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[Double A]

So what happens if you embark on a preexisting dwarven city? (the ones you can't embark on)

[nbonaparte]

Well, I'm assuming the reason you can't normally is that they look bad. I'd assume you'd get the basic fort as you'd see in adventure mode.

[Double A]

Well, I'm assuming the reason you can't normally is that they look bad. I'd assume you'd get the basic fort as you'd see in adventure mode.

Yeah, I realize you'd get the giant shaft with annoying ramps. But you can't embark on them in the game because of that, it's probably because they're sending you out to start a new fort, not improve an old one. I'm wondering what would happen if you did with this mod.

[Rumrusher]

well two things
one trees start becoming uncuttable
two the hole under the ground if you dig under that it will be smooth all the way down to Z lvl 0.
other than that beats me.

[Greiger]

I built on one once.  And yea, nothing special happened, most interesting thing that happened was every tile near the fortress being magically smoothed...even the hidden stone and everything underneath.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

 I assume even the deep slade was smoothed. though I didn't bother checking.

P.S. Oh yea, and it was a MAJOR pain trying to remove all those stairs.  I had 5 citizens fall to their deaths before I noticed because by the time I got the first death message the other 4 were already falling through the air.  I swear the home civ just gives me all the mentally handicapped members.  Lesson learned, staircases don't slow down falling dorfs.

[astronom]

How to embark anywhere in DF2010

[Draco18s]

How to embark anywhere in DF2010

1) Download EmbarkAnywhere
2) Run DF
3) Run EmbarkAnywhere
4) Close error dialog box (all this means is that you can't use the finder to find a 1x1 spot)
5) Make embark location 1x1
6) Hit e

[Dariush]

How to embark anywhere in DF2010

1) Download EmbarkAnywhere
2) Run DF
3) Run EmbarkAnywhere
4) Close error dialog box (all this means is that you can't use the finder to find a 1x1 spot)
5) Make embark location 1x1
6) Hit e

It doesn't work (at least in 31.13  ).

[BatCountry]

Get  yourself a memory editor with disassembly (I used Cheat Engine).

I looked for the search pattern in the Embark Anywhere source and found that only part of the code changes.

Search for (in hex) 66 83 7F 1A FF from the site selector in DF.

Should only find one memory address. Right click that and hit Disassemble.  Change the next instruction (should be JE and some numbers) to "NOP" (doubleclick it in Cheat Engine).  Since it's a two-byte instruction it'll prompt you to replace all of them with NOPs.  Do so.

Embark anywhere and enjoy!

This works in 31.16

[Fayrik]

Full Quote:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Get  yourself a memory editor with disassembly (I used Cheat Engine).

I looked for the search pattern in the Embark Anywhere source and found that only part of the code changes.

Search for (in hex) 66 83 7F 1A FF from the site selector in DF.

Should only find one memory address. Right click that and hit Disassemble.  Change the next instruction (should be JE and some numbers) to "NOP" (doubleclick it in Cheat Engine).  Since it's a two-byte instruction it'll prompt you to replace all of them with NOPs.  Do so.

Embark anywhere and enjoy!

This works in 31.16

This needs wiking, asap. I've been looking for a way to embark anywhere recently, and I am about to go try this out.
I really can't thank you enough for the idea! (Without looking like an idiot.)

[BatCountry]

Sadly it seems like human/dwarf/goblin sites are almost entirely empty in dwarf mode. Not sure if that's because the sprawl is calculated but not genned until you go there in adventure mode or what.

[Fayrik]

I'm not entirely sure that I'm using CE correctly, but when I search for that value I get 5,000 (aprox) results.
Could you just spell out clearly ^{like you would to a total idiot} what exactly the value we're looking for is? (I assumed it was a 2 byte type.)

[Draco18s]

I'm not entirely sure that I'm using CE correctly, but when I search for that value I get 5,000 (aprox) results.
Could you just spell out clearly ^{like you would to a total idiot} what exactly the value we're looking for is? (I assumed it was a 2 byte type.)

Search for:

(in hex) 66 83 7F 1A FF

Note that that not only tells you what type (hex) but it is VASTLY longer than 2 bytes (it is in fact 5).

[Fayrik]

Search for:

(in hex) 66 83 7F 1A FF

Note that that not only tells you what type (hex) but it is VASTLY longer than 2 bytes (it is in fact 5).

Okay, I will utterly admit that question was down to my own stupidity, but, I had tried /all/ the types, including the correct one - Array of Bytes.
Not sure why it didn't show up first time around, but now I am seeing the correct results.

Gosh, and I call myself a programmer. >.>;
In my defense, though, I got confused after it didn't show up the first time, and on later reading just managed to pick out:

Since it's a two-byte instruction it'll prompt you to replace all of them with NOPs.

Problem solved!

[BatCountry]

Yeah, it's actually the next instruction after that string of bytes.  I believe 74 04 is the instruction (it's a two-byte instruction) which disassembles to "JE 0182838e"

You'll need to check "Also scan read-only memory."

Change the part which is "74 04" to "90 90" (same as right clicking the address in the memory viewer in disassemble mode and clicking "replace with code that does nothing")

Sorry if my instructions were unclear.