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I use Stonesense rather than reveal, no possibility of save corruption, and the new version of Stonesense supports the new DF. Shift - H reveals hidden stone.

That said, I'd like to see a built-in set of cheats eventually, things like dwarf editors and revealing utilities. Mostly with the hopes that, if they are built-in, maybe they will work right.

http://code.google.com/p/dwarftherapist/



you only get 2 more wishes

I use that. Like I said, it's handy, but still a lot of clicking to enable and disable labors on everyone. Plus an overrider would handle immigrants automatically.

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I'm not sure why it's under caffeine though.

There are times when I want all dwarfs to smooth stone, or help build a wall, or some such thing like that. Even with the various skill utilities it's a lot of clicking to turn the labor on and then a bunch more to reset everyone's skills properly.

It would be handy to have a way to turn on a certain labor for all dwarfs easily. I was considering how best to do this, and came upon the idea of a labor overrider: a list of skills that can be enabled that will cause all dwarfs to perform that labor, even if they don't have the skill enabled. Just toggle that skill on until whatever task is completed. Or leave it on all the time if you want all your dwarfs to perform a certain labor, and no need to worry about enabling it on new dwarfs.

What do you think, sirs?  (MST3k reference)

Erushlaz, Handlescales, the engraved mountain hill. I turned off invaders and set the pop cap to 40 but now have 81 dwarfs mostly due to births. And 3 mayors, all of whom make constant demands. On the plus side, I've smoothed the hill part of my fortress, and begun engraving sections of it in 11x11 blocks by individual engravers. Plus I smoothed and engraved all the boulders and stone ground in the forest area.

"Hey Urist!" "Yes, Urist?" "I have a great idea. Let's engrave pictures of trees onto the boulders so the elves won't notice when we cut down the forest."

It's also 1057 and I don't have private rooms for the non-mayors yet. It's working out rather well. I did start making clothing for all the nude children and dwarfs with clothes that have rotted away. Oops.

We could get useful resources from the moon. The value in the resources there vs on earth is that they are in a lower gravity well. And once we got a basic colony going, there'd be tourism and such.

There have been a few games based on setting up a lunar colony, though I seem to remember one of them involving space chickens...

I started a new map but I still don't see the option in my smelter, or in the jobs manager list. What did I do wrong?