kay, well is there a good way of making a 1280x400 tileset work with the default resolution?

Are graphics sets limited to a certain range of colours?... Or am I stupidly using only colours that have been used on other graphics sets for no reason?

There is a way of changing what colours are what. At the bottom of Init.ini. I think that you can make those whatever, but can't make more than those.

Stupid Stupid me. I know WHY it didn't work... DO NOT overdo with "Reserved Bins" number... That's why my dwarves didn't put things in bins... Too high number.
Now I'm producing in masses.

Reserved bins number is the maximum number of bins that can be put into the pile.
The max is set by the number of tiles in the pile.
Therefore that cannot be the cause..
Unless you didn't have enough bins for all your stockpiles. But once they got to a stockpile, they'd get filled.. so I have no idea what went wrong there, but that wasn't it.

well, i reduced the number to 0 and now every bin i create is used in an instant. so it WAS the cause of it... anyway, I'm happy
oh yeah I'll update the map in a few (tomorrow, today I'm sleeping )

I'd love to get into this, but I just find the difficulty wall too steep.

And the illustrated tutorial is rather difficult.

Perhaps someone on IRC could walk me through some simple things at some point?

Right now its 8am here, I'll be back in 9 hours, then i would teach you if you and I would to meet in IRC

um. reserved bins = how many bins dwarves will set aside when finished to maintain a certain amount available for production. they will not be used in stockpiles. reserving bins is pretty dumb, reserving barrels is pretty essential to alcohol production.

Reserving bins for certain stuff might be useful.

Like furniture.

Furniture cant be stored in bins..Imagine storing a door, a chair, armor rack etc in one bin xD that would be stupid

Yeah.

You have to CAGE them.

You can fit ANYTHING in a cage. An infinite amount of dragons, for instance.
And the bars are still small enough that if you put a purring maggot in too, it can't get out either!

so here is my updated Fortress, I'm really proud of it
http://mkv25.net/dfma/map-2732-dikeweak
and a pic showing my stats

http://mkv25.net/dfma/map-2733-straspangstur-wanelabors

So yeah, my best fort so far.

I have a bug. Adamantine and turtle appearing from nowhere, and, well, I'm kinda rich because of that.
Kinda.



Also,
<Zez|DF> Goblin: Why are you smiling? We have a noose around your neck, both of your arms are broken, and we have all of your equipment.
<Zez|DF> Adventurer: Not all of my equipment.
<Zez|DF> *Starts to spit out arrows*
<Zez|DF> Goblins: Augh!

What was this?



That didn't really happen did it?