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Uthric

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Building a Golem, help needed.
« on: July 31, 2010, 09:12:18 pm »
i wish to make a Golem made of granite, for a usable war pet that i can embark with no gender fairly costly to embark with( no breeding is a must)

i want it to have the ability to keep my outside dwarfs safe from ambushes but not solo entire sieges

if it could, could it have a anvil for 1 hand and a normal hand with 3 fingers and a thumb on the other

its a attacks would be

smash large blunt damage ( attacks with the anvil)

normal attacks for the normal hand

and a ranged bolder throw for the dumb marks goblins


and would someone know how to make a tile for it using the mayday tile set?
 

i have wanted this for a while now but i have no idea how to make it, its for a flovor fort i want to try making a story with.
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Re: Building a Golem, help needed.
« Reply #1 on: July 31, 2010, 09:47:23 pm »
You'll want to look up tissues and materials to begin with, probably starting with the bronze colossus for reference (he's in creature_standard.txt), and try making a creature composed entirely of granite. 

You'll also want to look into body templates (body_default.txt in the raws) and attempt to write your own for the custom body. 

There's a nice section on breath attacks on the wiki (in the Syndrome article, oddly enough) that should explain how to create a ranged attack.

No idea how to do the graphics, unfortunately.
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Re: Building a Golem, help needed.
« Reply #2 on: August 01, 2010, 02:29:55 pm »
yea i looked over all that and i cant even find out how to make  it be stone...

well i thought i did but it never showed up in the arena mode so i take that as  a big u fail
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Re: Building a Golem, help needed.
« Reply #3 on: August 01, 2010, 02:49:41 pm »
This creature is an elementman made out of amethyst, vanilla dwarf fortress, in the file 'creature_next_underground'

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This creature is an elementman made out of gabbro, vanilla dwarf fortress, in the file 'creature_next_underground'

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And for S&G's, here's the bronze colossus.

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Annnnd I'm pretty sure using those three, you can throw whatever it is you want together.
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Re: Building a Golem, help needed.
« Reply #4 on: August 01, 2010, 05:10:38 pm »
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thats what i have so far but i cant embark with them so idk if thay even work
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Re: Building a Golem, help needed.
« Reply #5 on: August 01, 2010, 07:08:57 pm »
[CREATURE:Granite_Golem] <- Has to be ALL CAPS
   [DESCRIPTION:Living Granite in the shape of a Dwarf.  These strange creatures are found defending dwarven settlements.]
   [NAME:Granite Golem:Granite Golems:Granite Golem]
   [CASTE_NAME:Granite Golem:Granite Golems:Granite Golem]
   [CREATURE_TILE:'M'][COLOR:0:0:1]
   [LIKES_FIGHTING]
   [UNDERGROUND_DEPTH:3:3]
   [FREQUENCY:1]
   [POPULATION_NUMBER:15:30]
   [NOPAIN][EXTRAVISION][NOBREATHE][NOSTUN][NONAUSEA][NOEMOTION]
      [NOTHOUGHT][NOEXERT]
   [NO_DIZZINESS]
   [NO_FEVERS]
   [NO_DRINK][NO_EAT][NO_SLEEP]
   [CANNOT_UNDEAD]
   [CANOPENDOORS]
   [NOT_BUTCHERABLE]
   [NOFEAR]
   [PREFSTRING:rockiness]
   [NOBONES]
   [BODY:HUMANOID_SIMPLE]
   [NO_THOUGHT_CENTER_FOR_MOVEMENT]
   [TISSUE:ROCK]
      [TISSUE_NAME:Granite:NP]
      [TISSUE_MATERIAL:INORGANIC:Granite]
      [MUSCULAR]
      [FUNCTIONAL]
      [STRUCTURAL]
      [RELATIVE_THICKNESS:1]
      [CONNECTS]
      [TISSUE_SHAPE:LAYER]
   [TISSUE_LAYER:BY_CATEGORY:ALL:ROCK]
   [BODY_SIZE:0:0:70000]
   [BODY_APPEARANCE_MODIFIER:HEIGHT:90:95:98:100:102:105:110]
   [BODY_APPEARANCE_MODIFIER:BROADNESS:90:95:98:100:102:105:110]
   [ATTACK:PUNCH:BODYPART:BY_TYPE:GRASP]
      [ATTACK_SKILL:GRASP_STRIKE]
      [ATTACK_VERB:punch:punches]
      [ATTACK_CONTACT_PERC:100]
      [ATTACK_FLAG_WITH]
      [ATTACK_PRIORITY:MAIN]
   [ATTACK:KICK:BODYPART:BY_TYPE:STANCE]
      [ATTACK_SKILL:STANCE_STRIKE]
      [ATTACK_VERB:kick:kicks]
      [ATTACK_CONTACT_PERC:100]
      [ATTACK_FLAG_WITH]
      [ATTACK_PRIORITY:SECOND]
   [ITEMCORPSE:BOULDER:NO_SUBTYPE:INORGANIC:Granite] <- CAPS
   [ALL_ACTIVE]
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Re: Building a Golem, help needed.
« Reply #6 on: August 01, 2010, 07:17:29 pm »
If you want it to be available to dwarf civs, try adding [BIOME:MOUNTAIN], [PET] and [PETVALUE:x] (where x is the pet value; embark costs are (petvalue/2)+1 for non-trained creatures, and petvalue+1 for trained creatures). Also [TRAINABLE] for war/hunting functionality.
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« Reply #7 on: August 01, 2010, 10:21:00 pm »
>.> ok i changed that and added it to the game and its still not there.....  /WRIST
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« Reply #8 on: August 01, 2010, 10:49:16 pm »
Have you formatted the file correctly? The file must be named creature_(whatever), and the name of the file must be inserted at the very top of the file itself.
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« Reply #9 on: August 02, 2010, 07:45:18 am »
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That's what I'm using now but it its still not showing up for embark pets,
and i still don't know how to get it to use a custom tile in the mayday set
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Re: Building a Golem, help needed.
« Reply #10 on: August 02, 2010, 01:46:07 pm »
   [UNDERGROUND_DEPTH:3:3]

Try doing something with that, I think if it gets deep enough, you don't have access to it any more. Try 1:1?
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Re: Building a Golem, help needed.
« Reply #11 on: August 02, 2010, 02:28:01 pm »
dwarves don't have underground pets (odd...) so if it's underground at all, you can't have it.
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Re: Building a Golem, help needed.
« Reply #12 on: August 02, 2010, 02:55:46 pm »
Stupid question, but they are sometimes the solution to confusing problems so I'm asking anyway. Have you genned a new world since adding them to the raws?
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« Reply #13 on: August 02, 2010, 03:30:53 pm »
yea i have
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« Reply #14 on: August 02, 2010, 03:31:57 pm »
make all functional instances of "Granite" GRANITE. If you look at the other creatures, that stuff is all caps.
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