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[PeridexisErrant]

PeridexisErrant's Starter Pack bundles Dwarf Fortress with huge community upgrades - graphics, tools, bugfixes, and much more.

Download the latest Starter Pack here!

It's suitable for anyone - if you've never tried DF before, or played for years.  For beginners, everything is bundled and set up for you; any setting can be safely ignored and the default will just work.  For advanced players, everything is open: customise, add, remove, update, or replace anything you want to.  The Starter Pack means you can spend hours setting up your fortress, instead of your DF install!

There's a thread on the Bay12 forums for feedback, questions, suggestions, or anything else about the pack.  The second post has a complete table of contents, and recent changelogs.

Besides the official download page on DFFD (above), /u/Hecknar maintains df.wicked-code.com, which mirrors every release since 0.40.01!  The final 34.11 pack is here.  The final 40.24 pack is here.  The final 32-bit pack, 0.43.09-r09, is here.  The final 43.05 pack is here.  The final 44.12 pack is
here.  If you need an older pack or that site is down, let me know and we'll sort something out.  OSX and Linux packs are available at http://dwarffortresswiki.org/Lazy_Newb_Pack

INSTRUCTIONS:
1. Download and unzip the folder
    It's a bundle of portable apps; there's no further installation procedure.
    The pack must be able to read/write files though - so don't put it in a "Program Files" folder.
2. [Optional]:  Use this tool and the checksum on DFFD to confirm you got an uncorrupted file.
3. [Optional]:  Upgrade from an earlier release by copying your old 'Dwarf Fortress 0.xx.yy/data/save/' folder to the new pack.
                DO NOT try to upgrade by extracting or copying over an earlier pack.
4. [Optional]:  Visit the DF wiki or my tutorials for help learning to play.

Finally, an appeal:  Dwarf Fortress is free, and redistributable, because Toady lives off donations.  You can support Bay12 Games here.  Or you can donate to cover my time and costs here.  Even if you decide not to donate, Dwarf Fortress is still free - and so is this unofficial pack.

[PeridexisErrant]

Contents:

Core:
 - Dwarf Fortress 0.47.05
 - PyLNP 0.14d

DFHack 0.47.05-r7:  (includes Stonesense)
 - TwbT 0.47.05-r7

Utilities:
 - Announcement Window v1.2b
 - Armok Vision v0.21.0
 - DF Story Maker 1.0
 - Dorven Realms R1
 - Dwarf Mockup 1.2.0
 - Dwarf Portrait v2.1.0
 - Dwarf Therapist v41.2.4
 - Isoworld 2.1
 - Legends Browser 1.19.2
 - Legends Browser 2 2.0.2
 - Legends Viewer 1.20.08
 - PerfectWorld 1.9
 - Picturefort 2.1
 - Quickfort 2.1.0
 - SoundCenSe 1.4.4
 - Soundsense 2016-1
 - Soundsense RS v1.5.1
 - World Viewer 2.5.0

Graphics:
 - ASCII
 - CLA
 - DungeonSet
 - GemSet
 - Ironhand
 - Mayday
 - Obsidian
 - Phoebus
 - Spacefox
 - Vettlingr


Recent changelogs:

0.47.05-r11
 - updated PyLNP to 0.14d, fixing blank DFHack window

0.47.05-r10
 - PyLNP fix for Windows Vista and 7 (no change for Windows 8 or later)

0.47.05-r09
 - updated DFHack to 0.47.05-r7
 - updated TwbT to 0.47.05-r7 (unofficial build by thurin)
 - updated Legends Browser 2 to v2.0.2
 - updated Dwarf Therapist to v41.2.4
 - updated PyLNP to 0.14c
 - moved files around for the nice new DFHack config system

0.47.05-r08
 - updated DFHack to 0.47.05-r6
 - updated TwbT to 0.47.05-r6 (unofficial build by thurin)
 - added Legends Browser 2
 - merged Quickfort blueprints libraries from the DFHack and utility versions

0.47.05-r07
 - updated DFHack to 0.47.05-r5
 - updated TwbT to 0.47.05-r5 (unofficial build by thurin)

Older changelogs can be found in ./LNP/about/changelog.txt

[CueBunny_]

How do you transfer your worlds to the new Lazy Newb Pack?? im currently using the original version of LNP and i cant figure out how to get my worlds from my old one to this new one.

[CueBunny_]

nevermind i figured it out!

[PeridexisErrant]

For posterity:  The way to do this is to copy the contents of your savegame folder across.  DON'T delete them until you test the new version!  The folder is in 'Dwarf Fortress>data>save', and can be opened from the 'folders' menu of the LNP. 

You can also edit your own comments using the 'modify' button on the top right, and posting the answers to your own question is encouraged - it helps anyone who searches for it later. 

[k33n]

I really wish you would disable the mouse query by default, I strongly dislike it.

Other then that, cool.

[Jon-Ace]

A large chunk of dfhack plugins refuse to load with this version of LNP.

ex: workflow doesn't load and any attempt to manually load it doesn't do anything.

Nevermind.

[Clatch]

Don't be like me and rename your LNP directory with spaces - nothing will work.

This is pretty exciting to see all of these tools running cross-platform.  I do have to say though that the Mac executable provided by the latest DFHack 0.34.11r3 is the only way I've been able to get DFHack to run natively on Mac.  It would be great if the tool could determine the OS and just run the appropriate executable - a lot less work.

So this is a cool development, but there's a lot of work to do yet!

[PeridexisErrant]

Yeah, there's a lot of stuff where renaming something will break another tool that uses a defined folder path.  If you want to rename something, jut take it slow and keep checking that stuff still works - keeping a copy of the whole folder prior to any edits is also a good idea. 

There is actually nothing here which is actually usable on all platforms (except soundsense, somehow), but fortunately many developers compile a version each for windows mac and linux.  This looks like it keeps getting better as well, with a new edition of the LNP in the works which can be compiled for any platform - its in the mac version and while behind, is still usable. 

[Tacyn]

Does this only contain utilities and no mods?

At least modest mod for some balance tweaks and bugfixes could be useful.

[PeridexisErrant]

Everything except mods - master work has that covered pretty well for a single package, and there wasn't a vanilla equivalent. 

[Id Utalrisen]

Is anyone else getting a corrupted .zip when they download this?

[Hommit]

not sure with last version, but with previous author used for whatever reason a 7z and not zip. (is that useless unpacker exe still it btw? it should be removed. actual unpacking can be done with command-line 7z (+standalone dll) and simple .bat file)

[PeridexisErrant]

Recent versions are all .zip - there were some issues before with the 100MB hosting limit, so I was tweaking the compression, but eventually just cleaned some of the less useful bits out.  The unpacker has been removed, since everyone can extract .zip files. 

So far as I can tell it's working, and there have been a couple of new versions since you got the corrupted download - hopefully it'll keep working fine. 

[Id Utalrisen]

Still corrupted for me, downloaded it 3 or 4 times last night, and still getting this. Can anyone reproduce this, or am I doing something wrong?

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Update: Not having this problem as of v14! Yay!