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[Crossroads Inc.]

In Dwarf 2.0, the "Speed" cheat was invaluable for those that wished to Build BIG things fast, or wished for a fort to progress quickly... I checked the data and can't find a place to put it in, is it still possible?

[Geti]

up all the numbers under agility.

[BigD145]

It can go just about anywhere under "dwarf", but must be in the specific save folder you are using. I tend to put it after the body_detail bits.

[Shaostoul]

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[CREATURE:DWARF]
[DESCRIPTION:A short, sturdy creature fond of drink and industry.]
[NAME:dwarf:dwarves:dwarven]
[CASTE_NAME:dwarf:dwarves:dwarven]
[CREATURE_TILE:1][COLOR:3:0:0]
[SPEED:0]
[NOEXERT]
[NO_SLEEP]
[NO_EAT]
[NOFEAR]
[NO_DRINK]

That's what my dwarf entry looks like for testing.

[Box]

I'm pretty sure the token was removed because dwarves are the basic standard of speed, and anything without a unique speed is just dwarf-speed.

You can just plop it down anywhere in the dwarf section.  For the sake of organization, I think elves have theirs under their homeotherm token, so I put the speed token there, but it doesn't matter.

[LukeRM]

I think now speed is currently a function of the attribute system, so all you can do is make everything in the agility numbers 5000. That's still pretty fast, though.

Replace [PHYS_ATT_RANGE:AGILITY:150:600:800:900:1000:1100:1500]   
with [PHYS_ATT_RANGE:AGILITY:5000:5000:5000:5000:5000:5000:5000]

[Darkseed]

Speed 1 works perfectly fine and i assume speed 0 does too most people just make the mistake of trying to edit things in the raw folder which is now incorrect since region raws are now stored in the save file

[Argonnek]

I use SPEED 1 all the time, and it works perfectly. If I don't use it then the game is unplayable because my standard game averages a FPS of 10 - 15 on embark

[Justyn]

The [SPEED] tag works perfectly well in the 2010 version, I've been forced to use it to get ANYTHING done because I get frame rates in the area of 20-30 from embark.

[Diomedes]

Beginning of my creature_standard.txt

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creature_standard

[OBJECT:CREATURE]

[CREATURE:DWARF]
   [DESCRIPTION:A short, sturdy creature fond of drink and industry.]
   [NAME:dwarf:dwarves:dwarven]
   [CASTE_NAME:dwarf:dwarves:dwarven]
   [CREATURE_TILE:1][COLOR:3:0:0]
   [SPEED:600]

Default speed is 900. I found 400 or so a bit too fast and it's twice the speed. It only takes them half the time to get things done.

I have found that in previous versions if your fortress gets huge and population gets like 150 then Dwarves start to eat and sleep before they finished a single task because of walking distances, making the game unplayable. Of course now there's burrows.

How insanely fast is [Speed:1] Does that mean everything gets carried out instantly? So you can pause the game, spend hours designating an insane fortress with towers walls and deep labyrinths, turn off pause and immediately it's all done, if you computer can handle it?

I recommend speeds between 400 and 900. Anything less is too blunt cheating. Elves have default speed of 700. If you don't increase the speed your fortress may get to a grinding halt when it gets too big because of the pathfinding and the inefficient way dwarves carry out stuff.


Agility affects speed. But if you change agility you also change everything else influenced by agility.

[Shades]

I use SPEED 1 all the time, and it works perfectly. If I don't use it then the game is unplayable because my standard game averages a FPS of 10 - 15 on embark

How do you deal with the combat benefits this gives? I wouldn't mind faster moving dwarves but the fact it makes them practically unbeatable in combat always annoyed me.

[forsaken1111]

I use SPEED 1 all the time, and it works perfectly. If I don't use it then the game is unplayable because my standard game averages a FPS of 10 - 15 on embark

How do you deal with the combat benefits this gives? I wouldn't mind faster moving dwarves but the fact it makes them practically unbeatable in combat always annoyed me.

Turn it off when you actually want to play the game?

[Diomedes]

That last post doesn't make sense.

[Schilcote]

That last post doesn't make sense.

Yeah it does. It means that you remove the tag when you don't want it.

[Diomedes]

Does that work. It seems to me that once a game is started it makes a copy of the raw files and sticks with that.