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[Pierre Monteux]

Is there anything in the raws that controls the trap-avoid status for forgotten beasts?  I'd like to remove it if possible.

[KillerClowns]

The algorithms for generating Forgotten Beasts, Titans, and other fun stuff is hardcoded, so no.  If you use uncompressed saves, you could try editing the Forgotten Beasts' data in a save's world.dat folder post-gen, removing [TRAPAVOID] from each one manually, but you do so at your own risk.

[Neonivek]

The algorithms for generating Forgotten Beasts, Titans, and other fun stuff is hardcoded, so no.  If you use uncompressed saves, you could try editing the Forgotten Beasts' data in a save's world.dat folder post-gen, removing [TRAPAVOID] from each one manually, but you do so at your own risk.

Now this I am sort of interested in doing. So I can see the stats of several of the creatures that don't show in the raws.

[Deon]

How do you edit world.dat? It's a mess whenever I open it with notepad or hex editor.

P.S. Oh wait, uncompressed saves?

[KillerClowns]

How do you edit world.dat? It's a mess whenever I open it with notepad or hex editor.

P.S. Oh wait, uncompressed saves?

Aye.  For those scratching there heads, go to init.txt and change [COMPRESSED_SAVES:YES] to [COMPRESSED_SAVES:NO].  Worlds genned thereafter will take up more space, but the world-specific raws in world.dat will be human readable (if somewhat difficult to dig through).  You can't de-compress a world retroactively, though.

[Orkel]

Can you see what their random poison effects are in the dat file?

[Pierre Monteux]

Thanks.  I'll look into that and give it a try.  Just need to gen a world with uncompressed raws.

[Nihilist]

Using uncompress saves also greatly decreases game save times(in my experiance anywho) but GREATLY increases size. I average 500MB a save.

[Pierre Monteux]

That worked.  I did a search on [TRAPAVOID] and since there were unprintable characters next to it, I just broke the tag.  I replaced all [TRAPAVOID] with [DRAPAVOID].  I now have a forgotten beast in a cage.  The thing survived several weapon traps.

Too bad the cage depot bug is still in.

[TheSpaceMan]

If i remember correctly, toady mentioned way before that he uses zlib. That would in theory mean basic zip compression of the compressed files. Then again, I am famous of being wrong. And I have no idea what people would do with that information.

[Pierre Monteux]

Somewhere is a utility (on the wiki) that gets info from compressed or uncompressed saves.  Reverse engineering that should give the answer.  I just didn't bother with it.  Now I'm tempted to see how many of the forgotten beasts I can collect.

Gotta catch them all?

[Lancensis]

Do Forgotten Beasts have [NOSTUN]?

[Deon]

Open the file and look . The first one I've checked has it.