Customize Dwarves Looks?

[Soapwater]

Hi all, I would like to Customize my dwarfs and make a few of them as friends.
Can you change their looks and add male dwarfs or female dwarfs?

Just trying to make all friends lol.

[The Former]

No that I know of. Next best thing would be to do what Youtubers do: Have a list of your friends' names, and apply them per gender in order, as dwarves enter your hold.

[Savok]

DFHack has this ability but it's not intuitive. It's all numbers and requires a lot of experimentation.

[Mr.Kebab]

If you have DFHack "gui/gm-unit" command have this ability. You probably only need to hair lenght/color and skin colour. 0/75/125/200 are possible lenght of hairs.
I guess this is not totally implemented because it cause some problems for some dwarfs

without dfhack you can force them spend time togetter so they get to know each other closer and develop friendship/relationship

Even dfhack cant really change dwarfs sex. It technically does but log prefix stays as she/he like before. You can purge extra male/female for anytime and wait for migrant wave and keep your prefered sex:)

[McOrigin]

Your best bet is to force train them to a common prefessoin and they will spend their idle time in the same guild if you do not have a tavern.

I always try to get a farmers and a metalworkers guild as soon as possible. Even my woodcutter and carpeter are usually either farmers or metalworkers.

If you split your population to thise two professions, they will quickly make friends in their respective guild halls and may even form couples. But they need a lot of leiser time off.

If you have a tavern, they usually spend most of their time there making friends across professions.

However, as they need leisure time to socialize and make friends, it's usually not doable in the early stage of a fort when there is too much to do and not enough workforce.

[Soapwater]

thank you everyone!