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[Nimrod]

If you're an idiot who doesn't know how to work the lua interpreter like me, just throw those magic words into a text file, save it as filename.lua in \hack\scripts and then use the command "filename" in the console.

I am way more of an idiot than you, so I name you my king! Thanks for the advice!

Edit: Works like a charm! Awesome. Thank you from the bottom of my dwarves!

[devek]

...implement persistent data without using historical figures...

Could a sqlite database file in the DF game save directory do the thing?

As long as people were mindful that it might not be synced to the actual save.

(Those sqlite uses quite a bit of memory in a game that already pushes the memory limits for a lot of users, 99% of what people use sql for would be better served by flat files. http://fallabs.com/tokyocabinet/ is what I use for everything, but there might be something better that came out since I last looked hehe. At one point it was the fastest/smallest database there was.)

[Dirst]

I would prefer a flat file that was at least nominally human-readable, most likely including some base64 bricks to hold the bulk of the data in a serialized format.  That can then be slurped up into a lightweight database during runtime.

[devek]

That would just be xml, which is fine too and still uses way less ram than sqlite

[Rose]

Apparently json is good too.

[expwnent]

That fix looks good to me. Combine it with repeat.lua for extra safety if you know how.

I don't know the list of things that use histfigs. Workflow does, persist-table does so many of Roses' scripts do.

I was thinking of using JSON. It's platform independent without being too bulky. During runtime it will have a more concise representation the way I'm thinking of implementing it. It will actually use less RAM and disk space than histfigs. Histfigs have a bigger overhead than you'd think.

Japa ninjaposted me to it.

[khearn]

I'd hazard a guess that autochop and autolabor use histfigs.

[Dirst]

I'd hazard a guess that autochop and autolabor use histfigs.

Autochop/config Abbeybrew is real!  And so is the Tooth Fairy, and the Great Pumpkin, and a Rational Economic Plan, and ...

Now look, you made Autochop/config cry!

[expwnent]

Weird. I checked the persistent data stuff and the constructor for df.historical_figure and df.language_name and it really looks like that field is being initialized to 0, not -1.

Can someone who's having this problem and hasn't run the fix script post the output of this script?

Code: [Select]

--test_figs.lua
local figs = df.global.world.history.figures

for i=0,#figs-1,1 do
   local v = figs[i]
   if v.id<0 and v.name.language < 0 then
      print(v.id..' '..v.name.first_name..' '..v.name.language)
   end
end

edit: Never mind, I fixed it. The problem should go away in the next release.

[Dozebôm Lolumzalės]

Thank Armok, DFHack is usable.

[Raven]

nevermind.. my mistake

[SatelliteOfLove]

A huge THANK YOU to the devs for their steady and dedicated work.  Yay for dfhack 42.06-alpha-1!  Hopefully my dorfs won't know what hit them 

[expwnent]

New alpha release. This release fixes a few bugs with the old release.

[Hesperid]

Goddamn you scared me, I thought it was a new DF release! I mean, that's how 0.42.06 snuck up on us.

[Teneb]

Got a few more questions (my apologies if this is annoying to anyone here) about if there are scrips that enable me to do certain things. I suspect the answer to all might be no, but...

1) Is it possible to make, say, a flamethrower that consumes ammunition? (I know that item-trigger allows me to simulate the flamethrower, but no idea on the ammo)

2) Is it possible to make a custom siege weapon (without making it a workshop that gives material-emission interactions)?

3) Is there a way to assign gods created through moddable-gods to specific entities? (and do those gods even do any actions in worldgen?)