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[Thundercraft]

is it possible to use dfhack to make a dwarf give birth?

Are they already pregnant?  If so, open the Lua interpreter and run this after putting the cursor over the unit:

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dfhack.gui.getSelectedUnit().relations.pregnancy_timer = 0

I think that's the code for it, but if not it should be pretty similar..  It's been a while.

If they're not already pregnant, you could use the DFHack empregnant tool to make the dwarf that way.

[ag]

Yeah, they do, but I don't know where you'd store them to exclude them from future checks.  I know DFHack supports saving things to your world save somehow, but it had limited storage if I recall and would probably run out quickly.

The storage is unlimited, but rather costly: to store a string key with a string value plus a few ints, it uses a whole historical figure structure. If you don't mind the overhead and complexity of serializing and parsing, you can store about 10000 characters as that single string value though.

[Urist Da Vinci]

https://github.com/angavrilov/df-structures/blob/master/df.ui.xml#L618

unk6 in the dead_citizens vector is ghost_type (see https://github.com/angavrilov/df-structures/blob/master/df.units.xml#L202 )
I suspect the timer is used for ghost spawning.

Ghost types are set upon creature death. They eventually silently spawn at the locations of their deaths. No announcements are made unless they do something. I updated http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2012:Ghost . In general, strange moods, insanity, or some personality traits lead to certain ghost types. You also always get a murderous ghost if you deconstruct the slab of a ghost which was previously "put to rest", causing it to return some time later.

I haven't waited around to see if it works, but in theory one could DFHack a new entry onto the vector, making the game create murderous ghosts of dead goblins etc. Tinker at your own risk.

[falconne]

I haven't been following the updates lately but there now seems to be a DFHack r4 out there... is that a release candidate? When is the official release?

I noticed that most of my plugins are out of date in Peterix's repo, having last been merged months ago; a number of bugfixes have been done since then. If anyone's still updating the central repo I now have a DFhack_r4 branch in my repo, created from the r4 tag in the central repo, where I've merged my master branch into. If not I guess I'll wait till the official release then these updates can go into r5.

[smjjames]

I've got a few questions on DFhack commands.

1. How do I look at the adventurers histfig/entity info using DFhack? Quietust mentioned about it in a bug report, but really though, what's the command?

2. How do I do a pre-fishing population check with DFhack? UristDaVinci said he did that in a bug report about the bug with cave fish, but nobody explained how to do that.

3. How is the removewear command supposed to work? I tried it once and it didn't work.

Also, the readme should be updated as theres some new stuff that is not on there.

[Putnam]

To answer 1: gui/gm-editor df.historical_figure.find(df.global.world.units.active[0].hist_figure_id)

[Urist Da Vinci]

...
2. How do I do a pre-fishing population check with DFhack? UristDaVinci said he did that in a bug report about the bug with cave fish, but nobody explained how to do that.
...

Like this:

Code: (chkfish.lua) [Select]

--list all local vermin populations in fisherdwarf's region tile
unit=dfhack.gui.getSelectedUnit()
if unit==nil then
print ("No unit under cursor!  Aborting!")
return
end

test=dfhack.maps.getTileBlock(unit.pos)

for k,v in pairs(df.global.world.populations) do
if v.type==1 and v.population.region_x==test.region_pos.x and v.population.region_y==test.region_pos.y then
if df.global.world.raws.creatures.all[v.race].flags.VERMIN_FISH then

print(df.global.world.raws.creatures.all[v.race].creature_id)
--printall(v)
print("Local population in this region:",v.quantity)
printall(v.population)
print(" ")
end
end
end

It identifies the local fish populations based on the location of the selected creature. Typically, river fish have feature_idx 0.

[Yaotzin]

Probably a trivial problem but I suck at searching.

I'd like dfhack to read a long list of commands, basically read a text file I guess. How can I do so? Specifically I want to input a long list of workflow constraints.

[Meph]

Hey, just heard about the dfhack r4 "outside-only" plugin. Thanks for that I dont know who wrote it, but that is a nice utility to have, for example for wind/sun-related buildings, farms and orchads and the like. Could a "inside-only" plugin be added to that? Thinking of evil races or underground races, like Antmen and the like.

[Rumrusher]

https://github.com/angavrilov/df-structures/blob/master/df.ui.xml#L618

unk6 in the dead_citizens vector is ghost_type (see https://github.com/angavrilov/df-structures/blob/master/df.units.xml#L202 )
I suspect the timer is used for ghost spawning.

Ghost types are set upon creature death. They eventually silently spawn at the locations of their deaths. No announcements are made unless they do something. I updated http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2012:Ghost . In general, strange moods, insanity, or some personality traits lead to certain ghost types. You also always get a murderous ghost if you deconstruct the slab of a ghost which was previously "put to rest", causing it to return some time later.

I haven't waited around to see if it works, but in theory one could DFHack a new entry onto the vector, making the game create murderous ghosts of dead goblins etc. Tinker at your own risk.

it's less spawn and more they convert the dead unit into a ghostly type.

Spoiler: semantic rant (click to show/hide)

 if they spawn then I would be able to pull out 2 units for each ghost that pops out like how reanimating bodyparts spawns a new unit with all the description of the dead unit just with or with out bodyparts where as Resurrection heals and brings the dead soul back to life.
To clear things up, ghosts are the Souls of dead units brought to unlife to float around, Zombies are dead bodies given life, Resurrection is similar to Zombies but instead you're taking the soul and using that also.
you can with dfhack reanimate the body then Resurrect the soul of the guy who had his body reanimated good as new and then send them out to battle constantly reanimating the parts and Resurrecting the Souls from the fallen undead.

good find Da Vinci

[Meph]

Does any of that ghost-business result in useable scripts, like a workshop to banish all ghosts, or call all ghosts, something like that? Or cursed items that bring all ghosts back for a few days, before all of them are automatically banished. That would be fun.

[Urist Da Vinci]

Does any of that ghost-business result in useable scripts, like a workshop to banish all ghosts, or call all ghosts, something like that? Or cursed items that bring all ghosts back for a few days, before all of them are automatically banished. That would be fun.

1. Setting the timer to 400000 causes that ghost to appear once the game is unpaused. This number is based upon a "lucky guess" and not any kind of research or disassembly-reading.

2. Setting the unk6 (ghost type) before the ghost appears will alter the type of ghost that appears.

3. Erasing the entries in the dead citizens vector appears to prevent those dead citizens from coming back as ghosts. 

4. I will attempt to cause more FUN with this and let everyone know.

[smjjames]

I'm using the latest DFhack that is with r41 of Peridexis's LNP and stripcaged is behaving a bit differently now and is confusing me a little, is it supposed to not dump the goblins clothes? Before, it dumped everything and now when I used stripcaged on some goblin thieves, it only dumped the bags and daggers.

[KroganElite]

Can someone please help me. Stonesense is not working. I run DF, load up my fortress, type "stonesense" in dfhack and it just opens a window. There is literally nothing inside the window, it copies whatever is behind the window and when you drag it it just smears the image all over. Please help. I've tried multiple fresh installs and it still doesnt work.

edit:
Using the R3 DFhack doesnt work but i tried R1 and it works?

[catvanbrian]

how do you spawn a forgotten beast with the dfhack command "spawn"?