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I've been looking around, but I can't seem to find any Mac OS X ports of the utility programs, excepting Dwarf Foreman.

Does anyone know where to find such program ports, or if they even exist at this time?

Also - please, no comments on 'get a pc' or such.  It's nothing but a troll.

I had to scale back on size due to there not being enough magma (there's never enough, but too little for this, specifically).

I had intended to create a 100x100 tower of 'natural' obsidian by creating glass forms, flooding a level with magma, flooding the next level with water, raising the forms, and repeating.

At this time, I am creating a 100x50 tower.  The first level has just been filled with magma, and I am now preparing it to receive the cooling shockwave of water from a nearby brook (where the water will drain to when I'm done).

So, yes.  I currently possess a ground-level 100x50 reservoir at 7/7 magma in every tile.

For kicks, I'm going to copy the world and have the walls deconstructed in the copy.  See what happens.

if anyone wants to tell me how to get pics up to show you without having to get an account somewhere else, I'd be thrilled to get some screenshots posted for you all.

I particularly liked a site I'd found (no slopes whatsoever, all sand, brook, magma pipe extending to the surface).  I kept it for glass fortress challenges.

Now, though, I've decided on something different.

Using a system of pumps and dwarven labor, I am creating a 100x100 tower of obsidian, as tall as I can make it go.  Once complete, I will dig a beautiful above-ground fortress into the obsidian.  This will then be smoothed and engraved.  Later, if I still need more room, I may expand the forms and make the entire tower even wider, or I may decide to create an underground complex.

Of course, once it's finished, there will have to be two automated pumping systems set up, alternating waterfalls and magmafalls across the entire outer surface.  There will, of course, be a drowning system for the trade depot, as well as a controllable magmafall directly over the entrance (those orcs won't know what hit them).

I'm currently setting up the temporary fortress-hut and generating the glass blocks I'll need for the forms.  Tedious, but this will be worth it.

Oh, and an extra challenge - no trees on the map at all, I have to get all wood from merchants, as well as metal and other such things normally acquired with forestry and mining.  There are only a few shrubs and such, so it'll take some luck to get any farming running.

As in my last several fortresses, I will not dig down below the surface of the map, with one exception - I will set magma pumping up to start from a few z-levels down, for that extra bit of speed (and to fight off magma evaporation).

EDIT:  Also, except right next to the magma pipe, the entire map is subject to a surface-level aquifer.

EDIT #2:  I accidentally forgot to include any fire-safe materials on embark, so EXTRA CHALLENGE.

I'm having some trouble getting this reaction to work properly.
[REACTION:FEATHER_WOOD_TO_FOOD]
[NAME:Make sun berries from feather tree logs]
[SMELTER]
[REAGENT:1:WOOD:NO_SUBTYPE:WOOD:FEATHER]
[PRODUCT:100:20:FOOD:ITEM_FOOD_ROAST:PLANT:BERRY_SUN]Specifically, it consumes the wood, but produces nothing.  I've tried several variations in the [PRODUCT] line, but nothing is produced.

Also, in the errorlog.txt, I get the following string each time I run the reaction:
Unrecognized Sphere Token: PLANT
What am I doing wrong?

Specifically, I need to be able to make glass bolts.  It makes sense to me, but I don't know the right tokens, nor which file(s) I need to modify.

Help?

I've installed the orc mod, and found that, rather than half the year, the sieges tend to wait about 11 months - or right until the next siege shows up.

Also, they've been ramping up even though their presence has stalled my glass tower.  I still only have the original 7 dwarves (no immigrants this season, 3 years in a row), and I'm currently besieged by 50 orcs.
Luckily, I had brought a bunch of animals for food and such, so bone bolts a-plenty, but I can't risk dwarven fatalities with such a low population, and there are more than a dozen orcish bowmen outside, including a legendary one, all of them with steel arrows and various bows.

There's a section of my brook that won't melt, even though I have magma channeled directly under it.  The section directly north of it thawed, and temperature is on.  Also, I think it's in a different biome, since it stayed frozen through most of the first year, before I got the magma under it.

Is there something about the freezing biomes being cold enough for water to stay frozen even with magma under it?

I found my magma pipe in my current fortress, but it's too low for my purposes.  As such, I've assembled a pumping system to bring the magma up and dump it in the chamber I hollowed out above the pipe.  This should, in effect, extend the pipe (I think).

Of course, it might create lots of fun, but I wouldn't really mind all that much.