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Zeebie

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Nicknaming animals?
« on: December 01, 2014, 01:04:00 pm »
Is there any way to nickname animals? I'm having trouble keeping track of who is pastured where late in the game.  The branch of Dwarf Therapist I use has a tab for animals that lets me give nicknames, but those names don't appear in the actual game anywhere.  Any solutions out there?
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PatrikLundell

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Re: Nicknaming animals?
« Reply #1 on: December 01, 2014, 01:20:56 pm »
I'm not aware of any, but since DT assigned names are retained after a save and restore, they exist in the game; they are just not displayed. It ought to be possible to use DFHack to get at nicknames, though.
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Re: Nicknaming animals?
« Reply #2 on: December 01, 2014, 01:27:04 pm »
DFHack includes a "rename" command, and it should work just fine with animals.
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Re: Nicknaming animals?
« Reply #3 on: December 01, 2014, 03:21:08 pm »
Quote from: Quietust on December 01, 2014, 01:27:04 pm
DFHack includes a "rename" command, and it should work just fine with animals.
If you're using the default DFHack keybindings (in dfhack.init), this should be accessible by selecting a unit and pressing Ctrl-Shift-N. (Ctrl-Shift-T should allow you to change professions, although I don't remember if/how this works with animals.)
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Re: Nicknaming animals?
« Reply #4 on: December 01, 2014, 04:34:52 pm »
That did it. Thanks folks.
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