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A spiral ramp, except every half-turn there is a bridge over the central shaft instead of the next ramp segment. This is essentially a central shaft (derp) but atleast its different. Actually depending on the scale it could be made to be quite elaborate. Obviously the smallest size would have to be 3x3 but a giant one 7x7 or bigger could be made to be very aesthetically pleasing.

Ah cool. Nice to know he is that devoted to include it in his will.

He probably has a flash drive somewhere in his flat with it on 

Most of my fortresses are grim and dark. I tend to take a more Fun path (no easy seige killing set ups) so Death is a fairly regular event.

Obviously then i have to make a choice about carving out an entire [housing] area and a seperate [tomb] area. This is what i did for years. Eventually though i thought to myself "why not just entomb the Dwarf in his room?".

So basically when a Dwarf dies, i remove the bed from his room (average dwarves get a 3x3 room with cabinet, chest, bed, statue and fully engraved) and replace it with a well made Sarcophagus. The Dwarf is then entombed and the room is sealed.

In one fortress which lasted some 500 years i probably had about 500 dead all buried in their homes. Almost enough to bring a single manly tear to my eye. Anyway the point i was going to make is that i do this with my Nobles too. I typically carve out a large room 10x10? in a hall closer to the Grand Hall and kit it out to a Royal Room. Nobles typically live longer than most others so they tend to accumulate special items (ie stuff made out of materials they like, you know how it is). And so it doesnt make sense to me now to bury them anywhere but that room. When they die the bed goes and a Candy Sarcophagus gets put in its place. They can then spend the rest of time surrounded by the items they loved and an engraved record of their deeds.

Oh and i do other special things. Lets say the commander of an invading army gets trapped in a cage, well i place the captured enemy leaders in the room of the current leader of my fortress. One particularly epic King of mine went to his grave surrounded by Great Beasts, Goblin Super-leaders, Werewolfs and all sorts. There is nothing more satisfying to imagine the creatures spending the rest of time trapped in the tomb of the guy who beat them. Pwned

Edit: and specifically my lesson is then to not make a fancy room for the dead, inter them in a tomb that MEANS something to them. Something Dwarfy and heroic.

Turns out there IS a utility.

http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=443

Unfortunately i cant get it working. The utility keeps checking to see if DF is running (and it is) but it doesnt think so. Ive tried running it in the same folder as the exe (which is what i would expect needs to happen) but it doesnt work.
Any protips?

Isnt there some document in the raw that i can just go in and edit the magma smelter to NOT require finding magma? (ive looked, there isnt, but surely some hacker for want of a better word could easily make something that overrides this)

Ok so ive recently been using Reveal alot (mainly because im sick to death of putting lots of effort into establishing a fort and trying to find both a magma pipe AND useful metal deposits (if i embark on one more site where the only metal available is tin im going to kill thousands of kittens) and its been working out fine. Normally i embark check underground and if everything is ok i turn it back off and get on with legit gameplay.

Unfortunately i recently left the reveal on and after some hours of gameplay i inevitably got things stable, stacked up a rediculous amount of mining projects and decided to go get some dinner (at this stage all autosaves are with reveal on). Of course when i come back the computer had crashed to spite me and im now stuck because i cant unlock the magma workshops (and caverns, but they are useless anyway).

Ive had a search around the forums for a solution but nothing came up. Ironically most threads simply get the "this is answered in other threads" response, but conveniently these threads with answers are not readily available or easy to find.

Therefore (tl;dr): I need to unlock the magma utilities. Is there some way to brute force my save game into accessing these? Like is there some coding or numbers hidden away i can change to unlock them? Or is there someway i can un-reveal the map? (the unreveal command doesnt work on revealed maps when you close and restart the utility).

Normally i would simply know that i have to abandon and regen the world but im really not keen on losing a good days worth of building a very, very nice fortress :/

Thanks in advance.

edit: ive found tools like this but they all seem out of date for current version.

Ah ok. Magic vermin it is then.

So the features will somehow interact with Fortress Mode? Ok, thats all i needed to know.

The dev posts arent exactly the most inviting things to read over. Half the time he seems to refer to [things in a particular world he is playing] and i dont have the time to review 30 pages of him recounting events that i can only gather are being read off Legends from world-gen events just to locate one sentence that indicates what he intends to DO with the things he talks about.

All this talk of Necromancer Towers and towns stinks of Adventure Mode to me. The logical conclusion i made was that this would not have a significant impact (if any) on Fortress Mode.

Even with your irritating sarcasm with that last question, im glad you clarified that for me. Thanks.

Well i tried DFHack ages and ages ago and it didnt work.

Inspired by your optimism ive gone and tried out the latest version and found it works perfectly. Thanks very much.
Hopefully it doesnt have any corruption sideaffects, or bugs up things (like cavern reveals screwing fungi spawn).

TIL Reveal.exe should no longer be on the utilities list.