Bay 12 Games Forum

ive got a fort running with an underground open air farm for growing underground trees and plants naturally.  It gets kind of tedius to have to designate the gather plants and chop trees in the area.

Is it possible for one of the next releases to have an activity zone option (like a hospital zone or water source) that can be set to automatically gather plants in an area or chop fully grown trees in an area?

i dont think it would be too game breaking, and would help with fort automation

there are dragons in out wonderful world of DF...   they use the SCALE material instead of SKIN, but with things as they are currently, dropped scales do nothing...    would it ruin the game to adjust the tags on SCALE to match SHELL in that they can be used for the same things that shells are used for?   i think its the items_scaled tag...


i know this would be technically modding, but im suggesting it as a permanant implementation...   i want my dragon scale armor...  seeing as we cant get dragon leather armor anymore.

i would like to request a command to re-roll the names and personalities of your starting 7 when you choose 'prepare for the journey carefully.'

it shouldnt be too much of a game breaker, but i am asking because i have lately been having to select the area and then prepare for journey carefully over and over (which takes a while) because i try to customize my dwarves specifically to their personalities.

IE: if the dwarf likes anvils, i make him a metalsmith.   if he likes axes, i make him a woodcutter.    if he likes picks, i make him a miner.   ect.

the option can be at the choosing your dwarfs skills screen, and it can reroll everyones stats.

this can be used by people who want (or dont want) a dwarf to like cats, or any other things with reguards to the flavor that comes with dwarf personalities.



thoughts on my suggestion?

im going to post a challange for everyone that ive been doing.

STEP ONE:
you need to kill off your civ in worldgen so you dont get caravans or migrants...    that in itself is fun.

in the entity raw file, adjust your civ to this:

max_starting_civ_number:1
start_group_number:1
max_pop_number:1
max_site_pop_number:1

and then let the world gen past year 100 or so.  99% of the time you will start with no mountianhome.

STEP TWO:
replace [intelligent] with [can_civ] and [can_learn] in the goblin, human, and elf creature raws (and any other races you have added in) so that everyone in the world is at war with you.

STEP THREE:
find a place to embark that isnt too hard...   you are already making the game hard enough...   if you have a good site with all the features saved, use it.

STEP FOUR:
choose embark skills.  when you embark, you MUST tailor each dwarf's skills based on his pre-generated personality!   eg:  if your dwarf likes picks, he can be a miner, if he likes glass, his job is a glassmaker, if he likes cats, you must bring a cat.  in addition to this, you MUST choose two social skills based on the personality traits at the end of the dwarf description.   eg, if the dwarf is highly organized, he gets +1 organizer, if he likes to compromise, +1 negotiating.

STEP FIVE:
choosing equipment:  with the jobs of your 7 dwarves chosen by his personality, you can choose ONE job-specific item per dwarf.  EG, if a dwarf likes anvils and you make him a smith, he can bring an anvil.   if you have a miner who likes picks, he can bring a pick.    if you have someone who likes plants, he can bring a few (3-10) seeds of ONLY the type they like.

STEP SIX:
have 'fun'      the first time i did this, i ran the world with sergals and orcs added in...   i got slaughtered by the first ambush of sergals..  second attempt, owned by orcs.    and to my shame, this last time...   i got killed by elves mounted on horses...   apparently when mounted, they cant open a door, and thus the entire ambush squad was waiting there when a dwarf opened the door to go get some wood...    16 elves on horses piled into three squares...

i modded a new species in to play, and removed the alcohol dependancy tag from their raws...

but i found out that you can still DEVELOP it in game, even without the tag!    im playing a hermit challange right now, and while hiding in my hole from the orcs, i decided to have him busy himself with some dumping...   and he refused to do it, just stood there with no job.    finally i looked at his thoughts, and he as complaining about lack of booze!      all hes ever had was water though!

i double checked the raws, and still no tag in there, so its another trait that can be aquired, like butchering kittens by the dozens makes your dorf no longer care about anything.

im gonna do the casting an ice fortress megaproject and i need an embark location with an aquafier, glacier, and magma.

can anyone help out?

in my latest megaproject ive found great use in this little tweak, and ive been using it so my dorfs dont undesignate hot stones they find and dig properly to where i want them to.


my suggestion is to integrate a feature similar to this in the 'o' standing orders screen:

d: digging orders

wet stone -> pause and undesignate, undesignate only, dig anyway
warm stone -> pause and undesignate, undesignate only, dig anyway
metal -> pause and undesignate, undesignate only, dig anyway
economic -> pause and undesignate, undesignate only, dig anyway
stone -> pause and undesignate, undesignate only, dig anyway
gem -> pause and undesignate, undesignate only, dig anyway


for example, if you are excavating in search of that river, you can set wet stone to undesignate only and they will stop at the wet stone, but it wont pause and center on the area.