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[hematight]

I'm a new player, and a crappy programmer, so I may be making a stupid error when running the program, but when I go to the "labor" menu in the new DF mode, the only 4 sub-menus that pop up are "mining", "healthcare", "hauling", and "other jobs"....can some one help me?

being new, you might want to play 40d for a while and learn the basics before you start playing the new buggy and more complicated DF2010 where not even the veterans know whats going on.

Well by "new" I mean I have just been playing for a few months, but I played 40d before and have logged probably 20-30 hours of playtime haha so I know what's going on in the game, but this menu thing seems to be a unique problem to me.

[cakeonslaught]

Does this happen with every fortress? Every world? If you've edited any of the games files, you may want to try changing them back, but you probably already knew that.

[hematight]

yeah, I haven't edited anything, I started the program straight out of the downloaded file, I've rebooted DF several times and tried both "preparing for the journey" and "embarking now"...logically, it doesn't make sense why it would be any different from anyone elses files.  do you figure I should download again and give it another shot?

[cakeonslaught]

Yeah, i cant understand any reason why it wouldnt work with the same download everyone else has. Are you using a mac or something?

[hematight]

Nope, PC, i just switched out my mac for a PC a month ago...it's a laptop, the only things I changed were the keybindings to accomodate the laptop, but I can't see any reason that could possibly change what shows up in the menus

[x2yzh9]

Any of you know how to find entrances to caves inside of towns easily? I have to kill these gopher devils because i'm on a quest but the stupid caves are hard to find.

[cakeonslaught]

Haven't played adventure mode in the new version yet, but, in the old versions you could just ask people about "surroundings" and they would sometimes tell you about the location of a cave.

[x2yzh9]

That doesn't work, since supposedly the cave entrance is inside the town!

[Patarak]

So tell me about slade, guys.

Talk to me.

[cakeonslaught]

Well, it seems to be popular among the dwarves, maybe because its impossible to find...

[hematight]

That doesn't work, since supposedly the cave entrance is inside the town!

Maybe the "cave" is defined as a basement?  No clue, but try checking some buildings

[hematight]

I got it working, no worries.
Thanks!

[Firnagzen]

So tell me about slade, guys.

Talk to me.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Hell is now made of slade. It is, like the semi molten rock around the magma lakes, undiggable, however, there are ways to trick DF into digging you a stone of it. Slade can apparently be made into weapons and armour, somehow, since they're available as such in the arena mode; no one has figured out how yet. Slade is denser than every other material in DF, but it's more brittle than adamantium. (My slade colossi keep on getting their heads punched off by about 30 giants while my adamantium colossi consistently waded through hundreds.

[ElevenAnts]

edit:Nervermind, solved.

[x2yzh9]

What symbols are caves represented by in the new version?