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LegoLord

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New gorram Entity won't spawn
« on: April 16, 2010, 07:22:25 pm »
I just don't get why.  I've generated a new world, nothing is wrong with the creatures, and nothing shows up in the error log.  I'm utterly baffled.  These two civilizations just don't appear at all.

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Re: New gorram Entity won't spawn
« Reply #1 on: April 16, 2010, 07:32:09 pm »
Have you tried switching the biomes to all_main or something similar to test? It might be that they can't find the appropriate biomes so another civ gets inserted instead. It might also be a problem with the creature. Have you checked history to make sure they aren't all just dying on year one? I can't think of anything else, but if noone else solves it and I have time later I can take a closer look to see if anything's wrong.
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Re: New gorram Entity won't spawn
« Reply #2 on: April 16, 2010, 07:34:45 pm »
No mimes or clowns listed as historical figures, and I end worldgen around year 10-15, so I don't think it's early death.  The clowns should spawn in biomes no other civs use, so I don't think that's it either.

It certainly is quite the puzzle.
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Quote from: Vlynndar on April 02, 2009, 03:36:26 pm
"Oh look there is a dragon my clothes might burn let me take them off and only wear steel plate."
And this is how tinned food was invented.
Quote from: Vester on October 10, 2009, 10:10:11 pm
Alternately: The Brick Testament. It's a really fun look at what the bible would look like if interpreted literally. With Legos.
Just so I remember

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Re: New gorram Entity won't spawn
« Reply #3 on: April 16, 2010, 07:52:23 pm »
I don't see anything else that could possibly be wrong in the entity, did you make the creature from a copy of another creature? I tried building a creature from scratch once and a missing token resulted in the creature not existing. Beyond not being generated, items made from it couldn't even be made in arena mode.
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Re: New gorram Entity won't spawn
« Reply #4 on: April 16, 2010, 08:07:08 pm »
I've tested the creatures in arena mode thoroughly, and I copied and edited humans to make them.  I only started generating worlds once I got the creatures to stop filling the errorlog every time I went into arena mode.
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Quote from: Vlynndar on April 02, 2009, 03:36:26 pm
"Oh look there is a dragon my clothes might burn let me take them off and only wear steel plate."
And this is how tinned food was invented.
Quote from: Vester on October 10, 2009, 10:10:11 pm
Alternately: The Brick Testament. It's a really fun look at what the bible would look like if interpreted literally. With Legos.
Just so I remember

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Re: New gorram Entity won't spawn
« Reply #5 on: April 17, 2010, 06:49:23 pm »
They need a [MALE] caste and a [FEMALE] caste. World-gen start with breeding pairs, and if your creature doesn't (and it doesn't), it won't be able to place them.
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Re: New gorram Entity won't spawn
« Reply #6 on: April 17, 2010, 07:03:47 pm »
Quote from: FACM on April 17, 2010, 06:49:23 pm
They need a [MALE] caste and a [FEMALE] caste. World-gen start with breeding pairs, and if your creature doesn't (and it doesn't), it won't be able to place them.
They do. I copied them from humans.  Castes are in the creature entry.

Although, I actually found the problem.  I changed the creature entry title to LL_CLOWN and LL_MIME and forgot to change the creature tag in the entity file accordingly.  Or forgot that I changed the creature title in the first place.  Not sure which, honestly.  Probably the latter, because I assumed the problem. was purely native to the entity file.
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Quote from: Vlynndar on April 02, 2009, 03:36:26 pm
"Oh look there is a dragon my clothes might burn let me take them off and only wear steel plate."
And this is how tinned food was invented.
Quote from: Vester on October 10, 2009, 10:10:11 pm
Alternately: The Brick Testament. It's a really fun look at what the bible would look like if interpreted literally. With Legos.
Just so I remember