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[Steelweaver]

Guys, can u give a few tips in finding items vector? May be some offset where game load begins or so, i've been crawling the dump for weeks with no success, i have very little experience, so some advise could be usefull. Using IDA Pro.

Extremely shortened version:
dfincremental, 2-byte coord scan using the cursor on an item, backpointer scan to find the start of the object, number search (1 in the menu) on the address found, backpointer on all pointers found. It should end up in the static memory areas sooner or later. There are multiple item vectors, try to find the biggest one.

Thank you very much. I ll try it.

[jaxad0127]

I'm using the latest git under Linux, and I'm getting a bad value from GetDwarfCivId. It returns 283561576, but a quick look at the unit list shows 251 should be the right value. I'm also sometimes getting bad memory offsets when reading creatures. It usually doesn't work in one program I have, it always works in another, and a third was wonky until I changed it to use the read creatures in box method.

[Truean]

Is there a way to make magma workshops appear in the build menu?
I hack spawned in Magma (of course) with DF liquids, but the option does not appear.
I know tweak utility used to have this feature; does/could DF Hack?

Thank you,
Truean

[Olith McHuman]

Using dfweather (from version 0.5.13 of dfhack) to make it rain or snow in .31.25 using Ubuntu 10.10 64-bit seems to set the current year to zero. Hilariously, dwarf fortress seems to handle this time change quite well.

Engraved on the wall is an exceptionally designed image of Cilob Plankrocks the dwarf and a steel shield by Mistem Sakzulkadol. Cilob Plankrocks is raising the steel shield. The artwork relates to the masterful steel shield created by the dwarf Cilob Plankrocks for The Gorge of Esteeming at Earthrend in a time before time.

He is negative one hundred ninety-one years old, born on the 12th of Hematite in the year 191.

[Greiger]

Haha, well DF probably wouldn't be the game it is today if it wasn't for the game handling things that should never happen quite as gracefully as it does.

TRON style program 1: Ok so this mod totally just made something out of a materiel that does not exist.  What should I do?

TRON style program 2: Uh well, huh.  That's not supposed to happen, but nothing here seems to scream crash, and all the variables are somehow initialized.  Though I have no goddamn clue what's in them.  Lets just pretend it's normal.


*Dwarf wonders at strange glob of randomly changing color 'liquid' in the smelter*  *Dwarf pokes 'liquid'* dwarf freezes to death in an explosion of boiling liquid, dwarves turn into fire snakes, donkeys turn into antmen and cats explode spontaneously.*

TRON style program 2: ...huh...

[grendelfreak]

On the DF wiki it says you can dig veins down Z levels using the "-x" option for dfvdig. Can anyone clarify how to do this please.

[raoulxq]

On the DF wiki it says you can dig veins down Z levels using the "-x" option for dfvdig. Can anyone clarify how to do this please.

Well, -x is an Command Line Option. Until someone less lazy than me explains that in more detail, you can try to google "open command prompt", "execute from command line" etc. It would be something like this:

Start->Run->cmd
cd \path\where\dfhack\installed
dfvdig -x

[devek]

I'm more lazy than you, and just click the dfXvdig.bat script which executes dfvdig with the -x option

[raoulxq]

Pah, there goes my attempt to give some people insight into the wonderful expressiveness of the command line... :-(

[daego]

So I've dug through some of the dfhack item code and I don't see any explicit support for deleting items. Any pointers to get me started on adding this?

[peterix]

So I've dug through some of the dfhack item code and I don't see any explicit support for deleting items. Any pointers to get me started on adding this?

Don't. Binary hell awaits you if you do. Messing with raw assembly, dependency on DF's code as opposed to its data types and fun with fooling allocators on multiple OSes. I'm not saying it's impossible to do from outside, but it's much harder than overwriting existing objects.

Anyway, you're very lucky! I just added a flag to the item flags structure that someone mentioned on the irc channel. It should make DF destroy the item by itself without further outside help. I named it garbage_collect. Needs testing, as I'm not sure if it removes the item from inventory of creatures, chests and other such things properly

[peterix]

I'm using the latest git under Linux, and I'm getting a bad value from GetDwarfCivId. It returns 283561576, but a quick look at the unit list shows 251 should be the right value. I'm also sometimes getting bad memory offsets when reading creatures. It usually doesn't work in one program I have, it always works in another, and a third was wonky until I changed it to use the read creatures in box method.

Ok. First is a plain old bad offset. Noted
Second thing I don't really get. Can you be more specific? Is it one of the exceptions thrown by VersionInfo or real bad offset?

Is there a way to make magma workshops appear in the build menu?

Not yet. Patches are a planned feature. There is a (vague) design, but nobody to implement it... See: https://github.com/peterix/dfhack/issues/22

Using dfweather (from version 0.5.13 of dfhack) to make it rain or snow in .31.25 using Ubuntu 10.10 64-bit seems to set the current year to zero. Hilariously, dwarf fortress seems to handle this time change quite well.

Win and fail, at the same time I'll have to look at the related code in a disassembler to get the right offset I guess.

Anyway, offset bugs will be fixed when I get to it.

Oh, and someone sent me a tool that lets you teleport all items marked for dumping to the cursor. It will be in the next release

[Sutremaine]

Oh, and someone sent me a tool that lets you teleport all items marked for dumping to the cursor. It will be in the next release

Oh wow, that's awesome. All that time spent clearing ambush junk from off the edge of the map...

[Jarhyn]

you are a gentleman and a scholar. I'll be using such a tool to strip all my dwarves naked and dump their shitty tattering clothing into a magma pit.

[Aalto]

Oh man, that works. So very awesome.