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[TheCoolSideofthePIllow]

Dwarf Fortress already simulates time during world gen... I was curious if there is a way to simulate time after world gen with an active fort, just to see what they do without human control after, say, 100 years.

[Loud Whispers]

Indeed it is possible with hax. Namesakely stopping everything that causes game pauses and work orders. Eventually you'll reach a point where every Dwarf with labours dies or becomes an elite soldier....

[Deathworks]

Hello!

If you think about any real A.I. intervention, then the current version does not offer any such thing; and it is unfortunately unlikely for it to come any time soon. World-gen type developments of civs and sites end with world-gen and are not continued in any form afterwards (except for ageing of active units and death caused by player intervention and/or becoming active units).

Yours,
Deathworks

[Shinotsa]

I was thinking that any simulation of time passage could be accomplished with a fairly simple (in my eyes with no programming experience) system that considers available resources, available jobs, and available dwarves and calculates progress at the end of each year. It certainly wouldn't be an accurate approximation of fortress mode, and it would have to be tweaked to include trade and the like, but I feel that something similar would be useful for, say, leaving a fortress to make another without first abandoning.

As it stands, none of this is in the game and most likely won't be implemented for some time.

[Sadrice]

I believe dfhack allows you to set standing work orders ("make more booze if stockpiles fall below 50 units"), which would make it much easier to leave a fortress to manage itself.  You would have to get rid of all breeding animals, though, as offspring don't inherit pasture assignments, and will just hang out in the meeting hall until there's enough of them to start fighting.

[Jeoshua]

Wow.  Lots of very helpful people with suggestions that are not related to the OP's question at all.

@Pillow: No.  Not yet.  It's planned but if you've been around here for long enough, you know how long planned features can take.

[slothen]

so if you load up a 150 year old fortress (like flarechannel or something) and go adventuring, you'll find the humans and dwarfs will die off from old age, leaving goblins and elves?