One ghost ended up killing about four other dwarves. I couldn’t get another built in time before all those dead dwarves became ghosts, and started scaring all of my workers. Then one of my dwarves got possessed, and took over my craftdwarf’s workshop to make something, as I was trying to make plaques to memorialize the dwarves. All ten of them just jumped down there and died. Tons of dwarves kept dropping down there for some reason, and eventually I got a migrant wave. Why? There was a waterfall nearby, with a huge drop down to just a small river created gorge. I’d say I was doing fairly well, however, I noticed that my dwarves kept going missing. I’m fairly new to this game, so this was just my second fortress. So, I’m gunna kick this thread off with a story of my own. OR get the Lazy Newb Pack which makes the game much easier to pick up and get running, especially if you want to use a Tile Set so the game is not in ASCII Perhaps you’d like to tell a story? Ask questions? Figure out what the hell this game is? So THIS thread is a place where I’d love if people would just get together and talk about this amazing game. Whether your kingdom within the extremely advanced world gen pissed off the local elves, or you stupidly settled close to a necromancers castle and you constantly get attacked by the reanimated dead, or, more likely, your dwarves will succumb to tantrums and begin to murder eachother, leading to everyone having tantrums and eventually every dwarf going berserk and butchering everything in sight, or flooding your fortress with magma. However, you cannot ‘win’ Dwarf Fortress. It’s horrible UI, ASCII graphics, and confusing controls seem daunting to most, but once you learn the ropes of the game, it is incredibly entertaining. The game is one of the most complex, difficult, and non-user friendly games ever designed. The game has been in development for a decade, and still has another 20 years to go before they even think they’ll be out of the Alpha. It is one of the games Stonehearth obviously takes a good amount of inspiration from, and a lot of other games are trying to at least somewhat replicate it. This is a game all about building a fortress to inevitably have fun and having to start over. Instead of taking the old 'D' box and putting a new box with better stickers there.Well, as I said in my qubicle topic, I’ve recently gotten into a little game called Dwarf Fortress. Like replacing all 'D' with 'X' and giving the graphics engine a box with improved dwarf stickers and tells it 'put those stickers on X' Like you describe it the texture packs actually change the letters on the cubes to change the allocation letter sticker. The graphics engine then takes a cube, looks at its letter and puts a sticker on it depending on the letter (a small dwarf for a D etc) Say the storage is an array of cubes in a latticeĮvery cube has a letter on it (D for dwarf, G for goblin dunnowhat) Many of those things are far away from being ascii characters.Ī dwarf should always have the same symbol in the ascii storage, and from that ascii storage should a texture get chosen, and not the other way around like you describe it.

It's no issue if you don't plan to, though. Removing the texture pack without re-converting the raws makes things look weird. There's also a special section in the raws just for the purpose of texture packs, and while that section is virtually empty in vanilla DF, texture packs store a lot of data there. They do this by changing many of the ASCII characters defined in the raws to make the texture pack work/look even better. Texture packs do the same thing, with the exception of being able to assign many, many more images - your carpenters and masons will look different rather than just be a different color, for instance. Tilesets assign images to ASCII characters. The game logic pulls an ASCII character from the raws (database file), retrieves the correct image from a texture pack, sends it through the graphics engine and displays it on the screen. Game logic > save file > texture pack > graphics engine > image

Dwarf fortress texture pack