

I have found that putting 'beer stockpiles' (ie. Same idea goes for food/liquids, put them close to the dining room. Put the depot next to a large staircase and have several z-levels of small stockpiles. (think long strands of rope, with the ends near the door)Īlso, a good tip for trading is to have a stockpile (or a vertical layout stockpile) next to the trade depot to limit the pathfinding between the depot and goods. Long length / short width stockpiles also work well with the small width near the entrance to the room. This reduces the distance dwarves need to travel to drop-off/pick-up items. Also smaller stockpiles: instead of one massive stockpile, split it up into 4 or more smaller stockpiles. Vertical layouts tend to be a good solution. Pathfinding is probably the biggest factor, then water flows. Also, as far as I know, DF is 32-bit which also has some downsides compared to 64-bit apps. There are also probably numerous other gameplay tips and DFhack commands that will help but these are the ones I keep in mind and use most regularly.įirst, DF is single thread application, so multi-core CPU's won't benefit from it. Although my reasoning is that better graphics use up just a little more memory than ASCII so it must make some difference somewhere. These are just some things that I do to reduce FPS, a lot of it seems to have worked but some of it might be superstition, particularly the graphics stuff.

In DF world gen: pocket world, short history.DFHack tab: activate performance tweaks.Advanced tab: set graphical FPS to 20, set processor priority to ABOVE_NORMAL or HIGH.Graphics tab: use ASCII or CLA graphics.In LNP options tab: turn off temperature & weather, reduce population cap to whatever works.Close all unnecessary programs/processes on your OS.
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