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[onkl]

Hi all!

Is there a version for the Mac of DF 2010?
When I try to find a location for my fortress, there are some things missing, like I can no longer look for "special features" and the like?! In DF2010, are there always special features (Adamantine) in a DF2010 Map?

Thanks for helping me out with these questions!

Cheers

[Xehon]

Yup, there's always adamantine(the amount may vary and with nano fortresses it is conceivable that you might not get any) and lava + cave layers in every embark site now if you haven't changed the map gen settings. In my experience the only thing that you may miss out on are layer transitions(ramps from one cave layer to another) and the special structure at the bottom with the "Excalibur", but thats no big deal really.

IIRC Mac versions will be available after some bug fixing and the 40d19 merge. That'll be probably sometime next month.

[onkl]

Thank you very much Xehon!

Very cool that Adamantine is availabe everywhere now! (Or nearly everywhere!

[Sunday]

Yeah, no mac version, but if you're willing to put a little work into it, you can get it to work with Wine, assuming you have an Intel mac and not a PPC.

http://davidbaumgold.com/tutorials/wine-mac/

[onkl]

Some more questions:

How do I find Iron?
What about Lignite and other source of charcoal?
Are those resources available on every map also?
How do I find an underground river?
Since there no longer is a chasm, how do I dispose my waste water?

[Qloos]

Iron is usually in sedimentary layers while hematite can also appear in Igneous extrusive, (sedimentary is the white named layer on embark.)  All sedimentary layers contain coal.  No they are not available on all maps.  Underground rivers are gone, replaced by ginormous underground pools.  Dump your waste water into large open areas underground and it'll run off map somewhere.  Or evaporate by being spread so thin in the heat of the sun/earths embracing warmth.

[Dakk]

You can get iron by smelting any of the iron ores availiable, and they're so common on relatively normal areas these days you can find veins of hematite and limonite exposed on the surface. As for lignite and bituminous coal, if you have iron ores, there's a good chance you also have coal and lignite layers. To find an underground river you pretty much just have to dig down till you breach a cave, then explore its lowermost parts, you should find running water.

As for the chasm issue, its like Qloos said. Actualy I think you can just dump it back into the underground lake and the extra water should get drained.

[onkl]

Hrm, so are there underground rivers or not?

In the former version you had to discover an underground river to make trees grow underground... can you still do that or is that out? Can you do it without an underground river now?

[Qloos]

No Rivers.  You must reach a specific depth to get at underground trees.  I will say no more.

[Dakk]

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Underground trees will grow naturaly underground now, and yes there are underground rivers, you just have to dig down enough.

[Qloos]

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Underground trees will grow naturaly underground now, and yes there are underground rivers, you just have to dig down enough.

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Liar

[Dakk]

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Underground trees will grow naturaly underground now, and yes there are underground rivers, you just have to dig down enough.

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Liar

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Clown euphemism supporter!

[Qloos]

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Underground trees will grow naturaly underground now, and yes there are underground rivers, you just have to dig down enough.

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Liar

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Clown euphemism supporter!

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Oh I see what you did there.  You're an evil man.