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[Sprocket809]

How exactly would one go about building new siege engines? Are they editable in raws or is it simply impossible?

[Suds Zimmerman]

They're hardcoded. It's impossible, for all practical intents. If you want to go the impractical route, it might be possible through some heavy memory editing.

[Sprocket809]

That defeats the purpose of the mod - I'm planning to make a modpack which will be friendly to all operating systems and relatively easy to install (if you can't download an entire folder and use it to replace your raws, you could just copy/paste everything in)

[Prudent Viper]

Are we talking 3x3 creatures like wagons? If so, impossible.

[Witty]

I believe Masterwork made a wagon that was capable of shooting arrows. Couldn't give you the details, but it's something.

[IndigoFenix]

You can make custom wagons with their own interactions, including material emissions.  But they will be used randomly by all civs and will only come when a wagon would

[Orange Wizard]

Masterwork uses a lot of DFHack scripts (aka memory hacking), so not everything included there is possible with a raw mod. Wagons shooting arrows should be possible with material emissions as IndigoFenix explained, however.
Modding multi-tile creatures generally is not possible seeing as it's mostly hardcoded.

[TheDorf]

I'm pretty sure you could use DFHack to essentially "construct" an immobile "creature" that could use interactions and stuff. If you know LUA I bet you could also write a script that uses the reactions of a custom workshop to load the "siege-engine-creature" with the least ammo. I'm inexperienced with doing custom stuff with DFHack though, so I'm not entirely sure.