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 I recently overhauled my Challenge Generator for Dwarf Fortress with a bunch of new features (and games). I know how the bay12 forums loves a challenge and would love to see the results of some of the Dorfs over here tackling some challenges.

http://www.scenariogenerator.net/game/dwarffortress

*** Now out of date, go to http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=137096.0 for an up to date version of Pheobus ***

So I was impatient to use DF2014 with Pheobus and tried the old version of the tileset out with the new version of Dwarf Fortress.

Initially trees were not working correctly so I fiddled with it a bit and got it working. I've packaged the result up with Pheobus installed and working nicely with trees.

You can download it here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/j7zit70gkikl9ik/DF2014_with_Pheobus.zip


The tileset assembler is included and worked perfectly for me.

The problem was overwriting the new RAWs with the old ones included in Pheobus, also running the init modifier bat broke things as well.

Note: Sand looks a little weird (the solid yellow walls in the first image) and roots and certain branches are displayed using gems. This isn't great but is just how the current tileset works. It still looks much nicer than empty, black space.

All credit goes to Pheobus http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=137096.0 for the tileset. Just wanted to post this in its own thread so it didn't get buried in the Pheobus thread and people checking in can get started right away. I'll label this post as out of date as soon as Pheobus gets a proper update.

How do the new trees look with this tileset, if you use the .34 version of it?

Just came back to mention this.

No textures at all, just black squares.

As you can see in the last post in the image.

Don't include the raws from the pheobus download if you want it to work. Also do not use the init updater, do it yourself manually. Trees are working fine for me now. Not textured, but visible.

Result:

Hope Pheobus is updated for DF2014, really love the artwork in it.

Anyone know if Pheobus will work alright in the new version and just fallback to default textures for things not covered? Or are tilesets not backwards compatible?

If you do read this Pheobus, thanks for all the hard work over the years.

On the whole I've found that no matter what forum you go to the dwarf fortress section is full of great people who are always willing to help. I think it just comes with the fact that these are people who know that asking questions isn't something you rail on someone for and that being mean will drive people away from an amazing game.

This game breeds nice people.

Picked the book up today at a conference and it's really good, I quite like how for some sections he held off on information. Specifically the strange moods section where he held off on explaining exactly what things dwarves say mean. Only problem is secretive moods where you need an explanation glass and burning wood is not ever going to lead you to crystal glass. Plus the problem where for most moods all cloths say the same thing. These exceptions certainly needed a mention at least.

Anyway, the book is great and explains the complex sections like the military really well. I've thrown a review and suggestion up on my site, because anyone who wants to learn has to get this book.

The only downside I really find with it is that to get the e-book with the physical you've got to pay a small upgrade fee, for a book like this that is going to be out of date, potentially even with completely wrong information, it seems like an updating e-book should come free with the physical.

So I completely changed the theme of the site now. I'll be adding a theme selector at some point today with the old theme as well as an elven theme.

What do you think of the font colour now?
It isn't white, because I hate the white on dark background thing toady uses for his blog and I'm trying to avoid the effect that that gives.