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[Halnoth]

So, my fort has several books with the secrets of life and death. I didn't think about it while making my library and now half of my dwarves are necromancers. As odd as it sounds to many of you I don't want this. Is there a way through modding or perhaps dfhack to uncurse a dwarf in a current fort without a world regen?

I do have back up saves and do have the option of loading old saves until I get one without necromancers, but I would rather not since I have done a number of complicated tasks since.

[Zammer990]

Kill them all?
On a more serious note, it's a long shot but making something updatable that gives a syndrome with the opposite effects of becoming a necromancer might work, but I'm not sure what's updatable without at least a fort reset.
Syndrome for necromancer:

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[CE_DISPLAY_TILE:TILE:165:5:0:1:START:0]
[CE_DISPLAY_NAME:NAME:necromancer:necromancers:necromantic:START:0]
[CE_ADD_TAG:NOEXERT:NO_AGING:NO_EAT:NO_DRINK:NO_SLEEP:NO_PHYS_ATT_GAIN:NO_PHYS_ATT_RUST:START:0]
[CE_CAN_DO_INTERACTION:START:0]
[CDI:ADV_NAME:Animate corpse]
[CDI:INTERACTION:EXAMPLE RAISE]
[CDI:TARGET:A:LINE_OF_SIGHT]
[CDI:TARGET_RANGE:A:10]
[CDI:VERB:gesture:gestures:NA]
[CDI:TARGET_VERB:shudder and begin to move:shudders and begins to move]
[CDI:WAIT_PERIOD:10]
syndrome that *might* undo that

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[CE_DISPLAY_NAME:NAME: : : :START:0]
[CE_REMOVE_TAG:NOEXERT:NO_AGING:NO_EAT:NO_DRINK:NO_SLEEP:NO_PHYS_ATT_GAIN:NO_PHYS_ATT_RUST:START:0]
[CE_CAN_DO_INTERACTION:START:0]
[CDI:ADV_NAME:Animate corpse]
[CDI:INTERACTION:EXAMPLE RAISE]
[CDI:TARGET:A:LINE_OF_SIGHT]
[CDI:TARGET_RANGE:A:0]
[CDI:VERB:gesture:gestures:NA]
[CDI:TARGET_VERB:shudder and begin to move:shudders and begins to move]
[CDI:WAIT_PERIOD:10]
But you're gonna hope someone better at interactions cleans that up, not sure how overwriting interactions works, and I don't think tile icons are resetable to default.

[IndigoFenix]

You can't "overwrite" interactions this way.  I'm pretty sure there's no way of deactivating necromancy using regular syndromes.
DFHack should be able to do it though, but I'm not sure if it has a built-in method for doing so.  I think it does have something called remove-curse, but I can't remember if it works on necromancers.

[Halnoth]

You can't "overwrite" interactions this way.  I'm pretty sure there's no way of deactivating necromancy using regular syndromes.
DFHack should be able to do it though, but I'm not sure if it has a built-in method for doing so.  I think it does have something called remove-curse, but I can't remember if it works on necromancers.

There is a cursecheck, but I couldn't find a remove curse. I'll just save scum then and be more diligent about necro books in the future. Thanks

[hertggf]

It can be done but it's not easy.  First off you have to use modtools/add-syndrome with the -erase option.  Then you have to full-heal the dwarf.  Then if it keeps coming back you may also have to go into its historical figure data structure and erase the entries from figure.info.curse.active_interactions and figure.info.curse.active_effects