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[Truean]

Well, I used Dwarf Companion to give all 25 of my Dwarves some nice stats to finally clear out all the stupid stone in the fort.

Someone, one Dwarf, Rithus -- Soldier8 Became briefly marked as "skeletal."

He freaked a few dwarves out and I quickly changed him back. Now I have Dwarves who were never marked skeletal and do not show up as undead in the units list interrupting one another?

Two questions:

1.) Is there an easier way to get rid of all these many tens of thousands of stones?

2.) How do I make this "interrupting" thing go away?

Thanks

[Untelligent]

This happens when you make a creature belonging to a civilization undead via Dwarf Companion.

The zombified dwarf (or whatever) will start targeting nearby dwarves, making him an enemy of the civilization and thus targetable by other dwarves. Being an enemy of the civilization does not go away when you un-undead the dwarf.

Anyway, nearby dwarves will start attacking the skeleton. Since the skeleton is still technically part of the civilization, the attacking dwarves will also be made an enemy of the civilization. And so on and so forth. It doesn't take long before all the dwarves are trying to kill each other or run away from each other.


As for the stones, you don't actually have to get rid of them, but if you absolutely can't stand looking at them for some reason, you can mass-designate them to be hidden via the designations menu (d-b-h). If that doesn't stop them from bothering you, there's a few solutions:

1) Mass-dump them into a small space by your masonries. Dwarf Companion can make this faster by making your dwarves perfectly agile; it won't turn them into skeletons if you don't accidentally tell it to.
2) Mass-dump them into a volcano or chasm. This actually gets rid of the stone, but then you can't use it.
3) Build a bunch of catapults in the areas with the offending stone.
4) Flood your fort with magma.

[Lancensis]

Or give the stones [BOILING_POINT:10020] and they'll evaporate, along with anything made of them (that is not part of a building or construction). Your dwarves may feel a slight chill, but it wont hurt them.

[Truean]

Anyway, nearby dwarves will start attacking the skeleton. Since the skeleton is still technically part of the civilization, the attacking dwarves will also be made an enemy of the civilization. And so on and so forth. It doesn't take long before all the dwarves are trying to kill each other or run away from each other.

Crap....

Any way to salvage this fort and those characters?

Strange thing is even my governor (mayor/legendary armorsmith) is tripping people out. She was never undead.

No violence has occurred yet at all. I checked the civ hex codes, they all read 84, so they are the same....

Or give the stones [BOILING_POINT:10020] and they'll evaporate, along with anything made of them (that is not part of a building or construction). Your dwarves may feel a slight chill, but it wont hurt them.

Will have to try this. It's not an cosmetic issue. 2,000,000 stones kills my FPS.

[Truean]

Schist does not have it's own, metalgloss - stone mineral entry.

Should I create one to give it a boiling point or can I use the layers entry?

[Shade-o]

The matgloss_stone_layer entry IS Schist. It's there because it's a layer. Making a new one called Schist would be a duplicate, which is very bad.

[Truean]

The matgloss_stone_layer entry IS Schist. It's there because it's a layer. Making a new one called Schist would be a duplicate, which is very bad.

I see. So Basically I add:
[BOILING_POINT:10020]

to the layer metalgloss for Schist? I was thinking it was something more complex, because I did that and there are still little schist stones where I mine.

I turned Temp on in Init.

Should I gen a new world?

[Lancensis]

Any way to salvage this fort and those characters?

Yeah. Isolate any still-sane dwarves far away from the rocks and then set the boiling point to 0 instead. It'll engulf anything near the Schist stones in gas that's several hundred degrees below absolute zero, killing the crazies instantly. That or some other accident. If there are no sane dwarves left, let them all die, and reclaim.

I see. So Basically I add:
[BOILING_POINT:10020]

to the layer metalgloss for Schist? I was thinking it was something more complex, because I did that and there are still little schist stones where I mine.

Hmm. Perhaps it ought to be a little lower. Try 10000. That's zero degrees celsius, so wrap up warm, but it won't kill anything. I can't recall what "room temperature" is, so I just estimated. The thing is, go too low, and you'll flash freeze your dwarves. It won't need a regen, but maybe you'll need to delete the contents of Data==>Objects.

[Shade-o]

Alternatively, you can set an ignite point of say 10500, and a fixed temp of the same, and the stone will self-ignite and burn like coal. I'm not sure how long it goes for, though...

[Truean]

Yeah. Isolate any still-sane dwarves far away from the rocks and then set the boiling point to 0 instead. It'll engulf anything near the Schist stones in gas that's several hundred degrees below absolute zero, killing the crazies instantly. That or some other accident. If there are no sane dwarves left, let them all die, and reclaim.

Seeing as that includes my governor/legendary armorsmith, this means I'm screwed. Restart it is. Any way to keep this from happening again?

Perhaps it ought to be a little lower.

10001 works.

maybe you'll need to delete the contents of Data==>Objects

Huh?

[smjjames]

I always use 10000 as the boiling temp. I've never had any problems with long term exposure, even then, those that face long term exposure are usually the miners.

I play in temperate to tropical scorching desert temps, so it probably warms up quickly.

[Lancensis]

maybe you'll need to delete the contents of Data==>Objects

Huh?

There's a folder called Data within the Dwarf Fortress folder. Within it is another folder called Objects. Thats full of information from the raws converted into files that the game can read. Sometimes, it's old crusty information that is at odds with what is in your raws, causing problems. So close down DF, delete every file within Objects, and then start the game up again. It'll load the new raw values. You don't ALWAYS have to do this, but I can never remember when you need to do it, so I just do it every time.

There's an Objects folder within the Raw folder as well, but they're easy to tell apart because the raws are all txt files, wheras the data files are some bizarre set-up that I don't recognise.