Topic: What are YOU modding? (Read 3790 times)

deepspaceprobe9 · « **on:** November 12, 2014, 10:18:58 pm »

I saw things like this for the other threads, and decided to start one here. Also, the DF community is a convoluted bunch that talk about slaughtering kittens and the best way to dimantle elves in VANILLA. Imagine what sorts of creepy creatures/everyotherdamnpossiblething people have created!
P.S. I've noticed a strange lack of people asking about plant modding.

StagnantSoul · « **Reply #1 on:** November 12, 2014, 10:40:16 pm »

I'm currently working on putting the finishing touches on my angelic civilization. Can't seem to get the wings to have a thickness, oddly. I don't know what I did wrong. Can someone help?

Here's the raws. The castes are at the bottom.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

deepspaceprobe9 · « **Reply #2 on:** November 12, 2014, 10:45:09 pm »

Wish I could help, I'm not good at that sort of thing.

Putnam · « **Reply #3 on:** November 13, 2014, 12:06:05 am »

You defined the wings after you defined the tissues, so the wings don't have tissues. Just put the tissue-related BDPs later in the file, after 2WINGS is defined.

StagnantSoul · « **Reply #4 on:** November 13, 2014, 12:11:34 am »

Wait, nevermind. That didn't fix it. Still passing right through. In fact, the entire body has no tissue thickness....

Here's the raws again.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

thatkid · « **Reply #5 on:** November 13, 2014, 12:17:24 am »

I've just started working on a mod to add a bunch of new playable races (in fort and adventure mode) with differing tech trees each to the base game.

Right now, I'm working on simultaneously creating/brainstorming the bat men civilization and figuring out how to use dfhack so I can have enchanted items and whatnot. It's slow going, I don't know the first thing about lua and if there's documentation on dfhack I'm too stupid to find it.

Putnam · « **Reply #6 on:** November 13, 2014, 12:18:35 am »

https://github.com/DFHack/dfhack/blob/master/Lua%20API.rst

http://www.lua.org/docs.html

thatkid · « **Reply #7 on:** November 13, 2014, 12:19:08 am »

Quote from: Putnam on November 13, 2014, 12:18:35 am

https://github.com/DFHack/dfhack/blob/master/Lua%20API.rst

http://www.lua.org/docs.html

Wow. I feel dumber than I already did.

Thank you, though!

Putnam · « **Reply #8 on:** November 13, 2014, 12:46:54 am »

Nah, don't, I'd say a very large chunk of programming/modding skill is knowing where to find documentation (as opposed to memorizing how to do stuff). Once you get the hang of it, you're... better than average already, from some horror stories I've heard

jax3639 · « **Reply #9 on:** November 13, 2014, 06:06:22 am »

I'm trying to make a mod that just adds monsters (and maybe one or two hostile civs) to the game
most with special attacks
and most will have several castes

the only problem is my ambition
it's like a lighting bolt
powerful, awe-inspiring, a bit terrifying, and gone in a flash

Splint · « **Reply #10 on:** November 13, 2014, 09:48:19 am »

I'm aiming to make something of a mix of stone and early bronze age with some dinosaurs mod, with a bit of inspiration from kobold camp. Right now my main issues will be figuring out how to make a civ use stone weapons and if it's possible as well as getting my hands on some Since the races are essentially different human cultures, goblins, and elves setting up the entities and creatures isn't any problem. After I figure some things out, I'll have to look into learning how to make workshops and brush up on reactions.

Spoiler: Just a general description of the races, which I can take care of fairly quickly (click to show/hide)

General idea being three types of "Agrarian" civs, a hunter-gather, outcast, the goblin, and elf civs.

The Generic "Agrarians" would be the main playable race, having no strengths or weaknesses aside from limited metallurgy and armor options (which everyone but the elves suffer from.) They can settle just about anywhere they can grow their crops, have bonuses to pottery and stonecrafting (for making the bulk of thier tools and weapons,) and they do get a unique weapon for fighting off thier fellow man, goblins, and occasionally the fae, the War Spear. THey prefer to make thier settlements in forests and grasslands for fuel and good farmland.

The Pastoralists are semi-nomads with a few fixed settlements for trading purposes, and have an edge in using animal products, being able to learn skills relating to processing animal remains much faster while maintaining the generic Agrarian's ability to farm, at a cost in abilities to learn metalworking and pottery. They are also the only civ to have access to wagons for trade. They usually set up thier more permanent settlements in savannas and grasslands.

The Militants have bonuses to combat skills and are more proactive in thier metallurgy but don't do as well with farming or herding. Staying on their good side is important, as they'll come at you with lots of metal weapons that will laugh in the face of the agrarians' leather armor. They learn metalworking skills faster, and have access to picks, while other races are limited to wooden shovels that frequently break. They settle mainly in the foothills of mountains where they can more easily find outcroppings of ore.

Hunter-gatherers survive by hunting and whatnot of course, and recent hard times have driven them to attacking agrarian, goblin, and fae settlements alike for supplies and are one of three antagonistic factions and the one active year-round. They attack from ambush and primarily use the Hunting Spear and hand axe to wage their small-scale wars when the leave the forests that they prowl for increasingly sparse game. They are hostile by default. To prevent worldgen starvation they can farm, but only for this purpose.

Outcasts are the disavowed and disowned of both hunter and agrarian societies. They are bitter folk, and will often attack agrarian settlements to get seeds and revenge at the same time. Take the role of kobolds. Bigger, bitter, and actively antagonistic kobolds. They are generally forced to reside near caves and in the desolate badlands of the world, as the agrarians and hunters have largely called dibs on the bulk of the good farmland and hunting grounds. Hostile by default.

The goblins lack their dark fortresses and demonic masters but retain access to evil animal minions and immortality. They are also still a snatching race. They tend to stick to the colder parts of the world that the agrarians generally avoid.

The elves have a full array of armor options but it's made of wood as always, making for hit-or-miss effectiveness against the greenskins and agrarians. They try to maintain good trade relations with the agrarians but sometimes they come to blows with eachother.

StagnantSoul · « **Reply #11 on:** November 13, 2014, 09:56:10 am »

I tried working on a stone-using civ as well. I ended up with a workshop converting certain stones to bars while using wood as a fuel, then a craftdwarf job, with the stone bars counted as an alloy, and only that civ got to use that "alloy". It took a lot of typing. If you can find an easier way, please tell me.

UnicodingUnicorn · « **Reply #12 on:** November 13, 2014, 10:13:55 am »

Working on a gray goo mod, as per the request of a friend.

Splint · « **Reply #13 on:** November 13, 2014, 10:33:10 am »

Quote from: StagnantSoul on November 13, 2014, 09:56:10 am

I tried working on a stone-using civ as well. I ended up with a workshop converting certain stones to bars while using wood as a fuel, then a craftdwarf job, with the stone bars counted as an alloy, and only that civ got to use that "alloy". It took a lot of typing. If you can find an easier way, please tell me.

I know there's a way. I've seen criminals packing stone and gem weapons in masterwork (rather bizarrely made from bituminous coal and some kind of opal.)

Plus you can use custom reactions to make stone weapons take the stone material. Isn't great, but it's a cheap means to make sure everyone's armed. What I'm hoping to do is mod in flint and make both it and chert a ubiquitous stone and the hunters specifically only have access to stone for making weapons. The rest I'm willing to bite the bullet on them coming with only metal weapons, though your work around sounds like it'd be an effective way to make nonplayer invader civs have a pseudo-stone for thier weaponry.

My personal route's going to be having most only have access to their low-use breakable shovels unless they want to buy an expensive copper, bronze, or iron pick from the militants, and use a "dirt sifter" shop to procure flint, obsidian, and chert, copper and tin ores, and gems for the most part, with the first three being the basis of most militias.

Illogical_Blox · « **Reply #14 on:** November 13, 2014, 12:21:15 pm »

My D&D mod, adding all kinds of playable races and junk. Check out my sig, if you want to see more.

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deepspaceprobe9

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