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Giant cave spiders work nicely.

Can one increase the popcap for rocs? Or would I have to define them as non-megabeasts? For that matter, will a non-civilized non-megabeast attack on a trigger?

It's worth noting that stuff that is produced by a permitted reaction isn't usable by your civ during worldgen.

I always deconstruct it as quickly as is reasonable because I want my dwarves to figure out they need to stay the hell inside without burrows.

For a fort on an evil glacier, it's been awfully tame.

I already fixed it for the newer version, though I thought I had already changed it. I made heartwood a tool, which has the side effect of making it so they have to be wooden. I also implemented wooden weapons that are craftable. Currently trying to do the same with armor; is [WOOD_MAT] a valid armor token? Elven weapons as they are at the moment have [TRAINING] on them so you're forced to make them wooden even if you have metal. I'm not sure if I'll change this.

I also found out that the combination of [AT_PEACE_WITH_WILDLIFE] on both the entity and the creature has the proper effect; a pack of badgermen just walked through all seven elves without bugging them.


EDIT: Creating and testing wooden armor now. Weapons needed the [WOODEN_WEAPONS] token for some reason for them to appear at embark; can confirm they are craftable. Hearts are still craftable at the craftsman's shop; my "fix" thus far is making them ludicrously costly to make outside of a shrine via a large size. Yeah, they'll be slow to haul and will probably annihilate things if you throw them in adventure mode, but they should be fairly rare there. (Tell me if you start finding them in the lairs of night trolls. They still need a bit of work.)


Currently most of what you need is supplied by a shitload of carpenters. I'll work on making other skills useful with stuff like wood infusion and finding alternatives to ash and charcoal. Not sure what labors to use for what, tbh. A wood infuser would be sort of like a furnace operator, right? On that topic, how do you get racial profession names again? I know we have stuff like Marksdwarf instead of Crossbowman, but lots and lots of elven professions need a rename.

Most material emissions can catch the emitter in them if they're not immune.

Short answer: no.
Long answer:

A simple, if far from ideal, solution could be to just add elves and goblins (or whatever you want) as additional castes to your dwarf creature file.  That doesn't require any kind of DFHack stuff and the elves and goblins will behave as full fort members because as far as the game cares they are dwarves.

This has some major drawbacks.  Since the game thinks they're dwarves, they'll marry in with the dwarves.  I think the new orientation tags will let you prevent this by setting the romance and marriage probabilities to 0 for the interspecies mixing, but I haven't tried it and am not sure.  It might have only supported genders, not full castes.  The other drawback is that they'll randomly select a caste when giving birth, regardless of who the parents are.  So, yes, two dwarves can have a goblin baby, or a dwarf married to an elf can give birth to a goblin, and so on.  There's nothing you can do to prevent that, although if you were using DFHack you could later change the baby's caste to something sensible, but that wouldn't prevent it from happening during worldgen.

If you were using DFHack you could probably find better ways to do this than weird caste stuff though.  DFHack does now work with the newest version of the game I believe, but the old scripts will almost certainly require fixing.