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[GaxkangtheUnbound]

Locate the automaton entity(entity default, unless there's a special file).
Add [INDIV_CONTROLLABLE] to said entity.
Save and quit.

[TheOddDemon]

Posting to watch.

This mod seems very promising.

[Zyuta]

You're wanting ideas? Okay then.
Add in "Turrets" so you don't have to waste your precious Automatons. There is advantages and disadvantages to Turrets, we can't have something OP on the player side now can we? (<- Sarcasm)

Advantages:
1: They are automatic static defense. They don't move, but the fire quickly with decent accuracy.
2: No Automaton manning required! Just build it and ensure it has what it needs to work.
3: The bullets do no damage to your automatons/dwarves, and ignore any cloth/leather armor!

Dis-Advantages:
1: It needs to create its own ammo (It shoots bullets, okay?). It requires one steel bar every thirty shots.
2: You need to construct it out of silver only. No other metal.
3: It has a 30 tile range, but it can only shoot on the same z-level. It can also still hurt your animals.
4: It can only store 30 bullets, and WILL NOT shoot dwarves. It will only shoot hostile creatures, goblins, elves, titans, dragons, and humans. Somehow it tells the difference between hostile and non-hostile.

Yeah, it is entirely meant for early defense if you bother to give yourself the required materials. It can detect invisible units like a dwarf or an animal. Construction requires two silver bars, or a silver bar and a silver block.

[UltraValican]

You're wanting ideas? Okay then.
Add in "Turrets" so you don't have to waste your precious Automatons. There is advantages and disadvantages to Turrets, we can't have something OP on the player side now can we? (<- Sarcasm)

Advantages:
1: They are automatic static defense. They don't move, but the fire quickly with decent accuracy.
2: No Automaton manning required! Just build it and ensure it has what it needs to work.
3: The bullets do no damage to your automatons/dwarves, and ignore any cloth/leather armor!

Dis-Advantages:
1: It needs to create its own ammo (It shoots bullets, okay?). It requires one steel bar every thirty shots.
2: You need to construct it out of silver only. No other metal.
3: It has a 30 tile range, but it can only shoot on the same z-level. It can also still hurt your animals.
4: It can only store 30 bullets, and WILL NOT shoot dwarves. It will only shoot hostile creatures, goblins, elves, titans, dragons, and humans. Somehow it tells the difference between hostile and non-hostile.

Yeah, it is entirely meant for early defense if you bother to give yourself the required materials. It can detect invisible units like a dwarf or an animal. Construction requires two silver bars, or a silver bar and a silver block.

Im not sure if you can even mod in siege weapons... Its a very ambitious idea however.
The closest thing to a turret is a weapons trap with a crossow in it.

[Reelyanoob]

Im not sure if you can even mod in siege weapons... Its a very ambitious idea however.
The closest thing to a turret is a weapons trap with a crossow in it.

There's a thread with a living turret creature. They get pastured / chained where you need defences. I think that's the idea here. They can use breath weapons, or maybe webs.

This is the thread :-

http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=84218.0

[Dub]

any updates?

[chemioterapia]

Kinect/Solar Automaton's, no need to eat, no need to drink.

[Putnam]

Kinect/Solar Automaton's, no need to eat, no need to drink.

Making suggestions for what seems a dead mod, eh?

I like the idea, though, and I may do something with it when I'm done with my Genesis Fortbent modmod.

[IamanElfCollaborator]

I know this is sort of dead, but I dug through the raws and it is possible to mod in new siege ammo.

[Daywalkah]

You guys have my permission to do as you please with the mod, since I don't really care for it anymore. Just give me credit for the work already done and have fun modding!

[Putnam]

Alright, I've been working on this...

Things to do:

White:Not started

Yellow:Partially done

Teal:Done. Pending release

Red:Suspended

-leader can only be a diamond automaton (can't designate specific caste for leader at this point in time, though there are tags for it)

-Automaton animals (rovers that clean vermin and such, defensive robots, etc)

-weapon/tool hand (drill hand, axe hand, etc), though slightly hackish.

-let Automatons eat something, such as charcoal or oil (Specific food is kind of iffy at this point, but I'm sure it's workable)

Some comments: The specific food is going to be a kind of food pet that will "gather fuel" (meander about and maybe graze) until it's "full" (fully grown), at which case it may be "harvested" (butchered).

EDIT: Yes, it's all done now. I'm going to make more, but for now I only have vermin-hunting and food rovers. I'm going to later have some other rovers and turrets and such.

EDIT 2: Welp, that's problematic. As it turns out, the fuel rovers only drop one unit of food when they're butchered! I guess I'll have to see if I can make it shearable.

[Putnam]

Eheheh- attempts to make the fuel rover work have come up with "rover meaty ladles" and "rover meaty cauldrons" >_>

[Hugo_The_Dwarf]

Have rover meat be refined into oil (drink) and scrap metal (food) and be able to turn metal bars into scrap metal aswell?

Or any metal item (useful invader gear? Eat their equipment)

[Raptor_a22]

I notcied that you wanted to have the epic automatons be the leaders?

I can help you with that. The nobles sytem does have a creature class token. This is similar to syndromes. Most of the creatures in DF (Dwarves, elves, humans, domestics, most 'natural' creatures etc.) have a creature class of GENERAL_POISON.

In the creatures raw file, simply add a class AUTOMATON_NOBLE or something similar. Then, in the nobles section of the entity raw, restrict the position to only members of that class. (It was something like ALLOWED_CLASS or something, I cant remember.)

NOTE: This wont restrict noble appointments during worldgen, but it WILL restrict noble appointments during Fortress Mode.

I used the same trick in my CivMod to restrict some noble positions to a specific caste.

[Putnam]

I notcied that you wanted to have the epic automatons be the leaders?

I can help you with that. The nobles sytem does have a creature class token. This is similar to syndromes. Most of the creatures in DF (Dwarves, elves, humans, domestics, most 'natural' creatures etc.) have a creature class of GENERAL_POISON.

In the creatures raw file, simply add a class AUTOMATON_NOBLE or something similar. Then, in the nobles section of the entity raw, restrict the position to only members of that class. (It was something like ALLOWED_CLASS or something, I cant remember.)

NOTE: This wont restrict noble appointments during worldgen, but it WILL restrict noble appointments during Fortress Mode.

I used the same trick in my CivMod to restrict some noble positions to a specific caste.

I know that, but it doesn't work much. In my other mod, Fortbent, it doesn't seem to be working at all.