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[Frogwarrior]

Are there any tweaks to the game that you simply will not play without? Or, at least, that seem like really good ideas? For example, I notice that elf diplomats and human guild representatives don't exist atm, but I've heard you can mod them back in, and was wondering if this sort of thing was commonly done. (Is the method to do so still viable in .34.06?) Also in a recent game I made it so bone could be used as shells and hooves could be used as ivory because nothing annoys me more than losing a dwarf because derp he wanted a kind of material that I can't get and it's impossible to trade for.

[IronyOwl]

Aside from setting the popcap to my convenience and turning off the economy, I tend to remove the [GRAZER] tag from everything. If I started using something as a consistent food source I'd probably start keeping them in a grassy pen anyway, but as it stands it's just getting in the way of having pets lying around.

[Putnam]

You don't have to turn off the economy, pretty sure it's disabled anyway ;>_>

[Splint]

I insist upon modding weapons like pikes and morningstars to be useable by dwarves, no exotics, and no aquifers. I. HATE. AQUIFERS. I also, if they hurt my FPS, go back and make flying item thieves/bird people plummet to thier deaths so they stop annoying me. Oh, and I force goblins to fight like my dwarves and take away thier bows. I also rmove grazers so i can shelter food/cloth bearing animals safely.

[arzzult]

Getting rid of skill rust, just because I started in 40d and never really got used to it. And removing a few types of stone layers, particularly the ugly brown ones. Pudding stone I'm looking at you. Aquifers I don't really mod out, they just hardly ever show up in great numbers in my worlds because of the parameters.

[rawrcakes]

Cosmetic stuff, mostly. Adding [VERMIN_HATEABLE] to all sentient races, modding in hooks and claws based on large daggers and giving them to most civilizations, changing the kobold prefstring to [PREFSTRING:adorable snouts] as well as removing aquifer if i'm feeling lazy.

[The Dog Delusion]

Getting rid of skill rust, just because I started in 40d and never really got used to it.

This, absolutely. I don't know why, but something about skill rust bothers me. More ways to prevent it, or easier ways to train a dwarf up the ranks would perhaps encourage me to turn it back on, but honestly, I like my slow-developing, decades-to-get-around-to-doing-anything forts where nobody ever loses skills in anything they've ever done, ever.

[chris_strain]

I usually mod in/out little things like giving certain animals, elephants for example, a high enough grazer rating that they don't starve when eventually tamed. I also used to fix the good/evil plants but that's fixed now <3 Aquifers used to be removed until I got the hang of dropping plugs.. now I leave them in for more fps friendly power.

[jaxy15]

I removed aquifers cause I hate them.

[Splint]

I removed aquifers cause I hate them.

Welcome to the "We hate aquifers" club brother!

[Nevyn]

Skill rust.  It's annoying when teaching can't be assigned.  & oh dear god attribute rust.

& Vein mining from DFHack.  I want to just tell them to follow the vein and have it only stop if they hit damp or hot stone.  If they break into caverns and release fun or cave a roof in, then that's my problem to deal with.  Obviously have to be an option (d for dig, v for follow the ore as an example) so you can still do a room shape as wanted.

Those are the two biggest ones for me.

[Eoganachta]

I. HATE. AQUIFERS.

^ This. It's not that I can't get past them (with a lot of effort however) but that they effectively remove the use of an entire z level and annoy my OCD.

[Splint]

I. HATE. AQUIFERS.

^ This. It's not that I can't get past them (with a lot of effort however) but that they effectively remove the use of an entire z level and annoy my OCD.

And I extend my above welcome to the "We hate Aquifers" club to you as well.

[rampagingfrodo]

I add       

[SELECT_MATERIAL:HAIR]
         [STATE_NAME:ALL_SOLID:hair]
         [STATE_ADJ:ALL_SOLID:hair]
         [YARN]

to whatever large mammals I harvest for meat so I can make unicorn hair coats and muskox hair trousers. Also I delete _EXOTIC from every raw (oh the tedium). I use dfhack to get rid of splatter occasionally and automate vein digging (or making things easy for megaprojects).

Also I used Dwarf The Rapist to manage my dwarves. Use it and you will wonder how you ever got by without it.

So, how do you turn off aquifers? I've never tried that before.

[Splint]

go into the inorganic layers/stone/basically all inorganic raws for good measure and delete [AQUIFER]