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Unless Toady's fixed it the [GOOD] and [EVIL] biome tags don't work still.

Is there a way to mod vampires so that they kill less dwarfes per year or only seldom kill them and only send their victim´s to the hospital due to blood loss? I actually like to have 1 or 2 vampires living hidden in my fort but 20-30 dead dwarfes per year from vampires is a little bit to much for my taste. Thx and keep up the good work.

FYI Vampires don't usually kill with just one feeding, they just target the same dwarf for each subsequent feedings.  But to answer you're question, no.  There is no way to lower the amount of that a vampire drinks.

Since part of the problem is having a dead headcrab listed while the headcrab zombie is still terrorizing dwarves, how about this solution:

1) headcrab latches onto victim (I'm assuming you have this part working already)
2) victim gains a transformation syndrome that turns his body to blood (as others have suggested above) so there isn't a body left lying around
3) the headcrab gains a transformation syndrome that turns it into the zombie form

This provides a dead dwarf entry -- (s)he's a zombie, so it works -- and the crab transforms, as desired, and will still show up as a headcrab-zombie corpse when it finally gets killed.

Oh, don't forget to include a dead headcrab "in" the corpse when the zombie is slain.  Bonus points if the zombie can be killed and have a headcrab "pop off" and run around looking for a new victim (gah, i hated it when that happened and I didn't notice).

2-They aren't saying turn the creature into blood, but make it so the interaction only affects creatures with blood
3- Having the headcrab transform defeats the whole purpose of someone turning into a headcrabed zombie

As far as I know there is no way to just remove a creature with out it being listed as dead/missing.  The basic idea of what you have worked for me when I modded in face hugers.
Face huger attacks > FH dies > target gets sick > target gets better > target transforms into a chest burster vermin > some time later it transforms into a crazed xenomorph.

I've had a necromancer siege broken when a kobold ambush squad got revealed by one of the corpses.  So far the kobold squads have broken up 3 sieges for this fort and I'm waiting to see it happen the fourth time.

Kobolds: We throw ourselves at the necromancers so you open the doors so we can steal stuff again!

Quote from: jaxy15 on March 09, 2012, 03:32:19 pm

Quote from: Nihilist on March 09, 2012, 03:24:38 pm

Can you add an attack with a syndrome?
My quest for a proper zombie virus hinges on adding a [SPECIALATTACK_INTERACTION:ZOMBIE_BITE] to an affected creature.

Yes, you CAN add attacks with syndromes. How do you think animals inject their venom?

I should be more specific, my zombie curse is modeled off the vampire/necro curse so no [CE_BODY_TRANSFORMATION], I don't want my zombies healing, and i don't want a generic zombie body for all the zombies.

I don't want a contact based contaminant for spreading to avoid husk-like issues, so the ideal method would be to spread it like a werecurse with [SPECIALATTACK_INTERACTION:ZOMBIE_BITE].
   
lets take a dwarf for an example, here is the dwarfs bite attack.
[ATTACK:BITE:CHILD_BODYPART_GROUP:BY_CATEGORY:HEAD:BY_CATEGORY:TOOTH]
      [ATTACK_SKILL:BITE]
      [ATTACK_VERB:bite:bites]
      [ATTACK_CONTACT_PERC:100]
      [ATTACK_PENETRATION_PERC:100]
      [ATTACK_FLAG_EDGE]
      [ATTACK_PRIORITY:SECOND]
      [ATTACK_FLAG_CANLATCH]

for the syndrome to work I'd need the curse to either add [SPECIALATTACK_INTERACTION:ZOMBIE_BITE] to that attack(and preferably change [ATTACK_PRIORITY:SECOND] to [ATTACK_PRIORITY:MAIN]) or just have it add in a new bite attack.

That is what I'm trying to figure out.

http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=100969.0

There was whole topic on this exact subject.

The vampires will respect the burrow if they have a job in it.  I stick mine in a cave that I sealed up after I put the first two into.  I got them in there by making them the only ones allowed to use a masons workshop and now they are my dedicated spelunkers.

Vampire-blight: When you need your vampires to die a terrible screaming, slow and melty death. _{That you can't hear}