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I just gave it a try and it turns out the evaporation trick did the job pretty well.  I just made the HEATDAM point really low for a few common materials and it added a lot of variation as far as how much clothes any given person was wearing.  Sometimes it went... too far.  I found a guy wearing only a loincloth.  But I ought to be able to mitigate that by carefully targeting certain materials and restricting which materials certain types of clothes can be made with.  For example, if most forms of plant fiber cloth immediately evaporate then that will make articles of clothing that can only be made from cloth more rare than articles that can be made from cloth, or silk, or wool, etc. 

So say I wanted to make a civilization based on Rome where people tend to wear long tunics and such without pants, but I still want people to sometimes wear pants. I could make sure that the tunics are based off of materials that won't evaporate, while pants are very likely to be made out of materials that evaporate.

Definitely requires some trickery and only works for adventure mode, but it does help give a certain feel to a culture.

EDIT:  Actually, I was thinking that you could control whether a particular type of clothing could be made from wool, but actually it's lumped together entirely with cloth.  So the only control you have is whether it is leather, cloth, or metal.  So you could still make sure that essential articles are leather and make most forms of cloth evaporate, but it is a much lower degree of control with more of a sacrifice.  You wouldn't notice much if a culture lacked wool, but it could kind of pop out that every person is wearing leather underwear.  It also makes it harder to limit the change to a single entity because you are drawing from a more limited pool of materials.

Plus, different regions will behave quite differently based on what materials you choose to make evaporate.  If you pick rope reed, for example, one town might be entirely unaffected because none grows nearby.  Meanwhile a town across the world with few alternatives to rope reed ends up filled with nudists.  Now this could probably be mitigated by making several versions of each plant that produce fibers that are different only in whether or not they will evaporate when turned into clothes... but things are quickly getting unwieldy and it's probably not worth the effort.

Hey guys, is there a reaction floating around that will allow me to turn small animals or body parts into meat?  It sucks being a hermit on the edge of starvation who just hunted and killed a rabbit only to find that rabbits can't be eaten.  My dorf is literally crying right now.

I'm sure I could write the interaction, but its been a really long time so I'm hoping I'm not the first person to be bothered by this.

I am working on creating an interaction that applies a new effect every time the interaction is applied.  Basically, the goal is to use it in adventure mode to balance certain utilities like magic; cast a spell once, you get a headache, cast another, you begin to get dizzy etc. 

I tried to accomplish this by applying new tags that won't have a noticeable effect on an adventurer, like [NO_FEAR] and [LIKES_FIGHTING].  The interaction is then structured as having multiple targets (though all are SELF_ONLY).  Under each of these targets is [IT_REQUIRES:WHATEVER].  Each time the interaction runs, it will add the tag that fulfills the IT_REQUIRES for the next level of the interaction.

However, I just can't seem to get the interaction to actually respect the IT_REQUIRES in the arena.  It seems to apply all three levels of the interaction, even if it does not meet the criteria for any of them.  Any ideas why this would happen?  The interaction is posted in the spoiler below.

I'm looking to add faces to body plans but it has been a very long time since I've got into modding creatures.  Does anybody know of a mod where this or something similar has been done that can help guide me along?

My goal is to be able to punch a character in the face and damage their eyes or nose, much in the way that the heart can be damaged by stabbing the upper body.  As a extra benefit, this would allow me to use the word face instead of head in character descriptions.  "He has a round face" sounds better than the default "his head is very short" or whatever.

I discovered something recently that may be of some help.  I was tweaking raws for adventure mode and wanted to get rid of socks to make inventories a bit less cluttered.  I forgot to remove chausses as well and I found that everybody was wearing chausses,  even though they were previously very uncommon.  It seems like the game will always try to put clothing of certain types on units, regardless of their rarity.  While I haven't exactly done a lot of testing, I'm willing to bet that if you deleted every type of underwear except for loincloths for a race, then you could guarentee that an adventurer of that race would be generated with a loincloth.

Disclaimer: This would also mean that every other member of that civilization would be wearing that type of clothing, which may be undesirable.  Also, it may be impractical for some articles of clothing, or even simply not work.

Personally I haven't had a lot of luck in getting anybody to willingly give up their belongings.  Fortunately, there is a way to rob them when they are unconscious.

First, make sure that one of your hands is empty.  Then, initiate a grapple (shift+a, then select "wrestle").  Select one of your hands as the grappling limb, and then select the item you wish to steal as the target of the grapple.  Press "." and you should see the message pop up that you have grabbed the item.  Then press shift+I and search through the items in the list for the item you are grabbing.  I think it will be highlighted in red or something.  Select that item and you should get a prompt to attempt to gain control over it or something.

This works on conscious people too, by the way.  With some skill in wrestling, you can rip the weapons out of your opponents hands and stab them with it, or, with a bit of imagination, atomic-wedgie people by ripping off their rope reed fiber thong.   

My game crashes during the history section of world generation.  The errorlog is always totally empty after the game crashes.  I understand that this sort of thing is often an issue with very long histories, but I've only managed to get two worlds past year 200, and it often crashes around year 80, and sometimes as early as year 5.  This occurs regardless of the size of the world.

I know that it isn't an issue of RAM, as the Dwarf Fortress process never even exceeds a third of a gig of physical memory, according to the process manager.  It also occurs in exactly the same way if I cut down the world's population dramatically.

One time I got an "impoverished word selector" error, so I tried allowing every civilization to use any symbol for anything, but this didn't help.  I even disabled all overworld constructions and things like human cities that seem (to me, anyway) to be more complicated and intensive.

I just cant fathom what it is that is causing these crashes.  Any ideas?

EDIT: Forgot to mention that I added two civilizations, though removing either or both does not stop the game from crashing.  I also added a number of very small things like materials and custom weapons.

If you can make one that dies even when it has all of the tags added by the raise dead interaction, even after a few ticks, I would be eternally grateful.