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[Wabbaction]

I cannot get it, how to make a steel bow? I've tried a tonn of different combinations with ITEM_WEAPON_BOW and everything..

[BlackFlyme]

I cannot get it, how to make a steel bow? I've tried a tonn of different combinations with ITEM_WEAPON_BOW and everything..

createitem WEAPON:ITEM_WEAPON_BOW STEEL

[Wabbaction]

Right, didn't put WEAPON: on the beginning, thanks.
But still does "No unit selected", you can't just spawn them on ground?

[BlackFlyme]

Right, didn't put WEAPON: on the beginning, thanks.
But still does "No unit selected", you can't just spawn them on ground?

Nope, you have to view a unit when doing it.

If you are in adventure mode, you can just enter the z-status screen and it will work there too.

[Wabbaction]

What if in DF mode I will spawn it on civilian, will he just haul it to weapons stockpile?

[BlackFlyme]

What if in DF mode I will spawn it on civilian, will he just haul it to weapons stockpile?

Yea, probably. But it will be considered a fort-made item, and can be usable by your dwarves.

[Snaake]

I've come back to DF after a while away, and am setting up a new fort. I can't seem to get yarn spinning working with workflow*, and in general, could use a refresher on everything that can be done with workflow. I remember that about a year ago there were loads of threads where people listed their workflow constraints, but my forum/google search-fu is failing me.

Could someone point me towards such a thread? Or at least the right subforum?


*Falconne's status screen shows the cap as red, dfhack says "Constraint THREAD/YARN count 10 (gap 5)", and on the next line in red "(no jobs)" even though I do have a spin thread job on repeat at a farmer's workshop.

[Roses]

Is there file reading capabilities within the DFHack lua? I am thinking of making configurable targeting text files, and would like to be able to read them in to a lua script.

[Urist Da Vinci]

Is there file reading capabilities within the DFHack lua? I am thinking of making configurable targeting text files, and would like to be able to read them in to a lua script.

IIRC it isn't documented within the DFHack lua api, but the lua standard io library works.

FAKEEDIT: Look at the script in this post: http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=126558.msg4307550#msg4307550
It only uses open, write, and close, but I am sure you could figure out how to read files using the appropriate part of the io library (if implemented).

[Putnam]

Better example, with full read-and-write.

[PeridexisErrant]

I remember a while ago Peterix (iirc) said that due to the confusion with unofficial builds r4 would be skipped, but the transition to a github organisation was going to make it easier to hit future targets - and r5 would be out soonish. 

What's the current plan, and should I be waiting for  release?

[lethosor]

It's already been transferred to an organization (https://github.com/DFHack/dfhack) and development is fairly active (on the 'develop' branch): https://github.com/DFHack/dfhack/commits/develop. I'm not aware of any release plans at the moment, and Peterix doesn't appear to have done much recently, so I think you can safely update your pack without waiting for r5.

[Warmist]

It's already been transferred to an organization (https://github.com/DFHack/dfhack) and development is fairly active (on the 'develop' branch): https://github.com/DFHack/dfhack/commits/develop. I'm not aware of any release plans at the moment, and Peterix doesn't appear to have done much recently, so I think you can safely update your pack without waiting for r5.

Actually we are hoping to release r5 ASAP. We want to have at least one release before the next df version and i think r5 has a lot of changes compared to r4.

[PeridexisErrant]

We are hoping to release r5 ASAP. We want to have at least one release before the next df version and i think r5 has a lot of changes compared to r4.

Wow, just looked at the news page - that's awesome!  I've been hoping for something like the command prompt for a while

And here's my recent work on clearing out some old stuff in needs_porting; it needs a more experienced pair of eyes if someone has time. 

[Roses]

I've been playing around with trying to change features of the maps using lua scripts and was wondering if anyone knows if it is possible to change the material a specific tile is made of? I know I can change entire layers, and material veins, but with my experimentation I was unable to change only one specific tile.

Note that I can change the tiles geo-layer and biome index which will change it, but not to an arbitrary inorganic. I can also change its tile type, so I can change a tile into a glowing barrier, ice, lava, or a couple other choices, but again it doesn't do what I would like.