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[Rose]

Relative height compared to the surface level --v

Absolute altitude --^

[Blizzlord]

Relative height compared to the surface level --v

Absolute altitude --^

I see, but whats up with the monochrome DF?

[Rose]

Color is too mainstream

[Loud Whispers]

Color is too mainstream

+1

[Blizzlord]

Color is too mainstream

+1

American spelling is wayyy more mainstream.

[AWdeV]

I always look at the bottom right.

It took this post for me to realise there's a actually a second number indicating height. In which case 126 = my surface level.

[Sting_Auer]

Color is too mainstream

[Blizzlord]

-Post no longer relevant-

[Vanaheimer]

I ALWAYS have mine set to the highest precision. I want to know what I have, not what I might have.

[nightwhips]

Ok you freaks, who cares about z-levels here.

Here's the reason you need highest precision. Zooming to items. Especially, corpses, but also when you want your new lasher to start using the silver whip but you can't figure out why the hell he can't get it even though it's not forbidden (it's on the body of the dead goblin at the bottom of the waterfall, or locked in a storage room with the roaming FB). I hate not being able to zoom to particular items when I want to.

[Kaos]

let's see if I make myself clear:

embark with 7 dwarves, assign one to book keep the at most dozens of items per type I have now, set him to highest precision, he sits and starts updating stockpile records, after a while, probably a few in-game days I can check everything on my Z-screen just fine, I free his chair so he cancels the job, my stockpiles keep on growing, but the z-screen is still fine and doesn't get outdated...

somehow the bookeeper not only took inventory of what I had but predicted what I would have.

[AWdeV]

Ah. Nifty. I simply expected it to expire after a certain time. Whatever.

Ok you freaks, who cares about z-levels here.

Here's the reason you need highest precision. Zooming to items. Especially, corpses, but also when you want your new lasher to start using the silver whip but you can't figure out why the hell he can't get it even though it's not forbidden (it's on the body of the dead goblin at the bottom of the waterfall, or locked in a storage room with the roaming FB). I hate not being able to zoom to particular items when I want to.

That only applies if you have huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuge piles of them. High or medium cover anything below extremely large amounts well enough.

[RedWick]

I've always set a low precision during the early fort then walk it up as the fort grows.

[slink]

actually you can d->b->c to claim everything in an area.

But not just the granite, for instance, in an area.

[Rose]

That is true.

Unrelated: Is that you in your avatar?