Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

Icons, like ASCII but prettier.

Hand-drawn, like an old-timey sepia map.

Full graphics, like JRPGs with full-on sprites.

Same as the tileset ingame. Forests would use the tree sprite, mountains a rock sprite, etc.

Other. Please post your ideas/examples.

[Isher]

Do creatures take up the same tiles as walls when climbing over the top, or are they technically above them then (or do they just climb across them in one go?)

[Meph]

When they are climbing over the top, they are on top of the wall. The top of the wall is a floor sprite, not a wall sprite. Not a problem.

[Novaris]

Really sounds good and since twbt got updated I'm really looking forward to your update to 0.44.05

[tagtag]

In my old save bunch of wall tiles are randomly wrong. Those are orthoclase instead of the ground.

[Meph]

Did you update the save? Like the raws in data/save/regionX ? Because the walls themselves look wrong too.

[jecowa]

Oh yeah, some tiles changed in stone layer and stone soil between versions 2.1 and 2.2.

[Meph]

They shouldnt. I changed item_symbols on them, not the tile numbers.

Edit: to clarify: Yes, the items on the ground look wrong because of the changes and he didnt update the save, but the walls themselves shouldnt look like that either.

[Jarardo]

Thanks for your work on this I love it. I would like to update to 44.05 but I really love the world gen I ended up with and I haven't updated a save before. Would there be much to it in this instance?

I am running this 44.03 version of the Meph Tileset, I downloaded it on 1/13.

Thanks!

[Meph]

Copy the raw folder, paste into data/save/region X, replace all. And make a backup first.

I'll make a 44.05 update tomorrow. Now that dfhack, twbt and therapist are updated, that shouldnt be a problem.

[Jarardo]

Awesome thank you. To clarify, do I just need to take the raw folder from 44.05 and put it in the 44.03/save/regionX folder and I'm good to go still using the launcher from your 44.03 release?

Or do I need to:
Extract 44.05 to new folder
Move 44.03 regionX folder to 44.05/data/save
Take 44.05 raw and copy into moved 44.03 regionX folder
Install 44.05 DFHack
Copy all your tileset stuff to new 44.05 folder.

[Mrok Girl]

Copy the raw folder, paste into data/save/region X, replace all. And make a backup first.

I'll make a 44.05 update tomorrow. Now that dfhack, twbt and therapist are updated, that shouldnt be a problem.

Looking forward to it! My fort fell to a werekangaroo cascade, so now I can start a new game without feeling bad about abandoning it

[jecowa]

Awesome thank you. To clarify, do I just need to take the raw folder from 44.05 and put it in the 44.03/save/regionX folder and I'm good to go still using the launcher from your 44.03 release?

Or do I need to:
Extract 44.05 to new folder
Move 44.03 regionX folder to 44.05/data/save
Take 44.05 raw and copy into moved 44.03 regionX folder
Install 44.05 DFHack
Copy all your tileset stuff to new 44.05 folder.

You want to update your save and Meph pack to Dwarf Fortress v0.44.05? To update your save, Only copy "/raw/objects/reaction_other.txt" from DF v0.44.05 into your old DF v0.44.03 save.

Updating the pack is more complicated. I think this is how you would need to do it:

Spoiler: instructions that might update Meph pack from 0.44.03 to df v0.44.05 (click to show/hide)

Step 1. Updating Dwarf Fortress.

Replace these files in Meph's pack with the versions from DF v0.44.05:

• Dwarf Fortress.exe
• /data/index
• /data/help/main
• /raw/objects/reaction_other.txt

(Only updating these 4 files to avoid overwriting things that shouldn't be overwritten.)

Step 2. Updating DFHack.

Download DFHack.

From Meph's pack, backup both your "dfhack.init" file and your /hack/scripts/ folder

Install the latest DFHack, but keep your old /hack/scripts/ folder. From the new /hack/scrips/ folder you only want these 5 new files from the 0.44.05 DFHack:

• exportlegeneds.lua
• inject-raw.lua
• liquids.lua
• prerelease-warning.lua
• save-version.lua

And don't forget to copy your old "dfhack.init" file back into the root DF directory. It has some commands that need to be run.

Step 3. Updating TWBT

Download TWBT 6.33.

Decompress it and drag the two plugins from the /twbt-6.33-win/0.44.05-alpha1/ folder into your /hack/plugins/ folder.


Hopefully now you have an updated and still-working copy of Meph's pack. Sorry if I missed anything.

[Jarardo]

Thanks for putting that together for me Jecowa. I will probably just wait until tomorrow if Meph is going to release a new version then. 44.03 is still playable but I am seeing some stuttering which should be resolved with 44.05.

[jecowa]

Yeah, it's probably worth waiting to get it done right and get all the new tileset features and stuff.

[Novaris]

its like waiting on a game release on steam, every hour you look at the forums to see whether the new version got released already