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Is there a guide to debugging dfhack/plugins......I am currently trying to get df-ai (0.47.05-r1) running on my linux machine and I am having it hang......I just want to see where it is hanging and that might give me a clue as to how to fix it......

So any thoughts?

Nvm I found out how to do it.

do I have to give a creature [BLOODSUCKER] if I want them to see warm-blooded creatures through walls?

No......[EXTRAVISION] does that

Try changing the material line to CDI:MATERIAL:CREATURE_MAT:INORGANIC:DR_FIRE_IMMUNE_COATING:UNDIRECTED_VAPOR]

It should then form a cloud around them, but it will be inhaled/contact them immediately. With liquid glob it's probably not able to hit itself.

I did do that and just doing that causes the secret holder to sometimes inhale the vapor and get the syndrome.....But the solution to that is the following:

The syndrome that produces the vapor will also add an effect (it doesn't matter what it is) for 100 ticks (in my case I just removed the "CAN_SPEAK" tag).  That syndrome will have the same [SYN_IDENTIFIER:<whatever>] so that while the CAN_SPEAK is removed the inhalation doesn't go into affect.

It is a far from perfect system, but it is semi-functional......Thanks Eric Blank for pointing me in the correct direction.

As to ArrowheadArcher's question:

Not sure if this is a modding question, but I want to convert to 1 meter to cubic centimeters and vice versa for realism. I'm currently using this, but I don't know how accurate it is: http://www.endmemo.com/cconvert/cm3m.php

Another modding question would be how to get civs to use/make a material exclusively, like rock, bone, or bronze/copper for bronze age or prehistoric mods. 

I don't think it is meaningful to convert meters to cubic centimeters (unless I am misunderstanding something here?)  So I am not sure what the goal of that is.

As for the other question (this is my understanding, which may not be perfect):

Everyone has access to raw materials (except elves, which have some hardcoded logic): ie anything in the ground.

Then the [PERMITTED_REACTION] tags add reactions that an entity can use.  For instance dwarves have the following:


which lets them make steel.  But everyone can make iron stuff because they all have access to raw materials.

Like I said....I am fairly new to this, but I believe that is how that works

Quote from: DarthRubik on January 01, 2021, 07:54:51 am

I was hoping to use the trick described in this thread:
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=151702.0

The idea was to create a wizard creature and make a million different castes, and each caste would have automatic knowledge of a certain spheres secret.....This would kind of kick start the whole secret propogation in worldgen.....But alas this doesn't appear to work in 0.47.04......

Does anybody know when this trick stopped working?

I can't comment on whether the trick works or not - I've never personally used / tried to use it - but if it's sphere-related, then you'd likely run into problems with your particular plan. Spheres are at a creature level, rather than a caste level, so every caste of the wizard creature would have all the spheres at once.

Well either way I hadn't gotten far enough to put a sphere on each caste....I was at this point just trying to create the innate secret knowledge....and I couldn't get it to work

I was hoping to use the trick described in this thread:
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=151702.0

The idea was to create a wizard creature and make a million different castes, and each caste would have automatic knowledge of a certain spheres secret.....This would kind of kick start the whole secret propogation in worldgen.....But alas this doesn't appear to work in 0.47.04......

Does anybody know when this trick stopped working?

PTW......Looks pretty awesome.

I cannot wait for the female dwarves to come out, because my current fort has a hammer wielding queen.

PTW