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[Sagus]

So, I'm doing a mod to create a civilization of arthropod creatures. They have a special building where they can process a type of plant to create their food source. Thing is, I'd like to make it so that they can ONLY eat this food. Is this possible? Would it be also possible to make all other kinds of food (mainly plants and meat) poisonous to them?
Thanks in advance!

[Xenos]

Yes this should be possible (kobolds are carnivores and they will starve if you do not have hunters/animal herders/fisherbolds/buy lots and lots and lots meat.  They cannot eat plants.  (im not sure about a horse meat roast that uses plant matter in its cooking..)) but you might have to mod the food as meat and modify regular meat to be plants...

[Sagus]

Hum, would it be possible to give the normal meat material a syndrome that'd kill only this race? I mean, creating a syndrome that affectso only them is easy, but can syndromes by added to materials?

[JediaKyrol]

Hum, would it be possible to give the normal meat material a syndrome that'd kill only this race? I mean, creating a syndrome that affectso only them is easy, but can syndromes by added to materials?

well...you would have to go into every creature and add the syndrome to every tissue type that creature has...so it would take forever by hand...or you could write a simple script that opens all creature files, looks for [TISSUE...] and inserts the syndrome on the next line...

lemmie see if the syndrome will actually carry on to processed food and then I'll try and make the script...might be a while though...work compy can't handle DF at all...(these machines are ancient)

[Lofn]

There is no syndrome transmission token for eating or drinking the material.  They have to be INJECTED, transmitted by CONTACT or INHALED as a gas.

[darkflagrance]

Can't the syndrome be added to the generic flesh entries in the materials raw file? Or do syndromes only work in creature entries?

[JediaKyrol]

There is no syndrome transmission token for eating or drinking the material.  They have to be INJECTED, transmitted by CONTACT or INHALED as a gas.

eating doesn't count as injected?  well son of a crap.  see what happens when df wiki is down and I have to go by memory... ... ...bad things!  that's what!

[kwd1968]

this might work

1) make them plant eaters
2) take away herbalist so that they can only farm
3) make a custom plant for them to embark with

you could also take away butcher shop so they can't access meat but now they can't get leather

as far as the whole poison thing goes... they'd die out really quick if all the flora and fauna was poisonous wouldn't they, esp being insects they've gotta eat trees or something for building material.  Simply making it unuseable is probably better... tho you could add a building that converts meat and plants etc to building mats or even fertilizer for their fields (i.e.potash).

[Sagus]

Oh, I wasn't aware that there was a token to make them exclusive plant eaters. That would make things easier... what is the token?

[3]

There is no such token. kwd1968's idea may work in part, however.

Xenos' idea is even better, but regardless of what you do, you'll have to make significant changes to the world which may well invalidate all other carnivourous species.

[kwd1968]

hmm i thought there was a [herebivore] tag

in that case make them no eat and alcohol dependent and have your custom plant be brewable

[Sagus]

hmm i thought there was a [herebivore] tag

in that case make them no eat and alcohol dependent and have your custom plant be brewable

Ah, yes, that's perfect! Thanks, kwd!

[Xenos]

but forbid them from drinking the other alcohols somehow...can you forbid them from using specific plants? 

[Demonic Gophers]

You can make no other plants brewable.  Or just not brew them.

[kwd1968]

and if you make them not be herbalists they won't have access to any other plants >

or you can always take away the brewery and make a custom building and reaction that only brews your custom plant... no kitchen too while you're at it, just another custom building to process meats or more custom reactions for the tannery.

Heh shoulda thought of that before, would've met your requirements with just custom brews and no kitchen/still.