What are some must use commands?

[Monkeys R Us]

I hear about how useful this tool is, but can't find a tutorial with stuff that isn't situational.

What are commands I should always use/keep running, if there are any?

[myk002]

The DFHack control panel is the central hub for enabling "background" tools. If you select the "Autostart" tab, it shows you the tools you can enable/run when you start a new fort.

What you want to run depends on what you feel makes the game most fun for yourself. The ones I have enabled on the "Autostart" tab are:

- autobutcher (butchers excess livestock)
- autochop (cuts down trees when you get low on logs)
- autofarm (manages crop selection)
- autofish (enables fishing when you get low on fish)
- autonestbox (assigns egg-laying pets to nestbox zones)
- autoslab (engraves slabs for ghosts)
- ban-cooking all (prevents dwarves from cooking ingredients that have alternate uses)
- buildingplan set boulders false, buildingplan set logs false (forces buildingplan to only choose blocks for general building materials -- you should be sure to bring a few blocks with you to build starting workshops if you do this)
- emigration (allows unhappy dwarves to choose to leave your fort)
- fix/protect-nicks (fixes a vanilla bug where nicknames are sometimes lost)
- nestboxes (prevents dwarves from cooking fertile eggs)
- prioritize (ensures important jobs get done first)
- seedwatch (prevents dwarves from cooking seeds when your seed stocks are low)
- starvingdead (prevents infinite buildup of undead body parts in reanimating biomes)
- suspendmanager (manage the order of building when one construction can block another)
- tailor (generate workorders for new clothes when existing clothes start to wear out)

and when I'm looking for a challenge, I enable:

- hermit (no migrants)
or
- misery (amplify negative thoughts)

[Monkeys R Us]

Thank you very much for the tips and for the tool, ngl, didn't think I'd get one of the devs responding to my post, specially so quickly!!

If anyone has more tips, I'm all ears!

Originally posted by myk002:

The DFHack control panel is the central hub for enabling "background" tools. If you select the "Autostart" tab, it shows you the tools you can enable/run when you start a new fort.

What you want to run depends on what you feel makes the game most fun for yourself. The ones I have enabled on the "Autostart" tab are:

- autobutcher (butchers excess livestock)
- autochop (cuts down trees when you get low on logs)
- autofarm (manages crop selection)
- autofish (enables fishing when you get low on fish)
- autonestbox (assigns egg-laying pets to nestbox zones)
- autoslab (engraves slabs for ghosts)
- ban-cooking all (prevents dwarves from cooking ingredients that have alternate uses)
- buildingplan set boulders false, buildingplan set logs false (forces buildingplan to only choose blocks for general building materials -- you should be sure to bring a few blocks with you to build starting workshops if you do this)
- emigration (allows unhappy dwarves to choose to leave your fort)
- fix/protect-nicks (fixes a vanilla bug where nicknames are sometimes lost)
- nestboxes (prevents dwarves from cooking fertile eggs)
- prioritize (ensures important jobs get done first)
- seedwatch (prevents dwarves from cooking seeds when your seed stocks are low)
- starvingdead (prevents infinite buildup of undead body parts in reanimating biomes)
- suspendmanager (manage the order of building when one construction can block another)
- tailor (generate workorders for new clothes when existing clothes start to wear out)

and when I'm looking for a challenge, I enable:

- hermit (no migrants)
or
- misery (amplify negative thoughts)

[myk002]

While playing the game, the commands I run are situational. I guess I run the design-related tools most frequently:

- gui/quickfort (paste designs from blueprints)
- gui/design (build or dig in shapes and patterns)
- gui/blueprint (record designs in blueprints)
- gui/mass-remove (un-designate/disassemble buildings and constructions by area select)

When I'm dealing with sieges and lots of prisoners in cages, stripcaged is very helpful.

There are obviously many other useful tools for other situations, but that's kind of the point. In general, when you're doing something in-game that you find tedious and un-fun, look for a DFHack tool to solve the problem. There probably is one.

[Colonel Sanders Lite]

One of my most used -

cleanowned scattered X

[Strossi]

how do you copy paste into the console?

[AJABOOBOO]

any commands for fixing scrolls on ground stuck with "trader" tag?
I have like 20 or more in my pub that i cant move or interact with at all
im new to this entire process

[myk002]

The current best solution for that is gui/autodump (Ctrl-h on the main map). Turn on the "Include items dropped by traders" option, select the scrolls on the ground, and double click to teleport them and clear the trader flag.

[AJABOOBOO]

awesome thank you so much

[Demistari]

Wanted to say thanks for that, been looking for it for months