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[Voyd211]

So I tried to start a new colony, Pageslides.

Long story short, everybody died of thirst, so I locked them all in a cave while they keeled over.

Is there any RAW-editing shnaniganery that can alter how you're equipped and how many dorfs you start with?

[IamanElfCollaborator]

Nope and nope.
Dfusion and some ore editing will give you more dwarves and more embark points though.

[Voyd211]

Is there any such thing as surface magma? In addition, normally even Urist McSurprisinglysmart isn't stupid enough to dig through damp walls. Can you convince them otherwise?

Also, odd thing. Pageslides had tantrums about every 30 seconds, but each one lasted about two before they calmed down. The only death through fighting was against a kangaroo.



One more question, I'm writing this as I go: How do I change the textures? The default ASCII kinda hurts my eyes.

[Eoganachta]

Is there any such thing as surface magma?

Volcanos. They're the ^ squares on the world map. Gives you a instant access to a metal industry. Otherwise you could look for magma tubes in the caverns and hope you luck out.

[reality.auditor]

One more question, I'm writing this as I go: How do I change the textures? The default ASCII kinda hurts my eyes.

I advise you to use Lazy Newbie Pack. They have cool tilesets included.

[ExecratedDwarf]

Or download one of the pre-installed tilesets like Phoebus or Ironhand. Just search df2012 Phoebus or Ironhand on Google.

[Voyd211]

So I started another colony, Ownedringed. Weird names, these places.

The place was purple on the world map, no idea what that means.

[Drazinononda]

PTW

[Sidhien]

PTW

Gesundheit?

Voyd, purple means it's an evil zone.

[ShoesandHats]

PTW

Gesundheit?

Posting to watch.

Also, what he said about purple. Get ready for zombie fun times!

[Voyd211]

Apparently, the dwarf caravan thought my sapphires and rose quartz were childish or something when all I wanted were the two picks he had. Dammit, I need those and I haven't found any metal yet!


And the migrants are coming slowly. The first wave only had TWO.

[Broseph Stalin]

There was a DFHACK plugin that let you change your number of starting dwarves, not sure if it's up to date. As for your equipment if you design a world with advanced paramaters you can set your embark points anywhere from 0 to 10,000

[cvar]

Is there any such thing as surface magma? In addition, normally even Urist McSurprisinglysmart isn't stupid enough to dig through damp walls. Can you convince them otherwise?

Re-designate the square.  They'll dig through it if you tell them to after they've warned you about water/magma.

One more question, I'm writing this as I go: How do I change the textures? The default ASCII kinda hurts my eyes.

Download a texture pack.  I use CLA now.  There's also the Lazy Newb Pack which has a lot of options.

Is there any RAW-editing shnaniganery that can alter how you're equipped and how many dorfs you start with?

Choose Prepare Carefully as you embark to change how you're equipped.  Play Now gives you a basic load out, but you can really customize your stuff if you take the time.  You can't change how many dwarves you start with through the raws though.  Also, like Broseph said, if you fiddle with the advanced parameters when generating a world you can start with more embark points to buy more stuff.

[pbnjoe]

One more question, I'm writing this as I go: How do I change the textures? The default ASCII kinda hurts my eyes.

What everyone else said. Though when I first starting playing the game I used a tile set as well, because it hurt my eyes. Recently tried with the default curses and stuck with it for a couple hours, then everything made sense. Your eyes get to know what to focus on, it has depth,  and it's much easier to play with than when you first look at it.

[Blucher]

If you really want to, you can manually edit the data\init\world_gen.txt file and give yourself some crazy-high amount of embark points.  In-game, you can only set it so high in the advanced world-gen parameters, but out-of-game you can set it... well, I don't know how high, but it's a lot.