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[thefriendlyhacker]

Since the original maintainers of this mod (Lycaeon and UnicodingUnicorn) are long gone, I am making another thread so that I have control of the OP.  Original thread here if you want to read the 200+ pages of history behind this mod.  Now, without further ado...

Once upon a time, in the magical land of Equestria…

There came an era when the ideals of friendship gave way to greed, selfishness, paranoia, and a jealous reaping of dwindling space and natural resources. Lands took up arms against their neighbors. The end of the world occurred much as we had predicted – the world was plunged into an abyss of balefire and dark magic. The details are trivial and pointless. The reasons, as always, purely our own. The world was nearly wiped clean of life. A great cleansing; a magical spark struck by pony hooves quickly raged out of control. Megaspells rained from the skies. Entire lands were swallowed in flames and fell beneath the burning oceans. Ponykind was almost extinguished, their spirits becoming part of the ambient radiation that blanketed the lands. A quiet darkness fell across the world…



[DF 0.44.12] Version 0.41.7 (DFFD)
Github Releases
FoER Wiki

A continuation of the total conversion mod for Dwarf Fortress, inspired by Fallout:Equestria and its many side stories. Lead an expedition of stable dwellers across the balefire-scorched wastes, forging the last bastions of civilization in a world without kindness or laughter. With everything once dear and loved to you now scattered dust, where all that remains seeks your demise, from abominations twisted by radiation, to your fellow ponies, consumed by madness, you may survive, or even persevere…but will you retain your virtues?

Screenshots

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now with basic TWBT support

Installation
Download the following files:
Fallout Equestria Redux
Dwarf Fortress
dfhack
Phoebus graphics pack

I also suggest getting the Dwarf Therapist utility.  It isn't necessary, but it is very convenient.
Dwarf Therapist
If you want improved graphics, download TWBT.
Text will be Text

Once you have the necessary files, follow the instructions contained in the FoE install guide included with the mod files.

If you want another graphics pack/tileset instead of phoebus, you will need to change a few lines inside init.txt (the install guide explains how).

New to Dwarf Fortress?

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Dwarf fortress is an incredibly complex game with a steep learning curve. If you're new to the game, skim through these three pages/tutorials and keep them on hand while playing your first Stable.

The Complete and Utter Newby Tutorial for Dwarf Fortress
I Play Dwarf Fortress - (And You Can Too!)
DF Wiki Fortress Mode Tutorial

Here are some Additional Tutorials, if you need them.

In addition, have a read of the early stable guide here.  It covers a lot of the mod specific stuff you will need to know.  You can read the rest of the wiki later on, but the early game guide contains everything critical for you to know early on in a Stable's life.

Your first few attempts may be short-lived, but with each loss you will learn more and more about what it takes to survive. The first two tutorials assume you've already generated a world, so when you open the game, select "Design New World with Advanced Parameters", pick one of the preset EQUESTRIA world gen options, and hit "Enter" to begin generating a world. Once a world is generated, select "Start Playing" → "Dwarf Fortress" then choose a Stable location.  Prepare carefully, select skills, supplies and equipment for your ponies and then embark.   Read the Early Stable guide for more information on the best place to embark, good embark equipment loadout etc.

Fallout Equestria adds an enormous amount of features to Dwarf Fortress, so the vanilla game tutorials will only help you with the basics.  Don't sweat it if you don't understand how some of the mod's features work - most of them are things you can set up later once you get your bearings and have a safe haven for your ponies. The only new feature you really need to concern yourself with early on is salvaging, which is done with the salvage yard, supply depot and (later on) the work bench.

Testimonials

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Linked below is a list of pre-44.xx Stable Reports, courtesy of Replica.
Stable Reports

Factions

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Stable Citizens

In the early years, thousands were spared the horrors of the holocaust by taking refuge in enormous underground shelters known as Stables. But when they emerged, they had only of the wastes to greet them, and are now locked, for better or for worse, in the midst of the newest bloody chapter in pony history. Every stable citizen possesses a miniature terminal-like device known as a Pipbuck that allows them to interface with Stable-Tec and Ministry technology.


Wastelanders

Many ponies on the surface have managed to eke out a living in the unforgiving wasteland, gathering in ramshackle settlements for protection against roaming bands of raiders, slavers, and the ever-present hostile wildlife. Though hardened by their struggles, they are quite friendly, and will seek to trade with you early and often.


Raiders

Raiders are a sadistic variety of ponies that have succumbed to the harsh nature of the wasteland, and now revel in chaos and anarchy. They are almost always prone to unprovoked violence and wonton assault, and typically act with little sense of conscience. Numerous raider bands dot the wastes, and as such they are the earliest hostile ponies your Stable may encounter.


Slavers

Slavery is a lucrative business in the wastes, with many groups specializing in capturing unfortunate ponies and selling them to the highest bidder. While not as crazed and sadistic as raiders, slaver ponies are still known for their cruelty and single-minded pursuit of profit and pleasure. Well-organized and often equipped with military-grade armor and weaponry, they can pose a significant threat to even a well-defended Stable.


Talons

Though the Griffon Kingdom remained neutral for the duration of the war, griffons by the hundreds streamed into Equestria, eager for fights that had become scarce in their home mountains. Working as mercenaries for both sides and often operating far from the metropolitan centers, many survived when the balefire bombs fell. In the present, these griffon companies have made a name for themselves as some of the finest fighters in the Equestrian Wasteland, and will gladly take up the squabbles of those factions willing to pay in plenty of cold, hard, caps.


Steel Rangers

Once the elite forces of the pre-war Equestrian military and the crowning achievement of the Ministry of Wartime Technology, the Steel Rangers are only shadows of their former selves, reduced to scavenging the wastes for pre-war technology. In this, however, they are ruthless, killing indiscriminately those unfortunate enough to possess such treasures, their steel power armor and heavy weaponry making them nearly unstoppable. Export wealth trigger: 30k.



Unity

After the deaths of the Princesses, the only alicorns in Equestria are artificial, created through deep exposure to Impelled Metamorphosis Potion, and sharing their consciousness, emotions, and thoughts through the hive-mind of the Unity. Unity alicorns come in three varieties, each with their own uniquely dangerous spells and abilities. Once a rare sight in the wastelands, these majestic beings have increased in number in recent years, their deadly reputation rendering them unopposed and free to pursue their hive-mind’s goals.

        Blue: Masters of trickery, blue alicorns use their magic to conceal themselves
     from view and can weave illusions to confuse their attackers.
        Purple: Purple alicorns can teleport vast distances in the blink of an eye and
     eviscerate their opponents with telekinesis.
        Green: Possessing deep telepathic bonds, green alicorns are able to form gestalt fields
     with other green alicorns, amplifying the power of their shields and
     telepathic attacks as well as entrapping nearby enemies along with them.

The Wasteland

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Wastes (Normal)
Much of pre-war Equestria consisted of rural countryside, now transformed into the vast expanse of arid desert that characterizes the wasteland. While little radiation has accumulated in these regions, the land remains sparse and unfertile, able to support only small pockets of wastelanders, roaming raider bands, and plenty of bloatsprites.

Irradiated (Savage)
Developed regions close to the major metropolitan centers remain heavily irradiated from megaspell fallout, and are home to a greater variety of mutated creatures as well as the now ghoulified former citizens of ruined civilization. On the other hoof, there are much richer concentrations of salvage to be found throughout, drawing the attention of the more organized wasteland factions.

Deathlands (Evil)
Tales speak of such places as the Equestrian capital of Canterlot and the mountains of Maripony, which on the last Day fell under the zebra’s most lethal megaspells, from balefire superclusters to clouds of pink consuming all within their path. Whatever the reasons for such specific destruction (Rumors abound of forbidden arcane experiments and black-ops technologies), the bombs only served to create even greater monstrosities. Those few who have survived travel through these lands speak of ghouls that revive after being killed, abominations that shrug off wounds from high caliber rounds, and furred beasts able to rend through steel and flesh.

The Everfree Forests (Good)
Beyond the fringes of pre-war Equestria, there lies a realm where equines have never held dominion.  Before the great war, the Everfree Forests were feared as an alien place where strange beasts roamed, danger lurked for the unwary, and life made it's own way without the guiding hooves of ponykind.  Ironically, these lands are now less dangerous than the blasted hellscapes that once were the cradles of pony civilization.  Less dangerous does not mean safe, however. This land may not be the forsaken wasteland that Equestria has become, but it nonetheless holds dangers of its own.

The Ministries

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The Ministries were the six most important Equestrian government institutions, founded as the war between Equestria and the Zebra Legions intensified. Each designed and led by one of the six bearers of the Elements of Harmony; they significantly impacted Equestrian law, economics, culture, and industry, ruthlessly driving innovation and industrialization to the point where they had become omnipresent throughout pony society before the final days.

However, it was once said that the portal to hell is opened with the incantation of good intentions…and despite all the technological and cultural advances, many believe that, in the end, the Ministries were responsible for the spark that would lead to Equestria’s destruction.

Now remnants and memories of the Ministries linger among the ruins of civilization. From disabled terminals to crates filled with mysterious treasures, the influence of the tragic bearers of the Elements is very much alive, centuries after their death.

Gemstones

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The utilization of gemstones as conduits for the storage and alteration of magical energies revolutionized arcane research, and overnight became the foundation of hundreds of new technologies around the continent. However, Equestria was the only source of viable gems, a resource monopoly that would lead to the outbreak of the war.

Many of the research trees rely upon gemstones, from the development of new spells to the processing matrices in computer terminals and power armor. There are five colors of gemstones corresponding to the five schools of magic; Alteration, Destruction, Conjuration, Illusion, and Restoration, and also four levels of quality; low, medium, high and pristine. Usable gems have a tag corresponding to their class and quality. For example, a “citrine (R1)” is a low-quality restoration gem, and a “star sapphire (A4)” is a pristine alteration gem. Reactions that utilize gems have the necessary tags listed in their name as well as the chance of success, eg. “carve low-quality alteration lens (4 A1)” requires four low-quality alteration gem.

Gemstones are quite common within the soil, such that “rock farming” was a viable profession before the war. You can mine for gems the old-fashioned way or crush 10 worthless boulders at the grinder for a chance to find some. However, gemstones are consumed by many reactions (Spell research has a chance to break the lenses used that increases with lesser quality, and hologems can only store a single spell), so conserving your supply remains important.

Talismans (including spell matrices) are configurations of multiple gems that create unique magical effects (For example, a water talisman provides an infinite supply of fresh, clean, water when built into a fountain). Only some of the magic research system is in place, so not all talismans can be forged.

Credits

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Bay12 Members
Lycaeon for creating this amazing mod
UnicodingUnicorn for continuing this mod and doing an enormous amount of work porting it over to 40.xx
Deon for numerous features, including:
•   The various scrapyard workshops.
•   Various trap components.
•   Grasses, the tumbleweed, and barrel cactus.
•   Terminal and wall tiles from the Ironhand Apocalypse tileset.
•   Mirelurks, Molerats, Gecko, Yao Guai, Radscorpions, Brahmin (modified), and Bighorners (modified).
•   Ideas for the ripper and chainsaw.
•   Graphics sprites for the sprite-bot, Mr. Hooves, and robobrain.
Maklak for the Linux version, extensive assistance in quality testing, and other helpful contributions.
Replica for moral support and documentation of pony skill rates and player-run Stables.
P(ony)SI for documentation of the magic system and caste percentage chances.
Narhiril for the hydroponics farm and creature spawning concepts.
Tahujdt for the stasis bay.
The DFHack developers for DFHack and its various scripts, plugins and features.
Nidokoenig for the legendary My Little Fortress Mod (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=80240.0)
Phoebus for the Phoebus graphics tileset. (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=57557.0)
Taffer for the Taffer ASCII tileset. (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=107924.0)
Ironhand for the Ironhand graphics tileset, from which the letters and other sprites were used. (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=53180.0)
generalzoi for their pony sprites
Meph's Masterwork Mod for the turret sprites and inspiration for the slave system.
Warlord255 for their Bonfire Mod
Urist Da Vinci for the water pump concept, and their mill reactions (which were adapted for this mod).
sackhead for their more leather mod
Sver for their various mat changes (no more 50% casualties from neck snaps!)
zaporozhets for their musket scripts, which I "borrowed" some core logic from

Other
Ross Budgen for the in-game song "Dramatic Apocalyptic Music - The Wasteland" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eAalHA1bAc)
Miracle of Sound for the title song "The Day the World Died" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvYi1MRvX_o)
3Maxa for their image at the top of the weapons and armor guide
DotRook for all the non-unity faction images
Brisineo for the unity faction image

[MCreeper]

Great to see this on new versiion. Very great! Now, most important question: will unicorns in tantrums cast spells offensive on other ponies, or just kick\slash them in the face?

[thefriendlyhacker]

Great to see this on new versiion. Very great! Now, most important question: will unicorns in tantrums cast spells offensive on other ponies, or just kick\slash them in the face?

They will just kick other ponies.  Offensive interactions don't get used unless in "serious" combat i.e. anything in which the participants are trying to kill each other with weapons.  You will also notice this when your ponies get into a tussle with wildlife - your ponies won't draw weapons to fight wildlife or hose them down with minigun fire unless you issue an order through the squad menu, and the wildlife will eventually stop attacking your citizens if both your citizen and the wild creature survive long enough.  AFAICT this is also the reason why turrets don't open fire on wildlife, but do shoot invaders.

Berserking ponies will use attack spells, but there aren't any attack spells that can kill or permanently cripple ponies with a single cast IIRC.  The only spells that can do that are spells that target enemies, and berserking ponies still have to comply with the restrictions of the FFID system that prevents your casters from hurting their allies (they may even buff the other ponies they are trying to kill if they know an ally targeting spells).

[thefriendlyhacker]

I have a sorta-release available for anyone who cares to try it.  It adds shotguns weapons and canister rounds for the AMR (turning it into a high velocity shotgun).

While I am making a post, I might as well ask - does anyone have any feedback on the caste overhaul?  I didn't go over it too finely when I wrote it since it took forever to do and I just wanted to release the damn thing by the end, so I would not be surprised if it needs tweaks.

I would also like some opinions on a change I am considering for weapon skills.  At the moment, all skills except whips and blowdarts are used by stable weapons.  Given that it is best to restrict squads to a single weapon skill for instruction purposes, I am not sure I like how many different squad types get pushed onto the player at once. I am thinking about consolidating weapon skills by doing the following:

• All firearms get grouped into Gunner (probably Crossbow), with the exception of heavy weapons.
• Heavy weapons, including the AMR, get grouped into a Heavy Weapons skill (probably Bows)
• Energy weapons use an Energy Weapons skill (Blowguns).  Fallout players should recognize this skill arrangement.
• All three projectile skills get stable training weapons (probably the crossbow, air rifle and something else)
• Combat Knife and Ripper get classed as swords
• Glaive weapons get classed as spears
• Sledgehammers and Kinetic Hammers get classed as Maces

This will give the player a couple of weapon choices in each skill category, and should reduce the amount of squads they have to field to use all the skills they get from random migrants.

Thoughts?

[UnicodingUnicorn]

Wow, nice work! I've been sorta doing an update on and off for the past few years, but looks like you beat me to the punch.

[thefriendlyhacker]

Wow, nice work! I've been sorta doing an update on and off for the past few years, but looks like you beat me to the punch.

Oh, hey.  Welcome back.  Like what you see so far?

Also, if you care to take a look, I have another prerelease up.  Saddle/Robot energy weapons now shoot proper cutting energy blasts instead of throwing solid lumps of stuff.  Oh, and weapon skills have been consolidated, so you now only need to field ponies with 6 kinds of weapon skills: Hammers, Swords, Axes, Spears, Bows, Crossbows.  That will go up to 7 (Blowguns) when hand (hoof?) held energy weapons get added, which is my next major goal.  Oh, and I added proper axes, along with chainaxes (because what mod doesn't need chainaxes).

[thefriendlyhacker]

Here is a question for anyone who wants to chip in.

At the moment, the current scheme for ranged weapon skills is bows for bolt action rifles, and crossbows for everything else.  I am moving from that to a fallout-like scheme of crossbows for guns, bows for heavy weapons (inc. heavy energy weapons and the anti material rifle), and blowguns for energy weapons.  I might add dart weapons later, and those will go under energy weapons.  Part of this change involves changing all the profession names for griffons and the various kinds of ponies.

So, the question is what to call the various ranged weapon users.  I need fairly generic profession names for stable ponies, wild west themed names for wastelanders, over the top "mad max" style names for raiders, and appropriate adjectives/nouns for the various kinds of scribes and knights/paladins of the Steel Rangers race/faction.  Griffons and slavers can use a mix of generic, wild west and mad max names, as appropriate.  Overlap is acceptable, but I would like some variety, particularly with the elite weapon users.  Here is what I have at the moment for possibilities:

firearms user (CROSSBOWMAN) - Gunner, Markspony/Marksgriffon, Knight Gunner, Scribe Gunner
heavy weapons user (BOWMAN) - Siege Gunner, Heavy Gunner, Heavy Weapons Knight, Scribe Siege Gunner
energy weapons user (BLOWGUNMAN) - Specialist, Tech Knight, Tech Scribe
elite firearms user (MASTER_CROSSBOWMAN) - Ranger, Sniper, Gunslinger, Marauder, Paladin Gunner, Senior Scribe Gunner
elite heavy weapons user (MASTER_BOWMAN) - Devastator, Operator, Heavy Weapons Expert, Heavy Weapons Paladin, Scribe Operator
energy weapons user (MASTER_BLOWGUNMAN) - Techslinger, Annihilator, Tech Paladin, Senior Tech Scribe

I am not particularly happy with a lot of these, so alternatives are welcome.

[KingofstarrySkies]

Techslinger is both very goofy and very good, I'm a big fan. Energy Weapon raiders could maybe be Fiends as reference to New Vegas, if that's your fancy?

[thefriendlyhacker]

Techslinger is both very goofy and very good, I'm a big fan. Energy Weapon raiders could maybe be Fiends as reference to New Vegas, if that's your fancy?

Hmm, gun toting marauders and pew pew toting fiends.  Sure, that works.

In other news, I have discovered a major problem that, ironically, makes the whole profession naming thing a lot easier.  I didn't realize it until I looked at a caravan in a test fort, but any units entering the map carrying weapons that use the blowgun skill don't bring quivers, only carry 6 or so shots, and each shot is covered in some sort of poison.  It won't stop their weapons from functioning (the scripts don't care where they are carrying ammo or what it is coated with), but it isn't really appropriate to bring 6 shots for a gatling laser.

So, new divide.  Energy weapons are Crossbows, Firearms (inc. conventional heavy weapons) are Bows.  That should solve everything, and I won't need to figure out better names for heavy weapon users.  Unless I stumble on another major problem, I should be able to release 0.41.7 within the next couple of days (all the content is done, just gotta do a thorough sweep for bugs).  Anyone who want to can go on github and take a look at the current Dev branch if they want to take a sneak peek at the new energy weapons.  Alternatively, they can read the armor and weapons guide on the wiki - I have already updated it with some info on the new energy weapons (still gotta do shotguns and the AMR canister rounds though).

EDIT: Ok, I have pushed the weapon skill changes to dev branch.  I think that is it for .07.  Download a zip of the dev branch source code from github if anyone wants to try it.  I will do a proper release within the next day or so.

[thefriendlyhacker]

...and done.  0.41.7 is now officially released.

Spoiler: full changelog (click to show/hide)

major changes
- added combat/pump shotguns, buckshot and slugs
- added many energy weapons, energy weapon ammo and appropriate reactions, and removed old robronco energy weapon parts
- added canister rounds for AMRs - basically a high velocity buckshot round
- renamed ranged skills. Skills now follow the fallout style small guns/big guns/energy weapons convention.
- Buckshot and canister rounds have inherently higher accuracy (blasts of pellets are more likely to connect than a single bullet)
- changed ripper rifle to ripper shotgun, leaving the chain rifle as the combo medium caliber weapon
- minigun now shoots proper medium caliber bullets, firing about 90 rounds per burst with a long cooldown
- laser and plasma weapons now fire proper cutting energy blasts. Lasers are cheaper but suck against good armor, plasma goes through steel but costs more
- other interaction based bullet weapons now shoot actual bullets
- added the axe and chain axe
- consolidated melee skills.  All maces are now hammers, all daggers(except the knife) are now swords, all pikes are spears
- ranged weapon skills different convention - Crossbows are energy weapons, bows conventional firearms and heavy weapons

minor tweaks
- giant cave spiders now use tough chitin templates
- made soap and tallow generic
- did some cleaning up of template mats (removing unused leather/parchment and such). Will do more later.
- tweaked pellets,since they are now pulling double duty as buckshot
- removed adv specific pellets
- added force batons to a couple of salvage boxes
- upped amount of pellets from MWT reaction
- added orewood processing to prism smelter
- strand extraction removed, adamantine cloth created by converting bars to thread at forge.
- hellhounds now have internal graspers in their hands.  This allows their hands to be protected by combat armor (since stables can't make gloves)
- made some changes to griffon/stable pony caste skills, to go along with weapon skill changes
- the hunting rifle now uses crossbow(gunner), to go along with planned bow=heavy weapons, blowgun=energy/special weapons
- increased the ammo cost of the minigun battle saddle
- spear ponies now use the pike pony sprite (because I like how it looks better)
- hacksaw is now not a serious weapon.  On the bright side, it should be cheaper to embark with if you just want something to cut trees with.
- cut pulse laser and plasma caster - not needed now that there are proper energy weapons
- altered energy weapons for robots/saddles to match new system
- changed a bunch of profession names, to go with ranged weapon skill changes
- tweaked some salvage drops
- removed intelligent and slow learner from robobrains

bug fixes
- fixed bad header on reaction_bowyer file (probably wasn't doing anything, but still)
- fixed order of griffon body preventing body armor from covering lower body.
- fixed a couple of bugs in the ranged-module scripts
- fixed broken millable reactions
- fixed bug in corn.  It should *hopefully* show up now.
- bug fixed in plant burning, so it should now be usable
- marauder ponies now have graphics
- changed how ffid works, so it hopefully shouldn't result in diagnosis spam any more
- removed some duplicate pony graphics raws

First off, I consolidated combat skills quite a bit.  Here are the weapon skills your stable needs: Swords, Axes, Spears, Hammers, Bows (Guns), Crossbows (Energy Weapons).  That is it.  No more needing 10 squads just to have a mono-skill squad for each weapon

I made a couple of scripts for spawning new projectiles or editing their velocity, so multishot weapons are now a thing.  For conventional weapons, this comes in the form of buckshot for the shotgun, and canister rounds (giant high velocity buckshot shells) for the AMR.  Saddles and robots also now shoot proper projectiles instead of solid lumps of materials (the minigun might be a tad excessive, tell me how it goes).  However, that isn't the biggest addition.

This update introduces the new energy weapon system.  The short of it is this: there are two tiers of weapons and ammo (a third is planned), three kinds of weapons and two kinds of ammo within each tier, all weapons are compatible with all types of ammo, and each weapon/ammo combo has it's own (mostly unique) behavior.  Slap crappy energy cells in a pulse rifle and you get a lacerating rapid fire rifle.  Slap micro-spark clusters in that baby and you end up with an energy shotgun.  Take those micro-spark clusters and stick them in a novasurge rifle to fire piercing plasma blasts that knock down trees or blow the limbs off megabeasts.  The first tier (Pulse weapons aka lasers) can be produced at the MWT forge.  The second tier (nova weapons aka plasma guns) requires the MAW forge.  Ammo can be produced at either of those or at the talisman forge.  All tiers require a schematic, and heavy weapons require two different schematics.  Several entities have also been given energy weapons, so you can look forward to griffon techslingers blowing away your rifleponies through fortifications with plasma fire.

Oh, and I added proper axes, and chain axes.  Because if there is one thing the pony mod needs to rip off more, it is 40k.

Download and enjoy.  Tell me how it goes, or if there are any problems.

[KingofstarrySkies]

Any way to transfer a saved game from one version to the next? I've not played fort mode in a long time and just started a new one, don't quite want to toss it out yet.

[thefriendlyhacker]

Any way to transfer a saved game from one version to the next? I've not played fort mode in a long time and just started a new one, don't quite want to toss it out yet.

That depends.  Were you using 0.41.6 or one of the pre-releases/dev builds of 0.41.7?  If you are using 0.41.6, then no - there are a lot of entity changes, and you will definitely need to gen a new world.  If you are using a build newer then last friday (when energy weapons were finished), then you might be able to.  I tried updating a test fort from 2 days ago, and it appeared to work fine aside from some skill weirdness.  In any case, you can try by copying your save over to an install of the new version, and then copying the raw files from the new version's raw folder into the raw files contained within your save.

[toradrow777]

How do you install Dwarf Therapist?

[Alkmayix]

How do you install Dwarf Therapist?

You just download the file and unzip it. It's just a self contained executable so after you unzip you just run it and done. :3

[thefriendlyhacker]

How do you install Dwarf Therapist?

You just download the file and unzip it. It's just a self contained executable so after you unzip you just run it and done. :3

Yep.  After you unzip it, you just run the executable. If you also have dwarf fortress running with a fort loaded, dwarf therapist will read data from that dwarf fortress instance and allow you to manipulate things.