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[Iosyn]

First of all, Nice to meetcha.
I've been playing DF for a while now, mostly watching my woodcutter militia captains getting butchered by pandas, jabberers and Polymorphing weregeckos, but I was just wondering if anyone had come up with a way to modify the individual likes/preferences of a dwarf, e.g instead of "Urist likes slade" into something more useful such as "likes steel, battle axes." or beds, for example.
 
I like matching the professions at embark to the more suited dwarfs, but goddamn if I don't have to keep aborting the embark screen each time-- and as the dorfs seem to be randomly generated on that screen it tends to make any saved embark profiles kinda worthless.

[Putnam]

Memory editing, maybe.

[Toxicshadow]

Memory editing, maybe.

Mmmm note the maybe.
Seeing as how each dwarf is exported individually in Fort. mode, I'd think that if you were to decompress/decrypt the world's files you could change your dwarf that way. But, you may be able to memhack the running instance of DF and change the dwarf.

[GreatWyrmGold]

Or, use neato things like legendary dining rooms and mist generators to increase happiness. If you're fine with cheaty modding, you could always just mod in reactions to make free platinum (or whatever high-value metal suits your needs), fuel, dwarven syrup, etc.

[Toxicshadow]

Or, use neato things like legendary dining rooms and mist generators to increase happiness. If you're fine with cheaty modding, you could always just mod in reactions to make free platinum (or whatever high-value metal suits your needs), fuel, dwarven syrup, etc.

If you're making dwarven syrup, don't forget the pancakes! (I'd say dwarfcakes but that sounds like cannibalism ._.)

[Quietust]

If you've got DFHack, doing this sort of thing is quite straightforward - just find the unit and add/modify/delete the entries in its preferences list.