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Author Topic: Is there a partial vein reveal mod?  (Read 1062 times)

Shiv

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Is there a partial vein reveal mod?
« on: September 22, 2009, 07:18:34 am »
I know there's various reveal programs that show everything, but is there one that reveals the entire vein, but only after you've 'struck hematite/cobaltite/etc'?  Clicking 2 or 3 spots at a time is some what bothersome and I'd rather tell them to mine out the whole vein in one go and go off and do something else. 
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Re: Is there a partial vein reveal mod?
« Reply #1 on: September 22, 2009, 11:02:11 am »
I haven't had a chance to test it out myself but the prospector tool of DF Hack looks like it may be fairly close to what you are after.
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Re: Is there a partial vein reveal mod?
« Reply #2 on: September 22, 2009, 11:53:52 am »
IIRC some manner of smartmining is going into the next release.

However, if I keep making sourceless claims like that, I'm going to get a bad reputation as a loony...
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Re: Is there a partial vein reveal mod?
« Reply #3 on: September 22, 2009, 02:01:06 pm »
who says you don't already have one ;-)

and i also remember Toady saying something about "smart" mining of veins. I am too lazy to look up the source.
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Re: Is there a partial vein reveal mod?
« Reply #4 on: September 22, 2009, 02:26:46 pm »
I recall there is a program called something like "for every tile". Propably not compatible with the latest version, but otherwise very powerful tool.
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Re: Is there a partial vein reveal mod?
« Reply #5 on: September 22, 2009, 03:20:25 pm »
I know that within the installed folder for dwarf companion there are both reveal.exe and revealvein.exe.
I also know that when selecting the entire bottom level for digging and immediately cancelling this enables you to reveal everything the various levels have to offer.
I also seem to recall that when using reveal.exe if you don’t do the above it will only reveal things within the 48*48 tiles you have been digging in.
I am however not entirely sure what happens with revealvein.exe

I have discovered however that when using any of the above tools you might cheat yourself out of various discovery messages like a magma pipe/pool, underground river, HFS (hearsay not personal experience).
If I use the above tools I save my game, reload, start a second df and also reload and compare the 1st (revealed) with the 2nd (not revealed), for veins it might seem a waste of time, but I have used it to prepare myself for my towercap farm which I would never have succeeded so succesfully as now.
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Re: Is there a partial vein reveal mod?
« Reply #6 on: September 22, 2009, 11:16:09 pm »
The discovery messages... You can use Dtil to rehide a tile and rediscover it to activate the features.
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