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[gurra_geban]

1: how do i modify the amount of health points a creature has?
2: how do i modify how often events occur (like goblin sieges and arrival of megabeasts... as well as spawning of native creatures ie deer, wolves)
3: do i have to create a new world for my changes to come into effect?

thx ^^

[Helmaroc]

1. Unless I am wrong, creatures don't have 'points'. It is realistic. They can bleed to death, explode into bits of gut with a good hit, that type of thing.
2. You can't. You can turn some thing s of, like economy in the init file.
3. Most of the time. If you make new objects/creatures, definitely.

[Karlito]

quote:Originally posted by gurra_geban:
<STRONG>1: how do i modify the amount of health points a creature has?
</STRONG>

Increasing [SIZE] makes creatures tougher and dish out more damage.  Increasing [DAMBLOCK] allows them to take more damage.

[Mr.Person]

If you go into your DF folder, then raw/objects and into "creature_large_temperate.txt", you'l find deer in there. Find this tag:

code:

   [POPULATION_NUMBER:15:30]

This is the number of deer that will appear per year. The first number (15) is the minimum, the second (30) is the maxmimum. Change CLUSTER_NUMBER too, if ou want. That is also MIN#:MAX#.

Other creatures are in other text files. You don't have to regenerate the world unless you added or removed any creatures or objects or you changed anything in "body_default", "entity_standard", "descriptor_color_standard", "descriptor_shape_standard", any matgloss file, or any language file. (I dunno about reaction_standard)

[Cosmonot]

Mechanically, bloodloss works very similarly to hit points. I asked Toady about it once on irc and his answer was along the lines of "There's this big number, and when it hits zero you die." I don't think you can modify bloodloss short of adding [NOBLEED] to the creature, which eliminates bloodloss so you have to destroy a vital bodypart. [SIZE] probably changes it too but that has a whole bunch of other effects.

[Earthquake Damage]

Existing reactions can be modified freely without generating a new world, but new ones won't appear in old worlds.

[Untelligent]

Adding an existing reaction to an existing stone will work in old worlds, however (ie making Granite a flux).

[Earthquake Damage]

Do you mean adding [FLUX] to granite (which is a matgloss change, not a reaction change) or changing a reaction to use granite instead of a flux (which is silly, but yes, just a change to an existing reaction and thus doesn't require a new world)?