Hey, Phoebus peoples. I have a question.
I play DF really sporadically, returning once every 4-6 years...
The last time I played was in Feb 2016, with the cutting edge starter packs of that time, which had just introduced advanced features of taverns, temples and libraries, with instruments and bookmaking etc. I had loaded up the old save to see what I'd been doing and brush up on the game again.
I'm playing now on the last stable release,
linked from here, which is 0.44.12-r08. I believe this is from 2018. I know the new "villains" update is out, but I prefer to play on the most stable release I can, so I'm fine with this.
However, I have noticed that the graphics (which is Phoebus default on both of them) are different between the two. That old cutting edge 2016 pack has better graphics in some ways than the newer one!
Old pack:
Latest stable release:
Coffins return to zeroes, both floodgates and up/down stairs revert to a simple X, and farm plots look worse. There are a number of other differences visible too, like you can see the wheelbarrows, bins and forges are different.
Does anyone know why this might be? Like...was there some weird dispute over who owned the art and it got reverted at some point?
I looked through the art file folder and couldn't find those old better graphics anywhere. I don't know where the game is pulling them from.
Any ideas?
EDIT:
I see someone had a similar issue a few pages back in 2017. Is this really a bug that has persisted this long...?