I deleted the graphics folder in the save folder, that took care of the creature sprites issue, the game reverts to ascii if it can't find the graphics i guess.
Thanks for the tips about the colors, although in the meantime i have decided i am okay with the colors changing with the season (even if it makes no sense for stone to change colors...), this way i always know what season it is.
The fuzziness was also resolved for the most part by finding an appropriate zoom setting and changing print mode to 2D.
I would however suggest the GUI and mod be set up in such a way that the default would be pretty much vanilla DF and you have to choose which graphics you want. It seems to me that would make more sense than some non-vanilla graphical setup being arbitrarily chosen as the default.
In other news, i have received my first undead siege, but since i have decaying undead ticked on, the have all become dead again for good, but the SIEGE tag is still on my screen. Will that ever go away or am I stuck in a perpetual siege with no besiegers now?
Edit: Just got an "undead" siege with all lightning man. They all died almost as soon as they showed up on the map. http://imgur.com/17h8YwI http://imgur.com/T9JNCx2
If your SIEGE tag isn't going away either, this is the same issue I have.
That is a common issue with that mod. And in vanilla DF. Seige dies without a large portion being killed by the player, the seige tags remain until anot her army attacks or eventually drops on its after a couple of years.... reasons an army can die without it being you.... fire, freezing temperatures, ice unfreezing under army, lava flows, drownings, thirst, hunger. It seems that they have to be on someone or thing's kill list, even wild creatures, other uninvited guests, dragons, mega beasts, traps, etc.
The issue of the undead kill mod, is that it's based on the time they have been alive.... which means that since undead armies have been alive at least as long as the March from the nearest tower... they install death the moment they appear on the map. Generally I run with that option off... I like hammers...
The option is. Decaying undead, same page with Decaying corpses, Decaying food, Decaying clothes.... I don't like any of these... except Decaying clothes.... it helps to get the dwarfs to actually switch clothes to what I make, instead of being upset about XX clothing.