Dwarf Fortress Homestuck Mod (Fortbent): every. single. classpect.

[Putnam]

I have made (but am still working on) a mod that adds Homestuck creatures and items and symbolism and languages and buildings and SBURB game mechanics to Dwarf Fortress.

In the mod, you play as Trolls. After all, making a mod where you play as humans would be boring and lazily-made! Besides, the mod started with being made exclusively for trolls.

For those of you who don't know, Dwarf Fortress is a mind-bogglingly complex game rendered entirely in ASCII. (well, technically, not rendered in ASCII, but rather, in SDL emulating CP437)

You can also play it in graphics! There's a graphics version available for download here.

The main topic on the DF forum is here.

How can you contribute? Simple! The raws are written in plain text, using simple "tokens". The tokens and an explanation of what they do can be found at the wiki. The raws for the mod itself can be downloaded here.

What does it contain as of now? Quite a lot. 14 castes of troll (13 blood colors + winged trolls) lusus out the wazoo, beforans, dersites, prospitians, underlings, grist, god tiering, Lord English, dave_ebubbles, the works.

What's next? Iono.

[FuriousSquid]

You might be able to find some useful stuff here:
http://www.mspaforums.com/showthread...rf-Fortress%29

Also, I have a bunch of troll-themed weapons I put together in one of my df folders. If you're interested, I could go find them.

Couple of suggestions:

Hammerer-> Threshsecutioner
Militia captain-> Cavalreaper
Chief Doctor -> Chief Culler

[Putnam]

I already have the hammerer be threshecutioner.

The other two seem nice, though I think culler may be a problem unless you go by Fef's definition of the term.

[Tenebrais]

I'm going to link the Troll raws I linked in the last thread. Feel free to take anything I used in this for your own project.

The net result looks sort of like this:

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[Putnam]

I'm going to link the Troll raws I linked in the last thread. Feel free to take anything I used in this for your own project.

The net result looks sort of like this:

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Ah, thank you, I took the horn modifiers from that, credited them.

You see, the mod I'm currently doing is going to use the closest thing to organic technology available in DF: birds that lay rocks, fauna that make metal when butchered, and, if possible, bees that make mechanisms.

[Putnam]

Bump because it's a dead topic and it's certainly not supposed to be >_>

[auratusCarassius]

Indeed. I've been quietly lurking on the DF thread and I've been pretty happy to watch your progress. Keep up the good work. X3

[Putnam]

Alright, just added Spidermom and Troll Zombies.

Not uploading till later, though.

[Putnam]

Uploaded that, though I may have inadvertently uploaded some testing stuff. Don't worry, the signless follower and troll ethics are so at odds, they'll probably be at war anyway!

Anyway, bumping to say that I think I may want graphics, but don't know where to start, mainly because I'm a terrible drawer, even for 16x16 sprite graphics >_>

[snickeringSurrogate]

Oh man. I want this so much you don't even know. Shame I can't contribute much, but call me a devoted fan.

[auratusCarassius]

Auuugh man I want to contribute. I've never done sprite graphics before, except recolors. I may try anyways, regardless, if you give an idea of what you want. Either way, I too will be watching devoutly.

[Putnam]

To understand tile making better, here's a post by the current king of tileset makers, Ironhand:

http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=56775.0

This can help. Basically, what I'm looking for is a kind of alterniabound-like artstyle, except 8-bit rather than 16, since I'm stuck with 16x16 pixel sets.

The eyes will be different colors based on the caste, and the shirt will be the profession color.

[auratusCarassius]

So wait, do you want 18x18 or 16x16? Because you said 16x16 earlier and 18x18 now.

[Putnam]

So wait, do you want 18x18 or 16x16? Because you said 16x16 earlier and 18x18 now.

I never said 18x18! Whatever are you talking about???????

[hiyamalkdu]

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[Putnam]

(Some weird jumble of letters that I don't trust)

This is highly intriguing.

EDIT: Why is a bot posting in my topic instead of posting it's own topic?

I mean, it seems to have tried, but it failed pretty hard.

[darkDetective]

I think he was asking because it says 18x18 on the link you posted.
Also, I actually happen to be really pretty good with doing small sprites, but I am not really too sure which program to do them in or how to give them to you. :/

[Putnam]

I think he was asking because it says 18x18 on the link you posted.
Also, I actually happen to be really pretty good with doing small sprites, but I am not really too sure which program to do them in or how to give them to you. :/

1. It was a joke :P I did say 16x16, then later said 18x18, but now I've decided :P
2. GIMP or Photoshop; use this as an example:

http://df.magmawiki.com/images/a/aa/Chariot_dwarves.PNG

The pink is background, the white is foreground.

what I would like is gray-skinned trolls with foreground shirts and background-colored symbols on the shirt. The example I gave is essentially a normal tileset; the background is the background and there seem to be no foreground colors. It would be far easier to make the foreground color the shirt, because that would allow quick looks at what profession the troll is. I have a mock-up (warning:terrible as hell, you may have to zoom in a damn lot)

[auratusCarassius]

Ooh, in which case let darkDetective at it. Someone who knows more what they're doing. Also I am a she. XD
Good luck!

[darkDetective]

Unfortunately, at 16x16 We are going to be looking at having almost no differing symbols, it just isn't possible. What kind of trolls should I be creating?

[Putnam]

Unfortunately, at 16x16 We are going to be looking at having almost no differing symbols, it just isn't possible. What kind of trolls should I be creating?

Differing symbols won't matter. They should be recognizable as trolls, but somewhat representative; we can't have tools and such, but they should have something that can be blood-colored on them (eyes, maybe? The blood color will be represented by background color; I'm pretty sure I can change creature tile colors on a per-caste basis) and something that can be profession colored (foreground color).

EDIT: I will probably do it myself, unless someone else really wants to.

[Putnam]

Screw the tiles, I just made alchemization! Hoh yeah!

[auratusCarassius]

:'D Yay! Download tiem~

[MaskedClaus]

I'm a big noob at Dwarf fortress (never finished playing my first fortress), but I tried playing your mod and it look really cool. I might have done something wrong, but I had difficulty finding stone. I know I was supposed to use the honks birds, but they were laying egg very slowly. Again, that must be because I didn't play well. At the rhythm the birds were laying, I would never have been able to built enough house for everybody and defend myself against enemy attack. I mean even if I let the game playing until all my trolls were on the edge of starvation I had almost no material to work with.

Anyway this mod is awesome.

[Putnam]

I'm a big noob at Dwarf fortress (never finished playing my first fortress), but I tried playing your mod and it look really cool. I might have done something wrong, but I had difficulty finding stone. I know I was supposed to use the honks birds, but they were laying egg very slowly. Again, that must be because I didn't play well. At the rhythm the birds were laying, I would never have been able to built enough house for everybody and defend myself against enemy attack. I mean even if I let the game playing until all my trolls were on the edge of starvation I had almost no material to work with.

Anyway this mod is awesome.

Cut trees, use sawmill for blocks. Makes it a whole lot easier.