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It is not currently possible to add new music/sounds to the game, you have to use the ones that already exist. Once that is doable, it should be possible to reimplement soundsense as a mod.

Quote from: crazyabe on December 10, 2022, 07:39:03 am

Quote from: Shonai_Dweller on December 10, 2022, 05:58:10 am

Wait for Tarn to finish the non-graphical interface (he's working on it right now, it's the very next thing to be released - unless another bug fix release comes first).

given steam is still seeing 'X crashed Dwarf fortress, what happened!' threads un mass, we'll prob' see major bug fixes for the next two months, (and hopefully some UI jank fixes too) before the great toad goes on to fix things up enough to release for free.

Don't think Tarn's ever done two months where he solely fixes bugs without adding any promised features. Guess he might be on a tighter leash this time and he was just mistaken. Lots of people are crashing, but, like the interface crashes, lots of people are crashing due to the exact same cause.

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We just put up one crash patch and may do another before Classic, or else the next patch will also include Classic as well

0.40.01-0.40.13, 2014-07-07 through 2014-09-17

- no way to mass dump, forbid, melt etc. from store screen

Might wanna look closer?

Right now diagnosis and I think bone setting and surgery are tied to location assignments: without a location assignment, there will be none of these done. But there's also a labor, which if it's disabled on said dwarves, those things will also not be done. There's no labor for tavern workers, so there shouldn't be one for these.

- Hospitals now need to be converted from meeting areas. This is nonsensical, as hospitals aren't social spaces, and basically adds an additional step to setting up a hospital zone. In previous versions, hospitals were designated separately.

This is not true. You can assign any location from any zone, as you would know if you had... literally tried at all, or indeed paid attention to the UI in any respect. I usually use a water source zone for my hospital.

This isn't me having had a bunch of experience early talking, I noticed this the instant I realized I had to make a hospital, that every single zone can now be assigned to locations. Meeting areas are not required for this.

I'm annoyed not because you didn't know--that's fair--but because you didn't bother to check at all before complaining about it online, which always nettles me.

A little off topic, but is there any equivalent to the old object testing arena?  I don't see anything obvious while poking through the menus.

If not, what's the workflow to build mods now?  I read that the game will reload changes to mods that you make in the installed_mods folder, but is our only option to build a mod, generate a new world, start a fort and tweak things while hoping that it doesn't lead to save incompatibility or crashes?

Arena's planned soon, likely far before adventure mode

I have only used CUT_CREATURE, CUT_ITEM, CUT_ENTITY and CUT_INORGANIC for now. Once I discover them all, I will share.

String dump has:

CUT_CREATURE
CUT_ENTITY
CUT_INTERACTION
CUT_ITEM
CUT_WORD
CUT_TRANSLATION
CUT_SYMBOL
CUT_INORGANIC
CUT_PLANT
CUT_MUSIC
CUT_REACTION
CUT_SOUND

And SELECT_ tokens for each of these.

This would be so nice. Many forts will never use fishing or plant gathering and having those stuck at the top of a menu with a scrollbar is bad.

Having fishing in the default list allows you to set it to "nobody does this", so it still deserves a place. The work details aren't just for assigning work, they're also for unassigning work.