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[Haekel]

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

http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2012:Aquifer#The_modding_method

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By editing the the raws and removing the [AQUIFER] tag from all of the appropriate entries in inorganic_stone_layer.txt, inorganic_stone_mineral.txt, and inorganic_stone_soil.txt it is possible to remove all aquifers from the world. This can be done before creating a new world or after, if you find a particularly neat location ruined only by the presence of an aquifer. In order to modify an existing world, you must delete the [AQUIFER] tag from the raws in the savegame's folder.

[Garath]

If anyone can point me to skill rust? I'd like to remove it.

I usually remove grazer only from the domestic animals. I used to remove exotic from the whole lot too, but I want to take a look at the new animal training system, so that is on hold a bit. For some reason I really hate cinnabar and cobaltite, so I usually remove them. I remove aquifer tags from all but sand layers. I want them less frequent, but not gone.

Since I wanted to be able to eat the half sentients, I changed the ethics to eat sentient kill to acceptable, and the trophies too. I changed default site to city so I can actually find dwarfs to lead to their doom for their equipment in adventure mode.

That's pretty much it.

[KodKod]

Well let's see...

I mod the creatures raws so that all Grazers have an opportunity to actually survive and remain marginally useful. In addition I make it so that almost any aminal can breed, Giant Cave Spiders included, and I used to remove all of the _EXOTIC tags but I no longer need to worry about that.

I completely remove aminal people from the game.

I mod Kobolds to actually be able to survive worldgen, and I have them pull off small attack parties which tend to turn up much faster than goblins, giving my dwarves an early-game threat to contend with.

I mod Cloaks and Hoods to not suffer wear so that they made a permanent addition to the military, though this has the side-effect of no longer allowing me to make them out of cloth. I also stop whips, scourges and morningstars from being so ridiculously powerful but attempting to bring their stats in-line with other weapons.

Finally I made Cassiterite a little bit more common, because one of these days I'd actually like to have cause to USE bronze.

[AWdeV]

I tend to remove aquifers and enable "clubs" (training maces) to be made.

I alos like replacing lots of [PET_EXOTIC] tags with [PET] tags and adding [TRAINABLE] to more interesting beasties and I'm also fond of lowering the amount of grazing needed for 'Lephants and Rhine-o's.

I didn't do the pet-meddling this time because I first want to get to grips with the new system, and I forgot the big beasties.

[katana]

Give dwarves longswords, remove their skill/attribute rust.

[Garath]

removing the ridiculous amount of animal people sounds like a good idea.... hm, getting to be a lot of work.

[Splint]

Give dwarves longswords, remove their skill/attribute rust.

Longswords? hah! i gave mine chainswords. But then I doubt few people who've played 40k haven't tried.
And longswords are among the weapons I make dorf sized.

[miauw62]

Turn down grow-up age for dorfs, before this new pet system i would change [PET_EXOTIC] and [PET] to [PET][TRAINABLE], remove grazer tags, change some prefstrings and such, havent done much more.
And i remove aquifers.

[Girlinhat]

I just remove aquifers.  Most times I mod ethics to allow butchering sentients, but not so much recently.  If I really want a particular animal (usually that I've just caught) I'll tweak them to be tamable and tweak grazer as needed.  I once made GCS breeding, but had this back in .18 before egg nests, so I may toy with that again.  Now that they're tamable exotics that might produce fun results.

[gzoker]

I add pop_ratio:1 to female, and pop_ratio:7 to male dwarfs. I change most material values, so they are a bit lower. I make cassiterite more common, and making steel a bit more complicated.
I love aquifers. Except the 30 Z-level ones.

[Nyxalinth]

I hate the bloody aquifers!  I didn't mind them in 40d, but the 2010 version seemed like if you wanted to embark with water nearby, there were the damned aquifers.  So I started modding them out.

I make the pop cap around 20 now, because with endless hordes of children and hard-coded migrants, I top out pretty fast.

I like seasonal autosave to be on, because I sometimes forget to save.

I turn off invaders until I feel like dealing with them.

[Exponent]

The only alteration I currently make to the raws is the one to be able to see and enable/disable all non-economic stone from the (z)Status->Stone screen, along with which ones are magma-safe.

I've often gone memory hacking, though, to tweak the coordinates of the hotkey viewports.  I never liked how the viewport's center would be offset just a few tiles from what I wanted to be the center of the screen.  So I'd go hunting through memory for the current values, adjust them to my desired position, and then resave the hotkeys.

I've taken this one step further, now.  I realized that I use a 12-unit offset in nearly all of my designs.  (11x11 rooms, which can be divided down into 4 5x5s, 9 3x3s, 16 2x2s, or even 36 1x1s.)  But the normal viewport scroll is a 10-unit offset.  I tried designing a fort using 9x9 rooms as the basis, and it was actually great in that the fortress now lined up with the scroll amount.  But a 10-unit offset is so much harder to work with than a 12-unit offset, in terms of design.

The obvious solution?  Change the scroll amount.  So I brushed up on my assembly, dug into the executable file, used some debugging tools to locate the relevant code bits, and altered them (literally, I was almost always toggling single bits in an instruction).  Now I have a 12-unit viewport scroll amount, but still have a 10-unit cursor scroll amount so that those 11x11 rooms are still super-easy to designate.  It'll be a bit of a pain to do it for every release, but I might slowly develop a good system for making it quick, depending on how I see the code change over releases.  At the very least, I kept good notes when doing it last night, so hopefully next time it'll be a matter of a search/replace in a hex editor.  Unless the compiler arbitrarily decides to put the machine instructions in a slightly different order or use slightly different instructions for no particular reason.  Then it's back to the debugger.  It was a fun learning experience, but merely tedious now that I know what I'm doing.

[Raphite1]

1) Fix the grazers that can't eat fast enough to survive.

2) Make dragons reach mature size more quickly, so that they're fairly large at the time my fortress will be running.

3) Made dwarves reach adulthood and adult size at age 6.

4) Population cap at ~70. Combined with (3), I can still get large populations through reproduction, just more gradually.

5) Change babies to ~20:20.

6) Sometimes disable aquifers, depending on what I'm wanting to do with a fort.

[WaffleEggnog]

I usually dont edit the raws, i like playing the game as its meant, not editing wih the files, but i have done a few changes for !!SCIENCE!! and Fun, such as adding the [VERMIN_HATABLE] tag to elves, making other sentiant races playable in fortress mode, and screwing around with the amount of limes things have.

[Deathworks]

Hi!

Since the cat bug has been fixed, there is no modding need for me. However, I dislike the square look of things, so I have a stretched version of the standard 800x600 tileset, which I use to have a game that looks right to me.

As for init options, just the standards of INVADERS and ARENA turned off, nicknames centralized, boxes for citizen and pet messages (it is a pity there is no option for marriage announcements) and pop cap 7 (not that it really works that way :) :) )

Yours,
Deathworks