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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.

[Meph]

Those stairs really could use some unification.

I had a uniform design at first, but people hated it. Then I started to try different designs,  ladders, spiral staircases...

Now I dont want to delete them.  ^^ but i could do away with the doorway-like Stairs.

[Pvt. Pirate]

Those stairs really could use some unification.

yep.
also an idea for those working with colours: what about making tiles, like in reality tiles from the materials you want and have blocks of other materials covered  with them.
just like decorative colums don't have to be made from the same material center and cover.

[Meph]

Funny you say that, because I'm dabbling with decorations right now.


Shields, Engravings, Candles, Swords, Face, Books, Fountain, Wall-Carpet, Flower Pot, Rack, Skull, Map, Magma-Something/Oven, Goblin Trophy, Anvil Engraving, Painting.

[Splint]

Those book and fountain ones will look great in libraries and noble quarters.

And I sense that map being a must for my militia commander rooms.

[Meph]

I know it's stupid, but...

Rose gold set.



Don't murder me. (only took a few minutes to make)

[Caz]

I know it's stupid, but...

Rose gold set.



Don't murder me. (only took a few minutes to make)

I actually love you for this, I made a rose gold fortress and was so sad because it was just boring pale pink bricks

[Splint]

You keep making want to build really over-elaborate stuff out of specific materials.

Oh, and question. How does the icecutter work? Like, would it work outside glacier embarks, and so it could be used for other purposes in say, a story?

[Meph]

Well, the Icecutter works everywhere, but it does require ice.

So, lets say you have a Tundra embark and make ice furniture in winter, it might melt in summer, depending on the ambient temperature.

As long as its permafreeze in your biome, you are good.

Constructions also last, regardless of temperatur. You can stop magma with a constructed ice wall. (unlike undead dragons...)

[Splint]

Aww, dang. Wait, how the hell did you manage that? I thought you could only use ice boulders to build walls and the like with, not for masonry or anything like that.

[Meph]

Because the Icecutter is a modded workshop?

[Splint]

That doesn't really answer my question, but either way my idea's been taken out back and shot. Guess I'll have to use the brick oven or the bone one to do it.

[Meph]

Maybe I didnt understand the question right.

The Icecutter accepts ice boulders (while the mason doesnt), because I explicitly wrote the reactions for each piece of furniture to accept ice boulders and nothing else.

Its like asking why the kiln accepts clay (while the mason doesnt) = because the raws say so.

[Descan]

Perhaps a "crush [stone]" reaction to make "[stone] powder" which is then used instead of dye in that brick-making reaction to create coloured bricks?

[Rose]

One idea would be a reaction that takes dye and blocks to make dyed blocks, and then have as many dyes as you can think of modded in.

Would it be possible to mod a reaction that takes two dyes and spits out a dye of a third color?

[Meph]

Yes, i thought about mixing dye powders. And it would make perfect sense... But there would be near unlimited ways to mix them; hard to make. And the player has to easily learn / understand what he needs, but with over 100 colors...

I mean, i just put them in,and I dont even remember all the names.