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[Stormfeather]

Hey, so as I just mentioned elsewhere, I tend to binge a while, then stop playing a bit so I sometimes come back after a few versions or what have you. And something I've always wondered but not found (and not bothered to ask before) is just how good macros are at carrying over between versions. I do have a few macros for digging general layouts that I tend to use in my fortresses and such, and since I don't know if I could just copy them over without breaking things, I generally tend to just re-do them from scratch in a new release (although I think I have occasionally just carried them over in new smaller versions that just fix a few things).

Soooo... looking at my files, my last version on this PC before this was 44:12 (which surprises me honestly, although I do think I had a more recent one on my laptop). So now I'm wondering if there's any chance my macros would still be good - I don't know how much just simple things like digging get possibly broken/changed between large version changes. Is there any way to know without just copying them over and possibly breaking things? Is there not much chance of it anyhow? I just really have no idea if/how some simple things like digging macros might get changed around, and thought I'd float it by some of y'all that are better with the coding side of things (or just know from experience).

[voliol]

Macros should carry over.

DF (0.)44.12 is the last version, and was the current one until some 12 hours ago, when (0.)47.01 was released. The reason for the "skip" in numbers is that the second part ("44", "47") stands for how many of the main DF goals have been accomplished, in percent.

[Stormfeather]

Aaah, thanks, I never realized that! I just kinda assumed that it went up a whole number for each main version that got updated (with mostly bugfix patches or additions that were meant for the main release but delayed slightly) after it for a while. I was pretty sure I hadn't been "away" long enough to miss two entire versions!

Anyhow, thanks for the response, fingers crossed then.

[PatrikLundell]

I believe you can expect the Premium release to play havoc with macros, given that the UI overhaul probably will change key bindings around and rearrange menus in general. However, that release will probably happen in fairly exactly a year, so you've got some time before that becomes an issue.

[Mohreb el Yasim]

I think it is expected to come sooner. And if your macro is pruned (as in, you keep only the keys by function) I guess it won't be that bad.