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[MrAnderson]

today I downloaded the newest version of df and genned a new world. to see what i will get, i used dfHack-reveal and prospect, which showed me no adamantine. Alerted, I raced down the z-levels, only to find this:

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as in "no adamantine, just curious black UNREVEALED blocks". Even with dfHack-reveal, those tiles do not show, also no hell is visible, just a full black layer below the magma sea. When I dig down there, they are just normal stone tiles.
As I thought, well, maybe my PC was unhappy about the new version, so I genned a new world but it has the same problem.
Method I got this world: "Start new world" in the main menu, so no special parameters... Also I didn't mod anything, I only got an old save (34.02) into the save-folder and changed the init and d-init for popcap. Any clue on this?

[Viscaro]

use 'reveal hell' cmd

[Naryar]

maybe you just didn't had adamantine veins on your embark. It happens on small embarks.

[Loud Whispers]

maybe you just didn't had adamantine veins on your embark. It happens on small embarks.

Hello Mr Anderson. Basically the above, or dig to those black blocks. If they are just normal stones...

DIG THEM ALL!

Then you can say you have no adamantine.

And why are you using DF reveal anyways?

[MrAnderson]

use 'reveal hell' cmd

ah, ok, that did it, didnt't know there was a separate command. and as prospect only shows revealed tiles as it seems, I had no adamantine. So thx for the tip

i only used reveal to use the "prospect" tool as to see what to expect and to see how deep the aquifer is

[Vehudur]

maybe you just didn't had adamantine veins on your embark. It happens on small embarks.

Hello Mr Anderson. Basically the above, or dig to those black blocks. If they are just normal stones...

DIG THEM ALL!

Then you can say you have no adamantine.

And why are you using DF reveal anyways?

I use reveal hell --> prospect --> unreveal at the start of most maps just to see what I have - but this doesn't tell me where it is, especially considering I usually do multiple biome embarks.  I understood it as the OP does the same thing but found the lack of adamantine odd because he used the wrong command so he took a look.

To the OP:

"reveal" reveals the map except hell related stuff, which is hidden.
"reveal hell" reveals the entire map but doesn't permit the map to be unpaused until it is unrevealed.
"reveal demon" reveals the entire map and allows you to unpause it.  Use with caution, or much !!FUN!! is had.

[Viscaro]

you can also just use the 'prospect all' command  if thats all you want to do

[tommy521]

Perhaps, and just a suggestion, you should read the readme and help within DFHack and other mods before you try them

[MrAnderson]

i assume it worked like the old ways in df2010. I will use prospect all from now on 

[Girlinhat]

You could also you "prospect all" to avoid the "must be seen" issue.

[Guedez]

you can prospect even before embarking btw

[Sutremaine]

i assume it worked like the old ways in df2010. I will use prospect all from now on 

DFHack is new and improved in DF2012. Check out the help files within the program folder, they're much easier to read than trying to do it in the DFHack window.

The idea of the basic reveal command is to reveal the rock while making it impossible to get a glimpse of how hollow the spires are, accidentally or otherwise.