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Turn off save compression in init.txt (right at the bottom, just turn [COMPRESSED_SAVES:YES] to [COMPRESSED_SAVES:NO]).

If the world.dat now shows as world.sav, you should be able to open it with Notepad and read the raws of the world's procedurally generated materials, MBs, and interactions. A warning, though: the text there is disorganised as all hell, so reading it right from the file will be a pain in the rear.

How're things going, Glloyd? Your adventure still going well?

(Looks at the grammar and capitalisation of several posts).

I can feel the Warp overtaking me. It is not a good pain.

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I'm trying to kill my way through a Dark Fortress in my spare time (in between IRL bits and work). Six hundred and twenty two Goblins down, nine thousand, four hundred and fifty two to go (not counting the 4000+ Trolls and Beak Dogs present). It'll probably take several runs - the usual work/living pits are full of enough goblins that the FPS tanks and the game goes 'not responding' for about ten seconds at a time. And that's with only three adventurers, as the Necromancer army I was intending to bring/create on site would probably crash the game from sheer 'oh god please no more creatures'.

"Healedwhips the Awe-Inspiring Despair". Sounds like quite the cheerful little place.

Good luck with your turn, Glloyd.

You don't need to go underwater. If you're at the river's edge, you should be able to see down by (l)ooking and pressing >. If you can see down one tile, take control of your other adventurer and have her drown in the river. Then go back to your Necromancer adventurer, use the intelligent undead option (using > to go down in view to where her corpse is) and (Tab) back to the newly-resurrected companion. Equip her with the gear she dropped on death, and you're done.

That said, check the temperature before you do any of this! I'm not sure if it's due to being encased in ice or due to being rezzed once, but an IU that gets frozen doesn't seem able to be revived again, and it wouldn't do for your newly-rezzed companion to be permakilled due to being unable to get out of the river in time.

A completely rotten heart won't actually kill you, while a bleeding one can make you drop dead in several steps.

I can agree with memorialising the ghost. Losing is Fun, but losing due to what's basically a bug is not Fun.

EDIT: Also, a question: when resurrecting a recruited companion (i.e.: not from character creation) as an Intelligent Undead, is using DFHack's bodyswap command to get around their inability to equip gear (due to their NOTHOUGHT token in world.sav) allowed or not?

The map (at least, my crudely-altered version of it) has the clown-car towns marked out:


As for Werebeasts, Raki reeaally got around. I count around 111 'passing on the curse' bites on historical figures, give or take a couple and any non-HFs that LegendsViewer didn't pick up, and all of them are Weremammoths. Something tells me this will be very Fun indeed, though becoming a powerful Werebeast may now be a fair bit easier.

All of this said, though, I am going to have to request that you bump me down 2 or 3 spaces. University assessments (formative and summative) are coming up for me for the next two weeks or so, which means I probably won't be able to do what I have planned for my turn.