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we plebeians who don't know our ass from a compiler thank you and the entire DFHack team.

As do we lazy bastards who've never bothered to set up a proper development environment since last installing Windows.

Jump down hole with your sword out! He was obviously taken by underground kobold tunnelers and needs your help!

+1

And be sure to jump in head first. You need to see where you're going.

When you're done here, I think Bill Gates needs a lecture on OS design.

If my earlier thoughts about rebooting individual systems were correct, then all necromancers would just enchant suits of armor instead

Necromancy is learned by reading a slab engraved by a supernatural being which details the secrets of life and death. I don't know about you, but I haven't noticed any books detailing the secrets of granting motility to objects which never had it in the first place, nor in fact have I seen any magically mobile objects in the game that weren't previously animate in their own right. If you want to keep slinging around the word "logical," demonstrate how this scenario is any less so given the available data: life, like anvils, exists only by the will of Armok; and, much as one cannot create an anvil without an anvil, artificial animation can only be given to something that was already alive.

Ask if undead cows give milk. If not, conclude necromancers are icky.

Then:

Ask the farmer if he knows anything about plump helmet men. Because there is one following you all the time, and you dont know if its harmless or not.

"Are you there, gods? It's me, Mistęm."

Why do people "post to watch" instead of just hitting the Notify button?

...posting to whine.

So hopefully this isn't completely and utterly wrong. I'm a lua noob and also spoiled on compiler errors.

feeding-timers.lua
-- feeding-timers :
--   Immediately fixes feeding timers for prisoners, patients and infants.
-- feeding-timers enable :
--   Repeats the fix once per month (but not immediately).
-- feeding-timers enable # :
--   Repeats the fix once per # months, minimum 1 (but not immediately).
-- feeding-timers disable :
--   Ceases automatic fixes.

local callback_id = nil
local frequency = 0

local function feeding_timer_fix()
    local fixcount = 0
    for _,unit in ipairs(df.global.world.units.active) do
        if dfhack.units.isCitizen(unit) then
            for _,v in pairs(unit.status.misc_traits) do
                local didfix = 0
                if v.id == 0 then -- I think this should have additional conditions...
                    v.value = 0 -- GiveWater cooldown set to zero
                    didfix = 1
                end
                if v.id == 1 then -- I think this should have additional conditions...
                    v.value = 0 -- GiveFood cooldown set to zero
                    didfix = 1
                end
                fixcount = fixcount + didfix
            end
        end
    end
    print("Fixed feeding timers for " .. fixcount .. " citizens.")
    if frequency > 0 then
        callback_id = dfhack.timeout(frequency, 'months', feeding_timer_fix)
    end
end

local args = {...}

if args[1] == 'disable' then
    if callback_id ~= nil then -- Is this required or will timeout_active fail gracefully?
        timeout_active(callback_id, nil) -- Does this return nil?
    end
    callback_id = nil
    frequency = 0
else if args[1] == 'enable' then
    if tonumber(args[2]) then
        frequency = args[2]
        if frequency < 2 then
            frequency = 1
        end
    else
        frequency = 1 -- What's the normal, non-broken food/water interval?
    end
    if callback_id ~= nil then
        timeout_active(callback_id, nil)
    end
    callback_id = dfhack.timeout(frequency, 'months', feeding_timer_fix)
    print('Feeding timers will be fixed at each ' .. frequency .. ' month interval.')
else
    feeding_timer_fix()
end