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[RickRollYou2]

Is it possible to create a plugin to make bridges longer? Much like falconnes' construction helper?

[Trapezohedron]

Is it possible to make a reagent-product simplifier? Or better illustrated:

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[REACTION:EXAMPLE]
[NAME:create item from enhanced material]
[ADVENTURE_MODE_ENABLED]
[REAGENT:weapon:1:WEAPON:NONE:NONE:NONE]
[REAGENT:reagent:1:NONE:NONE:INORGANIC:ADAMANTINE]
[PRODUCT:100:1://REACTION:weapon:NONE:NONE]
Basically, it accepts any weapon for input materials, and produces an output of the same type of object, albeit in adamantine form.

If I put an axe for the weapon, it will output an adamantine axe.

[Greiger]

Is it possible to have a plugin run during worldgen and prevent carnivore civs from starving?

- I can't be the only one with a carnivore fortress race that forgets to remove [NO_EAT] and [NO_DRINK] from the race until half a year after embark.


Is it possible to have a GUI mod that will let you select a job in the workshop and specifically choose what items you want used for that job, or forbid item types from being used?

- I'm tired of my metalworkers studding my bolts with gold just because the ammo stockpile is 2 floors up, while the finished goods stockpile is a whole 3 tiles east.  I could set the workshop to take from the pile, but then they wouldn't take bars directly from the neiboring smelter.

[thistleknot]

if an enemy cant pathfind to the fort.  they try to deconstruct an outerwall into a ramp for possible accessibility.

i ask because i want to try and mod it in

[falconne]

Is it possible to have a GUI mod that will let you select a job in the workshop and specifically choose what items you want used for that job, or forbid item types from being used?

That is already in DFHack: https://github.com/peterix/dfhack/blob/master/Readme.rst#guiworkshop-job

[expwnent]

if an enemy cant pathfind to the fort.  they try to deconstruct an outerwall into a ramp for possible accessibility.

i ask because i want to try and mod it in

Massively difficult. I have something that maybe 5% works but it's incredibly slow and buggy and I can't work on it right now.

[Itnetlolor]

if an enemy cant pathfind to the fort.  they try to deconstruct an outerwall into a ramp for possible accessibility.

i ask because i want to try and mod it in

Massively difficult. I have something that maybe 5% works but it's incredibly slow and buggy and I can't work on it right now.

Since pathfinding is mentioned, I just wanted to refresh my old idea of a Pathfinding GUI plugin.

Spoiler: GUI/Guide-Path screenshot as a relevant example (click to show/hide)

For a moment, I thought the GUI/Guide-Path was a pathfinder tool that did similar to what I was suggesting; but it could work as a decent reference to what I was suggesting earlier (arrow markers and all). If you look at what I'm currently doing with the Bloodaxe megaproject, as well as what I did with TamedEarth (pretty much the same system), instead of trial and error when the traders or migrants or invaders arrive to find any holes in the pathfinding system (or making a burrow in an arbitrary spot, and sending a dwarf to those coordinates and following them), I get a GUI overlay similar to GUI/Guide-Path that can work alongside the traffic designator (make that more efficient/effective) that can show me the most likely/shortest path dwarves and wagons (especially the wagons) would take. GUI/Pathfinder could be a good name for it.

We can either select 2 different spots, and estimate the pathfinding from those two, or if you already have a Depot, choose choose the depot (if you have more than 1; in case you have decoys, or more secure ones, or specified ones for elves and such), and from there, choose a point of origin, and then observe the path (more reliable than Depot Access's blots of colors, now you see a likely path most-all would follow from a common origin; We know the Depot can be accessed, but since we carved out some moats and a trap gauntlet, what's the shortest path the wagons and invaders would take?) in free-look mode to find any holes in a runaround system. This can also help out for any trap gauntlets you make, to see if the enemy will even bother going through it all, and instead take a different one you made, or an unintended backdoor you forgot about.

This could also help for establishing an efficient goblin grinder without needing to make an overly-complicated pathway. That is, if you want to keep a simple looking fort.

[Maklak]

I could use a plugin that lists syndromes with "Can do interaction" on all citizens. This would be cheaty in vanilla, with listing of vampires and werebeasts and what have you, but would be useful for mods. I play a mod where we have spells that are syndromes / interactions and there is no way to list who has what. It would also help with autosyndrome plugin, listing all the buffs from Power armours, amulets and what have you.

> Those are itemsyndrome
Those aren't just from worn items. (I can figure out the equipment just fine The main problem here is that spells are learned at a workshop and give the citizen a syndrome "can do interaction". This is listed in combat {r}eports, but I don't have a list of spells this citizen can cast or a list of spells everyone can cast, which would be useful. Otherwise I need to be very watchful and have a spreadsheet. 

[Putnam]

Those are itemsyndrome

I think this could be doable.

[Maklak]

Copy - paste for stockpile settings or workshop profiles.

[Itnetlolor]

Just started a thread that led to a pretty intriguing idea. DF-Enhanced Minimap:
1x1 Pixel Tileset for mapping and fortress megaproject referencing
Enhanced Minimap Ideas based on thread

Spoiler: Preview of what I would like done as an Enhanced Minimap (first one is a construction reference sheet via Paint.NET. The rest are modifications for other functions (mostly topographical)) (click to show/hide)

I find it pretty cool that you can tell each region tile apart in the greyscale one. There's a subtle grid visible around the edge of each 48x48 region tile.
Use the volcano tile for reference. Just as well, check out the ridge that my access bridge links my fortress to, and you can clearly see where the regions meet to form it.
It's actually a 2rx2r set of tiles just above the volcano r-tile.
Now, if only we could generate such preview minimaps before we commit an embark in such regions... The minimap can adapt visibility/scale as you select the region area for embarking.

The other feature ideas I listed in the second link have not been illustrated yet, but I think you'll have a good idea of what I think is possible.

Spoiler: From Ideas/Suggestions link (click to show/hide)

After a bit of thinking about the Enhanced Minimap, here are some ideas I came up with; provided this can be done separately and summoned via DFHack (like Stonesense):
  -Different modes (as mentioned below) can be on separate tabs in the window generated. For best results, it has to be a separate process, and not a DF-GUI interface mod (like Stonesense).
  -Route highlighting (hauling and traffic)
     =Pathfinding visualizer: To interpret merchant/trade depot access, along with potential invader and merchant pathfinding highlights based on the 8 outer points on the map (4 corners and sides from center; since there's no way to determine exact source points, an approximation is good enough for now).
  -Based on my pixel-per-tile tileset, quick-render and compose a minimap every DF week or day (since each rendered map is tiny, it shouldn't cost much resource-wise to render updates; and it can stream-update layers that have updated so it doesn't have to render the entire map every time/(1-7)day-cycle (based on settings)). A full-refresh option can be supplied to do that anyhow on-call.
  -Topo-map can be a mode that can be displayed using greyscale and color mode, like I have provided; and the layer you're working on with that mode displayed will highlight the land (and constructions) that you're working on (painting the land) relevant to the depth (a deep blue on color or greyscale can be plenty visible); a color grid legend can be used as an alternative, marking the darkest or lowest value color as the deepest, and same for opposite, except highest.
  -Using DFHack's features, if possible, highlight dwarves, and pulling an RCT (Rollercoaster Tycoon's minimap function and customer highlighting), highlight dwarves based on profession, thoughts, happiness, injuries, and etc. and pinpoint them all on the minimap.
  -Similarly to above, highlight only land and only constructions (if such flags can be detected).
  -Prospector: Generate a map based on materials (constructed or natural).
  -Prospect Histogram: according to layer (especially with Reveal active), interpret the visible colors in Prospector mode, and count the pixels, and label them accordingly (unique colors for all elements; wide variety and potential).
     =A separate table below the map can act as a legend with maybe even a counter next to each material (only mineable walls and constructed walls (separate counter) may be counted.
     =Trees can also be interpreted and highlighted accordingly in similar fashion as above. Get a better idea of the foliage (prospect and designation functions of DFHack are able to tell them apart and highlight-designate them, so why shouldn't this? Same applies to plants you can gather).
  -Room highlighting: Highlight rooms, barracks, burrows, and etc.; Even color-code by room rating (meager quarters and Royal are easy to tell apart. You can even visually tell how epic that dining room is, and if your dwarves agree, depending on seating and such. (Room Quality histogram alongside))
  -Military: Military use can include anything labeled with Invader token, Wild Animal, Uninvited Guest, zombies, or all of those and your military, but no non-militatry civilians are highlighted (to track combat more easily through minimap).
  -Designation Highlighting: More for use in Quickfort. Special-highlight designations on the map (digging is different from channel and ramp and stairways (up, down up/down) all have unique colors even) for a screenshot of the map (crop the design off the map) for use to share across Bay-12 by importing via Quickfort.
     =Construction interpretation: Similar to above, ignoring the furniture and units, interpret the layout of constructions, and make then Quickfortable as well like above; whether the constructions are built already or not doesn't matter; they should read the same.
     =Workshop, Farms, and Stockpile highlighting: As the name implies, all of those will have individual colors assigned to them, based on what type they are, what industries are involved, or whatever. Optionally, you can also synch the map up with dwarf data to track the workshop location, and the dwarves assigned with relevant skills to them (may or may not include hauling tasks).
          **Example: All Fishing-based industries and dwarves highlight activated- All fish cleaners/dissectors/fisherdwarves are highlighted, along with their relevant workshops
          **Example: All Craft-based dwarves adn industries highlight activated: from bonecrafter to metalcrafter are highlighted, along with the forges and craftsman's workshop are highlighted on the map, and all workers are live-tracked like the above example.

I can't program worth crap, but I know the capabilities of DFHack, so far. So these are some possibilities I think can be done through it, provided someone knows how to do this with a bit of tinkering and scripting.

Naturally, the pixelated minimap would generate pixels according to data on the map and so forth, instead of just being a tileset and everything like I provided in the thread. That way, it can be most user-friendly between tilesets from Curses to Graphical ones like Phoebus and Ironhand and classic Mayday (as well as user-friendly to the End-User and Programmer); even different mods will work just fine between uses, since it's raw data being read and rendered, instead of being interpreted from screenshots periodically made and interpreted (which sounds more resource-costly); hopefully debugging would be much easier to handle as well basing off raw data and modder/user input, instead of interpreting pixels. Generating the map based on the individual cells should be much easier to generate, than having it auto-screenshot a pixel version of the map every time; and all cells will be accounted for in the process, since it's a code interpretation of the game generated, instead of just being a screenshot at a time. Considering the pixelated nature of the minimap, it shouldn't be all that resource-intense, seeing as we also have a minimap in-game (albeit, not as useful detail-wise).

If you really want to go nuts with the idea; make a GUI/Minimap-to-Fullscale-Overlay function to render an overlay of what's on the minimap into DF at beast interpretation of what's visible. Good for if you want to designate more precisely and such, I guess.

EDIT:
The unit-tracker idea came from playing some Rollercoaster Tycoon, and making good use of that minimap. Actually, some of the ideas are somewhat based on that concept. I'm just elaborating it a bit more for the sake of DF-players. Especially if you have a huge region, several dozens of dwarves, and so on, and you want to simplify things, or curiosity piques, and you want to know exactly what is where without having to guess with a prospector tool (which the minimap can use reveal or not as an assisting hand), or without having to use loo(k) or (v)iew creature everywhere.

This also would help in case you think you got every invader during a giant siege, but the label is still up, and you don't know exactly where they are and how many of there are there; and zooming from the unit list is getting tedious or not helping as much as you'd think.

[Meph]

Hey, thats something I havent seen before

I can absolutely envision it down here as on overlay. Then you have a minimap and you build menu at the same time, without this unnecessary second box. The map would need to be toggled off/made invisble if you enter another menu that reaches further down (for example the build:workshop menu) but I think it would make a great addition.

[Itnetlolor]

Hey, thats something I havent seen before

I can absolutely envision it down here as on overlay. Then you have a minimap and you build menu at the same time, without this unnecessary second box. The map would need to be toggled off/made invisble if you enter another menu that reaches further down (for example the build:workshop menu) but I think it would make a great addition.

(screenshot)

Personally, with all the visualizers and such that have been produced, and so forth, along with all the advances and tools made with the most recent DFHack, I'm surprised this idea (and even the tileset alone) haven't come up in anyone's minds to implement this far down the line.

Just thought up another Dorf-Tracker 3000 idea for the minimap. Working alongside Falconne's Dwarf Monitor; track dwarves according to happiness value (color-based tracking using the table as reference); make sure those axe-crazy rageaholics aren't near anything you don't want dismantled piece by piece. Moodable/moody dwarves could also be tracked this way. Make sure the nobility isn't worth making sure accidents *don't* happen to them. While on topic of nobles, nobility and merchant tracking. Best use for trade depots, and finding your broker while the merchants patiently wait.

What I wish was also possible was to be able to generate a detailed minimap of the area you plan to embark in this way; just to ensure its the kind of landscape you want (volcano is in the right spot; good exposure, and the waterfall is plenty wide and tall, and so on. Even make sure the game wasn't kidding about being heavily forested ahead of time). Of course, we can still probably do something similar, if possible with the general landscape, as an alternative to Isoworld; since this is more of a top-down map.

EDIT:
Another idea, similar to prospecting. Aquifer-mapping. For players that don't want to use reveal, but also want to avoid aquifers. Whether map is revealed or not, highlight in mini-map, and maybe even overlaid full-scale where aquifers are, without needing to dig, designate dig mode, or whatever, and especially, without spoiling what's beneath with reveal. Magmaproof material prospecting can also be done, in case you want to tap magma and control it with floodgates and pumps, but don't have the supplies, and don't know where to look for magma-proof stuff.

HFS tracking and such when you visit the carnival finally, and fetch some cotton candy, along with forgotten beasts and such can also be a tracking feature that can work alongside the unit tracker. Tasks and such can also be highlighted accordingly (all haulers are highlighted, as well as their targeted hauling item on minimap (great for diverting dumbass dwarves from walking right into a siege, because you forgot to forbid certain items). The trade depot idea can even use the hauling task highlighter as well to track all depot-based items (in transit to, and maybe from depot).

EDIT EDIT:
The minimap will have to be expandable, according to various map sizes and dimensions.  Not everyone plays on tiny (1x1-3x3) maps, some may even risk mapping an entire region (16x16 usually as a preview of what can be selected (excellent for Worldgen Cookbook threads)). But just in case, it will have to adapt, or the menu will have to extend with it accordingly. Just a heads-up. I suppose, while the minimap is generated by code, we can even overlay a view-box (like Photoshop), similar to how some paint programs have an overview function, and you're zoomed in and the bounding box highlights the area you're looking at (adapts with hitting TAB). Easier to keep track of than a single tile in Vanilla.

The histogram can also work similarly to how histograms work in art programs as well, but for the features I mentioned before (dwarf happiness, minerals, wood types, # of creatures, etc.; Customizable, if possible. The possibilities are endless. Histogram according to particular [raw] data or syndrome effect/affected.). Of course, customizing views will require more direct interaction in DFHack, and can be bypassed, if it begins to get tedious, by including it in the code like the Syndromes plugin.

In case the user hasn't used my pixel-tileset, there can always be an export minimap function (also great for worldgen cookbook threads), which would be capable of exporting similarly to worldgen history exports (Flatmap (like the first screenshot, minus the sky shadow and building plans), heightmap (greyscale, color(by hue), color overlay on flat map (like the full-color + shading image)), vegetation+histogram (trees highlighted by color they appear in stonesense), aquifer overlay, magma, prospects+Histogram (color-coded according to mineral, ore, gem, sand, clay, etc.), etc.). Reveal (all) are optional, naturally (use actual reveal plugin for those settings to take effect). Prospect-all+Histogram can also work. Does a hidden reveal function, maps it, generates a histogram, and exports it, and unreveals as to not affect the gameplay. Histogram data is mostly based on the prospector tool's data extraction. It can also highlight by hue or raw data assignment.

Can't really think up any other plugins (and viewing modes that involve raw data; and maybe even DwarfTherapist) that can also interact with this minimap idea, along with it's alternative extraction methods (for use with other programs like Paint.NET and so forth as well (mostly for megaproject planning and such, pixel-by-pixel, which was my original intention/function with said program(s) anyway; which also led to implementing this idea.) right now. Feel free to add to the idea list. To be honest, I don't know how much of this is actually possible, but as long as I've been churning out ideas, why not? It's worth a shot. I'm just throwing ideas at the wall now to see what sticks. My brainstorm has just about calmed down now.

I'm gonna see what I can do about committing to the 1x1 tileset in the meantime, and see what I can do about the graphical sets, and in the future, even mod tilesets (maybe start off with the Fallout Mod first to convert to 1x1 when I get around to it).

[Meph]

I am no programmer, so I can only make odd suggestions and see what the people come up with. I am however very good at making good use of the tools I am given. I think the best idea would be talking to falconne, he is a boss when it comes to UIs and overlays. I just see this as a clear improvement on the existing DF version, and I have the means to easily bring this to thousands of people.

[thistleknot]

fastdwarf can teleport. how bout a plugin for teleporting bad guys.

i can see a teleporting gremlin being a nightmare during an invasion.