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Vhorthex

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Updating Saves?
« on: October 03, 2010, 08:25:50 pm »
Hey everyone,

I read here and there people talking about a save updater. I just copy/paste my regions/saves to my new version and it seems to be working fine.

Am I missing something?

Oh, someone just snatched a baby in my 3.14 fort (now 3.15)... Life is great :D

POST EDIT: I guess no need to use updater. I just have a ton of fun appear from about everywhere. Mind Flawers ambush, 3 baby snatchers.

Woa! LOL
« Last Edit: October 03, 2010, 08:35:52 pm by Vhorthex »
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Re: Updating Saves?
« Reply #1 on: October 03, 2010, 11:08:55 pm »
The updater modifies the raw files between versions - while you may be having good luck without running it, I imagine there are some huge bombs hidden in there that will fuck up your game beyond repair when you are at the pinnacle of happiness.  If I were you I'd stop, save, run the updater and then go on playing.  It isn't hard, just run "df_savegame_updater.bat" in the game's root directory, while the game isn't running.
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Romeofalling

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Re: Updating Saves?
« Reply #2 on: October 04, 2010, 04:54:12 am »
Quote from: FleshForge on October 03, 2010, 11:08:55 pm
It isn't hard, just run "df_savegame_updater.bat" in the game's root directory, while the game isn't running.

Um, yeah. I see no such file in the root directory of the folder I extracted out of a zip I downloaded from Mirror 3. Is there anywhere I can just grab the updater?
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Re: Updating Saves?
« Reply #3 on: October 04, 2010, 05:00:09 am »
You're right, it's not there.  How odd.

No idea, maybe the one from .14 would work?
« Last Edit: October 04, 2010, 05:02:43 am by BigJake »
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Re: Updating Saves?
« Reply #4 on: October 04, 2010, 07:41:59 am »
In .15?  That's pretty bad, I strongly doubt that is safe to run.  You should report that, although I'm pretty sure Toady is already trying to rush out another version anyway - would be good to make sure that doesn't happen in .16 when it's released, which I expect is pretty soon.
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