Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

[Rumrusher]

Is it possible to limit noble positions by caste? Like, say, if somebody made a multi-racial (represented through caste) society, and had different leadership positions for each "race"? Like Human King, Dwarf King, Elf King, etc.?

Yes. Give the castes in question a [CREATURE_CLASS:blah] tag, and the position the according [ALLOWED_CLASS:blah] tag. So if you want an elf king in your civ, give the elf castes of your creature the [CREATURE_CLASS:ELF_CASTE], and give the elf king position the [ALLOWED_CLASS:ELF_CASTE] token, and so forth with the other castes and positions. It's probably not necessary to give the creature class a different name from the creature/caste, but that should keep you on the safe side. Another caveat is that Dwarf Mode nobles/appointments seem to ignore such restrictions, whether by intent or by bug.

But yes, castes are not genetic.

so all this does is filter the chances of people being noble or does this make every one from that caste a noble?

[Knight Otu]

It only filters. I don't think it's possible to have every creature of a certain caste be a noble.

[Internet Kraken]

I was wondering, what is the exact creature tag that makes Dwarves consider a creature to be to intelligent to slaughter? I was thinking of creating a very valuable (but very rare) merperson, but I want my Dwarves to actually be able to butcher it.

[3]

Unless it's changed since 40d, it'll be CAN_SPEAK. Note that if you're not averse to changing the dwarf ethics, you can just swap the UNTHINKABLE under EAT_SAPIENT_KILL and EAT_SAPIENT_OTHER in the dwarf entity entry with ACCEPTABLE to allow sentient butchery on the whole.

(I presume you realise that merpeople already exist)

[Internet Kraken]

Unless it's changed since 40d, it'll be CAN_SPEAK. Note that if you're not averse to changing the dwarf ethics, you can just swap the UNTHINKABLE under EAT_SAPIENT_KILL and EAT_SAPIENT_OTHER in the dwarf entity entry with ACCEPTABLE to allow sentient butchery on the whole.

(I presume you realise that merpeople already exist)

Yeah (though they're restricted to good biomes, which is annoying). Thanks for the info. Also, according to the wiki all harpies are female. I thought if a species was only one gender, they couldn't reproduce and would die off. Did this change at some point?

[3]

It's not quite true that they'll die off - of course, if a race can't reproduce all of its members are going to die eventually, but harpies have no MAXAGE (so they'll never pass to time), and they're generated in groups of ten to twenty, so some of them are likely going to survive. One of my own (genderless, immortal) creatures has FREQUENCY:20 and POPULATION_NUMBER:1:1, and it's still common enough to show up on fortress maps from time to time.

[darkflagrance]

I have a question and a suggest. Not in that order.

Suggestion: Could we (read:you <3) compile a list of questions/answers in the first post? Or somewhere else and link to it in the first post? No offense, but searching 40 pages for the answer to a question seems like more work than just asking the question again on the last page.

Question: If I set the mental/physical/personality attributes on the creature level, will placing them a second time at the caste level overwrite the creature level specification, or do I have to set the whole gamut of options for each caste individually?

For example, in psuedo code with uninteresting bits left out

Code: [Select]

[creature:kobold]
[intelligent]
[Body setup]
[General attribute setups for the race]

[CASTE:AWESOME_KOBOLD]
[LIKES_FIGHTING]
[Physical Attribute:Awesomeness:Over 9000]

[CASTE:KOBOLD_SHAMAN]
[FLEE_QUICK]
[Mental Attribute:Intuition:Really High]

My hunch is that this should work, but lately my hunches have been off. I'm sure I saw an example of using caste-level tags to override general creature tags in the Genesis mod.

[astronom]

how to create an rock anvil reaction in mason workshop?

[Internet Kraken]

So I just made a new creature, and it is functional. However I noticed that in most fights it's shell would often be torn off or smashed before the rest of the body is damaged. Ideally, the creature's shell should be the toughest part of its body, so it should not be so easily severed or smashed. Is there any way to make it tougher? I still don't know much about modding so I'm not sure.

[3]

Make it out of a different material? Other than that, there really isn't anything you can do.

[drayath]

A question on weapon modding:

I'm trying to increase the variance of weapons (particularly ammo) vs armor.

You can specify multiple damages on a weapon/ammo, i.e:

[ATTACK:EDGE:25000:6000:hack:hacks:NO_SUB:1250]
[ATTACK:BLUNT:20000:6000:slap:slaps:flat:1250]
[ATTACK:BLUNT:1000:1000:strike:strikes:pommel:1000]

Now in the combat log it will use the descriptive term for one of these (e.g. x hacks y), but does anyone know:

a) For definite does it just use one of the damage types, or use all of them and just pick one name to use it as?
b) Does it just random pick one of the entries for each blow or are they weighed in some way by any of the values?

Aim is to do something like this with xbow bolts (values to be worked on).
[ATTACK:EDGE:3:1000:penetrate:penetrates:NO_SUB:1500]  critical
[ATTACK:EDGE:6:1000:stab:stabs:NO_SUB:1000]
[ATTACK:EDGE:7:1000:stab:stabs:NO_SUB:1000]
[ATTACK:EDGE:8:1000:stab:stabs:NO_SUB:1000]
[ATTACK:EDGE:9:1000:stab:stabs:NO_SUB:1000]
[ATTACK:EDGE:20:2500:slice:slices:NO_SUB:750] glancing blow, but can remove slightly larger body parts

[Mephansteras]

As far as I can tell, it randomly picks one of the attacks. They aren't weighted, except that if there is an EDGE attack it will do that most of the time instead of a BLUNT attack.

I'd say try it, and just put a different description next to each of your 'stab' attacks to see how often it does each one and compare that to how well it does.

[Greiger]

I was under the impression that ranged ammo only used the descriptive phrases (like 'sticks' and 'stabs') when the bolts themselves are used as a melee weapon.

Of course if I just wasn't paying good enough attention during archer raids, and those do indeed have an effect on the combat text I wouldn't complain.

[drayath]

Just come to update with the same info. None of the attacks under ammo seem to be taken into account when ammo is used in ranged attacks.

xbow bolts in hand to hand combat are lethal. Act as turbo-charge spears completely ignoring armour.

Not sure ranged combat is working correcly. Even reducing force & velocity of xbox by a 1/3 not much of a change on armour penetration (iron vs steel, or iron vs iron) even ignoring hits to uncovered locations and Iron bolt to the head (vs steel helm+cap) is still a 50% kill chance.

[Internet Kraken]

Is there any creature tag that causes a creature to completely ignore Dwarves unless they attack them?