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[Jazz Cat]

I couldn't find a tool for this, so I made one myself. It's a small DFHack script that allows you to manually assign an animal to a dwarf as a pet, instead of hoping the dwarf has the right preferences and happens to bump into the animal at the right time.

Spoiler: adopt.lua (click to show/hide)

Code: [Select]


-- Assigns an animal to a citizen as a pet.
--[====[

adopt
==============
For the moment, the script has no gui, so you have to specify the pet and the owner by unit id like so:

adopt -pet 11 -owner 12

where the animal's unit id is 11 and the dwarf's unit id is 12. This probably lets you assign a dwarf as a pet, for example, but oh well.

The script also gives the pet a name, since dwarfs like to do that.

]====]

-- TODO: Make pet historical figure

local utils=require('utils')

validArgs = validArgs or utils.invert({
 'owner',
 'pet'
})

local args = utils.processArgs({...}, validArgs)

local owner
local pet

owner=df.unit.find(tonumber(args.owner))
pet=df.unit.find(tonumber(args.pet))



function NameUnit(unit)

local valid_names = {}

for k, v in ipairs(df.global.world.raws.language.words) do
if v.flags[7] == true then
table.insert(valid_names, df.global.world.raws.language.translations[0].words[k][0])
end
end

rng = dfhack.random.new()
name = rng:random(#valid_names)

unit.name.language = 0
unit.name.unknown = 0

unit.name.first_name = valid_names[name+1]

unit.name.words[0]=rng:random(2194)
unit.name.words[1]=rng:random(2194)

unit.name.has_name = true

end

NameUnit(pet)
pet.relationship_ids.Pet=owner.id


To use the script, save the above text in you /hack/scripts director as "adopt.lua" and run it from the DFHack terminal.

The script is still in the very early stages at the moment, so the only thing it does is assigns the animal as a pet and gives it a name. When dwarves adopt pets on their own, the pet becomes a historical figure (and probably a bunch of other stuff happens), but I haven't figured out how to make that happen yet.

[strainer]

Nice idea - better than assigning a work animal, when you don't really want it to work.

I see Meph made a create-unit script which seems to set up historic figure data. There is also this mysteriously named thing called a "Nemesis record" which is just an extra record that links the unit id and the historical figure id. Its all a bit chaotic but might be possible to copy most from Mephs script.

There is a table in the figure details called something like, figure->histfig_links
which holds histfig_ids of units relations like mother, father, lover... prisoner.. etc and in particular "PET_OWNER"

A lua syntax for it might be something like: pets_hfig.histfig_links["PET_OWNER"].target_hf = (hf_id of pets owner)

[Jazz Cat]

Yeah, a lot of the work in this script is "distilled" from Meph's. By the time I got to the historical-figure data my brain was too fried to try to make it work at the time.