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XML dump
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An XML dump of a world's history can be generated from Legends mode by pressing x, and will be placed in the Dwarf Fortress root folder. The dump consists of many internals Dwarf Fortress tracks about the world in XML format. Be warned that the generated XML file can be quite large, even a gigabyte or more, especially for long-lived worlds with many historical figures. The dump is currently incomplete and is missing a lot of data about the world. The third-party utility DFHack can output a more thorough legends_plus.xml dump that includes at least some of the missing information.
Format
A non-exhaustive breakdown of Dwarf Fortress XML export tags is available here.
The v0.31 xml dump page contains a lot of detail about the dumped information, and a lot of it is still accurate for this version.
seconds72
These values specify when during the year an event occurred. For example, the birth_seconds72 and death_seconds72 subelements of historical_figure elements have values of this type.
There are 12 months in a Dwarf Fortress year, exactly 28 days in each month, 24 hours in each day, 60 minutes in each hour, and 60 seconds in each minute. Divide seconds by 72 to get the seconds72 value. There are 1,200 seconds72 in a day. There are 403,200 seconds72 in a Dwarf Fortress year.
Troubleshooting
If you have played a fortress and then exported legends, you may get an error about unreadable HEX characters. This is caused by older versions of DFHack, where plugins (such as "workflow") saved their settings as unreadable historical figures. There are several ways to fix this:
- Clear the settings for the various plugins in fortress mode before exporting legends
- Edit the xml by hand, as described here (any platform)
- Use the Legends Processing script (windows only), which fixes the xml and also creates a compressed folder as described above
Versions of DFHack made for Dwarf Fortress 0.47.01 and later should not suffer from this problem.
Contents of the XML file
The XML file has, at the top-level, the `df_world` node. This contains 14 child nodes, each of which acts as a list of identical child nodes. The nodes are as follows:
| Parent node | Individual node name | content |
|---|---|---|
| regions | region | A named region of the world map. |
| underground_regions | underground_region | An unnamed underground region of the world map. |
| sites | site | A site on the map with a location, site type, and structures contained. |
| artifacts | artifact | Artifacts with their associated written content (if books, scrolls, etc.) or location (if lost) or holder (if wielded). |
| world_constructions | world_construction | This section appears to be blank in legends.xml (the vanilla export) but contains the name and type of world constructions in the DFhack exported xml. |
| historical_figures | historical_figure | |
| entity_populations | entity_population | |
| entities | entity | |
| historical_events | historical_event | |
| historical_event_collections | historical_event_collection | |
| historical_eras | historical_era | |
| poetic_forms | poetic_form | |
| musical_forms | musical_form | |
| dance_forms | dance_form |