Combined with Steam’s massive built-in audience and discoverability features, the new tilesets (which don’t require mods) should work wonders.Ĭase in point, Dwarf Fortress is one of Steam’s most wishlisted games. There’s so much potential for new players who have never heard the far-fetched legends – much less forged their own – to discover this fascinating colony-building passion project on a whim without any extra effort. But we’ve arrived at a point where it accomplishes the goal of making the world map more easily understood and thought it would be fun to share.”įor comparison, here’s the area depicted with the classic color-coded ASCII aesthetic. You dont need a map legend to appreciate the new graphical world of Dwarf Fortress. “There’s still quite a bit to do with river mouths and wetlands and oceans and mountains and trees and so on, of course. Check out the new-for-Steam tileset up close. “The image is larger and square since we’ve moved from 8×12 ASCII glyphs to 16×16 tiles,” Tarn said of the work-in-progress map. Co-creator Tarn Adams previewed the design in a news post. The one-of-a-kind, eternal, deep-beyond-belief simulation game is coming to Steam eventually (the store page reminds us that “ time is subjective“), and when it does, it’ll sport a world map that’s far more approachable to the untrained eye. You don’t need a map legend to appreciate the new graphical world of Dwarf Fortress. Together, their efforts are creating an all-new tileset, as seen in what we've released so far.
FAVORITE DWARF FORTRESS TILESET MOD
You may already be familiar with the tile set mod packs from Micha Mayday Madej and Jacob 'Ironhand' Bowman. As for the content in the /data/init/ folder, it should generally be compatible with any version of Dwarf Fortress (especially earlier versions than the listed in the range of compatible versions), but could cause minor graphical issues when used with newer versions of Dwarf Fortress than the listed compatible versions. A few bells and whistles won’t change that.
Check out the new-for-Steam tileset up close Nothing substantial has changed, under the hood.
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