"How primitive! What a huge pain in the ass!" So if (for example) you don't like the default DF yellow, you can change the values for YELLOW_R, YELLOW_G, and YELLOW_B to give you a different yellow more to your liking. But for the default tileset, these 16 colors is all you get. As mentioned above, it's possible for DF to display more colors than that if the tileset has been designed to do so. These are the RGB values for the 16 colors that, for lack of a better explanation, DF "understands". The default color scheme looks like this: Inside the "init" folder is a file named "init.txt".Īt the bottom of init.txt is the color information for the game. Inside the "data" folder is an "init" folder. Inside your Dwarf Fortress directory is a "data" folder. Of the screenshots above, the 2nd screenshot and the last screenshot were made with DF configured to use a variant color scheme, while the remaining screenshots were made using DF's default color scheme.Ĭhanging your color scheme is pretty straightforward, so that's where we'll start. But, at a minimum, the color schemes will control how green your grass is, how blue your water is, what color your rocks and walls are, and things of that nature. With the latest versions of DF, transparent tiles are now enabled, and tileset designers have a lot more flexibility for playing with colors. If you don't have one, or don't have DF configured to use one, then DF will represent humanoids and critters in the game with elements of the tileset.Ĭolor schemes control the color of the tileset elements in Dwarf Fortress. You have to have a tileset of some kind to play DF, but you don't have to have a graphic set. Some graphic sets cover just critters, others cover just d0rfs, others cover both. Graphic sets cover the critters and humanoids in your game. Some clever people, however, realized that you could edit these tilesets and replace some of the ASCII with sprites, e.g.:Īnd from this realization comes the variety of pictures above. ASCII letters, ASCII letters with diacritics, other ASCII symbols, and rudimentary ASCII shapes. The default tileset looks (mostly) like this:Īs you can see, it's just ASCII. in the first picture above), everything you see in the game is from a tileset. Tilesets are the basic graphical "unit" for DF.
So, all that said, there are three basic components to the DF interface: If you want to make DF look different from the default ASCII interface, you're going to have to fire up Notepad. There is no Options screen with little checkboxes or sliders. The other thing to note about DF is that changing the graphics requires editing text files. Here's a section of one of my old forts, using the default graphics for the game: And within those constraints, there's a lot of variation. Even under the best of all possible circumstances, it's still going to look like an 8-bit NES game with a larger color palette.īut some of the most fun I ever had playing video games was playing 8-bit NES games, so if I can make the game look like that, I'm golden. Which means (among other things) that if you cannot abide the lack of hi-res graphics in your games, you're (probably) never going to enjoy looking at DF. Because the game supports sprite graphics, and several clever and creative people have put together different graphical sets and tilesets for the game, and you can change the look of DF around to suit your personal aesthetics. And I could have probably played DF in straight ASCII and enjoyed it while not being able to do so with Nethack. Now, in my ever humble but always accurate opinion, DF's pure ASCII interface is actually pretty creative, and is a lot more "intuitive" than the Nethack ASCII interface. I know there are Nethack purists out there who consider graphical tilesets for Nethack to be the rankest of heresy, but for me it makes the game playable. It wasn't until I realized that someone had put together a graphical interface for the game that I finally downloaded it and gave it a shot. It sounded like a great game that I would absolutely love to play, but I just couldn't be arsed to learn the pure ASCII interface. I was aware of Nethack for over a decade before I ever bothered playing it. Reading through some old Dwarf Fortress threads, I ran across several posts from folks who were interested in the game, but were very put off by the graphics.
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