I was playing around with making my own tileset and let this fort run while I was doing graphics editing... it's the largest I've had (220 when the queen came). The large arena I made slowed my fps down quite a bit (15-18fps), so I don't think I'll do something like this again unless I limit myself to 50 or so dwarves.
I cheated a little... to get sand. The embark screen listed red sand, but I couldn't find it :( I'll point out my mistakes I made before I went ahead and added [sand] to the clay loam raw data. I had already made 100s of bags for the sand, and didn't want to waste time embarking again... which might have saved me time from what I actually did. :P
( 1066 Late Spring → onwards )
This is what happens if you use Tile Edit without setting the temperature... ice blocks and dead dwarves.
I wanted to make all these rows into different plant farms. As you can see, the river tiles show loam, not rock, so I assumed the loam would go far enough in to be useful.
I tried setting the tiles to the "promised" red sand from the embark screen. The dwarves that farmed there quickly froze, then every dwarf that touched them froze. If they were able to walk away the tile they died on... froze.
I tried to remedy this by first flooding the area they wanted to recover items from, then by heating the area up from below with magma. The magma dried out before it could fill the room, but had served it's purpose. Everything is safe except that room, which I walled and flooded so no one would ever venture in.
This is the extent of the cheating I did, hope it doesn't bother you tooo much ;) - corc
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Submitted by: Charrat - 2008-06-17 to 1066 Late Spring
I like the tileset. Makes the fort feel very neat and tidy.
Submitted by: corc - 2008-06-17 to 1066 Late Spring
Thanks!
The boxart and font lettering are my work, but I stole the rest from other sets from the wiki.
I've got to work on it some more so the tables/chairs are better looking--I got use to them, but I dunno if others would.
Submitted by: Markavian - 2008-06-18 to 1066 Late Spring
That stadium isn't grand, its fucking epic...
...............
*huge*
Submitted by: Dakira - 2008-06-18 to 1066 Late Spring
seconded on the "grand" area.
also found your storage shaft interesting. I may have to steal it from you.
Submitted by: corc - 2008-06-19 to 1066 Late Spring
Seeing the arena from this viewer let me know how big and silly it really was :P
I had a lot of plans for it... big epic mega beast fights and all... but I only ever got a Hydra, no trolls in the sieges either! :(
Submitted by: corc - 2008-06-19 to 1066 Late Spring
I've been trying to perfect the storage shaft idea for awhile... I use to just glump everything into one custom pile, but this is the first time I separated each level to something different--I'll have to pay more attention to where the shops are and which stockpile is closest to them.
Thanks for the comments! :D
Submitted by: Arkhaoz - 2009-05-06 to 1066 Late Spring
Are you planning on releasing your tileset, or has it been already?
It looks damn brilliant!