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I think if I take away a few tags they could have no specific way to replicate. Then they might be limited to being brought in from traders.

We can't have a single caste that mates with itself, but we could have rare male and female ones that produce a main genderless caste.

This sounds like fun.

I made a forumech, but I don't think we can insert it into the ongoing save. I tried overwriting the tigerfish in Apik's save, but it didn't work. There's no reaction to make them, but they can be bought. I made them as expensive as a cave dragon for now. They are very durable, except when they fight something that can destroy steel.

[CREATURE:FORUMECH]
[DESCRIPTION:A short, steel creature born of drink and industry. Created by the magictechnician Eric Quill, this mechanical forumite possesses sharp pincers for hands. Flames flick forth from the mouth.]
[NAME:forumech:forumechs:forumech]
[CASTE_NAME:forumech:forumechs:forumech]
[CREATURE_TILE:1][COLOR:0:0:1]
      [GLOWTILE:'"'][GLOWCOLOR:4:0:1]
[CANOPENDOORS]
[BENIGN][TRAINABLE]
      [PET][TRANCES]
      [BABY:1]
[GENERAL_BABY_NAME:forumech baby:forumech babies]
[BABYNAME:forumech baby:forumech babies]
[CHILD:12]
[GENERAL_CHILD_NAME:forumech child:forumech children]
[CHILDNAME:forumech child:forumech children]
      [MEANDERER]
      [PETVALUE:10000]
      [CLUSTER_NUMBER:3:8]
      [COMMON_DOMESTIC] [NO_EAT][NO_DRINK][NO_SLEEP]
[PREFSTRING:metal beards]

       
        [NO_FEVERS]
        [AMPHIBIOUS]
        [NONAUSEA]
        [NOPAIN]
        [NOSKIN][NOSTUN]
        [NOSMELLYROT]
[CAVE_ADAPT]
[DIURNAL]
[SMELL_TRIGGER:90]
[LOW_LIGHT_VISION:10000]
[BODY:HUMANOID_ARMLESS_NECK:2EYES:UPPERBODY_PINCERS:HUMANOID_JOINTS:NECK:CPU:MOUTH:POWERCORE]
       [TISSUE:STEEL]
[TISSUE_NAME:metal:NP]
[TISSUE_MATERIAL:INORGANIC:STEEL]
[MUSCULAR]
[FUNCTIONAL]
[STRUCTURAL]
[HEALING_RATE:500] [SCARS]

[RELATIVE_THICKNESS:1]
[CONNECTS]
[TISSUE_SHAPE:LAYER]

[BODY_SIZE:0:0:3000]
[BODY_SIZE:1:168:15000]
[BODY_SIZE:12:0:60000]
[TISSUE_LAYER:BY_CATEGORY:ALL:STEEL] [CAN_DO_INTERACTION:MATERIAL_EMISSION]
[CDI:ADV_NAME:Breathe jet of fire]
[CDI:USAGE_HINT:ATTACK]
[CDI:BP_REQUIRED:BY_CATEGORY:MOUTH]
[CDI:FLOW:FIREJET]
[CDI:TARGET:C:LINE_OF_SIGHT]
[CDI:TARGET_RANGE:C:5]
[CDI:MAX_TARGET_NUMBER:C:1]
[CDI:WAIT_PERIOD:1000]

[ATTACK:SLAP:BODYPART:BY_CATEGORY:PINCER]
[ATTACK_SKILL:GRASP_STRIKE]
[ATTACK_VERB:slice:slices]
[ATTACK_CONTACT_PERC:100]
[ATTACK_PENETRATION_PERC:100]
[ATTACK_FLAG_EDGE]
[ATTACK_PREPARE_AND_RECOVER:3:3]
[ATTACK_PRIORITY:MAIN]
[ATTACK_FLAG_CANLATCH]

[ATTACK:KICK:BODYPART:BY_TYPE:STANCE]
[ATTACK_SKILL:STANCE_STRIKE]
[ATTACK_VERB:kick:kicks][ATTACK_PREPARE_AND_RECOVER:4:4]
[ATTACK_CONTACT_PERC:100]
[ATTACK_FLAG_WITH]
[ATTACK_PRIORITY:MAIN]

[APPLY_CREATURE_VARIATION:STANDARD_BIPED_GAITS:900:675:450:225:1900:2900] 39 kph
[APPLY_CREATURE_VARIATION:STANDARD_CLIMBING_GAITS:6561:6115:5683:1755:7456:8567] 5 kph, NO DATA
[APPLY_CREATURE_VARIATION:STANDARD_SWIMMING_GAITS:5341:4723:4112:1254:6433:7900] 7 kph
[APPLY_CREATURE_VARIATION:STANDARD_CRAWLING_GAITS:2990:2257:1525:731:4300:6100] 12 kph, NO DATA
[BABY:1]
[CHILD:2]
[DIURNAL]
      [COMMON_DOMESTIC]
[HOMEOTHERM:10067]
[SWIMS_LEARNED]
[MANNERISM_FINGERS:finger:fingers]
[MANNERISM_NOSE:nose]
[MANNERISM_EAR:ear]
[MANNERISM_HEAD:head]
[MANNERISM_EYES:eyes]
[MANNERISM_MOUTH:mouth]
[MANNERISM_KNUCKLES:knuckles]
[MANNERISM_FEET:feet]
[MANNERISM_ARMS:arms]
[MANNERISM_HANDS:hands]
[MANNERISM_LEG:leg]
[MANNERISM_WALK]
[MANNERISM_SIT]
[MANNERISM_POSTURE]
[MANNERISM_STRETCH]
[SPOUSE_CONVERSION_TARGET]
[MUNDANE]
[CASTE:FEMALE]
[FEMALE]
[MULTIPLE_LITTER_RARE]
[CASTE:MALE]
[MALE]
[SELECT_CASTE:ALL]


[SET_TL_GROUP:BY_CATEGORY:ALL:STEEL]
[TL_COLOR_MODIFIER:BLACK:1]
[TLCM_NOUN:plating:SINGULAR]


The "Robocop" method might work, but the result wouldn't be controllable. It shouldn't be actively hostile, but I don't think it would take orders either.

Alright. The wiki mentions this process here.

If you read the section of this guide that dealt with entities, you may remember a passing mention of multi-creature civilisations and how they don't quite work as you may think they would. The castes system is your workaround. You could create a caste that is, for all intents and purposes, a human, and another caste of the same creature that acts exactly like a giant cave spider, put the creature in a civ, and get a human-spider civ. The only flaw in this approach is that the castes will interbreed.

So I'll walk you through an example civ that hybridizes giant cave spiders and humans. Starting off, here are the two originals.



Now, we start on the merging with a unique name.
[CREATURE:SPIDERMEN]

We need to put essential shared features in a top section for all the races to share. Parts that vary may be kept in the main creature areas. Generally only major, creature-defining tokens need to go on top. The wiki will tell you which tokens can be shared. Creature tokens means it needs to go on top, caste tokens can be separate.

Here's the top section for the spidermen. It's a bit small.

You might have noticed that some body detail plans are kept up here.
   [BODY_DETAIL_PLAN:STANDARD_MATERIALS]
   [BODY_DETAIL_PLAN:STANDARD_TISSUES]   
        [BODY_DETAIL_PLAN:CHITIN_MATERIALS]
   [BODY_DETAIL_PLAN:CHITIN_TISSUES]
The reason for that is a bizarre bug I've noticed where if you attempt to put different material and tissues plans down in the castes, flesh starts to chip and fracture from blunt impacts like it's made of plastic.

Now we begin defining the human castes. I differentiate between male and female by adding an F or M after their name. Pretty much everything that has to do with the physical body goes here.


After that's done, we make the spiders.


The name at the top refers to the race as a whole. It will be their name in Legends mode, map screens, and art. Caste names are what the individuals will be called. Finally, here is the complete creature. *Continued on next post.

I'm not sure how this works, I've just heard of people making creatures with reactions before. I think the limit could be based on requiring a lot of steel or other rare metals to produce a forumech.

You could try using the caste system to do it, like my Jedi and Sith. You could look at their raws for help merging them.

If you make the clones and stormtroopers gear available to the player, you might want to make a reaction to make crafting it possible.