orders¶
Tags: fort | productivity | workorders
Command: orders
Manage manager orders.
Usage¶
orders list
Shows the list of previously exported orders, including the orders library.
orders export <name>
Saves all the current manager orders in a file.
orders import <name>
Imports the specified manager orders. Note this adds to your current set of manager orders. It will not clear the orders that already exist.
orders clear
Deletes all manager orders in the current embark.
orders sort
Sorts current manager orders by repeat frequency so repeating orders don’t prevent one-time orders from ever being completed. The sorting order is: one-time orders first, then yearly, seasonally, monthly, and finally, daily.
You can keep your orders automatically sorted by adding the following command to
your dfhack-config/init/onMapLoad.init
file:
repeat -name orders-sort -time 1 -timeUnits days -command [ orders sort ]
Exported orders are saved in the dfhack-config/orders
directory, where you
can view, edit, and delete them, if desired.
Examples¶
orders export myorders
Export the current manager orders to a file named
dfhack-config/orders/myorders.json
.orders import library/basic
Import manager orders from the library that keep your fort stocked with basic essentials.
Overlay¶
Orders plugin functionality is directly available when the manager orders screen is open via an overlay widget. There are hotkeys assigned to export, import, sort, and clear. You can also click on the hotkey hints as if they were buttons. Clearing will ask for confirmation before acting.
If you want to change where the overlay panel appears, you can move it via gui/overlay. If you just need to get the overlay out of the way temporarily, for example to read a long description of a historical figure when choosing a subject for a statue, click on the small arrow in the upper right corner of the overlay panel. Click on the arrow again to restore the panel.
The orders library¶
DFHack comes with a library of useful manager orders that are ready for import:
library/basic¶
This collection of orders handles basic fort necessities:
prepared meals and food products (and by-products like oil)
booze/mead
thread/cloth/dye
pots/bins/jugs/buckets/mugs
bags of leather, cloth, silk, and yarn
crafts, totems, and shleggings from otherwise unusable by-products
mechanisms/cages
splints/crutches
lye/soap
ash/potash
beds/wheelbarrows/minecarts
scrolls
You should import it as soon as you have enough dwarves to perform the tasks. Right after the first migration wave is usually a good time.
Note that the jugs are specifically made out of wood. This is so, as long as you don’t may any other “Tools” out of wood, you can have a stockpile just for jugs by restricting a finished goods stockpile to only take wooden tools.
Armok’s additional note: “shleggings? Yes, shleggings.”
library/furnace¶
This collection creates basic items that require heat. It is separated out from
library/basic
to give players the opportunity to set up magma furnaces first
in order to save resources. It handles:
charcoal (including smelting of bituminous coal and lignite)
pearlash
sand
green/clear/crystal glass
adamantine processing
item melting
Orders are missing for plaster powder until DF Bug 11803 is fixed.
library/military¶
This collection adds high-volume smelting jobs for military-grade metal ores and produces weapons and armor:
leather backpacks/waterskins/quivers/armor
silk cloaks
bone/wooden bolts
smelting for platinum, silver, steel, bronze, bismuth bronze, and copper (and their dependencies)
bronze/bismuth bronze/copper bolts
steel/silver/iron/bismuth bronze/bronze/copper weapons and armor, with checks to ensure only the best available materials are being used
wooden shields (if metal isn’t available)
If you set a stockpile to take weapons and armor of less than masterwork quality
and turn on automelt (like what Dreamfort provides on its industry level),
these orders will automatically upgrade your military equipment to masterwork.
Make sure you have a lot of fuel (or magma forges and furnaces) before you turn
automelt
on, though!
This file should only be imported, of course, if you need to equip a military.
library/smelting¶
This collection adds smelting jobs for all ores. It includes handling the ores
already managed by library/military
, but has lower limits. This ensures all
ores will be covered if a player imports library/smelting
but not
library/military
, but the higher-volume library/military
orders will
take priority if both are imported.
library/rockstock¶
This collection of orders keeps a small stock of all types of rock furniture. This allows you to do ad-hoc furnishings of guildhalls, libraries, temples, or other rooms with buildingplan and your masons will make sure there is always stock on hand to fulfill the plans.
library/glassstock¶
Similar to library/rockstock
above, this collection keeps a small stock of
all types of glass furniture. If you have a functioning glass industry, this is
more sustainable than library/rockstock
since you can never run out of sand.
If you have plenty of rock and just want the variety, you can import both
library/rockstock
and library/glassstock
to get a mixture of rock and
glass furnishings in your fort.
There are a few items that library/glassstock
produces that
library/rockstock
does not, since there are some items that can not be made
out of rock, for example:
tubes and corkscrews for building magma-safe screw pumps
windows
terrariums (as an alternative to wooden cages)