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[Lancensis]

Also, you mention that black lung is only contained in certain tiles, this would mean that higher level miners would get infected more often than lower ones... is this a good thing?

I hadn't considered this, but you're right.  I guess it makes a certain degree of sense - if the legendary miners work faster, they're likely to throw up a more dust from their vigorous efforts.

Well, it's not like you develop black lung on the first day of the job, is it? It'll be the veteran miners who are more likely to develop it, as in real life - even if the reasons are different.

The thought occurs, that if you make it a gem, you can make it look the same as regular coal, but have a different name for the loose stone. It won't stop merchants bringing it on the own, but it will at least make it less likely that you would request it, or bring it on embark.

[Arkenstone]

Would it be possible to make the blood of some creatures poisonous (or maybe acidic/scalding) so that dwarves who get it splattered on them in melee would contract some deadly disease?

Yes, very easily.  You just make a material in the usual manner, give it a SYN_CONTACT syndrome, then replace the second BLOOD token in [BLOOD:LOCAL_CREATURE_MAT:BLOOD:LIQUID] with the name of the material you want them to bleed.  I use something like this for a plague monk creature and one or two of them can incapacitate entire swarms of enemies just by bleeding on them.

P.S. You mentioned something about warpstone earlier, can you send me a link to the mod for that?

It's not on the Internet yet, because I haven't finished it.

OK, can't wait for that- how much other skaven stuff you got besides the warpstone and plague monks?

Also, two more things on contagions:
     1. Could you put a (mild) contagion in cheap food/alcohol to give food poisoning and hangovers?
     2. Could you make a contagion give a positive effect?  I'd like to make a workshop that just produces a vapor that makes my dwarves happier/healther.  (Or, could you just find a way for a workshop to create steam?  Although, I suppose that just putting a grate over lava and designating it as a pit/pond would be good enough: dwarves dumping buckets of water on lava = dwarven sauna. If so, it might be a good idea to make a material called, say, thermium and give it [MAT_FIXED_TEMP:9000] so that the dwarfs don't dy in the heat.  Heck, you could maybe even make armor out of the stuff, to act as thermal insulation- Arkenstone, Moddwarf has been possessed!)

[Arkenstone]

The thermium's not working well, I suppose probly because of the weird DF physics of hot to cold combined with fixed_temp and all, but it was off topic anyways.  I'd do more testing, but my little sis's been bugging me to get on.

[Lofn]

OK, can't wait for that- how much other skaven stuff you got besides the warpstone and plague monks?

The Warlord Clans and the Lords of Decay, Moulder beasts, a -small- amount of Skryre stuff.  I'm not sure if I'm happy with it so far.

Also, two more things on contagions:
     1. Could you put a (mild) contagion in cheap food/alcohol to give food poisoning and hangovers?
     2. Could you make a contagion give a positive effect?  I'd like to make a workshop that just produces a vapor that makes my dwarves happier/healther.  (Or, could you just find a way for a workshop to create steam?  Although, I suppose that just putting a grate over lava and designating it as a pit/pond would be good enough: dwarves dumping buckets of water on lava = dwarven sauna. If so, it might be a good idea to make a material called, say, thermium and give it [MAT_FIXED_TEMP:9000] so that the dwarfs don't dy in the heat.  Heck, you could maybe even make armor out of the stuff, to act as thermal insulation- Arkenstone, Moddwarf has been possessed!)

1. Nope.  There's no SYN_INGESTED tag yet, sadly.
2. Nope.  We've been asking Toady about beneficial CE_X's though.

Temperature at the moment is very dodgy.  Very very dodgy.  I suggest waiting till Toady fixes it.

[Arkenstone]

Yeah, I noticed that nobody ever dies 'from the heat' anymore.

[Ilmoran]

Sorry for the mini-necro, but have you considered something similar to this for lead poisoning?

Remove the metal ore tag from the ores of lead, add smelter reactions to smelt the ore into lead, and give it a chance to produce a custom material that goes gaseous immediately and has a lead poisoning syndrome attached?

[Arkenstone]

Search for Genesis Mod, it's got both this and what you're talking about.

[Lancensis]

I think Genesis has lead that poisons you when you mine it out, rather than when you smelt it. Principle's not that different, however.

[UnLimiTeD]

Is it possible to make that "smoke/cloud" disperse when a tile is flooded?
I think you should be able to fight coal dust with 'wet working', aka, a sophisticated flooding system to absorb the dust.

[existent]

I feel like this thread's been quiet for a while, but I'm posting anyway to ask if I can include it in my LotR mod.

Also, is there a way to have it not affect certain creatures? IE, can you change the affected class to a custom one?

[Axecleaver]

Also, is there a way to have it not affect certain creatures? IE, can you change the affected class to a custom one?

I may not know much about modding (yet), but you may want to look at the Syndrome Tokens on the DF2010:Syndrome page of the wiki. Specifically, I suspect adding this token to a creature will make it immune:

SYN_IMMUNE_CREATURE - creates an exception for the creature so that it not affected by the syndrome.

[Master Catfish]

I couldn't tell by reading the raws, but does the 'black lung' material show up inside clusters of coal, or is it only in clusters of itself?

Can a syndrome like this be attached to a metal or other object? 

[Deon]

It has the same name as the coal vein.

A syndrome can be attached to anything, but you should deliver it in a liquid or a gaseous form for it to work.

[Jimmitheking]

just a curiosity, is this mod in corrosion mod? because im searching for the poisonous gaz mod that is in corrosion, without corrosion.

[GaxkangtheUnbound]

Holy necro, batman!
And yes, this is more or less the syndrome.