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I know this hasn't been posted to in forever, but I just want to express as a lurker how much I absolutely love this tileset. I've been using it for years now and applying it to every update. Although I personally stick to DF's default color palette with it, it's hard for me to go back to the old Curses tileset because the smoothness of the font accompanied by the cute little bearded and helmeted Dwarves which are easily distinguished between civilian and military, not to mention still color-coded is just perfect for me. ASCII has always been my preference over graphics in DF, but I was never averse to visual improvements. Personally, this is my enhanced edition of DF and when I am able to lend my support to the Steam version it's going to be all I can hope for an easy way to put these tiles in that version too.

I don't know if the creator is still out there, but just know that I still appreciate the work you put into this simple little set, because it has since defined how I view DF. Thanks again!

I have been casually playing this game since roughly 2012, but I am a huuuuuge noob. Every now and then I get a strange mood to come back for more dwarfiness, such as now. So dwarfy I'm willing to give my first community fort a shot.

I'm somewhat decent at Adventure Mode,  but out of the half-dozen DF mode forts I've made, none have lasted longer than a year.

Never made soap.
How to military?
Burrows? Huh?
Wells look far too complicated.
Channeling as well seems out of my league.
So far out of the league I can barely manage to get the ground wet to farm on.
Never touched magma. Heresy, I know.
Never touched, fire, really.
Never touched anything hot, actually. No forges, no smelters, not even a wood stove.
Dunno how trading works.
I think I have a grasp of butchering... hm.
Most of my farms fail within the first few months.
Oh, I didn't even realize pasturing was a thing.
Many of the designations go over my head.

And so on, and so forth, ad nauseum. The only thing I can manage most times is some basic designations.

Will you allow me to be one of the Urists taking a turn? I think it's time to grow my beard and this is probably where it should be.