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fivex

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Vermin Eggs
« on: March 07, 2011, 02:37:19 am »

I am trying to make chickens lay bees as eggs. So far it  only produces a single "Tame Small Creature" when a hen lays bees.
I replaced the [LAYS_EGGS] and egg material tags with [LAYs_UNUSUAL_EGGS:PET:HONEY_BEE:NONE:NONE]
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Re: Vermin Eggs
« Reply #1 on: March 07, 2011, 02:59:24 am »

I am trying to make chickens lay bees as eggs.
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Re: Vermin Eggs
« Reply #2 on: March 07, 2011, 04:07:42 am »

Honeybees occur in swarms of like 10k, so you'd probably need to change the clutch size to something like 10000:12000 to get a swarm of bees, but at the same time it might create 10k individual, unique, pathfinding bees that will rape your FPS.  You've been warned.

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Re: Vermin Eggs
« Reply #3 on: March 07, 2011, 04:09:11 am »

I just imagined a poor hen squinting in pain as 10,000 live and quite angry bees fly out of its orifice.

Oh god... my brain.
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Re: Vermin Eggs
« Reply #4 on: March 07, 2011, 04:10:51 am »

Lol, internet noob.  Just remember, that these are considered "eggs" so it doesn't come out of the anus...

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Re: Vermin Eggs
« Reply #5 on: March 07, 2011, 04:17:05 am »

Lol, internet noob.  Just remember, that these are considered "eggs" so it doesn't come out of the anus...
I didn't say anus. I said orifice.
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Re: Vermin Eggs
« Reply #6 on: March 07, 2011, 04:20:16 am »

Lol, internet noob.  Just remember, that these are considered "eggs" so it doesn't come out of the anus...
Except that chickens only have one hole that they excrete(and lay eggs) from.
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Re: Vermin Eggs
« Reply #7 on: March 07, 2011, 04:21:51 am »

Ok why would you want chickens to lay bees when you could make bees that lay chickens?
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Re: Vermin Eggs
« Reply #8 on: March 07, 2011, 04:36:53 am »

That's... um... Very good point!

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Re: Vermin Eggs
« Reply #9 on: March 07, 2011, 07:51:54 pm »

Bump because this is on the second page and nothing helpful has been posted.
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Re: Vermin Eggs
« Reply #10 on: March 07, 2011, 08:21:54 pm »

Sigged, that's just... what.

Have you been able to produce bees by reaction? That'll give you the correct format for the product at least.
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I am trying to make chickens lay bees as eggs. So far it only produces a single "Tame Small Creature" when a hen lays bees.
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Re: Vermin Eggs
« Reply #11 on: March 08, 2011, 07:37:44 am »

Dwarf Fortress : Crimes Against Nature Simulator.
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Re: Vermin Eggs
« Reply #12 on: March 08, 2011, 08:26:49 am »

PET:NONE:HONEY_BEE:NONE would be what you use in a reaction. Or better yet, VERMIN instead of PET to make them wild bees.

The unusual egg tag is LAYS_UNUSUAL_EGGS:(item):(item subtype)

It wont read the 3rd part that defines which sort of vermin the game should use.

Maybe try [LAYS_UNUSUAL_EGGS:VERMIN:NONE][EGG_MATERIAL:HONEY_BEE:NONE]?
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Re: Vermin Eggs
« Reply #13 on: March 08, 2011, 08:37:35 am »

I wonder if vermin can lie eggs , like a bee queen
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Re: Vermin Eggs
« Reply #14 on: March 08, 2011, 09:18:21 am »

The unusual egg tag is LAYS_UNUSUAL_EGGS:(item):(item subtype)

It wont read the 3rd part that defines which sort of vermin the game should use.

That is incorrect - the syntax is [LAYS_UNUSUAL_EGGS:item:material], where "item" is an item+subtype (e.g. WEAPON:ITEM_WEAPON_WHIP, THRONE:NONE, or VERMIN:NONE) and "material" is whatever the object is made of (e.g. INORGANIC:IRON, CREATURE_MAT:CAT:LEATHER, or "CREATURE_NAME:NONE" if you happen to be creating a vermin).

I just modded chickens to use [LAYS_UNUSUAL_EGGS:VERMIN:NONE:SPIDER_CAVE:NONE], and they did indeed leave live cave spiders in their nest boxes, but once I deconstructed them, the spiders immediately ran away at hyper speed and didn't seem to leave any webs behind, so creating vermin as items presumably doesn't initialize all of their properties correctly.
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