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[slink]

We used to be able to do this for ourselves, for small incremental updates, but it seems that the capability was removed despite still appearing in the documentation.

[Phyroks]

this waiting is killing me, I need some brave soul to make it work with 06, finaly got time to try out 42.

[Urist Tilaturist]

Any release date for the 42.06 version?

[Bumber]

Out of curiosity, what is memory layout? Are variables read by DT from DF unlabeled so that they have to be identified first?

They're unlabeled and they move around each update. The layout tells DT where to find them. If the layout is wrong, DT reads in the wrong data and (in the best case*) crashes.

*Worst case corrupts your game by changing values it shouldn't.

[Couchmonster]

I do not understand why this still is not in the game.
It is essentially impossible to play a 200 dwarfs fortress without it.

[DarthCloakedDwarf]

I do not understand why this still is not in the game.
It is essentially impossible to play a 200 dwarfs fortress without it.

What in the world computer do you have that you don't get like 0.002 FPS with 200 dwarfs

[Bradders]

I've made a few new 42.06 forts but can only stand playing them up to like 20 dwarves, any more and the burden of labor setting becomes too much without DT.  I'm usually a vanilla game purist, and feel that if the game needs UI mods to function it aught to just consider adding them baseline, or just reconsider the complexity of its systems altogether.  I understand our beloved toad being but one toad, and I also know that UI design ain't exactly fun.  But damn if it ain't difficult to play without that spreadsheet  :*(

[QuakeIV]

Yeah, I'm pretty much helpless right now.  Maybe the toad could do something to make it easier for mods like this to exist?  Eh I dunno.

[hun]

can only stand playing them up to like 20 dwarves

Same here... It's such a pain to set up labors for migrants (and to understand, which labors are not covered enough!). It's easier just throw them into magma

[khearn]

I use both DT and dfhack. When a new version comes out, I['m willing to play without dfhack, but it's more tedious. But I don't even start a fort in a new version until DT is working for it. Just trying to figure out if I have leatherworking (for example) set on at least one of my dwarfs is A royal pain without DT.

So for now, I'm still sticking with .05 and letting .06 wait. As far as I'm concerned, .06 hasn't been released until Splinterz gives us a new memory layout. And since .06 hasn't been released yet, I'm not impatient.

[necrotic]

So for now, I'm still sticking with .05 and letting .06 wait. As far as I'm concerned, .06 hasn't been released until Splinterz gives us a new memory layout. And since .06 hasn't been released yet, I'm not impatient.

If you require third party tools to play this is the only way to look at it.

[Grax]

I do not understand why this still is not in the game.
It is essentially impossible to play a 200 dwarfs fortress without it.

What in the world computer do you have that you don't get like 0.002 FPS with 200 dwarfs

Don't underestimate the power of Intel. ;-)

I have about 25-50fps with 200 dorfs. Just keep you block/gem/stone/cloth stockpiles low.

[Couchmonster]

6600K oughta do the trick.
4 GHz singlecore power is nice for this game
It is sad that DF was a reason for me to buy a new rig

[KillzEmAllGod]

Pretty much bought a i7 6700K just for dwarf fortress. Can get it overclocked to 4.4 ghz with no problems.
AMD never liked to run that well.

[Bumber]

Playing a smaller world and fort helps. Optimize your layout (i.e., take advantage of z-levels.) Lower your G_FPS_CAP down to about 20, as well. You don't need it at whatever the default is, and it slows everything else down.

My 140 dwarf fort was running at ~100 FPS on my somewhat outdated computer until I started messing with fluids and unforbidding items that are now stuck in trees. I really wish the cancel spam would point me to the actual item, not where the dwarf was at the time.