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[Derpy Dev]

Let us say that there is a shrine, or a cave, or a lair or something like that in the world. I can find its location by searching in adventure mode, but how do I pinpoint it's location in fortress mode to build a mountain home on top of it?

Also, a more spoilerific question:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Can you build a fortress on a vault?

[Fearless Son]

If an existing structure occupies the above-ground area of your fortress, you cannot embark there, sadly. 

Or at least all my attempts to do so have failed.

[PatrikLundell]

There's a DFHack "embark anywhere" feature which I think can be used to embark on at least some above ground features. I've never used it though.

It's probably possible to locate where (down to embark tile level, but probably not further) particular underground features are by writing a DFHack script to scan the features within the current world tile while at the pre embark screen.

[Grapefruit Sorcerer]

The icons for caves, lairs, tombs, and so forth show up on the embark map after you've discovered them in adventure mode. There's also an advanced world gen option to make those sites visible by default.

[Derpy Dev]

There's a DFHack "embark anywhere" feature which I think can be used to embark on at least some above ground features. I've never used it though.

I just installed Lazy Newb Pack, so I now have access to DFhack. Thanks for the help! I just need to do research on DFhack commands.

[Melting Sky]

There's a DFHack "embark anywhere" feature which I think can be used to embark on at least some above ground features. I've never used it though.

I just installed Lazy Newb Pack, so I now have access to DFhack. Thanks for the help! I just need to do research on DFhack commands.

DFhack has some very useful utilities including stuff like bug fixes, embark anywhere etc. Just be careful not to abuse it's awesome power too much or it can be quite game spoiling.

[PatrikLundell]

The "embark anywhere" option is integrated into the pre embark screen (the one where you see the world and select where to embark), so you don't need to use the DFHack console for that, so look there to activate it.

[Derpy Dev]

The "embark anywhere" option is integrated into the pre embark screen (the one where you see the world and select where to embark), so you don't need to use the DFHack console for that, so look there to activate it.

I've noticed that a couple of features of DFhack seem to be integrated into the game without the use of the console. At the same time, I don't know what most of them do yet, so...

[Salmeuk]

DfHack's labor menu thingy is a pretty good replacement for Dwarf Therapist. Something about not needing to leave the game window to manage your dwarves helps the immersion.

[Derpy Dev]

DfHack's labor menu thingy is a pretty good replacement for Dwarf Therapist. Something about not needing to leave the game window to manage your dwarves helps the immersion.

I'm mostly just use legends viewer and I have used a couple of DFhack commands. Mostly the die command, cause I'm a dirty cheater.

[roqi]

Also, a more spoilerific question:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Can you build a fortress on a vault?

I've been curious about this ever since I read about that feature...

[Derpy Dev]

Also, a more spoilerific question:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Can you build a fortress on a vault?

I've been curious about this ever since I read about that feature...

I just found one of these and tried to build a fortress on top of it. Spoilers below:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

The lag. THE LAG. I tried to build a fortress on top of both a dark fortress and a vault. 5 freaking fps 
Interestingly, in a stunning example of how poorly dwarf fortress handles tame animals, all the tame beak dogs and trolls the goblins had were counted as animals owned as by my fortress. I would have experimented to find more info, but 5 fps prevented this. The same went for most of the vault denizens, including the archangel. Only a bunch of angel axelords and spearmasters were listed as hostile. Can someone who owns a supercomputer participate in dwarven science?

[roqi]

Also, a more spoilerific question:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Can you build a fortress on a vault?

I've been curious about this ever since I read about that feature...

I just found one of these and tried to build a fortress on top of it. Spoilers below:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

The lag. THE LAG. I tried to build a fortress on top of both a dark fortress and a vault. 5 freaking fps 
Interestingly, in a stunning example of how poorly dwarf fortress handles tame animals, all the tame beak dogs and trolls the goblins had were counted as animals owned as by my fortress. I would have experimented to find more info, but 5 fps prevented this. The same went for most of the vault denizens, including the archangel. Only a bunch of angel axelords and spearmasters were listed as hostile. Can someone who owns a supercomputer participate in dwarven science?

That's so cool. How many units even WAS that?

[Derpy Dev]

I just found one of these and tried to build a fortress on top of it. Spoilers below:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

The lag. THE LAG. I tried to build a fortress on top of both a dark fortress and a vault. 5 freaking fps 
Interestingly, in a stunning example of how poorly dwarf fortress handles tame animals, all the tame beak dogs and trolls the goblins had were counted as animals owned as by my fortress. I would have experimented to find more info, but 5 fps prevented this. The same went for most of the vault denizens, including the archangel. Only a bunch of angel axelords and spearmasters were listed as hostile. Can someone who owns a supercomputer participate in dwarven science?

That's so cool. How many units even WAS that?

See below

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

In the vault? Only ten were not counted as pets, but there were around 50 of the other ones. In the dark fortress? Over 700 goblins alone. Not sure why the vault had as low of a framerate as the dark fortress, which had over 7 times as many units. If I had to guess? In earlier versions of the game, demons caused immense lag and crashed the game many times, but it has thus been fixed for the most part. Angels are probably just as bad as demons used to be, just only for fortress mode.

Again, dwarven science is required. The only way to be certain is trap an angel in a cage trap via adventure mode, then let it loose in a fortress.

[roqi]

I just found one of these and tried to build a fortress on top of it. Spoilers below:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

The lag. THE LAG. I tried to build a fortress on top of both a dark fortress and a vault. 5 freaking fps 
Interestingly, in a stunning example of how poorly dwarf fortress handles tame animals, all the tame beak dogs and trolls the goblins had were counted as animals owned as by my fortress. I would have experimented to find more info, but 5 fps prevented this. The same went for most of the vault denizens, including the archangel. Only a bunch of angel axelords and spearmasters were listed as hostile. Can someone who owns a supercomputer participate in dwarven science?

That's so cool. How many units even WAS that?

See below

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

In the vault? Only ten were not counted as pets, but there were around 50 of the other ones. In the dark fortress? Over 700 goblins alone. Not sure why the vault had as low of a framerate as the dark fortress, which had over 7 times as many units. If I had to guess? In earlier versions of the game, demons caused immense lag and crashed the game many times, but it has thus been fixed for the most part. Angels are probably just as bad as demons used to be, just only for fortress mode.

Again, dwarven science is required. The only way to be certain is trap an angel in a cage trap via adventure mode, then let it loose in a fortress.

Amazing. I wish I had a computer decent enough to experiment!