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[Dunmeris]

Thanks! I'll need to check this out...

[Ulfarr]

Is the description (tool) tag working and if yes can it be used for non-tool items? AFAIK it's not even used in items either.

Is there any other (in game)  way to add item descriptions or is DFHack's item-description script the only option?

[Fatace]

Curious about something... If I were to apply:

[ANIMAL]
      [ANIMAL_CLASS:POISONOUS]
      [ANIMAL_FORBIDDEN_CLASS:MAMMAL]
      [ANIMAL_NEVER_MOUNT]
      [ANIMAL_NEVER_WAGON_PULLER]
      [ANIMAL_NEVER_PACK_ANIMAL]
      [ANIMAL_ALWAYS_PET]
      [ANIMAL_ALWAYS_SIEGE]

to a Civ that's like the Goblins (or any tbh), and make a new ANIMAL_CLASS with its own creatures in that class.... would that work?

Like.. have a Civ that uses bugs for their creatures?

[Sver]

Yes. You'd just need to make sure that all the creatures you want to be used have the [CREATURE_CLASS:your class tag here] in their creature raws.

[Fatace]

Awesome! Thank you!

Would it effect any if I were to copy a few vanilla creatures (example: Using Rats and changes names, size to something named Dire Rats), set their new creature_class, but set their spawn frequency to 0.. would they still show up in Civs? Or would they need to be active in that area, ect. for them to be used?

[bloop_bleep]

Awesome! Thank you!

Would it effect any if I were to copy a few vanilla creatures (example: Using Rats and changes names, size to something named Dire Rats), set their new creature_class, but set their spawn frequency to 0.. would they still show up in Civs? Or would they need to be active in that area, ect. for them to be used?

[ANIMAL] blocks disregard whether the animal is available in the civ’s environment, so you should be fine.

[Sver]

You'd need to add [ANIMAL_ALWAYS_PRESENT] under the [ANIMAL] tag to make sure it's always available. Otherwise it will only get tamed if present in the world and near the civ.

Also, you don't need to set frequency to 0 - just remove the frequency tag and all the biome tags. And make sure your copied creatures have a unique creature tag (I assume you know it, but saying just in case).

[Fatace]

Alright, thanks to the both of you! It gives me some evil ideas for some of my civs...

[bloop_bleep]

Another question. df::item::addWear takes three arguments, an int16_t (which I assume is the amount of wear) and two other Booleans. What do these last two arguments mean? I ask because steam-engine.cpp seems to use both the (true, false) and (true, true) combinations, and neither of these seem to actually change the wear value when inspected with lua.

[Hetsin]

Is there an attribute or value for a material that can be adjusted that determines how fast it gets damaged? I want to try to make clothes, armor and weapons more durable by at least a magnitude. Especially clothes.

[Eric Blank]

I could be totally wrong, but i think clothing wear (as in, degredation from being worn) is hardcoded in terms of the rate; it just matters how long a dwarf has been wearing it. Armor wear is dependent on combat damage based on the armor material vs whatevers hitting it, and the material properties determine that. I think shear strength and impact yield(?) are the important ones there.

You can totally make a plant fiber or something that is as tough as bronze armor, but as clothing it will still wear out.
If you really just dont like the clothing industry, you can also just make reactions that print a suit of clothes for free or something when run. Then just use that every once in a while.

[kirby2099]

I was wanting to change the combat messages("the severed part flies off in an arc", "...shattering the bone and tearing the muscle", etc), and I was wondering if you can use DnSpy to modify the game. If there is any other way(besides DFhack scripts) please let me know.

[bloop_bleep]

You can edit the game binary directly, using a hex editor. Search for the string and replace it with whatever you want. Put a 0 at the end of the new string.

However, this limits you from changing the string to a longer one. If you want to do that, you could probably add a new .patch section at the end of the binary, filling it with the new strings, then search for all references to the string you want to change using a utility like OllyDbg, then replacing that reference with a reference to the new string in the .patch section. I have little idea about the details of this, though.

[kirby2099]

Bloop_bleep, so does it not work with DnSpy, or has it just not been tested? Thank you for your reply, but I don't have any experience with hex editors and not much experience with DF modding in general so I was hoping I could just open the game with DnSpy, change some code and recompile the files, Thank you anyway.

[bloop_bleep]

Apparently dnSpy is a .NET assembly editor, and I do not think DF was created with the .NET framework, so I doubt it will work.