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[Max™]

It's difficult to damage candy, toggling the artifact_mood and artifact flags prevents item damage too.

[creidieki]

Hi, I really appreciate dfhack, I'm still learning to use it somewhat. I wanted to mention that I've been playing with gui/gm-editor and I'm pretty sure that in activity_event_performancest, the fields "anon_9" through "anon_11" hold the position of the dwarf performing. I hope that's helpful. Thanks!

[lethosor]

Thanks! Looks like anon_7 and anon_8 are duplicates of the x and y coordinates, at least for the event I'm looking at.

Edit: the 10 fields after that are all -30000 for me, which is usually a sign that they're coordinates (that's what Toady uses for invalid coordinates). I'm not sure which ones are 2D and which are 3D, but I'm going to give them slightly better temporary names. If you do figure those out too, let me know.

Also, it's usually better to report that sort of thing at https://github.com/dfhack/df-structures so that it doesn't get buried (which happens sometimes on the forums).

[rostbot]

Here's a new beta release: https://github.com/DFHack/dfhack/releases/tag/0.43.05-beta2. Still waiting on Windows for now, but this adds 64-bit Stonesense support on OS X and Linux (which was already available on Windows), so I didn't want to delay this further.

I logged on to my account on this site for the first time in months just to be able to say: Squeeeee!

I created a forum account to be able express my excitement. Thank you, lethosor!

[Rumrusher]

just thought of this now, is it possible to Copy the entire world data of another save and paste it into another world?
like take some old gen world and port it over to an Arena save? or is this working into Save corruption territory?

[PatrikLundell]

just thought of this now, is it possible to Copy the entire world data of another save and paste it into another world?
like take some old gen world and port it over to an Arena save? or is this working into Save corruption territory?

I'm afraid I fail to understand exactly what you're trying to achieve, so the answer is hit-and-miss:
- You can copy your save, retire, and start in another mode, then revert to the original save, but I guess that's not what you want.
- Transplanting the history etc. from one geography to another would result in a mess, since some settlements would end up in the ocean, for instance. While it should be possible in principle by shifting settlements around, it would be very hard to do in practice.
- Keeping the geography and replacing it with a different history is easy: just keep the main seed and let DF randomize the other ones when generating a new world.
- Transplanting a fortress would likewise be a mess. The "easy" part would be to copy the site, but you'd also have to stitch the civ in, and its sites, and relation to other civs would have to be adjusted, etc. Likewise, the inhabitants would have to be adjusted, so Urist McTraderLover could not be friends with 15 traders from civs that only existed in the original world, etc. You also have regions, geo-regions, etc. to take into consideration, as well as instruments, dance forms, and so on that don't exist in the new world.
However, I suspect you're after something completely different...

[Rumrusher]

just thought of this now, is it possible to Copy the entire world data of another save and paste it into another world?
like take some old gen world and port it over to an Arena save? or is this working into Save corruption territory?

I'm afraid I fail to understand exactly what you're trying to achieve, so the answer is hit-and-miss:
- You can copy your save, retire, and start in another mode, then revert to the original save, but I guess that's not what you want.
- Transplanting the history etc. from one geography to another would result in a mess, since some settlements would end up in the ocean, for instance. While it should be possible in principle by shifting settlements around, it would be very hard to do in practice.
- Keeping the geography and replacing it with a different history is easy: just keep the main seed and let DF randomize the other ones when generating a new world.
- Transplanting a fortress would likewise be a mess. The "easy" part would be to copy the site, but you'd also have to stitch the civ in, and its sites, and relation to other civs would have to be adjusted, etc. Likewise, the inhabitants would have to be adjusted, so Urist McTraderLover could not be friends with 15 traders from civs that only existed in the original world, etc. You also have regions, geo-regions, etc. to take into consideration, as well as instruments, dance forms, and so on that don't exist in the new world.
However, I suspect you're after something completely different...

well it's more taking the small Arena world map swapping it with a different world map.
porting  over history, civs, and all the other stuff is Accidental if works.
moving an entire Fort over to an arena mode world seem like Nuts and probably to advance for my skill.

[PatrikLundell]

I think I now understand what you're after, but I'm afraid I don't know anything about arena mode...
Looking at it just now for the first time, it looks like a single world tile world with a single "embark".
It might be possible to write something that exported an embark and then imported it into arena mode, replacing what's there, but it might be easier to make an editor that allowed you to modify the arena, export it, and import it. It might very well be that arena mode already contains the editor (as I said, I have no experience with it). If you have a working export/import function it ought to be possible export the corresponding stuff from a normal embark, though. It might be possible to do the same with adventure mode, but I haven't got any experience with that mode either.
All speculation, and no actual knowledge.

[Roses]

Is it possible to run a script and suppress or redirect it's normal output?

For example, say I have a script 'attribute-change' that when run without a -unit declared will print a statement "No unit declared". In normal use I want that to be printed, but when running in "debug" mode I either don't want that statement printed, or I would like to send that statement to an external file. I know I could put a flag in the 'attribute-change' script, but I was wondering if there was another way.

[lethosor]

You can use dfhack.run_command_silent(), although that would probably require writing another script to actually send the output to another file.

[Roses]

You can use dfhack.run_command_silent(), although that would probably require writing another script to actually send the output to another file.

Thanks! Silent running is better than nothing, if I really feel the ouput is necessary to properly debug I will write another script for that.

EDIT: Will running in silent mode also suppress error messages or will those still be listed?

[lethosor]

All output is returned from that function instead of being printed, including errors. It's returned as a table, I think, which includes the color of each piece of text, so you could identify errors that way if you wanted.

[Roses]

All output is returned from that function instead of being printed, including errors. It's returned as a table, I think, which includes the color of each piece of text, so you could identify errors that way if you wanted.

Ah, perfect!

[Bumber]

It's difficult to damage candy, toggling the artifact_mood and artifact flags prevents item damage too.

Was more thinking of some way to slow it way down.

[Rusty Shackleford]

Not sure where to ask but is there an 'embark anywhere' utility with dfhack?