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[aethe]

Long time fan, first time poster.

I'm playing MW 43.03 in Fortress mode as the dwarfs and had two questions.

Did the Sawmill get removed? I could have sworn this was still in a few builds ago but in my newest games I can't seem to find it.  I found it useful for mass producing planks to make above ground buildings (Surface based, haunted biome challenges).

Also, how quickly does food rot in the "Decaying Food" setting? I had started a new game with ample food, but was in for a rude awakening when all of the starting food rotted/vanished mid-Fall, both plants and seeds (We rapidly became a fishing fortress).  What is the time frame on food rotting with the Decaying Foods setting and are there certain forms of food that will last longer?

Thanks

ps. Love the new graphic set.  And I miss turrets and magic.

[Amostubal]

1st question: its the wood splitting block, I is the hotkey.

2nd question: its a DFHACK script:

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# Food and plants decay, and vanish after a few months
=begin

deterioratefood
===============
Somewhere between a "mod" and a "fps booster", with a small impact on
vanilla gameplay.

With this script running, all food and plants wear out and disappear
after several months. Barrels and stockpiles will keep them from
rotting, but it won't keep them from decaying. No more sitting on a
hundred years worth of food. No more keeping barrels of pig tails
sitting around until you decide to use them. Either use it, eat it,
or lose it. Seeds, are excluded from this, if you aren't planning on
using your pig tails, hold onto the seeds for a rainy day.

This script is...pretty far reaching. However, almost all long
running forts I've had end up sitting on thousands and thousands of
food items. Several thousand cooked meals, three thousand plump
helmets, just as many fish and meat. It gets pretty absurd. And your
FPS doesn't like it.

Usage: ``deterioratefood (start|stop)``

=end

class DeteriorateFood

    def initialize
    end

    def process
        return false unless @running

        items = [df.world.items.other[:FISH],
                 df.world.items.other[:FISH_RAW],
                 df.world.items.other[:EGG],
                 df.world.items.other[:CHEESE],
                 df.world.items.other[:PLANT],
                 df.world.items.other[:PLANT_GROWTH],
                 df.world.items.other[:FOOD]]

        items.each { |type|
            type.each { |i|
                i.wear_timer += 1
                if (i.wear_timer > 24 + rand(8))
                    i.wear_timer = 0
                    i.wear += 1
                end
                if (i.wear > 3)
                    i.flags.garbage_collect = true
                end
            }
        }


    end

    def start
        @onupdate = df.onupdate_register('deterioratefood', 1200, 1200) { process }
        @running = true

        puts "Deterioration of food commencing..."

    end

    def stop
        df.onupdate_unregister(@onupdate)
        @running = false
    end

    def status
        @running ? 'Running.' : 'Stopped.'
    end

end

case $script_args[0]
when 'start'
    if ($DeteriorateFood)
        $DeteriorateFood.stop
    end

    $DeteriorateFood = DeteriorateFood.new
    $DeteriorateFood.start

when 'end', 'stop'
    $DeteriorateFood.stop

else
    if $DeteriorateFood
        puts $DeteriorateFood.status
    else
        puts 'Not loaded.'
    end
end

at best I would say it destroys things when 3 periods of (24+rand() which would be an answer of 24x3 to 32x3 = 72 to 96 .... I'm assuming that's days, as I think,         @onupdate = df.onupdate_register('deterioratefood', 1200, 1200) { process } is telling it to run once every day(1200 ticks per day).... I'm not completely sure because I've not dug that far into ruby scripts or DFHack, or ticks.  But 72-96 days is my bet and I'm sure someone will confirm that, or correct me if I'm off because of something I didn't understand.

[aethe]

Ahh thank you, very helpful.  72-96 days seems in the ballpark of when my food vanished.  Also glad to know seeds arn't affected, I was spam farming because I was afraid my seeds would rot as well.

[Amostubal]

yeah its not hard to work with, I just never really used it much.  I would keep an eye on your hunters and fishers, so they don't suddenly fish and hunt the zone dry and then leave you stuck chewing plump helmets....