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Feature request:  would it be possible to change tilesets, but preserve the settings?  Experimenting with different graphics can get rather annoying when you have to adjust the popcap and volume (etc...) every time, and on my laptop I have to keep weather and temperature off to get a reasonable frame rate.  Just seems like a logical addition to the way tilesets get changed over, if that's getting changed. 

Awesome - its getting updated again tonight with the biggest expansion yet.  And a sincere thanks for the work of actual devs, like you.  I just aggregate stuff.

Utility question:  does anyone know of a dfhack plugin or utility which can automate tree farming? 

What I'm after is a way to designate an area for tree-cutting each month without user input, to allow for a longer fortress timespan without any user input (auto-plant gathering would be a nice bonus).  My goal is to generate a young world, build and set up by the year 10, and then leave the fort running for so long that there is nothing else left alive in the world. 

There are a fair few tools that can help keep the fortress running relatively normally (eg autolabor, autobutcher, workflow), but all of these require raw materials from somewhere.  I've worked out how to automate indefinite production of items made of green glass, metals, and fire clay, but I need a zero-input source of wood if I want to avoid the gain-from-smelt trick with metals (for bins, armor, etc.)  I know metal is more dwarfy, but I want an immortal fortress with as little cheating as possible - and I have this image of totally insane dwarves waiting in the dark for the world to die, even willing to emulate elves if it means they can outlive every other race and  flood the world with lava at the end of time...

Sadly nothing like this seems to exist (please prove me wrong!) - surely someone has created a tool for such a trivial task? 

Derp.  I probably should have looked through the whole pack first...

Fair enough. 

I have no desire to start a competing version - I've uploaded the pack I'd like to see at DFFD and posted in the thread, but I'm not planning to maintain it long term.  I just got sick of explaining how to set it up, and just started providing a link. 

V16.1 is beautiful though,  and optionally starting utilities eg soundsense minimized and DF maximized is literally the only improvement I can think of besides the cross platform project.  I know that a batch script can do some of this - I tried with v15, to limited success - but I guess the number of windows which launch something else in a different window could make that rather tricky.  It was certainly well beyond me. 

Thanks for the new version guys, it really is worth the wait.     

PTW - it'll be nice when the LNP I maintain is not windows-only. 

Edit:  any chance of working directly toward an equivalent of v16 instead of v15?  It would just be nice to avoid the cross-platform edition being behind from the very start - I just don't want to lose automatically launching utilities or try to explain what happened. 

Yeah, that's the last ever version of the classic DT - Splintermind's fork is now the only version being updated and maintained.  Unfortunately it hasn't been as well publicised as it maybe should, and this is a perfect example :-/

Get the newer version here - it has all the old functions, and some new ones along with a bunch of bugfixes. 

If you just want a grid for labor assignments, there are dfhack plugins (dwarf monitor (separate DL) and something included?) which put a box in the frame with number of dwarves at each happiness level, and add an option to the units screen for in-game grid labor assignments.  I only use therapist to check rather arcane stuff these days, and the autolabor plugin the rest of the time.

I actually uploaded  my expanded LNP pack recently because explaining to friends the setup required to play was a deterrent to picking it up.   It basically updates everything in the advanced lazy newb pack and includes a few extra utilities.   

Kinda clashy is still plenty usable and a net benefit;  I just noticed a little cursor jitter when moving and two behaviors when right clicking - it opens the mouse mouse fortress menu and then a second right click returns to the un paused game 

Regarding the combination, compatibility mode would be awesome a total waste of time - it's at least usable anyway.  To be honest, once this provides some kind of scroll method and cursor visibility mouse fortress will be obsolete, since those are now the only reason to use it and only just worth the jitter (mostly the scrolling so I can avoid using arrow keys). 


EDIT:  Having actually fiddled with it again, trying to work out a compatibility mode is going to be more trouble than it's worth - the clashes are really minor, and any energy going into improving the plugin would be better spent increasing functionality so that only one is necessary.  As above, the two that would do that for me are scrolling - either right-click-drag, or hover-near-edge - and the visible cursor which you're apparently already working on.  Brilliant. 

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