and now... TO THE REAL UPDATE!
Meph Tileset V3.2 (44.12) - DownloadI couldn't sit here and just update the vanilla DF version without giving you guys something new to play with, so I did have a look around at what I could do. I found a few things.
- Added MESSENGER graphics for the new profession.
- Fixed 4 workshop tiles. (I mixed some up while testing animations)
- Added 24 new sprites, for wood logs, cut gems and large gems.
- Updated Vordaks set and added his Goblin sprites.
- Added Patrik Lundells Librarian script to the dfhack package.
- Added a workshop called Librarians Office; it can open legends mode and open a book index of everything written in your library.
As you can see, three major additions:
1. Vordaks Goblins:
You can find out more about his set here:
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=165118.0. These new goblin sprites are used by default now, together with Vordaks dwarf sprites. If you dislike them, you can turn them off in the launcher, which switches back to the original design for dwarves and goblins.
2. Varied wood logs and cut gems:
I added 8 variants of wooden logs, gems and large gems. I know they are mostly stored in bins, but it wasn't too much work.
At the very least it should make wood stockpiles look more organic and less copy+paste.
3. The Libriarians Office:
A workshop that requires a chair and 4 bookcases to be build and triggers two dfhack scripts. One of them opens legends mode, which you can exit by simply pressing ESC. The second script is done by Patrik Lundell, who describes it here:
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=170462.0. It gives you a UI that shows all the books, dates, authors, etc, all the information you could ever ask for about your library and literary works.
The librarians office brings us into dangerous territory of mods. I'm not entirely sure how to proceed... on the one hand this is a tileset. On the other hand I could mod in a bone-working shop that allows you to make bone furniture and walls, which would look awesome and evil. Or the beloved brick oven from Masterwork, which allows you to color your walls/furniture as you like. Or the crematory, to clean up garbage and help fix FPS.
It's a thin line between those additions, which are graphical of nature, or help FPS, and actual gameplay-changing mods. What do you guys think? I added a poll a bout the matter.
Edit: PS: Just updated the barebones version, for the people that want to build linux or mac sets.