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Author Topic: Way to mass unforbid stuff like designating it to be claimed  (Read 1910 times)

Dustin

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Way to mass unforbid stuff like designating it to be claimed
« on: February 25, 2016, 07:26:03 pm »
perhaps have it to where you can claim/forbid stuff en masse, like if you are claiming a generated fortress, that would be super helpful
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LMeire

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Re: Way to mass unforbid stuff like designating it to be claimed
« Reply #1 on: February 25, 2016, 07:42:50 pm »
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Dustin

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Re: Way to mass unforbid stuff like designating it to be claimed
« Reply #2 on: February 25, 2016, 07:47:24 pm »
cause i had claimed a generated fortress, and its just like over 1500 articles of stuff to unforbid and claim, just wanna do it in one fell swoop
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Should we have embarked right next to a goblin fortress?
Yes we should have, no Goblins yet *yet*
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Libash_Thunderhead

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Re: Way to mass unforbid stuff like designating it to be claimed
« Reply #3 on: February 25, 2016, 08:00:19 pm »
I think this is one of the "filter everywhere" requests or stockpile record menu enhancement, for example, sometimes you need to forbid all unowned xpig tail sockx.
DFhack has a very well made stockpile menu, for now, though I can't say it covers everything I want.
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Diamond

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Re: Way to mass unforbid stuff like designating it to be claimed
« Reply #4 on: February 26, 2016, 01:05:46 am »
Wow, what a suggestion, I wonder how Toady have not thought of it before
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Deboche

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Re: Way to mass unforbid stuff like designating it to be claimed
« Reply #5 on: February 26, 2016, 06:16:28 am »
What LMeire meant is that you can press d-b-c take the cursor to one corner of the map in a z-level that's only sky, press enter(return), then zoom down all the z-levels you need to include the whole fortress and put the cursor in the opposite corner and press enter again. Everything in the whole fortress will be unforbidden.

You can also do this for burrows to keep dwarves out of specific z-levels without bothering to select specific spaces. Assign everything underneath the surface, remove everything from the specific z-levels of a cavern and so on.
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Dustin

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Re: Way to mass unforbid stuff like designating it to be claimed
« Reply #6 on: February 26, 2016, 06:37:53 pm »
oh never knew about that
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PopTart

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Re: Way to mass unforbid stuff like designating it to be claimed
« Reply #7 on: February 27, 2016, 04:57:20 am »
If you d-b-c the whole map, you might have to repeat the process as your dwarfs discover more areas with more items. You can also mass claim items by type in the stocks menu.
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