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4.3 is up!

The big change this version is the splitting of "User/Generic Animal Mats", this addon has been split into many parts, each of which only affects a few types of materials. This means that you can now have generic leather without having generic meat!

Of course I also fixed any bugs I found (including a few very stupid ones, I need to learn to test things more).

This looks interesting

Feel free to lift anything you want/find useful from Rubble (see sig).

LUA_HOOK is IMHO MUCH better than needing a command for everything, using commands is far more work for no gain in cases where you need heavy duty Lua logic for only one reaction.

I suppose they compliment each other, at least the new way is better than autoSyndrome

Yup, works great too (I do the same thing with some magma shops, just because :p)

(I did mention that you need a downward passable tile above the liquids didn't I? well if not now I have.)

Slightly OT, but potentially useful:

Take a look at the DFHack workshops in the latest Rubble, they almost all use water or magma in some way.

To summarize:
Most of these workshops use up liquids when they operate.
It is possible to run the reaction without liquids in most cases, but you don't get anything and it prints an error announcement.
The buildings that deal with water all take it through downward passable tiles around the workshop.

I have a simple library I use that has functions for:
Eating fluids from below an area
Eating fluids in a specified tile
Spawning fluids below an area
Spawning fluids in a specified tile
Finding a minecart (optionally magma safe) in a tile
Finding a minecart (optionally magma safe) in an area
Filling a minecart with a specified liquid

Pretty much all the things a modder would want to do with fluids.
The module and it's optional driver command are both in the DFHack script list thread (name "rubble_fluids"), but the latest version is always included in the "Libs/DFHack/Fluids" Rubble addon.

As for the script you are trying to use: it looks like it may be easier to use (you don't need to write any lua logic of your own) but a lot less flexable.

(BTW: feel free to steal any of the scripts included with Rubble, "User/DFHack/Cart Filler" and "User/DFHack/Cart Filler/Powered" may be particularly interesting)

I do have a barrel filler addon (that works fine), but it was made for Better Dorfs and never moved to Rubble, I'll post the script later (if I remember).

It looks like some of the DFHack stuff may not work after all. I will not be able to tell for sure untill a 40.x DFHack is avalible, but some changes are to be expected. I plan to keep any changes restricted to the backend, but one can never tell what will be needed.

This looks really cool. If no one minds I think I'll port it to Rubble and extend it a little (I like lots of alloys, so a few unrealistic things are just fine by me :p)