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Reaction Modding Information

This post shall be in two parts. Products and Reagents.

Below is your basic reaction.

[REACTION:AAA]
[NAME:BbB]
[BUILDING:CCC:DDD]
[REAGENT:EEE:FFF:GGG:HHH:III:JJJ]
[PRODUCT:KKK:LLL:MMM:NNN:OOO:PPP]
[SKILL:QQQ]

Available entries for AAA
Anything is really able to be put here, this is how the reaction is called upon in the game.

Available entries for BbB
Anything is real able to be put here, this is how the reaction reads in the game for the player.
You generally want this to clearly state what it is this reaction does.

Available entries for CCC
This is any of the available buildings you have in your version of DF.
Vanilla entries are...
SMELTER
TANNER
KITCHEN
SOAP_MAKER
KILN

Available entries for DDD
This is a hotkey that you designate for the reaction.
The available hotkeys are...
CUSTOM_SHIFT_(A to Z)
CUSTOM_(A to Z)

Available entries for EEE
This is so you can call upon the reagent in the product line. It's more or less the order of reagents.
The available entries are...
A to Z

Available entries for FFF
This is how many of this specific reagent you want.
Any number is a valid entry...

Available entries for GGG
This is the ITEM_TOKEN that the reagent is.
The available entries are... (Please note this list is (potentially) incomplete and not 100 percent verified.)

Available entries for HHH
This is the ITEM_SUBTYPE that the reagent is.
The available entries are... (Please note this list is (potentially) incomplete and not 100 percent verified.)

Available entries for III
This is the MATGLOSS_TOKEN that the reagent is.
The available entries are... (Please note this list is (potentially) incomplete and not 100 percent verified.)

Available entries for JJJ
This is the MATGLOSS_SUBTYPE that the reagent is.
The available entries are... (Please note this list is (potentially) incomplete and not 100 percent verified.)

Available entries for KKK
There is some debate on what this does exactly, I'll leave here how I view it until I test it's wrong.
This is the percentage of the product that is created.
Any number is a valid entry...
If you go over 100 percent you'll end up with a complete product and say you go to 150 percent you end up with a complete product and half a product. If you run the reaction again, you end up with two products instead of one. Repeat.

Available entries for LLL
This is the amount of the product that is created.
Any number is a valid entry...

Available entries for MMM
This is the ITEM_TOKEN that the product is.
The available entries are... (Please note this list is (potentially) incomplete and not 100 percent verified.)

Available entries for NNN
This is the ITEM_SUBTYPE that the product is.
The available entries are... (Please note this list is (potentially) incomplete and not 100 percent verified.)

Available entries for OOO
This is the MATGLOSS_TOKEN that the product is.
The available entries are... (Please note this list is (potentially) incomplete and not 100 percent verified.)

Available entries for PPP
This is the ITEM_SUBTYPE that the product is.
The available entries are... (Please note this list is (potentially) incomplete and not 100 percent verified.)

Available entries for QQQ
This is the skill that you want to be used for this reaction.
The available entries are... (Please note this list is (potentially) incomplete and not 100 percent verified.)

Body Modding Information

Planning...

Hey shaostoul I have some body modifications I'd like to propose to you

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[BODY_DETAIL_PLAN:VERTEBRATE_TISSUE_LAYERS:SKIN_ADAMANTINE:FAT:MUSCLE:BONE_ADAMANTINE:CARTILAGE]

[TISSUE:SKIN_ADAMANTINE]
[TISSUE_NAME:adamantine:NP]
[SCARS]
[TISSUE_MATERIAL:INORGANIC:ADAMANTINE]
[RELATIVE_THICKNESS:1]
[HEALING_RATE:1] -- Lower is faster.
[VASCULAR:1]
[PAIN_RECEPTORS:5]
[CONNECTS]
[TISSUE_SHAPE:LAYER]
[TISSUE:BONE_ADAMANTINE]
[TISSUE_NAME:adamantine bone:NP] --- Whether it has a plural depends on exact part
[STRUCTURAL]
[CONNECTIVE_TISSUE_ANCHOR]
[TISSUE_MATERIAL:INORGANIC:ADAMANTINE]
[RELATIVE_THICKNESS:2]
[HEALING_RATE:1]
[VASCULAR:3]
[PAIN_RECEPTORS:50]
[CONNECTS]
[TISSUE_SHAPE:LAYER]
[SETTABLE]
[SPLINTABLE]


    [BODY_DETAIL_PLAN:STANDARD_MATERIALS]
    [REMOVE_MATERIAL:BONE]
[REMOVE_MATERIAL:SKIN]

[BODY_DETAIL_PLAN:STANDARD_TISSUES]
[REMOVE_TISSUE:BONE]
[REMOVE_TISSUE:SKIN]

[SELECT_TISSUE_LAYER:BY_CATEGORY:ALL]
[TL_HEALING_RATE:1]

[SELECT_MATERIAL:ALL]
[COLDDAM_POINT:NONE]
[HEATDAM_POINT:NONE]
      [IGNITE_POINT:NONE]
      [IF_EXISTS_SET_MELTING_POINT:NONE]
      [IF_EXISTS_SET_BOILING_POINT:NONE]
      [SPEC_HEAT:NONE]

this part is so that you don't get an error  saying that TAUPE_SANDY wasn't used

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Here all of the skin is selected and various colors are listed.

[SET_TL_GROUP:BY_CATEGORY:ALL:SKIN_ADAMANTINE]
[TL_COLOR_MODIFIER:BROWN:1:BURNT_UMBER:1:CINNAMON:1:COPPER:1:DARK_BROWN:1:DARK_PEACH:1:DARK_TAN:1:ECRU:1:PALE_BROWN:1:PALE_CHESTNUT:1:PALE_PINK:1:PEACH:1:PINK:1:RAW_UMBER:1:SEPIA:1:TAN:1:TAUPE_PALE:1:TAUPE_SANDY:1]
[TLCM_NOUN:skin:SINGULAR]

and I've tried just using

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[TISSUE_LAYER:BY_CATEGORY:ALL:ADAMANTINE]

but it just produces an error stating that tissue ADAMANTINE was not found
and this variant

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[TISSUE_LAYER:BY_CATEGORY:ALL:INORGANIC:ADAMANTINE]

just spams the error log for EVERY bodypart for both sexes that tissue ADAMANTINE was not found for BODYPART for SEX using first tissue found instead

this all stems from me posting that I gave my dwarfs adamantine skin and a guy asking me to post the code. So, I decided to try to use your guide (because it's so popular) to post it. If you would do so that would be appreciated greatly. Thank you.

General Information

Planning...

I've been seeing a lot of posts about small little things, so I'll try to address those here.

Adventure mode reactions!!!
Provided by ToaHero92 (He said he didn't care about getting credit, but this is a sizable chunk of info.
These can possibly go in any reaction_name file. Also you don't have to add them to the civ.


Aquifers
Sick and tired of being stopped by aquifers? It's real simple and easy to remove them. Look for these three files.

inorganic_stone_layer
inorganic_stone_mineral
inorganic_stone_soil

Inside of them you'll find the entries for various stones and soils and such. You're looking for a tag specific tag. [AQUIFER] to be exact. Just go through each 3 of the files and make sure to remove [AQUIFER] from all of them. Some may have it, a lot won't. You'll mostly see it in the inorganic_stone_soil file.

Adventure Mode Reactions

It's more or less a fortress mode reaction, but may be a little bit harder for reagents.

Instead of
[BUILDING:BUILDING_NAME:HOTKEY]

it's going to be
[ADVENTURE_MODE_ENABLED]

There is a list of products on the wiki page of my guide. It's missing quite a bit, but I'm too lazy presently to go through and add them all.

The following may be a working reaction for tanning hides in Adventure Mode.

Reactions and Buildings

The following vanilla builds can have reactions added and removed from them only. Some of the buildings have reactions that are hard-coded and you can't change. You can't change the appearance of these buildings.

Smelter
Kiln
Kitchen
Tanner

The following vanilla building can have reactions added and removed from it AND you CAN change the appearance of the build or remove it entirely.

Soap Maker's Workshop

Splints and Crutches and (other stuff) are hard-coded and can not be removed. You can however add any of the items to be produced via reaction at any custom or vanilla moddable workshop.
Wiki guide has a products list.

Regarding soils and sand and liquids in reactions...

As far as I still know, reaction reagents can not properly call up items contained in something. You may successfully call up a bag of sand, but you aren't actually calling the sand, you're calling the bag. The same is for liquids, this is why you haven't seen a true blood wine beverage as of yet.

Professions

As far as I know all skills are hard-coded and you can NOT add or remove any. You do however have quite a lot of skills to choose from. There are two lists of skills. One for being used in reactions and one for buildings and labors (I don't have this last list yet.)

Item Subtype, what's that? (Weapons, armor and items)

Item subtype to be specific is...
[PRODUCT:100:1:ITEM:ITEM_SUBTYPE:MATGLOSS:MATGLOSS_SUBTYPE:PART]

Majority of your reactions aren't going to have any item subtype, at least vanilla DF.

For example weapons use a subtype.

[PRODUCT:100:1:WEAPON:ITEM_WEAPON_SWORD_SHORT:INORGANIC:STEEL]

Ammo is the same way, but instead of WEAPON, it says AMMO. Toys, crafts, instruments, ammo, weapons, armor, etc. all have that item subtype.

Research

This has been a big subject lately. There is a lot of debate on how to go about it. It would however in essence require dummy items. Research books, research points, whatever you can think up.

These would be reagents used in reactions to allow you to make them.

REMEMBER THAT A REACTION MADE ITEM WILL NOT HAVE QUALITY LEVELS, FOR QUALITY LEVELS YOU ACTUALLY HAVE TO MAKE IT!

If it continues to be in demand and no one else makes it and I get REQUESTS for it, I will make a few examples of 'research' stuff.

Tile sets and graphic sets.

A lot of people worry about whether or not you can change between these for saves. Common in 'community games'. These are completely changeable, much like most of the INI settings.

Worldgen

If you change settings in this, it WILL NOT change anything in your present world, you HAVE to gen a new world for it to work.

As my motto goes with modding. If you don't know if it needs a regen, just regen.

Item Types

I've seen a few questions about wanting to make new item types. The answer is NO. You can not make 'books' you can not make 'scrolls' you can not make 'elaborate nuclear device'

You CAN make a TOY, INSTRUMENT, CRAFT, whatever that is already present and call it book, scroll, elaborate nuclear device. However it WON'T actually be one. You have to use your 'ImAgInAtIoN'.

Water and amphibious dwarfs... flying?

A few questions have gone around about working under water. The answer is no. The same goes for lava. Your creature will say it is dangerous terrain REGARDLESS of any tags you give them... as far as I know. They will not run into the water and swim to where you want them to dig, they will not swam dive into lava and fight your dreaded magma mega beast with spikes of ooze, they will not do any of that.

FLYING it's more or less the same with the water. Your dwarfs treat cliffs as cliffs... They will not fly properly to where it is you want them to work. As soon as they lift off the ground, it becomes dangerous terrain and they cancel.

That's all for now... I'll add more as time goes on.

NOTE: I've not touched Dwarf Fortress in quite a long time, at least modding wise. I wonder if this is still useful.

It's real tiny. =-P

It looks fairly good for starters. Guess I can't say much more till I see a finished product.

Yeah, specifying what furniture would be hard, but I'm pretty sure you could be a little tricky and work some way out to being a little specific.

Yeah, I've been really careful to make sure if I re-use a save and change settings that I do it both in the Save and Normal Raw. I normally just regen. Just in case.

Shoku what do you mean lower the homeotherm? ... wait... homeotherm is how fast it transfers heat?

Can I add/remove the set_temp or adjust the homeotherm without having to regen? Seems that's what I had to do, but I have like zero experience with modding creatures.

Now that is the real tricky part. I have not been able to get any type of product to work that has to be contained in something. Like using a bag of sand to make something... it uses the bag, not the sand...

The ice might be a different story, but I'd have to search for that one and try a lot of miss and one hit kinda deal.