Bay 12 Games Forum

so i made alittle mod and put it into an extra file:
http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=2105

but its not working for me, if i copy the creature in any of the existing creature files its working properly, but if i use a custom one the animal wont show up at all (same for reactions or metals)

so can someone tell me what i have done wrong? ps: graphics works properly at least :x

so i have a barracks (from a chest), training axes, all in squad should use axes in uniform, a squad of 7 dwarfs and a training shedule of "minimum 7 dwarfs"

and still maybe two go sparing (with hands), if they are not idle in the barracks with "waiting for combat training" the other 5 rather sit around with "no job" in the dining room as to go sparing.

is it a bug, did i something wrong? help please :/

While browsing the new raws i found toadys remark on the titanium, so i find its not that much more complex as it is with steel and made the reactions on my own. titan is a little stronger than steel and more expensive too... also eats up a lot of coal in the processing

for inorganic_metal.txt

for reaction_smelter.txt

and of course add the reactions to your entity:

So yeah, why?

Dear Toady,

For every day without release, god spawns a kitten in our forts!

.........
so well yes i am bored, and somehow i thought how the "god kills a kitten" wouldnt be much a thread for df players and just subverted it.
40d is now just damn... i cant find a proper word for it... its not boring, but just everytime i play i end up with cursing the game for the additions in next release and i already miss. even i just read them on the devblog.

so please please please... cant you just release it without finishing all the stuff? :> we wait for more than a year now

The Idea is Simple:
add 2 options in the init file to make variable z level in sky/underground like

[Z_LEVELS_SKY:15]
[Z_LEVELS_UNDERGROUND:15]

so its possible to generate world with say z level sky 25 and underground 50 to make really high towers and dig deep on a 1x1 map and so on.

i just digged into a subterran river, immediatly build a bridge above it and walled the rest off so the nasty olm and snakeman wont get out. (and the few who did are on the kill list of my embark axeman and one of the miners ^^)

now i got the fascinating message my dwarfs named one of the olmman. i immediatly looked into the messages, noone died or anything, then i looked up the olmman, he is standing in the northern tundra, my fort is in the south, the river (and the mountain) in the middle.

he is standing there, all alone moving one or two tiles per month, all his organs and limbs are brown wound (freezing tundra). he did nothing but being outside the warm neat underground river, in which he belong, but somehow never was. and that sad guy just got a name for it :>

The idea is simpl around the roman legions: they used a short sword, tower shield and 3 pilliums (throwing spears) each soldier.

Same i think for dwarfs, they should be able to equip a few throwing weapons to their standard ones. also a specific melee weapon to their crossbow. this is instead of the secondary weapon, so one with throwing weapons, or a marksman with a ordinary melee weapon cant get another weapon.
all throwing weapons use the throwing skill for accuracy, but the weapon skill for melee and ranged damage.
like with bolts and arrows there is a change to break, get stuck on ground or enemy and some are reuseable.
also dwarfs will try  to use bone/wood weapons to train on archery targets to improve their throwing skill and a little the damage skill too, but they gain more weapon skill for using it in melee (or a proper melee weapon anyway)

weapons could be:
throwing knifes, dagger skill, used by kobolds and humans, up to 10 equipable
throwing spear, spear skill of course, used by elves and dwarfs, up to 3 equipable
throwing axe, na guess what? axe skill :p, used by dwarfs, up to 5 equipable
throwing hammer, hammer skill, used by dwarfs, up to 5 equipabel
throwing disc, sword skill, used by goblins and humans (you know the thing xena is using ;p), returns to thrower if not getting stuck (in a tree, wall or the goblin throat), up to 2 equipable
boomerang, sword skill, used by elves and kobolds, basicly same as disc

the raw could look something like that
[ITEM_WEAPON:ITEM_WEAPON_THROW_DISC]
[NAME:throwing disc:throwing discs]
[DAMAGE:90:SLASH]
[WEIGHT:10]
[SKILL:SWORD]
[RANGED:THROWING:RETURNS]
[TWO_HANDED:0]
[MINIMUM_SIZE:4]
[MATERIAL_SIZE:2]

[ITEM_WEAPON:ITEM_WEAPON_THROW_AXE]
[NAME:throwing axe:throwing axes]
[DAMAGE:110:SLASH]
[WEIGHT:10]
[SKILL:AXE]
[RANGED:THROWING:NO_RETURN]
[TWO_HANDED:0]
[MINIMUM_SIZE:4]
[MATERIAL_SIZE:2]
[CAN_STONE]
in combat the dwarf(or whatever) will throw one weapon and try to charge into melee, if he doesnt reach it, he throws another and so on, until he could cripple the target and get into melee range, the target was charging itself, or he run out of throwing weapons. same for marksdwarf with an melee weapon, they will try to shoot if the target is not in melee range yet, but focus on getting into melee.

also the addional weapons should be mount on the  lower torso (belt etc.) and not in the offhand, so they can use a shield properly too.