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peterix, I saw your post over in the Dwarf Therapist thread about the API. I'm definitely interested in experimenting with that, just to try out some ideas I have about designing a better Therapist-like UI. (I can't promise I will ever finish such a project, only that I want to try it. ) The API will make it much, much easier for me to do that.

I don't think the protocols required for such a thing to work are a huge mystery, but laying out the actual protocol data structures is an interesting challenge. For a dwarf, I would want this data at least:

• personal info: name, nickname, sex, caste, baby/child/adult, happiness
• profession, custom profession name
• attributes, skills, assigned labors
• some way of determining (or guessing) which migrant wave he arrived with
• military squad he belongs to, if any
• assigned position from the 'n'obles screen

For "edit" APIs, I would want to be able to:

• assign labors
• change custom profession name
• change nickname
• assign a dwarf to a military squad? possible/safe?

Getting live updates on each dwarf's current job when it changes would be interesting, too, but I don't know if it is practical performance-wise. I would be curious about some kind of "efficiency" metric for each dwarf.

Thank you (preemptively) for the workflow enhancements I just noticed were committed to github. Being able to keep a certain stock of crafts will be awesome, and the command tweaks are also welcome.

I love workflow! 

What do the new "cold hammer <metal>" reactions at the crucible do? They seem to refine ore without fuel? Is there a drawback?

Edit: oh, I think I see, they require 3 ore?

Question: What is scrap wood good for? (Value: 0)

edit: ah, good for coal. If it there where only a way to tell the wood burner only to use this type of wood...

You can do exactly this kind of thing using a combination of the "workflow" and "job" commands in dfhack.

On the dfhack console, first, enable workflow using the command "workflow enable". This activates workflow's feature of preventing any job set to repeat from being deleted/canceled. You can do a lot more fancy stuff with workflow, but this one feature is handy just to prevent us from having to do the second step more than once. Then, go to your wood furnace, queue up a "make charcoal" job, and set it to repeat. Keep the workshop 'q' menu open with the "make charcoal" job highlighted. Back in the dfhack console, type "job item-material 1 SCRAPWOOD:WOOD". That makes it so the job only uses scrapwood as its input.

You have to remember that you customized that job (and don't delete it later by mistake), but it does what you want!

That's a work of art! Thanks for sharing it. I love the color palette. The font is a little hard to read, though.

However, when I genned Urgoh(Evil Swamp thing), I couldn't find a location that had flux. Do all locations have Flux, and its not showing up, or is that map supposed to be so hard you can't do steel production without trading for it?

If I recall correctcly, if you have a layer stone that is also a flux stone, it won't show it on the embark screen as "Flux Stone". The embark screen only displays "Flux Stone" if you have veins/clusters of flux stone. I've found that marble layers are very common in the worlds I generate with this mod, but that might be a fluke.

I forgot to mention that I like the workshop info charts quite a bit, too. It's not always obvious how to use something in-game, so those help get the idea across for custom workshops.

Speaking of which, when a job is red in a workshop because you don't have one of the materials, when you hit enter, it shows you the reaction inputs and outputs. Is there any way to see that information when the job is NOT red? (I.e. hitting enter queues the job?)

New version keeps crashing during world gen when I choose the "plains (good biomes)" preset. Generating on the second option, the "varied" one, worked.