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[Mad Jackal]

I got my fiancee hooked on df. (great job, now I'm the gamer's widow.)

anyway, we were looking at trying to run the same world on both of our computers at once. A bit of a competition or something... I know it used to be possible to plug in world seed numbers, but the search function on this site has turned nothing up.

Is there a way to find the seed number used to create the world, once you've already started to play after a normal world creation?

thanks in advance.

[Trif]

Copy your save folder and abandon the copy. Then, open legends mode and press (x) to export XML information about your world. This will create several files in your root DF directory, one of them has the seeds.

[Mad Jackal]

Thank you.
I know how this is going to be received though....

any idea which one?

[i2amroy]

Look for something that is titled "world data" or something similar would be my guess.

[Trif]

Sorry, slightly wrong information. You don't want to press (x) but (p) for "export map/gen info" . This creates some new files in the root DF directory, including region1-world_gen_param.txt .

To regen this world, paste the contents of this file to the end of /data/init/worldgen.txt . Then you can choose it in advanced world gen.

[Elvang]

You don't have to abandon to get that, simply hit esc while the save is loaded, and export image. It'll generate the worldgen info along with the bmps.

[Mad Jackal]

Thanks. I think that was what we were looking for.