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I am working on updating a race of humanoid dragons i made for the previous versions of DF, and i am seeking info on how with the new tags you can force a civ to have certian creatures as pets by default.

If someone can point me in the right direction, it would be very helpful.   i want this civ to only use the creatures ive used as mounts and pets, ignoring horses and mules and such.

my initial quick run though failed this morning, and now ive realized why.   first and foremost, i forgot to add the reaction to the entity file.   i also mislabeled the required job for the reaction.  its weaving, not weaver.

as for how to get hair, you can get hair from horses and mules as well, its part of their manes and tails and when butchered, they drop hair.


gonna try another run with some edits and fix-ups, will edit this post or make a new one if someone else replies first

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AAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA!!!!    IT WORKS!!!!!


[REACTION:WEAVE_HAIR]
   [NAME:weave hair]
   [BUILDING:TANNER:CUSTOM_H]
   [REAGENT:A:1:NONE:NONE:NONE:NONE][USE_BODY_COMPONENT]
      [HAS_MATERIAL_REACTION_PRODUCT:HAIR_MAT]
   [PRODUCT:100:1:THREAD:NONE:GET_MATERIAL_FROM_REAGENT:A:HAIR_MAT]
   [SKILL:WEAVING]
   [AUTOMATIC]


   [MATERIAL_REACTION_PRODUCT:HAIR_MAT:LOCAL_CREATURE_MAT:HAIR]
   [SILK]
   [ITEMS_SOFT]


and it does it automatically at the tanners shop!     now to figure out something to do with hoof and teeth and feathers and such...

how would be the best way of going about setting it up to get thread from hair?

should i try and edit materials to get it to work, or would reactions be the best way?

does anyone else have something similar already set up that they could help me out with?

there are dragons in out wonderful world of DF...   they use the SCALE material instead of SKIN, but with things as they are currently, dropped scales do nothing...    would it ruin the game to adjust the tags on SCALE to match SHELL in that they can be used for the same things that shells are used for?   i think its the items_scaled tag...


i know this would be technically modding, but im suggesting it as a permanant implementation...   i want my dragon scale armor...  seeing as we cant get dragon leather armor anymore.

i looked over that wiki as well, thats where i got the coloration info.    im not a one-source person. 
the 1d4chan fluff had better descriptions of government and society than the wiki you listed, so i used it for those parts.


your free to edit and adjust my contribution as much as you want, i just wanted to help.

i have a copy that is with them seperate from eachother, and you can easilly tag the south sergals as good and the north as evil and give them contradicting ethics to ensure war.


as for the items, the way i thought of it was full plate mail for commanders, lesser plate for warriors, and loincloths for everyone else.

i added in the maul because its needed for the executions ability (as in hammerer).   i havent figured out throwing spears yet, and they needed some kind of ranged weapon

if your making an addon species, those three files are all you need for each race, you can put armor, weapons and other items all in one file, as they all use the item definition

has anyone figured out how to get this to work reliably in the latest version?

i wanna have a fortress run by a dragon, maintained by dwarves, and with kobolds and elves as slaves/pets

i think it might be able to be done through setting up caste systems...   but how would you set up to prevent inter-caste breeding?   ie, kobolds with the elves and such.

Couldn't agree more. Somewhat related - I'd also like the option to cancel an embark right up until you press "e: embark now".

IIRC you used to be able to do that in the old versions, just hit escape and select abort.   but with the rebinding of keys, that option has been lost.  (others have compained about this alot too - i just ctrl-alt-del DF and start over)

well, someone start work on a tomb for this rp...  it seems to be dead...