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[Roses]

The 10 is how often it runs the check. The odd thing is that it is correctly triggering on each building created/destroyed, but it isn't giving the right buildingID, which means I must have royally screwed something up. I just can't figure out what

[lethosor]

If print(buildingID) is printing garbage, that's not your fault. (Can you give an example?) Also, is eventful.eventType.BUILDING equal to 5?

[Roses]

Yeah, the eventType is 5, I've stripped everything else out of the script and just run

eventful.onBuildingCreatedDestroyed.test = function(a) print('test',a) end

on the command line. Then tried built and destroyed a couple of the default workshops (Leatherworker's and Kitchen) and the Soap Maker's custom workshop, each time it printed 1840249752 when I both created and destroyed the buildings (although in another world I tried this in it was printing a large negative number, so that isn't always the same).

[Warmist]

Yeah, the eventType is 5, I've stripped everything else out of the script and just run

eventful.onBuildingCreatedDestroyed.test = function(a) print('test',a) end

on the command line. Then tried built and destroyed a couple of the default workshops (Leatherworker's and Kitchen) and the Soap Maker's custom workshop, each time it printed 1840249752 when I both created and destroyed the buildings (although in another world I tried this in it was printing a large negative number, so that isn't always the same).

I have no idea how it worked before: this is pointer
And it's used: not a pointer . So you are getting an address of your id.

Also: this is related and this broke it

[Roses]

Interesting. So it did used to work, at least sometimes. So I'm not crazy. Is there a way to get the id from the pointer? I suppose I can also just loop over all buildings and see what's new when a building gets created. Or I could link it to the on job completed eventful

[Warmist]

Interesting. So it did used to work, at least sometimes. So I'm not crazy. Is there a way to get the id from the pointer? I suppose I can also just loop over all buildings and see what's new when a building gets created. Or I could link it to the on job completed eventful

I suggest using job complete. Or waiting for release with a fix. Also there is a way to get id from the pointer, but i suggest not to think about that because it's very close to summoning chtulian monstrosities from the computational multiverse. (also it would be broken after fix).

Lastly - yes you could just do the same thing plugin does - personally i find all that "iterate over everything every N frames" very ugly and suggest leaving it in one place (i.e. the plugin). It's also a bit finicky to get right, however you probably have very similar systems in place.

[Golbolco]

Is it possible to spawn in a wagon using DFhack?

[thefriendlyhacker]

Is it possible to spawn in a wagon using DFhack?

For a lark, I tried spawning one in arena with modtools/create-item. It spawned, but was scuttled a tick later. I doubt fort/adv mode behavior will be any different.

[Rumrusher]

well wagons do seem to work fine in adv mode, but they totally scuttle in Fort mode or fort mode like modes.
that's mostly the Creature wagon though.

[Roses]

Interesting. So it did used to work, at least sometimes. So I'm not crazy. Is there a way to get the id from the pointer? I suppose I can also just loop over all buildings and see what's new when a building gets created. Or I could link it to the on job completed eventful

I suggest using job complete. Or waiting for release with a fix. Also there is a way to get id from the pointer, but i suggest not to think about that because it's very close to summoning chtulian monstrosities from the computational multiverse. (also it would be broken after fix).

Lastly - yes you could just do the same thing plugin does - personally i find all that "iterate over everything every N frames" very ugly and suggest leaving it in one place (i.e. the plugin). It's also a bit finicky to get right, however you probably have very similar systems in place.

Combining onJobInitiated (for checking if the building is eligible to be built, like the outside-only script) and onJobCompleted (for checking that the building actually was constructed) works perfectly. Gives me all the information needed and even gives me extra stuff which allows me to speed up/slow down the construction of buildings among other things.

[Roses]

Is there a way to properly destroy a building? I know there is dfhack.buildings.deconstruct(), but all that does for an already constructed building is add a job for removal, and I want to actually remove the building from existence. I can probably kludge something together, but was wondering if there was already something out there.

EDIT: Nevermind, figured it out. If you set the construction stage to 0 then use dfhack.buildings.deconstruct() it will correctly deconstruct the building.

[neutrino431]

How do you spawn a quire with createitem?

[thefriendlyhacker]

Try this:

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modtools/create-item -creator *id* -material PLANT:GRASS_TAIL_PIG:THREAD -item TOOL:ITEM_TOOL_QUIRE
Use teleport -showunitid to get the ID of one of your units

There is also gui/create-item, which brings up a screen for you to pick your item/material from.

[lethosor]

That translates pretty directly to createitem, by the way (I'm copying the materials you gave, so hopefully they're correct):

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createitem TOOL:ITEM_TOOL_QUIRE PLANT:GRASS_TAIL_PIG:THREAD
This will select a valid unit ID automatically if one isn't selected.

[blackreaper666]

Just a little question about the lua api. Is there a straightforward way to get the character, foreground and background color of a tile that is on the screen?

EDIT: Found the screen.readTile function. Unfortunately a lot of tiles return 0 as char code and color. Menus and Borders work but not the "game-view" where my little dwarfs run around. Is there something I'm missing?

EDIT2: So this was the result of using TWBT. So I solved all my problems