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#1: Put the Alarm Siren in the Military Garrison, it fits and is one buildings less.

#1: Keep the Alarm Siren seperate, I want to have it near my other levers.

#2: I have traded with Gnomes, build Artificer and Weather Control Station.

#2: I have NOT traded with Gnomes, did not have the chance to build their buildings.

[OREOSOME]

Um... How do I change the settings for the Mac version? The settings file is an .Exe, and won't work for me.

[arclance]

Um... How do I change the settings for the Mac version? The settings file is an .Exe, and won't work for me.

This is how I do it on Linux, I have not gotten clear confirmation if it works on Mac or not yet.

To use settings.exe you need to install WINE and then install the windows verison of Mono in WINE.
Then run settings.exe with WINE and it may work, I can't be sure since I don't have a Mac to try it on.
You may need to open a terminal to the folder containing "settings.exe" and start it from that terminal to make the current working directory correct so it can find the "Dwarf Fortress" directory.
If you have to do this depends on how your file manager runs things with WINE.

These are just generic instructions, if someone gets it working it would be nice to have some Mac specific instructions to add to the Mac release.

[Ishar]

Castes were mentioned, here's my opinion:
I don't care for most of them. Highborns can be handy as traders or doctors, but those skills tend to level up fast anyway. Crafters should be nice in theory, the initial buff is good, but if you make crafts for trade, the absurd amount of goods will level them up as well.
There are only three really good castes in my book: smiths, legionaires and fighters. Smiths are great, since they don't use valuable metal during training (or clutter up half your fort with copper weapons, crafted as training), and fighting skills are still very hard to train. Sure, the library helps a lot, but training 10-15 raw recruits is still a grueling task. With a couple of fighter/legion caste, melee combat is an option even during early sieges, that's definitely a nice touch.
About the rest of the castes, I don't see how they could be improved. Maybe crafters could get a speed buff as well, pumping out goods faster or something. I don't know if this is possible, but the current skill/exp bonus is not enough for a truly specialised dwarf.

Examples: If I already have a good broker, and I get a highborn with a migrant wave, I tend to send him to the farms, there isn't much else to do - I could make him a book keeper, but what's the point? A normal dwarf can do that just as well. Wood savants and things like that also tend to get assigned to furnace duty, hauling, mining, or some other grunt job in my forts. Who gives a damn about wood crafts?

[Meph]

Yeah. Getting less types, but more interesting castes would improve it quite a bit. If you tie the magic buildings to some of them for example. Or some mambo-jambo for the Apostle of Armok. Eventually I guess I will do it, but redoing old things is always less fun then doing new stuff.

[Nokao]

I agree, less types of castes.

But castes are indeed a great improvement, and they don't complicate anything.
They are also very rare, for me at least.

p.s. do childs of who is in a caste born as a caste ? I'm having many newborns and few migration waves. Must make a magma nursery for all this useless faggots.

[Nokao]

Search function makes DF unstable... the exe crashes sometimes.
This is happening only from the day I discovered the search function, expecially on military and animal filtering.

[Putnam]

Search function makes DF unstable... the exe crashes sometimes.
This is happening only from the day I discovered the search function, expecially on military and animal filtering.

http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=91166.0

[Mechanist]

im not sure if it is my mistake but i cant make the custom professions in the dwarf therapist version downloaded with masterwork V2.g win work at all, i have to creatte manually the professions and cant assign them, maybe is the contextual menu that shows in dwarves in right click what is not working

[Dant]

every time i get migrants, and my population goes over 60 people (usually close to 70) people start bleeding out, completly out of the blue.
so far i havent found a issue, and once as I was looking at a military squad, just standing guard, 2 of the soldiers started bleeding.
is there a cap somewhere or my dwarfs are bleeding out from their period, or from stepping on a splinter from a rose?

[Purgatory]

every time i get migrants, and my population goes over 60 people (usually close to 70) people start bleeding out, completly out of the blue.
so far i havent found a issue, and once as I was looking at a military squad, just standing guard, 2 of the soldiers started bleeding.
is there a cap somewhere or my dwarfs are bleeding out from their period, or from stepping on a splinter from a rose?

If there is a pop cap, they won't come to your fortress at all. Whats probably causing the bleeding is possibly a disease that the migrants carried over to your fortress. Maybe something else but I'm not experienced enough to know lol.

[Agent of Avarice]

It is probably a disease. I once had  a fort completely crippled by a syndrome that caused fever and (I think) made dwarves loose consciousness. Migrants carry them, wards protect against them.

[Gamerlord]

Hey, can someone tell me how to make ladles and cauldrons in Kobold mode?

[jaxy15]

Hey, can someone tell me how to make ladles and cauldrons in Kobold mode?

You have to forge them.

[Gamerlord]

So... in the boneforge?

[jaxy15]

So... in the boneforge?

No, in a metalsmith's forge.
I recommend you buy metal bars from the caravan.