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The Xekarni

The Xekarni

The tribe quickly becomes aware that the northern plains have been swarmed by great long-legged beasts. Naturally, the hunters decide to investigate.

The Xekarni

Goruk and 2 workers hunt at H5 (equipped with 3 crude spears)
3 workers forage at H5
2 workers research Battle Formations

The Xekarni

The tribe is awed by the glory of Malvol and the divine gifts bestowed upon them. Inspired by their Chosen kinsman, the hunters venture into the holy Darkwolf Forest in search of blood.

1 spear warrior and 3 workers hunt at J5, armed with 4 crude spears
2 workers research herbalism
1 worker prays to Malvol

The Xekarni

The tribe is angered by the sudden intrusion into their foraging grounds! They begin to work in larger numbers, and look onto the neighbouring camp with increasing distaste.

2 workers arm themselves with 2 crude spears and proceed to slaughter animals hunt at H5
3 forage at H5
1 remains home to craft 1 crude spear

I actually quite like the map style, though I agree that the civilisation colours should be added to the key to facilitate readability. Also, it might be a good idea to make the colours used for the civs at I5 and I6 easier to distinguish.

The Xekarni

3 research primitive weapons
3 forage at H5

@Bearskie: You may want this for your script to save on entering the unit id manually:
  local unit = df.unit.find (df.global.ui_advmode.player_id)

player_id refers to the adventurer's nemesis id, which isn't necessarily identical to the unit id (although it often is in practice) so it'd probably be more appropriate to use "df.nemesis_record.find(df.global.ui_advmode.player_id).unit". Alternatively, you could use "df.global.world.units.active[0]", which generally corresponds to the player unit in adventure mode.

Nothing better than that? thistleknot used attribute data from 5000 dwarves. I would be interested for something on this scale, but I don't know how it was done.

The script "modtools/create-unit" lets the game handle preference generation (alongside a bunch of other stuff) for the units it spawns. As such, you could use something like this for your research:

local spawnNumber = 10 -- replace this with the number of dwarves you want to spawn

local x,y,z = pos2xyz(df.global.cursor)
if not z then
  qerror('First place your cursor on the screen to choose a spawn location!')
end


for n = 1,spawnNumber do
  dfhack.run_command("modtools/create-unit -race DWARF -caste MALE -name MOUNTAIN -setUnitToFort -location [ "..x.." "..y.." "..z.." ]")
end
Specify the number of dwarves you want to spawn where indicated in the script before running it. Note that it's entirely possible to generate and observe 5000 dwarves at a go with this, but your FPS will be absolutely murdered if you attempt to unpause.

Come to think of it, perhaps it'd be a good idea to add this functionality to the actual script.