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[rathlord]

Has anyone got a Mac version working with the stonesense overlay (using DFhacks) or is that only possible on Windows right now?

[lethosor]

If you want to use anything with DFHack, you'll need the last 0.34.11 pack - DFHack hasn't been updated for 0.40.xx yet. (From what I understand, the overlay works, but it's buggy in general, so I wouldn't recommend playing exclusively with it).

[fricy]

While we are waiting for DF 40.05 which will have TONS of bugfixes, here's an update for 40.04 with a few graphics updates and Therapist. As a heads-up: next update (Macnewbie 0.9.4 with 40.05) will be a bit delayed, as the raws will need to be updated.

Spoiler: Changelog for Macnewbie 0.9.3a (click to show/hide)

version 0.9.3a - for 0.40.04 – July 26, 2014
-add: Dwarf Therapist 23.2 for 40.04
-update: ResMar's DT userguide
-update: Dwarf Family 3.1
-update: Phoebus 0.40.04v00
-update: Ironhand 40.04v3
-update: Spacefox update by Afro
-update: Doren's additional creatures for Mayday
-update: multiple embark profiles from LNP

Download MacNewbie 0.9.3a from DFFD
Download MacNewbie 0.9.3a from Dropbox

[fricy]

MacNewbie Pack 0.9.4a is released.

First of all: It's generally advised to generate a new world with 40.05, though it's possible to load a 40.03+ world.
1. Make a backup of your old save, and copy it into /Macnewbie/User Generated Content/Link to Save folder
2. Apply a graphics pack with the launcher to upgrade
3. Got to the Launcher app and open /Folders/Language files 40.04
4. Copy these files to /save/regionX /raw/object overwriting everything
5. Profit!

Second: The included Dwarf Therapist does work with 40.05, but some game data is missing still. Prepare for unforeseen consequences, and expect an update soon.
Fixed in 4a.

Spoiler: Changelog for Macnewbie 0.9.4a (click to show/hide)

-df 40.05
-update: Dwarf Therapist 23.3 for 40.05
-update: Phoebus 0.40.05v01
-update: Ironhand 40.05v1
-update: Spacefox by Afro 40.05v1
-update: Mayday 40.05v0

Spoiler: DF 40.05 Release notes (click to show/hide)

This is a bug fix and optimization release, which is probably something we should get used to for a while, since there is a lot left to do! I've tried to make it possible to play in larger worlds again, but there's also more that can be done.

Major bug fixes
Fixed several large slow-down culprits
Stopped trees from growing through floors
Fixed a problem causing the suspension of constructions (old saves with affected jobs will still need to restart them) (ag)
Fixed a few problems with hospital code causing them to overstock item (ag)
Fixed problem stopping underground fishing (UristDaVinci/Quietust)
Made cultures that oppose intruders more lax when in places controlled by less wary groups (one cause of marketplace knifefights)
Made adventure-mode ambushers somewhat more in tune with their task
Made master soldiers stop reverting back to corresponding regular soldier type
Fixed crash that could occur when looking at adventure log while traveling

Other bug fixes/tweaks
Stopped clearing professions upon achieving master soldier type
Fixed the population cap
Made it possible to detect plantings too late in the season again (Quietust)
Stopped migrants from retaining certain adv/etc. flags harmful to their integration into the fort (making them 'hostile') Note: those from old saves might take off articles of clothing and store them and other strange things, since the integration could not be made complete easily...
Fixed problem with non-entity armies/travelers failing to evaluate nearby creatures properly
Tried to improve prioritization for creatures trying to handle many targets, especially w/ extra senses (caused combat AI paralysis)
Stopped fliers from wanting to jump (and sometimes colliding mid-air)
Added some basic climbing skill to wg/etc. soldiers, esp. thieves
Vermin can escape from non-artifact containers properly (Quietust)
Caravans check weapon type properly for material selection (Quietust)
Diplomats that wanted bodyguards should get them now (Quietust)
Stopped aquarium check from turning off other vermin code (Quietust)
Fixed crash that happened in the arena when doing v-p on a dwarf with a weapon
Creature art value considered properly by civs now (Quietust)
Fixed problem dividing out item milligrams in weapon velocities (UristDaVinci)
Can now melt metal chests (Quietust)
Handled a few problems causing extra/erroneous long patrol thoughts (Quietust)
Made children get full list of default labors upon growing up and respected any existing skills
Stopped migrant historical children from receiving labors
Made underground populations properly respect layer size (the numbers can get very high, but blame the giant under-ocean caves in part)
Stopped hyper-obese digesting dwarves from constantly recalculating insulation/mass data (ag)
Fixed some problems causing certain jobs to check too many items (angavrilov/Quietust)
Allowed egg-laying critters without baby/child state to have viable eggs
Stopped listing dead non-fort animals/etc. as missing
Fixed a rounding error with projectile calculations (Pirate Bob/UristDaVinci)
Adjusted contact area/depth of ammo, max velocity of shooters (Joben)
Fixed a problem causing saplings to grow up 10x as fast as they should
Stopped sparring from being placed in combat reports
Displayed proper key for viewing agreements in civ screen
Stopped dwarves from swiping hospital goods from the caravan
Made the game respect more circumstances whereby medical inventory items are removed (fixing the crutch speed bug, for instance)
Stopped ghosts from being able to realize dreams after they are dead
Fixed problem where tools made from adamantine wafers required the wrong material amounts (Quietust)
Fixed problem with seed initialization for mid-level maps that could cause inconsistency (Quietust)
Fixed broken lack of cage/chain thought for law dwarf (Quietust)
Adjustments to animal people frequencies (see file_changes.txt)
Made king cobra people legless like other snake people
Fixed a problem causing the tortoises not to appear
Made random creature spines connect up properly
Fixed material values for obsidian (UristDaVinci)
Various typos fixed (see file_changes.txt) (thanks to Gorobay for finding most of these)
Re-added elven diplomacy, though it is still unchanged from its first incarnation

Download MacNewbie 0.9.4a from DFFD
Download MacNewbie 0.9.4a from Dropbox

[peterb]

Has anyone else had trouble with DF Designator on the Mac LNB?  Specifically, it works great for designating digs, but when I try to use it to designate build sites (for example, try workshops-2-build.csv0.png from TheQuickFortress folder, after digging it out...) it seems to just do semi-random things.  What am I missing?

[fricy]

Has anyone else had trouble with DF Designator on the Mac LNB?  Specifically, it works great for designating digs, but when I try to use it to designate build sites (for example, try workshops-2-build.csv0.png from TheQuickFortress folder, after digging it out...) it seems to just do semi-random things.  What am I missing?

Hmm, I'm in the dark here. If you are using df 34.11 (Macnewbie v7 - v8.7) the problem may come from an interference caused by the dfhack plugin mousequery, you can test it by opening dfhack.init and deleting the word mousequery. (it's on line 6 in Macnewbie v8.7)
If the problem is in Macnewbie 9+ then sadly I have no idea.

[mwarner9]

I'm still using the 2012 version and something strange is going on with temperature settings. I definitely have TEMPERATURE: YES in my d_init file and it's clicked YES in the launcher, but when I use certain tilesets especially my favorite Phoebus, the game no longer does temperature changes. I know that the tileset change resets the launcher options, but I'm positive that I have Temperature turned on. I even checked the d_init file when the game is running. Other tilesets definitely still work. I'm running Mavericks if that matters at all.

[fricy]

I'm still using the 2012 version and something strange is going on with temperature settings. I definitely have TEMPERATURE: YES in my d_init file and it's clicked YES in the launcher, but when I use certain tilesets especially my favorite Phoebus, the game no longer does temperature changes. I know that the tileset change resets the launcher options, but I'm positive that I have Temperature turned on. I even checked the d_init file when the game is running. Other tilesets definitely still work. I'm running Mavericks if that matters at all.

You found some weird shit. Congratulations. 
I can confirm that it's happening, but result are inconsistent and couldn't nail the problem down. I was able to reproduce this on 10.9.3 and 10.7.5 too, but only with Phoebus, none of the graphic packs exhibited this behavior. Then I managed to get temp. calculations going by deleting twbt and mousequery plugins, but I don't know which one may be the culprit, as the save fixed itself after: when I copied back the same version of both of these plugins the bug vanished, even though I did not modify the save game.
Weird...
So my best bet for now is to delete the twbt.plug.so from the hack/plugins folder, and check if this solves the problem. If it does, try moving it back, and tell me what happens. As far as I know twbt shouldn't affect the temp. calculations, and then again if it did, it still shouldn't bork only Phoebus.

[mwarner9]

I tried deleting those two plugins and running it and I'm still not getting temp changes. I put them back in too and still nothing.

I tested out all of the graphics and these didn't have temperature working
Phoebus
Mayday
Vherid v6

All the other ones worked fine without me doing anything besides loading the tileset. No idea what's going on.

[mushmouth]

Is there anyway we could update the source to get rid of the terminal windows? 
/usr/bin/strings implies that dwarfort.exe get launched by this in a binary file
osascript -e "tell app \"Terminal\" to do script \"\\\"%@/Dwarf Fortress/df\\\"\""

this could be updated to not pop a terminal window by running this instead
osascript -e "do shell script \"\\\"%@/Dwarf Fortress/df\\\"\""

[lethosor]

Is there anyway we could update the source to get rid of the terminal windows? 
/usr/bin/strings implies that dwarfort.exe get launched by this in a binary file
osascript -e "tell app \"Terminal\" to do script \"\\\"%@/Dwarf Fortress/df\\\"\""

this could be updated to not pop a terminal window by running this instead
osascript -e "do shell script \"\\\"%@/Dwarf Fortress/df\\\"\""

That would likely prevent DFHack from working - in the meantime, since the terminal window isn't very useful, you can edit the "df" script to run dwarfort.exe in the background (which is what vanilla DF now does), then configure Terminal to close windows automatically when a process completes.

[mushmouth]

Is there anyway we could update the source to get rid of the terminal windows? 
/usr/bin/strings implies that dwarfort.exe get launched by this in a binary file
osascript -e "tell app \"Terminal\" to do script \"\\\"%@/Dwarf Fortress/df\\\"\""

this could be updated to not pop a terminal window by running this instead
osascript -e "do shell script \"\\\"%@/Dwarf Fortress/df\\\"\""

That would likely prevent DFHack from working - in the meantime, since the terminal window isn't very useful, you can edit the "df" script to run dwarfort.exe in the background (which is what vanilla DF now does), then configure Terminal to close windows automatically when a process completes.

The "do shell script" version runs fine in script editor (On Mavericks) without terminal or X11 running, and I don't see any options for closing windows/tabs when processes complete.

[lethosor]

Is there anyway we could update the source to get rid of the terminal windows? 
/usr/bin/strings implies that dwarfort.exe get launched by this in a binary file
osascript -e "tell app \"Terminal\" to do script \"\\\"%@/Dwarf Fortress/df\\\"\""

this could be updated to not pop a terminal window by running this instead
osascript -e "do shell script \"\\\"%@/Dwarf Fortress/df\\\"\""

That would likely prevent DFHack from working - in the meantime, since the terminal window isn't very useful, you can edit the "df" script to run dwarfort.exe in the background (which is what vanilla DF now does), then configure Terminal to close windows automatically when a process completes.

The "do shell script" version runs fine in script editor (On Mavericks) without terminal or X11 running, and I don't see any options for closing windows/tabs when processes complete.

Preferences -> Settings -> Shell -> "When the shell exits"
Running "do shell script" directly does work - I was assuming that Fricy would change "df" to run DFHack once it's updated, which would be problematic without a terminal window, but it should be simple enough to implement separate DF/DFHack scripts in the launcher.

[fricy]

MacNewbie Pack 0.9.6 is released...
...with an unofficial prerelease version of dfhack. Dfhack is not yet considered stable, there are still a bunch of bugs and not all the plugins work, so the launcher is not set to start dfhack default. If you want to play with it launch the game with the "dfhack" script, or rename the script to "df". Consider yourself warned. 

Spoiler: Changelog for Macnewbie 0.9.6 (click to show/hide)

-df 40.08
-update: Dwarf Therapist 23.6 for 40.08
-update: Resmar's DT userguide
-update: all tile sets to 40.08
-add: 15x15 Duerer Tileset
-dfhack_40.08-r0 experimental
-misc fixes

DF 40.08 Release notes

Download MacNewbie 0.9.6 from DFFD
Download MacNewbie 0.9.6 from Dropbox

[fricy]

Due to some compiling error I'm revoking this release until further investigation.

Download MacNewbie 0.9.6a from DFFD
Download MacNewbie 0.9.6a from Dropbox
Get MacNewbie patch 0.9.6-»0.9.6a