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Which is the best way to make a weapon stronger than the others? Shall i create a new weapon or add a new material? I've tried to add a new material, but i don't know what to change to make the material harder.

The "Noah's ark" is a software that helps you creating the creatures raw. The objective of this sofware is to help you doing all the boring writing part of modding making you work faster. Unfortunately, i'm not a creature modder, so need to "study" the raw of the creatures. The program works like this at the moment:

• You select a template or start with a blank template (Also random)
• The software creates the basic name and description in the raw
• Now you can add the tokens to the raw by selecting them in the Helper window
• You can simply edit the newraw by pressing ctrl+i/e/r/space (insert/delete/replace/blankline)
• You can select the skeleton of the creature the type of attack and more variables by selecting them.
• Now save the creature and put it in the raw folder.

I'm not going to upload it right now because it really needs a lot of bugfixing.
If you want to help i'd like to know if you usually use a particular template to start a new creature, which token you use more and other useful things you can tell me about creature modding.
If you want to know more:http://digitalbanana.blogspot.com/

So here it is version 0.1: http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=4215

INSTRUCTIONS:
1)CONTROLS:
ctrl+i: insert the selected item from the help tab to the main tab
ctrl+r: like ctrl+i but replace the item
ctrl+e: delete item
ctrl+space: add blank line
ctrl+t: copy an item from the main tab to paste it in the help tab (in te corner left textbox)
ctrl+1: open help
ctrl+2: close help
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2)How it works:
   1)Double click on NEW CREATURE or a layout
   2)If you want to add an item from a customlist select it in the middle-left selection menu (common-attack-skeleton), select again an item and after press add
   3)You can edit the raw by using the controls and selecting things from the help tab
   4)You can add your tokens by writing them in the textbox on the helper tab and pressing enter. After this select them in the small menu at the right of the textbox
   5)You can save the list of your custom tokens by pressing the "S" button at the right of the textbox in the helper tab
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3)Customize:
   ADD A NEW CUSTOM TAB:
      1)Add its name into the customtokenlist in the data folder
      2)Add, in the data folder, a text file named like the name you've added in the customtokenlist
      3)Open the custom folder
      4)Add a new folder named like the name you've added in the customtokenlist
      5)Create how many txt you want with your customized raw in this folder
      6)Now open the file you have created in 2)
      7)Add to the text all the names of the txt files you created in 5)
   ADD A NEW LAYOUT:
      1)Create a new txt in the layout folder
      2)Leave the first five lines blank
      3)Open the list txt in the layout folder
      4)Add the name of the txt created in 1) to the list

P.S. This is only a beta it is full of bugs and it needs a lot of improvement, so if you have some suggestion please tell me.

Yesterday i had the idea to start a community game based on D&D rules but with a user generated world of DF. I'm not a great player of these community games, but i think that my idea can be cool. I'd like to know if you like the idea and if you have some suggestions about gameplay.

The RRC (RandomRawCreator) uses a list of nouns to create new raws for Dwarf Fortress.

HOW TO ADD LIST OF OBJECTS
1)Open data folder
2)Open plants,toys or weapons
3)Add your things.

HOW TO USE IT:
1)Open RRC.exe
2)Double click on Random weapons, random plants or random toys
3)Now check the checkboxes on the left
4)Press generate
5)Press save
6)Open the Data folder
7)Copy the item_toy_random or plant_random or item_weapon_random to dwarffortress raw/object folder
8)If you have made new weapons or toys add to entity_default in the raw/object folder the strings written in "add to entity_default.txt"
9)Play

Example:
Blueberry
Cranberry
Huckleberryplant_random

[OBJECT:PLANT]

[PLANT:BLUEBERRY]
[NAME:blueberry][NAME_PLURAL:blueberrys][ADJ:blueberry]
[USE_MATERIAL_TEMPLATE:STRUCTURAL:STRUCTURAL_PLANT_TEMPLATE]
[MATERIAL_VALUE:2]
[BASIC_MAT:LOCAL_PLANT_MAT:STRUCTURAL]
[EDIBLE_VERMIN]
[PICKED_TILE:13][PICKED_COLOR:7:0:0]
[DEAD_PICKED_TILE:182]
[GROWDUR:390][VALUE:4]
[USE_MATERIAL_TEMPLATE:DRINK:PLANT_ALCOHOL_TEMPLATE]
[STATE_NAME_ADJ:ALL_SOLID:frozen blueberry beer]
[STATE_NAME_ADJ:LIQUID:blueberry beer]
[STATE_NAME_ADJ:GAS:boiling blueberry beer]
[MATERIAL_VALUE:2]
[DISPLAY_COLOR:5:0:0]
[EDIBLE_RAW]
[EDIBLE_COOKED]
[PREFIX:NONE]
[DRINK:LOCAL_PLANT_MAT:DRINK]
[USE_MATERIAL_TEMPLATE:SEED:SEED_TEMPLATE]
[MATERIAL_VALUE:1]
[EDIBLE_VERMIN]
[EDIBLE_COOKED]
[SEED:blueberry seed:blueberry seeds:0:0:1:LOCAL_PLANT_MAT:SEED]
[SPRING][WINTER]
[FREQUENCY:100]
[CLUSTERSIZE:5]
[DRY][WET]
[BIOME:ANY_FOREST]

[PLANT:CRANBERRY]
[NAME:cranberry][NAME_PLURAL:cranberrys][ADJ:cranberry]
[USE_MATERIAL_TEMPLATE:STRUCTURAL:STRUCTURAL_PLANT_TEMPLATE]
[MATERIAL_VALUE:2]
[BASIC_MAT:LOCAL_PLANT_MAT:STRUCTURAL]
[EDIBLE_VERMIN]
[PICKED_TILE:13][PICKED_COLOR:1:0:0]
[DEAD_PICKED_TILE:182]
[GROWDUR:467][VALUE:4]
[USE_MATERIAL_TEMPLATE:DRINK:PLANT_ALCOHOL_TEMPLATE]
[STATE_NAME_ADJ:ALL_SOLID:frozen cranberry beer]
[STATE_NAME_ADJ:LIQUID:cranberry beer]
[STATE_NAME_ADJ:GAS:boiling cranberry beer]
[MATERIAL_VALUE:1]
[DISPLAY_COLOR:5:0:0]
[EDIBLE_RAW]
[EDIBLE_COOKED]
[PREFIX:NONE]
[DRINK:LOCAL_PLANT_MAT:DRINK]
[USE_MATERIAL_TEMPLATE:SEED:SEED_TEMPLATE]
[MATERIAL_VALUE:1]
[EDIBLE_VERMIN]
[EDIBLE_COOKED]
[SEED:cranberry seed:cranberry seeds:0:0:1:LOCAL_PLANT_MAT:SEED]
[SPRING][WINTER]
[FREQUENCY:100]
[CLUSTERSIZE:5]
[DRY]
[BIOME:ANY_POOL]

[PLANT:HUCKLEBERRY]
[NAME:huckleberry][NAME_PLURAL:huckleberrys][ADJ:huckleberry]
[USE_MATERIAL_TEMPLATE:STRUCTURAL:STRUCTURAL_PLANT_TEMPLATE]
[MATERIAL_VALUE:4]
[BASIC_MAT:LOCAL_PLANT_MAT:STRUCTURAL]
[EDIBLE_RAW]
[PICKED_TILE:13][PICKED_COLOR:3:0:0]
[DEAD_PICKED_TILE:182]
[GROWDUR:467][VALUE:2]
[USE_MATERIAL_TEMPLATE:DRINK:PLANT_ALCOHOL_TEMPLATE]
[STATE_NAME_ADJ:ALL_SOLID:frozen huckleberry beer]
[STATE_NAME_ADJ:LIQUID:huckleberry beer]
[STATE_NAME_ADJ:GAS:boiling huckleberry beer]
[MATERIAL_VALUE:1]
[DISPLAY_COLOR:5:0:0]
[EDIBLE_RAW]
[EDIBLE_COOKED]
[PREFIX:NONE]
[DRINK:LOCAL_PLANT_MAT:DRINK]
[USE_MATERIAL_TEMPLATE:SEED:SEED_TEMPLATE]
[MATERIAL_VALUE:1]
[EDIBLE_VERMIN]
[EDIBLE_COOKED]
[SEED:huckleberry seed:huckleberry seeds:0:0:1:LOCAL_PLANT_MAT:SEED]
[AUTUMN]
[FREQUENCY:100]
[CLUSTERSIZE:5]
[WET]
[BIOME:ANY_GRASSLAND]It can write 20000 lines in a few seconds.

Features(V0.3):

• Random Toys
• Random Plants
• Random Weapons
• Random Stone
• Random Food
• Random Instruments
• Random Minerals
• Random Gems
• The entity_default is created and edited during the process
• Now there is a progress bar
• You can edit the raw file directly in the program by pressing 1 or 2 (There will be a tutorial)
• Now there is a new folder named NewRaw, in which RRC put the new raw files.
• You can edit some of the text files of the data folder

Bugs:

• The craftdwarf shop doesn't produce the added toys (FIXED)
• The weapons requested skill is sword and can't be changed (FIXED)
• Sometime the plural words are incorrect.

Download: http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=3981

For questions and problem ask here.