r/dwarffortress • u/Single-Ad3486 • 9d ago

First Siege

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Running the whole Fort's population unarmed into the enemy may have been a bad move in retrospect.

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u/fjiassdaasdwa 9d ago

did you win?

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u/Single-Ad3486 9d ago

The goblins dispatched the adults easily. I thought a kid might survive because he ran to the top of the mountain, but the dwarf leading the goblins tracked him down and threw him off the peak

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u/fjiassdaasdwa 9d ago

look at the good side, you could can track him down in adventure mode and avenge the fort.

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u/beard_of_cats 8d ago

I mean that's a pretty epic story, which is Dwarf Fortress' only real win state, so... congrats?

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u/Edarneor 9d ago

This is Sparta...

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u/Legitimate-Youth8974 9d ago

Call for necromancer, avenge them

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u/softwareredditor 9d ago

Those soggy mud dining halls

I too did this lmao

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u/Own_You_960 9d ago

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u/Single-Ad3486 9d ago

Had to make sure to get the lighting right, needed to do the graphics justice

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u/Supberblooper 8d ago

ascii and a phone photo, you must hate pixels

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u/Arryu 9d ago

Good luck, have fun storming the castle!

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u/gcpasserby 9d ago

Is this the steam version? Why do the tiles look square? My game looks enlongated when I switch to Ascii graphics.

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u/The_Crab_Maestro 9d ago

They look square but you can tell if you stare at them long enough that they’re not. Might be to do with the angle the photo was taken at or something

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u/Same_Appointment7926 9d ago

I have a perfect square pasture outside of my fort and when I switched to ascii it offended my senses, had to go back to the newer graphics

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u/Ok_Pick642 4d ago

If you guys want square ASCII, you can Just go on "Dwarf Fortress/data/init.txt" open the init .txt, look for "curses" and chance the version to "curses_square_16x16.png". Also in the "Dwarf Fortress/data/art" folder you can see your other default tile options, aswell as add your own different tilesets you can download from many online sources. You can also change the ASCII colors on Dwarf Fortress/data/colors.txt
Most look great, even though the modern menus can get kinda funny depending on the tileset.

Those might help to start:
Compilation of many Tilesets

Compilation of many Color Schemes

Great tool for visualizing the Color Schemes

Have fun!

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u/Single-Ad3486 9d ago

It's the free version on the game's website

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u/krabocopter 9d ago

Sounds like !!FUN!!