The level of conflict between creatures or alliances can be controlled in the main screen with the keys shift+C and c. This is partly due to the fact that no child creatures can be created.

This can be an easy way to obtain butchering information, although there tends to be a distinct lack of variation in the results (unless the corpse is missing a body part). This is not a bug, because arena independence overrides anything else.)Ĭorpses can be butchered by loo king at them and then pressing a. ( Necromancers and disturbed dead that are marked as Independent will not be at peace with the zombies that they raise. In this way, you can create simulated battles against beasts or enemies - for example, you can test twenty sword-users versus twenty macemen, and analyze the battle from gamelog.txt. There are 99 teams, as well as 'Independent', which is the default and acts as every creature for itself. It is possible to 'Team' creatures up by pressing s and d in the creation menu which is shown on the top left-hand side. Any modded interaction with a defined arena name will also be available. In vanilla games, the available effects are the interactions of necromancers, animated corpses, disturbed dead, accursed, werebeasts and vampires. You can also set exactly how much of a certain item you want when you select it, by using the + or - keys, which is the only way to get a creature to hold more than one piece of ammo, as the arena lacks an option for spawning quivers or backpacks.Ī creature can be created with an effect from an interaction by pressing u in the creation menu. Creatures unable to use the weapons given to them will drop them upon unpausing, but creatures such as dwarves will happily do so, as long as they at least have dabbling-rank in its associated skill. While in the creature placement menu, it is possible to add skills to your creatures, such as the fighter skill, or weapons, ammo, and armor. Note that some creatures with no combat capabilities (such as vermin) cannot be spawned, regardless of having the aforementioned tokens or not. Creatures with the or tokens can't be spawned in the object testing arena, unless the aforementioned tags are removed from their raw files.

You cannot delete creatures, but you can, however, press w then l (in the k menu) to create a stone wall, instantly killing anything on that tile. Press Esc (or whatever you bound 'leave screen' to) to cancel without creating the creature. Creatures can be spawned while in the loo k menu - press c to create a creature, select the creature type, skills and equipment, and then press enter.

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