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[than402]

I'd stick with random resurrection of civ-members, everything else gets confusing or too close to evil regions.

I wonder, how would raising and resurrecting a dead dwarf and also his hand would work, however?

You can also insta-kill all undeads with regional interactions, for example if a necromancer attacks you, his army instantly dies, because it enters a good region.

that sounds very interesting

[Meph]

Eeasy. FIT_FOR_RESURRECTION is the tag you are looking for, it only works on "upper body", the part with the soul. It resurrects the dwarf, who instantly dies of his wounds (for example his head is missing, the interaction resurrects the upper body, which dies, because the head is misssing, etc), BUT you can add a 1-tick transformation to the mix, fully healing the body including all missing bodyparts.

The worst sideeffect is that chopped off limbs are still around, so you could have "urist uristson" running around, while "urist uristson's left leg" is still buried in his coffin.

The other one is easy too, just a regional interaction that targets OPPOSED_TO_LIFE creature and kills them.

[Dirst]

The other one is easy too, just a regional interaction that targets OPPOSED_TO_LIFE creature and kills them.

But... they're already dead 

[than402]

Eeasy. FIT_FOR_RESURRECTION is the tag you are looking for, it only works on "upper body", the part with the soul. It resurrects the dwarf, who instantly dies of his wounds (for example his head is missing, the interaction resurrects the upper body, which dies, because the head is misssing, etc), BUT you can add a 1-tick transformation to the mix, fully healing the body including all missing bodyparts.

The worst sideeffect is that chopped off limbs are still around, so you could have "urist uristson" running around, while "urist uristson's left leg" is still buried in his coffin.

The other one is easy too, just a regional interaction that targets OPPOSED_TO_LIFE creature and kills them.

I see. well, thanks for clarifying this to me. I could do with a couple more regional interactions. I already have:

-one that turns people into golden statues
-one that increases recuperation
-one that puts people to sleep
-and I also plan to add the one Rydel suggested, the lotus eater one

after I'm done with the interactions, I'll continue onto the trees, and incorporating some dfhack scripts

[Meph]

You could add GOOD vermin too, like gem beetles and such. Their remains could be turned into gem stones. Or the delicious honey-crawler, which leaves candy upon death.

Mischivious gingerbread men that pull levers, and item_thief leprechauns, which are already in vanilla DF, but you barely every see one.

[than402]

You could add GOOD vermin too, like gem beetles and such. Their remains could be turned into gem stones. Or the delicious honey-crawler, which leaves candy upon death.

Mischivious gingerbread men that pull levers, and item_thief leprechauns, which are already in vanilla DF, but you barely every see one.

the honey-crawler sounds good. maybe gem beetles too, but they won't turn into anything expensive. just another freebie to stud your mugs with I would also like to add some particularly annoying vermins. Would a CURIOUSBEAST_GUZZLER vermin work? Would it be too annoying?

do you mean gnomes? "playful" creature are something I definitely want to add, but I'll return to the creatures once I'm done with the trees and the interactions.

[than402]

hey guys, slight update on my progress:

I finished the regional interactions and the trees. Good regions will have the following interactions:

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-Midas's Fog: Turns a dwarf, a goblin, an elf or a human into a masterwork golden statue. It could be awesome when you get sieged, or devastating if your legendary spearman gets turned into a fancy decoration. Thankfully, it's rare and it has a low chance of transforming someone.
-Sleeping Fog: self explanatory. Puts creatures into sleep. Fae creatures are immune to it, so beware.
-Healing Rain: raises the recuperation rates by a lot. One of the more unambiguously beneficial ones
-Dementia: if a sentient creature gets caught in a dementia fog, he has a chance of losing his ability to speak and to think.
-Undeath To Death: zombies begone!
-Resurrection: Extremely low chance of appearing, but it can bring your fallen dwarves back to life. It doesn't work on other creatures.

here are the trees that will make it:

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-Golden Willow/Pine/Mangrove (depending on the biome) Rare but very expensive and large trees
-Giant Alder: A gigantic tree with slightly more expensive wood than usual
-Lotus Tree: This tree does not produce wood, but it produces lotuses the whole year. Lotuces are awesome as fruits: they can be eaten raw, they can be brewed, they can be cooked... The thing is, rely too much on them and sooner or later your whole fort will be reduced to a herd of drooling lotus eaters.
-Widow tree: The other "fruit" bearing tree. It produces crystalline drops called "widow's tears". They can be milled into sugar or brewed into brandy. A nice tree to have nearby.
-Metalwood: This rare tree's wood is hard and sharp as iron. It will be able to be worked on the carpenter as usual or on a special workshop into weapons and armor
-Dryad Trees: These trees look like normal ones, but are inhabited by dryads. If you try and chop one down, the dryads will be angered and will attack you. Keep your military standing by when cutting down trees!

Aside from that, I will also include a reaction where you can offer a good plant's seeds and some milk to the fey. The fey may ignore you, or they may leave something behind...

Once I finish implementing these things, I will put out an alpha release and start working on the rest of the creatures I plan to add.

[Meph]

-Dryad Trees: These trees look like normal ones, but are inhabited by dryads. If you try and chop one down, the dryads will be angered and will attack you. Keep your military standing by when cutting down trees!

How did you do that without dfhack?

[than402]

I haven't done it yet, I will finish it today. I will use dfhack after all.

[Dirst]

I haven't done it yet, I will finish it today. I will use dfhack after all.

By the way, keep an eye on the DFHack thread for updates to the spawn-unit script.  The latest one there has fixes from Boltgun and me that make friendly animals stable, and expwnent is liable to release another one this weekend.

[than402]

I'm aware. I have no plans for spawning friendly creatures (for now, at least), but a more stable spawn script is great news indeed

[NEANDERTHAL]

Ooh! What about the plant-creature atom that Star Trek comic? They lived in planet k-g (Kelley-green), and they turned a few if the crew members (and sim guinea pigs) into living plants!

[LastGreen]

personally I really like the idea of "trap" tree's. but idk how to make them I been trying to figure it out but alas im a newbie modder or it may not be possible idk.

what iv been trying to do is create a new species of tree's, 2 actually. a mystic (good) tree and a withered (evil) tree. that when chopped instead of dropping logs drop log based monsters that attack anything and everything in a rage (for being chopped down).

at least that's my idea. just not sure how to connect a creature to a tree or material.

"[MATERIAL_TEMPLATE:WOOD_TEMPLATE]
   [NO_THOUGHT_CENTER_FOR_MOVEMENT]"

?? =( well in any case I sure hope its possible. my forts soldiers just never have anyone to fight anymore ya know lol.

[LastGreen]

-ignore-

[than402]

personally I really like the idea of "trap" tree's. but idk how to make them I been trying to figure it out but alas im a newbie modder or it may not be possible idk.

what iv been trying to do is create a new species of tree's, 2 actually. a mystic (good) tree and a withered (evil) tree. that when chopped instead of dropping logs drop log based monsters that attack anything and everything in a rage (for being chopped down).

at least that's my idea. just not sure how to connect a creature to a tree or material.

"[MATERIAL_TEMPLATE:WOOD_TEMPLATE]
   [NO_THOUGHT_CENTER_FOR_MOVEMENT]"

?? =( well in any case I sure hope its possible. my forts soldiers just never have anyone to fight anymore ya know lol.

here's how I plan to do it:

there is a dfhack script called "spawnunit". the idea is to make it run through a syndrome and then make some trees identical to the normal ones, with one key difference: their wood consists of a material which boils in room temperature and releases the syndrome that I mentioned. when a dwarf comes into contact with the gas (say, your woodcutter) the script summons a dryad which will then attack your woodcutter.