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[BlackFlyme]

It's not in the arena because it has no [CASTE_NAME:singular:plural:adjective]

Are you generating a new world before attempting to adventure?

[Putnam]

Also, it still has the old SPEED tsg from pre-40 versions.

[FallenAngel]

Things without [CASTE_NAME:::] still appear, but are named "nothing", and you get messages like "average sized for a nothing".

[Putnam]

So, I used the more leather mod that makes skin into a blob and tweaks the tanning reaction to use the skin blobs, to get leather proportional to creature size.

But it got me thinking: how does the current body tissue system work? you get bones and meat and fat in proportion to body size, and a collection of other organs if they're large enough to count. But: you get one skin, and one 'hair', unless you dismember the food first, in which case you get one skin and one hair from each body part butchered. Shells from large creatures drop in stacks.

So my question is this: what governs this behavior? What is different in the tissue layers that makes skin and hair so different? The tissues are defined in the raws, you can change their strength and temperature and add or remove them if you want. Wool is sheared in stacks, even. (I think a stack of any size gets spun down to threads anyway, but I'm not certain about that...)

It's not the tissue layers, it's the butchering process (the items made, specifically), thus why making skin butcher into globs makes stacks.

[Nil Athelion]

Making a race of centaur-gecko creatures again, hoping to take advantage of climbing being a thing now.

body_default has "[BODY:HAND_FOOT_CENTAUR_NECK]", which looks about what I want.

It occurs to me that while the right arm is on the right, and the left arm is on the left, tag-wise, the lower body isn't... anywhere relative to the rest of the creature?  How would I make it suck that attacks from behind more often hit the quadruped centaur lower body (and rear legs?)

EDIT:  Overall body shape is something like this, but with less tail:

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http://31.media.tumblr.com/ee6edb549cd1fd687b498860497afc23/tumblr_mlw29ebZEe1r9vbx2o5_1280.png

EDIT2: Okay, so there's BP_POSITION and BP_RELATION... which don't seem to get used for much for areas other than the head?  Shouldn't every body part have a relation to the other parts?  This is a bit confusing.

[jax3639]

Making a race of centaur-gecko creatures again, hoping to take advantage of climbing being a thing now.

body_default has "[BODY:HAND_FOOT_CENTAUR_NECK]", which looks about what I want.

It occurs to me that while the right arm is on the right, and the left arm is on the left, tag-wise, the lower body isn't... anywhere relative to the rest of the creature?  How would I make it suck that attacks from behind more often hit the quadruped centaur lower body (and rear legs?)

I'm unsure whether or not we can make it so that attacks from behind will hit certain bodyparts easier than others

You could increase the DEFAULT_RELSIZE of the lower body but that has the unfortunate effect of making ALL attacks against it more likely to hit

[Nil Athelion]

I thiiiiink that [BP_POSITION:BY_CATEGORY:BODY_LOWER:BACK] does what I want.

How would I test that it's working, though?

[scamtank]

Give your abomination immensely long attack recovery times. Then you can just walk around it and pummel it from all sides at your leisure in the Arena.

[Nil Athelion]

Give your abomination immensely long attack recovery times. Then you can just walk around it and pummel it from all sides at your leisure in the Arena.

That's... really clever.  The old speed thing is gone, which is what I would have done.

What controls how many clutches of children a Fortress Civ creature has?  Is it possible for them to keep on breeding and having kids forever?  I seem to recall that's not possible.

Perhaps it would be possible if, after a certain amount of time, it reached a new life stage (or caste, I guess) that re-wrote the child-bearing attributes?  That wouldn't break up the marriage, would it?


Also, last time I tried this, I made the females large, and the males small, but everyone wound up using the same weapons as if they were large, so Durumgir ran around with a pike in a single hand.  That isn't fixed, is it?

[jax3639]

What controls how many clutches of children a Fortress Civ creature has? 

Is it possible for them to keep on breeding and having kids forever?  I seem to recall that's not possible.

Perhaps it would be possible if, after a certain amount of time, it reached a new life stage (or caste, I guess) that re-wrote the child-bearing attributes? 
That wouldn't break up the marriage, would it?

Also, last time I tried this, I made the females large, and the males small, but everyone wound up using the same weapons as if they were large, so Durumgir ran around with a pike in a single hand.  That isn't fixed, is it?

1) If your creature lays eggs use the token [CLUTCH_SIZE:min:max]
If they give live birth use [LITTERSIZE:min:max]

2) I don't think so

3) I'm not sure how you would go about this
but I don't believe the marriage will break off

4) I have no clue if that is fixed (nor did I know there was such a problem)

[Coidzure Dreams]

With armor/clothing and the like, does setting it to FORCED in the entity raw will mean that any migrants will show up wearing it, even if it's military-grade armor? 

What about the starting dwarves on a new embark, will they end up wearing such things instead of (or on top of) their standard clothing?

[greatconcavity]

Not sure if this belongs here, but anyway: My fortress has some problems with buzzards inaccessible at the edges of the map, so I want to remove the FLIER-token. Problem is: I can't seem to locate the BUZZARD in the raw files. A search for buzzard only returns language files. Do you guys know where it is located? Thanks in advance!

[Robsoie]

Something i really dislike in new version is that goblins now go live into dwarf fortress without any problem, evil killing machine that goal is about torturing and murdering are living next to everyone in peace in the same group.
It does not make any kind of sense to me and ruin a bit of my immersion to the game world when playing adventurer.

To my surprise i found out that the solution was as simple as removing the 2 tokens :
   [TOLERATES_SITE:CITY]
   [TOLERATES_SITE:CAVE_DETAILED]
from the goblins entry in the entity file.

Worked really great in worldgen.

But i'm wondering , isn't there going to be some bad side effect regarding bandits you can find terrorizing towns and hamlet that have usually lots of goblins inside, will it still make the goblins want to send war parties to attack other civs, etc ?
Basically, will the goblins be interested in going out of their overpopulated dark fortresses to bring war and destruction as expected from them ?

[Coidzure Dreams]

Something i really dislike in new version is that goblins now go live into dwarf fortress without any problem, evil killing machine that goal is about torturing and murdering are living next to everyone in peace in the same group.
It does not make any kind of sense to me and ruin a bit of my immersion to the game world when playing adventurer.

To my surprise i found out that the solution was as simple as removing the 2 tokens :
   [TOLERATES_SITE:CITY]
   [TOLERATES_SITE:CAVE_DETAILED]
from the goblins entry in the entity file.

Worked really great in worldgen.

But i'm wondering , isn't there going to be some bad side effect regarding bandits you can find terrorizing towns and hamlet that have usually lots of goblins inside, will it still make the goblins want to send war parties to attack other civs, etc ?
Basically, will the goblins be interested in going out of their overpopulated dark fortresses to bring war and destruction as expected from them ?

My recollection is that unless they have [TOLERATES_SITE], then they won't take over a site of that type, they'll just make it into a ruin if they continue to successfully attack and sack it.  So you'd have more ruins due to Goblins than you might otherwise run into as one possible side effect.

I think they should still go to war though, as don't they go to war with Elves even without tolerating hippy communes?

[jax3639]

Not sure if this belongs here, but anyway: My fortress has some problems with buzzards inaccessible at the edges of the map, so I want to remove the FLIER-token. Problem is: I can't seem to locate the BUZZARD in the raw files. A search for buzzard only returns language files. Do you guys know where it is located? Thanks in advance!

I believe you mean a vulture?
those are in creature_large_tropical