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First time I tried adventure mode I was totally lost. A couple of quick tips.

(r)emoving something from your inventory (or while you wear it) will put it in your hand. That's how you equip things.
you can hold an infinite number of items as of this version. To drop something, you have to hit 'd', but you can't drop something you're wearing, so you'll have to remove it first.
If you find boogeymen, run. Don't sleep alone at night outside, and if possible don't sleep outside even during the day, wild animals could come wandering, or you could be ambushed.
When you'll be geared/skilled enough, you can consider fighting bogeyman. It's easier with a slashing weapon or with a good wrestling skills.

With slashing weapons, just slash at their lower body, and if you're skileld anough (and actually hit them), you'll most probably split them in half.
If you have a good wrestling skill, bite them in the lower body until "you latch on firmly" and then shake them and you'll most probably rip them in half.
The way to do this last thing is: Aimed attack (uppercase A when you're near an enemy), press b for lower body, press whatever letter to bite.
Repeat until you get the message "you latch on firmly". If it takes too long, stop. Don't get surrounded.
After the message, perform another (A)imed attack, press Enter to wrestle, press 'a' to select the bogeyman, press Enter to select "Wrestle using your upper right tooth" (or whatever tooth that is), then press Enter to select "Shake ... bla bla".

Also, you can consider training to increase your skills and chance of survival, if you want.

Also also: Speed is important. And shields. Without a shield, you'll be dead meat sooner than later, with it (and good shield user skill) you're basically a tank.
You can also equip more than a shield, but most consider it cheating. It's a single player game though, you can do whatever you want.

Report back for any problem, question, idea or whatever. Just remember that you WILL incur some of the most gruesome deaths (both in adventurer and fortress mode) you could imagine, but that's part of the fun.

And finally a forum related advice. "fun" is the usual meaning of fun, while "Fun" is Fun

Yay wall of text x_x

Seems like you lack some toughness. A higher toughness means that you don't pass out so easily.

I used the same DF download, so that might be the issue but I never had any other crash so it's quite odd. I did a little adventure in vanilla but I never got to a town so I don't know if it would crash there too.

Damn, and I hoped it was a problem with my pc. It's strange though, it happened with civilization forge, monster hunter universe and genesis, but I don't see many topic about it, so I guess that either I am pretty unlucky or something's wrong...

Yes, I know this post does not belong here, but the adventure mode discussion forum isn't very lively, at least atm. So, my problem is that my adventurer is stuck in a town that is segfaulting wherever I go, hence I cannot "leave this site" (evil civ town) and continue my adventure. I would be grateful if someone could exit the town and save in the wilderness. Version is 31.25 and I'm using civilization forge mod, I don't think it matters tho because the save is the whole region, and it's located here.

Hope you'll help me

Is anyone else having a LOT of segfaults (seemingly randomly) when entering or walking through the shops section of towns? I said seemingly randomly because sometimes the game will segfault upon entering a yellow tile in the world map, sometimes not. And once I'm in, simply walking and going around will sometimes crash the game, upon nearing a shop. It seems that different zones have different chances of crashing the game, but I'm not totally sure. The version is 31.25, linux. I'm using civilization forge but I had the same problem with monster hunter universe and genesis. I didn't try vanilla. It could be that my pc is too crappy, but it's most probably a bug, since in hamlets or in non-commercial zones of towns I don't have this problem.

EDIT: It seems that whatever I do, wherever I go, I'll be segfaulting before I can "leave this site". I'm uploading the save and will post a link to it ASAP. I would be really, really grateful if someone could leave that town and save in the wilderness, so I can keep on playing. Will reply when the file is up.

EDIT2: The save is here

Yes, obviously you were right... I though I embarked with every new millable (to dye) plant seed (I'm into textile industry) but I was wrong. Tested on another embark and, yep, my bad. Sorry