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:''(For user-created tilesets, see [[Main:Tileset repository|Tileset repository]].)''  

:''(For user-created creature graphics sets, see [[Graphics set repository]].)''

'''Tilesets''' are images the game uses to display its graphics; each tile is used to show text and represent things. Users create custom tilesets for a number of reasons, including increased visibility, aesthetics, or small size. Tilesets come in two flavors: "'''character sets'''" (or simply "tilesets") and "'''graphics sets'''".

== Overview and installation ==

=== Character sets ===

A character set is an image in BMP or PNG format that contains the 256 different tiles, corresponding to the [[Main:Character table|IBM Code Page 437]] (sometimes called Extended ASCII), which are used to display the main graphics. [[Main:Tileset repository|Here is the list]] of user-made standard tilesets. To install any of these tilesets, follow these steps:

# Download the tileset via right-click-save-as on the tileset.  The tileset is just an image, so there's no separate download link. (The list is [[Main:Tileset repository|here]])

# Put it in the data/art directory of your Dwarf Fortress installation.

# If you want to use the tileset in fullscreen mode, locate and modify the [FULLSCREENX:800], [FULLSCREENY:600], and [FULLFONT:curses_800x600.bmp] configuration lines to match the specifications from the tileset list. The FULLFONT directive should match the filename of the tileset you downloaded. If you want to use the tileset in windowed mode, search for the [WINDOWEDX:640], [WINDOWEDY:300], and [FONT:curses_640x300.bmp] lines instead, and change them to the correct values.

Character sets only change certain graphics, while others are left out. The confusingly-named [[graphics set]]s are used to change the appearance of [[creatures]] in the game, such as dwarves and unicorns. They usually come with and are designed to work together with certain [[DF2012:Tilesets|tilesets]]. They can significantly change the appearance of the game and make it easier for players to tell what is happening onscreen. While Tilesets work the same as previous versions, Graphics Sets will have to be redone as the raws have changed.

The default (and minimum) gameplay viewport is 80 characters wide, and 25 characters tall. Therefore, a tileset's target resolution will be TILE_X_LENGTH * 80 by TILE_Y_LENGTH * 25. Since the tileset is arranged into a 16x16 grid of tiles (256 tiles total), the tileset image size will be TILE_X_LENGTH * 16 by TILE_Y_LENGTH * 16. Here are some common tile sizes:

* A tileset with 10x12 tiles will be 160x192 pixels large, and the target resolution will be 800x300.

* A tileset with 16x16 tiles will be 256x256 pixels large, and the target resolution will be 1280x400.

When creating a custom tileset, it's often easiest to start with an existing one, and edit it to your liking. Tilesets generally fall into three categories: rectangular tilesets, square tilesets, and 16x16 square tilesets. Rectangular tilesets have tiles that are taller than they are wide. The text in these tilesets is generally easier to read, but the map appears squished horizontally. Square tilesets usually provide more attractive graphics, but are slightly less readable. The 16x16 square tilesets are just a sub-set, which are grouped together because most [[graphics set|object tilesets]] use 16x16 tiles. The graphics in Dwarf Fortress can be somewhat diversified and enhanced through the use of graphics sets.

Many tiles are used by the game in multiple ways, and this makes customizing the graphics difficult. The same icon is used for chairs and the north end of one-tile-wide vertical bridges. Ashes and broken arrows look the same, and many game entities (such as levers, floodgates, bags, and bins) share characters that are also used in Dwarven names or other bits of text in the interface.

<!--=== How colors other than white and magenta work ===

As illustrated by this example, colors in the tileset can result in colors that aren't in the foreground color or the tile graphic.  In this case, a brown foreground color with a cyan pixel color in the tileset results in a final color of green.

Theoretically, the way the game handles color masks could be used to display different graphics for items that use the same tile (but whose respective colors use different color component channels).  For example, if a bright red object and a bright blue object use the same tile, the tile can use bright red for all pixels that only the red object uses, bright blue for all pixels only the blue object uses, and bright magenta (but NOT #FF00FF, it would have to be #FE00FE or something similar) for all pixels both objects use.  In this fashion the two objects that share a tile would look completely different.  In practice however, this is probably impossible because so many objects share the same tile, the chances of the potential foreground colors sharing a red, green, or blue color component are too great.-->

 

* Items marked with * can have their tile changed in the [[modding|raw data]] files.

* Items marked with ^# can have their tile replaced by a [[graphics set]] image, in addition to having their tile changed in the raw data.

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| Civilian dwarves^#

| [[Cut gem]]s, large [[gem]]s

| [[Quarry bush]]es*{{verify}}, blossoms*, [[Tilesets#Trees_on_map|various forest trees]]*

| [[Forest|Broadleaf Forest]], [[Tilesets#Trees_on_map|various forest trees]]*

| [[Stone]]*, solid [[workshop]] tile for several workshops like the [[magma smelter]], [[river]] sources in main map, [[cave]]s in main map, moon on travel map

| Solid workshop tile for several other workshops like the [[magma forge]], [[tanner's shop]], [[catapult]] cup, fortress keeps on travel map, [[nest box]] tool*, [[nest box]] building, [[book]]

| [[Well]], [[vermin]] colony, [[millstone]], [[quern]], vertical [[axle]], fortress walls on travel map, sun behind clouds on travel map, fortresses on world map

| trunk^$

| [[Male]] sign, [[bag]]s, [[Tilesets#Creatures|Various Cephalopods]]^#

| [[Female]] sign, [[Finished goods#Crafts|amulet]]

| [[Tool|Ladle]]s*

| [[Armor stand]]s

| Unmined [[Gem]] Cluster*, Rough [[Gem]]s and Raw [[Glass]], unmined [[bituminous coal]]*, mined [[bituminous coal]]*, [[currency]] symbol, [[masterpiece]] [[quality]] symbol, spider [[web]]s, [[pond turtle]]*, sun, [[gear assembly|gear assemblies]], fireballs, bandit camps on travel map

| [[Cage]]s, on-[[fire]] symbol, vertical [[bars]]

| [[Mug]]s, largest forest retreats, cumulonimbus clouds on travel map, [[Highwood]] forests*

| Interface text (bridge direction), conifer forests, [[Pine]]* forests, [[Ginkgo]] forests*, [[Larch]] forests*

| Hungry/thirsty/drowsy/unhappy indicator, [[bridge]] placement raising direction indicator

| Head of [[Ballista arrow]] facing north, ramp up, track ramp up^$, mountain on world map

| Head of [[Ballista arrow]] facing south, ramp down, track ramp down^$

| Unexplored underground, spaces in text messages, black background on the title screen and interface menu

| Various [[status icons]], text, sound indicator in sneaking mode, tracks (footprints) in sneaking mode

| [[Shrub]]*, quotation marks, Carpenter's workshop tile, kobold's glowing eyes*, fallen leaves{{verify}}, tracks (bent vegetation) in sneaking mode, savanna, swamp, shrubland, marsh

| [[floor grate]]s, labyrinths on travel map, text

*[[Sandstone]]*, [[Rock salt]]*, [[Basalt]]*, [[Gypsum]]*

| [[Prepared meal]], unexplored underground, [[screw pump]] in action, footprints in sneaking mode, various fruits*, [[Siltstone]]*, [[Slate]]*, [[Brimstone]]*, [[Kimberlite]]*, [[Bismuthinite]]*, [[Realgar]]*, [[Stibnite]]*, [[Marcasite]]*, [[Olivine]]*, [[Orthoclase]]*, [[Microcline]]*, [[Petrified wood]]*, [[Brimstone]]*, [[Pyrolusite]]*, [[Floating guts]]^#

| Rough [[floor]]s, unexplored underground, [[Claystone]]*, [[Rhyolite]]*, [[Periclase]]*

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| Foreign object opening tag, tile in [[bowyer's workshop]], waxing moon on travel map, text

| Foreign object closing tag, waning moon on travel map, text

| [[Ore]]*, [[glowing pit]]s, superior [[quality]] tags, key reference, working [[gear assembly]], [[gem]] [[floodgate]], [[Lignite]]*, chestnut fruit, other fruits and flowers, moving armies on quick travel map

| Smooth/constructed [[floor]]s, injured status, finely-crafted [[quality]] tags, text, [[block]]/[[bar]] [[bridge]] or [[road]], towns on world map

| Rough [[floor]]s, [[Claystone]]*, unexplored underground, text

| [[Scepter]]s, [[arrow]]s in flight, well-crafted [[quality]] tags, keyboard reference, Part of animation when two creatures or dwarves are on the same spot

| Rough [[floor]]s, [[Dacite]]*, text, unexplored underground

| [[Weapon]]s, [[bolt]]s, [[Ballista]] tile, text

| [[Coffin]]s, text

|Text, fluids if [[Technical_tricks#Tiles|SHOW_FLOW_AMOUNTS]] is YES in d_init.txt  

|Text, fluids if SHOW_FLOW_AMOUNTS is YES in d_init.txt

|Text, fluids if SHOW_FLOW_AMOUNTS is YES in d_init.txt  

|Text, fluids if SHOW_FLOW_AMOUNTS is YES in d_init.txt

|Text, fluids if SHOW_FLOW_AMOUNTS is YES in d_init.txt

|Text, fluids if SHOW_FLOW_AMOUNTS is YES in d_init.txt

|Text, fluids if SHOW_FLOW_AMOUNTS is YES in d_init.txt

|Fortress gates on travel map, text

|Text  

| [[Wild strawberry]]*, [[prickle berry]]*, [[fisher berry]]*, [[sun berry]]*, snowstorms, underground shrubs*, command menu text

| [[Mason's workshop]], [[Kitchen]], command menu text ([[CMV|Movies]] key), twigs^$

| [[Stairs]] up, brackets around squad names, "Less than 1 unit weight" on Trading screen.

| Empty [[Stockpile]]s, hamlets on world map, *[[Chert]]*, [[Gneiss]]*, [[Sylvite]]*, [[Chromite]]*, [[Kaolinite]]*

| [[Stairs]] down, brackets around squad names.

| "Task assigned" [[indicator]], looking for path

|<small>064</small> {{TST|@}}

|<small>065</small> {{TST|A}}

| [[Alligator]]^#, Tile in Farm Workshop, text

|<small>066</small> {{TST|B}}

| Bears^#, text

|<small>067</small> {{TST|C}}

| [[Cow]]^#, camels^#, [[bronze colossus]]^#, text

|<small>068</small> {{TST|D}}

| [[Dragon]]^#, [[Draltha]]^#, Depot Access Display, text

|<small>069</small> {{TST|E}}

| [[Elephant]]^#, [[elk bird]]^#, text

|<small>070</small> {{TST|F}}

| Text

|<small>071</small> {{TST|G}}

| Text

|<small>072</small> {{TST|H}}

| [[Horse]]^#, text

|<small>073</small> {{TST|I}}

| [[Support]], [[Necromancer's tower]] on world map, text

|<small>074</small> {{TST|J}}

| Text

|<small>075</small> {{TST|K}}

| Text

|<small>076</small> {{TST|L}}

| [[Leopard]]^#, text

|<small>077</small> {{TST|M}}

| [[Magma man]]^#, [[mule]]^#, [[muskox]]^#, [[moose]]^#, [[giant moose]]^#, [[moose man]]^#, text

|<small>078</small> {{TST|N}}

| Text

|<small>079</small> {{TST|O}}

| [[Trade depot]] post, glass portal, Tile in Farm Workshop, column^$, wall construction, Giant Olm, full moon on travel map and dwarf mode, text, trunk^$

|<small>080</small> {{TST|P}}

| Text

|<small>081</small> {{TST|Q}}

|<small>082</small> {{TST|R}}

| Giant Rat^#, Text

|<small>083</small> {{TST|S}}

| [[Sasquatch]]^#, [[giant desert scorpion]]^#, [[Giant cave spider]]^#, text

|<small>084</small> {{TST|T}}

| Text

|<small>085</small> {{TST|U}}

| [[Human]]^#, [[Unicorn]]^#, text

|<small>086</small> {{TST|V}}

| Badlands on map, Text

|<small>087</small> {{TST|W}}

| Depot Access Display, Text

|<small>088</small> {{TST|X}}

|[[Bin]], [[floodgate]], shop post, building footprint, Depot Access Display, text, up/down stairs, Tile in Ashery, keyboard cursor, [[Archery target]],<br />Nausea / Winded / Stunned / Unconscious / Migrant [[indicator]]

|<small>089</small> {{TST|Y}}

| Text, [[Yak]]^#

|<small>090</small> {{TST|Z}}

| Sleep [[indicator]], text

|<small>091</small> {{TST|[}}

| [[Clothing]], [[armor]], item stack opening tag, moon on travel map, text, tracks (bootprints) in sneaking mode

|<small>092</small> {{TST|\}}

| Part of animation when two creatures or dwarves are on the same spot, [[Ballista]] tile

|<small>093</small> {{TST|]}}

| Floor tile in [[workshop]]s and [[furnace]]s, item stack closing tag, text

|<small>094</small> {{TST|^}}

| [[Trap]], [[Alabaster]]*, [[Volcano]] on world map

|<small>095</small> {{TST|_}}

| [[Channel]] [[designation]], text

| <small>096</small> {{TST|`}}

| Rough floors, unexplored underground*, [[Dolomite]]*, [[Schist]]*, [[Alunite]]*, [[Rutile]]*

| <small>097</small> {{TST|a}}

| [[Antman]]^#, text

| <small>098</small> {{TST|b}}

| [[Batman]]^#, text

| <small>099</small> {{TST|c}}

| [[Cat]]^#, [[Crundle]]^#, text

|<small>100</small> {{TST|d}}

| [[Dog]]^#, text

|<small>101</small> {{TST|e}}

| [[Elf]]^#, [[Creeping eye]]^#, Text

|<small>102</small> {{TST|f}}

| [[Frogman]]^#, text

|<small>103</small> {{TST|g}}

| [[Goblin]]^#, [[Mountain goat]]^#, [[Gremlin]]^#, [[Groundhog]]^#, text

|<small>104</small> {{TST|h}}

| [[Harpy]]^#, text

|<small>105</small> {{TST|i}}

| [[Fire imp]]^#, [[Ibex]]^#, [[Impala]]^#, text

|<small>106</small> {{TST|j}}

| Text

|<small>107</small> {{TST|k}}

| [[Kobold]]^#, text

|<small>108</small> {{TST|l}}

| Text

|<small>109</small> {{TST|m}}

| [[Mandrill]]^#, [[mussel]], text

|<small>110</small> {{TST|n}}

| Hilly Grassland(?) on Map, Text

|<small>111</small> {{TST|o}}

| Well construction, bridge construction, text, [[millstone]] in action, vertical axle in action, floor tile in magma [[furnaces]]

| Text

| [[Ratman]]^#, text

| [[Snakeman]]^#, [[Slugman]]^#, [[Snailman]]^#, [[Flying squirrel man]]^#, text

| [[Troglodyte]]^#, text

| Text, [[Anhydrite]]*, [[Mica]]*

| [[Wolf]]^#, text

| [[Saltpeter]]*, text

| Forbidden opening tag, tile in [[Jeweler's workshop]], vermin

| [[Talc]]*, pipe sections, Part of animation when two creatures or dwarves are on the same spot

| Forbidden closing tag, vermin

| Unfinished rough stone [[road]], flowing [[water]], dirt [[road]], [[farm plot]] under construction, [[sand]], furrowed soil, [[blood]] smear, guts, [[Conger eel]]^#, [[Sea lamprey]]^#, [[worm]]^#

| [[Mechanism]]s, text

| Text

| [[Totem]]s

| Text

| Elven forest retreat

| Deities, [[Angel]]s

| [[Figurine]]s, shrines on travel map, text

| Text

| [[Toy]]s, hamlets on world map

| [[Coffer]]s, [[quiver]]s, [[backpack]]s, hamlets on world map

| Cauldrons*

| [[Ring]]s

| Unactivated [[lever]]s, [[Stingray]]s^#, [[Common skate]]^#, text

| [[Bucket]], text

| [[Valley herb]]*, text

| [[Bracelet]]s, wheelbarrows*

| [[hatch cover]]s

| Many valuable metals* in veins

|  

| [[Rope reed]]*, [[splint]]s

| Activated [[lever]]s, text

| [[Bogeyman]]

| [[Goblin]] settlements on world map

| [[Cloth]]

| [[Instrument]]

| Withered [[plant]]s*

|

| [[Flask]], [[waterskin]]

| Tail of [[Ballista arrow]] facing west, item with [[decoration]] tag

| Tail of [[Ballista arrow]] facing east, item with [[decoration]] tag

| Partially dug rock, various flows ([[miasma]], [[cave-in]] dust, [[steam]], smoke, etc.), [[Fishery]], fog on travel map, [[Semi-molten_rock|Semi-molten Rock]], [[Jet]]*, [[Chalk]]*, [[Diorite]]*, various soils*, fallen leaves

| Partially dug rock, various flows ([[miasma]], [[cave-in]] dust, [[steam]], smoke, etc.), side tiles for catapult, [[window]], fog on travel map, Workshops (craftdwarf's, bowyer's, mason's, mechanic's, jeweler's, clothier's, [[kitchen]], and leather works), [[Gabbro]]*, [[Obsidian]]*, various soils*, fallen leaves, vermin swarm

| Partially dug rock, various flows ([[miasma]], [[cave-in]] dust, [[steam]], smoke, etc.), floor tile for ice, [[tanner's shop]], [[butcher's shop]], [[Wagon]] body, fog on travel map, [[Marble]]*, [[Limestone]]*, [[Granite]]*, various soils*, sky^$, fallen leaves

| Overworld [[river]]s, [[well]] [[Restraint|chain/rope]], rotating horizontal [[axle]]s, branches^$

| Branches^$

| Smooth/constructed walls, [[bridge]]s, wooden [[door]]s, center [[catapult]] tile, center [[Ballista]] tile, [[axle]]s, tracks^$, fortress walls on travel map, trunk^$

| Overworld [[river]]s, branches^$