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[Tuck_Lion]

I am terribly new to modding Dwarf Fortress and so far I have achieved creating two new civs and some very minor modding to creatures. Currently I'm attempting to understand reaction modding, and it all seems quite digestable, and have made a test of my knowledge so far to create a reaction which takes a barrel full of venom and moves it into a large pot. This is what I have:

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[REACTION:TRANSFER_VENOM]
[NAME:Transfer venom]
[BUILDING:ALCHEMIST:V]
[REAGENT:venom:150:LIQUID_MISC:NONE:CREATURE_MAT:SPIDER_CAVE_GIANT:POISON]
[REAGENT:venom container:1:NONE:NONE:NONE:NONE]
[CONTAINS:venom]
[FOOD_STORAGE]
[PRESERVE_REAGENT]
[DOES_NOT_DETERMINE_PRODUCT_AMOUNT]
[REAGENT:large pot:1:TOOL:ITEM_TOOL_LARGE_POT:NONE:NONE]
[EMPTY]
[DOES_NOT_ABSORB]
[HAS_TOOL_USE:FOOD_STORAGE]
[PRESERVE_REAGENT]
[DOES_NOT_DETERMINE_PRODUCT_AMOUNT]
[PRODUCT:100:5:LIQUID_MISC:NONE:GET_MATERIAL_FROM_REAGENT:venom:NONE:NONE]
[PRODUCT_TO_CONTAINER:large pot]
[PRODUCT_DIMENSION:150]
[SKILL:BREWING]

This job takes place at a custom building I've thrown in named "Alchemist's Lab". I would like if somebody more experienced than me would proofread the reaction; when I attempt to load a world with this addition to the reaction_other.txt file, I'm given the error "Missing Reaction Definition" or something similar.

[Meph]

[PRODUCT:100:5:LIQUID_MISC:NONE:GET_MATERIAL_FROM_REAGENT:venom:NONE:NONE] should be:
[PRODUCT:100:1:LIQUID_MISC:NONE:GET_MATERIAL_FROM_REAGENT:venom:NONE]

One NONE less, and since your 150 input equals 1 output you shouldnt use 5, but only 1 as a product. Otherwise you get 5 times the poison. Might I ask why you want to move it from barrel to pot?

[Tuck_Lion]

[PRODUCT:100:5:LIQUID_MISC:NONE:GET_MATERIAL_FROM_REAGENT:venom:NONE:NONE] should be:
[PRODUCT:100:1:LIQUID_MISC:NONE:GET_MATERIAL_FROM_REAGENT:venom:NONE]

One NONE less, and since your 150 input equals 1 output you shouldnt use 5, but only 1 as a product. Otherwise you get 5 times the poison. Might I ask why you want to move it from barrel to pot?

Good question! This little addition came about from inspiration to add some consistency to the two civs I had been working on.

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I had just begun to discover how versatile and articulate the experience of Dwarf Fortress could be when I went on my search for a way to play as animal people; being a furry I /really/ wanted an animal-person settlement. After a while I gave up searching mods and got to reading up on the process by which civs are modded, to gauge the difficulty of creating such a settlement. You can imagine my surprise when I found all it took was copy/pasting an existing civ and tweaking it just a bit! So anyways I had begun to play as coyote men as a test but I quickly became bored of the settlement because for some reason I've yet to figure out, coyote men move as if sluggishly dragging their bodies along the ground unless they're hauling something or bringing an item to a workshop for some-or-another task. I then decided "Hmm. Maybe this would be more interesting if I chose instead to leave in the coyote men as a civ and stick to dwarves, but give them more unique qualities as a civ in general". I experimented with many of the configurable things within the entity_default.txt file and got them to spawn in deserts, wearing desert clothing, and only bringing trade goods pertinent to what nothing less than barren wasteland might be capable of scraping up out of the ground. I discovered from there that the type of weapons each civ produces is very easily adjustable and gave them some unique weapons and ammo sets, with the addition of the blowgun.

I realized the blowgun's main purpose was to apply poison - this poison would standardly come in the form of a substance somehow smeared onto the blowdarts at worldgen, but I figured if I were to ever come back to this and play as this-or-another civ again, I would want to be able to produce these poisonous blowdarts myself. I explored all of my possible options, first attempting the bucket-emptying workaround by bringing a barrel to a trading depot full of poison and letting the poison be left behind on the ground as a pool of contaminant, but I couldn't figure out if there was any way for that pool to smear onto anything in a near tile. I gave up with that after some moderate testing and figured it simply may not be possible to apply substances to items without a bit of modding, but had remembered reading somewhere that when a Forgotten Beast breathed a vaporous poison, the vapor would occasionally condense on objects as smeared substances, and if the object were used for an edge-attack and penetrated into the target's blood, would apply the substance's syndrome. From there I thought up the idea to try and boil the poison in a room full of weapons and allowing the vapor to condense on them, and the first step in that was to obtain a heat-safe container full of poison. I figured that since creature extracts produced natively were sent to vials and the only embark-purchasable or caravan-tradable poisons came exclusively in barrels, I would need to mod in a way to put this poison in heat-safe pots.

This is the step I'm at now and in my head working out a system to apply the heat to the pot - whether by !!lignite!! or magma or some other convoluted way I'm not sure, though when I do I'll get to find out if 1. the poison boils into vapor as expected and 2. if the vapor condenses on items.

TL;DR Do-it-yourself blowdarts !!science!!

Edit: After substituting in what you gave me, I am receiving the same error message. Is there anything I need to add to the Giant Cave Spider's raws or anything?

[Meph]

I will try to make it a bit easier for you. There is a working dfhack plugin to apply poisons to weapons, ammo or trapcomps. Its called add_spatter. You simply install dfhack r3, it comes included. Nothing else you have to do.

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[REACTION:SPATTER_ADD_AMMO_VENOM]=> this must be exactly that name, for the plugin to find it, at least the front part, with SPATTER_ADD_
[NAME:coat with venom (ammo)]
[BUILDING:TOXICIST:CUSTOM_P] => whatever, thats just the one I use
[REAGENT:extract:150:NONE:NONE:NONE:NONE]
[MIN_DIMENSION:150]
[REACTION_CLASS:ADD_SPATTER_VENOM] => this must be exactly that name, for the plugin to find it.
[REAGENT:extract container:1:NONE:NONE:NONE:NONE]
[CONTAINS:extract]
[PRESERVE_REAGENT]
[DOES_NOT_DETERMINE_PRODUCT_AMOUNT]
[REAGENT:object:25:AMMO:NONE:NONE:NONE]
[PRESERVE_REAGENT]
[REAGENT:tallow:1:GLOB:NONE:NONE:NONE][REACTION_CLASS:TALLOW][UNROTTEN]
[HAS_MATERIAL_REACTION_PRODUCT:SOAP_MAT]
[IMPROVEMENT:800:object:COVERED:GET_MATERIAL_FROM_REAGENT:extract:NONE]
[SKILL:WAX_WORKING]

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[MATERIAL_TEMPLATE:CREATURE_EXTRACT_TEMPLATE]
[REACTION_CLASS:ADD_SPATTER_VENOM] => only this is new
[STATE_COLOR:ALL_SOLID:WHITE]
[STATE_NAME:ALL_SOLID:frozen extract]
[STATE_ADJ:ALL_SOLID:frozen extract]
[STATE_COLOR:LIQUID:WHITE]
[STATE_NAME:LIQUID:extract]
[STATE_ADJ:LIQUID:extract]
[STATE_COLOR:GAS:WHITE]
[STATE_NAME:GAS:boiling extract]
[STATE_ADJ:GAS:boiling extract]
[DISPLAY_COLOR:7:0:1]
[MATERIAL_VALUE:25]
[SPEC_HEAT:4181]
[IGNITE_POINT:NONE]
[MELTING_POINT:9950]
[BOILING_POINT:10200]
[HEATDAM_POINT:NONE]
[COLDDAM_POINT:NONE]
[MAT_FIXED_TEMP:NONE]
[SOLID_DENSITY:1200]
[LIQUID_DENSITY:1200]
[MOLAR_MASS:20000]
[IMPACT_YIELD:10000]
[IMPACT_FRACTURE:10000]
[IMPACT_STRAIN_AT_YIELD:100]
[COMPRESSIVE_YIELD:10000]
[COMPRESSIVE_FRACTURE:10000]
[COMPRESSIVE_STRAIN_AT_YIELD:100]
[TENSILE_YIELD:10000]
[TENSILE_FRACTURE:10000]
[TENSILE_STRAIN_AT_YIELD:100]
[TORSION_YIELD:10000]
[TORSION_FRACTURE:10000]
[TORSION_STRAIN_AT_YIELD:100]
[SHEAR_YIELD:6600] used high salinity ice
[SHEAR_FRACTURE:6600]
[SHEAR_STRAIN_AT_YIELD:100]
[BENDING_YIELD:10000]
[BENDING_FRACTURE:10000]
[BENDING_STRAIN_AT_YIELD:100]
[MAX_EDGE:500]
[ABSORPTION:100]
[LIQUID_MISC_CREATURE]
[ROTS]
This is it. It accepts any creature extract, which is usually venom and poison, and from any container. Then open all creature files with notepad++ and search and replace this:

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[USE_MATERIAL_TEMPLATE:VENOM:CREATURE_EXTRACT_TEMPLATE]with

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[USE_MATERIAL_TEMPLATE:VENOM:CREATURE_EXTRACT_TEMPLATE][MILKABLE:LOCAL_CREATURE_MAT:VENOM:20000]
and

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[USE_MATERIAL_TEMPLATE:POISON:CREATURE_EXTRACT_TEMPLATE]with

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[USE_MATERIAL_TEMPLATE:POISON:CREATURE_EXTRACT_TEMPLATE][MILKABLE:LOCAL_CREATURE_MAT:POISON:20000]
And now you can use any bought creature poison or venom to coat your ammo, and milk any pet your have that produces poison. It will create the poison directly into a bucket, which is accepted by the coating reaction as well.

[Tuck_Lion]

Ok, thanks. I figured I might eventually resort to something like this.
Edit: Alright, I've had my Fun frolicking about the raws for now. I'm gonna move on over to masterwork.

[Meph]

Could I avoid loyality cascades if I change [ETHIC:KILL_ENTITY_MEMBER:ONLY_IF_SANCTIONED] to [ETHIC:KILL_ENTITY_MEMBER:ACCEPTABLE]  ?

[Putnam]

No.

[Meph]

Ok, thank you.

[Trapezohedron]

Is [WEATHER_CREEPING_GAS] gas, or is it dust?

[Meph]

Gas. Dust would physically push people around, which is not the case.

[Trapezohedron]

So, I guess it would be fine if I set custom creeping gasses to INHALED?

Thanks Meph.

[Vanzetti]

Is it possible to create a playable sentient undead race in DF? Something akin to Forsaken from World of Warcraft. Undead, but not necessary evil.

[Putnam]

Yes, it is. Good luck. Need any help, we're right here :V

[tahujdt]

Yes, it is. Good luck. Need any help, we're right here :V

If you plan on raising corpses, please be aware that they cannot hold noble positions.

[Trapezohedron]

Just for confirmation, is it possible having two [SYNDROME] tokens in one inorganic?

As in:
[SYNDROME]
effects
[SYNDROME]
effects