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[Ari Rahikkala]

I see you've been doing some work to improve seed compatibility between different users on the same version... however, as long as Dwarf Fortress uses the system RNG, seeds will be dependent on operating systems. Please consider adding a random number generator to Dwarf Fortress instead in order to get consistent results across systems. I'm not an expert on RNGs, but this one is C++, BSD-licensed, and seems quite useful.

[Toady One]

I've been using a Mersenne Twister for quite some time.  I'm not sure what you were referring to.  The messing around I've been doing with seeds wasn't about OS differences, and I haven't seen any clear information on OS differences with the RNG in Dwarf Fortress.

[penguinofhonor]

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[Capntastic]

Yeah.   DF has more than one RNG method.   One of which ensures sameness of worlds between seeds and such.

[Ari Rahikkala]

Cool. I guess the reason why the seeds in the seed archive didn't work for me (on Wine) was that I got confused by the versions or mistyped them or something, then...