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QuoteHow do you disable immigrants and caravans for certain civilization races?
Giving them no active seasons will remove caravans. Without trade nor outpost liaison, there should be no migrants after the first two waves.QuoteHow do you resurrect a unit from a building reaction?
That reaction should give the worker a syndrome with an interaction that allow him to resurrect a corpse. You can use creature classes within the interaction to decide which creatures are eligible.
Dfhack will allow you to apply syndromes on a creature but... as of today it seems that syndromes applied this way are broken and interactions are never used. This is a bug I am stuck with for my mod.
An alternative would be to make the reaction produce a large quantities of rocks that cause the syndrome when inhaled, not guaranteed to work.QuoteHow do you essentially make a machine, or workshop which can generate a type of liquid as a result of a reaction?
This should help, probably buggy since I slapped it together only to fill channels.QuoteHow do you make an armored plating around a creatures skin via a building reaction? i.e. Urist McSkeleton getting his bones plated with iron by Urist McArmorsmith (Or Urist McPool of Iron perhaps)
Old masterwork DF has reactions to provide armor to horses, I think it involves transformations into creatures with iron skins or something.QuoteDo old scripts from 2014 like https://gist.github.com/IndigoFenix/8543661 function effectively on DF0.42.06 (The thought now occurs to me, if I examine that I may learn how to do the above)
A lot of them do, they have to be tested one by one but so far the porting job was minimal.QuoteWhen using an ability, does the projectile always have to be spinning? Powers, abilities, syndromes, are confusing the heck out of me actually. @_@
Anything thrown is spinning. What you did was the closest to a magic missile as possible until magic is implemented for real.QuoteIs it possible to have a material evaporate after being cast?
Give it a low boiling temperature, it should go in smoke after hitting.QuoteDoes anyone have a Dwarf Fortress language library for Notepad++ that's not from 2013??
I use sublime text, there is a DFML plugin adding some highlighting.
As for redistribution, there should be licences with programs that allows it and a safe stance is to consider scripts and raws found here as CC by-nc.
Last but not the least :QuoteFortunately 32x32 works just fine. Anyone know why most graphic packs are only 16x16?
For creature sprites you can use whatever size you want, those are resized to the tileset's size.
Afaik DF has a minimum width of 80 tiles, so a 16x16 tileset is the most accessible for both screen sizes and readability especially without dfhack and the TWBT plugin.
24x24 matches 1080p screens nicely, higher than that and you will have no choice but to play fullscreen, which makes dwarf therapist annoying to use.
I'll be sure to go over all of that when I wake up tonight. The modding community sure is a helpful bunch here.
Oh yeah that's true. I believe I actually saw something somewhere for disabling strange moods.As of version 0.42.00, only creatures with [STRANGE_MOODS] can get (surprise surprise) strange moods.
there is a script that lets you tinker with souls tho, i reckon it can also make them. http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=147763.0
Glad that you got it working.
As for your earlier question, you can create domesticated or wild animals, but trying to make a citizen will result in a creature of the correct race but no personality. This sounds like it might fit with some mod ideas, but my intuition is that it would eventually break the game (for example, when someone with no preferences gets a strange mood).
Away from my machine right now, but try
modtools/reaction-trigger -reactionName SUMMON_MANAWYRM -command "modtools/create-unit -race MANAWYRM -caste MALE -location [ \\LOCATION ] -age 0 -domesticate"
Note the spaces around the brackets. That is how a list/array is specified on the command line. It looks like \\LOCATION is giving you "10 20 30" instead of the "[ 10 20 30 ]" you need.
Thanks again Dirst! Turned out the problem was that it needed brackets not quotation marks. Which means I can now summon pets and creatures properly. ^_^ This will be incredibly useful for some of the races.You should be using create-unit, which has a -domesticate option (my little contribution to that script). I would also set the age to zero for completeness.
modtools/reaction-trigger -reactionName SUMMON_MANAWYRM -command "modtools/create-unit -race MANAWYRM -caste MALE -location \\LOCATION -age 0 -domesticate"
You may need to experiment with the location bit to make sure everything parses correctly.
You're so helpful. I don't know about a tutorial, but you can look inside mods, or the DFHack thread, for examples. I use reaction-trigger in that mod in my signature, but to add syndromes rather than execute a script. Running a script would look like this inside your onLoad.init:You will want to use reaction-trigger for a lot of these, which can set off an arbitrary script when a reaction finishes. The latest build of DFHack now includes create-unit, so there is a pseudo-standard method of spawning critters now (works great for tame/domesticated creatures, okay for wild animals, badly for citizens, doesn't even attempt announcement-worthy megabeasts).
Could you perhaps point me in the direction of an article or perhaps a tutorial which goes into depth about how I would go about this?
modtools/reaction-trigger -reactionName TEIRDALIN_CUSTOM_REACTION -command "my-lua-command -haplessTarget \\WORKER_ID -wickednessParameter 25"
I also use create-unit, but it is called from inside another script and the surrounding logic is really convoluted. Better to just experiment with it at the console prompt.
Check the error log for duplicated raws. Can do stuff like this.
You will want to use reaction-trigger for a lot of these, which can set off an arbitrary script when a reaction finishes. The latest build of DFHack now includes create-unit, so there is a pseudo-standard method of spawning critters now (works great for tame/domesticated creatures, okay for wild animals, badly for citizens, doesn't even attempt announcement-worthy megabeasts).
some of the things cant be done to my knowledge(new skills, civs in magma layer/hell, design new lair structures, ..) with existing tools.
otherwise, there exist a couple of dfhack scripts involved with ressurection, ghosts, buildings triggers, enslaving, summoning, liquid creation, cavaren and migrant manipulation, and custom traps. so you would basically want to sift through existing script and addons and see what information you can fnd.
