40d Talk:Cheating

How come losing redirects here? --Mizipzor 20:34, 31 October 2007 (EDT)

I assume the person who linked it was either trying to help people who keep losing (though cheating is not the advice I would personally give) or say that cheating = losing. --BurnedToast 20:37, 31 October 2007 (EDT)

I changed it. Now there's a full losing article for all of you losers out there. ;-) --JT 20:58, 31 October 2007 (EDT)

TSearch summary

I decieded to break down the TSearch hacking DF video

1. Open TSearch and Dwarf Fortress
2. Make a new fortress and open Prepare carefuly
3. Open the DF process in TSearch(dwarfort.exe)
4. Press the search button(looks like a magnifying glass) and search 10 as 1 byte
5. Turn all 7 dwarves into competent miners(changing blue number next to their names to 7)
6. Press search next(magnifying glass with "..." next to it) and search 7(you will get from 7 to 14)
7. Double click the static 7s(the ones that dont change) make sure that the first two variables(may be a letter or number) are the same(in one case, they weren't on mine)
8. On the left press one of the 7s and hit freeze(looks like a craftsdrawf)

With this, you can make the dwarf proficient in everything. To change points, follow numbers 1-3 and then:

1. Change points to 94 by buying the dwarves skills
2. Search 94 as 1 byte
3. Change points to 22
4. Search next 22 as 1 bit(you may get 1 to 2 results)
5. Double click the static 22
6. Change the type(far right) for 22 to 4bit(to prevent getting a glitched number)
7. Then change points to whatever you want

Optionaly, change points to 10000 and freeze it. --0todd0 19:23, 9 June 2008 (EDT)

Verification with world gens especially with 40c

A lot of warnings in here say that the game will fail to load upon editing of a raw file. I have done that to make copper anvils and free adamantine, and I can play a world in its 2nd and 3rd year. – unsigned comment by Krumlink

Better safe than sorry. Gen'ing a new world is guaranteed to work, while other methods might not be. If you've got a method that works 100% of the time with any removal/addition/change to any raw file, document it fully and post it here so that others can test it and help you verify it. --Edward 17:20, 9 December 2008 (EST)

Reaction Edits

Shouldn't we be teaching people to edit the reactions to make something as well as the functional code there? I had a difficult time with them back when i was learning them at first. Althalus 18:41, 12 June 2009 (UTC)

I added a note to the free adamantine portion of this page. If you put the [REAGENT] tag in there, it should be followed by the reagent details. Removing the tag potentially makes it less confusing. Of course I could just be an overzealous n00b to modding. IceDragon XxX 19:31, 25 June 2009 (UTC)

Verification of Slower frame rate from speed modding

I've noticed this myself -- the culprit, I suspect, is dwarves calling the path function much more often as they complete jobs far more quickly than normal. Anyone else know a way to verify my supposition conclusively, or to test it, so it can be included in the main page? 24.147.242.72 10:06, 27 September 2009 (UTC)

Moved River Freeze Cheat

Reason: init file modifications are more like game mechanics than raw editing. Now in "exploits" (though the mechanics of save-scumming aren't entirely covered by init.txt, so they stayed) 71.230.249.145 22:07, 29 September 2009 (UTC)

Problems with Creature Modding Described

I'm kind of a n00b to both DF and this wiki so please don't shoot me if this is the wrong place: The creature edits in the article don't seem to work. I tried modding horses to drop shells on death as described, and it failed. Rather epically. Instead of dropping shells, when the creature was slaughtered it seemed to vanish. No bones, no meat, no fat, nothing. And no shells. I did this by copying the line of code given [ITEMCORPSE:SHELL:NO_SUBTYPE:TURTLE:TURTLE] into the domestic creatures txt file under [CREATURE:HORSE]. I also tried to improvise a shell reaction using the adamantine reaction in the article, but no dice. That one might have been my fault though.