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[miauw62]

Things that can bust constructed walls, rubble (without good uses for it), needing air shafts/lighting, all animals needing to be fed (I turn off grazing as it is), random mine collapses, realistic structural integrity (no longer being able to stack buildings on one tall pillar), common illnesses.

Common illnesses wouldnt be too bad, granted that there was actual medicine against diseases.

[Aspgren]

If, in the far away future, ASCII was disabled... I would stop updating.

I don't even care if it's full-blown 3d. Those floor tiles better have the textures of grey + signs or I'm not playing!

[iofhua]

Explosive dwarven diarrhea.

Actually I think that would be a great idea as a consequence of dwarves being forced to eat unprepared meat, if nothing else was available. They should get sick for a while (which causes them to move slower, feel fatigued, sort of like going without ale), and then let out a blast that covers 1-3 tiles with 1/1 diarrhea. It should act as a contaminant, and any dwarves that drink diarrhea-contaminated water will also get diarrhea.

I would love to seal a dwarf in a 1-tile room and feed him nothing but raw meat and watch him drown himself in his own crap. It would be even funnier if it contaminated the well system of a large fortress...

[ludsoe]

If it ceased to be free 
Or if my computer could no longer handle it.

Same here.

[Glyndŵr]

There are a lot of people expressing their legitimate concern about enemies digging into their fortresses. However, why not allow us to "fill in" the gaps created by the digging enemies with excess stone? It will cause the tunnels to disappear, making it look as if it had never been dug. It replaces the gaps with a "rough-hewn wall" that can be filled in and smoothed by stone detailers/engravers if you want to create a seemless flow of natural wall again.

It also puts all that damned stone to good use. Say, for instance, you're out exploring for minerals. Dig out the vein in a large mining effort, then just refill the room when you're done with it.

[Kofthefens]

I'm always running out of stone

[Corai]

I'm always running out of stone

Sigged.

[Callista]

So how do you mod out clothing--or at least the need for clothing--without having to outright add the [NOEMOTION] tag to your dwarves?

Adding [NOEMOTION] just removes too much of the fun for me. Dwarves aren't dwarves if they don't tantrum. Heck, at this point I'd settle for some way to mod out armor in general--I'd rather have to deal with goblins without armor than drown in stock screen clutter.

[Viking]

I'm always running out of stone

lol I am in a similar boat to a point actually. I tend to build a lot of surface constructed walls and such. The rocks littered everywhere have long ceased to bother me as clutter.

Edit: Except when like, I am filling a giant cistern with water. In that case I clear out the stone but only so I can use it elsewhere.

[caddybear]

I'm always running out of stone

This is just gold

[Kofthefens]

Yeah.  I tend to have to designate massive quarries for whatever project I'm building.

[Nameless Archon]

Turtling in DK was just a slow death until you ran out of gold.

No, it wasn't, but it required a careful expansion and monitoring your resource generation capacity.

You could, for example, make and build and sell-back traps. This could provide more than enough gold to expand your force of creatures, provided you didn't try to raise, say, a force of very expensive dragons and vampires. (Trolls and Bile Demons work well for this plan - they're cheap, reasonably average power, and love to manufacture.) One of the deeper dungeon (expansion pack) missions allowed you to carefully dig out all but a single layer of gold, which the enemies would never dig out.

Inside that wall, you then built traps and doors for sale, and built up an army with the proceeds. It wasn't fast, but it was effective and infinite - provided you did not exceed your resource generation capacity (which wasn't that hard, since some traps like boulders were expensive). I'm sure you were SUPPOSED to deal with the enemy by funneling them through trap fields, but I much preferred weakening with traps and overwhelming them with a horde of fully upgraded trap-manufacturing monsters, bought and paid for with the sweat of their own brows.

[Komra]

I might have foregone updating if i'd known about this crap with the seed interrupts. Does anyone have advice on raw editing for that?

More in the spirit of the thread, I'd say anything that makes dwarves able to choose their own jobs. Though it would be fun to make a disposal for every hardcore fishery worker, that being a requirement would put a damper on my fun.

[albatross]

I nearly reverted back to an older version after having to deal with dwarven ghosts.

[Snaake]

I might have foregone updating if i'd known about this crap with the seed interrupts. Does anyone have advice on raw editing for that?

More in the spirit of the thread, I'd say anything that makes dwarves able to choose their own jobs. Though it would be fun to make a disposal for every hardcore fishery worker, that being a requirement would put a damper on my fun.

As has been mentioned in other threads, (and I can confirm from my personal experience), setting allowed barrels to 0 on seed stockpiles helps a lot. That way at least only bags will get hauled around, and it's likely there's another seed bag in the stockpile the planter can use. In any case, you should also be able to do a lot with changing the store item options in d_init.

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Alter these options to control how aggressively your dwarves place objects in a container with like items (rather than an empty container).  The default options are very aggressive.  STORE_DIST_ITEM_DECREASE controls the cap on objects it will consider -- for each object it finds in a container, one tile is removed from its apparent distance to the dwarf, up to this cap.  The others control how many tiles are removed for each combination type for any match at all.  For instance, if ITEM_DECREASE is set to 20, and SEED_COMBINE is set to 100, a dwarf carrying seeds will see a seed bag with 15 seeds as 115 tiles closer than it actually is (and thus pass up any empties within that distance), whereas a seed bag with 30 seeds would be treated as 120 tiles closer (because it hits the ITEM_DECREASE cap).  Values from 2 to 1000 are permitted.  Before these init options, the behavior was roughly ITEM_DECREASE 2, SEED_COMBINE 2 and the rest at 1000.

[STORE_DIST_ITEM_DECREASE:20]
[STORE_DIST_SEED_COMBINE:1000]
[STORE_DIST_BUCKET_COMBINE:1000]
[STORE_DIST_BARREL_COMBINE:1000]
[STORE_DIST_BIN_COMBINE:1000]

So, as the init file says, the current settings to combine items, especially seeds, are *way* more aggressive than prior to those init options (=prior to the hauling changes, I think).