DF Hack.

[Brandemihl]

Ok so never used. I installed and ran DF. The first thing it tells me is that it can corrupt my saves, which I have worked really hard on..
So... If I choose not to us DF Hack, will my saves be ok and I can carry on as usual?
Or should I just uninstall it now?

[The Amateur Player]

Read the wiki before you install things. You should have copied the saved prior to installing it. So proceed lol

[Xcorps]

It's a generic warning. DFHack directly manipulates the memory to make it's changes. Since every game release is completely different, the DFHack team had to find the memory changes from the last version, and they are saying "Use at your own risk".

Here's what I have used so far without issue:

autochop
autobutcher
seedwatch
reveal and associated commands
changelayer
fastdwarf 1 1
fastdwarf 1 0
fastdwarf 0 1
tiletypes (still has hard as it used to be)
remove-stress
migrants-now
stonesense
lever
dig-now with most of the options.

If your world is important to you, back up the region folder somewhere.

[Holyvision]

Originally posted by The Amateur Player:

Read the wiki before you install things. You should have copied the saved prior to installing it. So proceed lol

If players had to pass a Reading-based CAPTCHA check in order to login to Steam, pretty sure at least 60% of the playerbase would instantly be gone overnight.

[Savok]

I've used it extensively, including the even more unstable nightly builds. Not had a single corruption issue. I've stayed away from constantly running scripts, but the rest I've fiddled with at one point or another. Heavy use of cleaning functions, quickfort, exterminate on vultures before they could break the caravans and even edited the dwarves so my generational fort didn't instantly become futile.

[Vansinne]

Why do you install things if you do not know what it is?

[Warnstaff]

The only save corruption I have ever had was combining certain not-DFHack mods (I know, it's not a mod). If you are concerned enough about your saves, I recommend backing them up before installing. It's well worth the effort to use DFHack.

[Moisesjns]

i played with it for hours yesterday and zero issues or corrupt saves. But than again i started new worlds so.