Adventure Mode is Out NOW!It's finally time!
Become the Chosen and go beyond your fortress in Dwarf Fortress Adventure Mode. Create a character in your simulated world and -- well, as a pure sandbox, what you do is up to you! To celebrate, we've made a brand new launch trailer which you can watch here:
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Adventure Mode highlights:
- Go anywhere! Explore any civilization, earn a reputation, and recruit followers to join you
- Experience your fortress and the simulation in a new, more embodied way
- Explore mythical dungeons to find magical items, artifacts, and fill your quest journal
- Hints of mythology and magic as a start of future simulation enrichment to come
- An additional hour of music from Dabu and Simon Swerwer, presented as a second volume of the original soundtrack
To access Adventure Mode, you must have already created a world. Select "Start a new game in an existing world" and then when it finishes loading, select "Adventure Mode". All your old save files should work just fine with the update. If you would like to try Chosen Mode, you will need to generate a new world so that mythic dungeons appear.
Beginner Tutorial
We've collaborated with content creator
BlindiRL to create a new beginner tutorial for Adventure Mode. It covers everything you need to get started including character creation, skills, combat, quests and much more! Watch on Youtube:
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20% off now!
Dwarf Fortress and both the Fortress and Adventure Mode soundtracks are on sale till January 30th. We only discount this low a few times a year so if you've been waiting, now is a great time to jump in!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/975370/Dwarf_Fortress/
Our friends at Blue Bottle Games, developers of Neo Scavenger just released a brand new roadmap for their hardcore noir space-sim Ostranauts. They have a lot of exciting features planned so if that sounds like your type of game, check it out:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1022980/Ostranauts/
Patch Notes
Broader non-Adventure Mode fixes
- Can enter nicknames on embark screen
- Added tooltips for mode selection
- Fixed a world generation crash
- Fixed error causing invalid characters from being permitted in folder names
Bugs/additions contained within Adventure Mode
- Made hero mode select hearthperson by default
- Fixed crash from visiting certain forest retreats
- Fixed some crashes related to local adventurer info not being set immediately after travel
- Fixed crash issue from demanding tribute from mythical sites
- Fixed a crash from unit sheets of certain creatures (e.g. roosters)
- Added more combat music
- Added sounds for items being put into containers
- Updates some confirm sounds
- Fixed some footstep sounds
- Fixed issue causing music to sound as if it's indoors
- Fixed some issues with ambient sound
- Added a keyboard-based look-and-interact cursor ('l')
- Stopped items like weapons and shields from starting in the same hand after character creation
- Stopped mythical sites from appearing on rivers (again)
We also posted
a list of all previous patch notes if you're curious to read through all the updates at once!
Enjoy the update! We will have more news about future Dwarf Fortress plans in a few weeks.
-Kitfox and Bay 12 Games
[ 2025-01-23 15:00:35 CET ] [ Original post ] Prepare for the deepest, most intricate simulation of a world that has ever been created.

- Not just generated geometry -- a whole simulated world. Generated rise and fall of civilizations, personalities, creatures, cultures, etc. Infinite hours of gameplay.
- Now with beautiful pixel graphics!
- Learn the basics with in-game tutorials
- A lifetime “living” project - created/updated since 2003, with no end in sight
- Generate your unique world and manage a bustling colony of dwarves, even as they probably mine towards their eventual demise.
- A new endless hobby, just for you!

The legendary Dwarf Fortress is now on Steam! Build a fortress and try to help your dwarves survive, despite threats of starvation, dragons, and madness.

In this complex construction/management/roguelike simulation, every generated world brings a unique challenge, whether it’s dwarves with their own simulated personalities or aquifers. Observe what makes your civilization fall into eventual decline, and learn for next time… until something else inevitably goes wrong.
The combat model includes skills, body parts, material properties, aimed attacks, wrestling, pain, nausea, various poison effects, and much more.
It’s difficult to convey the depth of the generation. Hundreds of animals and monsters, many of which are randomly created for each world, as well as generated poetry, musical forms, instruments, and dances for your dwarves to practice and perform. A dynamic weather model tracks wind, humidity, and air masses to create fronts, clouds, storms, and blizzards. Over two hundred rock and mineral types can appear, in their proper geological environments.
Remember: Losing is fun!
Nothing substantial is new or changed, under the hood. It’s still good old Dwarf Fortress, but with graphics support and music by default. A few bells and whistles won’t change that.
You may already be familiar with the tile set mod packs from Michał “Mayday” Madej and Jacob "Ironhand" Bowman. Together, their efforts are creating an all-new tileset featuring brand new pixel art by artists Carolyn Jong and Neoriceisgood. Dwarf Fortress Steam edition will have a 15 track soundtrack by Dabu, Simon Swerwer and Águeda Macias including tracks in the Dwarvish language!
It's never been easier to start playing! We've improved the new player experience with the addition of tutorials to guide you through building your first fort and keeping your dwarves happy.

Command your dwarves as they search for wealth in their generated mountain. Your dwarves will need a steady supply of food and beer, but they’ll also need your guidance in surviving attacks from hostile civilizations, the wilderness, or even the dead.
- Craft treasures and furnitures from various materials
- Establish a barony and support the increasingly demanding nobility
- Read your dwarves’ thoughts to keep them happy
- Build floodgates to divert water for farming, and/or prevent magma mishaps
- Build structures and watch your dwarves discover and build their culture, like taverns, libraries, temples, honey, wax, pottery, animal training, bookbinding, and more.

- The original inspiration for RimWorld, Prison Architect, Minecraft and more.
- One of the first video games acquired by the Museum of Modern Art in New York
- Updated for over 16 years by two brothers, Tarn “Toady One” and Zach “Threetoe” Adams
With the goal of simulating all of existence, Bay 12 estimates they’re only about 44% done.