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[rephikul]

So, say, would making one here be possible in theory, a creature with six arms and a sword in each?

Yes, and yes.
[/quote]I'm interested. How?

[Thundercraft]

I was thinking Mariliths, or Nagas as they are known in Heroes of Might and Magic... lower half of a snake, so they're gastropods (oh, right, is that possible?), upper half is a six-armed humanoid. So, say, would making one here be possible in theory, a creature with six arms and a sword in each?

The Direforged Mod adds several new civilizations, including "Ekodu: Six-armed serpentine humanoids with eight eyes."

[3]

I'm interested. How?

Scratch that, I'm being an idiot today.

[gauld]

nevermind my problem, the reason why the creatures weren't attacking with their spikes was because the spikes i gave them didn't have the correct tissues, so the game didn't spawn them correctly.  Weird that this didn't come up in the error log.

[G D]

It looks like MAX_SITE_POP_NUMBER dont have any effect in new DF. Is there any way to control population of sites and whole civ?
Actually i want to create civ that will be conqured in worldgen. Then some of the civ members that taken as prisoners will not accept slavery (due to [ETHIC:SLAVERY:UNTHINKABLE]) and escape from prison to rebuild their civ. (This worked in 40d)

But in 31. i dont know how to do this. Well escaping thing mostly works but i cant destroy their home civ while they in prison, so i cant test rebuilding part.

[Minnakht]

Oh. I see. Well... I think I'll try learning all this modding stuff from the ground up using the Wiki, then try to make something...
...in a long time, or never at all...
...four-armed, three-fingered, Protoss-legged short tail-owning probably not humanoids any longer made of obsidian and molten stone parts, dropping obsidian coins as a corpse, and with four castes, of craftsmen, nobles, hunters and warriors...

...oh, right. I've heard there is a [GRASP] tag, which you can add to body parts to make them able to hold items and be used for punching. So, if I put the tag on every single part of some creature, but also somehow made it unable to use weapons or shields, then... would I get a walking flurry of punches?

...you know what, that humanoid project is far too ambitious. Maybe as a starter I'll try making, I don't know, some modification to an existing creature, like making a purple cow with sixty-three eyes...
...or a gelatinous cube. With a single organ floating in it to control the movement to make it more killable, and some... floating ribs *ba-dum tsssh*

...whoa, the raws of a human look complicated enough...
...actually, you know, scratch the complicated idea up there, we have magma men and that's enough, even if those things wouldn't have FIXEDTEMP or such.

...is there a possibility of making things hatch from eggs yet?

[rephikul]

...is there a possibility of making things hatch from eggs yet?

you can make the baby called egg but there's probably no way to make the having a different anatomy from their adult form

[Lofn]

Eggs in some form are on the cards for the next release.

[Tcei]

So, say, would making one here be possible in theory, a creature with six arms and a sword in each?

Yes, and yes.

Wielding more than one weapon at once is impossible regardless of the number of arms, but you'll be able to make something that can use more that one shield at a time (this'll occur regardless of whether you want it to or not, which tends to result in multi-limbed civvers becoming quite overpowered).

Thanks! After I added and fixed those tags he Queens venom started working properly.  Now on to the next phase

[D_E]

How do I put temp on a bolt for a crossbow

The closest you can come is to put a temp on a metal and only allow ammo to be made from that metal. 

The trouble is that the dwarves won't be able to safely handle said metal, unless the temp is too cool to do any damage.  Protective gear made from fixed temp materials of a safe temperature can help, but... it would be hard to coordinate.

Invaders could be given ammos with a fixed temp and a heatdam point AND ignite point two U or so BELOW that point (so the ammo will slowly take heat damage and degrade, so you don't clutter the map with discarded, untouchable ammo.

[Vattic]

You could also modify the dwarf tissues so they can handle higher temperatures.

[gauld]

i'd like to make a material that explodes on contact.  basically the creatures that have this material for hide would die instantly after being hit, and everything in a small radius would be damaged as well.

is this possible?  is there a way to code explosions?

[D_E]

Not directly,

But you have a couple of indirect options.

1)  You can give a creature burning hot vapor for blood.  If you don't make the creature resistant to high temperatures, it will melt itself after being injured the first time.  Change the blood tags to something like this:

Code: [Select]

[USE_MATERIAL_TEMPLATE:BLOOD:METAL_TEMPLATE]
[BLOOD:LOCAL_CREATURE_MAT:BLOOD:GAS]
2)  You can also cause creature's corpses to vaporize in high-temperature clouds.  I forget exactally how to do this, but I believe you can find some examples in darkflagrance's Fortress Defense mod.

[TolyK]

I suddenly want to make a starcraft mod. *runs off*

[gauld]

Not directly,

But you have a couple of indirect options.

1)  You can give a creature burning hot vapor for blood.  If you don't make the creature resistant to high temperatures, it will melt itself after being injured the first time.  Change the blood tags to something like this:

Code: [Select]

[USE_MATERIAL_TEMPLATE:BLOOD:METAL_TEMPLATE]
[BLOOD:LOCAL_CREATURE_MAT:BLOOD:GAS]
2)  You can also cause creature's corpses to vaporize in high-temperature clouds.  I forget exactally how to do this, but I believe you can find some examples in darkflagrance's Fortress Defense mod.

so their blood would damage them, eh?

...is there any way to make this blood give a poison effect that mimics explosive damage?  been trying to add a syndrom to the material_template file but its not working...