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[BionicMeatloaf]

DFHack has really spoiled me, and the entire reason why is because of the Aforementioned plugin. It gets rid of so much micromanagement that it makes the vanilla game feel somewhat like a chore.

The ability to tell dwarves "Hey! I want you to keep making barrels until we have 500 of them" makes things a hell of a lot easier

[Bumber]

You can do that. Check the manager screen for work orders.

[BionicMeatloaf]

really? I haven't played in months and I didn't even know that function worked like that

[Shonai_Dweller]

Yeah manager works just fine for that. It works differently from the dfhack version so it might take some getting used to. I find it does everything I need and can't think of much else I'd want it to do.

But, like with swapping from Windows to Linux and vice versa, there's always people who will tell you that one absolutely essential function they used to use being missing kills the game for them.

By the way, Dfhack is a 3rd party util, it's not part of Dwarf Fortress and never will be. Not much point requesting that Toady include modules from it in his game.

[Bumber]

But, like with swapping from Windows to Linux and vice versa, there's always people who will tell you that one absolutely essential function they used to use being missing kills the game for them.

The issues I know of:

• It's limited by which job details are implemented. For instance, you can't set material on milling jobs. You need to setup separate workshops (with stockpile links) for checking quarry bush, sweet pod, pig tail, etc., in order to prevent it from overproducing a single category. DFHack's Alt+a works for all workshop jobs.
• In order to check just bags instead of boxes, you have to add the "sewn-imageless" trait. Lots of other unintuitive workarounds.
• Only checks available items. No option to include tasked and equipped items.
• Lacks production threshold feature of DFHack. Instead of being able to start a batch when quantity falls below 10 and then stopping at 100, you'll be queuing up individual jobs every time it drops below 100.
• Work order cancel spam. Orders don't stop or pause when materials are unavailable.
• Work order completion spam.

[Vivalas]

• Lacks production threshold feature of DFHack. Instead of being able to start a batch when quantity falls below 10 and then stopping at 100, you'll be queuing up individual jobs every time it drops below 100.
• Work order completion spam.

I mean, you could make it produce 90 units when you drop below 10

[Bumber]

• Lacks production threshold feature of DFHack. Instead of being able to start a batch when quantity falls below 10 and then stopping at 100, you'll be queuing up individual jobs every time it drops below 100.
• Work order completion spam.

I mean, you could make it produce 90 units when you drop below 10

If another job uses up the materials, you'll start getting cancellation spam.

Which brings up another issue: Orders don't stop when materials run out.