Jon Joe posted:

This was a pretty poorly designed fort, but there was basically one big stockpile for everything in the fort next to every single workshop.

Been a while since I played, how do I designate non-economic stone, or make wheelbarrows that will be used by the dwarves?

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(Toady One) It's not done yet, but it looks like we'll be going from the current 16 emotions (and only 6 of those with visible effects/text in dwarf mode) to 119 which'll all at least be visible as text. Most of them also have an effect on the dwarf's well-being (usually through the stress/stability measurements which replace the "happiness" meter). There are another 48 emotions in the main list that I haven't put in since I didn't have pre-existing thought circumstances for them (often stuff about the future, like dread and apprehension and hope). The circumstances give rise to emotion types based on personality and values and those emotions can also be amplified and squashed in the same way.

It'll be interesting to see how it works out once all of the tables/etc. are finished. The main idea isn't really to totally change the current experience so much as to homogenize everything before I start on other features (more bug-fixing first, of course), but hopefully it'll be somewhat entertaining on its own.

Literally Kermit posted:

We really need an emote to bridge the gap between and

Excelzior posted:

No, we need a combination of and

reading posted:

I just can't get this to work.
...
This doesn't give me a species where the females have the normal quadruped body plan, but the males have that and 2WINGS which I added at the end of the body plan. Rather it just messes up stuff strangely, like attacks in the arena "pass through" all the body parts.

TJChap2840 posted:

Anybody have any recommendations on what I should do mid to late game? I can get a fortress running fluidly with relative ease but I don't know what to do with it after that. Things start to fall apart fairly quickly because I don't know what to focus on or how to focus on it.

I know your embark location can have a big effect on that decision, but, in general, what should I do? Metalwork seems logical but the whole idea of magma scares me since I am not all that familiar with this game.

ghetto wormhole posted:

Is it even possible to play this game without the wiki?

Elth posted:

You don't need magma for metalworks if you can keep a steady supply of charcoal. Which is fairly easy if you have a few dedicated wood burners and a few multitile trees.

Have you tried your hand at above-ground construction? Build a giant gently caress-off wall around your entrance and then build some towers, or fancy houses for your nobles.

Remember, if you're not sure how to do something, check the wiki. They usually have pretty good instructions over there.

TJChap2840 posted:

Anybody have any recommendations on what I should do mid to late game? I can get a fortress running fluidly with relative ease but I don't know what to do with it after that. Things start to fall apart fairly quickly because I don't know what to focus on or how to focus on it.

I know your embark location can have a big effect on that decision, but, in general, what should I do? Metalwork seems logical but the whole idea of magma scares me since I am not all that familiar with this game.

Elth posted:

You don't need magma for metalworks if you can keep a steady supply of charcoal. Which is fairly easy if you have a few dedicated wood burners and a few multitile trees.

Elth posted:

Have you tried your hand at above-ground construction? Build a giant gently caress-off wall around your entrance and then build some towers, or fancy houses for your nobles.

Remember, if you're not sure how to do something, check the wiki. They usually have pretty good instructions over there.

scamtank posted:

It involves a magic little plugin called Text Will Be Text. It hijacks a bunch of rendering processes through DFHack to do its thing.

What it lets you do is use one tileset for menus and text (and the screens that aren't supported yet, natch) and one for the playing field, reconciling the size automatically. It even bypasses the hardcoded 80-tile minimum display width, letting you use massive tiles even with a 4:3 screen. There's even an option to render multiple Z-levels at once, but that's a different kind of awesome.

I'm using Bedstead 6x10 for the text and Vidumec 15x15 for the map. When you have the right version of the plugin in the right place (\Dwarf Fortress\hack\plugins) and the tile sheets, you open up the inits.

Your PRINT_MODE must be TWBT and GRAPHICS must be YES. FONT and FULLFONT tilesets are used for the text, GRAPHIC_FONT and GRAPHIC_FULLFONT for the map. If you're running all ASCII, note that this will activate the pointless sample creature graphics that Toady has included with the game. Delete those first.

That should cover everything possible, I think.

Literally Kermit posted:

We really need an emote to bridge the gap between and

TJChap2840 posted:

Anybody have any recommendations on what I should do mid to late game? I can get a fortress running fluidly with relative ease but I don't know what to do with it after that. Things start to fall apart fairly quickly because I don't know what to focus on or how to focus on it.

I know your embark location can have a big effect on that decision, but, in general, what should I do? Metalwork seems logical but the whole idea of magma scares me since I am not all that familiar with this game.

Excelzior posted:

No, we need a combination of and

Kenning posted:

I just dig out some space for my Deepforges just above the magma and then create a slave caste of smelters with nearby bedrooms, a dining room, and a food and booze supply. They never leave the Deepforges.

GulMadred posted:

Your problem might lie with the SELECT_CASTE syntax - it's normally used for minor tweaks to an existing definition (e.g. caste name, fur color), rather than major changes (e.g. bodyplan). Your current syntax *might* be adding a whole bunch of duplicate bodyparts which the game can't layout properly. Hence the "pass through" message during attacks - Dwarf Fortress is very particular about assigning a deterministic order to every layer of a creature (regardless of whether those layers consist of bone, flesh, goo, vapor, clothing, armor, etc...) so that it can resolve piercing and crushing effects appropriately.

Try removing the bodyplan definition from the [CREATURE] root-level, adding two separate bodyplans into the caste definitions, and then run your arena test again. Thus:

pre:

[CREATURE:PEGASUS]
[BODY:QUADRUPED_NECK_HOOF:TAIL:2EYES:2EARS:NOSE:2LUNGS:HEART:GUTS:ORGANS:THROAT:NECK:SPINE:BRAIN:SKULL:MOUTH:TONGUE:GENERIC_TEETH:RIBCAGE]
...
[CASTE:FEMALE]
        [FEMALE]
        [BODY:QUADRUPED_NECK_HOOF:TAIL:2EYES:2EARS:NOSE:2LUNGS:HEART:GUTS:ORGANS:THROAT:NECK:SPINE:BRAIN:SKULL:MOUTH:TONGUE:GENERIC_TEETH:RIBCAGE]
[CASTE:MALE]
	[MALE]
        [BODY:QUADRUPED_NECK_HOOF:TAIL:2EYES:2EARS:NOSE:2LUNGS:HEART:GUTS:ORGANS:THROAT:NECK:SPINE:BRAIN:SKULL:MOUTH:TONGUE:GENERIC_TEETH:RIBCAGE:2WINGS]
        [FLIER]

[SELECT_CASTE:MALE]
        [BODY:QUADRUPED_NECK_HOOF:TAIL:2EYES:2EARS:NOSE:2LUNGS:HEART:GUTS:ORGANS:THROAT:NECK:SPINE:BRAIN:SKULL:MOUTH:TONGUE:GENERIC_TEETH:RIBCAGE:2WINGS]
        [FLIER]

One major problem here is that you're forced to copy-paste a lot of tags (such as body materials) into the two caste blocks, because those tags must appear after the body plan definition. For the sake of simplicity, I'd suggest using the same body-plan for both castes (i.e. don't use the sample that I just provided!), but modifying the tissue properties to suit your needs. Such changes can definitely be made on a per-caste basis. I've used this technique on most of the standard domestic animals, so that only the females will have shearable hair. The males can then be trained as war animals or chained up outside as an early-warning system, and I can keep the females in an enclosed pasture. My farmers will never put themselves into harm's way by attempting to chase down some wayward ram on the other side of the map.

For the "butchering this animal gives bonus leather/meat" idea, I'd suggest hijacking one of the useless tissue layers (nerve or cartilage) for the appropriate caste(s) and appending an EXTRA_BUTCHER_OBJECT tag. You might also be able to repurpose an entire material type (e.g. feathers, which currently have no economic value) via a special TAN_MAT definition or custom reaction. If you specify exactly what you're trying to do, then someone might be able to provide a working sample (which you can tinker with and expand to suit your needs). I don't know whether the pegasus thing is your actual goal, or merely an example that you've used to illustrate the problem.

reading posted:

Is there any way to edit the raws to get my civilian dwarves to carry weapons with them, even if they're not woodcutters or miners? I've been contemplating having my civilians rotate through a "military reservist" program where they spend a couple months out of the year training, and carry iron daggers or some light weight weapon all the time, just so if they get surprised by a hungry head or a giant bat they actually stand a chance of dodging a couple attacks and getting away (or fighting).

reading posted:

Is there any way to edit the raws to get my civilian dwarves to carry weapons with them, even if they're not woodcutters or miners? I've been contemplating having my civilians rotate through a "military reservist" program where they spend a couple months out of the year training, and carry iron daggers or some light weight weapon all the time, just so if they get surprised by a hungry head or a giant bat they actually stand a chance of dodging a couple attacks and getting away (or fighting).

toady posted:

It's not done yet, but it looks like we'll be going from the current 16 emotions (and only 6 of those with visible effects/text in dwarf mode) to 119 which'll all at least be visible as text.

Moridin920 posted:

Urist was feeling existential angst today.

Neurion posted:

Gus Hobbleton posted:

When you make a stockpile, you can customize it by highlighting it with the q cursor, and pressing s for settings. Stone is one of the broad categories there, with non-economic as one of its subcategories. Enabling that will make it only hold stone that is not used for other stuff. To make wheelbarrows, you can order them at a carpenter's shop. Highlight your stone stockpile with the q cursor again and one of its settings will be max wheelbarrows. Make sure it's anything but 0 and a wheelbarrow will be assigned to the stockpile and used to haul stone to it. For a guaranteed smart-dwarf operation, also press g to give to a workshop, highlight your masonry drop, and press enter. You can do this for as many masonry shops as you want. This will make sure that those masonry shops ONLY take from that stockpile, and never from a pile of stones half way across the fortress. The downside is that if that stockpile is ever empty (due to not having enough haulers or something), the masonry shops will never be able to produce anything. It's a good way to control materials and whatnot though.

Roundboy posted:

RE: Barracks

In reading something on dfhack i see some bug fixin for rack / stand sizes.. which makes me think ive been doing it all wrong before. Just how many armore stands / weapon racks -should- you have per dwarf / squad ?

Back To 99 posted:

Adventure mode: Does anyone know if I can be a wereanimal, vampire, necromancer and husk adventurer all at the same time? Does becoming a necromancer really prevent you from gaining attributes or is that just a rumour? Also, the OP says adventure mode isn't that great compared to other roguelikes, but the closest thing I've found is Unreal World. Anyone more experienced with roguelikes know which other game is better when it comes to the adventure mode style of play?

scamtank posted:

The fix-armory stuff hasn't been updated for 0.40.xx, unfortunately. Those armor stands and weapon racks keep on being decorative until it does.

e: the way it should work, though, the Individual storage means each weapon rack carries 5 weapons, one armor stand maintains two pieces of armor per body slot (a pair of gauntlets, a mail shirt and a breastplate etc.), cabinets keep any clothing type items of the uniform and chests store the knapsacks and canteens. The sQuad storage tag says that the squad's assigned bolts and arrows are kept in chests in this room. If you build any chests in an archery range that's set to actively Train people, the squad's training bolts go in there.