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Just a quick note that I'm playing DAIII under Linux. I've only just started, so there may be hiccups, but my steps to run have been:

- Download and unpack Linux LNP 0.44.10-r01
- Download and unpack Wanderlust V3 44.10 release of DAIII.
- Delete the `df_linux/raw` and `df_linux/data` directories in the LinuxLNP.
- Copy the these directories across from DAIII.
- Start Dwarf Fortress (without DFHack) by cd'ing to the df_linux directory and running the `./df` shell-script.
- Create a world using advanced parameters with the ORAM-NALISH-MED-PREGEN-WORLD-Y195 settings.
- Enjoy!

The fire & ice pregen crashes for me, But Oram/Nalish is working great!

Many thanks again for what looks like a spectacular mod!

Thank you! Trying my next embark with this, merged with Fortress Defence. So far there's no file conflicts, so we'll see how things go.

Also especially thank you for posting the github repo. Starred and watched.

~ McT

You are fabulous, thank you!

Is there a github or other source code repo that one may follow?

The short opinion: Do it. Please.

The long opinion:

Do it. You have a dream. You have an excellent track record of getting things done. You should absolutely be pursuing that dream, and you should absolutely be letting the community support you in doing so.

The really successful campaigns on Patreon are all established creators. They're comics, games, artists and musicians that all have a strong track record and a strong following already. You have that with Masterwork. If nothing else, enable crowdfunding for MWDF; that will let you leverage the most interest, that will get you the most word of mouth, that will get everything going with a bang. Put a link in your signature. Make a big post on reddit. Find reasons to toot the hype train horn. I'm pretty confident that you'll be successful. Make sure Masterwork appears front-and-centre in the campaign materials; it's what people recognise, and it's what people love. It's a *very* good vehicle to get existing supporters to discover The Legend of Urist.

All the regular advice regarding Patreon applies. Give people reward tiers (especially at the $1, $3 and $5 mark), but don't be surprised when people don't want rewards. Set funding milestones, they give people something to work before, and "we're 93% to our goal" calls strongly to a lot of people. Make your your patrons get updates on what's happening, and what their money is going towards. I struggle with all of these for my own campaign for the Comprehensive Kerbal Archive Network (CKAN), which is still young but proving to be quite successful.

In many ways, I started my own campaign to keep myself honest, because I noticed that I had started to slow down. My milestones come with clear deliverables in terms of work and reports; whether you do this is up to you, but they do make good milestones, and it provides backers with assurances that you're not just around for now, but really around for the long-term. As we all know, there are plenty of abandoned mods and creations out there because the folks who made them have moved on to other things.

Finally, $500/month is too low as a final goal. Yes, it'll cover your living expenses in lower-cost countries, but your backers (of which I will be one) also want to see you put checkmarks in the countries you haven't cycled through. We want to see you with enough funds to get to DF conventions. We love your work, and would like to see you earning more than just the minimum to get by. So consider having a higher "final goal", and at least have in the back of your mind goals *beyond* that.

So yes, please do this. While my current commitments have had me away from DF for much too long, I really want to see you still around when I come back. <3

0.75 integrated into SWP, with many thanks to Splinterz.

Gnomes are now updated to 0.75 in SWP/gold. Thanks to splinterz for the pull request!

Wait, is that a bugtracker? That looks like a bugtracker. I've been looking for a bugtracker all over the place, WTH!? xD

It sure is! Enjoy!

So... github has "issues" -.-"

Not everything's a bug. Some things are feature requests, or build systems, or other things.

Which branch / repo would be adequate to take as a base for my own modifications now? Gold? Alpha? Or Splinterz?

pjf/gold has traditionally been considered authoritative, and at this point should contain all of Splinterz' updates. Although one of the best things about git is that you can absolutely base your work off anyone's repository. Right now alpha/beta/gold are all the same, because all the "experimental" features (orc rebalance, warlocks, etc) are no longer experimental.

So I'd fork off pjf/gold and go from there. Github provides pretty nice full-repo download zipfiles, so you essentially get your distribution packaging done for free.

~ T

Are you still doing the staged releases? Didn't examine it too closely but "Gold" looks sort newer than beta/alpha ATM with commits already included that I couldn't find in beta/alpha... & stuff...

Alpha/Beta previously contained warlocks and orcs, which are now in the official releases. So as of a few minutes time, all three branches will be the same.

I've just integrated a boatload of patches (especially from splinterz). Am about to push all the pretty little zip files before I crash into bed.