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[Jeoshua]

You know, after playing around with multiple mods on at once, having some animals be ASCII while others have pictures doesn't bother me so much.  In fact, it makes me more upset when a graphics tile sucks badly.

"YOU MEAN I COULD BE LOOKING AT A 'C', AND INSTEAD I'M GIVEN THIS CRAP?!"

[rainekage]

Okay, I'll admit I'm new to raw editing (Notepad++ will undoubtedly make it way easier, though).  To make sure, exactly what do I replace [GRASSTRAMPLE:0] with?  Do I just try to blank it?

Sorry for such a simple question.

[asfghn]

(Notepad++ will undoubtedly make it way easier, though)

Thank goodness I'm not the only loser with vanilla Notepad!

But to answer your question, I tend to replace tags with spaces. Literally spaces. So, "replace [GRASSTRAMPLE:0] with ' '".

Doesn't seem to break anything, though it makes raws a little messy... But then I'm pretty OCD! It drives me nuts, for instance, that some of the Genesis raws aren't indented, yet I lack the time to go through and indent every... single... line... which reminds me:

I can't imagine how long would it take to make it in notepad.exe, one file at a time.

It takes forever, which is why before the discovery of WinMerge I was always so reluctant to update to the latest vanilla and Genesis versions alike, knowing that I would have to go through every creature_n.txt and add in or remove or replace [PET] tags and [TRAINABLE] tags and [COMMON_DOMESTIC] tags and so on. WinMerge literally turned a job that took 3+ hours into one that takes maybe 20 minutes, if I'm distracted.

I got Notepad++ but haven't gotten a chance to mess with it much yet. I'm a huge zombie fan so I'm actually checking out Rogue Survivor, which I had somehow managed to completely overlook before—I've seen your mod banner in your signature for ages, Deon, but since it was hosted on DFFD I figured it was a DF overhaul mod, and those aren't ordinarily my cup of tea (I like to keep my adventurers adventuring and my fortresses... fortressing?)

[Jeoshua]

Notepad++ trick:

From the Find In Files dialog box, fill out the following:

Search: [GRASSTRAMPLE:0]\r\n
Replace: (leave this completely blank)
Filter: *.txt
Directory: full qualified path to DF's objects folder (ie, c:\program files\DF\raw\objects)

Under Search Mode, select "Extended (\n, \r, \t, \x, \0 ...)"

Now click Replace In Files.

There are other tricks you OCD types can perform to further clean up your raw files without changing it's meanings or anything like that.

To trim End of Line tabs -
Search: \t\r\n
Replace \r\n

To trim End of Line spaces -
Search:  \r\n (that's <space bar>\r\n)
Replace: \r\n

To get rid of redundant line breaks -
Search: \r\n\r\n\r\n
Replace: \r\n\r\n
The above gets rid of any redundant returns more than 2 long (doublespaced).  You may need to apply it many times over before it stops replacing it.

ALSO!!!

Notepad++ contains a very capable file comparator.  Load up the two files you wish to compare.  Right-Click on the tab of one of them and select "move to other view".  Now press Alt-C.  Alt-Shift-C will clear it an allow you to return to normal editing.

[TomiTapio]

I like to put comments in the raws, so other people can understand why I changed something. I suppose Deon likes to keep the raws comment-free, but Toady Himself has comments in there.

Things like
--xx todo (it is important for a programmer to return to places sie has marked with TODO)
[NATURAL_SKILL:BITE:4] --nerfed now that it is trainable.
[FREQUENCY:2] --thus very rare to catch and tame
[FREQUENCY:14] --10 was too rare, damagazelle
[TRAPAVOID] --extremely well trained fighter

Deon, please give us Genesis players some clothes-burning reactions.
Either "burn silk items" &  "burn plant fiber items" at kiln or woodfurnace, or
"burn socks" "burn shoes" "burn tunics" "burn mittens" etc.
A fort should not suffer the indignities of goblin socks and elven pointy caps! Might even want to destroy inferior leather items a novice leatherworker made.

[Deadbeard]

Just [d->d]ump them and let your friend magma do the rest.

[TomiTapio]

Sometimes the magma is on level -80 and the fort on -3. That's 130+ steps one direction for one sock. You could build an anti-sock kiln in the middle of battlefield.
And you can roll worlds that have no magma (no caves -> higher fps)
(I've had magma sea at high -16 to -20 and low -74 to -78)

Good suggestion for magmaworks-having forts, thanks. Added your tip to http://df-genesis.wikidot.com/tips-and-advice

And then the alternate suggestion to Deon: recycle silk items into silk thread, and same for fiber.

Edit4: How wildlife conspires against dwarvenkind: raccoon http://www.flickr.com/photos/ehambrick/5638177483/

Edit5: Armormyths continues to prosper...

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loads of migrants to 71! Squad reshuffle.
Trogs and GCSw in our base.
127 fps, 3x2 embark, 71 citizens (10 idle), 12+61 animals, 3 cavern layers (2 seen, open). 701k wealth. 2260 stones,  102 weap, 300 bodywears, 85 corpses 158 BPs. 70 pots 108 barrels 47 boxbag.
cave croc killed a dorf, outside our walls.
a six goblin ambush. traps hit some, lost two crundles, and trainee.
Sylvans. Buy a raptor.
Master MF snatcher killed a baby!! And his mother the happy.
more snatchers and lizardfolk sn.
Flayer ambush! We 67.
8 in hospital.
hit badgers. migrants to 77.
Dammit, someone has a fire mephit pet.
dig deeper. Caves3 -40 to -44, magma pool, magma sea -49 to -53, minty. Tetrahedrite everywhere...
carpenter and mason killed by leaper! caves2 are dangerous.
Make 6th weapontrap.
again missed trading? Guess not. Sylvans are just fools.
mayor's mood: sphalerite scepter, 42k
our arachna fights leaper.
snatchers, ezras. no-one will dig. Digdoc is working hard on patients.
Buy 23k of stuff with 40k.

Autumn 3.
begin magmaworks on -43.
oooh marble and obsidian in the magma sea...
a stoneworker died of dehydration.
..
marble stockpile, and alchemy begins.
magmaworks is doubled.
a grizzly slew woodcutter! 2nd attack: rip arm off. Kill bear, but lost a soldier. Crush badgers some.
moron miner walks across magma channel! Bah!
mood: orthoclase mug, 14k.
..
make crap-clothes stockpile at magmaworks.
a flayer siege! 15 fla, elkbird.
Easy victory thanks to trapridor.
3x snathcer

lift burrows.
Whoar! A lizardfolk ambush! in stairs. Fight, one foe manages to flee. 2nd ambush! One foe flees there too.
a fire in the snowy outdoors stone stockpile! burrowstime.

Winter 3. (96 fps)
swimming troglodyte gets pick to the head.
Mafol, Minkot, Erith are making masterpieces.
a gremlin bruises our cave trotoise.
woodcut, herbalize.
a donkey starved.
isolate level -3's huge magnetite deposit form main stairwell.

a FB tarantula comes, poison bite, unkempt hair. two dorfs slay it.
bugbat bothering a gander.
safe pasture has barracks in middle. haul foes there. everybody has pet's acid breath on them!
a donkey kicked a boar's tusk off!

A were siege on camels!! A gremlin lets out caged lost adventurer.
blacksmith and furnacer are lost on the surface. And hit a flayer ambush. And gargoyles.
fight after traps soften them up. Victory! We are 74 (lost 4).

waxworker died of thirst.
quickheal blacksmith still draws breath outdoors, at gargoyles!
But item-hauling always takes priotity over injured-hauling...

Spring 4. six in hospital. (88 fps)
have 103 copper, 32 silver, 32 steel, 157 charcoal and magmaworks. Make bronze using tin from alchemy.
give miner and digdoc some bulldogs.
only 4 in hospital, 2 are cured!
8 more tiny bedrooms. For cripples and soldiers mostly.
a spinner starved.
were-corpse hauling...

Bury four. We have 25 war animals! Assign. Hero gets three dogs.
all 25 bronze into chainmail.
FB pterosaur, deadly blood. Novices are go! Bah it flies over cave-lake...
migrants to 82!
FB hitting child at our depot now. Dogs woof bam!

latespring 6th, burrows time.
Lots of donkey vomit.
sylvans. bowdemon ambush hits them hard.
2nd bush sq in our corridor. Stinky.

Summer 4.

[Deon]

Sometimes the magma is on level -80 and the fort on -3. That's 130+ steps one direction for one sock. You could build an anti-sock kiln in the middle of battlefield.
And you can roll worlds that have no magma (no caves -> higher fps)
(I've had magma sea at high -16 to -20 and low -74 to -78)

You still get the bridges, so I don't see a gameplay reason why should I have another job which grabs totally random item (which may be useful otherwise, unless you dabble with burrows) instead of just dumping the stuff in a hole with a bridge, pretending it's a garbage compactor.

[asfghn]

Sometimes the magma is on level -80 and the fort on -3. That's 130+ steps one direction for one sock. You could build an anti-sock kiln in the middle of battlefield.

You seem to have a problem with socks...

(I'm kidding. Again.)

Oh my God, THANK YOU Jeoshua, you have made all my crazed little OCDster dreams come true. ;A;

Also, since I don't know how many of you would find it otherwise (I know I didn't, until I made a suggestion in the first succession game thread): Foundboulder, the second Genesis succession game, since pieisgoo may or may not be dead for some time.

[rainekage]

Thank you as well Jeoshua, finally, my grass will survive!

Embarking in a Freezing wilderness mountain range, with volcano and frozen river.  Have a couple squares of haunted glacier, so not ruling out frozen undead Fun.  Pretty much no soil, which I was hoping for (Burrow down a layer beneath, dig to caverns,..., Profit!).

I predict Fun.  Lots of Fun.

Update: This is the first, and maybe only time, but I miss ice dwarves at the moment.  I'd suggest take out gloomers, because they have generally bad stats and no real bonuses, but I like the idea of a caste of social pariahs too much to suggest it seriously.

Do any dwarven castes right now have any kind of temperature protection?

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Update further:  Embarked with three miners.  Turns out clay is farmable, yay!  Nothing for my animals to graze on...  Hopefully I'll get to a cavern before my animals starve to death.  I think I'm screwed for iron (couldn't even embark with iron ore), but copper is plentiful.  That's something, I guess!  Not predicting anything hostile for the time being.

[Torgan]

Not as far as I know, it was removed as giving it to a caste gave it to the whole race.  That's why obsidians aren't fire immune anymore.

[Kogut]

Not as far as I know, it was removed as giving it to a caste gave it to the whole race.

Is it reported as bug on mantis? (immune+caste, caste, immune searches failed).

[Phoebus]

Notepad++ contains a very capable file comparator.  Load up the two files you wish to compare.  Right-Click on the tab of one of them and select "move to other view".  Now press Alt-C.  Alt-Shift-C will clear it an allow you to return to normal editing.

Omg! It's full of stars!

(The shortcuts are Alt-D & Ctrl-Alt-D in my version.)

[Deon]

Not as far as I know, it was removed as giving it to a caste gave it to the whole race.

Is it reported as bug on mantis? (immune+caste, caste, immune searches failed).

It's not a bug, it's just about creature-level tokens.

[RaidSoft]

This is weird, I changed the raws in my data\save\region1\raw\objects folder for my save, opened ALL the files there with Notepad++ and did replace [GRASSTRAMPLE:0] in all open documents with an empty field. This didn't seem to actually have any effect on the game though, animals are starving now since they trample away all the grass instantly still before they can even eat it...

Do I need to start a new game and change the raws in my raw\objects folder before doing so? (I did the same thing there as well though)