This turned out looking pretty cool, and I thought I'd share.
Posted Jun 5, 2012, 4:12 PM UTC
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Adamantine umbrellas to block the lava rain? I like your style.
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For some reason, Chocolate rain just invaded my thoughts......some stay dry while others feel the pain...Lava rain!
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Waiting at the ends of iron veins! - Lava rain!
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Dig too deep and you're insane, Lava rain!
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Plump helmets are what's for tea again, Lava Rain!
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Do they come from pink cotton candy clouds?
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Haha... fantastic :)
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I would like it if this subreddit did more stuff like this.
Perhaps we should have architecture contests.
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You should start one; "if you want something done right" and all. I know the Rollercoaster Tycoon sub has rollercoaster contests a lot; certainly wouldn't be a stretch to have contests here too.
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So, a "show us your favorite bit of architecture" contest?
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I guess, or "who can build the coolest __insert structure type here"
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Awesome. Royal mausoleum or is this one just for your regular dwarves?
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I'm a little cheaty, this is just a burial mound for my plebes.
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so much wasted corpse-storage space. you must not be having enough !!FUN!!
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I try to avoid !!FUN!! as the DF community knows it. This was created because one dwarf died, and I didn't have anything built yet. I created a slab for him first, but since I had his body I felt obligated to put him in a sarcophagus - so I built 109 of them.
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Sounds dwarfy to me! That's excellent, though. Looks great.
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I'd end up using dfhack to get the stray colors out of there, but that's just me :P
Beautiful.
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My OCD blew up too :(
Its tough playing a game like DF with such a disability hey.
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Sometimes stray colors give a construction or set of rooms a certain character. However, I'm like you: for something like this, I'd be DFHack typing, "liquids..."
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changevein is better -- it's relatively new. It changes the base material of the vein to whatever you want. Liquids, as far as I know, can only change stuff to Obsidian.
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No shit? And it can change layers as well as veins? Like, marble to something else rather than simply the native silver in that layer to something else? Either way, it definitely warrants playing around with I do believe!
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There's changevein changelayer and I think a third one; in the dfack console type ls. You have to enter it the material name exactly as it is in the raw files, so platinum is changevein RAW_PLATINUM.
I don't think it works with soils though, they always seem to act funny for me. Changevein only operates on 16x16 "blocks".
You can get really cheaty with it, if you want. Really weird shit happens if you try it with candy, though, since you're getting it and circumventing the "miners have struck candy, praise the gods!" message.
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I once had a dining room made of a deep grey obsidian (or slate, I can't recall), with a deep red vein of cinnabar running through it.
Once it was smoothed out, it looked absolutely gorgeous.
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That sounds fantastic. I'd love to see an artistic rendition of it, if anyone reading this has that kind of time/ability/inclination...
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Gorgeous! Thank you.
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It's a mandalla, right?
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I don't know, just something that came up as a result of playin' around with the dig command.
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I'm a total newb; can somebody tell me what I'm looking at here and how I get my game to look like this? It may be even more beautiful to me because I have no idea what it is.
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He's using a graphics pack (Phoebus, evidently- I've never used it so I'm just going by Aeisharat said.)
What you're looking at is four rooms (the darker portions) separated by walls (the lighter parts) and full of... I think sarcophagi (the blue things.) The sarcophagi are made of either ice, microcline, or adamantine, unless Sigan fiddled with the colors of his game.
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It's adamantine. I like to cheat a bit for the sake of beauty.
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Its a top down view like all of df. Walls floors, that should be clear. As for how do you make the game look like this, you have to download a custom tileset. Just google tilesets dwarf fortress or go to the forums where some of the more popular ones have their own threads that are updated with each version.
Alternatively you can download the lazynewb pack which is a third party gui for configuring the game and it has the option (alongside many others) for you to change the tilesets with just few clicks.
As Aeisharat pointed as a response to my comment at the top, this is probably the Phoebus tileset, just google it and you can dl a prepacked version that you just have to unrar. Good luck!
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Thank you all for your compliments and upvotes. I'm glad you all like it.
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I don't like the new diagonal walls on Phoebus - I enable the old 45° diagonal walls. Although I admit in your design they work very well. Very nice coffin positioning.
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Very nice coffin positioning.
r/nocontext :D
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:)
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This is a tomb, right? Looks awesome!
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Yes, a mausoleum. Lots of sarcophaguses... Sarcophagi? Dwarcophagi.
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Sarcophagi is right.
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Is this a meeting area or statue garden? Either way is it one large one or 4 of them?
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How do you get this Phoebus working on your Dwarf Fortress? O:
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First off, I use Masterwork. With Masterwork (which, in this context works just as well as Lazy Newb Pack), you click a button and it installs the texture pack for you.
Second off, it's easy. If you want to install it manually just follow the instructions it comes packaged with. :)
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Download the preinstalled Phoebus pack, or get vanilla DF and unzip the Phoebus graphics pack on top of it (overwriting files) and running the update script (if you are updating a save-game).
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I Like.
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What tileset are you using?
Looks like Phoebus to me (I use it too)
Ding ding ding!! What does he win Johnny?! :)
A Granite statue of a turkey.
With menacing spikes of copper.
Yeah i use it too but for some reason this looks prettier.
Try playing with the Tileset builder included with it, or you might be using an older version.