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smigenboger

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Removing Deceased Creatures
« on: January 26, 2010, 08:32:34 pm »
Hey is there a relatively simple way to remove dead animals and such from the unit list?
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Re: Removing Deceased Creatures
« Reply #1 on: January 26, 2010, 10:01:49 pm »
I hope there is but I doubt there is.  ::)
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Re: Removing Deceased Creatures
« Reply #2 on: January 26, 2010, 10:14:36 pm »
Dwarf Companion, Therapist, Foreman, and Manager do not, it looks like it some simple memory editing thing, so there has to be a memory force savant out there who knows :P
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Re: Removing Deceased Creatures
« Reply #3 on: January 26, 2010, 10:40:50 pm »
Considering how damn big the deceased unit list gets on older forts, if it was "simple" to clean it up, there'd probably be a utility by now for it.
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Re: Removing Deceased Creatures
« Reply #4 on: January 27, 2010, 04:25:35 am »
Not necessarily. Ask the people who make these utilities about it. "If it were easy it would be done by now." is a horrible logical fallacy.
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Re: Removing Deceased Creatures
« Reply #5 on: January 27, 2010, 01:05:32 pm »
Quote from: Eagle0600 on January 27, 2010, 04:25:35 am
Not necessarily. Ask the people who make these utilities about it. "If it were easy it would be done by now." is a horrible logical fallacy.

He's not saying it as a general rule, he's saying it as a specific case.  Namely, he's making the assumption that if the process were easy to accomplish, the utility writers would have already done it because they would have long since become annoyed with the list of dead things that's three times longer than the list of living things.
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Re: Removing Deceased Creatures
« Reply #6 on: January 27, 2010, 02:40:38 pm »
The thread is sort of implying I'm asking people who know about it, but I may have to hunt them down to find out. Tried some memory editing myself with little success.
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« Reply #7 on: January 27, 2010, 09:14:40 pm »
Another minor (though possibly game-breaking) problem is that the units list seems to be where the game stores the list of all creatures on the site.  Deleting them from there might be nice for clearing the list...but that may possibly be where caskets and Legends get the names of individuals at a site.  If that's true, then deleting them could cause a game-breaking error at worst or just blank individuals out of ever existing at best.
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Re: Removing Deceased Creatures
« Reply #8 on: January 27, 2010, 10:27:25 pm »
abandoning and reclaiming resets the list, at the price of your dwarves' skills
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Re: Removing Deceased Creatures
« Reply #9 on: January 27, 2010, 11:30:32 pm »
Huh.  Neat.  Show's how often I reclaim. :D

Anyway, if anyone can find where in memory DF stores this stuff, I suppose it should be possible with some work.
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