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DF Gameplay Questions / Mac version on Steam?

« on: December 06, 2022, 01:20:37 pm »

I just heard that the new version came out and I went to purchase it, only to find that it's windows only and so there's no way I could even play it... Why is this the case when the game supports Mac and Linux versions? I'm not sure where to post this as I am unable to post anything on the bug reports forum for some reason.

DF General Discussion / Tarn Adams at GDC?

« on: March 27, 2019, 12:33:36 pm »

Did Tarn do a talk at GDC this year? He said he was going to be there but I haven't seen any mention of any talk.

DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / World gen - every stone layer the same

« on: May 08, 2013, 08:50:38 pm »

This is the first time I have played in many many months. (Haven't played since minecarts and only briefly after vampires.) I've been wondering if world gen has substantially changed.

So I've been playing on this world for a few days and have several shale layers and various other layers below. I found it odd how all I could find was magnetite and black opals. I pulled out DFHack and did a reveal. Apparently every shale layer is _ONLY_ magnetite large clusters and black opal small clusters. Beneath that are diorite layers containing ONLY prase small clusters, gneiss layer containing ONLY rose quartz and so on. With finally from Z 58 down to the magma sea around Z 145, layers of granite with ONLY native silver veins and and clusters of yellow zircon and clusters of honey yellow beryl.

Is this normal now? Is variety in stone layers gone? Or is this just a bug and I should re-gen. I mean its nice I will have infinite iron to make steel with as soon I can build a pump stack from the magma sea (I'll have to burn wood for a while), but this feels all rather like cheating in a way.

Also, are magma pools no longer on every map? I seem to remember you were guaranteed one every map (or I was always very lucky).

DF Gameplay Questions / What happens to rooms when they fall?

« on: January 17, 2011, 07:24:26 am »

If I create a hanging room, and detach the support and let it fall many z-levels, does it maintain its shape when it lands or does it flatten? I want to find out if its possible to go magma pipe diving.

DF Gameplay Questions / Bridge Flinging vs Dropping onto Traps

« on: January 17, 2011, 06:55:51 am »

I'm setting up my fortress with a retractable/raisable bridge and I'm trying to figure out how the "fling" works when you raise a drawbridge. Does it fling them directly into the air or does it shoot them backwards, say into a wall. I'm trying to decide whether its best to have a retractable drawbridge and drop them onto traps, or to have a raising drawbridge and fling them into a wall. Which is better?

DF Gameplay Questions / Help creating a water zone for watering a farm

« on: December 27, 2010, 09:14:01 am »

All the guides seem to assume that it is simple to designate a zone for where to find water, but everything I have tried has proved fruitless.

How do you set up a zone such that the dwarves will actually collect water? I have set it on the water, above the water, above the water with some overlap on land, over rivers, over pools, over self made pools. Nothing seems to work. The game continues to spam "Dwarf cancels Fill Pond: No water source."