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[Joseph Miles]

For too long I've not been able to select that one idle dwarf because he's hiding in the same tile as a cat, or horse, or mule. As well as that one mother who brings her baby everywhere, you just CAN'T select the damned dwarves because they're in a square with another creature. I'd like to either have it always select the dwarf, and in the case of a mother and a baby the baby isn't considered a dwarf so far as this is concerned, or be able to cycle through the creatures in one square. 

[1138]

My DF experience was completely changed when I learned that if you press v again it flips to the second creature on the tile. Damn I felt stupid.

[Joseph Miles]

Oh, well them... nevermind this. he he....

[Idiom]

I thought you were going to say:
"[v] selects dwarves before others."
In which case this post would still be valid (including the title). I hate having to dig for dwarves when I'm using [v] to select dwarves 99% of the time.

[shadow_archmagi]

I hate having to dig for dwarves when I'm using [v] to select dwarves 99% of the time.

We have struck Raw Dwarfite! Praise the miners!

[Neoskel]

I hate having to dig for dwarves when I'm using [v] to select dwarves 99% of the time.

We have struck Raw Dwarfite! Praise the miners!

It collapses into a lump of gore!

What? Thats what happens when you strike dwarves. 

[Footkerchief]

Oh, well them... nevermind this. he he....

You still have a point though -- it'd be nice if it always selected dwarves first instead of animals.

[Exponent]

Especially (or at least) when selecting a dwarf (or any other entity) using (c) from the (u)nits screen.  In that case, it knows precisely which creature you were intending to look at; there is no ambiguity involved at all.

[Joseph Miles]

It's nice to see that despite my stupidity people like the idea

[Felix the Cat]

Especially (or at least) when selecting a dwarf (or any other entity) using (c) from the (u)nits screen.  In that case, it knows precisely which creature you were intending to look at; there is no ambiguity involved at all.

Yes please!

It's a bit of a time-waster having to cycle through every two-humped camel stacked in a tile to figure out which one you wanted to slaughter. Heck, I've given up ranch management and just sorta randomly slaughter animals and hope I don't kill all the males, because it's so annoying trying to figure out which one I'm trying to select.

[Mephansteras]

You're better off using the Animals screen from the Fortress menu for that task.

[Tylui]

Especially (or at least) when selecting a dwarf (or any other entity) using (c) from the (u)nits screen.  In that case, it knows precisely which creature you were intending to look at; there is no ambiguity involved at all.

Oh yeah.  THAT would be handy.  Along with zooming to corpses; or at least WHERE they died.  I hate having "Dwarfy McUrist was shot and killed!" Then not being able to zoom to where he died. >.<  I often end up searching the whole map for it, and that's complicated, what with all the z-levels.

[Felix the Cat]

You're better off using the Animals screen from the Fortress menu for that task.

Wow... Dwarf Fortress just got much easier! Thanks!

[Dame de la Licorne]

Along with zooming to corpses; or at least WHERE they died.  I hate having "Dwarfy McUrist was shot and killed!" Then not being able to zoom to where he died. >.<  I often end up searching the whole map for it, and that's complicated, what with all the z-levels.

If you go into the stocks menu and search the corpses, you can zoom to them that way.  The corpses sublist is on the last page of the stocks.   

[Corak]

I love that this game is so complicated that nobody ever quite figures everything out. There are always new (or... old...) features to discover