This prerelease is available on the "beta" channel. Please report any issues (or feature requests) on the DFHack GitHub issue tracker. When reporting issues, please upload a zip file of your savegame and a zip file of your mods directory to the cloud and add links to the GitHub issue. Make sure your files are downloadable by "everyone with the link". We need your savegame to reproduce the problem and test the fix, and we need your active mods so we can load your savegame. Issues with savegames and mods attached get fixed first!
Highlights
Many new tools and features
A bunch of new (or revived) features in this upcoming release. The most noticeable is that the smooth movement plugin is now officially part of DFHack. We've also added a tool to export world data for use with GIS mapping applications, reinstated the old stockflow tool (which allows automating work orders based on a stockpile's contents), reinstated labormanager as a work detail automation tool (with many improvements over the old one), made improvements to lots of existing tools, added a mitigation for a DF bug that made reclaimed/unretired fortresses behave badly, and added an API for doing bulk map scans from Lua efficiently. See the changelog, below, for more details.
Even more bug fixes
Even more DFHack bugs have been fixed. A big one is fixing the defect in timestream that prevented anyone from ever suffocating (an entirely unintended nerf). There's simply too many to write them all up here; check the changelog, below, for the full details.
Announcements
PSAs
As always, remember that, just like the vanilla DF game, DFHack tools can also have bugs. It is a good idea to save often and keep backups of the forts that you care about.
Some DFHack tools that worked in previous (pre-Steam) versions of DF have not been updated yet and are marked with the "unavailable" tag in their docs. If you try to run them, they will show a warning and exit immediately. You can run the command again to override the warning (though of course the tools may not work). We make no guarantees of reliability for the tools that are marked as "unavailable".
The in-game interface for running DFHack commands (gui/launcher) will not show "unavailable" tools by default. You can still run them if you know their names, or you can turn on dev mode by hitting Ctrl-D while in gui/launcher and they will be added to the autocomplete list. Some tools listed as "unavailable" in the docs do not compile yet and are not accessible at all, even when in dev mode.
If you see a tool complaining about the lack of a cursor, know that it's referring to the keyboard cursor (which used to be the only real option in Dwarf Fortress). You can enable the keyboard cursor by entering mining mode or selecting the dump/forbid tool and hitting Alt-K (the DFHack keybinding for toggle-kbd-cursor). We're working on making DFHack tools more mouse-aware and accessible so this step isn't necessary in the future.
Changelog
New Tools
devel/datamine: watch live values for changes and diff structure snapshots to aid script development and reverse engineering
devel/infinite-sky-probe: tool for testing whether infinite sky is working correctly
export-world-map: Export world map data for GIS and other external tools.
fix/stuck-written-materials: free written materials that are stuck in a non-existent job
gui/export-world-map: New GUI tool to configure world map exports from the embark selection screen.
smooth-movement: smoothly animate creature, item, and vehicle movement in the fortress viewport
stockflow: (reinstated) queue manager jobs based on free space in stockpiles
New Features
autodump: new undestroy option reverts pending item destruction while the game is still paused
buildingplan: new "Do now" option marks the jobs of subsequently placed buildings as high priority
getplants: new --dry-run option counts affected plants without designating, and new --brewable/--edible/--oil/--cloth/--dye trait filters restrict the selection by plant use
gui/create-item: quality selection prompt now has 0-5 hotkeys matching the quality levels
gui/mod-manager: warn when loading a preset that doesn't include vanilla mods that were added to the game after the preset was saved
gui/unit-info-viewer: the unit character sheet now shows the viewed unit's current and long-term mood, color-coded by stress level
idle-crafting: support cloth, silk, and yarn crafts
labormanager:
the autolabor plugin now provides a second command that manages labors through the work detail system instead of writing the labor matrix; use mode legacy|modern or the work details overlay to switch
track job posting age and show a "task starvation" notification in the DFHack warning panel when any posting sits unclaimed for over a day
prioritize: prioritize this boosts the job related to the currently selected entity, absorbing the functionality of do-job-now (which still works and forwards to the new command)
sort: the stress/happiness icons in the top bar are now clickable, opening a list of the citizens in that stress category; selecting a citizen centers the map on them
stockpiles: the overlay now also attaches to the minecart hauling stop conditions panel, offering import/export of route stop conditions
stocks: the overlay's collapse all hotkey now toggles, expanding all categories again when everything is collapsed
suspendmanager: suspend deconstruction jobs that would collapse connected machinery, such as waterwheels supporting other components
quickfix: repair plotinfo.site_id on load when DF leaves it unassigned on reclaimed fortresses
Fixes
Fixed a possible hang or assertion failure when pressing a hotkey while a DFHack GUI window was open but unfocused
Fixed broken weather lookup in World::ReadCurrentWeather
Fixed out-of-bounds color table access in Screen module when Lua pens use COLOR_RESET
Fixed persistent site data API (dfhack.persistent.saveSiteData/getSiteData) failing on newly reclaimed fortresses until the first save
Fixed dfhack.items.createItem making glob items of an incorrect size
Plugin commands that throw uncaught C++ exceptions now report an error instead of crashing the game
3dveins:
fix crash when a tile's biome cannot be resolved
fix failure on embarks that cross midmap tiles
aquifer:
make --skip-top and top-relative --levels take effect for the drain, convert, and add actions instead of being silently ignored
make --help/-h actually print help instead of running a map-wide list
autochop: fix crash when a burrow-based command names a burrow that doesn't exist
autodump: destroy no longer leaves the contents of destroyed containers in limbo or crashes when destroying unit-held items
bodyswap: fix "invalid argument count" when the target unit has no nemesis record
buildingplan:
fix roller material estimate asking for one chain per tile instead of one chain total
fix "Unlink all" only unlinking some mechanisms (or crashing) when freeing mechanisms from the building
burrow: fix tiles clear and other tile operations silently failing because burrow block z-coordinates were stored incorrectly in the Burrows module
caravan: fix doubled "total value of items marked for trade" after toggling filter options, and keep item marks when switching between filter views in the Bring goods to depot overlay
combine: dyes are combined again, but only when their dye_profile matches, so mixed dyes no longer revert to a component dye
dfhack-run: on Windows, no longer mutates, hides, and closes the console it inherits when run from an existing terminal (issue #3827)
dig-now: update light/outside flags of tiles below tiles that are dug into solid rather than open tiles
export-world-map: fix crash exporting site data for a site whose owner has an undefined race
fix/loyaltycascade: guard against citizens that are not historical figures and emit a warning.
full-heal: --all-citizens still matches dead citizens (for resurrection) now that dfhack.units.isCitizen excludes the dead
gui/quickfort: show smoothing designations immediately after applying a blueprint
gui/settings-manager: preserve built-in work details added after saved settings were created
gui/siegemanager: fix nil index if there are no siege engines on the map
hide-tutorials: also suppress the adventure mode start tutorial (defaults its checkbox to off and dismisses the popups)
item: the reachable/unreachable filters no longer count installed building parts, and now treat loose contents of unwalkable buildings (like bolts loaded in a bolt thrower) as reachable when a citizen can stand next to the building
liquids:
allow painting liquids and obsidian into unallocated sky blocks
update light/outside flags of covered tiles when painting obsidian or river sources
overlay: overlay hotkeys no longer steal typed characters while the game is capturing text input, e.g. when renaming a building
preserve-rooms: no longer assigns zones to dead units who still hold a noble position
probe: fix malformed output of local/global map feature names
questport: fix crash on current DF versions and make the teleport actually move the player in fast travel
reveal-adv-map: fix live quest log map update when revealing or hiding the map
sort:
the clickable stress icon citizen lists no longer include dead or missing units (issue #5975)
fix the Places/Workshops and task searches missing workshops by their current display names (e.g. "Stoneworker's Workshop", "Screw Press")
stocks:
overlay now resets scroll position when collapsing categories so the item list is no longer left blank and unscrollable
strangemood:
updated to match behavior of current DF version
fix crash when --id is given a non-numeric unit id
suspendmanager: fix out-of-bounds parameter read when set is given too few arguments
tiletypes: remove plants (including trees) rooted on a tile that is painted into something that cannot host them, so cleared ground no longer regrows floating trees
timestream:
deal properly with units who have breathing difficulties
pass the validated numeric value to the fps setter so set fps with unusual numeric strings (e.g. 60.9) can't be silently misapplied
Units::isCitizen and Units::isResident now exclude dead units even when include_insane is set; the flag previously skipped the sanity check that also happened to exclude the dead
Units::teleport:
update unit occupancy on the full 3x3 footprint of EQUIPMENT units (e.g. wagons) instead of only their center tile
only clear tile unit occupancy flags when no other unit of the same kind remains on the tile
Misc Improvements
Added Coord2d and Coord3d C++ templates, providing a standard set operations for 2-tuples and 3-tuples of any numeric type
Renamed the stockpiles tool tag to stockpile so it no longer collides with the stockpiles plugin in gui/launcher
Writes to stderr.log are no longer buffered on Windows, so log output is not lost if DF crashes
caravan:
the Bring goods to depot, Trade, and Assign items for display overlays now allow searching for items with non-ASCII characters in their description
the Trade overlay will use the trader's appraisal skill instead of the broker's to round/obfuscate the value of items
gui/quickfort: transform hotkeys changed from ()_= to ,.\[] since () is easily confused with <> in the game font
Documentation
Document autodump-destroy-here. Remove mention of autodump destroy able to revert destruction.
Removed
confirm: removed the squad-disband and hotkey-reset confirmations; the game asks for both itself now ("Really disband?" and "Really overwrite")
API
Added MapExtras::MapCache::propagateVerticalFlags
\ to update the light/outside/subterranean flags of tiles below a tile that changed between an open and a solid shape\
\Added Maps::addRegionBiomeOffset to shift world region coordinate by region_details biome reference
Added Maps::describeSurroundings to get surroundings classification from savagery and evilness
Added Maps::forEachTile with Maps::TileFilter/Maps::TileActions to scan a cuboid of tiles, matching tiles by tiletype, tiletype attributes, and designation/occupancy bits, and counting, rewriting tiletypes, editing designation/occupancy bits, spawning constructions, or invoking a callback on matching tiles
Added Maps::getCurrentWeather to determine the current weather on the map.
Added Maps::getSiteTypeName to print the sites classification as a string (e.g. "mountain halls")
Added Maps::getTileBlockCoord, Maps::getBlockOrigin, and Maps::getTileBlockOffset to convert between tile and block coordinates
Added MiscUtils::print_range to print ranges with prefix, separator, and suffix
Added Units::breathes and Units::getBreathingState
Deprecated World::ReadCurrentWeather in favor of Maps::getCurrentWeather
Lua
Added dfhack.maps.forEachTile to scan a cuboid of tiles with a declarative filter and apply actions (count, set tiletype or per-tiletype replacements, set designation/occupancy fields, spawn constructions, Lua callback) in a single native call
Added dfhack.maps.getTileBlockCoord, dfhack.maps.getBlockOrigin, and dfhack.maps.getTileBlockOffset to convert between tile and block coordinates
Fixed ipairs() on enum attribute tables (e.g. df.item_type.attrs) never terminating (issue #1860)
Structures
added support for overriding code generation for a specific type
added graphic_viewport_spatter_flag and related definition
