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Hihi,

So looking at various posts and threads with screenies of someones DF map, I did wonder to myself just now why more people don't use a graphic mod?

I installed one on day two of playing DF and I have to say, it just transforms the whole game. Apart from making it prettier it just makes it so easy to see at a glimpse what's happening instead of having to recall what various symbols mean.

Just curious as to why more people don't use one?

Look at minecraft. It's exploded and made its creator a millionaire in under a year because it's accessible. DF has that potential. It's had a feature in PCGamer which whilst it raves about it, the vast majority of folk aren't going to touch it because it looks inaccessible from the screenshots.

Wondering if Toady maybe needs to look at officially incorporating one of the very good graphic mods out there?

Hihi,

Instead of having to place individual stairwells, can we have an option to size the number of floors we want the stairway to penetrate?

So I can set it to go down thirty floors for example, and they'll dig and build all the way down until they hit a problem or reach the desired level.

Would just make things a bit easier.

I'm getting mildly fed up with having to individually assign every room to a dorf when new ones rock up.

Would it be possible to have an automated room occupation function, whereby once you mark the room as a bedroom, then it's first come first served without having to scroll down a long list of names to pick who you want.

The option to do it manually should remain, in case you want certain people in certain places, and if someone moves in that you didn't want, they are 'relocated' or 'evicted' once you select the named dorf you want.

Fairly straightforward I think with no perceptible flaws.

Once again it's taking me a long, long time to get this floodgate built without my idiot getting stuck on the wrong side of it.

Would it be worth looking at a Build Direction selector? So before you place the item, you have to select the square you want him to stand in whilst he builds it?

Sounds straightforward enough.

This refers directly to the requirement for barrels to store alcohol.

I recently had 40 + dorfs drop dead from thirst.

This was due to two factors:

1: All water sources froze over

2: There were no empty barrels to store alcohol

The problem with the barrels was that I had 3 workshops making them, but as soon as one came out, it was filled with something other than booze. As I'm new to the game, I couldn't figure out the solution. Eventually I discovered you had to reserve barrels.

So lesson learned for me, however, it's pretty damn stupid that forty of them died and not a single one of them thought to move stuff from one barrel to another in order to free it up for booze storage.

Surely booze should be priority storage, so that if ever someone attempts to make beer and there is no empty barrels, then if it's possible, dorfs should rearrange their barrel loadsouts to make space for one.

"Urist McBooze needs an empty barrel."
"Urist McHaul goes to free one up"


Thoughts?

Hihi,

So I've been playing DF for oh, four days now, and this is my fourth and so far most successful fortress.

However, I still have a very vague idea of what I'm doing.

Would anyone care to examine it for me and give some constructive feedback? I'm on the latest version using, eh, someonse tileset. Forget who. Pretty though.