Graphics Data (.dat) Files

• Size: 131072
• Required?: Yes.
• Compressed?: Always.
• Description: Determines the graphics at the start of the game. When new areas are dug out or rooms are changed, computer automatically generates different graphics for these areas, but otherwise everything is in this file.
• Format: Subtile map format, with 2 bytes per entry. If you treat this as a signed integer, and take the absolute value (or rather, just reverse the sign - I've never seen a positive one), you get the entry number in the .clm file.
• Notes: None.
• Adikted support: .clm and .dat files are now auto-generated, nearly perfectly as far as I can see. Later I shall add an "expert" mode where they are not autogenerated except where the user specifies. I have worked out how visibility is calculated. At the start of the game, a square is visible to a player if either it is owned by them or it is possible to reach that square from the dungeon heart without going through walls.

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