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Icons, like ASCII but prettier.

Hand-drawn, like an old-timey sepia map.

Full graphics, like JRPGs with full-on sprites.

Same as the tileset ingame. Forests would use the tree sprite, mountains a rock sprite, etc.

Other. Please post your ideas/examples.

[Chaosegg]

Holy gaad, this is amazing! I can't even imagine how much love, sweat, blood & tears has gone into this; GREAT JERB!

[I'm] going to try this on my current Ironhand-43.05-32-bit game RIGHT AWAY.

Thanks Meph1! Keep the awesome coming!!

[DanielCoffey]

Thanks for the Linux 1.1 update too. Now I have got my Skyrim modding fiasco sorted (damned undocumented Special Edition changes), I can return to a fresh embark with the dorfs.

[herocrafter]

Nice.  Came w/ the latest newb pack.  I can now pick out the various surface plants.  Still getting a feel of the icons and enjoying the ride.  I did pick a brighter color scheme though as I had to strain to see.  Lots of work went into your tileset. Thanks

[Draignean]

This is amazing, but I'm worried, since a poster I once saw years ago said I shouldn't try it, not even once...

Should I run and hide, or should I try embrace this glorious tileset and play DF until my teeth melt and the pleasure receptors in my brain burn out?

[Polywomple]

Meph I'm loving this tile set so far.

One thing I wanted to thank you for was for making the floor tiles a solid consistent color. Walls change color as they are smoothed, but I'm okay with that. I was using the Gemset tile set before and I only played that tile set because floors and walls were always one color (grey) and it helped create a predictable aesthetic feel to the fortress. So please don't change that! Keep smoothed floor tiles one color, it maintains a professional fortress image.

Really looking forward to carpets as you mentioned before, I've actually used bridges to simulate a "carpet" in my fortress. (BTW my hallways are always 7 tiles wide, I don't want any cramped Dorfs  )

Keep up the great work.

[Meph]

Really looking forward to carpets as you mentioned before, I've actually used bridges to simulate a "carpet" in my fortress. (BTW my hallways are always 7 tiles wide, I don't want any cramped Dorfs  )

MasterworkDF already has a carpet. But its for 16x16, so I cant just port it ^^

[jecowa]

Here's something you could use until something better gets made.

Spoiler: _Carpet32x.png (click to show/hide)

[Meph]

Update 1.2 - Download here

Now with 100+ new creature sprites!

This update has 115 new creatures sprites, friendlier colors, and the 4-season color-script.

Spoiler: Friendlier colors screenshot (click to show/hide)

The 4-season script overlays the game with a slightly different color-scheme fitting the season. Winters are gloomier, with a cold blue hue... while summers are bright and colorful. Read more about it here: http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=161494.0

Spoiler: 4-seasons screenshot (click to show/hide)

I included 4 sets for the seasonal colors: Grimdark, Bright, Pastel and Subtle.

Credits: This time I did not make the sprites myself, but asked other artists, tilesetmakers and open/free-to-use game resources. Most creatures are done by an amazing artist called Denzi.

Copyright/Attribution Notice:
DENZI部屋のドット絵フリー素材は、クリエイティブ・コモンズ・ライセンス (http://www3.wind.ne.jp/DENZI/diary/) に基づいて公開しています。　（CC-by SA　表示-継承） https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ --- Medicine's crappy translation: "DENZI Room's pixel art (published at http://www3.wind.ne.jp/DENZI/diary/) is free material under the Creative Commons license (CC-BY-SA attribution, share alike) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/"

OpenGameArt.org

Stormbolts Angband Creature Set

Copyright/Attribution Notice:
Stephen "Redshrike" Challener, hosted by OpenGameArt.org

Jorge BF @ jbfproject

[DanielCoffey]

Is it appropriate to move from Meph 1.1 to Meph 1.2 in the same game or do I have to do a new WorldGen?

[Meph]

You should be able to copy everything over. Just remember that you have to update your saves too.

[DanielCoffey]

Thanks - I will watch for the 1.2 Linux release.

Oh, your link in the announcement just above is not working. The link in the page 1 thread is however (windows only of course).

EDIT : Please could someone point me to instructions on which save files to update when the tileset changes. I can then bookmark the link and have a look.

[Meph]

just copy the raw folder over. Thats it. dwarfortress/raw to data/save/regionX/raw. Done.

Thanks for the hint with the link, I fixed it.

[milo christiansen]

It's kinda cool to see seasonal colors I never actually used the script beyond some minimal testing.

I wonder how hard it would be to slowly change the colors as time passes... It wouldn't be hard to blend the colors on the fly, the only tricky bit would be deciding how much to blend from each for a particular date. Hmmm... Maybe later.

[Meph]

It's kinda cool to see seasonal colors I never actually used the script beyond some minimal testing.

I wonder how hard it would be to slowly change the colors as time passes... It wouldn't be hard to blend the colors on the fly, the only tricky bit would be deciding how much to blend from each for a particular date. Hmmm... Maybe later.

What people asked about is a distinction between above and below-ground... seaons shouldnt affect the colors in a cave. Or my suggestio : a day/night cycle would be cool.

[Dirst]

It's kinda cool to see seasonal colors I never actually used the script beyond some minimal testing.

I wonder how hard it would be to slowly change the colors as time passes... It wouldn't be hard to blend the colors on the fly, the only tricky bit would be deciding how much to blend from each for a particular date. Hmmm... Maybe later.

What people asked about is a distinction between above and below-ground... seaons shouldnt affect the colors in a cave. Or my suggestio : a day/night cycle would be cool.

At the default 100FPS, a fort-mode day lasts twelve seconds.  I think that might get irritating after a while.

Above-below ground would require tile-by-tile control of the color scheme.  It might even call for determining the state of each border tile, since that gray figures prominently in the seasonal effect.  But if that's feasible, the idea could be extended into biome-specific effects as well.