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If you're using Windoze and only want a nice tile set you can also use the bare bones windoze pack http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=159849.0 and still use the latest DF version.

steel jackal exaggerates the depravity of the DF forum community, though. The community generally recognizes the distinction between what's done in game and reality, so there are few barriers (but still some) for what's considered OK to do in game, but there are no suggestions these things would be acceptable in reality.

everything i say should be taken with a grain of salt and some common sense

do note that lnp isnt updated to the latest version because of issues getting memory layouts for the 64bit version of df, which is new.

lnp has some great utilities that will help you when learning the game, but if your intrested in all the !!FUN!! you will have from playing without utilities heres how to install tilesets (thats what we call texture packs)

step 1: find the tileset you want, the wiki has a tileset repository. tilesets are just a single image. i personally reccomend taffer if your looking for something simmilar to default, but square. and obsidian for something more fancy.

then head to where ever you put df and go to (i think) data, art, tilesets. im not at my computer atm so i cant check.
put the tileset there and then look for the init folder, there should be 2 diffrent init files, init and d_init. in one of them there should be 4 lines where it says ”"curses_800x600" replace all the instances of that with whatever the file name of your tileset is called.
note that any worlds already generated will need to have their raws replaced to use the new tileset.


also, in case nobody has given you a proper welcome:
welcome to the bay 12 dwarf fortress forums, please leave your sanity at the door and throw your morals down that bottomless pit over there.
around here, throwing a child into a pit of pulsating spikes surrounded by trained war dogs constantly clawing at them for the next 8 years of their life, murdering members of nobility and passing their death off as an unfortunate accident, and torturing elves for sport is all considered common practice and good fun.

this is a safe place to let your inner psychopath that wants to commit complete global genocide upon every living creature in the most creative and horrendous ways possible roam free

Quote from: steel jackal on November 14, 2016, 09:26:15 pm

d-b-f the entire map though all the z levels for forbid absolutely everything

You can do that across zeds?   Man, just when you think you've learned all the tricks, lol.  Although that still won't help him to find the inaccessible item upon reclaiming everything.

you can do all of the designations across z levels, burrow designations as well

i discovered this when making up/down staircases across multiple z levels and i tried to do it and it worked. its a huge time saver

as long as its just a fever its not that big of a deal, but you should probably invest some time in a cleanable bathtub if you have a source of water.

here is a top down view of how i make my tubs


##X##
#~~~#
#~~~# <bathtub
#~~~#
##X##
#~~~#
#~~~#
#~~~#<"measuring cup"
##X##
# is arbitrary floor
~ is where water should be
X is floodgate

the bathtub contains 9 tiles of water, dwarves can walk in water levels of 4 or less, so if you fill up the measuring cup with 9 tiles with a water level of 7 and then let it flood into another 9 tiles that are empty, the average water level will be 3-4, allowing your dwarves to get clean without drowning them.

first, open the floodgate into the measuring cup, let it fill to a water level of 7, close the floodgate, then open the floodgate into the bathtub, the water levels will even out to 3-4, then close the floodgate. whenever you need to clean the tub just open the floodgate leading out of the bathtub and out to wherever you drain it at. repeat to refill.

place it at the outside entrance to your fort, and the entrance to the caverns. never know if theres a dead forgotten beast down there with gut exploding secretions that will infect your entire fort without you knowing and then one day everybody just starts dying for no reason and you loose the fort (this happend to me once, ever since then i have been wary of the caverns)

well, to get hostiles into cages you can use cage traps, those will catch anything that dosnt have the [TRAP_AVOID] tag

try placing a few of them in a 1 wide hallway leading into your fort, and into the caverns.

note that you should make the cages out of metal if possible, some creatures can escape wooden cages

he could be considering his clothing as armor and thus not want to take them off, try going to his equipment and deleting everything, then telling him to wear specific pieces of armor.
note that you need to specify that he should wear two boots and two gauntlets, or else he will only wear one of each

necromancers ARE very dangerous, they have the [OPPOSED_TO_LIFE] tag which makes it so that undead and anything else that has the [OPPOSED_TO_LIFE] tag will not attack them, but a necromancer will only raise dead in combat, so as long as he dosnt get into a fight he isnt an immediate threat.

get him somewhere safe and far away from the rest of your dwarves, and either seal him up or arrange an unfortunate accident