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Quote from: Vattic on October 03, 2010, 08:46:04 pm

Perhaps if you build a wall over an already constructed floor it could allow a dwarf to turn a stone floor into a stone wall but would take the same amount of time as deconstructing the floor and then building a wall?

I'd certainly appreciate it.  Especially due to the fickleness of the dwarves.  For example, I'll build an 8x8 square of floor.  Then I'd d->n out the areas I want walls in.  The problem is that when I tell them to construct a wall, they'll half the time cancel the construction because the floor material is still there, blocking construction.

That implies there is a floor there holding the material up, so you didn't need to build a floor there in the first place.

They're upright spears/spikes connected to a lever.

I can start uploading the world-saves and the fortress-saves, if someone could tell me a good upload site? I'll also create a copy, abandon, and go to reclaim to try and figure out where it *is*...

Dwarf Fortress File Depot

Quote from: Medicine Man on October 08, 2010, 07:33:02 am

I'm guessing a coal chair.

He's not at a carpentry shop.

A coal throne then.

A screenshot would be nice.

Edit: For reference, here's what my DF looks like:

Title screen:


World gen:


Embark:


Dwarf mode:

The confusion arises from the fact that, at the default gridsize of 80x25, curses_800x600 does not result in a resolution of 800x600, but 800x300 (the tiles are 10x12; 10x80=800, 12x25=300). Since pre-SDL DF stretched the tiles to achieve fullscreen resolution, the tiles were stretched to double their size and looked like this:



Now (since one of the 40dXX series) that the game automatically sets the grid size (which would have to have been done manually in 40d), the tiles are not stretched and the grid size is increased instead, resulting in 80x50 tiles filling an 800x600 resolution, looking like this:



Some people complained about this, which resulted in DF being packaged with the default curses_800x600.bmp, but with curses_800x600.png stretched to double its height (10x24 tiles), resulting in the old fullscreen look.

Now, curses_800x600.png is the same size as curses_800x600.bmp, causing the current confusion.

Note: (old) curses_800x600 is just curses_640x300 with a row of pixels added to each side of each tile. (640x300 has 8x12 tiles, 800x600 has 10x12)

I just noticed that curses_800x600.png is back to regular size, with 10x12 tiles instead of 10x24. Yay.

Uh, I've always thought of Urist as of Male (because most of my epic urists were males, and almost all people with Urist name in the internetz is a male, since the majority of DF community are male.

Although, the ur-Urist was female...