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[vastaghen12]

I wanted to ask if the dwarves (and fortress animals) growing in age but not in size bug has been fixed by Toady in the latest version.

If not, would someone be kind enough to direct me to the df hack fix for the bug? I think someone made a fix back when this was still breaking news.

Fixed by Toady, in .40.0x

Thanks!

Perhaps I can get this animal army only challenge fort going.

[TherionChilde]

A couple of questions:
First, is there any way to control which types of evil biome effects propagate during or after world gen, either by in-game option, utility, or by altering raw data in the created world?
On a related note, is there any way to control which civilizations are created?  Can certain civs be turned "off" during world gen?

Basically, I'm picturing a mostly evil world, in which the evil biomes all raise the dead, and in which the only civilizations are dwarves and necro towers.  Is there any conceivable way this could come about? 

Also, I'm in my first play-through in the new version, and I've noticed that three years in, not a single dwarf has reproduced yet...  Is this a bug, is there a sterility biome effect, or did I just get a fortress full of sexual anorexics?

[Telgin]

It's not trivial to get what you want, but some of it's not too hard.  For starters, you can just remove the entity_x.txt files in your raws directory for everything but the dwarves, which is entity_mountain.txt if I recall correctly.  That will cause only dwarves to spawn in world gen.

Getting rid of the evil biome effects and having only reanimation in their place is doable but harder.  You need to create a new regional interaction in your raws, make it evil only, and then use advanced worldgen and turn down regional effects to 0.  If I remember right, that will cause only yours to be used.  I've done something similar to this in the past, but it's kind of involved so you'd probably be best off asking in the modding forum.

[Loci]

My militia commander seems to prefer bashing enemies with his wooden crutch instead of impaling them with his masterwork spear. Is there any way I can get him to swap out the crappy crutch for a nice heavy metal one?

[BlackFlyme]

Evil worlds and non-breeding dwarves.

You can't edit the randomly generated effects, but you can disable them and create your own. There are options in the advanced world generator to set the amount of randomly generated rains, clouds, and many other things. Setting them to zero will disable them, while still using the player created ones.

Civs can be prevented from spawning in a few ways. Go into the file called entity_default.txt, that's where all of the entities are. You could outright delete non-dwarven raws, but it may be easier to instead remove certain tokens that control where the civs spawn or what site types they like, what their populations are, or what creature belongs to the civ.

Necromancers are a bit more difficult, as towers aren't controllable in the raws. You could make more necromancer secrets, and give them more spheres that just death so that more gods can grant that blessing though.

To help you figure out how to make the weather and necromancer interactions, check out the folder within the raw folder called 'interaction examples', which has files to show you how to make things such as were-creatures, vampires, necromancers, and evil weather.

For dwarves to reproduce, they must be married. If there are married couples and they aren't reproducing, then I don't know what to say. You may just not be waiting long enough, or they may be having miscarriages. That can be caused by things such as starvation, dehydration, or injuries.

My militia commander seems to prefer bashing enemies with his wooden crutch instead of impaling them with his masterwork spear. Is there any way I can get him to swap out the crappy crutch for a nice heavy metal one?

Have you tried forbidding the crutch in his inventory? You could also try marking it for dumping and place a garbage dump somewhere nearby. Then just forbid all non-metal crutches so that he can only choose a metal one.

[Loci]

My militia commander seems to prefer bashing enemies with his wooden crutch instead of impaling them with his masterwork spear. Is there any way I can get him to swap out the crappy crutch for a nice heavy metal one?

Have you tried forbidding the crutch in his inventory? You could also try marking it for dumping and place a garbage dump somewhere nearby. Then just forbid all non-metal crutches so that he can only choose a metal one.

Forbidding the crutch did no good, but marking it for dumping did the trick. A heartless dwarf walked up, grabbed the crutch out of his hand, and left him in a crumpled heap on the floor. Eventually he was hauled to the hospital where the crack chief medical dwarf diagnosed that his leg was still missing and issued him another crutch. In all, a relatively painless process, at least in Dwarf Fortress terms.

Thanks!

[TherionChilde]

Evil worlds and non-breeding dwarves.

You can't edit the randomly generated effects, but you can disable them and create your own. There are options in the advanced world generator to set the amount of randomly generated rains, clouds, and many other things. Setting them to zero will disable them, while still using the player created ones.

Civs can be prevented from spawning in a few ways. Go into the file called entity_default.txt, that's where all of the entities are. You could outright delete non-dwarven raws, but it may be easier to instead remove certain tokens that control where the civs spawn or what site types they like, what their populations are, or what creature belongs to the civ.

Necromancers are a bit more difficult, as towers aren't controllable in the raws. You could make more necromancer secrets, and give them more spheres that just death so that more gods can grant that blessing though.

To help you figure out how to make the weather and necromancer interactions, check out the folder within the raw folder called 'interaction examples', which has files to show you how to make things such as were-creatures, vampires, necromancers, and evil weather.

Thanks for the detailed response...While I have many follow-up questions, I understand this is more of a modding issue, so I'll try discussing in another sub-.  Thanks for getting me looking in the right direction. 

[Showbiz]

Since 40.11 Starter Pack v3 the F12 button (toggle Tilefonts) seems not to work anymore for me. Keybindings are correct assigned. Any Idea how to fix this?

[Illogical_Blox]

Why wouldn't my butcher butcher the three dead chinchillas killed by my hunter, even when they are in a refuse pile?

[pisskop]

Why wouldn't my butcher butcher the three dead chinchillas killed by my hunter, even when they are in a refuse pile?

Because there is a whole wiki to check instead of asking here.  More than one, even.


Chinchillas are crepuscular (most active around dawn and dusk) rodents, slightly larger and more robust than ground squirrels.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinchilla

'A tiny furry rodent dwelling in the hollow cracks of rocks. They can be found high in the mountains.
Chinchillas are too small to be butchered, but unfortunately your hunters will still hunt them, wasting both time and ammo.'
http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2014:Chinchilla

[Spectre Incarnate]

Why wouldn't my butcher butcher the three dead chinchillas killed by my hunter, even when they are in a refuse pile?

Because they are too tiny to yield anything and hunters are dumb...
Yes, I know, there is ant brain strew from caravans. That's a doofy bug. 

[Illogical_Blox]

Ah, blast. I had a feeling it was that they were too small.

Ant brain stew? Must have been a hard job, getting the brains.

[Edmus]

Does anyone know any good 3d rendering programs that work for the newest version?

[MoridinUK]

FPS lag fixed?

[shlorf]

FPS lag fixed?

It's a step up from 40.12 to 40.13, my 170ish dwarf fort was close to what i consider unplayable 20fps before now it rarely dips under 40.
Meeting halls still seem to kill fps, tho.