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[Kicior]

OK I teleported to the tutorial room basement
BTW does anything happen when u get the "You hurt your feet on the pile of rubble" message? Does radio do anthing except "This is the debug radio msg"? Is it possible to make rags from clothes? Why zombies respawn after reloading a weapon? Can I save during tutorial?

[justinlee999]

I need this bug fixed or I'll go into depression! D:

EDIT: wait a moment whales, this is weird, I went back to my older version and I get the same male and female names error too, I guess it's an error on my side, sorry for the false alarm. But I have read and write access... weird...

Never mind I found out the problem, I placed them in the "documents" place and used a launcher. I had to use the terminal, enter my password, then only execute the program manually. moved it somewhere else where it WORKS with a launcher this time. Nice game .

[Infuriated]

Alright, Here's my guide

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DL virtualbox, set it up
DL the ubuntu iso image from their website
Setup your virtual box
go to settings, storage, mount the ubuntu iso on there
Start it up, setup your ubuntu
DL https://github.com/Whales/Cataclysm in a .tar gz form
extract it to your downloads folder
rename the new extracted file to Whales
Open up the terminal under applications
type the following
sudo apt-get install libncurses5-dev
sudo apt-get install libncursesw5-dev
cd /home/<user name here>/Downloads/Whales
sudo make clean;make
sudo ./cataclysm
resize your window

Thank's for this.

Question to anyone who can answer, I used this guide, is there a way I can simply boot Cataclysm now without having to go through all of those steps? I'm sure it's somewhere in this thread but there's 21 pages now and I have to get to bed right about now.

[justinlee999]

Alright, Here's my guide

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

DL virtualbox, set it up
DL the ubuntu iso image from their website
Setup your virtual box
go to settings, storage, mount the ubuntu iso on there
Start it up, setup your ubuntu
DL https://github.com/Whales/Cataclysm in a .tar gz form
extract it to your downloads folder
rename the new extracted file to Whales
Open up the terminal under applications
type the following
sudo apt-get install libncurses5-dev
sudo apt-get install libncursesw5-dev
cd /home/<user name here>/Downloads/Whales
sudo make clean;make
sudo ./cataclysm
resize your window

Thank's for this.

Question to anyone who can answer, I used this guide, is there a way I can simply boot Cataclysm now without having to go through all of those steps? I'm sure it's somewhere in this thread but there's 21 pages now and I have to get to bed right about now.

Make a launcher out of it. Select "execute with terminal" or something like that instead of "execute", and make sure you set the permissions to read & write just to be safe. Also, I would open the terminal, go to Edit > Profile Preferences, tick "Use Custom Default Size" and change the rows value to "25" instead of "24", that way you don't have to resize everytime you boot the game. Enjoy a double-click launch game.


Also, while trying to quick travel to the forest, when I hovered my selector too far away, it crashed with the first name loop I previously mentioned, it was running fine before. It also ran fine after that... hmm...

[head]

So some progress on my windows build


The game is per say playable expect these bugs

Exiting from map
Trying to look into the help topics
Char stats crashes you
Properly more.

[Blaze]

I actually got a good run going, but it ended when my character save was lost. Also, I get quite a bit of latency when I try to play the thing, every button press takes about 1-2 seconds to register.

I'm gonna hold off on playing until someone can manage to get the thing to run locally.

[justinlee999]

The thing with the multiplayer build is that items are really really hard to find, while there are an abundance of items in the single player build. Also, multiplayer has tons of dead bodies for me to train my butchering on .

EDIT: Aaaand I lost my save due to a crash. Can't play again because the game can't load NPC names, but turning off debug mode works. No permission problems this time, what is going on!?

Whales, I think I've found the problem to crashing (for me anyway).

I always crash when I'm near NPCs, even on the SSH version. This time, I ignored the NPC name unable to load error. So there was this NPC without name, he talked to me, I asked for advice, but the game couldn't load the advise too, so the dialog just closed, without anything else. I think he proceeded to pick up something, and there is where I crashed to desktop.

[head]

Put the data folder in the same folder as the game.

[lastverb]

Ok, here is the way how to run most stable build from windows, if u dont want/know how to mess up with some coding:

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1.Download Cygwin and install cygwin (http://www.cygwin.com/ directlink to downloader: http://cygwin.com/setup.exe), you should not need any optional packages.
2.Download compiled Cataclysm: only compile/startup crash are fixed now
link: http://ultima.ew.w.interii.pl/Cataclysm.zip (host is terrible but you will have to live with it)
or
version posted by Head few pages ago (I didn't test it)
3.Unpack a zip to *cygwin instalation adress*/home/*username*/
4.Run cygwin and type (without quotes and pressing *buttons*):
"cd C*TAB*" or "cd Cataclysm"
"./C*TAB*" or "./Cataclysm.exe"
5.Have fun and "support Whales" if you can
6.Get linux if you want everything working easy and fast, even if you can only install it on virtual machine (this one sounds really well since its windows maxim).

Exiting a map cause crash, so dont press "m".
Bullets fly instafast and can cause crash rarely.

Using this ver with cygwin should fix:
Crash upon exiting character screen (@);
Strange fonts (and fonts are graphics in this game);
Stat screen dissapearance;
Keyboard input codes (so backspace is backspace not "7" when entering a name).

If i find some time later today/tomorrow ill send Whales a backtrace from cygwin (those are stack overflows somewhere) and try to find some solution to nanosleep in windows (should fix ranged).

[justinlee999]

Put the data folder in the same folder as the game.

So I take out the contents in the data folder into the main folder? OK.

Didn't work.

Also, I tend to hoard books, food, and cooking supplies, then I chill in the forest., then go back to city to get more food/sleep/loot. I really wish there were sleeping bags, which are portable beds, that are easily found at the sports equipment store.

[Whales]

Press M

That just shows the map, YOU KNOW NOTHING.

Kicior your clearance level is not high enough for any information relating to that.

This information is clearance level ULTRAVIOLET, friend citizen!  Are you not aware that possessing information outside of your clearance is a traitorous act?
But yeah, sometimes stairs do that to you.  Sorry.  Working on it.

Put the data folder in the same folder as the game.

So I take out the contents in the data folder into the main folder? OK.

Didn't work.

No, leave them in the data folder.  But I think I might know what's wrong.  When cataclysm looks for the data/ and save/ directories, it looks for them in the CURRENT directory.  This means that if you launch the game with a symlink, launcher, from a menu item, etc., the current directory is probably your home directory, and the data/ and save/ directories aren't there!  Copy those to your home directory, or actually open a terminal and "cd downloads/cataclysm; ./cataclysm".

[Kicior]

My clearance level is high enough to do it

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it involves enter and a letter

What do you do in the morning when it is too dark to read? How loud a BB gun is? Can it train my skill only up to level1? If saves are deleted after loading, should they not be secured with  password?

[MasterFancyPants]

My clearance level is high enough to do it

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it involves enter and a letter

What do you do in the morning when it is too dark to read? How loud a BB gun is? Can it train my skill only up to level1? If saves are deleted after loading, should they not be secured with  password?

Same thing that you do when you're hurt: Abuse Niquil, like alot.

[Whales]

My clearance level is high enough to do it

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

it involves enter and a letter

What do you do in the morning when it is too dark to read? How loud a BB gun is? Can it train my skill only up to level1? If saves are deleted after loading, should they not be secured with  password?

Use a flashlight to read, or just long-wait until it's bright out.
BB guns make the "plink!" sound effect, which means it's too quiet to matter.  And yes, it only trains you up to level 1.
Sure, I'll start working on that password-protection.  And I think I'll start deleting save files on death, not on load; that way, if the game crashes on you, you can always revert to an older save.

[Goacbc]

Whales,

Quick question, why is it when i just start out on a local game, there are over 10-15 zombies that just suddenly spawn when i break a window or open a door? I keep getting raped by them, almost right when I start.

What are some suggestions for starting out?