diff --git a/Thud/build.gradle b/Thud/build.gradle
index b5aa8f4..cfb3af8 100644
--- a/Thud/build.gradle
+++ b/Thud/build.gradle
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-version = '1.0'
+version = '1.1'
 
 apply plugin:'application'
 ext.mainClass = mainClassName = "org.saucistophe.thud.display.Display"
diff --git a/Thud/src/main/java/org/saucistophe/thud/display/Display.java b/Thud/src/main/java/org/saucistophe/thud/display/Display.java
index c9bba88..5f6d960 100644
--- a/Thud/src/main/java/org/saucistophe/thud/display/Display.java
+++ b/Thud/src/main/java/org/saucistophe/thud/display/Display.java
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
 import static org.saucistophe.thud.model.Piece.DWARF;
 import static org.saucistophe.thud.model.Piece.EMPTY;
 import org.saucistophe.thud.model.boards.Board;
+import static org.saucistophe.thud.model.boards.Board.readFromStream;
 import org.saucistophe.thud.model.players.NegamaxPlayer;
 import org.saucistophe.thud.model.players.Player;
 
@@ -39,6 +40,8 @@ public class Display
 	 */
 	private static final JFrame MAIN_FRAME = new JFrame();
 
+
+
 	/**
 	 The main display panel.
 	 */
@@ -84,8 +87,7 @@ public static void main(String[] args)
 		{
 			// Load the initial board.
 			ClassLoader classLoader = Display.class.getClassLoader();
-			File file = new File(classLoader.getResource("initialBoard.thud").getFile());
-			initialBoard = readFromFile(file);
+			initialBoard = readFromStream(classLoader.getResourceAsStream("initialBoard.thud"));
 
 		} catch (Exception ex)
 		{
diff --git a/Thud/src/main/java/org/saucistophe/thud/model/Piece.java b/Thud/src/main/java/org/saucistophe/thud/model/Piece.java
index 8e3b4f4..e170aaf 100644
--- a/Thud/src/main/java/org/saucistophe/thud/model/Piece.java
+++ b/Thud/src/main/java/org/saucistophe/thud/model/Piece.java
@@ -13,13 +13,14 @@ private Piece(String text)
 
 	public static Piece fromText(String text)
 	{
-		for (Piece candidateValue  : values())
+		for (Piece candidateValue : values())
 		{
-			if(candidateValue.text.equals(text))
+			if (candidateValue.text.equals(text))
 			{
 				return candidateValue;
 			}
 		}
+		System.err.println("Unknown piece type " + text);
 		return null;
 	}
 }
diff --git a/Thud/src/main/java/org/saucistophe/thud/model/boards/Board.java b/Thud/src/main/java/org/saucistophe/thud/model/boards/Board.java
index 5446119..1ded305 100644
--- a/Thud/src/main/java/org/saucistophe/thud/model/boards/Board.java
+++ b/Thud/src/main/java/org/saucistophe/thud/model/boards/Board.java
@@ -1,9 +1,12 @@
 package org.saucistophe.thud.model.boards;
 
+import java.io.BufferedReader;
 import java.io.File;
+import java.io.FileInputStream;
 import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.InputStream;
+import java.io.InputStreamReader;
 import java.io.PrintWriter;
-import java.nio.file.Files;
 import java.util.ArrayList;
 import java.util.Arrays;
 import java.util.List;
@@ -17,6 +20,7 @@
 import static org.saucistophe.thud.model.Piece.EMPTY;
 import static org.saucistophe.thud.model.Piece.OUT;
 import static org.saucistophe.thud.model.Piece.TROLL;
+import org.saucistophe.utils.Constants;
 
 /**
  The board corresponds to a state of the game, and contains an 2D array of
@@ -328,19 +332,24 @@ public void writeToFile(File outputFile)
 	}
 
 	/**
-	 Reads a board from a thud! file.
+	 Reads a board from a stream to a thud! file.
 
-	 @param inputFile The file to read.
+	 @param inputStream The stream of the file to read.
 	 @return The stored board.
 
-	 @throws IOException In case of problems when acessing or reading the file.
+	 @throws java.io.IOException When there's a problem reading the file.
 	 */
-	public static Board readFromFile(File inputFile) throws IOException
+	public static Board readFromStream(InputStream inputStream) throws IOException
 	{
+		BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(inputStream, Constants.ENCODING));
+
+		// Turn the file to an array of strings.
+		List<String> lines = reader.lines().collect(Collectors.toList());
+
 		// First check the longest line in the file.
-		int longestLine = Files.lines(inputFile.toPath()).mapToInt(String::length).max().getAsInt();
+		int longestLine = lines.stream().mapToInt(String::length).max().getAsInt();
 		// Also get the number of lines.
-		int numberOfLines = (int) Files.lines(inputFile.toPath()).count();
+		int numberOfLines = lines.size();
 
 		// TODO add something to decide which class.
 		Board board = new RegularBoard();
@@ -348,22 +357,18 @@ public static Board readFromFile(File inputFile) throws IOException
 		// Create the relevant square board.
 		board.squares = new Piece[longestLine][numberOfLines];
 
-		try (Stream<String> lines = Files.lines(inputFile.toPath()))
+		int lineNumber = 0;
+		for (String line : lines)
 		{
-			int lineNumber = 0;
-			// For each line:
-			for (String line : (Iterable<String>) lines::iterator)
+			// For each character:
+			int charNumber = 0;
+			for (char c : line.toCharArray())
 			{
-				// For each character:
-				int charNumber = 0;
-				for (char c : line.toCharArray())
-				{
-					// Turn the character to a piece.
-					board.squares[charNumber][lineNumber] = Piece.fromText("" + c);
-					charNumber++;
-				}
-				lineNumber++;
+				// Turn the character to a piece.
+				board.squares[charNumber][lineNumber] = Piece.fromText("" + c);
+				charNumber++;
 			}
+			lineNumber++;
 		}
 
 		// Change the top-left corner to the playing side.
@@ -389,6 +394,19 @@ public static Board readFromFile(File inputFile) throws IOException
 		return board;
 	}
 
+	/**
+	 Reads a board from a thud! file.
+
+	 @param inputFile The file to read.
+	 @return The stored board.
+
+	 @throws IOException In case of problems when acessing or reading the file.
+	 */
+	public static Board readFromFile(File inputFile) throws IOException
+	{
+		return readFromStream(new FileInputStream(inputFile));
+	}
+
 	/**
 	 Conveniency method for getting a square's piece from its coordinate.