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[Rekov]

For cleaning spotclean will remove mud and other contaminants from individual tiles.

Fantastic! Thanks.

[A_Curious_Cat]

Looking at the DFHack docs, it doesn’t appear that there’s any command to add contaminants to a tile.  Perhaps someone should write one?

[ldog]

I did my best to search the docs, but didn't find anything, so I thought I'd just ask:

Is there any script/plugin which can add and remove mud from tiles? Adding mud to facilitate farming, removing mud as a matter of cleaning?

I know you can indirectly add mud with liquids, by spawning water, but this can be problematic in frozen environments.

The Tiletypes command lets you modify anything and everything about a tile. You should be able to add mud with it.

[Ziusudra]

The Tiletypes command lets you modify anything and everything about a tile. You should be able to add mud with it.

That might be the one thing you can't do with tiletypes - there's no MUDDY FLOOR shape, no MUDDY STONE material, no MUDDY special, and no Muddy option.

Though you could just use it to make the FLOOR be SOIL instead of STONE.

[Quietust]

That might be the one thing you can't do with tiletypes - there's no MUDDY FLOOR shape, no MUDDY STONE material, no MUDDY special, and no Muddy option.

That's because there is no generic "MUDDY" flag (like there was back in 40d) - you have to create a "material_spatter" event with its material set to MUD:NONE (and state set to SOLID), add it to the map block in question, then set the "amount" for the appropriate tile within it.

Unfortunately, there don't appear to be any plugins or scripts which do this, but it shouldn't be too difficult to write a new one - it's mostly the same process as creating new mineral veins (which is supported within at least one plugin).

[PatrikLundell]

Well, the "liquids" script/plugin allows you to drop 1/7 water on tiles, which will cause them to become muddy as the water evaporates, so you can muddy tiles using existing tools even if there's no tool that allows you to modify splatter directly.

[Rekov]

Well, the "liquids" script/plugin allows you to drop 1/7 water on tiles, which will cause them to become muddy as the water evaporates, so you can muddy tiles using existing tools even if there's no tool that allows you to modify splatter directly.

Unless those tiles are in a permanently frozen biome, which was the bizarre use-case which led me to bring up the topic to begin with. It's easy enough to create that 1/7 water with buckets otherwise.

[Roses]

That might be the one thing you can't do with tiletypes - there's no MUDDY FLOOR shape, no MUDDY STONE material, no MUDDY special, and no Muddy option.

That's because there is no generic "MUDDY" flag (like there was back in 40d) - you have to create a "material_spatter" event with its material set to MUD:NONE (and state set to SOLID), add it to the map block in question, then set the "amount" for the appropriate tile within it.

Unfortunately, there don't appear to be any plugins or scripts which do this, but it shouldn't be too difficult to write a new one - it's mostly the same process as creating new mineral veins (which is supported within at least one plugin).

Out of curiosity, is it the spatter that facilitates farming, or does another flag get set when the spatter is detected?

[Quietust]

That might be the one thing you can't do with tiletypes - there's no MUDDY FLOOR shape, no MUDDY STONE material, no MUDDY special, and no Muddy option.

That's because there is no generic "MUDDY" flag (like there was back in 40d) - you have to create a "material_spatter" event with its material set to MUD:NONE (and state set to SOLID), add it to the map block in question, then set the "amount" for the appropriate tile within it.

Unfortunately, there don't appear to be any plugins or scripts which do this, but it shouldn't be too difficult to write a new one - it's mostly the same process as creating new mineral veins (which is supported within at least one plugin).

Out of curiosity, is it the spatter that facilitates farming, or does another flag get set when the spatter is detected?

I haven't checked, but I suspect it's the spatter itself that permits farm plot placement since there's no "mud" flag in tile_occupancy/tile_designation (like there was in 40d and earlier).

[Roses]

Very interesting. Thank you

[Bumber]

You can mud the entire map by entering

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:lua df.global.ui.main.mode = df.ui_sidebar_mode.ArenaWeatherand pressing 'm' for "Mud everywhere".

(I don't think messing with the temperature does anything outside arena mode.)

Looks like "df.ui_sidebar_mode.ArenaTrees" functions, too. Just need to turn the filter on and off for the tree list to appear. More convenient for creating multiple trees than "gui/create-tree".

[Mugh]

Is there a way to slow down the passing of time? I wanted to experiment with playing a fortress on a "real time" scale more in line with Adventure Mode's slower day/night cycle.

I was hoping the timestream script could be used for this - it seems to ignore any value lower than 1 though, so I wasn't able to get it to work. Any help would be appreciated!

[PatrikLundell]

Fortress Mode is designed to run at an accelerated rate in order to get things done in a reasonable amount of time (for players outside the extreme outliers), so you can't go below the one tick per tick ratio, but reducing the maximum FPS will slow everything down. Ideally you'd go to 1/72, but that's not an integer, so you'll have to select between 1/50 and 1/100 (i.e. an FPS of 1 or 2).

However, dorfs will still move at a speed of 1/72 and eat, drink, and sleep very rarely as a result of the 1:72 ratio. You're probably better off trying to manipulate Adventure Mode (which probably won't be easy at all) and build the whole Fortress Mode logic yourself on top of the 1:1 time framework.

[A_Curious_Cat]

I've got a quick question:

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Font size: 10x12
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Resizing font to 10x12

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DFHack version 0.47.05-r3 (release) on x86
Type in '?' or 'help' for general help, 'ls' to see all commands.
[DFHack]#

./dfhack: line 89: 18696 Segmentation fault      setarch "$setarch_arch" -R env LD_PRELOAD="$PRELOAD_LIB" ./libs/Dwarf_Fortress "$@"

This is the fifth time DFHack has segfaulted on me in the last 24 hours!

[Ziusudra]

That's not necessarily a DFHack crash, that line 89 is actually in a script that runs DF - the code that actually seg faulted could be in DF, DFHack, or some library.

Do you know how to find core dumps in your distro?