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[Paragon99]

 Often while "preparing carefully" I accidentally press 'e' at the wrong time and end up embarking without spending any embark points, would it be possible to add a confirmation similiar to the aquafier confirmation if you try to embark with embark points remaining? 

[Dirst]

Often while "preparing carefully" I accidentally press 'e' at the wrong time and end up embarking without spending any embark points, would it be possible to add a confirmation similiar to the aquafier confirmation if you try to embark with embark points remaining?

I'd be willing to put up with a confirmation screen that pops up every single time you try to embark.  More than once I thought I hit (N)ew then started typing MEAT only to find myself with seven hungry Dwarves in the wilderness.

[pierredavidbelanger]

I wonder if setting this to YES in the d_init.txt will fix your problem:

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[EMBARK_WARNING_ALWAYS:NO]

[Dirst]

I wonder if setting this to YES in the d_init.txt will fix your problem:

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[EMBARK_WARNING_ALWAYS:NO]

Is that for selecting an embark site, or actually embarking?

[pierredavidbelanger]

I did not tried this.
To be honest, I asked the question a little for myself too
I will try this later today.

[Witty]

Yeah that init option is just for the embark site.

As for the suggestion. This is UI stuff, and that stuff only gets touched whenever Toady fancies it. It's something that a lot of people have asked for throughout the years, so maybe sometime this decade.

[Dyret]

A simple confirmation prompt seems like it would take a lot less effort on his part than the other UI-stuff dingbats usually whine about though. I mean, he did add the not-entirely-useful-yet stack splitting to adventure mode recently, so there's hope.

[sal880612m]

I split stacks a lot in adventure mode. What would be really nice there would be stack creation.

Anyway as you can alter your key-bindings so that the embark key is something you aren't likely to press accidentally this doesn't seem like it is all that worth pursuing at the moment.

[FrankMcFuzz]

I've done this before too; this is a good suggestion.

[Melting Sky]

Good suggestion. It would take literally like 15 minutes to program.

[GavJ]

I dunno, honestly sounds kind of annoying. As an OPTION in init.txt or whatever, yes absolutely on board.

As a non-option, blech. Often embark 30-40 times an hour looking for very special terrain stuff, and there's already a lot of redundant screens to click through.

[Dirst]

I dunno, honestly sounds kind of annoying. As an OPTION in init.txt or whatever, yes absolutely on board.

As a non-option, blech. Often embark 30-40 times an hour looking for very special terrain stuff, and there's already a lot of redundant screens to click through.

Well, I switched my keymapping to ALT-e, so I'm unlikely to hit it accidentally in the future.

A bit off-topic, but I am quite impressed with Dwarf Therapist for its ability to read the dwarves pre-embark.

[PeridexisErrant]

I've done this a few times too... so it's a good enough idea to steal for my collection!

[lethosor]

I implemented this as a DFHack tweak (the interface is modeled after the "abandon fortress" confirmation, so it's somewhat simplistic, but I can change that if necessary). Thoughts?

(some of the padding is cut off on the sides)

[Dirst]

I implemented this as a DFHack tweak (the interface is modeled after the "abandon fortress" confirmation, so it's somewhat simplistic, but I can change that if necessary). Thoughts?

(some of the padding is cut off on the sides)

I'm not sure how easy or hard it would be to poll this information, but maybe something like:

Really embark?

y: Confirm, Other: Cancel

You have spent 997 of 1000 available embark points.

Urist McEmptyHeaded has used 7 of 10 available skill slots.
Urist McUnskilledLabor has used 0 of 10 available skill slots.