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Author Topic: Hide items IN the stock menu  (Read 559 times)

Heavy Flak

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Hide items IN the stock menu
« on: July 30, 2008, 05:05:07 pm »

So I have a problem, and it's one I've created myself.  I currently have 39,491 stones and growing by the second.  I don't care about them laying around, I can deal with that eventually (though, with that many, probably never). 

What I do care about is when I don't take precautions to avoid them when I go to check my stockpile of logs, or rough gems, or bars.  If I'm not careful, I'll lock up my copy for Dwarf Fortress for like, three to five minutes while it gets ready to display... just a list of too many stones.

I would LOVE to see an INIT option that could be set to stop displaying items in the stock menu once they reach a certain number.  Something like, [MAX_DISPLAY:10000] where after 10,000 items, the full number will still show up beside the stone, but only the first 10,000 will be displayed.
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Granite26

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Re: Hide items IN the stock menu
« Reply #1 on: July 31, 2008, 09:52:03 am »

That's a good way to deal with this problem

Othob Rithol

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Re: Hide items IN the stock menu
« Reply #2 on: July 31, 2008, 10:50:13 am »

For this very reason I only rarely set my book-keeper to max. You only get a stocks list if the records are EXACT. Just set it to medium or so and it will not display the big lists. The only shortcoming of this approach is I cannot mass-melt shot bolts.

Pexxithan

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Re: Hide items IN the stock menu
« Reply #3 on: August 03, 2008, 10:27:17 pm »

For this very reason I only rarely set my book-keeper to max. You only get a stocks list if the records are EXACT. Just set it to medium or so and it will not display the big lists. The only shortcoming of this approach is I cannot mass-melt shot bolts.

If you don't have a 100% accurate count... you can't set forbid or dump on specific stones in the Stocks manager. :(
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Impaler[WrG]

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Re: Hide items IN the stock menu
« Reply #4 on: August 03, 2008, 11:33:56 pm »

Your play style probably precludes this solution but I personally make blocks out of ALL the stone with a half dozen mason shops then build large surface fortifications and lay down floors over any mined out veins or foreign rock inclusions (because the ruin the perfect symmetry of my fortress).  With the new mass construction controls this is much more feasible and keeps stone from cluttering up the fort (it may also be contributing to speeding up the game with fewer items being tracked but thats just a guess on my part).
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