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If you could lay out your steps so that I can try it, that'd be awesome.

I ran it a bunch and only got job cancellations.

But if anyone is up for doing a more indepth instrument fix then by all means.
I think just narrowing the type to "instruments" would also be enough to make the script harmless for all intents and purposes.

Maybe this is a backwards way to look at it, but just make a mothly job item for X buckets. And if he also forbids export, hold a yearly bucket atom smasher celebration.

Or kill the mayor until one gets appointed who demands useful things.

The justice system is cool, and now it's got interrogations, counter intelligence and all that fun stuff. I would be sad to play without it.

After what PatrikLundell said in another thread maybe this is a DF bug after all.

I also stole some dude's script and adapted it to untag all in_job flagged objects, fixing instruments that are stuck with TSK after aborted performances. Maybe someone finds this useful.

fixjobs.lua
for i, item in ipairs (df.global.world.items.all) do
    if item.flags.in_job then
     item.flags.in_job = false
        dfhack.println ("Job Flags Unset!")
     end
  end

So far, the 47.05 beta is working well.

Earlier, I fucked up the walls behind my archery targets and re-painted them with tiletypes. There is a 1 z-level drop behind the targets, and bolts are properly recovered down there. Now that I expanded my fortress, exactly below the bolt drop there are new rooms. Now the bolts drop through the existing floor tiles at z-level 1 and land at z-level 2 down in those rooms. I assume this is because I recreated solid stone there with tiletypes. How can I use tiletypes to completely regenerate a z-level wall? Only doing Paint: STONE WALL INORGANIC:GRANITE CLUSTER is apparently not enough to regenerate the proper ceiling and floor parts.

Painting floors on the same level as the archery targets makes bolts break as they're supposed to.

It seems to me that the ideal loadout for all decently skilled dwarves goes like this:

Adamantine Mail Shirt
Steel Everything Else
Leather Cloak, Hood, Robe (I'm more of a minimalist, again Adamantine is no good here vs. bludgeon and force)

Adamantine Axe, Sword or Spear
Steel or Silver Hammer or Mace
Bone or Steel Crossbow
Wooden or Steel Shield (if they can handle the extra weight)

Yes, I can confirm that force damage to joints happens a lot with Adamantine gear. We already know it's like wearing stuff made of paper, but with recent versions that has become an actual downside due to these better physics simulations.

recon1o6: I would say it's the other way around. Adamantine for lower-skilled dwarves as they profit a lot from the lighter weight. Masterwork Steel for higher-skilled dwarves as their Armor skill will exceed the weight penalty and they'll be way better protected against bludgeoning and weapon force. That's what my tests showed, anyway. I haven't determined the cutoff point where one becomes better than the other but would guess it'd be somewhere in the late middle around level 8-12.

therahedwig: Probably. Dodging and Shield are massively important. I left those out and even discouraged wrestling moves because I didn't want to muddle the results. I was simply after armor material properties, and the results were pretty telling. It's possible that Adamantine gear proves an upside when Dodging is taken into account, but afaik armor weight does not influence this; only how fast dwarves can walk/run.

Leonidas: I don't think so. Divine Metal has different properties. I can't find it in the RAWs, but I'm pretty sure it is an in-between of Adamantine and Steel. Its weight should be proportional to how well it does vs. blunt and force.

A couple of things come to mind off the bat:

- Aquifers are dumb. I never play on aquifer embarks and don't see the appeal in them either. This is a diggy-fortress-buildy game. Having your new digout flooded right away is obstacle #1 and will result in "what the hell?" moments. Consider making aquifers a default-off option in worldgen.

- Evil biomes and undead generation is unreasonably, weirdly overpowered and I think their current mechanics are more or less an oversight because it was deemed "an error funny enough to leave in".

- The interface. At this point it's a meme and a trope and we all love to hate it, but having this monolith of key combos around is obstacle #2. It isn't so much that it's not efficient, because it can be quite efficient once you get muscle memory. The problem is that weird, fringe, sub-menu options are not evident even for seasoned players, like the various sub-sub-menus of the (o)rder menu for example. Or the arcane intricacies of the (N) and (h) menus. Also it would be a big help if the main (Tab) overview was sorted into functional groups, rather than having all the shortcuts in one pile.

- Unnecessary complexity in parts. This is not so much a newbie obstacle but it is a massive obstacle to players in general. Why are there endless pages of various leathers and bones littering the selection screens for military uniforms and other things? Condensing these down to meta groups of just 'shell', 'bone', 'leather', 'wood' etc. would not hurt, because I have not seen a single instance where I thought "Boy, I'm feeling literal and would really like to get some Aardvark leather armors made. There better not be any Yeti leather armors in this pile or I'm gonna throw a tantrum!" Similar to this: Browsing for building materials is a chore. Why not a meta group selection beforehand, letting you decide between 'stone', 'wood', 'metal', 'etc' before the player is thrown into more endless pages of lists? Why not make the lists and sublists alphabetized?


Don't agree that managers / bookkeepers are essential for the survival of a fort. I do quite well on mine and never rush these jobs.

A drunken off-duty military dorf got brawly and punched several people, including the king. To death. RIP. I had him do martial practice so he wouldn't fall victim to goblins, but a legendary puncher was a tall order.