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You can make a minecart roll down a long ramp without a rider, right? How would I make a dwarf push the cart until it reaches the ramp then lets go without trying to follow it?

I think you add a stop at the top with no rules, and change it to a push in the right direction instead of ride/guide.

If i remember correctly, toady mentioned way before that he uses zlib. That would in theory mean basic zip compression of the compressed files. Then again, I am famous of being wrong. And I have no idea what people would do with that information.

I got back into the idea of a candyland mod.

But the question is, can candycanes and lollipops be used both for food as well as building material?

Just to put it out there. This mod rocks!

Tree and Trees are Tree and Trees when they stand up. Once cut down they turn into plank and planks. So that should fix that up.
Now, my quest takes the path of removing unused bodyparts and probably hair, beards etc from the dwarves.

Anyone have a insight into the difference between body_deafult och body_rcp?

Hey no, don't call the trees tree.  What you're trying to do is figure out what each and every tag does, and where each tag is used.  As such you should call the tree "tree name1," etc and use different numbers to differentiate between the tags so you can search through your raws to find where a tag gets used.  Otherwise when you see a "tree" you won't know where the engine got that string from.

At the moment, tree is just called tree because there is only one tree. When I am adding more trees to check tags, the name would change.

As for making the game easiser, to grasp by just haveing "food", etc. that would be totaly do able as well, as soon as some more tags are out, specialy body parts and tissues would need a "cut".

Yeah I am currently working with metals and ore. creating two sets of ore for test.

ITEMORE and VALUEORE that will be turned into ITEMMETAL and VALUEMETAL
essentialy VALUEMETAL is gold. And ITEMORE is iron.
I think i'll remove the [FUEL] tag as well. now i just need to remove the reference to all other metals.

Ok. I have been spaming some parts of the forum mod with random brainfarts.

My latest vision, since moding is a big task. Is to make stuff simpler by decreasing the amount of data you need to get your head around. Then use the bare bone version to start adding more stuff from the bottom up.

Currently I have cut it down so dwarves are almost the only creatures in the world, not counting forgotten beasts.

The Dwarves will be turned into a "CivCreature"

Weapons into a "Weapon"
All Gems have been changed to one "Gem".
All Stones will turn into one "Stone"
All Ores into one "Ore"
All Trees into one "Tree"

Well you get the idea.
I will then use this resulting, uterly totaly boring mod to learn to add new creatures and items.
I'll be writing up step by step tutorials for myself, (maybe others) and provide links to the empty version and where the changes where made.

I am still in the progress of cleaning up data.