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Lycaeon

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Getting giant eagles to spawn everywhere?
« on: October 10, 2010, 11:36:37 am »
Or simply on all mountain biomes to start out.

In an existing world, removing the [SAVAGE] tag from the giant eagle doesn't seem to get them to spawn in normal mountain biomes, even after waiting a while and killing off other large predators to allow for space. Adding the [Benign] tag didn't seem to have much of an effect either. Are they hard-coded to only spawn in savage biomes, or does this require a new regen to take effect?
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Re: Getting giant eagles to spawn everywhere?
« Reply #1 on: October 10, 2010, 11:39:34 am »
Regen.
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Re: Getting giant eagles to spawn everywhere?
« Reply #2 on: October 10, 2010, 03:10:55 pm »
You could copy the data for giant eagles into the entries of things like groundhogs and mountain goats so that while the game still thinks they are groundhogs and mountain goats, they'd be giant eagles in name and function.

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Re: Getting giant eagles to spawn everywhere?
« Reply #3 on: October 10, 2010, 04:32:00 pm »
Quote from: darkflagrance on October 10, 2010, 03:10:55 pm
You could copy the data for giant eagles into the entries of things like groundhogs and mountain goats so that while the game still thinks they are groundhogs and mountain goats, they'd be giant eagles in name and function.

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Are you sure this works? I tried this with a specific rock type and I couldn't load my saves until I switched it back.
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Re: Getting giant eagles to spawn everywhere?
« Reply #4 on: October 10, 2010, 10:00:58 pm »
Remove [SAVAGE].

Add [BIOME:ANY_LAND].

???

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Re: Getting giant eagles to spawn everywhere?
« Reply #5 on: October 25, 2010, 12:20:52 pm »
Speaking of "making room for them" is it possible to increase the creature spawn limits on a map or are those hardcoded?

Will creatures in the caverns and carnival detract from the surface creature count?  I seem to have a metric dorfton of creepy crawlies down below and not as much on the surface.
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Re: Getting giant eagles to spawn everywhere?
« Reply #6 on: October 25, 2010, 02:18:56 pm »
Quote from: Drakeero on October 25, 2010, 12:20:52 pm
Speaking of "making room for them" is it possible to increase the creature spawn limits on a map or are those hardcoded?

Will creatures in the caverns and carnival detract from the surface creature count?  I seem to have a metric dorfton of creepy crawlies down below and not as much on the surface.

Creature spawn limits are set when your world is made. I think you can change cluster-size, however, so that when creatures do appear, they do so in much larger numbers than normal.

I don't know about cavern creatures.
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Re: Getting giant eagles to spawn everywhere?
« Reply #7 on: October 26, 2010, 01:07:20 am »
Quote from: ungulateman on October 10, 2010, 10:00:58 pm
Remove [SAVAGE].

Add [BIOME:ANY_LAND].

???

Die!

they are flying, why not just ANY?
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Re: Getting giant eagles to spawn everywhere?
« Reply #8 on: October 26, 2010, 03:58:56 am »
ANY doesn't work. It has to be ANY_LAND.
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Re: Getting giant eagles to spawn everywhere?
« Reply #9 on: October 26, 2010, 11:11:55 am »
Specifically, there is no biome token for "ANY", but there is one called "ALL_MAIN" which includes everything but murky pools, rivers, and underground features; ANY_LAND additionally excludes lakes and oceans. A full list of biome tokens can be found here.
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