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The advice from Hague is exactly what should be done to make sure a certain dwarf has a mood for sure. I would script it however, as it can get really tedious with a lot of dwarves ...

Nobles can't have moods, and fell mood, as explained, only happen with unhappy dwarves.

It might be possible, by scripting dwarf companion or by another mean, to set a random dwarf to a macabre mood. You might have noticed professions like "mood XXX" as the occupation of moody dwarves. While most moods seem to use the material list, the macabre mood should not. By altering the current occupation to the proper mood, you might be able to generate arbitrary fell moods. However, you might also need to alter the job characteristics (or unlink the job?), which is still way out of DC capabilities, and, I suspect, current knowledge of the game engine.

SSE is good for scalar operations, not floating point operations. The problem is that compilers aren't most of the time smart enough to decide if code could be converted efficiently, so it has to be done by hand.

Moreover, most "professionnal applications" using these instructions are trivial to vectorize (image and sound processing, for example), whereas the biggest time sinks in DF are likely to get a lot more benefit from an algorithmic optimization than from a local optimization.

Sounds like a very good idea to me. It might be useful to have a vertical component to knockback : huge creatures would stamp you on the floor while small strong creatures might send you up.

What you want is a debugger, as hex editors are file editors. OllyDbg is free and well known. IDA PRO 4.9 is also downloadable and will help you tremendously once you have learn asm.

DC can live everywhere without trouble. Seems like it's a ME miscompatibility (for information, it doesn't work with win 2000 too ...)

Copy/paste my offsets, if that helps :
self.version = "v0.27.169.88a"
self.off_vec_maincreatures =   0x01450E98
self.off_x_width =      0x014929E4
self.off_y_width =      0x014929E8
self.off_z_width =      0x014929EC
self.off_map_data =      0x014929CC
self.off_race =         0x014943B4
self.off_metals =      0x014943A4
self.off_lang =         0x014944D4
self.off_moodtime =      0x01271E02
self.off_playedrace =      0x01271E10
self.off_economy =      0x012646CC

You can add some letters as long as the padding is right. The problem is that it's very likely that some parts of the source looks like:

#define SMELTER "smelter"

function(SMELTER, sizeof(SMELTER));

you'd have to update all the sizeof(SMELTER), which you have no insurance of finding automatically.

And you can alter the artifact name here, but it will only affect the "creator of xxxx" sentence, and not the real artifact name!