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yea I love your work man ive learned a lot from dissecting your mod

I used gobble vermin with your essence creature and the animal ate it and got the syndrome ? but the animal only ate it when it was in a "hungry" state I could only get an animal in a hungry"state" by starving it with the [standard_grazer] token then save/exit game then remove it....

but after the standard grazer tag is gone the animal will never get hungry again after it eats the vermin

entire mechanic needs some work

from what ive seen to "eat" something you must "ingest" it, to ingest something you must be "hungry" and only [standard_grazer] and [can_learn] [intelligent] creatures can get hungry and sadly grazers only eat [grass](from the ground) tried giving modded grass in stockpiles they wouldn't eat it) and [can_learn] [intelligent] will just eat what ever they feel like eating...

maybe with something like dfhack you can force hunger onto a creature but that's not really ideal mod wise

what's even funnier is that creature(hedgehog) ive found in the vanilla raws that have the gobble_vermin token don't get hungry (they are not grazer or learn,intelligent)so when they gobble vermin what is the point of it?  is the entire point of eating vermin  to merely reduce there numbers ?

Ok tested stuff at length,  the [STANDARD_GRAZER] causes hunger

  if the gobble token is used together it starves
If the gobble token used alone it will no longer hunger or eat at all

The panda creature has [specific_food] token which can be used with creatures

Again with standard grazer and a specific creature food set animal still starves

Now with that said a creature that is starving will eat the specific food if I remove the standard grazer token why won't it eat the food while the grazer token is active

Is this a bug ?? Do panda starve to death or do they eat bamboo ?

No it works your creature isn't set up right

I found if the creature has more than one eating method the game only uses one

Like I had a creature that was [standard_grazer] I removed that token and the creature immediately starts eating nearby vermin

Also my syndrome was in the vermin creature not it's material syndrome was applied 😁

Also noticed after some tinkering your entity file is missing the token [SITE_CONTROLLABLE]  it's pretty important

With even more testing it does seem like with longer histories the creature does start to become unstable I tried a 200-year world and it crashed twice and then loaded on the third time so I don't know what's going on but it does work but it is spotty?  apparently

Or did you want the entity to be a separate faction ?

I'll try this later and tinker with it
Does it crash without those tokens ?