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Apologies, I have tried my hardest not to get involved in this kind of threads as it almost always turn into flamewars.

But IMHO, to the OP and others that think like him,

Why don't you spend your time to make your own game for 4 - 6 years to get what you want instead of wishing for something that has been categorically denied by the owner and coder?

If you can't be bothered to do it, then why bother imposeing what you want on someone else saying that it's valid criticism.

In essence, do it yourself if you think you have a better way.

A couple of tips I use personally:-

1) No such thing as redundancy in DF, if you have 1 workshop have 2 dwarfs with the relevant skills enabled, if you have 2 workshops always have 3 to 4 dwarfs with the same skill enabled. You never know when the cheeky little buggers decide to sleep, eat, take a break or worse go pick up a sock.

2) Make sure that each one of your dwarven population have a two or three skill sets instead of specialization, you never know when your super duper Legendary Weaponsmith might die, go insane, berserk or just generally flunk out and you need a replacement.

3) More is better, more food, more drinks, more of everything, always have spares ready just in case.

4) Make sure to settle one level at a time, close the gaps to your fortress and make sure it is secure. The whole danged world is out to get you.

5) Military, never too early to start them. You WILL need them. Unless you turn off invasion or use Runesmith to smite every creature in sight.

6) Contrary to belief Elven caravans do not bring better and more tame creatures to sell if you make them happy. They just bring more junk instead.

7) If you have FPS issues do not mess with flowing water or magma.

Make sure you know or remember some of your dwarven population preferences so that you can choose a not so demanding Baron when the time comes.

9) A weak hammerer and sheriff will make your life less miserable.

Should be fixed now...

http://github.com/downloads/peterix/dfhack/dfhack-bin-0.4.0.3b.zip

Thanks peterix.

If it was possible I would like to volunteer my services in updating DFHack during the various DF updates, as I am residing on GMT +8 which means I can work while you are asleep.

However I am quite illiterate (I only have 1 year course in C++ programming 10 years ago) when it comes to programming and hacking, if you have the time, I can get together with you on irc  or whereever you choose and learn the steps to help you out or at least do the preliminary work for you to just add in.

PM me if you are interested

Thanks again for a very quick followup on updating Phoebus.

We can replace any inorganic material with any other inorganic material and same for organics. Changing between the two looks slightly more dodgy but without trying I couldn't tell you how successful it would be. Though I haven't been on IRC for a while so things may have changed. Main reason it isn't in Runesmith yet is because It involves the fun task of building a nice list of pre-defined materials you can choose from and I haven't had the energy to finish tackling it.

Glad to see that I was wrong. 

I find it funny that we are discussing net or forum etiquette on this thread.

Especially when the specific etiquette in question is about a snarky answer to some poster not bothering to read the entire thread.

Don't you all think that this line of discussion is actually making the situation worse by bloating the thread with unrelated discussions?

I would request that the current discussion be moved to a new thread.

I have a fort that I started way back in 0.31.02 which is now currently in year 8 which is one of my more persistent forts.

Unfortunately recently since 0.31.06 to the most recent 0.31.08 it keeps crashing at a certain point.

The crash report is as follows:-







Savegame at DFFD http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=2550

I have tried the following:-

1. Stopped and suspended all tasks;
2. Used Dwarf Therapist to make all dwarves idle.

Crash still occurs. Unable to figure out what the heck is wrong.

Can anyone help identify the problem?

I really want to continue on with this fort.