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Ahaha yeah I found the source of that bug. NEVER write code when very tired, it leads to forgetting little things like making sure all the change tracking flags are initialised to false

Id suggest. for a future update possibly. a heal button of some sort.

The new damage system needs working out first

I have a xp and it seems I can't move to other parts of the utility.
it's just stuck at the check dwarfs section.
also I'm on deon's genesis mod since it's the only .06 version of dwarf fortress.

wait I can edit the happiness of dwarfs but that is all, everything else is pretty much irresponsible.

Hmm I'm not sure on this, I'll have to gain access to an xp machine for testing

Button to reload raws, good help with modding.

Looks fantastic, nice work with the quick updates to fix bugs.

Going to test it now.

System: Vista 64

Things I noticed: (Yeah, I get that its an alpha)

The newest download still has the "failed to write" when it writes anyway... Not much, just annouying

Editing traits adds a drop down box with nothing in it

First letter of first names are undercase, minor. I take it this is due to the old hungarian thing where you name veriables lower case first?

Refreshing asks if you want to write changes even if you havent made any.
Might want to add a ruitine that checks if you have made any changes, ie, you make a change and it sets a value to 1/true, then when you refresh its reset.

Mood tab is empty (Only when you have moods maybe? Sorry if I misunderstood this)

Attributes are bugged anyway. I THINK it reads the wrong persons attributes. Infact im certain on this. Change an attribute, set it, it will show you a different value, then you click back on the person u changed and its fine.
This happens with alot of things. You click the person, change the value, set it, it highlights the same person but anouther one is selected and anouther person's stuff is edited.

Overall: Usable, putting up with the bugs becuase this utility is just that awsome.

Ohh yeah. And apparently trolls never get angry. (Traits)

And all demons are female.

And I can see tamming unkillable titans a good defence

If it's saying failed to write it's because something has failed to be written and the flag keep track of whether that thing needs to written or not will not be reset till it is successfully written. There is a check to see if changes have been made and it's reset when all changes are successfully written. Maybe the keep trying till it works is not what everyone wants and a refresh should wipe any changes if no is answered?

I don't get any 'false' write changes message so you must have changed something even if it was to the same value. Either that or something failed to write previously in which case it is still trying to write that value. as I said above I can set it to wipe changes on a no answer if that's what people want.

Mood tab is empty when you don't have a mood. Though the fact that the field name's aren't displayed is a bug  and I'll fix asap. I have also done something to cause a bug in the editable fields under the mood tab which will also need fixing asap.

Umm I don't have any problems editing the wrong persons attributes, try hitting enter or clicking off the edited one onto another part of the same table view (the same white box not trying to be condescending). Editing traits seems fine for me :S

I can't do fixes till a bit later as I have to go out, sorry. Will do them in a few hours

Well i got a new crash just then. testing out how i can steal other creatures for my fort so i set one of my dwarves to Diplomat and sure enough he popped up as friendly. tried switching him back, crashed Runesmith and DF. so apparently thats not how you steal other people XD

Last post before bed    I just tried setting the diplomat flag on a few and it hasn't crashed mine so that will need a bit investigation. A message just pops up saying a diplomat has left unhappy, then they leave :S Might just be one of those things tbh, I mean we are just messing around with DF's memory so certain things will have odd effects

View->show dead

Edit: going to sleep now since its 3:33am here so there will be a delay answering any more questions till tomorrow. Night guys(or gals however unlikely it might be)

GAh! Suppose this is why it's an alpha

Edit: fixed, now uploading

Hey just had a quick question. is there any way to make other creatures part of your fortress like in DC? like say changing goblin invaders to actual fortress residents instead.

Should be, use the flags. I'm not sure which ones would do, probably either tame or is resident

Download link updated with bug fix and new functionality! For those of you that don't have Dwarves as your main race (due to mods or whatever) I've added the functionality to set the main race under options. Make sure it is spelt correctly with no trailing white space, capitalisation doesn't matter.