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[StupidElves]

I'm attempting to mod in xenomorphs and I have a few questions that would be useful in knowing to help make this mod work.

1.) Is it possible to give a creature an attack that kills itself? Like a facehugger injecting the thing that causes a syndrome and then it dies.

2.) Is it possible for a syndrome to cause a creature to burst out of a creature's chest?

3.) Can creatures hatch from eggs that are dropped by trees?

[Sergarr]

1) AFAIK no, at least not directly. With enough interaction hoola-hoops you can probably do something resembing that, though. Ask Putnam.

2) Interactions cannot in raw DF spawn creatures. You'd need to work some DFHack magic here. Ask Putnam.

3) Trees can drop eggs?

[Dirst]

3) Trees can drop eggs?

Featherwood trees have growths called eggs.  They are a single material (as opposed to the three of a standard DF egg), and don't hatch.  The egg material's template gives it an IMPLIES_ANIMAL_KILL tag, but unless you're vegetarian I'd expect it to function like a normal bit of food.

[vjmdhzgr]

It is possible for vermin to die when they attack, but I don't know if it could be applied to bigger creatures. If you look at bees there's the tokens [VERMIN_BITE:50:stung:LOCAL_CREATURE_MAT:VENOM:LIQUID] and [DIE_WHEN_VERMIN_BITE] so if you're able to find a way for the facehuggers to be vermin then you could definitely do that.

[Putnam]

You'd need to work some DFHack magic here. Ask Putnam.

That's more Warmist's thing...

[Rose]

After some thought, it would be possible to have a script that creates a new creature at an egg location a short time after somebody walks by it.

[Malecus]

You could create a duel-syndromed attack, one that infects the target with a CE_BODY_TRANSFORMATION effect (moderate-to-long delay for the start, no end date) that would simulate the impregnation and conversion of the target (more of an X-Com Chryssalid than a Xenomorph, but it's something towards the right end), while the second syndrome would be like gnomeblight in that it has a very specific target and high lethality.