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[Grimlocke]

So, I was working on getting my armor men working again after an update come along that made them do some rather strange things.

In the proces I did an expiriment with bodypart relations, as one of many attempts to get the game to understand the armor men should be hollow. The idea was to make a 'air' bodypart, and tell the game the armor bodyparts should go around that. The same things skulls and brains use.

However, I didnt want any combat messages like 'the armor man hits the armor man, fracturing the air!' so I named the air tissue 'leather backing'.

Result was something that truely only happen in dwarf fortress, namely:

Armor Man 2 bashes Armor Man 1 in the breastplate with its mace, jamming the part through the greaves, jamming the greaves through the helmet, jamming the helmet through the right gauntlet, jamming the right gauntlet through the left gauntlet, jamming the left gauntlet through the leather backing and tearing the leather backing!

I can only immagine this as poor armor man 1 being completely pancaked, and indeed all the bodyparts mentioned were red.

Just thought this was entertaining and posted it. But if anyone has a less... quirky solution for this, that would be quite welcome.

[3]

So, hang on. You're not using TISSUE_LAYER_UNDER for the "air"? You could make the armoured parts regular tissues and make the "air" a gas layer under those.

[Untelligent]

So, hang on. You're not using TISSUE_LAYER_UNDER for the "air"? You could make the armoured parts regular tissues and make the "air" a gas layer under those.

I think his point was that he didn't want "air" to show up in the combat messages.

[Grimlocke]

Yeah, that. Tried TISSUE_LAYER_UNDER but it just wouldnt stop showing weird messages and descriptions and yielding weird things when butchered.

The gas layers were worse, making the creature bellow visible clouds of 'air' every time something hit it.

[JoRo]

For my 'hollow' creature I filled them with water and justified it as being from living in a swamp.  Being able to make things actually hollow would be nice, though I'm not sure it would actually be functionally different than just giving them spindly thin limbs.

[Zaerosz]

Armor Man 2 bashes Armor Man 1 in the breastplate with its mace, jamming the part through the greaves, jamming the greaves through the helmet, jamming the helmet through the right gauntlet, jamming the right gauntlet through the left gauntlet, jamming the left gauntlet through the leather backing and tearing the leather backing!

Wait.

So, essentially, its chest was jammed through its feet, which were jammed through its head, which was then jammed through its right hand, then that was jammed through the left hand which was finally jammed through the leather backing.

Are you sure that's ordered right?

[GreatWyrmGold]

...Wow.
That is crazy.
That is Dwarf Fortress.