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[tsen]

So I've been tinkering and after creating a new item I added it to the dwarf entry in the entity_default file. For some reason it only appears for crafting some of the time. What gives?

EDIT: The piece in question is a beastplate... it seems like it generally picks one or the other, so might be something to do with the [SHAPED] tag. Not sure, as I've seen both at once before.

Also, how (if it is possible) do I get the smelter to use corpses?

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[REACTION:BLOOD_STONE]
[NAME:sanctify bloodstone]
[SMELTER]
[REAGENT:3:CORPSE:NO_SUBTYPE:CREATURE:NO_MATGLOSS]
[REAGENT:3:STONE:NO_SUBTYPE:STONE:NO_MATGLOSS]
[REAGENT:1:SMALLGEM:NO_SUBTYPE:STONE:NO_MATGLOSS]
[PRODUCT:33:1:STONE:NO_SUBTYPE:STONE:SANCTIFIED_BLOODSTONE]

The rest works just fine, but the corpse line seems to do nothing, and my attempt at creating corpses to test the tokens have resulted in nothing and some frozen-to-death dwarves.

[Footkerchief]

Did you mark it as COMMON or UNCOMMON?

[tsen]

Have tried both, as well as plain + common. When I remove the common tag and limit it to 1 entry it just doesn't show up.

Also, do legends take equipment into account? Everyone seems to be bludgeoning and wrestling each other to death.

[LegoLord]

Need raws to help with the first.  There are also reaction tags on the wiki that show you how to make corpses and stuff.  Give me a second to look it up for ya.

Okay, here you go:
http://dwarf.lendemaindeveille.com/index.php/Reactions
http://dwarf.lendemaindeveille.com/index.php/Item_Token
http://dwarf.lendemaindeveille.com/index.php/Material_tokens

[Kagus]

Yeah, post your equipment and civilization files so we can take a look at it.  Show the file that has the armor in it, and the file with the civilizations in it.  And check your errorlog.txt just for the sake of it.  Sometimes it picks up on syntax errors (which is what this sounds like).

[tsen]

I've actually looked over the DFwiki's token entries, the problem is I don't want it to take a specific creature, though now that I think of it that's not a problem, I was trying to make it take *any* corpse, which apparently isn't possible.

As far as entity_standard entries for armor piece:

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   [ARMOR:ITEM_ARMOR_DEFPLATEMAIL]
   [ARMOR:ITEM_ARMOR_DEFPLATEMAIL:COMMON]

And the item entry:

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[ITEM_ARMOR:ITEM_ARMOR_DEFPLATEMAIL]
[NAME:Defender's plate mail:Defender's plate mail]
[PREPLURAL:suits of]
[WEIGHT:325]
[VALUE:225]
[ARMORLEVEL:3]
[MAINBLOCK:100]
[SECONDBLOCK:70]
[UBSTEP:2]
[LBSTEP:1]
[SHAPED]
[LAYER:ARMOR]
[COVERAGE:100]
[LAYER_SIZE:35]
[LAYER_PERMIT:50]
[MATERIAL_SIZE:12]
[HARD]
[METAL]

Sometimes it shows, sometimes not. The item is in a new file called item_dwarf which has item_dwarf and [OBJECT:ITEM] at the top separated by one carriage return. The entities file is otherwise normal. Re-genned with the non-common ones removed and it *seems* to be working... Seems.

I carefully examine the error log every time I world gen and nada for the last 3 worldgens (been ironing out some minor bugs)

[LegoLord]

   [ARMOR:ITEM_ARMOR_DEFPLATEMAIL]

I think that's your problem.  That tag needs to have [COMMON], [UNCOMMON], or [RARE]? to work.

[tsen]

Added it, removed the non-tagged ones... seems to be working now.

[Wiles]

It has been a while since I've messed around with modding but I seem to recall that occasionally some of the armour I added would not show up. I believe there is a bit of randomness to it, as COMMON doesn't guarantee it will be there 100% of the time. I think you can put FORCED in there to make it show up all the time

[i2amroy]

Putting in FORCED will force it to appear 100% of the time on every creature, yes.

[tsen]

Cool, I'll try it.

EDIT: Seems to be working.  8"}

EDIT2: Ok, now I can't figure this one out either: why the hell do my dwarves insist on taking off *one* sock and keeping the other one on?

[Jakkarra]

EDIT2: Ok, now I can't figure this one out either: why the hell do my dwarves insist on taking off *one* sock and keeping the other one on?

.... because they are dwarfs.

But seriously, i think you may have found a bug, or, possibly, your item is interfereing with the sock. does this only happen when they wear the armour? or all the time?

if with the armour, you may have made the armour take up the sock-slot accidentally, if not, im unsure, sorry...

Love, jakkarra

[Walliard]

Armored socks.

Brilliant.

[Greiger]

I think some of the stuff randomly being unavailible has to do with the coverage or layering or something. I noticed many times that civs that live in tropical climates often can't make vanilla mittens or high boots.  I assume it has something to do with the civ determining equipment is "too hot" to bother learning how to make.  Donno what actually controls this but I assume if there are multiple of one type of equipment it can be possible for a civ to be unable to produce it.

As for the sock thing, I can't imagine why the armor would effect the socks.  If I remember how Toady described the armor tags correctly the protection from that armor should only go down to about the upper legs.  That shouldn't be close enough to mess with socks.  Now if it interfered with gauntlets and helmets, now that would make sense. the UPSTEP of 2 would protect at least to the lower arms, likely including the hands, and should be protecting the head on it's own as well.

[tsen]

Nope. I got them to correctly don everything, after several days of tinkering. The only thing they won't do is keep both socks on when putting on boots.

EDIT:  Fixed. Got them wearing everything properly. Now to figure out how to make them wear pants again.

EDIT2: Sock thing seems to be a bug, but you can micromanage around it normally.