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[zilpin]

Question:  What is the current state of DFHack's knowledge of the Embark screen?

I'd like to write a plugin to show details of entities, map features, sites, resident creatures, and layers on the embark screen, but not seeing much in the source code for it.
After finishing that, a programmable site location tool would be cool.  E.g. search for all embark sites which have Giant Eagles to capture.
(The existing "embark anywhere" patch is unrelated)

Does DFHack know anything about the world map before embark?

[Quietust]

Creature populations should be available for any tile in the entire world - world.world_data->regions[] describes all of the distinct regions in the world (mountains, plains, forests, swamps, deserts, lakes, oceans, etc.) along with plant and animal populations, and you can do similar stuff to find which regions have certain desirable minerals (look at how prospect works during embark).

Map features should also be available within world.world_data.feature_map (see the DFHack "maps" module), but they will only be populated for region tiles you've actually viewed at one point (though I believe you can populate all of them by invoking the site finder).

Entities, sites, and resident creatures ought to be fairly straightforward - resident creatures are historical figures, and they generally live in specific sites (generally caves) which you can determine by looking at their site links (and then locate the sites themselves on the world map).