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got a relatively simple one i just haven't been able to figure out. that means it will turn out to be something obvious, of course, but i'm hoping someone here will help.

the pre-steam version, i'd bring up the mason's show, tell it to make a rock mechanism, then hit `d` on the job and select the rock type to use.  but in the steam version i don't see the option to even make a rock mechanism (of any kind).  so, how is it done now? all the tutorials/guides for the new version seem to assume you know how make a rock mechanism, so that leave that part out (grumble grumble). i can add one to the work orders, but it isn't getting made.

edit: i'm making a mechanic's workshop. hopefully that does it. 

edit 2: yep, as soon as the mechanics workshop was made, it started building mechanisms. unfornately, i forgot to limit it the four i wanted, so it had completed 10 by time i noticed.

Nope, that was the first thing I checked, since I've made that mistake before

I decided to do some experimenting to see if i can easily figure out the minimum height above water for a well.

So, before the steam release I would regularly place a well at the top of a cistern multiple z-levels deep and use it just fine as long as i had a minimum of 8/7 water in the tile below the well itself (regardless of how far down the water was).  However, with the Steam release (0.50.03 at the moment), it is telling me the well is dry despite the fact there is nearly 3 z-levels (21+/7) of water below it.  I think it is due to the fact there are five z-levels of empty space between the well and the water, but was hoping folks here had more/better info on the behavior.

I've updated the tileset image at the top of the thread with a minor update I just uploaded today (both here and the Tileset Repository on the DF Wiki).  The primary "fix" was making the D and O easier to differentiate, though there are a few other minor changes.

You can use 0.43.05 and just have more than one bar-keep in your tavern.  You'll get lots of over-drinking that way.

There are instructions on how to install a standard tileset in the DF wiki Tileset Repository page.  Some tilesets make changes to the raws, and for those you'll have to look at the install instructions they come with, or use something like the LNP to get them installed correctly.

Finally remembered to update the DFWiki Tileset Repository with the latest version.

Yeah, I ended up redoing most of them.  If there are any other characters that people feel aren't clear enough please let me know and I'll see what I can do to improve them.  I'm still debating if I've made enough of a difference on the D vs O.

My experience so far on Windows 10:

SDL 0.43.04: errors on launch about missing MSVCP140.dll and VCRUNTIME140.dll.
Legacy 0.43.04: no problems on launch or exit
"new df exe": no problems on launch or exit
"df xp test exe": no problems on launch or exit

This matches my experience as well in Win10 64 bit.  From checking the 0.43.04 zip I downloaded yesterday the two referenced DLLs are missing, an older version of the MSVCP (msvcp100.dll) is present, but no runtime file (vcruntimeXXX.dll) is present at all, old or new.

Installing the two files from Toady's post a few above this one resolves the problem.  I am not seeing the error/crash on exit, though I haven't even generated a world yet.