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Trying to make feathered dinosaurs, but feathers are listed in the tissue template as subordinate to skin only.  I've tried adding a line for Scales but no dice.  Advice?

[TISSUE_TEMPLATE:FEATHER_TEMPLATE]
[TISSUE_NAME:feather:STP]
[TISSUE_MATERIAL:LOCAL_CREATURE_MAT:FEATHER]
[RELATIVE_THICKNESS:2]
[SUBORDINATE_TO_TISSUE:SKIN]
[SUBORDINATE_TO_TISSUE:SCALE]
[INSULATION:100]
[TISSUE_SHAPE:FEATHERS]

I know the Steam Engine plugin already exists, but how much more difficult would it be to create a Water Reactor workshop with the same dimensions and requirements as the real thing?  Provides 170 power, needs to be "primed" with water, requires the pumping labor and all the same materials, but doesn't actually have moving water inside of it?  I know I'd definitely appreciate it, because it maintains the spirit of vanilla mega-constructions without the same FPS requirements.

(on that note, if anyone manages to crack workshops that require power, compact logic gates would be a natural first step)

What do the number values for MOON_PHASE mean?

The piece of code in question is [CE:PERIODIC:MOON_PHASE:27:0].  As a whole, this means that the creature will become a werebeast on every full moon, but I'm sure you figured that out yourself.  The token "MOON_PHASE:27:0" refers to the length of time that the transformation occurs in terms of days:  the wiki says that the formula for periodic tokens is "period_type:min_value:max_value".  The two numbers mean when the syndrome takes effect, and when it ends.  In this example, the werebeast syndrome begins on the last day of each month, and ends on the first day of the next.

Hopefully we'll get some more PERIODIC tokens to play with in later releases.

I know this may be outside the scope of this mod, but has anyone tried adding a "cannon" creature to this mod, much the same as wagons in the vanilla game?  It'd be gamey as all hell, yes, but it *could* work.  I might even take a stab at it after finals.  But as for how it would work on an in-game level...

Well, there are one of two possibilities:  One is using an interaction to throw cannonballs, but the downside is how erractic and how quickly these things are thrown when uncontrolled.

A different, rather ingenious method would be giving cannons the ability to "throw" cannonballs as a resource, but I'm still puzzling out how that might work.  Any ideas?

What, exactly, are you trying to accomplish, which can't already be done (more efficiently) by mechanical logic?

Nothing that specifically needed minecart gates, I was just curious if there were any developed, and if they had any benefits.

So now that we have an official size for each tile (2m x 2m x 3m, if I recall correctly), has anyone tried their hand at recreating a 1:1 map of real-world landmasses?

Quick math:

• Each tile is considered to be 2m long, 2m wide, and 3 meters tall when preforming minecart physics. (~6'7"x6'7"x9'10")
• Each embark tile on the local map is a 48x48 area in Fort mode.  (Which becomes 96m x 96m)
• Each region tile is made up of 16x16 local tiles.  (This becomes 1536m x 1536m)

So for example Long Island is approximately 190 km by 37 km.  That would make its map in DF about 124x24, or around the size of a medium island/region.

....yeah, this means that we might not be able to generate full continents using the method, but a worthy effort in the name of realism.

This sounds like it should go into the Community Games & Stories section.  But I'm not going to complain about an awesome concept.

May I reccomend a 2x8 embark area along a biome change?  Need a properly sized trench!

I'm sorry, I *have* to cross-post from the SA forums.

Don't test, do. The first rule of dwarven science is the assumption that it will work because it must work.

Second rule of Dwarven Science?  Report your findings up to and including the first casualty.