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[CaptainMcClellan]

Ok. That's all good and well. How would changing the data type to unsigned going to cause this exploit? Wouldn't it have prevent it?

[DrKillPatient]

What does "unsigned" mean anyway?

(Note: I'm not formally learned in computer science... YET — however, I think my understanding as detailed below is at least accurate on a basic conceptual level.)

To simplify things a bit, it means that that the type can only take on positive values; a signed type gains an 'extra' bit as a result (relative to a signed version of the value) and its max is thus about half that of an unsigned type. Suppose you have a four-bit integer (max value is 1111 in binary, or 2^4-1 = 15 in decimal). If you want it to take on both negative and positive values (that is, to be signed), one of those four bits needs to represent the sign. Which bit it is depends on the implementation details, I suppose, but let's say it's the first one, and that 0 indicates negative and 1 indicates positive. Now, 1111 might represent +7 (1000 to 1111 -> 0 to 7) and 0111 might represent -7 (0000 to 0111 -> -0 to -7), since a signed four-bit type is essentially a three-bit number with an additional bit for holding the value of the sign. The 0000/1000 overlap here is not a problem in more efficient implementations, which is why you see ranges like [-128, 127] for a signed 8-bit number. However, I think this implementation is conceptually the easiest... There are more computationally efficient ones such as the two's complement, where the negative version of an N-bit binary number, I, can be represented as 2^N-I. (The two's complement is a better choice since that representation is compatible with standard binary arithmetic operators and can represent values from -2^(N-1) to +2^(N-1)-1 — for instance, -128 to 127 for an 8-bit signed integer).

[WillowLuman]

Like I said, setting it to negative won't make other parts larger than total creature size, or cause some weird spacetime thing - the game just treats them as zero-sized and spams the error log.

[Dwarf4Explosives]

Eergh, I keep getting confused about this. Thanks for clarifying.

[Urdothor]

I just got a new art set I'm thinking of doing some sketchs of this mod since I cant currently access my computer.

What should I draw?

Edit, is there anyway to post images straight from my phone to the forum?

[WillowLuman]

A halfling settlement's pastures of giant insects and cephalopods.

[Urdothor]

As I havent read the descriptions in awhile, would you mind describing a few creatures briefly?

[WillowLuman]

The only one that comes immediately to mind are the Panserblekks - big, armored land cepahlopods. Check mine and STL's raws.

[Urdothor]

I shall take my artists liberty with it.

[Urdothor]

Heres a question, what does a formics foot look like?

[BlackFlyme]

Heres a question, what does a formics foot look like?

Like an ant's foot would, I suppose. Though probably a bit larger and wider, since drones, workers, and warriors stand on only two legs.

[Urdothor]

Damn
I had a really cool looking formic and i screwed it up

[CaptainMcClellan]

I have begun my modding. I know the rules state "No copy-pasting", but several creatures are variations on the bronze colossus. Ergo, I copied the bronze colossus's tags, modified as necessary and will add even more variations later. I don't think that's too bad. Now to get my iron golems to drop mechanisms when they are dead. Anyways, did you guys keep the inorganic stone mats? If not, I'll have to check and see what materials that you guys have in your mod. ( I need to see about that anyway. ) I don't suppose I could copy-paste the mats necessary for the creature from Vanilla DF? ( Stuff like marble, obsidian, adamantine. Hehheh. Adamant colossus, sounds scary right?)

[Dwarf4Explosives]

No copied stuff at all. You'll have to modify your creatures till they have only the faintest resemblance to the originals (change the proportions a bit, maybe a special ability or intelligence modifier), but an Iridium Golem (as that is one of the most astoundingly common metals in this mod) sounds pretty awesome. Maybe you could change the limb configuration a bit?

Considering some of the hilarious bugs we've had, you could even make a golem out of frozen blood if you want.

[CaptainMcClellan]

Hmm. Ok. And yea, my golems [should] all drop mechanisms when killed also. Free Iridium mechs! :3 But no copying even of mats like marble, gold, the like?

A frozen blood golem? Wow.