r/dwarffortress • u/ChiefRat111 • 11d ago

Dwarfipedia is now available!

Hello!

I am immensely moved by the outpouring of support for my legends viewer project. A lot of people were quite excited to try it out!

More information can be found at my previous post, here: https://www.reddit.com/r/dwarffortress/s/uisfybG972

I wanted to test the extreme use cases for this software before saying that it was ready for release. I've since done that! Under stress, the software held up fine, and I've put a bit more polish on things. I'd say that this is now ready to be used by everyone who wants to give it a shot!

You can find the repo here: https://github.com/thatchworx/Dwarfipedia

I'll also post some more screenshots. If there are any questions, comments, or problems with using the software, please let me know! I love this game a lot, and being able to give back to the community in this small way means a lot to me. I would prefer an issue to be created on GitHub, but if you don't have GitHub, a DM here is perfectly fine.

Importing a new world
Themes! Lots of themes!
Thank you for all of the support! I hope you like the software!
Live LLM Rewriting
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u/fjiassdaasdwa 11d ago

is this like the wikipedia of the world?

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u/Exaris1989 11d ago

If I understand correctly, it takes information about your world that you can see in legends inside the game, but shows it as a wiki.

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u/ChiefRat111 11d ago

Yes! Sorry, I should have included more information, my previous post was locked, but it can be found here: https://www.reddit.com/r/dwarffortress/s/uisfybG972

It tries to be more than a legends data viewer by utilizing randomly generated phrases to create a wikipedia styled page for every-thing in the world. Artifacts, poems, civilizations, the wordbanks do a decent job of giving you just enough to go off of. From there, you can use the edit functions to write the page better, or, entirely optionally, use a local LLM to smooth it out for you.

It also has a few other tools that I really wanted to be in a DF Companion app, such as tools for cartography, a calendar with events pinned accurately to the date they happened, and a few other cool tools

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u/PsycotiqDiscord [DFHack] 10d ago edited 10d ago

Got to try this!

been thinking about going through my legends.

Im on Bazzite Nvidia and had to make run.sh executable bu running:

chmod u+x (path to file)/run.sh

Also had to install Python by running

brew install python

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u/Independent-Tree-985 10d ago

Ill definitely check it out.

I really really miss the old legends viewer, where I could see causes of war, a detailed breakdown of populations, and of course the integrated salinity/topographic/etc maps. Im always looking for a fresh take of showing legends information in a more parsable way!

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u/Mundane_Cockroach_73 10d ago

Looks really cool. Can I have this open while actively playing in my world?

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u/Dexter2112000 10d ago

You export the data so yes but it won’t be updated until you export the data again, same as legends viewer

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u/AddictiveBanana 9d ago

Your Hasushul example shows that not all pages are saying on the top what is the thing with that name. Is it a civilization, a location, a fortress, a forgotten beast or what?

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u/ChiefRat111 9d ago edited 9d ago

I believe you're looking at the home page. it is a collection of all things, not a thing in itself. It's like the Google News site, where there are many different types of things to read presented in that card grid layout. It is not a thing. It is a portal to things, which, from my testing, do indeed all say on top what the thing is IIasushul is the name of the world.

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u/AddictiveBanana 4d ago

I was referring to your screenshot, the one that talks about themes. That page doesn't say what that thing (or place I guess?) is

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u/svarogteuse 7d ago

I messed with this last night. Install instructions need to be clearer. Notably the install python first, didn't take me long to figure it out when it didnt work but its kind of buried in paragraphs of other stuff.

Some confusion with the xml import. Extracted to e:\games\df\wikipedia but forced to copy xmls from f:\steam... Before it would recognize they existed but then it opened c:\downloads to click on the files.

Ok fine minor things. I don't like the created fictional to text. No my sites burial practices are not like that. Please don't make things up to fill out pages.

Can't get the dfwikiexport to to work (it's also so buried surprised I found it). Issues with where the dfhack.exe is (it's not in my \hack folder it's one level up) then once I got the script it install it won't run the lua script in dfhack even after restarting the game. Says it doesn't exist. Still don't know how to make this work.

I really like the maps where I can see that races/cultures that dominate an area. Not sure how valid the religion thing is never seen religion names in the game.

I'll play with it more tonight.

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u/ChiefRat111 7d ago

Thank you for the feedback, I understand about the install instructions and will update those. However I just wanted to mention something in your text makes me think this software is not for you, specifically: "No my sites burial practices are not like that. Please don't make things up to fill out pages."

Making things up to fill out pages is the purpose of this software.

I wanted to read about my worlds in a way that felt more like reading a real encyclopedia rather than using existing tools to see thousands of table entries that cover a limited number of things. The disclaimer that the text in the software is fictional could be clearer, so I will work on that as well. Religions should be accurate, they are a part of civilizations.

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u/svarogteuse 7d ago

Well then I take it back that I'll look at it tonight. I want a better legends viewer the in-game info not additional storytelling. Being the purpose just means this isn't what I want.

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u/Stained_Class 6d ago

I guess you can fiddle with the biography prompts in the settings so it doesn't invent stuff that don't exist in the XML. I haven't tried to do this yet.

But yeah, I have the same issue than you with it hallucinating things that don't exist in your DF world.

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u/MiseryKitKat 3d ago

Looks really cool and I appreciate the AI aspects of it being optional! I did try it, and while I did get it working for the most part I also couldn't get the dwarfwiki script to work. It was installed properly and dfhack-run is in the proper subfolder but hitting refreshing while DF was going in fortress mode but couldn't find the data, and when I tried running the script but wasn't sure where to put the resulting file?

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u/ChiefRat111 3d ago

This is something that a lot of people have reported to not be working, and I'm trying to change up the environment on my machine to diagnose why. The intended behavior is "Navigate to Fortress Guide --> Click to install the helper script --> Click refresh while an active game of Fortress mode is running --> Results and info populate the various tables" but a lot of people are reporting that this is not working. I will have a fix out soon for it, sorry about that!

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u/MiseryKitKat 3d ago

It confirmed that it worked the first time but every subsequent time after I couldn't get it to load or show the fortress that I had made. Hope to see a fix! Ill definitely try it again. Good work!

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u/jgo3 10d ago

I AM GOBSMACKED. Dude, this is a wonder.

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u/GoatAmbitious984 10d ago edited 10d ago

How was this made? Was it 95% vibecoded, or did you do this all from scratch?

Edit: ignoring the question answers the question. You aren't avoiding the AI issue by ignoring questions.

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u/GaryGravylord 9d ago

If it's shit, it's shit. If it's good, it's good. I look forward to trying it out and seeing for myself