I have already gotten used to the default tileset of Dwarf Fortress, so I do not wish to change it a lot. That is exactly what most Dwarf Fortress tilesets do, though.
My problem with the default tileset is that it is taller than it is wide, which makes things seem taller than they really are. Is there any way to make the tiles square instead?
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Dwarf fortress already has a square tileset available to you. Simply access your DF graphics folder and copy the name of the square tileset. Then search either init text files (in the DF folder) for the tileset option (it'll have the base tileset name so you could copy that files name from the graphics folder to accelerate your search). Once you've found it, replace the existing entry with the name of the square tileset and voila, original DF look with square tiles.
3The posted tilesets are good, but they are pretty large to someone used to the default tileset and don't scale smaller well. I would recommend Alloy. I initially ran into problems getting the transparency to work, but opening an re-saving the image seems to fix the issue. I've uploaded my fixed version of the file.
It seems to be basically identical to the default tileset, but with stuff edited to be 12x12 instead of the default 8x12 or the packaged square's 16x16.
To install it, just download the above image, from there or from the wiki, save it as ...\data\art\Alloy_curses_12x12.png, and replace the lines in ...\data\init\init.txt that say [FONT:curses_640x300.png] and [FULLFONT:curses_640x300.png], lines 30 and 39 as of version 0.34.11, with [FONT:Alloy_curses_12x12.png] [FULLFONT:Alloy_curses_12x12.png].
Yes there are, take a look here
Tileset repository - Square tilesets
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