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Rather than make it butcherable, have it drop the armor on death. Kinda like the bronze collossus drops a bronze statue.

Corpseitem only lets me drop 1 item, while butchering allows me to drop a full suit of armour, a weapon and a shield.

Got that part to work fairly quick. Right now im busy failing to make material changes for seperate castes, and failing to get it anywhere between immortal and instagibbing pushover.

Thinking of making an armour man. It will essentialy be a walking suit of armour with a weapon and shield. Butching it should yield its componenets, when looking at the BUTCHER_SPECIAL tag that seems feasable. It might mess up the armour sizes but the weapons and shields should work fine.

I could give it some seperate castes, one for each weapon type. Ranged weapons wont work but thats ok.

Havnt done much creature modding so far though. It might take me a while.

Edit: Hm, composing it entirly of df armour might make the creature a bit weird. Especialy with the way greaves are right now. It would also have gauntlets floating midair, somehow connected to the breastplate.
I might add in some other bodyparts that dont yield an actual armour piece.

Regretably nothing like that is doable yet. Souls a part of creatures, and those cant be used in reactions.

Even if they could, souls dont have a material.

You could of course make a reaction that kills the creature and gives you an item made of fake 'soul material'.

Just gonna write this as I come up with it...

Bone is no longer an item type, but its still a material. You should be able to use it for blocks. Give the following a try:
   [PRODUCT:100:1:BLOCKS:NONE:GET_MATERIAL_FROM_REAGENT:A:BONE] <- replace A with whatever reagent is bones.
   [PRODUCT:100:1:BLOCKS:NONE:CREATURE_MAT:CAT:BONE] in case the above doesnt work

As for reagents, put a reaction class tag in the bone, hoof, etc material templates (much like leather and fat have) then use 
   [REAGENT:A:1:NONE:NONE:NONE:NONE][REACTION_CLASS:BONE] replace BONE with what you have for reaction class.

This should take bones and produce bone blocks. If you use this method though, its gonna see blocks as a reagent as well. You may have to make a fake bone material and use that for the product, also much like leather works.

So, copy the bone template, call it BONE_BLOCK_TEMPLATE or something, and add
   [MATERIAL_REACTION_PRODUCT:BONE_MAT:LOCAL_CREATURE_MAT:BONE_BLOCK]
to the block bone template.

Then, we gotta add the bone block material to the creatures, else the game gets confused. Add this line
   [ADD_MATERIAL:BONE_BLOCK:BONE_BLOCK_TEMPLATE]
to 'b_detail_plan_default' under [BODY_DETAIL_PLAN:STANDARD_MATERIALS]

For the reaction, reagents and product would be:
   [REAGENT:A:1:NONE:NONE:NONE:NONE][REACTION_CLASS:BONE]that last one may be redundant now...
      [HAS_MATERIAL_REACTION_PRODUCT:BONE_BLOCK]
   [PRODUCT:100:1:BLOCKS:NONE:GET_MATERIAL_FROM_REAGENT:A:BONE_MAT]

Look up Shoastshouls modding guide if it something doesnt work. Put it on dffd if you get it to work, ill add to the make-meat-blocks mod, hehe.

Edit: whoops name typo.

10067 is dwarf body temperature. Just use BOILING_POINT:10067 and FIXED_TEMP:10067

Using 50000 as fixed temperature pretty consistently kills things by the way. I even seen it melt metal.

My latest attempt at a mod included a number of custom materials, and a number of other mod I use do so as well. With my latest fortress I found out that they need some adjusting due to them showing up some awfully weird places.

Weirdest weirdness: This lovely artifact

Frozen slime? Elves? What the hell. I didnt get a better look at the artifact as it evaporated right away.
Its main ingredient was some mountain goat bones, and its decorative items were some gems and cloth. Nothing that should produce this...
This material was in fact part of a mod (The moody dwarf got nauseus and vomited all over, which was what that material does. He was still estatic.) But Im not sure whether its the modded part that made it show up. I think it may have showed up because this material is the very first in the inorganic material list (the raw file is at the alphabetical top of the list, and the material entry is the first in its file)

Is this a problem with my modding or is it some weird bug?

Next was a number of traders showing up with a material I use to kill dwarves. The traders exploded and burned to death in seconds, some animals and slaves MELTED out of their cages and casualy walked to my meeting zone. Dont use the extract template for those things. The same probably goes for milk, blood, etc templates.

These materials also turned up in the stockpile menus.

Read that and I say: Reality is bugged too.