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[Lancensis]

How come I don't get anything?

[Deon]

Oh sorry, it was meant for the author of the mod. It's just a d20 book about gnolls, I have a huge collection of those.

[Pyro]

Deon:
I am willing to accept any material you have on them

[Untelligent]

Why do I seem to have fewer points to spend when creating my party in Fortress mode?

Looks like this hasn't been answered yet, so I'll rectify that.


You always get a fixed amount of points (200, I believe), regardless of what race you play as or the aspects of that race. In addition to that, you get some other things, such as an anvil, two axes of the highest quality metal available (steel for METAL_PREF races, copper for LOW_METAL races, iron for everyone else, assuming no new metals have been modded in), two picks of the lowest quality metal available (copper), and a random assortment of food, booze, and related goods.

What most people don't realize is that all these starting items are not subtracted from your original points, but "freebies." If your race gets less freebies (generally by having iron axes instead of steel), you get less stuff to sell, and thus less total points.

[Pyro]

Untelligent:
Thanks for that dude.

From the number of test games I have had the points one gets (by selling useless stuff) seem just about sufficient. What do you guys think?

Should I try an add some high value stuff to 'sell' on embark?

[Pyro]

BUMP: Update
Major update: Removed un-gnoll like jobs. They can only make weapons out of metal. If you want metal armour for the gnolls scavenge it from the dead
Added a new metal for making anvils out of- Gnoll Steel. It is an alloy of iron and copper and quite worthless.

[Pyro]

Anyone know how to turn off fay moods? I don't think it is keeping with gnoll character to create legendary items.

[Lancensis]

Anyone know how to turn off fay moods? I don't think it is keeping with gnoll character to create legendary items.

Hmmmmmmm. Tweak utility? Wouldn't turn them off, but you could nip them in the bud, I'd think. Beyond that? Uhhh, you can't really remove all moodable jobs, and peasants can get moods anyway. Don't excavate so many underground tiles? Chalk it up to insanity and lock them in a room? Maybe Gnoles ARE capable of creating wonderous artifacts, but their buddies just think they're going crazy and lock them up, so they never get the chance.

[DeKaFu]

Anyone know how to turn off fay moods? I don't think it is keeping with gnoll character to create legendary items.

[ARTIFACTS:NO] in init.txt?

[Lancensis]

Heh. Well there you go

[Halconnen]

HA. When I saw the question earlier, I spent hours checking the entity file and creature entry earlier to find -something- related to strange moods, because I just -knew- I had seen an Artifact token before.

Figures it'd be in the init file, the one place where it could be and I hadn't looked. D:

[Pyro]

Thanks guys
I'll stick it in the next version

[Simmura McCrea]

As far as I was aware, the [trANCES] tag causes artifact moods, as well as combat trances.

[Lancensis]

Uh-uh. I think I've given [trANCES] to Hydras. God only knows what they're going to make. Hats, I guess, and lots of 'em

[.:Asch:.]

Possible answers to some of your questions below. It's a longish post, sorry.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

For the Dire Hyena's pulling wagons - add

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[COMMON_DOMESTIC_PACK]
[COMMON_DOMESTIC_PULL]
[COMMON_DOMESTIC_MOUNT]
[COMMON_DOMESTIC_PET]to your Gnoll's entity file and they should use them for wagons, if you want to stop Dwarves and Humans using them you can add

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[EVIL]to the Dire Hyena's creature file and

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[USE_EVIL_ANIMALS] to the Gnoll's entity file

Although this means that Goblins may take them along with Beakdogs when they siege, not sure on that though. If you can live without Beakdogs with goblins you can remove the [USE_EVIL_ANIMALS] from the Goblins file - I think that should fix it, if that is actually a problem. I think you can also add [PACK_ANIMAL] to the Dire Hyena for it to pull merchants wagons.

On rotting meat, I don't think that it can be eaten, I believe it is hard-coded, although I may be wrong on that point.

For leather as a building material, you might be able to make a separate stone that doesn't appear in any layers and make a furnace reaction to change leather into the 'leather stone', as I don't think you could make the leather itself work as a building material.

Also you might want to change the Gnoll's prefstring, as the current 'Ugly' means that if you get a migrant who likes Gnolls I think it would say something along the lines of 'Likes Gnolls for their ugly', which sounds somewhat strange.

You also have    

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[RELIGION_SPHERE:SPHERE_DEATH]
[RELIGION_SPHERE:SPHERE_CHAOS]
[RELIGION_SPHERE:SPHERE_REVELRY]
[RELIGION_SPHERE:SPHERE_DEPRAVITY]
[RELIGION_SPHERE:SPHERE_HUNTING]in the Gnolls religion, it should just be   

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[RELIGION_SPHERE:SPHERE_DEATH]
[RELIGION_SPHERE:CHAOS]
[RELIGION_SPHERE:REVELRY]
[RELIGION_SPHERE:DEPRAVITY]
[RELIGION_SPHERE:HUNTING]
A slight spelling issue   [ETHIC:ASSAULT:ACCETABLE] (Needs a 'p')

[LEADER_TYPE:MATRIARCH] means nothing, the leader type has to be taken from this list => http://dwarffortresswiki.net/index.php/Profession_tokens

And inside the matgloss_gnoll_steel.txt file, you have the header 'matgloss_metal_gnoll_steel' rather than 'matgloss_gnoll_steel'

You also have an empty text file - matgloss_metal_gnoll_steel.txt, perhaps this relates to the above issue?

Not sure of how much of that will work - I am a fairly novice modder myself

I haven't had a chance to play the mod itself yet but I will when I get home tonight. The graphics look good, better than anything I could do, anyway. Will give you a response on how it goes.

EDIT: Just saw the common domestic tags in the raw, didn't notice them at first, you should probably disregard that
EDIT: More added in to the spoilered part