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[Rumrusher]

So cackling summoned bogeymen in fort mode seem to act friendly after you made the switch.

Sadly I have no idea how to trigger the cackling to keep spawning bogeymen in fort mode.

So good news it's even Easier to train and tame bogeymen.

[expwnent]

I would recommend renaming hackWish to something more descriptive like gui/createitems or something along those lines.

It's on the todo list. I'm actually going to move the main part to modules/Items.cpp and re-expose it to Lua then have gui/hack-wish.lua for your nice user interface and modtools/create-item.lua for creating things from item-trigger/etc. It's all going to be different at first, but once it's all standardized and everyone switches over it'll be a lot easier to work with.

[Putnam]

Sounds great.

[FallenAngel]

Using the awesome power of "mode set", I have discovered and proven a few things about the game.
Fortress Mode and Arena Mode are very similar, as are Adventure Mode and Controlling-a-Creature-in-Arena Mode - to get to Fortress Mode from Adventure Mode, you must go to the second Arena Mode, remove control of the creature, and then set it to Fortress Mode.
The game defaults to the first entry specified for a type of object if none is defined - two examples are "toad" and "iron". "There are no idle toads or jobs" indeed.
Perhaps the ability to spawn a creature in Fortress Mode as a citizen could be added in another version/update?
Also, the game seems to define members of a civilized race as Hostile under a surprising set of conditions - using embark-tools to embark on a human fort had all soldiers hostile but the local law-giver Friendly. Using "mode set" proves that this seems to apply to any non-major historical figure - in a mass of hostile Human Bone Carvers, Farmers, and Engravers, a Bowman, a Lye Maker, and a Child were all Friendly for some reason, as well as the "adventurer", who was not my original due to "mode set" magics. Also, going from Arena Mode to Fortress Mode acts as if the game were under the effect of "reveal hell" minus the force-pause. Letting the game tick one frame lets the spoilers fly out, and going much further crashes the game.
More Research is required, preferably with more magma.

[Blastbeard]

Perhaps the ability to spawn a creature in Fortress Mode as a citizen could be added in another version/update?

Yes. YES. Please yes. I want that so badly you could not even know, and it would be useful in so many ways. Being able to decide its name, age, and skill/attribute levels would be good too.

[lethosor]

Perhaps the ability to spawn a creature in Fortress Mode as a citizen could be added in another version/update?

Yes. YES. Please yes. I want that so badly you could not even know, and it would be useful in so many ways. Being able to decide its name, age, and skill/attribute levels would be good too.

I'm pretty sure spawnunit can do most of this (except for age and skills, which are fairly easy to set manually).
Edit: link

[FallenAngel]

It's hard to think of a situation where it wouldn't be useful.
New soldier, on-the-field testing, bait for a trap, not Miserable citizen, the list goes on for its uses.

[Rumrusher]

Perhaps the ability to spawn a creature in Fortress Mode as a citizen could be added in another version/update?

Yes. YES. Please yes. I want that so badly you could not even know, and it would be useful in so many ways. Being able to decide its name, age, and skill/attribute levels would be good too.

I'm pretty sure spawnunit can do most of this (except for age and skills, which are fairly easy to set manually).
Edit: link

you can't even set age in arena so  it can do all of those by editing the newly created unit.
spawn unit kinda killed the idea of arena spawning stuff... oh and one thing combat_side is tied to arena and 0 is Independent and 1 is team 1 and so on.
Not much to do in that other than performing the more broken way to switch between modes other than the save method like spawning liquids and spawning units and items are all done by plugins or addons to dfhack by now.
the only thing I can see arena has in use is to set up easier to do community events that doesn't take years of dfhack to make or run and cracking the other plane riddle "is it possible for a dwarf to add more land to a worldgen? can said land not be connected to the world."

[GreyPowerVan]

Is anyone still working on autolabor?  I was trying to teach my wife dwarf fortress and she hated micromanaging workers, but I just discovered autolabor can halt your fortress, due to it assigning 7 woodcutters (even though I only have one axe) and then being unable to assign them to the mining duty due to the equipment bug.

I eventually fixed it by disabling autolabor and going into therapist, then making people miners and turning autolabor back on, but that's not a solution.

[expwnent]

I'm working on converting spawn-unit to C++ and also other things. Does anyone have a working, tested script that has to do with adding units to historical entities and groups? It would help.

[Warmist]

I'm working on converting spawn-unit to C++ and also other things. Does anyone have a working, tested script that has to do with adding units to historical entities and groups? It would help.

https://gist.github.com/warmist/8563110#file-spawn-unit-lua-L364

The issue is that it add historical figure (and more importantly nemesis entry) to a site. If site is not available i have no idea how badly it corrupts your saves. The issue is that we don't mess with save files as a principle. Afaik this works in fort mode.

[expwnent]

I don't know how to expose it to Lua, but I typed it up in C++. https://github.com/expwnent/dfhack/tree/spawnUnit

Warmist: if you could expose it to Lua and sanity check it for me I would greatly appreciate it. I don't really know what I'm doing.

[Warmist]

I think it would be as easy as adding few lines here: https://github.com/expwnent/dfhack/blob/spawnUnit/library/LuaApi.cpp#L1402
Might be wrong though...

[expwnent]

I tried that. It threw an exception about complex objects.

[Warmist]

Okay, i'll look into this, hopefully tonight.