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Quote from: P4N1C on March 12, 2012, 11:29:59 am

Haven't seen this mentioned yet: Vampires' tiles turn into Ñ and profession has "vampire" added to it when they're feeding?

ALSO: Does anyone know if barrels of blood do anything?! It would be SO NICE if that were a solution to the problem.... so, probably not....

I think that only happens if a dwarf witnesses the feeding, you can check the justice screen for the accusations and find the vampires this way.

Don't know about the ascci version, but in the phoebus version, the name of te vampire in the 'v'iew menu turns dark red when he's feeding; the same as with public vampires like a queen for example. If you check their thoughts while they are feeding you can read a line about their teeth being long.

So I don't know if this has been checked yet, but will vampires feed on other vampires? I recall a situation someone described about a locked away dwarf military squad, so I don't think they will. However, better safe than fun if I turn my entire fort into vamps and watch as they devour each other.

my guess is no, since they seem to only feed on sleeping victims, vampires don't sleep, so no vampires feeding on their own kin, the same with animals.... the only way I can see that happening is if the vampire or animal gets a syndrome that causes unconsciousness, not really sure if someone has tested just that...

Haven't seen this mentioned yet: Vampires' tiles turn into Ñ and profession has "vampire" added to it when they're feeding?

ALSO: Does anyone know if barrels of blood do anything?! It would be SO NICE if that were a solution to the problem.... so, probably not....

What I've been doing is monitoring my 2 vampires, I usually put them to do some workshop work in a centralized place of my fortress (one I'm looking at most of the time), they spend most of their time working, every once in a while they go on a break, and that's when they attack some sleeping dwarf, I simply let them feed a bit, then order the vampire to station, it ends the attack, (you can let them get the victim to faint or even pale), then I simply cancel the order and they return to work as normal...


I noticed that if I stop the attack too early (before the victim even gets to faint) they stop, go back to work, and after a little while take a new "break" to attack again, by letting them feed a little, they keep working for longer before they need a new "break".


I also noticed that sometimes in the 'u'nits screen, it would say that the vampire is doing some other activity and when you check them with the 'v'iew menu, they are indeed on a "break"... in particular I've noticed this with my queen vampire, she may get the "conduct meeting" in the 'u'nits screen but when I check her 'v'iew menu, she's on a "break"...

Writing any binary patches for 0.34.01 would be absolutely pointless, since there'll probably be a new bugfix version in a few days which would either fix said bugs or at least move the code around and make them no longer work.

I understand this... but... I started a fort in 0.34.01 and is going really well, wouldn't like to leave it before it's own FUN! demise... could you please at least give instructions on what to do in order to make the bugfix? I'm willing to give it a try, if I succeed I'll be posting it for the comunity in case anyone else is interested.

I do not know of any advanced search option inside or out of the game.  The search function only works on the names and not races.

oh, sorry if I didn't make myself clear, I was talking about an external application: Legends Viewer


You need to backup your save, abandon and then extract the xml and map data from in-game legends mode, then using Legends Viewer, you use that data to check a lot of things with an interactive map and advanced search features, the instructions I gave before were for finding vampires or werebeasts using that application...

is there any way to update a save from 34.01? I have a nice fort going on and I reaaaally don't want to lose it... 

Whenever my military wastes 2 years in a row on biting drills....I think of this mod.

never seen this, but anyway how would you fix it with RS?

Running DF opens a second window. For me it sits right in front of DF. Find it and type in 'help' or 'ls'. Go from there.

oh... it triggers a command window automatically now... there we type the commands... isn't there a way to create "shortcuts": pre-enter the commands and run them like the old .bat files?


edit: upgraded my version, now it's working...

I have a current fort made with DF_Phoebus_34_02v03 how can i update it to 34.05v01?
Just coping over the files will do? I've been told that I should not update the save game raws to avoid incompatibility issues, doing this will still apply the new bugfixes/features? like the caravan wagons, fixed archery training, etc...


And will I'll be able to get the new graphics?