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SmokedRWA

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Can I add a tag to make goblins butcherable?
« on: November 29, 2010, 10:49:59 am »

I would love nothing more than to have my troops wearing armor adorned in goblin skin when they come charging out of the gates to obliterate the vile scum, bit I haven't been able to find a straight answer as to whether or not there is a tag I can add to do this. I like the thought of goblin roasts too.
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Re: Can I add a tag to make goblins butcherable?
« Reply #1 on: November 29, 2010, 11:01:36 am »

Just go to the entitiy_default.txt file and change your dwarfs' ethics to the following:

   [ETHIC:EAT_SAPIENT_OTHER:ACCEPTABLE]
   [ETHIC:EAT_SAPIENT_KILL:ACCEPTABLE]
   [ETHIC:MAKE_TROPHY_SAME_RACE:APPALLING]
   [ETHIC:MAKE_TROPHY_SAPIENT:ACCEPTABLE]
   [ETHIC:MAKE_TROPHY_ANIMAL:ACCEPTABLE]

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Re: Can I add a tag to make goblins butcherable?
« Reply #2 on: November 29, 2010, 11:02:39 am »

With the added bonus of also being able to skin/eat elves :P
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Re: Can I add a tag to make goblins butcherable?
« Reply #3 on: November 29, 2010, 11:02:56 am »

Goblins already are butcherable. The problem is that dwarves refuse to butcher sapient creatures. This can be changed by altering the entry for dwarves in the entity file. I'm not to familar with modding, but I believe you would want dwarves to have [ETHIC:EAT_SAPIENT_KILL:ACCEPTABLE] and [ETHIC:EAT_SAPIENT_OTHER:ACCEPTABLE] in there.

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Re: Can I add a tag to make goblins butcherable?
« Reply #4 on: November 29, 2010, 11:10:00 am »

Thank you both for the help. Before I posted i was searching the forums for an answer and read that dwarves get bad thoughts from butchering sapients. Is that so?
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Re: Can I add a tag to make goblins butcherable?
« Reply #5 on: November 29, 2010, 12:16:21 pm »

I've never noticed any of my dwarfs getting bad thoughts from butchering invaders or even the occasional unfortunate trader. They treat the corpses the same way they treat animal carcasses.

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Re: Can I add a tag to make goblins butcherable?
« Reply #6 on: December 05, 2010, 12:08:41 am »

I'm gonna resurrect my own thread as I have run into an issue. I have changed the appropriate tags but my butchers still won't chop up the goblins. Are these changes only applicable upon regenning a new world or is there something that I am missing?
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Re: Can I add a tag to make goblins butcherable?
« Reply #7 on: December 05, 2010, 12:10:13 am »

Adding on to this, can one caste have different ethics than the others? I want to make some sort of feral dwarf that feasts on sapient flesh :D
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Re: Can I add a tag to make goblins butcherable?
« Reply #8 on: December 05, 2010, 12:19:56 am »

I'm gonna resurrect my own thread as I have run into an issue. I have changed the appropriate tags but my butchers still won't chop up the goblins. Are these changes only applicable upon regenning a new world or is there something that I am missing?
Entity ethics are loaded when the world is created, so changing the ethics values in the RAW files will have no result on an already created world (no, not even if you remember to change the ones in the world raws rather than the default raws).  You need to regen the world.

Adding on to this, can one caste have different ethics than the others? I want to make some sort of feral dwarf that feasts on sapient flesh :D
No, because ethics are applied to the civilization, not to the creature.
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Re: Can I add a tag to make goblins butcherable?
« Reply #9 on: December 05, 2010, 01:27:42 am »

Adding on to this, can one caste have different ethics than the others? I want to make some sort of feral dwarf that feasts on sapient flesh :D

You could mod in a new dwarf civ methinks.
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Re: Can I add a tag to make goblins butcherable?
« Reply #10 on: December 05, 2010, 02:03:57 am »

Just go to the entitiy_default.txt file and change your dwarfs' ethics to the following:

   [ETHIC:EAT_SAPIENT_OTHER:ACCEPTABLE]
   [ETHIC:EAT_SAPIENT_KILL:ACCEPTABLE]
   [ETHIC:MAKE_TROPHY_SAME_RACE:APPALLING]
   [ETHIC:MAKE_TROPHY_SAPIENT:ACCEPTABLE]
   [ETHIC:MAKE_TROPHY_ANIMAL:ACCEPTABLE]

What does the "make trophy" part do?
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Re: Can I add a tag to make goblins butcherable?
« Reply #11 on: December 05, 2010, 04:36:07 am »

Just go to the entitiy_default.txt file and change your dwarfs' ethics to the following:

   [ETHIC:EAT_SAPIENT_OTHER:ACCEPTABLE]
   [ETHIC:EAT_SAPIENT_KILL:ACCEPTABLE]
   [ETHIC:MAKE_TROPHY_SAME_RACE:APPALLING]
   [ETHIC:MAKE_TROPHY_SAPIENT:ACCEPTABLE]
   [ETHIC:MAKE_TROPHY_ANIMAL:ACCEPTABLE]

What does the "make trophy" part do?

I suppose crafts and stuff, basically things you make out of bones.
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Re: Can I add a tag to make goblins butcherable?
« Reply #12 on: December 05, 2010, 10:49:32 am »

Just go to the entitiy_default.txt file and change your dwarfs' ethics to the following:

   [ETHIC:EAT_SAPIENT_OTHER:ACCEPTABLE]
   [ETHIC:EAT_SAPIENT_KILL:ACCEPTABLE]
   [ETHIC:MAKE_TROPHY_SAME_RACE:APPALLING]
   [ETHIC:MAKE_TROPHY_SAPIENT:ACCEPTABLE]
   [ETHIC:MAKE_TROPHY_ANIMAL:ACCEPTABLE]

It allows you to make *goblin skull totems* and other things.

edit: Ninja'd.

What does the "make trophy" part do?