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spriksprak

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Missing or broken features on the steam version?
« on: April 07, 2025, 10:21:59 am »

Hello everyone, I am a long time player of DF for the past 15 years or so. Have been away from it for a while so thought I would give the new steam version a try, even though it's primarily mouse driven and playing havoc with my muscle memory! I have to say though that after playing for a few hours there are several features that were staple to DF that now feel either broken or rather hard to use. I wanted to check with others though if I am simply missing something in the new design or if these are actual known issues:


No keyboard icons displayed in UI

Combat reports - no keyboard navigation, non chronological and no hotkey

Inconsistent keyboard cursor use - especially with designating but not with stockpile

Burrows don't work! - Dwarves stand around frozen in place instead of moving to an assigned burrow

Plus no alert burrow function now available

Scrolling via keys or mouse wheel moves two z levels at a time when in designation mode

No stock summaries and totals by stockpile category e.g. Food, just a long list of sub categories

No selecting from lists for squad attacks

Detail view of items in trade menu or otherwise for details/contents

No mass coffin designation - required to draw 1x1 tombs

No pet forbid middle option on doors

No selecting description in citizen menu for easy review of skills

No DF therapist like interface of skill distribution (ok not an old feature but a surprising exemption if so as it's a staple utility)


Any insight/input appreciated
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Überzwerg

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Re: Missing or broken features on the steam version?
« Reply #1 on: April 07, 2025, 02:03:45 pm »

Some notes on your points:
- Keyboard shortcuts are displayed as tooltip.
- Burrows do work for me.
- An alert burrow function is available with DFHack (and DFHack has a handy auto fill option for painting burrows).
- The forbid door for pets option was left out on purpose, because it was a performance killer.

More lost features:
- Exporting the world creation parameters for a world (now there is no way to tell the parameters used when not using the advanced options)
- no display of tile attributes (inside/outside, light/dark)
- the embark screen lost some overlays & multi-biome informations were displayed more user friendly before

Misc:
- scrolling in menus is often a pain now (or do I miss some shortcuts?)

Side Note: nested tabs are a usability crime, also no keyboard shortcuts for tabs

« Last Edit: April 07, 2025, 02:07:29 pm by Überzwerg »
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Re: Missing or broken features on the steam version?
« Reply #2 on: April 08, 2025, 10:39:07 am »

Misc:
- scrolling in menus is often a pain now (or do I miss some shortcuts?)

Shift+scroll to move one page at a time. Also works for scrolling through z-levels.
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Re: Missing or broken features on the steam version?
« Reply #3 on: April 17, 2025, 03:50:08 am »

No pet forbid middle option on doors

Believe it or not, this is a good thing.

Having it enabled on even a single door caused all sorts of problems, and could drastically slow down FPS.
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