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User:Brrak/TilesAndColors
Using Tilesets and Colors[edit]
The location of user-contributed tilesets and colors is changing as the developers update the Dwarf Fortress to handle rolling updates.
In the current version of the game, a "non-portable" user-specific location is used to store preferences and mods. On Linux, it it is located here:
~/.local/share/Bay 12 Games/Dwarf Fortress/
It has the the following sub-folders:
data mods prefs save
The basic behavior seems to be that files and settings are read from the default location in the game directory and then any files or settings in this user directory are read with the last value or file read being used.
In practice this means the easiest way to install user contributed colors and tilesets is to copy them to the following locations:
~/.local/share/Bay 12 Games/Dwarf Fortress/prefs/colors.txt ~/.local/share/Bay 12 Games/Dwarf Fortress/data/art/curses_640x300.png
These two files will override the defaults in the game directory and survive reloads and version updates from Steam or new downloads.