Bay 12 Games Forum

I found this in the raws just now while making some adjustments. I've never seen these tags before, there's no entry on the wiki, and there's no results on Google.

[ENTITY:SKULKING]
   [CREATURE:KOBOLD]
   [WEAPON:ITEM_WEAPON_SWORD_SHORT]
   [WEAPON:ITEM_WEAPON_SPEAR]
   [WEAPON:ITEM_WEAPON_BOW]
      [AMMO:ITEM_AMMO_ARROWS]
   [WEAPON:ITEM_WEAPON_DAGGER_LARGE]
   [ARMOR:ITEM_ARMOR_TUNIC:COMMON]
   [PANTS:ITEM_PANTS_LOINCLOTH:COMMON]
   [CLOTHING]
   [SUBTERRANEAN_CLOTHING]
   [ANIMAL]
      [ANIMAL_CLASS:POISONOUS]
      [ANIMAL_FORBIDDEN_CLASS:MAMMAL]
      [ANIMAL_NEVER_MOUNT]
      [ANIMAL_NEVER_WAGON_PULLER]
      [ANIMAL_NEVER_PACK_ANIMAL]
      [ANIMAL_ALWAYS_PET]
      [ANIMAL_ALWAYS_SIEGE]
   [USE_ANIMAL_PRODUCTS]
-etc

What does this mean? Is Toady slipping in some more levers for entity-level animal useage?

ANIMAL_FORBIDDEN_CLASS:MAMMAL seems to correspond with CREATURE_CLASS:MAMMAL that seems to be on every random creature I check in the raws. If my guess is correct, adding this to Dwarves and then giving them an ANIMAL_CLASS that they can use (reptile?) should be immediate proof that this is indeed functional. I can't test it now, but I'll check back tomorrow.

While experimenting with syndromes, I've discovered that it's possible to add them directly into material templates, and have decided to use this new ability to simulate food poisoning. Here's how it works:

-Many organic materials have [MEAT], which implies [EDIBLE_RAW].
-Cooking (currently) removes all syndromes from food, or so I've heard.
-Any [SYN_INGESTED] syndrome is therefore applied when dwarves eat raw meat or body parts, but not prepared meals.
-Cooking becomes more valuable, and the ever popular raw-meat-slaughter-feast suddenly becomes a much more interesting scenario.

Currently, here's what I'm using:

MUSCLE_TEMPLATE, LUNG_TEMPLATE, HEART_TEMPLATE, LIVER_TEMPLATE, STOMACH_TEMPLATE, GIZZARD_TEMPLATE, PANCREAS_TEMPLATE, SPLEEN_TEMPLATE, KIDNEY_TEMPLATE

[SYNDROME]
      [SYN_NAME:food poisoning]
      [SYN_AFFECTED_CLASS:GENERAL_POISON]
      [SYN_INGESTED]
      [CE_NAUSEA:PROB:2:SEV:100:RESISTABLE:SIZE_DILUTES:START:1200:END:17000]

GUT_TEMPLATE (intestines - same as above, but with a 5% chance)
[SYNDROME]
      [SYN_NAME:food poisoning]
      [SYN_AFFECTED_CLASS:GENERAL_POISON]
      [SYN_INGESTED]
      [CE_NAUSEA:PROB:5:SEV:100:RESISTABLE:SIZE_DILUTES:START:1200:END:17000]

BRAIN_TEMPLATE

[SYNDROME]
      [SYN_NAME:food poisoning]
      [SYN_AFFECTED_CLASS:GENERAL_POISON]
      [SYN_INGESTED]
      [CE_ERRATIC_BEHAVIOR:PROB:5:SEV:100:RESISTABLE:SIZE_DILUTES:START:1200:END:17000]

Each syndrome kicks in a little after eating and lasts for about a month, if I did my math right. I still don't know what ERRATIC_BEHAVIOR does, as the wiki is not informative on that topic. Any information would be appreciated. I hope it's nice and terrible!

If there's an interest, I may adjust and develop this more into a release. Potential goals:
-See if other organs are eligible to join GUT_TEMPLATE for higher nausea chance
-Secondary short-duration, high-intensity proc chance
-Use PHYS_ATT_CHANGE to make certain raw foods increase stats (at the risk of nausea) or decrease/affect MENT_ATT_CHANGE, so that eating lots of raw meat can affect dwarves' temper and intelligence. The inverse could be added to raw fruits and vegetables for desired elf-like forts.
-Similar to above, use CE_FEEL_EMOTION or CE_CHANGE_PERSONALITY to affect meat-eaters and vegetarians differently.

What do y'all think? Is this perhaps a worthwhile venture, or should *cooked meals* reign supreme?

Good news: My expeditionleader/ manager/broker/bookkeeper just became KING!
Bad news: I am no longer able to appoint/replace my expedition leader, manager, broker, or bookkeeper positions.

Any suggestions? What can I do to work with this crisis?

EDIT: Nevermind... a new expedition leader was shortly appointed.

The "speech" files seem to have nothing for these... and, well, they're getting a bit repetitive. Where, if anywhere, can these combat-related exclamations be altered or expanded?

While trying to give orcish warlocks a spell to drive my livestock to madness and murder with [CE_ADD_TAG:CRAZED], I ran into multiple frustrations in the Arena with the syndrome applying correctly and failing to produce violence between Yaks on the same "side". Vexed, I reworked a different spell to transform goats into foul blendecs, with [CRAZED] added; the test failed again, with the new blendec becoming a rather chatty individual.

After throwing my hands in the air, I then loaded a save after adding [CRAZED] to one of my livestock animals - sure enough, it worked fine. So for anyone else trying shenanigans like this, take heart - it's not you, it's the Arena.

I'm in a bit of trouble.

I started a fortress at a lovely location - a Good region with a river canyon and ample wood. However, I mistook the ore jutting from the cliffs as Limonite at first glance, only to discover a year in that it is, in fact, gold. My civilization is "AT WAR" with the Orcs.

After debating my options, the best non-trap plan I can come up with is to make gold minecarts and ram them full-speed into the invaders. More daringly, I'm considering making gold coins for the "buckshot" effect that occurs when ramming a minecart full of items into a stop at high speed. Gold is dense, but coins are tiny... still, if a fluffy wambler can kill a colossus...

Will this work, or is this the one problem I can't throw money at?

Quick question. If I remove [PERMITTED_JOB] from a playable civ's ENTITY entry, will buildings requiring that profession be removed from Fortress Mode? Example; removing Mason disables the Mason's workshop, etc. I searched, but found nothing.

I do know that removing a profession removes goods for that profession from worldgen/traders, but Fortress mode specifically is what I'm wondering about. Since the new tags from Pottery can enable making new industries from scratch (crafts and all), I'm interested in doing a total conversion/simplification to trim the game down.