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[Schilcote]

If I wanted to, say, have my Dwarves be able to manufacture and wield crowbars, how would I go about it?

[afoninv]

Hm, you can take a raw file for weapons, copy-paste the hammer entry, change ID and name to crowbar, then add a string to raw file for dwarven entity and add this weapon as common... Can you please detail your question a little bit?

[Schilcote]

Well, how much could I customize it? Would I be able to have it use the "Crowbar-using" skill? Would I be able to control its damage output and hit rate?

[afoninv]

Well, no new skills are possible as of now (and I believe they will never be), so you'll have to choose the one existing skill that you like most. Hammerdwarf or macedwarf are rather close to that. You can also edit it so that there will be "crowbardwarf" profession in game instead of "hammerdwarf", but skill will still be named Hammer.
Damage output is now being discussed in another thread on weapon research, but a quick answer is - yes, you can control the damage and the way it is inflicted very flexibly.
Hit rate is not moddable.

[Schilcote]

How would I set up the Metalsmith's workshop to produce these crowbars?

[Calvin]

Well, no new skills are possible as of now (and I believe they will never be), so you'll have to choose the one existing skill that you like most. Hammerdwarf or macedwarf are rather close to that. You can also edit it so that there will be "crowbardwarf" profession in game instead of "hammerdwarf", but skill will still be named Hammer.
Damage output is now being discussed in another thread on weapon research, but a quick answer is - yes, you can control the damage and the way it is inflicted very flexibly.
Hit rate is not moddable.

Excuse me sir, but, a crowbar is nothing like a mace or hammer when I wielded it.

It was like a sword or axe. B)


If you allow the weapons to be made by the civilizations that you want to make crowbars in the entity_default.txt file, they will be able to make it (from the forge).
And you can also modify some things that influence damage, but hit rate and pure damage is based upon the dwarf's stats and the materials the weapon is made of.

Also, if you wanted to see what it would look like, here's the item_weapons file.

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[ITEM_WEAPON:ITEM_WEAPON_CROWBAR]
[NAME:crowbar:crowbars]
[SIZE:350]
[SKILL:SWORD]
[TWO_HANDED:37500]
[MINIMUM_SIZE:32500]
[MATERIAL_SIZE:3]
[ATTACK:EDGE:100:1500:swing:swings:sharp edge:2000]
[ATTACK:BLUNT:1000:4000:whack:whacks:flat edge:3000]

[afoninv]

Well, add something like this to item_weapon.txt in RAWS folder

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[ITEM_WEAPON:ITEM_WEAPON_CROWBAR]
[NAME:crowbar:crowbars]
[SIZE:400]
[SKILL:HAMMER]
[TWO_HANDED:37500]
[MINIMUM_SIZE:32500]
[MATERIAL_SIZE:3]
[ATTACK:BLUNT:200:5000:bash:bashes:NO_SUB:2000]
and add this string to entity_default.txt , under the [ENTITY:MOUNTAIN] tag:

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[WEAPON:ITEM_WEAPON_CROWBAR]
That should do the job. If it does not, feel free to ask.

Also, there are a couple of good resources for beginner modders, like wiki and these two forum threads: 1 2

[Schilcote]

What, exactly, were you killing with a crowbar?

[afoninv]

Excuse me sir, but, a crowbar is nothing like a mace or hammer when I wielded it.

It was like a sword or axe. B)

Ah, I can be very wrong about crowbar wielding, my bad =)

[madk]

Well, no new skills are possible as of now (and I believe they will never be), so you'll have to choose the one existing skill that you like most. Hammerdwarf or macedwarf are rather close to that. You can also edit it so that there will be "crowbardwarf" profession in game instead of "hammerdwarf", but skill will still be named Hammer.
Damage output is now being discussed in another thread on weapon research, but a quick answer is - yes, you can control the damage and the way it is inflicted very flexibly.
Hit rate is not moddable.

You can also edit it so that there will be "crowbardwarf" profession in game instead of "hammerdwarf",

"crowbardwarf"

bard

[The Anus of Discontent]

Well, no new skills are possible as of now (and I believe they will never be), so you'll have to choose the one existing skill that you like most. Hammerdwarf or macedwarf are rather close to that. You can also edit it so that there will be "crowbardwarf" profession in game instead of "hammerdwarf", but skill will still be named Hammer.
Damage output is now being discussed in another thread on weapon research, but a quick answer is - yes, you can control the damage and the way it is inflicted very flexibly.
Hit rate is not moddable.

You can also edit it so that there will be "crowbardwarf" profession in game instead of "hammerdwarf",

"crowbardwarf"

worf

Wait, what?

[Schilcote]

Well, no new skills are possible as of now (and I believe they will never be), so you'll have to choose the one existing skill that you like most. Hammerdwarf or macedwarf are rather close to that. You can also edit it so that there will be "crowbardwarf" profession in game instead of "hammerdwarf", but skill will still be named Hammer.
Damage output is now being discussed in another thread on weapon research, but a quick answer is - yes, you can control the damage and the way it is inflicted very flexibly.
Hit rate is not moddable.

You can also edit it so that there will be "crowbardwarf" profession in game instead of "hammerdwarf",

"crowbardwarf"

worf

Wait, what?

[NRN_R_Sumo1]

the architect skill I think would make a little more sense with using a crowbar than the hammer or mace or axe OR sword skill.
(yes its possible to use non-combat skills, take a look at the pick, it uses mining)

[Schilcote]

I should mod in a megaphone that uses the Consoler skill.

[NRN_R_Sumo1]

I should mod in a megaphone that uses the Consoler skill.

The soundwave hits the goblin in the torso, it is broken!