dwarfmonitor

It can also show heads-up display widgets with live fort statistics.

Usage

enable dwarfmonitor

Enable the plugin.

dwarfmonitor enable <mode>

Start tracking a specific facet of fortress life. The mode can be “work”, “misery”, “date”, “weather”, or “all”. This will show the corresponding on-screen widgets, if applicable.

dwarfmonitor disable <mode>

Stop monitoring mode and disable corresponding widgets.

dwarfmonitor stats

Show statistics summary.

dwarfmonitor prefs

Show summary of dwarf preferences.

dwarfmonitor reload

Reload the widget configuration file (dfhack-config/dwarfmonitor.json).

Widget configuration

The following types of widgets (defined in hack/lua/plugins/dwarfmonitor.lua) can be displayed on the main fortress mode screen:

misery

Show overall happiness levels of all dwarves.

date

Show the in-game date.

weather

Show current weather (e.g. rain/snow).

cursor

Show the current mouse cursor position.

The file dfhack-config/dwarfmonitor.json can be edited to control the positions and settings of all widgets. This file should contain a JSON object with the key widgets containing an array of objects:

{
    "widgets": [
        {
            "type": "widget type (weather, misery, etc.)",
            "x": X coordinate,
            "y": Y coordinate
            <...additional options...>
        }
    ]
}

X and Y coordinates begin at zero (in the upper left corner of the screen). Negative coordinates will be treated as distances from the lower right corner, beginning at 1 - e.g. an x coordinate of 0 is the leftmost column, while an x coordinate of -1 is the rightmost column.

By default, the x and y coordinates given correspond to the leftmost tile of the widget. Including an anchor option set to right will cause the rightmost tile of the widget to be located at this position instead.

Some widgets support additional options:

  • date widget:

    • format: specifies the format of the date. The following characters are replaced (all others, such as punctuation, are not modified)

      • Y or y: The current year

      • M: The current month, zero-padded if necessary

      • m: The current month, not zero-padded

      • D: The current day, zero-padded if necessary

      • d: The current day, not zero-padded

      The default date format is Y-M-D, per the ISO8601 standard.

  • cursor widget:

    • format: Specifies the format. X, x, Y, and y are replaced with the corresponding cursor coordinates, while all other characters are unmodified.

    • show_invalid: If set to true, the mouse coordinates will both be displayed as -1 when the cursor is outside of the DF window; otherwise, nothing will be displayed.