Not really contradicting you here, but DFHack for the last couple of years has worked as a shim between DF and the SDL library. Substantially simplified the pr

Not really contradicting you here, but DFHack for the last couple of years has worked as a shim between DF and the SDL library. Substantially simplified the process of changing the game's behaviour, and mostly eliminated the need to poke around memory addresses. DFHack is also essentially the third party modding library for everyone else, with only Dwarf Therapist still poking around memory last I heard. Kind of uninteresting for most players, but hey; this IS hacker news.