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It happens. One day, dwarven babies will grow hair like normal, but until then all creatures come into the world as hairy as they will ever be.

If the wiki is right, all of those tags work. Gotta wonder why the errorlog didn't say anything...

Now let's get to the "spewing blood" part. Again, if the wiki is right, that should work, but it doesn't seem to. For those who don't want to scroll through code to find the breath attack:
[CAN_DO_INTERACTION:MATERIAL_EMMISSION]
[CDI:ADV_NAME:Spew Blood]
[CDI:USAGE_HINT:ATTACK]
[CDI:BP_REQUIRED:BY_TYPE:HEAD]
[CDI:MATERIAL:LOCAL_CREATURE_MAT:BLOOD:TRAILING_VAPOR_FLOW]
[CDI:VERB:spew blood:spews blood:NA]
[CDI:TARGET:C:LINE_OF_SIGHT]
[CDI:TARGET_RANGE:C:15]
[CDI:MAX_TARGET_NUMBER:C:1]
[CDI:WAIT_PERIOD:50]
[CDI:FREE_ACTION]
EDIT: I discovered that, for whatever reason, the CRAZED tag doesn't work in the arena.

I'm trying to get a civ to not use iron. To that end, I gave limonite, hematite, and magnetite a reaction class (IRON_ORE), removed their ore-for-iron tag, and made a custom reaction that turns one boulder of iron ore into a bar of iron. I gave this reaction to everyone except the civ that wasn't supposed to get iron.

They still have iron.

I could normally just forbid them furnace operators and give them special custom reactions to give them access to the metal, but they are a player race, so that ain't happening. How can I get the race to not use iron?

Oh, right, iron men. I was...um...just making sure that it would work for liquids as well as gases. Yeah, that's right.

Dear Urist McDesignatedDriver,

Nice job landing the wagon on top of that 1x1 spike of dirt, destroying it in the process.
I wonder, though, why you took your time after the wagon crash to build a towering pile of the surviving supplies (not that there were many) on top of said dirt spike.
Also, where's all the wood that used to be, you know, the actual wagon?

-'Sus' Fikodast, your (miraculously still living, considering the way you drive) Overseer

Tha wood be in splinters all around, sir! Anyhoo, don' blame me, tis the fault of the flock o' tame birds that dropped the wagon here! Ev'ryone knows that that's how tha wagons git placed!
Sincer'ly,
Urist McBirdHandler.

Quote from: Captain Crazy on March 29, 2012, 07:20:31 pm

why does this have to devolve into some race debate

i want other non-dwarves to join my fort for strategic reasons. the undergrounders can innately swim and some animal-peoples can take to the skies. why does it have to be more complex than "send liason to animalman outpost. animalmen get shelter, you get extra workers."

THANK YOU. Jeeze.

What about the whole "Dwarves seem xenophobic due to their tendancies to kill traders and even useless immigrants, and also the pre-existing stereotypes" thing, and the whole "Dwarves' unthinkability of slavery means the animalmen or whatever would be granted equal rights, even if the dwarves didn't like them?" Think about it: Would YOU want to live next door to a weird scaley person with a viper's head, or bump elbows with a race your kind has strongly disliked for centuries, or know that your first line of defense against the deadly outside world is a band of combat-hungry tigerpeople? Now add to that the issues of dwarven xenophobia, and you have a complex social situation on your hands. A multiracial fortress would need these social considerations to be interesting, aside from the possibility of various modifiers to skills/attributes/personality traits/etc as NW_Kohaku and Owlbread have been debating.

I wanted to see how a dwarven adventurer fared in a world of ogres, but instead discovered how a sneaky rock-throwing adventurer fared in a world of AI creatures, which is "very well." Oh, and a crossbowman who I didn't notice killed me in one shot before I could even do more than scratch his arm.

I startedn up a fortress, intending revenge, but discovered that the three surviving goblins were friendly to me. The fact that we outnumbered them over 2 to 1 (not counting the two yaks, three helmet snakes, three wolves, two gremlins, and two chinchillas), showed up in fibrous robes and iron masks, and are freaking ogres might or might not have had something to do with it. Oh, and BTW, I got the ogres' taming behavior to work better. Now to start the weakening part...

Dear Urist McHunter,
I understand hunting can be difficult, and that sometimes you can't reach birds o hunt them.
You are hunting a kakapo. Its best-known charactaristic is that it's FLIGHTLESS. It was maybe 100 feet from you, in a straight line with just the edge of a pond in the way. Why couldn't you find a path?
And once you did, rather than running up and shooting the parrot in the head, nice and efficiently, you wasted a bunch of bolts plinking it. Brilliant, a method of hunting that is less efficient AND causes the quarry to suffer more!
Then, you hauled the bird maybe halfway to the fortress for butchering, noticed some ravens, shot one, dropped the kakapo corpse, and went off to get drunk. Nice work, hunter.

Sincerely,
GWG, Ovrsr.