Utility:Dwarf Therapist/Addons Repository

Over the years Dwarf Therapist has evolved to boast quite a number of advanced features that streamline the managing of labors in a fort. Most of the power and benefit derived from these features depends on having a good set of roles, professions, optimization plans, and filter scripts.

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NOTE: This page is for splinterz's fork of Dwarf Therapist, as it is the only version that implements many of these features.

What are all these?

For a detailed explanation of all things Dwarf Therapist, with screenshots and everything, download ResMar's User Guide.

Custom professions are templates that dictate what labors a dwarf should have enabled.

It also changes their profession name in the game so you can easily tell who you have assigned to what professions, though the custom professions do not get written into history nor appear in engravings, etc. When applied to a dwarf, the custom profession will enable all its related labors for him/her and disable any existing labors not in the profession.

Custom roles allow you to define groups of attributes (e.g, strength); traits (e.g, self-discipline); skills (e.g, appraiser); and preferences (e.g., fondness for fire opals) that, when considered together, determine how suited a particular dwarf is for that role.

On there own roles don't do anything, but when combined with the labor optimizer you can assign professions based on how suitable the dwarf is for that labor. For example, melee dwarfs should have high agility (attribute), low anger (trait), be skilled with the various weapon skills (armor user, shield user), and perhaps have a preference for armors. If a dwarf meets this criteria, he is said to fill the melee-dwarf role.

Note that in vanilla Dwarf Fortress roles are simply professions. A "Mason" is a role/profession that says a dwarf has some skills/traits/attributes that make up a good mason. This usage of profession is different than Dwarf Therapist's, as a DT profession is really a collection of labors, and by default has nothing to do with roles.

Optimization plans are used by Dwarf Therapist to automatically assign labors to dwarves based on how suited they are for the labor. The goal in a plan is to minimize the number if idle dwarves by ensuring they all have enough labors assigned, and also to ensure that dwarves get labors they are well suited to. An automatic labor assigner does no good if it never gives the Mining labor to your legendary miner.

Filter scripts are simple commands that determine what dwarves to show in the main DT window. For example, a "military only" filter script would hide all the non-military dwarves. It is like a "search" for your dwarves.

Grid views are the main list view in Dwarf Fortress they are accessible via the tabs at the top of the list view (Labors, Military, Social, etc).

Community Submitted Addons

Grid Views

ResMar's [ Advanced Labor View]

Download: Official Forum Page Advanced Labor View Type: Grid View Author: User:ResMar Current Version: 1.0 Installation: {{{installation}}} Last Updated Aug 05, 2013 This is a heavily modified version of the "Labors NO SPACERS" view that comes packaged with the program. Useless or never-turned-off labors removed, and columns organized for better readability.

Tutorials/Documentation

ResMar's Dwarf Therapist User Guide

This is an exceptionally crafted Dwarf Therapist User Guide. On the cover is a picture of a dwarf in virtual leather.

All of the features available in Dwarf Therapist are covered in the guide, which is a hefty 49 pages worth of (I hope) well-illustrated content crafted in LaTeX.

Whether you a new player who wants to learn how to use Dwarf Therapist, or an experienced one who's never explored any of the power features the utility has to offer, this guide will teach you what's what in an intuitive and non-painful manner.