Talk:Names and symbols

Page creation note(s)

I'm now thinking that this should have been a category under a general "names and symbols" page. I think the broadness of that topic, and relation to so many other wiki pages, scared off. If that gets made, I suppose this can just become a redirect. Alpacalypse (talk) 18:58, 9 March 2023 (UTC)

I've just added a title above this comment, for form's sake. Thought I should comment on that retroactive edit here. Alpacalypse (talk) 14:58, 19 March 2023 (UTC)

I went ahead and moved the old Custom names and symbols page to here. It kept coming up as a more intuitive title, from other wiki pages and edits. I have expanded on the article slightly to reflect the new move, and to push the contents closer to superior quality. This does, of course, cause more conceptual overlap between this, and the less expansive in context, Name page. I am in favor of moving most or all of that content here, and potentially even redirecting from there to this page, as I feel like symbols and names in this context are inextricably intertwined. But I'll leave further consideration of that for another day, or indication from a consensus. Alpacalypse (talk) 19:23, 19 March 2023 (UTC)

Action and relation list

Is the stuff in this list hard-coded, or available to extend via mod? Jerimee (talk) 21:54, 17 March 2023 (UTC)

AFAIK it is hardcoded. My knowledge on this are of modding is quite cursory, but I've not seen anything on the wiki regarding objects, or tokens, that would change these, so I don't think it is doable with regular raw file edits, at least. --Alpacalypse (talk) 14:35, 19 March 2023 (UTC)

Civilization symbols search

Hello! I have always wanted to find the symbol of every civilization in my world. I have spent quite a few hours searching for civilization symbols in Adventure Mode, usually by examining pieces of armor (not always with positive results).

Recently, however, I discovered a much faster and 100% reliable way to identify a civilization's symbol in less than a minute (try it yourself if you do not believe me!).

The procedure is as follows:

First Step

• Install DFHack.
• Set the timeskip duration to one tick, so there is no need to wait the default two weeks: set-timeskip-duration --ticks 1

Second Step to repeat for each civilization

• Load the world.
• Run embark-anyone.
• Select the civilization whose symbol you want to identify.
• Embark somewhere with mountains, so you have immediate access to a stone wall.
• Smooth the stone wall.
• Pause the game.
• Engrave the smoothed stone wall.
• Click on the wall to open the engraving interface.
• Select Specify image -> Existing image -> Civilization symbol.
• The civilization's symbol will be displayed there.
• Quit without saving and repeat for the next civilization.

At first glance, this may seem rather laborious, and in some ways it is. However, with a little practice, the process becomes almost automatic.

I thought this might be useful to add to this section because it provides a considerably faster alternative to searching for civilization symbols manually in Adventure Mode, which can sometimes be unsuccessful.

So, can I do my first edit here? --Favozza (talk) 09:49, 20 September 2026 (UTC)