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Is there any way to resolve this alt key mis-registered as pressed problem?  I know why it happens, when alt-tabbing out of the game it's never receiving the keyup

The problem is that alt-tabbing out of the game is pretty much constant for me, which means everytime I enter text in a search list or similar, it becomes quite annoying.  Effectively, this means that two entire modifier keysets can't be used (Alt-x can't be used and Cntrl-Alt-x has to duplicate Cntrl-x)

For instance, I'd like to bind gui/unit-info-viewer to Alt-I, but that setup is absolutely unplayable due to this issue.

Quote from: Dirst on September 05, 2014, 10:06:09 am

When I pared down a spawn-unit script to make just animals, I just removed the entire nemesis portion because I didn't think an unintelligent creature could consciously decide that someone is an enemy (Jaws and Moby Dick notwithstanding).

If you're going to remove the Nemesis portion, then you must also remove the Historical Figure information with it, since the game will likely get very confused if it finds a historical figure with no nemesis record, potentially by crashing outright. Once your animal kills a historical figure, the game will automatically make it into one (and create a Nemesis record for it as well).

FWIW, the animal I was referring too is not a historical figure. In fact, it was a wild boar piglet, which was born on the map and is guaranteed to not have killed anything, much less anything historical.  However, the wild boar does in fact have a hist_figure_id set

I thought I had tracked down the training info in unit.status.misc_traits, where there is 3 undefined traits that are on the animal (ids 31, 54, and 61) but then I found that they are set on purely domestic animals as well - but not all of them, not even all of the same breed/caste

Could someone perhaps make a simplified step by instruction list with a rough accompanying diagram?

I used a 3x5 here because it fits my ramp room design (instead of 3x3 stairs)   One dimension must be at least 4 in order to have enough rooms for the pump stack. If you're only digging 3x4, you can only use 2 pumps (or you lose access)



Two aquifer levels, both soil. 

• From the top, dry, level, dig out the 3x4 stairs and off the 3 block side after a 3 gap space (another modification I made) space, channel the 3 wide blocks.
• Build a gear in the middle of the channeled stream to hold the water wheel, then build the water wheel and then three pumps toward the water wheel.
• Channel out the source side of the pumps.  If the wheel didn't start powering on its own, manually power a pump long enough to start the infinite power.
• Designate 3 wide stairs in the second level at both ends of the pumps.  Use single step or the cancelling mining order as they mine to determine if the next level is another aquifer.  If the next level is another aquifer, just use dig the full 3x4 or 3x5 area of stairs you are using.
• Wall off the shaft on the aquifer level.  If there is a full 3x4 or 3x5 area of stairs beneath, it should be trivial and suspend free.  If its just slits, it is still fairly easy but will suspend some.
• Then build that levels pump stack.  Since the pumps are hanging off the gear above, they do not need to have floors beneath them and can sit directly on the pre-existing stairs - but there does need to be a channeled area in one of the blocks to transfer power between levels.

After hitting bottom, I used a modified dual-slit combined with the pump stack to carry off all the water and ended up with a dry shaft.  That probably will not work if there are more than 2 or 3 aquifer levels.

Can workflow watch for filled sand bags? And what would the command look like if it can, my guesses led to nothing so far.

workflow amount POWDER_MISC/SAND 105 10

In the future, you can use the gui to add a limit and then "workflow list-commands" to get the command you'd use in a world-start script

Normally, I'd never save scum, but two .40 bugs are absolutely *infuriating* me, and I restore a save every time they happen.  The first, when wood cutters get hurt by the tree they are cutting down.  I've had dwarves die outright, and many more be permanently crippled, so now I just save before designating trees and at any serious injury I restore.

The second is when a military member sleeps to starvation and death.  This is worse because if I don't notice then I may not have a restore point at all to return too.  It can take a long time for the dwarf to starve, but then even more time before anybody finds the body and I get notified.  Plus, the only fix I've found to actually break the military member out of the death-sleep requires dfhack, so keeping me at .40.08

While I wanted to be able to run this script on the embark screen and save/load all 7 dwarfs I couldn't figure out how to access them.

Pre-embark, the 7 dwarves are available in df.global.world.units.active

They're in the same table post-embark as well, but pre-embark it should be just those seven.

Kinda jumping in late here, but you may want to look at a mod called Underground Biomes for minecraft.  It adds (cosmetic) blocks for many types of stone, and might have actually been based on DF stone.

http://www.minecraftforum.net/forums/mapping-and-modding/minecraft-mods/1287082-1-6-x-1-5-x-1-4-7-underground-biomes-forge-smp