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[HatfieldCW]

I couldn't figure out how to search for this, so I'm starting a new thread about it.

How do I make the game stop pausing to announce the discovery of unremarkable mineral deposits?

I'll often leave the fort running while I got do something else, and I like to come back and discover that there's a goblin attack or a caravan to deal with.  I do not like coming back to learn that my miner found alunite thirty seconds after I left the room, and felt it was necessary to stop the presses and send out a fort-wide memo.  If you find a nice iron ore or some gems, that's okay, but even then it's somewhat annoying.  I had a fifteen-goblin raid, and was interrupted four times in as many minutes by the incredible news of "Even More Orpiment".  That's great, guys, but I'm trying to defend the fort with six undertrained wrestlers who'd rather drink than fight, so my attention's focused eight z-levels above your yellow goddamn rock.

Can this be fixed?

[kalida99]

Theres a Mod on the wiki called, "I don't care just dig" but im pretty sure that only applies to warm/damp stone junk, the search bar is in the top right corner.

[Albedo]

Nope.

You aren't the first.

Might be a 3rd party app - check the wiki on "utility".

[Puck]

I think what you need is actually the "unpause mod" or somesuch, but I dont know 100%, I never used it.

[HatfieldCW]

Yeah, unpause might be a little too much for me, since I still want the game to pause when something genuinely cool happens, so it'll be waiting on the cusp when I get back from mowing the lawn.  I'd hate to sit back down and find that six seiges and nine caravans and three waves of immigrants had taken place in my absence.

And I know where the search bar is.    But what would I put in there?  All my tries were for pausing and mining, which failed to focus on the topic I had in mind.

[Smew]

The Dtil utility has something that is basically like that, you can "ignore vein messages", this disables any kind of vein warning, including

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HFS

, In other words, it functions the same as "Just dig it out!"

Siege, Caravan, and Immigrant wave pauses are hardcoded I believe, so you won't ever miss them.

[Stargrasper]

I tried Dtil's unpause function once.  I didn't like it.  It unpauses everything regardless of cause, including me intentionally pausing the game.

[yuhhaur]

Meh, isn't that you should play the game? find something else within the game to do. Explore the mountains, check for new digging plans, lots of things can be done.

for me, I just keep on pressing 'a'-'space' once I got the message.

[pushy]

This would almost certainly require a world regen, but removing the annoying rocks from matgloss_stone_mineral will obviously sort it.

[buzz killington]

I couldn't agree with the topic more!