Hide Items or Buildings

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This article refers to "hide" in terms of removing items or buildings from view, for the article on creature skin, see Skin.

You can hide and unhide Items and Buildings using the i designation menu or the button the items' information sheet.

The hidden objects will still be there and will still be available for use by dwarves, but they will not be visible on screen, which will instead show another visible item, or just the empty tile. Hidden items will still be listed when pointing the mouse at the tile, but cannot be clicked on, while hidden buildings will not be listed.

To hide multiple buildings or items at once, use ih, then select the area they are in; use iH to reveal them again; these only work on buildings if the center tile is selected.

To hide a single building, click the building, then the on all of the items used to build that building. To reveal a hidden building, you must do one of: open its information sheet from the locations menu, reveal its build materials from the stocks menu (or their information sheets opened from stocks), or use iH on its center tile.

Note that if you hide all of a material from the stocks menu, all buildings made of that material will also be hidden.

To hide a single item, click the tile it is on, then its tab on the right side of the information sheet (if not already selected), or its line on the list of items (if there are many), then the at top right of its information sheet.

This can cause what appear to be bugs, if cage traps are hidden after they're set. In this case, click the trap and use to hide only the mechanisms, and not the cage. This will hide the trap, but still allow the cage to be seen after being triggered. Weapon traps need all their weapons and the mechanisms hidden to disappear.