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[Toady One]

I deleted the later instances of the quote pyramid.  Please don't spam somebody's topic with that sort of thing.

[Jadael]

Does Minecraft take a lot to load the map? I've done the conversion alright, but when loading the map the game just says "simulating for a bit..." and then freezes. It's been like this 5 minutes already, so I'm pretty sure this is not working  Any ideas?

Doesn't sound like it should do that. Have you tried other forts?

[h3lblad3]

Out of curiousity, how difficult would it be to make a converter that goes the other direction? Obviously there wouldn't be furniture, but...

[Deon]

Where in the wourld would you place your location? I think it's impossible due to the way DF worlds work.

[peterix]

Out of curiousity, how difficult would it be to make a converter that goes the other direction? Obviously there wouldn't be furniture, but...

Depends. We don't know a lot of the map yet. Something that takes a whole minecraft alpha world and turns it into a DF save is very close to impossible. Moving small sections of the minecraft map into DF could be done in some cases, but it would probably cause other unpredictable problems (missing pathfinding data, blocks in DF not being initialized, etc.). Too much mess to deal with really.

[Eagle_eye]

I am currently turning the magma mountians into a minecraft map. This should be FUN.

[Johnfalcon99977]

When  is this going to work with .18? I just got minecraft and recently I have been playing both very often!

[Lord Dakoth]

This looks amazing... However, it does not appear to be compatible with my Mac.

Do you have any plans to make it Mac compatible?

[Axecleaver]

...It works by converting each 'square' in Dwarf Fortress into a NxNxN block of cubes in Minecraft, looking up how to convert each object in a settings xml file that can be user modified. The default file that I provide converts each 'square' into a 3x3x3 block of cubes, but other sizes are possible. I currently have nearly 1000 objects defined.

Current limitations:
Only outputs Indev .mclevel files, not Alpha 'infinite' levels, so level sizes are limited by memory and must be played at http://www.minecraft.com/indev  This also limits the available block types (no doors or furnaces is biggest issue)
Lighting is not calculated, so level starts out dark until game can calculate the lighting over the first few minutes of play...

If you have any ideas for features or improvements, mention them and I'll see if I can implement them.

Would it be possible to have DF2MC run in the background while Minecraft is running?
Perhaps there is some way to use DF2MC to "update" the map data for Minecraft periodically, to update the map and to switch between levels and areas?

I'm thinking of a hot key that, when pressed, would updated the map in Minecraft without having to restart...

[Frosty_Dorf]

head exploded. My just

[forsaken1111]

Would it be possible to have DF2MC run in the background while Minecraft is running?
Perhaps there is some way to use DF2MC to "update" the map data for Minecraft periodically, to update the map and to switch between levels and areas?

I'm thinking of a hot key that, when pressed, would updated the map in Minecraft without having to restart...

Ahahaha, have this running on a server and the people connecting to it will be running around in your fortress.

[Lord Dakoth]

Would it be possible to have DF2MC run in the background while Minecraft is running?
Perhaps there is some way to use DF2MC to "update" the map data for Minecraft periodically, to update the map and to switch between levels and areas?

I'm thinking of a hot key that, when pressed, would updated the map in Minecraft without having to restart...

Ahahaha, have this running on a server and the people connecting to it will be running around in your fortress.

Epic idea. We make a Bay12 Minecraft fort.
I hereby elect myself Hammerer. On your knees, maggots.

[LumpyGravy]

I could not get this to work.. is it currently not working with the current version? I have a mod'd game graphix wise will this start a foobar?

[LumpyGravy]

any help would be appreciated... just found DF but been playing Minecraft awhile.......

[LucasUP]

Do you know how long it would be till this becomes Alpha-compatible?

I'm not sure what you are asking.  This utility will currently will convert any Dwarf Fortress .28.40d or .31.01 to .31.16 fortress to a Minecraft Alpha save directory.  When it is done converting, you only have to copy the created directory to you Minecraft save folder and rename it to 'WorldX' where X is 1-5 and is an open save slot.  This is so the utility doesn't accidentally overwrite one of your saves;

You REALLY need to update the OP man! It still says its indev only!
Also nowhere in the latest update does it indicate what versions of MC it works with, although its probably been alpha compatible for a while since September