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[PastequeSauvage]

Hi I wanted to know how tall is a tileset on the worldmap.

Thank you in advance

[GhostDwemer]

You mean the height of one single z-level? I've heard five feet, seven feet, ten feet, twenty meters... I think someone once calculated the height based on physics, but I can't find that thread. I think it depends. A bronze colossus can fit into a hallway 1 tile tall, as can a dragon. How tall is a dragon?

[utunnels]

In DF universe, 1 tile is 1 tile.
You can have fit 10000 dragons in it and yet 2 dorfs have to crawl to get past each other.

 

[Quietust]

In DF universe, 1 tile is 1 tile.
You can have fit 10000 dragons in it and yet 2 dorfs have to crawl to get past each other.

 

The distinction is that it can contain 10000 dragons as long as 9999 of them are lying down.

[PastequeSauvage]

Thank you for your answer but I meant a tileset on that kind of map: http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/imgs/dwarf_holdings_3a.png :p

[Quietust]

You said "tileset", when the word you were looking for was "region block". A single region block contains 16x16 embark squares, and each embark square is 48x48 map tiles, and I believe each map tile is 2x2x3 meters in size (for the purposes of minecarts).

Thus, a LARGE world (257x257) is around 156,000 square kilometers, a bit bigger than the state of Georgia but smaller than Wisconsin.

[PastequeSauvage]

Oh ok thanks :p

[Sanctume]

You said "tileset", when the word you were looking for was "region block". A single region block contains 16x16 embark squares, and each embark square is 48x48 map tiles, and I believe each map tile is 2x2x3 meters in size (for the purposes of minecarts).

Thus, a LARGE world (257x257) is around 156,000 square kilometers, a bit bigger than the state of Georgia but smaller than Wisconsin.

So a 1x1 embark will give me a 48x48 map.  Does the 48x48 include the 1-tile map edge that I cannot dig? 
However, I can't build buildings of furnitures within 6 tiles of the map edge also; so this will make the living area smaller than 48x48.

It's interesting that 1 tile is 2x2x3 meters which translate to 13.12 feet wide and long, and 19.68 feet high. 
Being almost 20 feet high, does not need a z-2 high rooms.  As I use to envisioned I wanted high-vaulted rooms.  It's already high.

[Detros]

So a 1x1 embark will give me a 48x48 map.  Does the 48x48 include the 1-tile map edge that I cannot dig? 

IIRC yes. Because 2x2 will give you 96x96 again with just 1-tile wide rim of no-digging. Though one can do other things there on the rim.