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Utilities and 3rd Party Applications / Re: Dwarf Therapist (Maintained Branch) v.37.0 | DF 42.06
« on: September 15, 2016, 05:51:21 pm »
I'm trying to get back in to Dwarf Fortress and really learn how to play it this time, but I'm having trouble with the Mac version of DT. Every time I load it up, there isn't any text on the main interface, and a lot of the text in the preferences menu is missing, too. It does this regardless of whether DF is running or not. I'm on OS 10.11, El Capitan.

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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: How To Farm in 0.31.x and 0.34.x (DF2010/2012)
« on: June 27, 2014, 07:25:06 am »
How do I tell exactly whether my farm plots are producing food or not? My dwarves are all hungry even though I've set the plot to produce plump helmets every season. The farms show wavy lines, which means nothing is planted, right?

(Though I think they may also be starving because I turned all their food into booze. Oops.)

EDIT: Woops, I meant to put this in the "DF 2012v0.34 question and answer thread." Oh well, it's probably still ok here.

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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: DF 2012v0.34 question and answer thread
« on: June 26, 2014, 08:42:54 am »
What's the best way to clear out stone from a room? I've been designating the stone to be dragged to a garbage dump, but I didn't know if there was some time-saving trick I'm missing.

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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: DF 2012v0.34 question and answer thread
« on: June 23, 2014, 12:04:31 pm »
So what are basic garbage dumps actually used for? Just getting excess materials out of the way?

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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: DF 2012v0.34 question and answer thread
« on: June 23, 2014, 11:12:12 am »
I was reading about garbage dumps on the wiki, and I was wondering, why shouldn't I just use garbage dumps instead of stockpiles?

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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: What do you need for a first-time embark site?
« on: June 23, 2014, 11:10:32 am »
Thanks everyone, you helped a lot.

Is there some surefire way to make sure you embark on a site with a large dirt layer?

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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: What do you need for a first-time embark site?
« on: June 22, 2014, 12:06:20 am »
I thought I got the basics; you have three zoom levels of the map, and you move your embark site on the section on the left with the umkh keys, and the text on the right shows what qualities the embark site has. I haven't picked sites that it says have aquifers.

I'm also having trouble finding a place to build a fortress that has underground dirt so you can have an underground farm.

I actually played the game a bit a long time ago on a pre-made save file, but I've never tried to pick an embark site before.

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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: What do you need for a first-time embark site?
« on: June 21, 2014, 11:05:47 pm »
See, I made sure there wasn't an aquifer in my sites before I picked them, but I still ran into wet materials both times I tried to start digging. I guess there were underground lakes or something.

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DF Gameplay Questions / What do you need for a first-time embark site?
« on: June 21, 2014, 09:19:23 pm »
I keep trying to find good embark sites with the parameters recommended by the wiki, but I get very few sites or none at all on each world I generate, even after loosening the parameters a bit. Exactly what are the bare minimum qualities needed in an embark site for a first-time game?

Also, I keep running into "wet" material that the dwarves won't dig through. How can I avoid this?

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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: The DF2010 Little Questions Thread
« on: July 05, 2011, 07:05:08 pm »
Thanks, I'll try that.

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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: The DF2010 Little Questions Thread
« on: July 05, 2011, 06:57:08 pm »
Quote from: scriver on July 05, 2011, 06:49:18 pm
Nah, you're lacking copper in the equipment menu because your dwarves' civilization-of-origin does not have access to copper. You must've chosen a different civilization at embark, if you had access to copper before.

Can't use the same dwarves twice either. It always generates new ones, you only save the way you spent the embarking points.

Oh. Guess I was wrong then. How do I determine what civilization my dwarves come from?

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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: The DF2010 Little Questions Thread
« on: July 05, 2011, 06:43:35 pm »
Ohh, I think I know what I did now.

I created a world, and then chose an embark point. I decided I didn't like the location, so then I abandoned the fortress to quit. I then tried to choose a another location, but I used the same dwarves.

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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: The DF2010 Little Questions Thread
« on: July 05, 2011, 05:40:35 pm »
Oh, I get it. There's no copper ore to make the axes and picks out of, so they get removed from the items list and I get the extra points.

How do I tell if a site has copper ore?

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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: The DF2010 Little Questions Thread
« on: July 05, 2011, 04:51:15 pm »
Every time I load up one of my already created profiles to embark, it says I haven't used all my points and gives me extra points, even though I used up all my points when I saved the profile and used it the first time. It also makes my copper picks and axes disappear, and I can't find them on the new items list even if I search for them. Is this bug, or am I doing something wrong or what?

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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: The DF2010 Little Questions Thread
« on: July 03, 2011, 11:43:49 am »
In world generation, what's the difference gameplay-wise in how many years play out before I start my game?

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