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Seems like it'd be useful enough to at least warrant an option if you have spare time.

Thanks!

From your description of the problem, it sounds like what you need to do is just extract it slightly differently.

If you open up the dfhack folder in your df directory, I'm assuming you'll see at least an SDL.dll and SDLreal.dll in there.  When dfhack is installed properly, these files will be in your df folder instead of a sub-folder.

If my assumption is correct, you should be able to remove the current dfhack folder.  Then, extract the zip again.  In the "Select a Destination and Extract Files" dialog it will default to a folder that ends in "dfhack-0.34.11-r2-Windows".  Don't use that.  Instead, point it directly to your df folder. 

If you do this, then you should end up with a warning that it's going to replace SDL.dll.  That's what you want to see.

Hope this helps!

I mean letting a fortress crumble or abandoning a fortress and starting a new one, without regenerating the world.

I'm trying to rely less on traps lately and more heavily on the militia.  To that end, I'm experimenting with a military-oriented load out.

I start with four dwarves with the following: Miner (1) / Fighter (4) / Wrestler (1) / Dodger (4).  Since Miner goes up quickly in soil and in the general process of delving, they become a good fallback squad with little effort.

The other three are:

Carpenter (3) / Bowyer (3) / Crossbowman (1) / Shield User (3)
Stone Crafter (3) / Mechanic (3) / Crossbowman (1) / Dodger (3)
Bone Carver (3) / Leatherworker (3) / Crossbowman (1) / Armor User (3)

It's intended to be a setup that will let me defer a metal industry and do decently with low-end armor and weapons early.

It is not easy for me to rephrase.  It refers to other sections on the same page: "Equipping Clothing" and "Size, Permit, and layering armor."  These two sections of the page explain the game mechanics behind which pieces of clothing and armor a dwarf is allowed to wear at the same time.

The short, short way of saying it is that the quiver and backpack are subject to the same rules as armor under those sections.  Within those rules, they apply to the upper bodies of dwarfs.

Sheep require the least, according do the Pasture page: http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2012:Pasture

Alpacas are a fine middle-of-the-road animal; not quite as small as sheep, but they don't consume as much grass as llamas.

So, after seeing the video, I'm totally sold on the dfhack script.  I'm getting the following error:

[DFHack]# lua hack/lua/soundsense.lua
Winter has arrived on the calendar.
It has started raining.
hack/lua/soundsense.lua:111: attempt to call field 'timeout' (a nil value)
stack traceback:
        hack/lua/soundsense.lua:111: in function 'event_loop'
        hack/lua/soundsense.lua:114: in main chunk
[DFHack]#

Thanks, zwei!

Does it return the same number of hides as fat, then?  6-13 hides from a dog might be a bit much for me.