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[omega_dwarf]

Situation: I'm making a religion mod to thematically complement the upcoming temple update. Among other things, I want religious dwarves to have special noble positions available only to them.

Problem: I know this can be accomplished with castes or creature classes, but I don't think that's an option for me. I'm including the capability for dwarves to be 'converted' via an interaction. Importantly, I want them to retain their physical characteristics when converted, which I just determined (and received confirmation) was not possible if I used a CE_BODY_TRANSFORMATION to change their caste.

Potential Workarounds: I'm not aware of any way to add a CREATURE_CLASS via interaction, or to make the position be selective based on a syndrome/syndrome class, etc., but I would like to. Somehow. Is there some way I can restrict the position to require a special body part? Or a tag that CAN be modified? Or dependent on some skill that I can mod in? - maybe I could make it election-based and reliant upon that skill instead of social skills, if that's possible.

I guess in the end the physical characteristics don't matter that much, but it's a realism thing. As is, it will bug me to no end - and make it feel like a cheaty way to potentially turn weaklings into buff guys. (Besides dwarf-to-dwarf conversion, I'm including...certain ways to force dwarves to convert, which could be abused.) I really don't want to change the balance of the game in any way, unless it's to make it harder. If all else fails, I guess I could try to imagine the physical changes as mental ones in disguise - religion making people more brave (stronger) or peaceful (weaker) But I really would appreciate a proper solution if there is one.

Thanks in advance!

[smakemupagus]

In general, if it's not listed on the wiki (in this case under the "Position_token" page) the functionality doesn't exist.  So your options are caste or creature_class.

[omega_dwarf]

Is there any utility akin to DF Hack - not modifications to the raws - that would help me out here?

[IndigoFenix]

DFHack can do most things, if you're willing to write a script for it.  But I don't think that such a script currently exists.

[Dirst]

DFHack can do most things, if you're willing to write a script for it.  But I don't think that such a script currently exists.

Can DFHack arbitrarily assign a noble position to any citizen?  More appropriately, can it filter the list of dwarves eligible to fill a position... or remove the position from a dwarf deemed by the script to be unworthy?

[Putnam]

Yes, yes and yes.

[omega_dwarf]

So...there wasn't any information on writing DFHack scripts on the DFHack forum post. Anyone know a good resource that they can throw me? Will search more thoroughly soon. I just have no idea how difficult it would even be - how much knowledge of DF's programming I need, and how much is just making new stuff.

[Putnam]

If you don't know Lua:

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

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

[omega_dwarf]

Thanks, man! That'll be a great help. I appreciate it.

[Mohreb el Yasim]

also if i recall correctly DFHack can call functions from a modded interactions, but never tried just seen the idea and found it can be powerful.