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This is fantastic! I love the Creation of Urist mural. ptw

not sure, but I've seen plenty of fights between cavern creatures. giant bats vs giant earthworms, that sort of thing. so cavern creatures vs surface creatures is a sound idea! I'd use a smaller arena for that sort of thing, because those fights tend to disengage if they have the space. this is just based on observations in my current game, i don't know the mechanics behind it.

you may need to also set a stockpile to retrieve empty bags from your dyer's shops. last time I tried to set up a textile industry like this, I had a problem where all my bags piled up in my dyer's shops and I ran out elsewhere, I think because items could only leave said shops if they were going into linked stockpiles. granted, I might be misremembering, this was a couple years ago.

Cave adaptation also affects the outpost liaison. Not sure how long it generally takes but I'm on my eleventh year in this fort and he's been doing nothing but loiter in my tavern during his stays. I just noticed him leaving a vomit trail down my stairs by chance.

How exactly do you pay your tab at the tavern? Every time I try to give him my money to settle my debt he just says "I'm confused. Did you want something?"
I've tried paying him in stonecrafts but he just takes them as gifts.

Ask to trade with the tavern keeper, then (a)sk for currency - the prompt will read "How much debt will you settle?" instead of the usual. Not sure how it works with actual coins involved, but you can pay your tab using items.

I have a terrible memory for dates but my best guess is late 2013. December maybe? I know that .40.24 wasn't out yet and I decided to finally give the game a whirl because I was feeling nostalgic and couldn't get my old shareware games to run without jumping through hoops or using my very elderly laptop which has iffy wiring. Also it seemed like it had stabilized in development which suited me just fine .....and then .40.24 came out and I ignored it for three years. Oops.

Alright so I've discovered that I can't make my engraving trick work with other colour schemes. At all. Ever. Learned some things about how colour works in DF tho, which makes it worth the time spent on that! Here's the two edits that did work out:
Left is the same as before, without the engraving trick. Compatible with colour schemes that don't use pure black, looks the same otherwise.
Right is meant for worldmaps and embark screen - if it gets used as a default tile in maps, it's got white transparency on it. 5% opacity as opposed to 2% in the first version I posted. Should be pretty easy to mix and match to your heart's content, also has some non-map tiles for consistency.


I ended up keeping it, I haven't tried an evil ocean embark before. Can't wait to get eaten by zombie whales
Groundcover in good regions looks pretty neat with the maps tileset, but I haven't found an evil region with non-standard grass to match. Will post screenshots when I do! (the evil grassland northwest of center has normal grass. And beakdogs. Lots of beakdogs. I may have gotten carried away with playing instead)

carnivorn, are you okay with your tileset being bundled with Lazy Newb Packs?

ngl I'd be thrilled!


 7 Aug 16: Edit! Finally found an evil biome with wormy tendril etc. while attempting a good/evil boundary embark. Thought it'd be a great example image, took two pics of the same spot a few frames apart.

Since I haven't seen any other 14x14 sets, I'm sharing my own! I made it because I'm super picky about font size and appearance - I have trouble reading pure ascii text due to the spacing, find 16px too large, 12px too small, and both 13px and 15px too blurry. This is an edit from the 8x14 EGA font, as posted here: http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/Tileset_repository#8.C3.9714 (forgive me I'm still learning forum coding)

A tileset featuring (very) subtly shaded terrain, bright leaves, rounded walls, custom dwarf and adventurer tiles, and wall/floor patterning that only shows up when engraved*. Requires changing the pillar and tree trunk tiles to 255 (don't forget to change the tile for cap-type trees! my apologies if I changed any other tiles and forgot, they would have been changed long before I made this)


*And on wounded creatures and the elevation bar when above ground. Works best with a colour scheme using pure black. Might work with very very dark colours, but I tried it with a handful of Vherid's palettes to check and it didn't hold up well. Sorry to those who aren't a fan of high contrast. I can make edits for specific colour schemes if there's interest.


There you have it! I have some simple racial graphics in this style in the works but those will be a while. Feedback appreciated!