Just for fun, I loaded Archcrystal into 44.02. Runs fine so far. I've even sent a squad out to retrieve a necromancer book from the tower to the northwest and bring it back to my library.
Did display cases and pedestals show up in Archcrystal? If not, it likely needs the same whack to the head that bookcases required. I'm not hugely inclined to work on DFHack porting, but I'm lurking in channel. As soon as we find the world struct and get a pre-alpha build, I can probably get THOSE working too. Course I'd need a narrative reason to justify Id's return
I only tested it out briefly in 44.02 just to see some of the new features. I'm playing it on 43.05 until 44 is a bit further down the iteration line. But here's what I noticed what was missing:
-Yeah no Pedestals or Display cases
-No option for a museum location
-You can send squads out to go retrieve artifacts, but they will just come back a day after leaving the map because there are no taverns in the world for them to seek out rumours, (because the world was built in 40.24)
I'll wait until a later version to try again and then give you the save to fool around with.
On the plus side, we started off the day by killing hundreds of elves, so there's that.