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This utility has been updated recently to version 0.27.1 which is much faster overall (I moved a lot of the intensive work to the backend.. it's a bit of a shock that it took me so long to do).

The version on DFFD has been updated and of course the release on github are up to date as well.

The biggest changes are a new look and an improved backend. A lot more information is now available to the front end and I hope to add more details and features in the coming weeks.

Just published release 0.11.0 DFFD, Github

• The program won't recognize a DF directory properly unless there's at least one save that's not in a fortress game.
• The bestiary doesn't tell you what layers underground creatures are found on.
• It has very poor handling of creatures with multiple castes. For example, the antman - it only includes the general species name; and the growth patterns are badly marked, with only the first one given a specific caste, and even then it only says "Queen" rather than "queen ant woman". Aboveground animal people don't have it much better, because their male name is treated as their "species" name, and their female name is treated as their "general" name. At least regular creatures with different caste names, like peregrine falcons, are treated correctly. I think this is an important issue to fix beause some mods, like ZM5's mods, have creatures with a lot of castes.

In my testing, 0.11.0 clears up these issues. The castes are somewhat fixed but there might still be some issues. The naming is at least correct and I'm no longer only looking for certain hard-coded castes.

I need to look into ZM5's mods and install some to try and test it out with this new update. Also nothing yet for procedurally generated creatures.

I ran into an occasion where I was preparing carefully with a modded save (using vanilla expanded and the primal mods) and had no idea what some of the creatures or items were. So I wanted to have a way to look that up easily. That has led to my development of this utility, which currently looks through the raws in a save and presents a bestiary that can be searched. I'm slowly adding to what details it presents, but currently it covers my original needs of letting me read descriptions of things.

I started with a simple parser which created some JSON. Then I decided to use Tauri to make a GUI interface that could handle both choosing what to parse and searching. I welcome feedback from the community, maybe this is useful or maybe I'm the only user LOL 

Usage

To use, either install or run the portable executable. Then choose your DF install folder in the file chooser or drag-and-drop your gamelog.txt to the window. It will parse the raw module directories under 'mods', 'data/vanilla' and 'data/installed_mods'. Finally you will have a searchable manual which includes the [CREATURE] and [PLANT] tokens found in the raws. It doesn't include ALL information possible, but some of the most relevant and/or simplest to parse data.

I'm hoping to add little bits as I'm motivated to, but my biggest hangup has been turning the raws into something easier to display or manipulate.

Download Links:

Local user installer download on DF File Depot (the one dependency of this version is WebView2).

There's an MSI installer (which handles installing the WebView2 runtime if its needed), and Mac and Linux version on the releases page of the Github repo.

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