dwarf-fortress

Dwarf Fortress is game with old looking ASCII graphics, procedurally generated worlds, characters and lore. What's not to love about it.

Changing the tileset

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Figure 1: dwarf fortress with Wanderlust tile set

The original tileset hurts my eyes so I switched to Wanderlust

Steps:

  1. Download the archive.
  2. Unzip.
  3. Overwrite data and raw in ~/.dwarffortress with the downloaded ones.

Hot Keys

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Figure 2: stonesense

Most keys are shown on the sidebar but it's good to call them out here.

  • tab to change the screen layout
  • mouse wheel scroll to zoom layout in and out
  • space to pause and resume
  • k to use arrow keys to look around
  • arrow keys move cursor
  • < move up one layer up and > move down one layer. dwarf fortress is a 2D representation of 3D game
  • F1 center on embark point
  • d desgination i.e. pick job to do
  • enter to start selection of area of designaion and enter again to close selection
  • -/+ navigating between links
  • ~ DFHack if you have it installed