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you know that there is already an ORIENTATION tag?
it defaults to 75:20:5 and specified towards castes (or male female i don't exactly recall) and as such covers most attraction cases.
i don't think castes would work, as it is more of a biological difference (but it can be done too at the moment)
maybe adding a "pronoun" part in orientation tag could do the trick.
but that implies there are gender specific pronouns in dwarfish language which is not even the case in all human languages (there are many in fact that don't use she/he his/her but have a sole and unique way for designing someone, if dwarfish were like that, it would suggest that the issue can't even rise)

For me the worst "offender" is the embark screen, imaging wanting to take few thousand rocks for a mega project (now that colors are nicer, hard to find some of the worst offenders to make a great wall)

Hope for Toadys sake that there will be a more organized place for bug reports, I would not want to browse through that much of a backlog (where bugs, feature requests and opinions are all voiced in the same channel without any real bug tracking feature)

Quote from: Bumber on December 11, 2022, 06:56:09 pm

"Once" is kind of dishonest, isn't it? Building constructions/furniture requires multiple clicks all over the screen. Particularly terrible is the removal of the ability to select as many as possible of a material (10x10 floor = 100 extra clicks) with shift+enter.

That is indeed terrible, but building furniture always required multiple presses, even more than what we currently have. With DFHack you could reduce it to e.g. down-down-enter-down-down-enter-down-down-enter-down-down-enter for beds and doors or whatever, but without DFHack you were forced to do down-down-enter-enter-down-down-enter-enter and your macro would end up continuing when you ran out of materials. Now you can just select "use closest material" and check "keep building after placement" and it's one click per building, exactly as said. Even my carpal tunnel ass thinks this is less work.

But can not be macroed anymore.
As well as building stockpiles. It was macroable and when you try to set up 60 farms, with 120 stockpiles (don't ask why) it helps to macro at least the placements.

Quote from: Thisfox on October 23, 2022, 08:56:57 pm

Looks like there was a massacre at the Mountainhomes.

The dwarven bard is performing Massacre at the Mountainhomes. The singing is not bad.

Probably one of those AI bards, the
HAL-bard

For now they are to assemble more unique-looking civ members based on hair style, clothing, weapons and armor. We didn't count out missing limbs, but it's one of the optional features for later on to maybe work on. Obviously that's on Tarns end, not ours. But in theory it would be supported by the sprites we use. Closely related to bodyparts, because clothing goes to specific bodyparts.

I have the file open in photoshop as I type this, so have a look:



We do have a set of equipped weapons and most clothing items, so right now my goal is to make a set per civ and give them a different style. Some character and visual help to keep civ-units apart.

If civs have different styles, will a weapon you loot change looks, or it is the crafting civ that counts?
Also what about an outsider adventurer than?

Well, you can define a predefined map for height, rainfall, drainage, volcanism and evilness if I recall correctly (perfect world may or may not do all thease aspects).
As for civs, I would advice to change the raws to have the wanted number (you can fix maximum civ occurrences)
Then in a few gens you might get close (remember to save the history seed if you like what you found)

You could even give a directory to replace things in. (no need to open)