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[Meph]

Now and then I get asked questions that do not concern the gameplay, but rather things like: How do I install this? The settings dont work on my PC, what do I do? Can I update my savegame to the new release? (spoiler: no, you can't)

This is the place to ask all this. I will add a FAQ with the most frequently asked questions answered in this. I dont expect many remaining technical issues after that. Keep in mind that I can't answer questions about the included utilities as good as the author. If you want to know more about Dfhack, Therapist or Quickfort, please ask in their threads instead.

[Meph]

F.A.Q.
How do I install this mod?

Spoiler: Answer (click to show/hide)

Your mod download is a Rar-File. It needs to be extracted using WinRar or any other compression program of your choice, for example 7zip. Once extracted you will have a "MasterworkDF V.xx" folder. In it you will find your "Dwarf Fortress" folder, which contains the game and the "MasterworkDwarfFortress" folder, which contains all extra conent. You can ignore this folder, it is directly accessed by the game. You will also find the "Settings.exe" which allows you to alter the mod to your liking. It requires MS.NET Framework  to run, which should be installed on any Windows machine. You will also find the manuals, which are opened in your default browser of choice.

And that is the install. You just unpack and run DwarfFortress.exe, like usual. To alter the mod, run "Settings.exe" first, then play.

Are the mod updates save compatible?

Spoiler: Answer (click to show/hide)

No, they are not. With some extensive modding knowledge you might port some features, but I do not recommend modding existing saves. You can however just use the updated utilities with the old save.

Is there a manual or wiki?

Spoiler: Answer (click to show/hide)

Yes, both exist. The manual is included in the download, and the wiki can be found here.

I changed a setting, why doesnt it work?

Spoiler: Answer (click to show/hide)

The GUI cannot change the saves. It can only change the files a new world will be based on. So if you change any of the settings, you will have to generate a new world. The only exception to this are the settings on the first page. The tileset/graphics still need a re-gen of a world, but all others modify the Init.txt. Init stands for initialization, this file is read out every time DF starts. So if you want to turn of temperature, change autosave behaviour or use another font/color/arena, you can do so. You only need to restart DF, so it does read out the Init.txt again.

I changed races, but something does not work?

Spoiler: Answer (click to show/hide)

Just like the other settings, changing your playable race does require generating a new world. So go to the DF main menu (or close the program), change the race in the Settings.exe, and then generate a new world.

My worldgen crashes, what can I do?

Spoiler: Answer (click to show/hide)

The amount of races can cause the worldgen to crash. First thing you can do is use a smaller world, less races or shorter history. Any of those will help. The included worldgen settings should be absolutely fine, you shouldnt see any problems as long as you use those.

If your computer has more the 2GB Ram, you can also use the included LAA.exe, the Large Adress Aware Patcher, to patch your dwarf fortress.exe. You can find the link to it on the bottom menu bar of the Settings.exe, or in MasterworkDwarfFortress/Utilities/Laa.exe. This will patch your game to use more then 2GB Ram. You can also use the utility on any other exe for any other game by the way.

How do I use utility X? What is utility Y for?

Spoiler: Answer (click to show/hide)

The Masterwork mod is not the right place to ask this. Every utility is written by another author and he will be the best person to ask. You can find all links to all included utilities both in the release post as well as the included Settings.exe. So if you have a question about dfhack, ask in the dfhack thread. You want more info on Isoworld? Go to the Isoworld thread. This way you will find the person with the most information.

[Putnam]

Ask 'em here, folks!

[lwCoyote]

Don't know if this is the appropriate place for this but..

1> The ability to toggle full-screen mode and such in the launcher doesn't work. I toggled through the options and they all result in full-screen mode

2> editing the init and init_d manually, then loading the launcher tends to overwrite the manual edits; I dont think this was the case when there was an "edit init" button/option in the launcher.. which is either gone, or well hidden cause I can't find it

[Fairin]

F11 iwcoyote

[Alibenbaba]

World Generation crashes for me when finalizing sites. I've played around with settings to create smaller worlds, but I didn't yet succeed so far. I've gone down to medium size and 250 yr of history.

There have been some hits when searching but I didn't see anything helping along. Is there a known issue and workaround?

Version is V.3, download as complete package for windows.

[lwCoyote]

F11 iwcoyote

I'm aware that F11 switches between Windowed and Full Screen. Thats not what the bug report is about.

[Meph]

@lwcoyote: Windowed button works, I just tested it. You do need to restart the game of course, since its the init. file thats edited. And I did not change anything on how the launcher saves or loads stuff from the init.

@Alibenbaba: Are you using the included tilesets? Do you have more then 2GB ram, because you could try the LAA patcher I included, you can use mor then 2gb ram then, that helps with crashes on worldgen. Otherwise try the worldgens I did, or a shorter history. The longer the history and the bigger the world, the more crashes happen.

[Alibenbaba]

@Alibenbaba: Are you using the included tilesets? Do you have more then 2GB ram, because you could try the LAA patcher I included, you can use mor then 2gb ram then, that helps with crashes on worldgen. Otherwise try the worldgens I did, or a shorter history. The longer the history and the bigger the world, the more crashes happen.

Ok thank you. I've checked the executable, it already had the LAA flag set. I've completed a world gen sucessfully with  250 yrs of history, and the process took a working set of about 1.2Gig RAM. A similar run did crash earlier. I'm set for now but LAA and RAM don't seem to have been the cause.

[Deimos56]

Edit: I am not a clever man, and you may safely disregard pretty much this whole chunk of the discussion that has me in it.

Technical question that I suppose might be avoidable.

I keep redownloading the whole mod from the DFFD, but for some reason, PC Tools seems to have decided the settings.exe file is infected with a 'heurengine.zerodaythreat', or something to that effect, promptly deleting it and keeping me from running the program..

It notably wasn't doing this with any previous versions, and a cursory check suggests that it's only affecting the Masterwork settings.exe file, so... I'm wondering what might have changed?

[Meph]

I did a quick internet search for that name... background image change? Google search redirection? Nope, none of that happened to me. I am running a virus scan atm, but seriously, I doubt that's the case. Over 3000 people have downloaded MDF3, I'd think that more virusscanners would have found something. Also, all the other included .exes would be infected as well, all the utilities... So, I dont know whats up on your machine, but I will let you know when my full system scan is done. Probably tomorrow by the looks of it, it takes a while ^^

[Deimos56]

Sorry about the inconvenience. 

Wouldn't normally mention it at all (this isn't the first time it's happened), but it's kind of odd for it to suddenly react to a new version of something like that...

[Meph]

(this isn't the first time it's happened)

You mean this isnt the first time your virus scanner found this virus, or that it found it in the Settings.exe of a different MDF version?

[Deimos56]

This isn't the first time it has found this virus. Seems to be a rare occurance, though, and again, it doesn't 'normally' (for a given value of normal) find it between versions of stuff...

Edit: Assuming this link works, it's what PCTools has decided the problem is... Very unusual.

[smakemupagus]

Sounds like your antivirus software is very aggressive about what it considers to be suspicious.

I remember a story a couple years ago where PCTools was deleting... Skype?  I think?... from users' computers without prompting first.