![]() Contains a few tilesets, DF, DT, and some other tools like DF hack. Nothing makes sense*, the cat gets annoyed, you lose a lot, and everyone thinks you're insane.Īs to tilesets (and indeed, acquiring Dwarf Therapist), you want the Lazy Noob Pack. Playing without access to the wiki is akin to playing a normal game by shouting orders to your cat. Secondly, the wiki isn't your friend: the wiki is your only hope. Being able to see all your dorf's moods and assigned jobs at a glance is very handy: finding idle dwarves without it is a real pain. I'm just used to it now.įirstly, get Dwarf Therapist. I'll say outright: this is not because I am a Real Gamer. I'm one of the very few people I know of who plays DF with the default tileset: for a long while, I didn't even use Dwarf Therapist. If this is a case of 'Well, DF isn't for you' then I guess I lump it until they get the UI fixed or somebody makes a front-end for it.īut given the current state of the game, is there any way around the UI or a recommended graphic tile set to make it less a barrier to entry? I want to be able to access all the awesome complexity and cruel difficulty, but it's buried under a UI that's such a big turnoff, that it makes my lips curl back from my teeth in a monkey grimace. A decent graphical icon set would help too, because I hate the ASCII, but I could lump the ASCII if the UI wasn't so arcane. ![]() I just want to right click on stuff and get context menus. I have too much going on for a learning curve like that just to start playing the game. Two hours later, and I still have no idea what I'm looking and or how to make stuff happen.īottom line, taking a week to learn the fuckawful UI isn't realistically going to happen. I just need to know what the hell I'm looking at, and how to make stuff happen. I don't need 3D graphics or any nonsense like that. The UI poisons my brain like a punji stick through the eye socket. ![]() I dig (har har) fantasy uber architecture.Īfter hearing about it, reading Boatmurdered twice, and looking at the fan community, I decided to give it a try. I love complicated sims filled with unexpected emergent behaviors.
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