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[freakiblah]

I had an idea for "showing rivers" with human farmland ->

Make the farmland icon the same color as "river" icon when it occupies a square with a river

[dree12]

That would be potentially ugly. I can't imagine blue chests littering the map. (think about blue chests in fort mode!)

[orbcontrolled]

That would be potentially ugly. I can't imagine blue chests littering the map. (think about blue chests in fort mode!)

So don't think of them as chests in that context. It's all in our heads anyway.

[blazzano]

The best solution, IMO, is to make the human development a new visual layer that can be enabled or disabled.  On the Fortress Mode embark map, you would be able to see all the rivers by cycling through the Tab views until you get to one that hides all the sentient creature development.  Or some variation on that theme, anyway.

[Draco18s]

How about using the same symbol as the river, but make it green instead?

[sweitx]

Since we have alpha channel.
Overlap?
Or have all river be a simple background color (or make all terrain have a background color).  That way farm on river will be a green = sign with a blue background.

[Kanddak]

That would be potentially ugly. I can't imagine blue chests littering the map. (think about blue chests in fort mode!)

So don't think of them as chests in that context. It's all in our heads anyway.

I bet that guy's using a tileset that explicitly makes them chests. It probably makes his screw pumps look like barrels, too.
I heartily approve of anything Toady does to screw with people who use overly-detailed tilesets.

[Draco18s]

I bet that guy's using a tileset that explicitly makes them chests. It probably makes his screw pumps look like barrels, too.

Nice pic of the barrelpumps.

I heartily approve of anything Toady does to screw with people who use overly-detailed tilesets.

+1.  I hate overly detailed tilesets (ok, that's a ... dog ... I think, no wait, it has two red pixels for eyes.  Hellhound?  Er ... no ... those are red dogs ... hmmm...)

[Kattaroten]

hmpf... some people find it easier to see whats going on with graphic tilesets and some like the vanilla graphics better. Its a matter of choice people! No need to bash those who use graphic tilesets just because you dont want to use them.