new tool: immortal-cravings

[chdoc]

allow immortals to satisfy their cravings for food and drink

[myk002]

this is an awesome name : D

however, I am seeing a parallel with the concept of idle-crafting I think it would be better to combine those tools into one script, and as we add more kinds of self-service autonomy, they can become features of the unified script instead of creating a new script for each one.

Would it make sense to rename idle-crafting to autonomy or i-want-it-i-do-it or something that encompasses these related ideas?

[chdoc]

I'm not entirely sure. There obviously are parallels, but idle-crafting is (essentially) an automation tool while this one is clearly in the "gameplay" category. From the implementation perspective, I would have to think about where the synergies really are - apart from a shared main loop where units with needs get picked up. I don't see a natural place to configure this tool using an overlay.

From the communication perspective, idle-crafting has just been announced as a feature and received a lot of positive attention. I'm not sure immediately renaming it is a good idea.

From the development perspective, every need that we satisfy using a tool requires some amount of research and discussion. And other needs may require entirely different techniques. So maybe it is good to keep this thing separate for now.

Ultimately, I expect idle-crafting and related tools to be re-implemented as a C++ plugin at some point. idle-crafting currently takes about 0.7% of CPU time in my forts. Not an immediate problem, but still consuming about 7% of the total DFHack allowance. This tools time usage is hardly measurable in forts with one or two resident necromancers.

[myk002]

could you also add this tool to the control panel registry (internal/control-panel/registry.lua)?

[chdoc]

It may take until the next weekend for me to get back to this. Busy at work and other plans for the upcoming weekend.

[myk002]

no hurry! I have plenty of other PRs to keep me busy

[myk002]

Could you add immortal-cravings to the control panel registry (internal/control-panel/registry.lua)?

Also, could you add a line to the New Tools section of the changelog? edit: didn't see that you already did