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Material colors

By wizardsneverdie

Material color chart reference.

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Material colors

Here are links to complete versions although not designed to fit in the Steam window:

Rooms[dwarffortresswiki.org]

Walls[dwarffortresswiki.org]

Working on individual 3x3 versions with their walls around them.

There are 116 possible palette entries.
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Dwarf Fortress\data\vanilla\vanilla_descriptors_graphics\graphics\images\palettes.png
The first row of colors in this image are the colors in the default image files that get replaced with the corresponding color palettes in the rows below.

Above Ground Trees

Larch

Willow / Lime Wood

Pine

Sand Pear

Peach

Candlenut

Carambola

Cherry

Mahogany

Below Ground Trees

Black-cap

Fungiwood

Goblin-cap

Tower-cap

Tunnel Tube

Nether-cap

Stone and Clay

Clay

Siltstone

Mica

Orthoclase

Bauxite

Cinnabar

Rock Salt

Microcline

Quartzite

Diorite / Limestone

Mudstone / Gabbro /
Hornblende

Chert

Jet

Marble

Granite

Olivine

Metals

Iron

Zinc / Silver /
Fine Pewter

Gold

Electrum

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Krompus 22 Nov, 2023 @ 9:24am

Thanks for your guide, I don't mean to undermine it (heh) but here are some good related wiki pages to check out

https://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/Color#Color_lists

https://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/The_Non-Dwarf%27s_Guide_to_Rock

Arcanua 30 Oct, 2023 @ 3:19am

Any chance you'll add the missing materials to this? Coal is entirely different from everything on here just for 1 example of the missing stuff.

smol-wittle-debil 15 Mar, 2023 @ 1:39pm

NIce, this is very helpful. To add on to what others are saying about missing materials, I notice you didn't post any ore colors. Malachite in particular I have noticed has a really nice green color to it that I like. Copper too is missing

Anubis 1101 7 Mar, 2023 @ 6:06am

also Cobalt is missing

i know its not the beautiful blue we had in Classic, but its worth including

Anubis 1101 7 Mar, 2023 @ 6:05am

should also do glass, theres some neat stuff there

Ray Anor 4 Jan, 2023 @ 1:33am

No clay colors..

NimrodX 3 Jan, 2023 @ 8:21am

I linked to this in my guide. Let me know if this is not ok for some reason.

Sniper(+) 2 Jan, 2023 @ 6:49am

thanks, nice one!

Hereticus Tenebrae 2 Jan, 2023 @ 3:00am

I really love that Chromite color.

Redman9012 1 Jan, 2023 @ 9:23pm

The [DISPLAY_COLOR:X:X:X] tag that the materials have refers to the colour palette system that classic DF uses, where instead of getting access to the full RGB spectrum of colour, you designate specific RGB values for each of the 16 colours, you can read more about this on the colour page of the DF wiki.

Also, the hue seems to be determined by the image palettes.png inside the images/ folder, as the palette_default.png references each color to a specific portion of the palettes.png image, where the colours have a gradient from darkest to brightest.

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