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[atracious]

Hi all! I have a small issue with dwarf fortress and I'm wondering if there is a way I can fix it through modding.

It seems like every time I play, my dwarves take quite alot of time to do everything. For example, digging a simple tunnel into a hillside at the start of a game usually take a month. And the dwrves only seem to eat/drink/sleep 2 or 3 times a season. I'm wondering if there is a way to make it so that a 'tick' in game represents less time on the calendar, or if there is a way to speed up dwarves so that they actually get stuff done in a timely matter. Any help would be appreciated

~Atracious

[samanato]

Time ticks are hard coded to span 1200 ticks for a day in fort mode and 86400  in adventure mode.  Fort mode is supposed to be fast-paced, so it runs on weird time.

There was a SPEED tag in older versions, which controlled both agility and work speed, but that tag has been replaced by gaits, which only control movement speed.

[atracious]

Time ticks are hard coded to span 1200 ticks for a day in fort mode and 86400  in adventure mode.  Fort mode is supposed to be fast-paced, so it runs on weird time.

There was a SPEED tag in older versions, which controlled both agility and work speed, but that tag has been replaced by gaits, which only control movement speed.

so there's no way to modify it to say...12000 ticks per day in fort mode?

[locustgate]

Time ticks are hard coded to span 1200 ticks for a day in fort mode and 86400  in adventure mode.  Fort mode is supposed to be fast-paced, so it runs on weird time.

There was a SPEED tag in older versions, which controlled both agility and work speed, but that tag has been replaced by gaits, which only control movement speed.

Isn't it possible by affecting the max FPS or is that just slow down?

[i2amroy]

Isn't it possible by affecting the max FPS or is that just slow down?

If your computer was good enough to be hitting the maximum FPS cap then you could raise that yes, but you would need to have a good enough computer for it to make a difference.

[Roses]

That will speed up how fast dwarves do things in your time, but if you want them to dig a tunnel in faster than a month in game time FPS will have no effect. Changing GAIT will make them move faster, but it is currently unknown if there is a way to increase job speed in the new version.

[Deon]

ALT+- and ALT+= decreases/increases game speed as well.

[Lucelle]

When Dfhack gets updated, it has an excellent tool to make the dwarves do everything at ultra-speed. Of course, this also includes attacking; so I like to turn it off whenever we get besieged.

[Meph]

Guys, I think more FPS is not what the OP wants. If the game runs twice as fast, the dwarves move twice as fast, but also twice as much times passes. He wants to slow down the calender days, not run a faster game. Or speed up the creatures, without speeding up the time.

[JediaKyrol]

Don't they work faster as their skills go up?  Of course a new fortress with a "miner" that's never even seen a pickaxe in his life before is going to take a while...and yeah, they only eat/drink/sleep a few times a season because fort mode ignores the day/night cycle and puts all of their rest cycles into one chunk...I would hate it if they had to run home and go to bed every 15 seconds.

[Dirst]

Don't they work faster as their skills go up?  Of course a new fortress with a "miner" that's never even seen a pickaxe in his life before is going to take a while...and yeah, they only eat/drink/sleep a few times a season because fort mode ignores the day/night cycle and puts all of their rest cycles into one chunk...I would hate it if they had to run home and go to bed every 15 seconds.

"Gaaaa... these eight-second workdays are killing me!"

[IndigoFenix]

The SPEED token no longer works, but I think speed multipliers in syndromes still do (zombies are slowed down in both movement and attack speed, so I'm guessing the code is unchanged).  You can give dwarves a self-targeting interaction that multiplies their speed by a given amount.  Might also want to give it to the other races, to keep dwarves from having an unfair combat advantage.

Slowing down the calendar itself isn't possible without some rather intensive dfhacking.

[Putnam]

Since nobody seems to have answered your question straight-up: no, you can't do that, and I don't think DFHack can either.

[IndigoFenix]

You can write a script that periodically resets the counter that advances the calendar ticks (which normally advance every 10 ticks), lengthening the time it takes to advance the date.  That's how the masterwork gnomish time machine works.

[Meph]

...which messes up military training schedules and everything else that depends on calender time (?)

Otherwise a slow, normal and fast game speed would be a nice setting to have.