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Was reading on the wiki that robes and dresses are the best value clothes to make. I can't see robes on the list of my clothiers shop. Dresses are there. Anyone got any idea?

I've been messing around just downloading the base LNP without any tilesets pre-installed and making my own custom graphics/tileset directory to install over a clean DF Install.

mikechar covered most of the pertinent stuff. If you're gonna do your own custom graphics and tilesets install always save a clean install of DF to start from scratch again with, also copy it into in the baseline directory of LNP. Before installing any packs you also want a DF install that has DFHack and (ideally) TWBT installed. Then you can basically test out your custom graphics using LNP and tweak it if you have problems and due to the clean DF install and the clean but with DFHack and TWBT it is quite easy to revert things and start again from these two installs.

Things to watch out for if you're doing this is you probably need to edit DFhack.init (in the root directory), any onLoad.init the pack you are using might need (raw directory) and possibly any overrides, if it uses them with TWBT (in the data > init directory). That is the basic checklist for custom installs.

Make sure you have put the graphics/fonts you are adding in the graphics/tileset directorys of LNP rather than the copying over your install of DF. This means you can easily switch and tweak the packs you are experimenting with using LNP. It is kind of confusing given the term "tileset" but the actual pictures of dwarves etc go in the Graphics directory whilst fonts go in the tileset directory of LNP, though I think they are all interchangeable between FONT and GRAPHICS_FONT in the LNP Graphics > Customize tab.

This might have been answered but FONT is the writing you see in the game whilst GRAPHICS_FONT is the visual tiles you see in the main window when playing. You might get confused during woldgen and think you have it wrong but don't worry, the mapgen uses FONT not GRAPHIS_FONT.

A good way of working out the specifics of how all this works is looking in the LNP directory of the main bundled LNP install and compare it with your unmodded baseline LNP without the bundled tilesets extras. I recommend using the basic LNP install rather than editing the full LNP install as this avoids confusion whilst you are learning how to manually set up your own LNP install.

Also, keep in mind tilesets made for earlier versions of DF and TWBT might need some careful investigation and editing of init files to get them working on a new DF/TWBT version.

Oh yeah, I forgot about memories (just realised that is a bad pun), they could really work well for this sort of thing. You would even get preferences linked to an epic adventure too. Food preference would work well with travellers memories too. Dislikes would probably work even better.

I think it would be cool if a dwarf's preferences were linked to the setting of the civ they are from. So they couldn't have preferences for exotic things they have never even heard of but might love Llamas and Platinum if their civ has access to those, for instance. They should still have prefences for rare things they are in contact with, if not a higher preference for those. It could also be linked to the speres of any deities/megabeasts they worship. Gems for wealth, weapons for war, coffins for death?

Oops, a general suggestiom here. I did update my votes too though.

Hah, great, simple solution.

Thanks Prudent, fricy and ancient. I think I have everything I need now. Missed both ancient's spoiler and Prudents post about KDiff, I should have looked harder, thanks for being patient. Now to roll up my sleeves and see if I can do this without breaking everything.