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Well it hasn't worked as planned.

I couldn't make dwarfs revert to their normal selves.

Upon embarking with the creatures I made (of fire and ice) although they worked, the fire one set flame to all surrounding grass, the ice one worked great! however it had a tendancy of freezing my dwarfs in water.

I couldn't seem to safely work with the fire one....

Also I could get the temperatures to adjust after the genned world, but oh well.

If anyone has had luck with anything similar let me know? I really don't want to get rid of the aquifers.

So I take it you have to regen for changing homeotherm and set_heat........

Well through what I've tested... I've had no luck... well no good luck...

I made two separate beasts.. one ice and one fire...

they both worked great! however.. upon embark they immediately set EVERYTHING in the near vacinity (including dwarfs) on fire. (the ice guys didn't really do anything that I noticed...)

when i was finally able to some how manage to not get my dwarfs to die in the first couple seconds of embark... i made my way down to the aquifer...

The fire guys worked! they made tons of steam and if it were a little more controlled, i might've been able to do what I wanted... maybe... one of the ice ones showed up, encased 4 of the remaining 4 in ice as soon as it stepped onto their level and then the ice one got swept away and plummeted to its death. where it proceeded to create a ring of ice right around it's corpse. (fell in a major river)

the fire one kept steaming away and then some how out of no where, my last dwarf bled to death.

even taking the procaution of adding fireimmune and colddam point to try to counter possible effects... a lot of death was had on my part.

I guess I may have to mod out aquifers to really accomplish what I want.. but I'd really like to keep that aquifer.

Unless someone knows of a way to hack tiles, i think i am done tempting death and dieing...

Yeah, I guess I'll give them a look. Trying to go for freezing temps though, so hopefully I don't run into too many problems.

...Are you ADDING that reaction to an existing save? or was it already there?

If you are unsure, add the reagent and product to an existing reaction in the smelter and test it there. (You'll have to remove the current reaction reagent and product)

It's in the Entity_Default and the Reaction_(Something) in the save and in the normal raws?

You could just regen and wait for the remains to pop up if anything and try to remove them then.

Well I wasn't too sure where to post this and I couldn't find that "little questions" thread, but it didn't quite seem appropriate anyways...

Is it possible to mod a mineral, say like a clay loam wall and have it freeze water on touch and then later re-mod the wall to melt the ice or burst things into flames that come into contact with it?

I'm asking cause I would like to do some slight changes to an aquifer, but I don't have the tools or exact know how to mess with aquifers... effectively.

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I tried that the mat set temp thing and it didn't seem to boil or freeze water. But I may of done it wrong.

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I tried with the creature edit and changing the homeotherm, but it appears to be doing nothing, I went from 10067 to 5067.

Yes, I edited the save file too.

Hmmm, I don't know about a bridge being built from booze... from coal yes, but booze... especially to where it'd be as explosive as its barrel counterpart.

As a heads up with equipment reactions, you will get an unwearable helm for dwarfs. I believe it makes human size equipment. Your safer bet would be to use a metal reaction and then forge the equipment.

I'm not too sure about the selections, it may be hardcoded for a shop like that, I believe the soap maker shop and the smelter, kiln and i think one more are the only "custom" type of workshops, the others most likely have special parameters.

No, I believe Magic_Nature might just be a place holder for the time being. It gives the Druid skill.