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Tarcek

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How do you make a dfhack script that causes unconsciousness?
« on: October 30, 2014, 05:04:03 am »
Hi.
I dont know LUA, but i tried to throw something together myself thatd render the targetted creature unconscious. I... have no idea what im doing. Help. :)
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Re: How do you make a dfhack script that causes unconsciousness?
« Reply #1 on: October 30, 2014, 11:46:44 am »
No idea how you came up with that one, but what you want is "unit.counters.unconscious = 1200", which should make it unconscious for exactly 1 day.
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Re: How do you make a dfhack script that causes unconsciousness?
« Reply #2 on: October 30, 2014, 03:43:26 pm »
Quote from: Quietust on October 30, 2014, 11:46:44 am
No idea how you came up with that one, but what you want is "unit.counters.unconscious = 1200", which should make it unconscious for exactly 1 day.

I was... attempting, to add a syndrome. That explains alot. Thankyou! :)
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Re: How do you make a dfhack script that causes unconsciousness?
« Reply #3 on: October 30, 2014, 05:02:35 pm »
"end" is only necessary if you're in a loop, function or the like, for future reference. You don't need it to end scripts.
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Re: How do you make a dfhack script that causes unconsciousness?
« Reply #4 on: October 30, 2014, 07:07:55 pm »
Quote from: Putnam on October 30, 2014, 05:02:35 pm
"end" is only necessary if you're in a loop, function or the like, for future reference. You don't need it to end scripts.

Ah, thankyou! Efficiency is glorious :)

Additional question: Where do you find all the different flags and counters? Is there a convenient list, or is it in the RAWs somewhere?
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Re: How do you make a dfhack script that causes unconsciousness?
« Reply #5 on: October 30, 2014, 09:16:39 pm »
You can explore using gm-editor or with vigorous use of the "~" shortcut in the interactive lua console (~dfhack.gui.getSelectedUnit() will give you a sort of listing of the unit's data structure). Once you're familiar with accessing some of the data and if you have a few minutes/hours to learn how to read the ever-human-readable markup language known as XML, you can look at DFHack's DF data structure XML for quicker finding of info.
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