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BlueManedHawk

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Date should be more visible in Fortress Mode
« on: February 10, 2021, 05:19:17 pm »
I had to go all the way to the Stocks screen to be able to see the date, and even then, I only noticed it by accident, since it's far away from the stuff I'd be focusing on.
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Re: Date should be more visible in Fortress Mode
« Reply #1 on: February 10, 2021, 05:33:13 pm »
Agree on that.  By the way, you might try DFHack as it puts the date in the upper right of the game screen.  It also provides MANY improvements to the UI and bug fixes too.  This link can show you what you'll get:  https://docs.dfhack.org/en/stable/  and you can d/l it here in the forum.
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Re: Date should be more visible in Fortress Mode
« Reply #2 on: February 10, 2021, 06:19:37 pm »
Already implemented for Steam release I think.
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Re: Date should be more visible in Fortress Mode
« Reply #3 on: February 10, 2021, 07:11:09 pm »
Indeed
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Re: Date should be more visible in Fortress Mode
« Reply #4 on: February 11, 2021, 03:59:22 pm »
Quote from: Uthimienure on February 10, 2021, 05:33:13 pm
Agree on that.  By the way, you might try DFHack as it puts the date in the upper right of the game screen.  It also provides MANY improvements to the UI and bug fixes too.  This link can show you what you'll get:  https://docs.dfhack.org/en/stable/  and you can d/l it here in the forum.

Really?  I didn't know it could do that!  I already have it installed, so I guess I'll look to see how I enable that.
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Re: Date should be more visible in Fortress Mode
« Reply #5 on: February 11, 2021, 07:22:47 pm »
You made me curious, since I didn't do anything to enable the date I thought it was shown by default.  Searching that //docs.dfhack.org for "date" led me to the dwarfmonitor plugin and it says showing the date is one of its widgets.  It could be that one, or maybe there's another plugin at work there, not sure. 

Look in DF's main directory for the file dfhack.init
Mine has this about 3/4 of the way down:

# Other interface improvement tools
enable \
 confirm \
 dwarfmonitor \
 mousequery \
 autogems \
 autodump \
 automelt \
 autotrade \
 buildingplan \
 resume \
 trackstop \
 zone \
 stocks \
 autochop \
 stockpiles
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