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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: Mac issues.
« on: May 20, 2012, 12:55:21 pm »
Oh MY GOD I LOVE YOU! It worked perfectly!

Thanks everyone who helped but thanks most of all to Zenerbufen for being my hero and i2amroy for saving me the hassle of the Terminal!

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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: Mac issues.
« on: May 20, 2012, 05:21:05 am »
Now I am convinced it has to be something else. My friend said he had this computer wiped clean once. Could I be missing some important function on my computer? Because come to mention it the only games that have worked so far are runescape (thought I would try) and dungeon crawl stone soup. Even other mac-compatible games have not been working.


Thank you everyone for your help so far.

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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: Mac issues.
« on: May 19, 2012, 01:11:58 pm »
I did exactly that. It acknowledged that it was df_osx but when I do sh df it does a few lines of trying it then says image not found.

****-macbook:df_osx ****$ sh df
dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/X11R6/lib/libfreetype.6.dylib
  Referenced from: /Users/****/Desktop/df_osx/libs/SDL_ttf.framework/Versions/A/SDL_ttf
  Reason: image not found
df: line 12:  1032 Trace/BPT trap          ./dwarfort.exe
***-macbook:df_osx ***$
***-macbook:df_osx ***$

This is what I get.

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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: Mac issues.
« on: May 18, 2012, 06:56:30 pm »
2009 macbook, with a 2.4 ghz intel core 2. I am pretty sure this game should be working and I did everything right I just can't think what the problem could be. Sorry I said old mac because it looks old and thats what we call it, (cracked lid, lots of old stickers ect.)

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DF Gameplay Questions / Mac issues.
« on: May 18, 2012, 12:03:03 am »
Hello anyone who cares to help, I am having problems getting any version of dwarf fortress to run on my friends old macbook. I did the console commands right but when I try to use the command to open df it says it can not read it.

If you have any suggestions please tell me, I m dying to try the new release!

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DF Community Games & Stories / Re: [Z]ap Rod of Polymorf: Dwarf
« on: October 05, 2011, 10:21:22 am »
I will try to get SC of it, and a save (if you dare try and load it). The best I can do for now is describe (sorry I can't prove it, but I can't really picture someone pathetic enough to make this up.)

Here is some more detail though, the fort he is in now is the 5th fort. I tried to explain how you build a temporary work camp to keep your dwarves safe and happy while you built your main fort but he turned it into build a different fort every time you realize how much better it can be (and need more space, think hermit crab shells). So I guess his obsidian fort isn't really his first.

    I wish I could have seen his first few but the obsidian factory (mostly magma storage) is where they used to be. The obsidian one looks like half a beehive sticking from the ground. It was either 12 or 15 z above ground. It is stacked octagons (he playes a lot of civ 5) the top is the Kings quarters it has a very un-dwarfy 12 clear glass windows (3 on every major wall, it isn't a perfect octogon) and 5 of the levels is a solid sungold spire.

    Surounding the main "hive" between it and the wall is a cast obsidian hospital ( 3 z levels each floor like 6x10 excluding stairwell, top floor is a few medical training buildings) It is pressed right up against the side. There is a main entrance into the hive and 2 smaller outside leading from the  gates. Ground floor is storage, second is beds and tables. I am really not doing any of this justice. Oh also my brother is an engineer.

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DF Community Games & Stories / Re: [Z]ap Rod of Polymorf: Dwarf
« on: October 05, 2011, 09:32:32 am »
(sorry there is just so much to tell about, I'll try to keep this as organized and ramble-free as I can)

    To explain a bit about how he knows so much, that five year fort I made him sit through took us 4 days and I explained everything. Also he tore apart the wiki shortly after starting. My most pressing advice was to "be very carefull when you start to get deep" I told him about the magma sea but not about the carnival at all. He is scared to death of whats down there so he only has a 8X8 shaft for pumps and magma. He has indeed had near fort ending experiences, and the dead dwarves list is so absudly long. He is at war with everything.

    The story of why he is at war with the elves is of particular note. The thing that made him build a trading post (I don't know how far into the fort, my guess is no more than a few years) was a legendary metalcrafter from a mood. So he quickly made gold into bars and bars into crafts. The first caravan to arive was the (I forget the name) df like ones. He wanted to make a good impression on the elves so he just plain tried to give them bins of high quality gold crafts. Well after some rude remarks about the wooden bins he decided elves would be killed on sight in every fort he makes (I had forgoten to warn him about elves... Oh well he figured it out)

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DF Community Games & Stories / Re: [Z]ap Rod of Polymorf: Dwarf
« on: October 05, 2011, 09:01:02 am »
(my phone sucks so I have to split this up) His embark was 6x6 and his fort was massive. It had a massive obsidian caster for crafts and was carved out of a dwarf made obsidian mountain with a wall around it.  Notable features include a second walled in section seperate from the main fort. It was self sufficient and was a cast obsidian ziggurat with a red steel altar (just a construct square of red steel with a red steel altar of war on it) crowning it. The 50 chosen had all the artifact armor/weapons and the rest master red steel. They lived inside the ziggurat and every one was a tried and true hero of the most badass sort (and they had to be steel dwarves). Underneath was a massive catacomb to all the fallen chosen. They made their own food/armor/weapons and the weapons to make the red steel. Every soldier gets burried with his gear.

    The size and scope of his obsidian casting ability (lots of infrastructure) was rival to many mega project alone, (he later told me my description of pumps sucked and he absorbed everything on the wiki)

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DF Community Games & Stories / [Z]ap Rod of Polymorf: Dwarf
« on: October 05, 2011, 08:28:45 am »
Hello everyone! I just wanted to share the story of my brothers transformation into a dwarf. It started about a year and a half ago ,a little while after I started playing DF. Me and my brother get together every few months to play videogames and catch up and every time for about a year I had tried to tell my brother about Dwarf Fortress because I was sure he would like it. I never could catch his attention with it though because of how hard it is to put how awesome it is into words, and the one time he wanted to see it I made the mistake of running vanila. I forgot how little sense ASCII makes to untrained eyes.

    Anyways after about a year of that nonsense I decided to force him into a crash course on DF, it was for his own good. I made him watch (and collaborate) as I played a fortress,  this time with Genesis (praise be to Deon!), for 5 years while I explained everything starting with a 15 minute tutorial on what he was looking at. After the first 5 minutes of gameplay (I had already explained material properties and combat) he was hooked.

    This is the part that gets me all teary eyed. After a few months I went to visit him again, I had totaly forgotten about showing him the game. The first thing he says is "come look at my fort!". I was expecting something akin to my first forts. What I saw amazed me, it was a dwaven metropolis second only to the dwarfiest of mega projects. Now he has the benefit of having a $2300 liquid cooled demon to run this on. His population was just under 400 and it had been running for 230 years. It was his first fort. He had 150 masterpiece steel (everything except engravings and random crap was master) clad *weapon*masters.

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DF Modding / Thanks for the pot
« on: September 29, 2011, 02:10:01 am »
I would just like to express my thanks to the person who invented the plant pot custom building. It is the best thing to happen to my fortress since the display case. I couldn't find who made it but I found it in genesis so I'm going to guess Deon. I think this would be a great addition to vanila and I wish there was more support for adding great player-made goodies that fit the vanila theme.

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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: The tale of Zetris
« on: September 27, 2011, 07:50:30 pm »
Haha awesome.

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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: The tale of Zetris
« on: September 27, 2011, 02:37:12 am »
Next time the end is looming around you give every hand a weapon and throw open your gates. Warriors such as Zetris deserve to die in defiance not in hiding.

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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: Your best artifact ever
« on: May 29, 2011, 08:30:47 pm »
Vathez Gedore, "The Virgin of Evil", a dwarf bone statue of Defiyi Grizzlysuiters

This is a dwarf bone statue of Defiyi Grizzlysuitors. All craftsdwarfship is of the highest quality. The item is a masterfully designed image of Defiyi Grizzlysuitors the elf and Lefari Meadowhale the Esteemed Dunes the roc in dwarf bone by Ingish Etesurist (My expedition leader). Lefari Meadowhale the Esteemed Dunes is striking down Defiyi Grizzlysuitors. The artwork relates to the killing of the elf Defiyi Grizzlysuitors by the roc Lefari Meadowhale the Esteemed Dunes in The Fingers of Tanning in 24. This object menaces with spikes of dwarf bone.


My expedition leader killed my only peasant just before the first year ended, He is a lot more useful as a statue.

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DF Modding / Soil layer
« on: January 30, 2011, 12:11:46 pm »
Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Hello, I am in the process of making myself a kobold mod and I was wondering what tag I need to add to an entry such as this one to make it show up in small clusters in any soil layer. Thanks for any help.

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DF Modding / Re: Tag help
« on: December 15, 2010, 02:36:13 am »
Okay thanks everyone. I have what I want working in a custom building.

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