How to run stonesense

dwarf-fortress

I'm having trouble trying to figure out how to get Stonesense working for the latest Dwarf Fortress.

I am using the latest LNP pack (40.16 r2).

Stonesense does not come with this package anymore for "technical reasons" as you can read on the bay12 forums.

I have Stonesense downloaded from their github here, but I can't find any where that tells me where to put these files in order to get them working!

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So this is the result of outdated documentation and a timely bug.

First, Stonesense is now included with DFHack in the Starter Pack (previously known as the LNP). However from around versions 40.14-40.19 stonesense was broken due to changes in DF proper, so it wasn't shipped.

Updating to the latest DFHack / Starter Pack (for DF v0.40.19) will include stonesense.

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I was able to recreate the segfaulting by running df on a regular Ubuntu install with X turned off.

...
(Dwarf_Fortress:5346): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_window_new: assertion `GDK_IS_WINDOW (parent)' failed
Segmentation fault

I suspect the problem is that this game expects to have a functioning GL driver available. And for that you need X running. But a VPS doesn't have X!

Instead, use Xvfb, which is a "fake" virtual X. You'll need to install xvfb and whatever dependencies it wants (probably xorg-server-core and a bunch of other stuff that may not be installed on Ubuntu Server).

Start the fake xserver up like this:

$ Xvfb :1 -screen 0 1024x768x16 &

Then make sure your DISPLAY variable is pointed to it:

$ export DISPLAY=:1
$ ./df

I also needed to disable sound and run in TEXT mode, but it worked this way, with no X running. I hope it works for you.

How to get StoneSense to work

Try to backup Memory.xml in Stonesence folder and replace its content with http://pastebin.com/8Kg1AnKb

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