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[GreatWyrmGold]

In my errorlog, I noticed an error about an ass demon.

How hard would it be to change things like that to, say, "Donkey demon"?

[Avo]

In my errorlog, I noticed an error about an ass demon.

How hard would it be to change things like that to, say, "Donkey demon"?

You can go to the raws and change it yourself, still very nice find.

[NW_Kohaku]

First off, these are technically spoilers (even if it's being spit out of the errorlog), so you might want to spoiler that title somehow.

Secondly, the HFS isn't in the raws.  That stuff comes from the hardcoded portions of the game.

[Silophant]

Also, if that's the kind of thing that offends you, this may not be the game for you.

[G-Flex]

I don't think this is about it being offensive, just about it sounding intentionally humorous/ambiguous.

No idea why Toady didn't go for "donkey", really.

[Not a Cylon]

First off, these are technically spoilers (even if it's being spit out of the errorlog), so you might want to spoiler that title somehow.

Yes. Clearly the proper phrasing is “ass clown.”

[G-Flex]

Honestly, I always thought "Ass Fiend" was funnier.

[Avo]

First off, these are technically spoilers (even if it's being spit out of the errorlog), so you might want to spoiler that title somehow.

Secondly, the HFS isn't in the raws.  That stuff comes from the hardcoded portions of the game.

Im not 100% sure, but i think its using the data from the raws to generate the demons. So he could go to the raws and find the ass, change its name to donkey and that *should* stop future ass demons. Otherwise, theres a whole new hidden raw's somewhere....

[G-Flex]

Nah, it uses animal shapes that aren't in the raws. That's how you get wacky dinosaur-shaped demons and such.

[Ale and Axes]

I hope it never changes. Quirks like this are why DF is awesome. It's not hard to get past the funniness and read 'ass' in its animal meaning anyway.

[NW_Kohaku]

First off, these are technically spoilers (even if it's being spit out of the errorlog), so you might want to spoiler that title somehow.

Secondly, the HFS isn't in the raws.  That stuff comes from the hardcoded portions of the game.

Im not 100% sure, but i think its using the data from the raws to generate the demons. So he could go to the raws and find the ass, change its name to donkey and that *should* stop future ass demons. Otherwise, theres a whole new hidden raw's somewhere....

As G-Flex said, clowns are based off of hard-coded data that isn't available for other types of creatures, including parrot creatures or dinosaur creatures, which don't exist in the raws. 

Toady hard coded this stuff in the game so that there was no way for you to find and mess with them outside of breaching the HFS.

Unfortunately, this also means there's no way to mod them to be something different if you are doing some sort of theme-mod, other than not having a HFS at all.

[Uristocrat]

In my errorlog, I noticed an error about an ass demon.

How hard would it be to change things like that to, say, "Donkey demon"?

There are some telling you to "beware its poisonous gasses" ...  Somewhere on the forums is a picture someone drew of one spewing gasses and flapping its evil little wings.

I'm not 100% convinced that "donkey" was the intended word.

[Jeoshua]

This thread reminds me of 3rd grade astronomy.

Hehehe... He said Ur-ANUS!!!

[ImBocaire]

You CAN find and modify the raw files for the procedurally generated monsters... you have to turn on decompressed saves and open the "world.dat" file in the region's save folder using a text editor. I've successfully gotten titans and night creatures into arena mode this way (although it crashed whenever I tried to spawn a clown).

WARNING: world.dat is not exactly set up to be easy to read... all the friendly formatting present in normal raw files is gone, and the raw files for all the procedurally generated monsters are jammed up together in an unholy wall of text.

[bucket]

Gublugnug, the Horrible Abyss of Darkness, resembles a giant hairy ass. Beware its deadly spittle!