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[Noobazzah]

I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask, but has anyone determined the most plausible size of a tile/square on the screen? This is just something I've wanted to know for a long time, but I'm too lazy to do the math myself (like putting a human walk around and then seeing how much time it takes to get from point A to point B, accuracy would certainly be low). My first impression was something like a meterxmeter, but then I remembered that basically all of the worlds movable stuff can be jammed on the same tile. Then I remembered the size of a wagon, which is bigger than six dragons apparently (it take more tiles y'know!). So, I concluded that the world of DF is in some state of warped physics and phasing and such. Any other ideas?

[MrWiggles]

The tile volume is indeterminate and purposefully ambiguous. There has been some decent estimates based on the raws for blocks, but I dont recall them bring a real conclusion to tile volume.

[lordcooper]

Big enough to contain five thousand dragons, but too small for two dwarves to walk past each other.

Basically, one of it's legs is both the same.

[miauw62]

A theory is that objects in DF are actually 4-dimensional.
Somebody else that remembers the theory can explain.

[Quietust]

Since the introduction of mine carts, the size of a tile has been defined as 2x2 meters in area and 3 meters tall. But it's still big enough to hold 100 dragons so long as 99 of them are lying down.

[miauw62]

Since the introduction of mine carts, the size of a tile has been defined as 2x2 meters in area and 3 meters tall. But it's still big enough to hold 100 dragons so long as 99 of them are lying down.

That doesnt disprove the theory that DF objects are 4D objects represented by 2D sprites.