TO_TISSUE:SKIN]
   [COSMETIC]
   [SCARS]
   [INSULATION:200]
   [TISSUE_SHAPE:STRANDS]

fur is designed for insulation so i doubled instead of 1.5 like you did. also sorta makes sense that stronger animals have thicker stronger fur so added the tag that muscles use but with base thickness of normal hair and skin. yes fur scars, notice how some animals that recovered from a serous gash or something have a pissing patch of fur where the skin also scar'ed?

Ooh that's nice. Mind if I use it for my gnolls?

[soul4hdwn]

i did the same, "make" a fur template and it works too. i don't know, my version "feels" better to me.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

[TISSUE_TEMPLATE:FUR_TEMPLATE]
   [TISSUE_NAME:fur:NP]
   [TISSUE_MATERIAL:LOCAL_CREATURE_MAT:HAIR]
   [THICKENS_ON_STRENGTH]
   [RELATIVE_THICKNESS:1]
   [SUBORDINATE_TO_TISSUE:SKIN]
   [COSMETIC]
   [SCARS]
   [INSULATION:200]
   [TISSUE_SHAPE:STRANDS]

fur is designed for insulation so i doubled instead of 1.5 like you did. also sorta makes sense that stronger animals have thicker stronger fur so added the tag that muscles use but with base thickness of normal hair and skin. yes fur scars, notice how some animals that recovered from a serous gash or something have a pissing patch of fur where the skin also scar'ed?

Ooh that's nice. Mind if I use it for my gnolls?

sure! but i removed [scars] due to a logic understanding from a similar person's version (person i quoted but i had mine for awhile, 2 weeks before this post).

make sure when adding tot he creature you put [USE_TISSUE_TEMPLATE:FUR:FUR_TEMPLATE] after the
   [BODY_DETAIL_PLAN:STANDARD_TISSUES]
and replace
   [BODY_DETAIL_PLAN:BODY_HAIR_TISSUE_LAYERS:HAIR] with
   [BODY_DETAIL_PLAN:BODY_HAIR_TISSUE_LAYERS:FUR]
this second is what actually "sets" but the first tag lets the tissue be used for the specific creature file section.

[Max White]

make sure when adding tot he creature you put [USE_TISSUE_TEMPLATE:FUR:FUR_TEMPLATE] after the
   [BODY_DETAIL_PLAN:STANDARD_TISSUES]
and replace
   [BODY_DETAIL_PLAN:BODY_HAIR_TISSUE_LAYERS:HAIR] with
   [BODY_DETAIL_PLAN:BODY_HAIR_TISSUE_LAYERS:FUR]
this second is what actually "sets" but the first tag lets the tissue be used for the specific creature file section.

Translation:
The first tag tells the creature what 'fur' is made out of.
The second tells it where 'fur' goes.

[Mohreb el Yasim]

Hi modders
i have a question about the tag [LAYER_LINKED], i tried to make civs with that tag to be the only [CIV_CONTROLLABLE] but it don't seems to generate a world with them (if i put playable race required just reject if i don't i get no fortress mode playable)
it seems for me that they don't get nerated properly ... anyone has arrived to make a LAYER_LINKED controllable civ?

[DalGren]

Hello everyone.
I am trying to mod a special type of harpy, with bronze talons. But I can't seem to figure out how to replace talons or replace their material with bronze. Anyone else tried this?
(Note: Bronze colossus is not a good example, all metal men in DF are "entire chunks of metal with human shape" so they don't tell how to replace, for example, skin for metal or nails for metal)

[bobsnewaddress]

I've been messing around with the Weapon Files for entities and tried to build an Atlatl, a Ranged Weapon that uses the Throwing skill rather than Crossbow skill. I tried to test it in Fortress Mode after some successful arena tests, but found that for some reason my Military won't use throwing weapons.

Is this supposed to happen in 2010? I thought that Toady said that Dwarves (and other player controlled entities) would no longer be restricted to just the normal Crossbow/Sword/Axe, etc. weapon choices that they had back in 40d.

[Intelligent Shade of Blue]

Did you make sure to add it to their entity file?

[bobsnewaddress]

Did you make sure to add it to their entity file?

Yep, I can even buy the Atlatl and its Javelin ammo on the embark screen, but I can't get anyone to use them. They tested out fine in Arena mode (perhaps too well since one was able to kill an Elephant in one shot), but they don't seem to work in Fortress mode.

[Acanthus117]

Hey, I have a question. In the gender files, one can give different castes of a creature different preferences for hairstyles. I just have one question. Can one put multiple tags of the descriptor, like BRAIDED and PONY_TAIL, so as to limit the kinds of hairstyles a certain caste may have?

[Hugo_The_Dwarf]

so far the military are really F**ked up I can't even get my dwarfs to use crossbows, if anyone knows how to set it up properly please tell, as much as I enjoy drunk axe wielding dwarfs I still like to have rangers

[SirHoneyBadger]

Hey, I have a question. In the gender files, one can give different castes of a creature different preferences for hairstyles. I just have one question. Can one put multiple tags of the descriptor, like BRAIDED and PONY_TAIL, so as to limit the kinds of hairstyles a certain caste may have?

I'll work on trying to find this out.

Hugo_The_Dwarf: I'm trying to figure that out, myself. So far, I haven't even gotten them to put on armour...

[Hugo_The_Dwarf]

Hugo_The_Dwarf: I'm trying to figure that out, myself. So far, I haven't even gotten them to put on armour...

I've gotten armor and melee weapons working, after awhile you get the arsonal dwarf, you need him for soldiers to even use anything (unless there is no option for assiging a arsonal dwarf then squads grab whatever they like "that is a option to them at least") after you get a arsonal dwarf or AD then you can acually assign a specifc weapon or armor to each soldier (such as a cloak with Urist McHero sown into for Urist McHero) AD needs manager skill... but I don't understand why I can't have archers

Edit: on another note how does

Code: [Select]

[SELECT_TISSUE_LAYER:ALL]
[TL_HEALING_RATE:1]
 
work does this mean it has almost instant healing for all tissues? does that count for bones as well? (found on Hydra in raws)