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Dwarf Fortress => DF General Discussion => Topic started by: darksergio on November 10, 2007, 02:02:00 pm

Title: adjuststart
Post by: darksergio on November 10, 2007, 02:02:00 pm
hi I am new in dwarf fortress. I have some experience in the previus version of this great game but i have a little question can somebody please tell me how to make the adjuststart program work because i download it but when i start it in automatically close. I have the last version of the adjuststart and dwar fortress
Title: Re: adjuststart
Post by: AlanL on November 10, 2007, 02:05:00 pm
I just used it and it caused a crash on embarking. Maybe I'm using it wrong but it seems like something's broken.
Title: Re: adjuststart
Post by: Mephisto on November 10, 2007, 02:20:00 pm
Works fine for me. Put it in the same location as dwarfort.exe, start DF and get to the main menu. Open a command prompt and navigate to that location. The correct syntax is "adjuststart [# dwarves] [# points]", so if you want to keep your seven dwarves but want 10000 points, you would type "adjuststart 7 10000" without the quotes. After that, select Start Playing/etc and continue as normal.

Thanks, I had no idea this was out.

Title: Re: adjuststart
Post by: darksergio on November 10, 2007, 02:31:00 pm
thanks for the help but please tell me how to I am not a expert please tell me how to open a comand prompt from DW
Title: Re: adjuststart
Post by: Mephisto on November 10, 2007, 02:49:00 pm
It's not in Dwarf Fortress. If you're running Windows, click on the Start menu and click on run. Type in "cmd" and press enter. I'll just assume Dwarf Fortress is in C:/DF. In the window that pops up, you should type in "cd C:\DF" and press enter. After that, just type in "adjuststart
Title: Re: adjuststart
Post by: FFT on November 10, 2007, 03:57:00 pm
The executable doesn't have to be anywhere specific. Just stick adjuststart.exe in your documents and settings\[username]> folder. That's the default folder cmd goes to, saves time in the long run.

From there, say you want 10 dwarves and 10,000 points, you'd type:

adjuststart.exe 10 10000

and hit enter.

Title: Re: adjuststart
Post by: darksergio on November 10, 2007, 04:05:00 pm
ok I tried your ideas but the program adjuststart say thet cant localize DF but that is strange because i have it in my DF folder

[ November 10, 2007: Message edited by: darksergio ]

Title: Re: adjuststart
Post by: Mephisto on November 10, 2007, 04:30:00 pm
quote:
Originally posted by FFT:
<STRONG>The executable doesn't have to be anywhere specific. Just stick adjuststart.exe in your documents and settings\[username]> folder. That's the default folder cmd goes to, saves time in the long run.

From there, say you want 10 dwarves and 10,000 points, you'd type:

adjuststart.exe 10 10000

and hit enter.</STRONG>

Thank you. I was unsure if they had to be in the same directory so I didn't want to give out false information.

Title: Re: adjuststart
Post by: darksergio on November 10, 2007, 05:22:00 pm
I cant use the adjuststart utility it say that cant localice dwarf fortress please tell me why
Title: Re: adjuststart
Post by: Mephisto on November 10, 2007, 05:26:00 pm
Is Dwarf Fortress running? Are you using the new versions of Dwarf Fortress and Adjuststart?
Title: Re: adjuststart
Post by: FFT on November 10, 2007, 06:21:00 pm
Dwarf Fortress has to be running and you have to use adjuststart.exe at the point that you can select "dwarf fortress" as opposed to adventure or legends or it won't activate right.
Title: Re: adjuststart
Post by: darksergio on November 10, 2007, 09:15:00 pm
thanks you for the help now i can use adjuststart thanks everybody for the help
Title: Re: adjuststart
Post by: Rick on November 11, 2007, 02:55:00 am
quote:
Originally posted by AlanL:
<STRONG>I just used it and it caused a crash on embarking. Maybe I'm using it wrong but it seems like something's broken.</STRONG>
I find this hard to believe unless you did something silly like 500,000 starting dwarves or something.

I mean, if I can embark with 10,000 dwarves with no problems you're doing something wrong  :).

Title: Re: adjuststart
Post by: Metalax on November 11, 2007, 04:07:00 pm
Ten legions of dwarves?   :D
Title: Re: adjuststart
Post by: Gakidou on November 12, 2007, 04:08:00 pm
I remember that in the old version, trying to use adjuststart to begin with fewer than 7 dwarves would cause a crash. Really too bad, since I would prefer to begin play with only one or two founder dwarves, but can't bring myself to kill off the rest.
Title: Re: adjuststart
Post by: Teldin on November 12, 2007, 04:14:00 pm
quote:
Originally posted by Gakidou:
<STRONG>I remember that in the old version, trying to use adjuststart to begin with fewer than 7 dwarves would cause a crash. Really too bad, since I would prefer to begin play with only one or two founder dwarves, but can't bring myself to kill off the rest.</STRONG>

Really? I used this dozens of times with the old version to bring 1-3 dwarves with me and it worked perfectly.

Title: Re: adjuststart
Post by: PTTG?? on November 12, 2007, 04:59:00 pm
WOOT. I did not know that Rick set us up the adjuststart already. Time for the million-dwarf march!

Rick Rocks

He rocks in a way similar too, and slightly less hard than, Toady One.

Title: Re: adjuststart
Post by: Gakidou on November 12, 2007, 06:41:00 pm
quote:
Originally posted by PTTG??:
<STRONG>He rocks in a way similar too, and slightly less hard than, Toady One.</STRONG>

The corundum to Toady's diamond?

Title: Re: adjuststart
Post by: Rick on November 12, 2007, 10:56:00 pm
quote:
Originally posted by Metalax:
<STRONG>Ten legions of dwarves?    :D</STRONG>
No, it was far too lagged. It took about 30 - 40 minutes for the game to embark with 50,000 dwarves.
Title: Re: adjuststart
Post by: Shujaa on November 13, 2007, 09:50:00 am
I just tried embarking with 4 dwarves and got a crash as soon as I pressed [e].