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Dwarf Fortress => DF Modding => Topic started by: Mephansteras on May 08, 2008, 01:57:00 pm

Title: Stone creatures
Post by: Mephansteras on May 08, 2008, 01:57:00 pm

So, I've been playing around with making some stone creatures, much like the metal goblins someone else made.

Problem is, Stone as a generic matgloss gets normal stones, gems, and even the various dirt and sand types.

Anyone else played around with this? I can make a static stone type work fine, but it'd be neat to have marble/granite/gabbro/etc ones running around without seeing a bunch of gemstone and sand ones as well.

Ideally, I'd like to restrict it to types of stones, like Metamorphic or whatever.

Title: Re: Stone creatures
Post by: Kagus on May 08, 2008, 02:03:00 pm

Unfortunately, that's not currently possible.  Sorry chum.

It's all-or-nothing, when stone is concerned.

Title: Re: Stone creatures
Post by: Kidiri on May 08, 2008, 02:19:00 pm

Make creatures that are named something like "Animated Gabbro" give them a high damblock to simulate it's hardness and make it drop whatever stone it's made of. Also give it most of the [NO~]-tokens to make it behave like a rock.

Title: Re: Stone creatures
Post by: Mephansteras on May 08, 2008, 02:50:00 pm

I was afraid of that. Ah, well.

What i've got is just that, and animated statue that walks around and beats the snot out of stuff. I may make a couple of versions, to give some variety. Right now I've got a Felsite one, which works pretty well.

Title: Re: Stone creatures
Post by: Deon on May 08, 2008, 03:44:00 pm

Check the Sean Mirrsen's Martial Arts mod.
He has a lot of different golem creatures which are made of different gems/stones/metals and have unique features.
Also there're very neat shard golems.

I just let you know. Maybe you'll be happy to play with his creatures and it is maybe not needed to make something that is already done perfrectly. Good luck with you experiments.

Title: Re: Stone creatures
Post by: Fualkner on May 08, 2008, 04:01:00 pm

Well, I'd just like some metal gobbos. How can I do that?

Title: Re: Stone creatures
Post by: Deon on May 08, 2008, 04:05:00 pm

http://www.dwarffortresswiki.net/index.php/Creature_tokens

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