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clinodev's Dry Mines (No Aquifers Mod)

Amazing, thank you so much for this. I also greatly appreciate the tutorial.
It's amazing how the game generation is so complex you have to add mods to the world generated, not to the game itself.

Appreciate all your work over the years, clino

Works great for me! As long as I don't update to version 3. Just keep it at version 1 & click "Don't update" when prompted each time you enter your world.

Seems to be working fine for me

re: Disheartening Comments

It's one of the top rated, oldest (it was written at Tarn's request to test DF's Workshop uploading before release), best publicized, most subscribed to (16K+ downloads) DF mods, and it removes one of the famously biggest hassles in the game, so it's often people's first mod. It's always going to have a relatively high rate of user error.*shrug* The youtube video (from the content creator currently doing the official tutorials) should cover that part.

All that said, I was getting mysterious failures that I know weren't user error. It was really strange and I still haven't figured out what happened. Other modders and both of the game's programmers looked at the previous upload and couldn't find a problem. One possibility is some changes in the DF file structure that happened while they were getting the Linux version working, but really any changes to DF that break this mod would probably break every mod, and I didn't get specifically Linux reports.

re: Disheartening Comments continued
In this release, I changed from "remove all the stone types that include aquifers, then replace all those stone types with the aquifer tag removed" To "remove the first stone type, replace the first stone type with aquifer tag removed, remove the second stone type, replace the second stone type with the aquifer tag removed," etc. It was a nonsense change made in desperation, and, behold, it made a difference for me. I have to assume it was the Workshop re-upload not the code changes, but who knows at this point.

If this mod doesn't work for anyone:
follow the installation video

if that doesn't fix it:
manually copy the mod folder to Dwarf Fortress\data\installed_mods
remember to add it before generating each new world, just as shown in the video
make sure it's the bottom mod on the list of active mods

If that doesn't work, try Zeeb's No Aquifer's mod. It's pretty much line for line identical, but who knows, maybe the gods will smile on you.

the comments are disheartening

Try copying the mod directly to Dwarf Fortress\data\installed_mods and bear in mind it has to be activated for each new world gen.

Deleted, unsubbed, resubbed. doesn't work

I rearranged the order of some lines, and re-uploaded the mod. I sincerely don't know which fixed it, but it seems more reliable now. I honestly suspect it was some Steam backend issue.


I'll be watching for feedback. I suggest you delete all old copies of the mod manually, unsubscribe, and resubscribe if you have any problems.