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[Kearn]

What am I doing here?

I know ctrl+R starts recording a macro, but how do i use them?

[tolkafox]

To create a macro press Ctrl+r to begin recording your actions. When you have recorded all the action you want stop recording by hitting Ctrl+r again and save (Ctrl+s) the macro. The macro is then added to your macro list. To load a macro from the list just press Ctrl+l. You can then play the macro using Ctrl+p.

Either that was helpful, or you already read the wiki and I'm a jerk.

[Hans Lemurson]

I've read t and I still don't understand how to do macros.

[NecroRebel]

First, you hit ctrl-r to start recording. Then, you do whatever it is you want your macro to do. Then, you hit ctrl-r again to stop recording.

So, for example, let's say I want to make a macro to select a whole page on the trade screen. First, I go to the trade screen and find a whole page of things I want to trade (this step is not, strictly, necessary, but it's helpful). Next, I hit ctrl-r. Now, I select a whole page of things, in this case by alternating between hitting down and ENTER 16 times, then I hit ctrl-r again. The macro is now recorded.

At this point, I can hit ctrl-p, and the game will do exactly the same button presses as I did. In the above example, at this point hitting ctrl-p will alternate between hitting down and ENTER 16 times. This will continue to be the case until I exit Dwarf Fortress entirely (including closing the program), hit ctrl-r again (which would start recording a new macro), or load a different, pre-saved macro with ctrl-l.

Speaking of pre-saved macros, if you hit ctrl-s, the game will open up a little box in which you can type in a name. This will save the currently-active macro with that name. You can then reload that macro at any time by pressing ctrl-l, scrolling through the list that pops up, and hitting ENTER, at which point hitting ctrl-p will run that macro.



The short of it is, you tell the game to record your following actions as a macro, you do the actions you want the macro to do, then you tell it to stop recording. It's really fairly intuitive once you just start doing it.

[Hans Lemurson]

Thanks NecroRebel!

I think this could come in handy for constructing massive pump-stacks.