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Author Topic: Playing as Any race?  (Read 726 times)

lifehole

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Playing as Any race?
« on: December 23, 2010, 08:31:49 pm »
I'm not sure what section this goes in, I don't think it belongs in modding, since its adventure mode specific and its such a small modding question and I should be able to get a answer fairly quickly...

So, I keep hearing about the option to play as any race?
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Demonic Gophers

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Re: Playing as Any race?
« Reply #1 on: December 23, 2010, 08:42:58 pm »
This again?  We really need a stickied thread with instructions.

To play as a member of any of the vanilla entities, add [ADVENTURE_TIER:4] to the entity entry, where 4 can be any number that isn't already used by an Adventure_Tier tag.  To play as an outsider of any creature, add a new entity entry like this:

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[ENTITY:DRAGON_NOW]
[INDIV_CONTROLLABLE]
[CREATURE:DRAGON]
[TRANSLATION:GOBLIN]
I think that ought to do it.
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lifehole

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Re: Playing as Any race?
« Reply #2 on: December 23, 2010, 10:57:44 pm »
But I have no idea what the hell an entity entry is, or anything related to modding, or how to get to any of the files or anything...
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Shelegelah

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Re: Playing as Any race?
« Reply #3 on: December 23, 2010, 11:17:01 pm »
Go to your Dwarf Fortress folder, and click on the sub-folder titled 'raw'. Then click on the sub-folder titled 'objects'. You will see a large list of documents. You'll want to click on the one titled 'entity_default'. Once the document opens, you'll see a massive amount of entries relating to some creature or another. Find the entry for the creature you want by using Ctrl+F (This is the easiest way), and add the tag [ADVENTURE_TIER:4] underneath the creature's entry. If you have already modded a creature into adventure mode, or wish to add another creature in after the first, you'll have to increase the number '4' to a bigger number. Here's an example of what I did:

I wanted to add kobolds in, because they're adorable scamps and I love them. I opened up the 'entity_defualt' file and did a Ctrl+F search for kobolds. Once I found them, it looked like this:

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Once I had found it, I simply added that tag in, resulting in this:

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Notice the adventure tag I added just under the kobold word. See how it's done? That's it.

EDIT: Oh, and I do believe you'll have to generate a brand new world for this to take effect, so don't forget that.
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lifehole

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Re: Playing as Any race?
« Reply #4 on: December 23, 2010, 11:44:21 pm »
Hmmm... Aliright, thanks, is it possible to mod in new races with mods that already have new races in them? Like Genesis? Guessing its not, but it's fine if not so. I still would like to play as the demigod bronze collososs....
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Eagle_eye

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Re: Playing as Any race?
« Reply #5 on: December 23, 2010, 11:54:27 pm »
if someone else modded it, you can mod it too. Anything but the code can be changed.
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