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Quote from: Saiko Kila on June 01, 2011, 08:19:15 am

What does "flow forbid" status mean in dfprobe output? It's on some magma or water tiles, but I cannot make sense of it. Also a nitpicking, but dfprobe lists both liquids as "water", which may be slightly misleading.

It should mean that the liquid at that position isn't updated by the game. Combined with the equivalent flag of map blocks, it can be used to stop water from flowing, or make it flow, if it ever gets stuck (a particularly funny bug I only managed to trigger once).

I've done some testing, and it looks like flow_forbid is normally set on tiles with at least 4/7 water*, or with magma of any depth. I haven't seen any effect on flow; that seems to depend entirely on the block flags. It looks like it has more to do with pathfinding/marking dangerous terrain.

*I've occasionally seen it set with less, but not consistently; there's probably a delay or something to help pathfinding deal with rapid fluctuations.

Is there any way to have it not show everything?, just minerals.

Looks like you can run it with the -p option (which is not mentioned in the readme for some reason) to skip all the plants stuff. See also: this post about increasing the console buffer size.

Actually, given the amount of stuff prospector puts out, it might be a good idea to change dfprospector-all.bat to something like
echo | dfprospector.exe -a > dfprospector_report.txt
@dfprospector_report.txtThat should automagically pop up the results in notepad (the "echo |" bit is a workaround for the "Press any key to finish." stuff).

Eat magic mushrooms,
Enjoy hallucinations,
Question mark, Profit!

Quote from: EmperorJon on May 22, 2011, 05:06:09 am

Can anyone give me a basic talk through how to use DF mode? I'm having problems getting combos that work... I just want to go from adventurer to arena to then go into a companion. Possible?

uhh you could, but doing so stops you from saving the game.

I found offsets for the boolean flag that controls saving (for SDL versions 0.31.18 and up) a while back, but it seems nobody noticed.

Maybe I should pimp out my avatar with, like, flames or explosions or something.

In other news, the unk1 bit of BlockFlags seems to control whether temperature effects (water freezing/boiling, grass/items/dwarves catching on fire, etc.) are calculated for that block.

So now I'm trying to imagine how proper grammar will be twisted around to hurt us.

My own prediction:
Bug-men speaking in haiku;
Wacky fun ensues.

Seems harmless enough.
By all means, proceed, good sir.
What could possibly-

I looked around for an answer to this, but couldn't find it. In dfprospector-all.bat I cannot see minerals because my cmd screen cuts off due to too many lines of text. How do I fix this? Sorry if it's been answered before, I just couldn't find it.

You could also try redirecting the output to a file; just type dfprospector-all > whatever.txt in your cmd window and any output will go to whatever.txt.

We still need to give ZC-04 her official job assignment. I suggest droid repair technician; maybe she can shut them down for routine maintainence.