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[freeformschooler]

You know now that you have the creature, you could use DF World Tinker to extract the RAWs for it. Muahahahaha.

I am also wondering how this was done, though, even though it mostly makes sense.

[Deon]

I think I know how you did it now. You added a body outside of castes and tried to change a body inside of a caste? It doesn't work.

[Azkanan]

I think I know how you did it now. You added a body outside of castes and tried to change a body inside of a caste? It doesn't work.

I gave each caste a different body type. I'd copy paste it, but I deleted it after the test... pretty straight forward, though.

[CASTE:CASTE1]
[BODY:HUMANOID:x:x:x] So forth.

[CASTE:CASTE2]
[BODY:QUADRUPED:x:x:x] So forth.

[Deon]

How did you achieve multiple upper bodies then?

[Azkanan]

How did you achieve multiple upper bodies then?

I havn't a clue, heh. Bugged out, much?

Scorpian-man + Human = two-headed Scorpian-man? Ooo...!

[Deon]

You definitely bugged it, it doesn't do it normally (otherwise in Genesis we whould have 10 armed firebreathing poisonous freaks ) and the easiest way to do so is to define a body OUTSIDE of a caste.

[Azkanan]

You definitely bugged it, it doesn't do it normally (otherwise in Genesis we whould have 10 armed firebreathing poisonous freaks ) and the easiest way to do so is to define a body OUTSIDE of a caste.

As I say, it was just an experiment to see what would happen, heh.

[Sutremaine]

No, I think he means that two wildly different male and female castes can breed with a result that is different from either of them. The point is not the breeding itself, it's the result. At least that's what I gathered.

I'm still not getting it.
You define a number of wildly different castes. You put these castes together in whatever combination, and the caste of the resulting offspring is determined randomly.
The game displaying every connection of every body part is something new and buggy, but otherwise that's just what I'd expect of DF.

[Deon]

It's not new. It's just a bug of addition of a body to body. It's easy to make in different ways.

[freeformschooler]

It's not new. It's just a bug of addition of a body to body. It's easy to make in different ways.

That's good to know, I guess it's clarified then. Someone has gotta ask Toady about this bug. Either way, I thought it was pretty cool.

[Deon]

Again, it's NOT a bug. It's just another body added to an existing one.

[Minnakht]

Now I want to make some kind of a being which is two humanoids joined with an appendage attached to both its backs, with the appendage having three joints.

If I put a brain in both heads, what would happen upon slicing the appendage?

[Deon]

Same stuff as with Hydra.

[Minnakht]

Well, you see, hydra heads don't keep a full set of organs in each. Those things would be like fully equipped humanoids, two of them, but as one, with the only connector being the fleshy tube with bones in it. Aside from that, bilateral symmetry, two identical halves.

So, I doubt the game would try to parse their splitting into an expected result of creating two living split halves, each counting as a creature, so... which half would become a cut off bit?

[Rumrusher]

oh man I remember crossbreeding. Somehow from news of the sex change thread race changing the mother and having her give birth will lead to buggy Babies what you can't even view their description, something I believe the game now takes some traits from the mother and some from the father and the mother original dna isn't change so the game copies some of that on to the baby saving it to the legends. now I thought you found some way to solve that issue by adding the description to both races so the game won't lock up.
oh well.