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[khm]

hello,

with how long this game has been out i strongly suspect that this already exists somewhere, but i couldn't find it. i was kind of annoyed with all the micromanagement i was having to do to stop my dwarfs from stealing fertilized eggs, so i wrote this short script. it listens for dwarfs getting assigned jobs moving objects to storage. if that object is a fertilized egg it will remove the worker from the job and mark the eggs as forbidden.

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egg-saver.luacode:

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local utils = require('utils')
local eventful = require 'plugins.eventful'

if eventful.onJobInitiated.saveEggs == nil then
eventful.onJobInitiated.saveEggs = function(job)
if job.flags.store_item then
for _,item in ipairs(job.items) do
if item.item._type == df.item_eggst and item.item.egg_flags.fertile then
item.item.flags.forbid = true
dfhack.job.removeWorker(job, 1000)
print("Eggs Saved!")
end
end
end
end
print("Starting Egg Saver")
else
eventful.onJobInitiated.saveEggs = nil
print("Stopping Egg Saver")
end
eventful.enableEvent(eventful.eventType.JOB_INITIATED, 0)
it's toggle-able, so to start/stop it, just type this into the DFHack prompt

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egg-saver
the upside is now i don't have to micromanage my dwarfs, the downside is now i have over 200 chickens

[myk]

Nice script, but I think the plugin you're looking for is nestboxes: https://docs.dfhack.org/en/stable/docs/Plugins.html#nestboxes

[khm]

you would be correct sir, that plugin does indeed do what i was aiming to do. but the problem with it is i didn't know about it before and now i'm tumbling down the rabbit hole of DFHack scripting.

[myk]

You're in good company! Ask on the discord server if you need any help with anything!