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[Nagidal]

Does anyone have a save in 40.24 that has invaders in it? Preferably with merchants at the same time, although not necessary.

I hope that my savegame can be of service. Human siege, no merchants. I saved it the very first moment they spawned on the map.

Haven't unpaused it before the save. This siege did not start with the usual black screen "A vile force of darkness has arrived!" but with a popup "The enemy have come and are laying siege to the fortress."

http://dffd.bay12games.com/file.php?id=11700

[Roses]

Does anyone have a save in 40.24 that has invaders in it? Preferably with merchants at the same time, although not necessary.

I hope that my savegame can be of service. Human siege, no merchants. I saved it the very first moment they spawned on the map.

Haven't unpaused it before the save. This siege did not start with the usual black screen "A vile force of darkness has arrived!" but with a popup "The enemy have come and are laying siege to the fortress."

http://dffd.bay12games.com/file.php?id=11700

Indeed it does, especially since you have a couple goblins from a previous invasion trapped and two forgotten beasts. The first thing I notice (besides coward being set true for some and not for others) in the unit.enemy table anon_6, anon_7, and anon_8 are set different for each invasion, with anon_8 being userdata. And unk_874_cntr is set to one value for invaders and another for other things. The trick now is figuring out why they are what they are. For one invasion its

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anon_6 = 1935455
anon_7 = 570428152while an earlier one is

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anon_6 = 1675531
anon_7 = 570414840Can't seem to find any reason

[Nagidal]

Does anyone have a save in 40.24 that has invaders in it? Preferably with merchants at the same time, although not necessary.

If you need some more, here is a savegame with some merchants now. The caged goblins and forgotten beasts are still there.

http://dffd.bay12games.com/file.php?id=11706

[Kha]

DISCLAIMER: I do not really know much about what I am doing here, but it works. BackUp your saves either way. If my method is old news or outdated, ignore this post, but a search just turned up two people asking and nobody answering.
DF Version:  PeridexisErrant's Starter Pack 0.42.04-r03 with DFHack 0.42.04-alpha2
GOAL: Get a bee (or other) colony on your embark site where no colonies are present.

1) Colonies are vermin with the 'is_colony' flag set to TRUE.
2) My understanding is that DFHack currently can create units and items, but no vermin. So we take an existing vermin and change it into a colony.
3) DFHack command:

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gui/gm-editor "world.vermin" => all. (Or just "world", there is a lot resources for !!SCIENCE!! right there)
4) Choosing the vermin: As far as my knowledge goes any vermin with a set countdown will do, as it would disappear afterwards anyway
5) Set vermin values:

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race: 151 termite/205 ant/215 bee/216 bumblebee

caste: -1

pos:
x and y start in the upper left corner both with the value 0, x being horizontal and y vertical as usual
z starts with your maps lowest level, so you have to subtract that from the value you are aiming for. Example: You want the colony on your ground level of 120, your lowest map level is 36 so 120-36= 84 = z.

visible: TRUE

countdown: -1 (else it would probably disappear before your beekeeper gets here)

flags: is_colony = TRUE, rest =  FALSE

amount: the amount of insects living in the colony. Typical number are between 12000 and 18000 (I think)

population: as I was afraid to somehow screw up world population if we take 10000 of a randomly chosen population to our hive I left the region_x and region_y coordinates and set population_idx to -1.

unk_34: so far all colonies I encountered had a 4 here, so that is what I set it to.

id: just left it alone

6) my beekeepers somehow only recognize the newly "build" colony once I savequit and reload the game, so do that (after BACKUP, remember this is all experimental)

That´s it. Good luck and thanks to the DFHack team for providing us with such a powerful tool as gm-editor.

EDIT: I realize this is the 0.40.24 thread, but it should work in all DFHack versions with the gm-editor and there is no 0.42.04 thread yet
EDIT2: expressed goal more explicit

[Njals]

Hi guys, thanks for the great work! Is it possible to use .04 alpha with .05? Or just build version from https://github.com/DFHack/dfhack/tree/develop ?

[lethosor]

DFHack versions will never work with newer DF versions than what they're named after (so DFHack 0.42.04-anything will not work with DF versions newer than 0.42.04). You can build from there, but read the compilation instructions (in particular, run "git submodule update" after you check out the develop branch).


About that - has anyone tested DFHack with 0.42.05? I haven't had time to do much testing recently, but I didn't notice any changes in the brief time I did get to test it. I'm able to put together an alpha release today, but my main concern is that it'll be inadequately tested and pushed out to people who aren't interested in testing.

[funkydwarf]

I been using a windows build of develop branch I downloaded with an unofficial prebuild of twbt. I think it's in the twbt thread from mid/late last week, in a spoiler tagpostered offered up twbt alone or with his dfhack build. I was pleased cause my windows development environment is still not working, although my Linux box is fine(need windows to play at work shhhh)

It works great for twbt, prospect, and reveal...I tried a quick save during a brain fart and it corrupted the save...but no crashed or any hiccups at all with my limited use...

[khearn]

I did a linux build from the develop branch yesterday. It seems to work, but I haven't been using it very long. But it doesn't blow up immediately.

[lethosor]

I tried a quick save during a brain fart and it corrupted the save

What does that mean? If quicksave is causing corruption, that's a serious problem.

[sv-esk]

I did a linux build from the develop branch with my additions 9 days ago. It seems to work fine. Used quicksave - no corruption/crashes encountered.
job-duplicate or workshop-job seems to cause minor problem sometimes - dwarves wont pickup jobs from workshop(probably old problem - havenot used it in older versions). Built-in DwarfTherapist works with dwarves, not citizens - its annoying(0.42.01 problem).
And question about my commits nevermind

[PeridexisErrant]

GOAL: Get a bee (or other colony) on your embark site.

2) My understanding is that DFHack currently can create units and items, but no vermin. So we take an existing vermin and change it into a colony.

https://dfhack.readthedocs.org/en/stable/docs/Plugins.html#colonies

There's a plugin for that!  (It would be great if we could also spawn colonies, but nobody knows how)

[funkydwarf]

It means I just wanted dfhack to cheat my way to a nice iron embark and knew that even if I got that build to work, I knew I shouldn't use the quicksave feature. Not knowing if dfhack merely initiated a df native save process or if it nuts and bolts wrote wrote a save file, I "decided" to only use prospect and reveal. However, I had a brain Fart and my fingers shot out to the quick save key combo and crash and corruption as I expected.

I figured it was a super early dev build and I should expect that sort of thing,and since it was the expected behavior, the armegeddeon of yet another digital world...that's not really a hiccup to me. But rereading my post its pretty funny. 

[lethosor]

It's not expected at all. What DF/DFHack version was that? quicksave sets a single native DF flag that causes DF to save on its own. Are you saying the save was permanently corrupted (i.e. it wouldn't load)? Did you terminate DF while it was saving?

[Grax]

I just realized i've played 10 years fortress without DFHack!
Even prospecting can be done with savescumming.

The only thing that now absent without варфсл and i'm regret of is the search among those so mant different names.
And the designations to chop/dig. It's so sad DF can't designate to chop trees in 'k' mode.

[Warmist]

GOAL: Get a bee (or other colony) on your embark site.

2) My understanding is that DFHack currently can create units and items, but no vermin. So we take an existing vermin and change it into a colony.

https://dfhack.readthedocs.org/en/stable/docs/Plugins.html#colonies

There's a plugin for that!  (It would be great if we could also spawn colonies, but nobody knows how)

I might know... I had a script for that i think...