Feature Request : Autofarm upgrade and gui/autofarm

[Jhenmhor]

OPEN TO MODIFICATIONS If you have ideas or issues with the current autofarm share them

Upgrade :

• Whitelist and Blacklist farms (based on name like burrow) #2126

• Prioritize high yields farms #3604

• Fertilizer management (who needs that ?)

• Autofarm status :

  • show all threshold
  • number of seed
  • number of farms by type (aboveground, subterranean, managed or not ...)
  • current number of jobs
  • missing seeds

• Deal with multi biome farms (currently autofarm default to the center square of the farm)

  • tiles can change biome (subterranean to outdoor)
  • if we split the farms along biome borders we NEED a warning for the player
  • prevent a billion split if the player replace the roof of a subterranean farm
  • if we don't split the farms we need to have autofarm check regularly ALL farm tiles for biome and occupancy

• Prebuilt categories (cookable/edible, thread, dye, flour, subterranean, surface etc...) more the better

  • a way to create new categories based on product/use for mod support (for example the advanced orchard mod would need a wood category)
  • logic operators ? (for example : autofarm threshold 0 NOT cookable stop planting stuff that isn't cookable)

• Choose the product used for thresholding if the plant produce more than one

GUI :

previous work : https://github.com/DFHack/scripts/pull/387

Clone of autobutcher with the ALL RACES PLUS NEW and ONLY NEW RACES replaced with the different categories from above but they will overlap (for example drinks and millable), the absolute minimum for categories are drink, cloth/dye, edible plant, other.

• Columns : (color coded)

  • current stockpile / threshold
  • seeds (might want a way to integrate seedwatch)
  • number of square planted
  • fertilizer or not (probably need a global setting, is there even a way to make only low level planters use fertilized plots ?)
  • season/biome needed

• Having a way to sort the plants by anything (category, threshold met, seed number etc...)

• The "undiscovered" crops should have a toggle

• A panel to manage farmplots (by using their names)

  • multi-biome plot setting
  • whitelist / blacklist
  • highlight the plots in the game
  • dedicate plots to only some plants/categories ?
  • fertilizer status

[myk002]

What do you think about treating categories as the primary entity, and scaling with consumers? It seems that it might be effective to configure autofarm to keep 10 edible plants and 5 textile plants per consumer and let everything else flow from there. Autofarm would maximize variety when it can with the resources it has. Configuration options for customization are still good, but we should definitely have a clean, simple story for the common, default case.

[Jhenmhor]

Sure we can do that but the question is do we hard code them or do we use a parser/scraper to create them for future proofing them ?