Animals.txt

Animals.txt is the file that stores the various animals and fantasy animals available in Warsim, these creatures appear in animal fights, bandit gang names, arena animal fights and in the random race generation system where they can become races.

if we look at a random line from the file

Rabbit.21.42.0.known for their stompy feat, flopy ears and cute appearance

The important data is separated by dots '.' that we call delimiters, the first piece of data is of course the animals name, the second line of data is it's battlescore in it's animal form, for this remember that 50 battlescore is a peasant so could this animal kill a simple peasant? as this isn't the monty python rabbit, No.

The second number is the battlescore expected of the lowest unit of a rabbit based race, so I'm imagining rabbit folk to be fairly peaceful and weak-ish, but Swordfish people have a battlescore of 60, 10 more than humans because they would probably be stronger.

The final number which is primarily 0 as it's not often used is just to indicate and force an alignment, I usually leave this to be decided by the races prefixes but if this is set to '1' then the race is good and if '2' then the race is evil, '0' just means it remains neutral and lets other parts of the race define it's alignment.

And finally a small description, please note if you do mod the animals file or any others to avoid using dots/periods/fullstops wherever you can as they are used by the games file system to recognise different data parts and so adding them where they aren't supposed to be can cause game crashes.