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Thats a clever solution by the way :-)

So as this is the thread for Entity questions:
* If a monarch has [NUMBER:MORE_THAN_ONE], there should be multiple monarchs, I quess. Will they all arive when you become the mountainhome? or only one?
* If you are the mountainhome, can you as the player replace the current duke/count/baron? since they are APOINTED_BY the monarch?
* can the title 'mountainhome'  be changed?
* can a civ-level position be [ELECTED]? What is the effect?
* if a [NUMBER:LESS] position is replaced by a [NUMBER:MORE] position, will the current holders retain their upgraded postion, or will the all be replaced?
* If a postion is APOINTED_BY a diplomat, will the player be able to replace said position, when the diplomat is visiting the fortress? or only when the diplomat becomes a citizen?
* If a monarch arrives at the your fortress, be brings an 'entourage', with consist among other of a 'royal guard' with high level weapon skills. Can this be modded?
* Do other civ-level postion holders also arive as the monarch arives? For example generals and outpost liasons? or my modded ministers?
* what is the effect of adding other [ EXECUTION_SKILL] tokens to non-executioner-positions? Will this skill be preferred for candidates for said postion? like broker and accountant also use appropriate skills?
* Do elections only favor social skills, or do other nescesarry skills play a role? If i have an elected bookkeeper, will he just be chatty and not good at bookkeeping?

I don't know the answers to some of these, but others I believe I do.

Elected positions generally cause historical figures to have skills relevant to the position. In vanilla the only elected position has no required skills besides being social, so that's what causes candidates to win. Elected military roles will likely have good military skills. Civ elected positions do work and should have at least some skill in the position. If you have more than one elected site position, keep in mind that a single figure can be elected to multiple offices simultaneously.

Adding execution skill to non-executioners most likely does nothing, or throws an error.

Diplomats are usually civ-level positions. Civ-level positions cannot be appointed by a player fort, I believe, so a visiting diplomat or even a resident one won't help you.

Hey Urists! Can you please help a newbie modder? I've just started tinkering in DF's files and wanted to figure out first how to modify dwarf appearance. Let's say I want to make every dwarf clean-shaven, but only one of the castes, how would I do it? Something like this in `creature_standard.txt` has no effect:

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[CASTE:MALE]
    [MALE]
    [SET_BP_GROUP:BY_TYPE:LOWERBODY][BP_ADD_TYPE:GELDABLE]
    [BODY_DETAIL_PLAN:FACIAL_HAIR_TISSUE_LAYERS]
    [SET_TL_GROUP:BY_CATEGORY:HEAD:HAIR]
        [TS_PREFERRED_SHAPING:CLEAN_SHAVEN]


That would be because tissue styling is done in the entity, not the creature. Basically it's a cultural thing, not something inherent to the creature. If you look in the Mountain entity you can find the tissue styling commands, which point to the templates dwarves actually use.

If you're ever modding and unsure if you did something wrong, always check the errorlog! It's actually quite useful and will usually say when commands aren't working for some reason.

I am familiar with it, and it is not far off the kind of thing I want to do... however the problem I'm running into I'm pretty sure they don't run into because they're not landholders. It seems that the game won't allow more than one landholder per holding, even if different tiers. So I cannot, as I would like, have both a T1 AND a T2, or a T1 AND a T3.

When creating an Entity's landholder positions, do the trigger tokens still function or are they completely removed?

Also, can a site in worldgen have both a Tier 1 landholder AND a Tier 2, or must they always replace? For instance, I was trying to make a civ that has elected T1s at every site, and then the appointed T2s are replaced by appointed T3s. However I've never actually seen anything above T1 unless I add the replaced_by token. Is that just the way it works or am I unlucky?

Well... it may be optional, but a quick test of removing it from all vanilla gems results in all gem walls being "You have struck Stone!" and Stone walls, and just Stone. So that doesn't seem to be the answer.

I could try to add state tokens to all of them as well, but man that's a lot of work if I'm not sure it'll work... Maybe I can remove all but one temporarily and see if that one works actually.


Edit: Okay, so keeping the overwrite and giving it a powder name works for the powder! Cool. However, now if I make it back into a solid it's still the same material and goes back to the basic gem name. I'm pretty sure I'm just going to have to add entries for every gem... but at least I think I know what I need now. I think and hope.

Okay, I've been working with some custom reactions for a custom entity revolving around growing crystals colored with powdered gems. The end goal is to have grown crystals whose color is based on the gem that was ground up and used in its creation.

The problem I'm having right now is that I can grind the gems, but they don't get any kind of name change, it just calls the powder by the gem name. Looking through the various options I have, it looks like I could create a new material for each and every gem with the powder name and use that as the product of the reaction... but surely there's an easier way? It doesn't look like I can add product templates to inorganics like animals or plants. Does anyone more experienced have any ideas?

Is it possible to mine the outer gems without instantly activating FUN, or is it just too dangerous?