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Thanks Meph. I'll go as far as I can for now and am sure I'll learn some things along the way that will take me deeper. Cheers!

Specifically, I'm asking if it's worth it to the community. I'm just getting into pixel art and think making a tileset would be worth it for my own progress, so I'll probably be working on one anyhow, but more generally, is there a future in DF tilesets with the Steam release coming out? How many of you intend to still play classic DF over Steam?

I want to give back to the DF community, but tilesets aren't the only way to do so.

I tried to find a memo on his sound cloud and through some googling but couldn't find it. I'd like to use his music in a youtube video I'm working on. I feel like I've heard his songs on other youtube videos, but I could be mistaken. I'm also fine asking him for permission, but wanted to check if anyone else knew first.

Thanks!

Thanks! I've never used a pit zone before, but I'm going to give it a shot.

I've learned the power of the compass, and the minimap is great for seeing creatures on other levels, but sometimes on the map boxes i'll see a red or blue arrow pointing up or down with a number under it (usually 1 I think). What does this represent?

I've followed the basic military guides on the wiki and youtube, but they all seem to end at setting up the military on a training schedule and equipping them, which is what i've done in the few fortresses i've had so far. i know how to activate them to fight when needed, but beyond that what should I be doing with them? I catch comments about military members doing their regular jobs when not training, but I swear I've never seen a recruit do anything but train and drink/eat/sleep. I see all the other orders, for patrols and stations and such, which are obviously there for good reasons, but I'm not sure how to best utilize them.

I also know about the training fun! which is something I'm working my way toward, but there has to be more to do with them than barracks training and fun!

Any help would be appreciated.

When I embarked all the landmasses were connected, similar to how north and South America are separated by central. A couple years later I was now separated by the landmass to my south.

how do you all expand so fast? i've broken into the 1st cavern layer a few times, and once have seen the second cavern layer and a magma pool, but was nowhere near ready enough to actually build into any of it.