Dwarf Fortress in Arch with a Tile-set

:author:

mcgillij

:category:

Games

:date:

2021-01-11 17:49

:tags:

Linux, Arch, Dwarf Fortress, Graphics, #100DaysToOffload

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dwarf-fortress-in-arch

:summary:

Small write-up of how to install a tile-set for Dwarf Fortress in Linux (Arch, but any other distribution will work as well).

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Dwarf Fortress in Arch with a Tile-set

Installation

Where to get Tile-sets?

Grab a Tile-Set

Configuration

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Installation

You can either download the binary from

bay12games

or if you’re on Arch Linux, there’s a package you can snag with the following command:

pacman -S dwarffortress

This will install most of the resources into "/opt/dwarffortress", and when you run the game for the first time with the "dwarffortress" command, it will populate your **$HOME/.dwarffortress** directory with some configuration files that we’ll take a look at in a bit for adding a tile-set.

Where to get Tile-sets?

I found that the official forums and

DFFD

site had mostly tilesets that would include all the windows binaries and configurations. Where I’m playing on Linux natively, so I wanted just the graphics by themselves so I could install them myself. So this

Github repo

has a great selection of Graphics Tilesets ready to be used directly in Linux.

Grab a Tile-Set

I chose the *Ironhand* set that can be found

here

, but the directions will work for any other regular tile-set.

Once downloaded, I unzipped the *Ironhand_47_04A.zip* to a temporary folder.

When extracted, you should see a **data** and **raw** folder, on Arch since I had already run Dwarf Fortress once, it had created my local configuration in **~/.dwarffortress** so I just copied the data folder over with the following command.

cp -Rupv data/ ~/.dwarffortress/

And afterwards I copied the raw’s over to the */opt/dwarffortress/raw* directory.

sudo cp -Rupv raw/ /opt/dwarffortress/

Configuration

Now we just want to check our configuration files to make sure the new tile-set is selected.

You can find it at *~/.dwarffortress/data/init/init.txt*, and look for your **GRAPHICS:** block, and make sure you put in your tile-set preference in the configuration.

[GRAPHICS:YES]
[GRAPHICS_FONT:ironhand.png]
[GRAPHICS_FULLFONT:ironhand.png]

Make sure you update the “GRAPHICS_FONT” and “GRAPHICS_FULLFONT” with your tile-sets png, and toggle GRAPHICS: to YES as above.

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