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[utunnels]

At some point I'd like the game to run on its own as long as possible, without any manual input. Is that possible?

What I have already done:

1) I can use dfhack nopause.
2) I have enough farm plots to produce fibers and food.
3) I have all kinds of workershops.
4) I have enough workers and a manager.
5) I have sealed the fort so liaisons and caravans can't bother me.


Problems:

1) Clothes may wear out in time. I can recruit them all and use uniforms, but maybe there's a better solution.
2) Nobles may mandate things.
3) Strange moods.
4) Need to find a way to produce enough drink and food, without overflowing the stockpiles.

[ibanix]

At some point I'd like the game to run on its own as long as possible, without any manual input. Is that possible?

What I have already done:

1) I can use dfhack nopause.
2) I have enough farm plots to produce fibers and food.
3) I have all kinds of workershops.
4) I have enough workers and a manager.
5) I have sealed the fort so liaisons and caravans can't bother me.


Problems:

1) Clothes may wear out in time. I can recruit them all and use uniforms, but maybe there's a better solution.
2) Nobles may mandate things.
3) Strange moods.
4) Need to find a way to produce enough drink and food, without overflowing the stockpiles.

#1 - dfhack's 'workflow' along with orders to keep a certain # of each clothing type. Use along with pig tail farming and similar workflow orders to process plants and weave clothing.

#2 - So? Let them deal. Keep them happy enough and it won't matter.

#3 - The worst that can happen is they go insane and maybe kill another dwarf. Give all your civie dwarves arms and armor.

#4 - Again, workflow. Workflow is god.

[utunnels]

OK, I think #3 is luck based. In an old enough fort strange moods are rarer to see. So maybe I can ignore it.

So workflow? I'll check it. I never use it because I'm too used to the manager screen.

Now maybe I still need to find a way to get rid of those xsocksx.

[ibanix]

Now maybe I still need to find a way to get rid of those xsocksx.

Use dfhack 'repeat -time 1 month -command cleanowned x' in your dfhack.init file. This will mark all x-level clothing for autodumping every month.

Then set a garbage stockpile somewhere out of the way, like over a hatch into magma, which opens by a pressure plate your dwarves walk over, on their way to/back from said hatch.

[utunnels]

Thanks.
I think "'repeat" command is exactly what I need. Maybe it can also satisfy some noble mandates if they always want the same things.

[ibanix]

Thanks.
I think "'repeat" command is exactly what I need. Maybe it can also satisfy some noble mandates if they always want the same things.

That's not a bad idea. Workflow will only reach up to a particular limit, and then stop, which isn't helpful for periodic demands.

It can be kind of hillarious tho. I have over 1900 prepared meals right now. They make great trade items.

[Uggh]

ad 2)
If you select only nobles who don't have item preferences you wont get mandates. A bit tricky with mayor who gets elected from time to time.

[Saiko Kila]

Strange moods depends on number of artefact limit, which depends on tiles mined (actually revealed) and number of items in storage. If you don't mine then after a while you don't have strange moods. I've noticed that if I want to have a strange mood, I have to mine some more tiles. And then I have the mood in a month to two. Otherwise I could wait a year and no mood happens.

[utunnels]

Strange moods depends on number of artefact limit, which depends on tiles mined (actually revealed) and number of items in storage. If you don't mine then after a while you don't have strange moods. I've noticed that if I want to have a strange mood, I have to mine some more tiles. And then I have the mood in a month to two. Otherwise I could wait a year and no mood happens.

Oh I didn't know that.
That explains why some of my above ground forts rarely had artifacts...