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[Hummingbird]

I want to retrieve the seeds from a worldgen.  I tried to open "world.dat" from the folder of the world I wanted, but opening it with TextEdit gave me a load of garbled characters.  How can I look at the content of .dat files?

[Untelligent]

To get the seed from a worldgen, start the game, press ESC, and go to "Export local image." Exporting an image should also create a handy text file for you that includes the worldgen information used for that world, including the seed.

[Hummingbird]

The "Export Local Image" in the ESC menu turns red when I move the cursor to it.  When I press Enter, nothing happens.  Is this a problem?  I am using 40d on Mac OS 10.4.

[Razoric480]

You have to start a fort. That's what he meant by start game.

[Hummingbird]

Well, that's annoying (I'm mostly an Adventure Mode player at the moment).  Thanks for the help though.

[i2amroy]

If you go into legends mode then there is the option to 'export map and general info' at the bottom of the screen. This should then create a map and some text files that include the seed and other world info in your dwarf fortress folder.

[LegoLord]

Yeah.  You export the world data from fortress mode or legends mode.  You can take breaks from adventure mode, so that shouldn't be a problem (unless you're the enemy of every civ due to rampage.