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[TeDDD]

Don't ask me why, but for some reason I though of making a Dwarven golf course.  Dead easy, right?  Channel a hole, make some water hazards, clear some grass for a sand trap... ah! a problem: the green and the rough.  How could I differentiate them using existing ingame stuff?  That got me thinking: what if you could landscape?  Plant grasses and shrubs where you wished to achieve the perfect front lawn [on which you kill Goblins].

What would be involved, though?  It would require the ability to plant and grow a variety of grasses, flowers, bushes, and trees; and-- here's the important part-- prevent your Dwarfs from harvesting them and prevent them from wilting.  Sure, you could just forbid the plants once they grew, but that seems... inelegant.

Thoughts?  Would it be possible to mod something like this in DF2010?

[Ramirez]

Best way I could think of doing this is to create a set of custom stone-like entries with appropriate colours and boulder symbols (complete without most of the uses of stones), creating them via some sort of reaction and then distributing them by placing stockpiles and forbidding them. You could also create a custom horticulture workshop and make the reactions create them by using regular plants as reagents. I haven't poked around too much in the plant raws to see if you can make a less hacky way of doing it though, so someone else may be able to help you more.

[TeDDD]

I was hoping for less of a visual element and more of an actual-plants thing, using farm plots.  Has the ability to 'grow' trees been achieved, yet?

[ArPharazon]

Hah, clearly the dwarvenly solution is *<<=green glass quarry bush statue=>>*.

[TeDDD]

Hah, clearly the dwarvenly solution is *<<=green glass quarry bush statue=>>*.

...that's brilliant.  Then I could just make an indoor 'garden' of beautiful and fragile crafted plants.  I think that would be both cooler and easier to do.

[TeDDD]

Hm.

Are custom pieces of furniture still a no-go?

edit: is it possible to make a 1x1 custom workshop, or is it hardcoded at 3x3?

[Lazureus]

Hm.

Are custom pieces of furniture still a no-go?

edit: is it possible to make a 1x1 custom workshop, or is it hardcoded at 3x3?

custom workshops can be any size you want them to be.. there area a few 1x1 and even 2x1 shops created allready

[TeDDD]

So, in theory, I could make custom workshops that require Green Glass Blocks in their construction; can be passable in the case of shrubs and impassable in the case of trees; and make use of the appropriate icons and colour?

[Deon]

Exactly.

Examples from the upcoming 1.2 of my mod:

Poor nords . Why did you kill him.

Anyway, I lied that I don't have a time today to develop the mod. Well I am tight on time, but I want to do it .

I plan to add more "cosmetical" workshops. Right now I have a gaming board (requires 4 chairs and a new toy "'Human Fortress' tabletob game"), a chess table (requires 2 tables and a new toy "chessboard"), rockball (which actually trains throwing, it depicts a game where a dwarf tries to throw a boulder into an urn), gateball (a huge field, looks like a football field; because we cannot make group reactions which require a few dwarves yet there's no possibility for matches, but maybe someone wants a gaming field in their fortress for cosmetic reasons) and an obstacle course (actually trains dodging).

Gaming table:


Chess table:


Rockball:


Gateball:


Obstacle course:


I accept any suggestions on workshops for 1.2. Also I will use Crematorium by Lazureus.


A garden:

[TeDDD]

Very cool!  Am I to understand, then, that the 'garden' is actually one unit, a 5x5 custom workshop?

[Deon]

Yeah, to train concentration . A meditation workshop.

[TeDDD]

Is there sometime I need to do for a custom workshop to appear on the build list?

[Deon]

[PERMITTED_BUILDING:*] in the entity file.

Same with reactions.
[PERMITTED_REACTION:*]

Also you need to generate a new world.

[TeDDD]

Ah, figured it was something like that.  Thanks again.  I might as well ask: what are the settings for color?  There's 5 arguments in your buildings, and maybe 8 arguments in the soap shop...

edit: how drole.  A Dwarf apparently cannot construct a 1x1 workshop if it is a blocked tile once done

[Lazureus]

Ah, figured it was something like that.  Thanks again.  I might as well ask: what are the settings for color?  There's 5 arguments in your buildings, and maybe 8 arguments in the soap shop...

edit: how drole.  A Dwarf apparently cannot construct a 1x1 workshop if it is a blocked tile once done

so make it a 1x2 workshop and make the walkable tile have no graphic.. just use ' '