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Regular Spells:
Magic Missile might as well be "Material Emission" just there are x4 and x8 versions. I made it so it was easy to remember.
Slow might need to effect agility as the new movement stuff (but someone said the zombie slow interactions work so idk)
Berserk I haven't seen anyone get crazed from it yet so not sure if I made it right.
Root is a tad op why it's only 25 ticks, learned that can't just paralyze a certain part, had the spell insta kill smaller things like birds due to suffocation, Root just trips someone up
Silence was for all my mages because their spells had VERBAL so that you could counter the other hostile mages in my mod.

Also my progressive Lvl up system for Fire Mages (I have earth and water mages too)

only way to "target" a certain bodypart is the use of REACTION_CLASS on a material in the part normally only good if you have a really special part like "Flame Sac" so the material making up the flame sac will have reaction_class:sac so can use that. It's a bit more work, but it's all on how you want to use it.

yup, I think they all default to 1000? and you will notice that elves have agility boosts and dwarves get a strength boost.

it doesn't happen realtime, when you change those only "new" units made (migrants(maybe) and births) you can regen a world with your changes and you will see it instantly

I might be able to do some testing with this, will help if just setting marriage or relationship interest to 100/0 respectively make it so I don't need to add interactions to give sterile in game to prevent in fort population bursts. But does it effect world gen? and migrants that may be married already?

Might be interesting for making personalized castes (for various mental disorders Sociopath and antisocial, etc. So can mix and match personality traits with maybe loving but never setting down)

MALE/FEMALE:disinterested chance:lover-possible chance:commitment-possible chance

need the middle value too so you want:

   [CASTE:FEMALE]
      [ORIENTATION:MALE:0:50:100]
      [ORIENTATION:FEMALE:100:0:0]
   [CASTE:MALE]
      [ORIENTATION:MALE:100:0:0]
      [ORIENTATION:FEMALE:0:50:100]

can't get married if you don't fall in love

FLOUR should be using [MATERIAL_REACTION_PRODUCT:BREAD_MAT:LOCAL_PLANT_MAT:BREAD]

if you want to use the GET_MATERIAL_FROM_REAGENT

so

[USE_MATERIAL_TEMPLATE:MILL:PLANT_POWDER_TEMPLATE]
      [STATE_NAME_ADJ:ALL_SOLID:dwarven wheat flour]
      [STATE_COLOR:ALL_SOLID:WHITE]
      [DISPLAY_COLOR:7:0:1]
      [MATERIAL_VALUE:20]
      [EDIBLE_VERMIN][MATERIAL_REACTION_PRODUCT:BREAD_MAT:LOCAL_PLANT_MAT:BREAD]
      [PREFIX:NONE]
   [MILL:LOCAL_PLANT_MAT:MILL][REACTION:BREAD]
   [NAME:bake bread]
   [BUILDING:SMELTER:CUSTOM_B]   
   [REAGENT:FLOUR:1:NONE:NONE:NONE:NONE][HAS_MATERIAL_REACTION_PRODUCT:BREAD_MAT]
   [REAGENT:SUGAR:1:NONE:NONE:NONE:NONE][REACTION_CLASS:SUGAR]
   [REAGENT:ALCOHOL:1:DRINK:NONE:NONE:NONE]
   [PRODUCT:100:3:BREAD:NONE:GET_MATERIAL_FROM_REAGENT:FLOUR:BREAD_MAT]
[FUEL]
[SKILL:COOK/COOKING]
Also sugar and flour is "bagged" so don't forget to add reagents for the containers else you will find that the reaction will never find it, and another issue is if the bags are put in barrels they won't be found because you can't dig that deep. Idk if Toady fixed that or not I think he knows about it as I think I saw that issue on the bug tracker.

EDIT:
and you need the container of the booze too, as it's in a barrel. I'm not home so I can't give an example.

EDIT2: updated reaction example
[REACTION:BREAD]
    [NAME:bake bread]
    [BUILDING:SMELTER:CUSTOM_B]   
    [REAGENT:FLOUR:1:NONE:NONE:NONE:NONE][HAS_MATERIAL_REACTION_PRODUCT:BREAD_MAT]
[REAGENT:FLOUR_CONTAINER:1:NONE:NONE:NONE:NONE]
[CONTAINS:FLOUR]
[PRESERVE_REAGENT]
[DOES_NOT_DETERMINE_PRODUCT_AMOUNT]
    [REAGENT:SUGAR:1:NONE:NONE:NONE:NONE][REACTION_CLASS:SUGAR]
[REAGENT:SUGAR_CONTAINER:1:NONE:NONE:NONE:NONE]
[CONTAINS:SUGAR]
[PRESERVE_REAGENT]
[DOES_NOT_DETERMINE_PRODUCT_AMOUNT]
    [REAGENT:ALCOHOL:1:DRINK:NONE:NONE:NONE]
[REAGENT:ALCOHOL_CONTAINER:1:NONE:NONE:NONE:NONE]
[CONTAINS:ALCOHOL]
[PRESERVE_REAGENT]
[DOES_NOT_DETERMINE_PRODUCT_AMOUNT]
    [PRODUCT:100:3:BREAD:NONE:GET_MATERIAL_FROM_REAGENT:FLOUR:BREAD_MAT]
[FUEL]
[SKILL:COOK]

if you really want to delve into what makes a better material you can do it as easy as:
[SELECT_MATERIAL:BONE]
add any changes that you see in material defintions, rename it if you want or change the SHEAR/FRACTURE yields to make it stronger.

so you could make your creature like every other, then at the end select the ones you want to be better "Fire resistant scales and bone, but the bone is sharper" etc etc. you won't have to customly define tissues unless you are making a completely new one like a metal layer that doesn't bleed or feel pain but scars (this is an instance where vanilla tissues won't fit)
[TISSUE:METAL]
[TISSUE_NAME:iron plate:iron plating]
[TISSUE_MATERIAL:INORGANIC:IRON]
[HEALING_RATE:500]
[SCARS] -- when heals will show scars
[TISSUE_SHAPE:LAYER]
---I'd leave STRUCTURAL out for personal pref because this is not the tissue that is the root "like bone" as the behavior of that tag determines if the part is rendered useless when "broken"

i'd then layer this over the parts I wish manually or make my own BDP to do it faster instead of all the [TISSUE_LAYER:BY_CATEGORY:UPPER_ARM:METAL] but for all the categories I'd have an entry for each one, which can bloat the creature file making it a bit harder to edit, unless you prefer that. BDPs are helpful if you need to use it many times (like more armored creatures, easier to copy and paste one line then 18 and changing them if it has more limbs or differently named limbs.)