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There was a bit of discussion on this in the first pages, but I found nothing concrete related to my question. We all know we can transform creatures into other creatures, but can you transform a dwarf into a domestic animal and have them show up on the livestock screen?

I'm laying my claim on Bunny Oilgrowth, renaming her to Rose Gold. Let the arms be manufactured and the bedrooms propagated.

Maklak pretty much said everything I was going to. I'll expand a little more, but not much. First village you go to in the initial Fallout has farms, and you can get experience if your Int is high enough by introducing them to crop rotation. First town you go to in Fallout 2 is a community of trappers. The only area that gets by exclusively on scavenging, which I think has tarnished your perspective, is the Capital Wasteland of Fallout 3 where the only things that are produced are small batches of ammunition, small batches of hydroponic vegetables, brahmin beef and milk, and only recently fresh water. Damn near everything in Fallout 3 is unrealistic in terms of settlements. 200 years of high levels of radiation should have depleted all the local resources, given DC's fairly high population once you take into account that the supermutants and centaurs are all locally produced.

Also I don't care for the DF Hack utilities. They get more in my way than help, and the bane of my existence is the mouse query tool.

Something has struck me being rather odd. In the vanilla game, any civilization can be ruled by demons. However, it seems as though goblins are always ruled by demons. In mods, such as Fallout Equestria and Rise of the Mushroom Kingdom, there are entities that are also always ruled by demons. However, there's no token anywhere that allows for this to work. The closest  I'v found is in ROTK a religious noble appoints the monarch of that demon ruled civ. Sadly this isn't replicated in the vanilla game or in any other.

Does it have something to do with the ethics? Or is there a possible religious connection in the pantheon of a civilization's religion?

Yeah, the one I fought strangled a new mother to death while her baby kicked it ineffectually for multiple pages (the Unicorn Baby Cherry Fluffsun feels a rush of adrenaline! x5). Then it snapped my executor's neck with a single laser bolt while decapitating-slash-grappling the other melee soldiers, tanking their steel chainswords.

So, basically, right now it's a Bronze Colossus with buzzsaws and lasers. 

Mother of God.....

Why is there an archived objects file in the raws?

In preparation of making my latest custom entity and the ponies that are going to populate it, it became apparent to me that I would have to study the method Lyc's used in making the stable ponies. When you look through creature_pony initially it's just an unnavigable incoherent mess. However after looking through and making a note of where everything is placed, it makes complete sense to me. I'm posting my notes here for anyone else that wants to look through and know how to read through this unique (at least to me anyway, was completely foreign) way of stringing together multiple castes.


Good lord once you actually get in you can just see all the different possible variations of ponies, their own individual attributes, skill rates... really complicated. Mine will be using a similar structure, though I'm going to try and move things around to make it easier to read, and to not take up as much page space.

And if anyone's wondering, my entity is a conglomerate of slavers, raiders, and wastelanders that seek the reformation or destruction of all other slavers and raiders to make the wastes a better place for all.

The raiders bring with them a large number of highly undisciplined potential canon fodder. Raiders will usually have a debuff associated with their cutie mark, such as 'a plate of rotten vegetables' will bring with it a -100% penalty to farming. Raiders in general will more than likely have decreased social skill rates as well. You have two options in dealing with raiders. First, you can either drill them until they become disciplined, which will alter their personalities (by changing their caste), and make it to where they'll be far less likely to go go rampaging through the stable whether bezerking or simply throwing a tantrum (which they will do often with their high anger and liberalism. Disciplining them will also significantly reduce the duration of their breaks. The alternate method is burning their cutie mark off, which will both pacify them and eliminate their debuffs. Going back to my plate of rotten vegetables example, if you don't need a soldier but you really need a farmer you might want to take this pony's identity away and shove her/him off to work. This second method carries a risk with it though. The act of burning a cutie mark off is intensely traumatic. When the procedure is over they have a 20% chance of becoming OPPOSED_TO_LIFE, so you'd have to be sure to keep your oppressive military around in case something goes wrong. Surprisingly, raiders have a fairly good understanding of how the pony body works and will be more plentiful than the more skilled wasteland doctors. Now there's finally a reason for DF's healthcare system to be completely neglectful.

Slavers are a bit better out of the box than raiders. There are fewer of them and they'll have castes that give bonuses to the skill rates of animal training, appraisal, judge of intent, record keeping, slavers in general are geared more toward administrative roles.

And lastly, the wastelanders. Wastelanders are the bricks and mortar of a fort's industries and infrastructure and are decent enough soldiers should one decide to go down the 'pinish or purge all raiders' line and burn off all of their cutie marks.

And with that I'm off to bed.