- 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
Hey Urists, \n\nThis is our last Dwarf Fortress update for the year and we have patch 53.07, a list of the upcoming major features and a winter Tarn Time video.
Release notes for 53.07:
Here\'s another patch for the Siege Update. Dwarves will now have happy thoughts to bolster them after sieges, while invader movement has been made a bit more dynamic. There are lots of new animal portraits. Hundreds of them! And the lua has been brought in line with our full set of procedural creature graphics, so forgotten beasts in new worlds should look extra fancy now. Siege Updates
Added a positive thought for everybody in the fortress when a siege is defeated.
[/*]Made siege leaders a bit more dynamic when cut off.
[/*]Made fleeing invaders with special movement (flying, magma etc.) escape more cleanly.
[/*]Added invasion creature cap and strength to the difficulty settings.
[/*]Pick/wall material now impacts digging speed through natural materials (for invaders and the player).
[/*]Hunters reserve only 25 bolts at embark now.
[/*]Default archer uniforms at embark specifies weapon if civilization has only one type.
[/*]Default archer uniforms at embark created for both leather and metal armor.
[/*]
Graphics Updates
Added hundreds of new creature portraits, and added new full body graphics for a few natural creatures.
[/*]Added some new graphical layers to forgotten beasts/demons/titans and enhanced other layers.
[/*]Added some missing graphical layers and tweaks to forgotten beasts/demons/titans/experiments.
[/*]
General Updates
Fixed a crash caused by kitchen input with no entries.
[/*]Fixed a crash related to post-worldgen population growth.
[/*]Stopped items thrown at visitors by tantruming dwarves from causing an escalation to lethal combat.
[/*]Stopped drunk/tantrum brawlers from attacking small and vulnerable body parts like the throat.
[/*]Throwing and pinching are no longer considered brawling-level moves.
[/*]Added a chance for falling creatures and objects to bounce at each level of stairs or heavy branches, rather than falling all the way down.
[/*]Added (economic) difficulty setting for fortress dig speed. Currently the same on normal/hard.
[/*]Tree/axe material impacts tree felling speed.
[/*]Stopped certain children/animals from being born with negative sizes and/or random ages.
[/*]Displayed correct age in years on sheets, respecting birthday.
[/*]Displayed proper experimented-upon historical figure name in experiment description.
[/*]Stopped fort vampires from attempting to disguise their kills with unique \"Zero Kill\" text on their kill list.
[/*]Handled a few more issues with hospital patients and caretakers being frozen.
[/*]Fixed grazer status only being displayed for grazers with long names.
[/*]Brought mead value in line with other drinks.
[/*]Properly respected complete ocean edge minimum settings of 1 and 2 during world generation.
[/*]Added a mitigation for underground feature save corruption.
[/*]Fixed some sort issues with lua for RNG stability.
[/*]
What\'s Next for Sieges?
The list does not include the ongoing work on bugfixes and other quality of life improvements that occur simultaneously. We dont have specific dates or timeframes to share but you can expect a lot of things from the list to arrive in 2026. If youd rather see the video version, skip down past the text!
Tarn writes: \"Following the release of the Siege Update in November 2025, we\'re continuing on with a series of releases involving magic, armies, villains, site building, and maps. The first Siege Update focused on invasion planning, overcoming fortress defenses, and defensive siege engines. The second release will focus on magic, armies, and diplomacy. We\'ve revised the list below of possible changes, none of which are guaranteed, but which we are aiming for:
Magic diverse enough to make sieges and siege defense more exciting
-Kidnapped humans and dwarves trained by demons as sorcerers\n -Deity-based powers and temple ceremonies\n -Other magic based on the supernatural structure of the world\n
Resident wizards
-Help to defend the fortress against magical sieges while you aid them in their work\n -Assign assistants to work in magical workshops and to go off-site for research tasks\n -Laboratory zones can incorporate lab equipment for alchemy and other magical research\n
Improved diplomacy
-Clean up siege negotiations\n -Send messengers to other sites\n -Ability to see existing petitions\n
Using outside armies
-Send out squads to muster armies in the hillocks\n -Use scouts to receive warning before enemy armies arrive\n -Engage, delay, and turn back sieging armies\n\n
Misc
-Changes to cage traps to make it more intensive but still possible to e.g. capture megabeasts
-Make megabeast and kobold attacks more functional and interesting
-Fix and improve underground civilization attacks (as far as we can without future map changes)
-Anything from Combat Flow and Combat Styles that comes up, also a notion of reach
\nWe\'ve promised Adventure mode site building as the first major Adventure mode feature post launch, since it used to be in the game but didn\'t make it in for the graphical version. This is still the plan, and we\'ll take care of it after Fortress mode gets some attention with the siege improvements above. In order to further motivate this for everybody, we\'re planning a foray into cross-mode play and Adventure mode crafting here. Details will follow as we get closer and select our direction.
\nPost siege improvements, we\'d like to start some map rewrites and additions to get us prepared for a more magical and procedural future. \n\nPrior to the Steam/itch work over the last years, we were working on villains, and left quite a bit of work on the table. After the siege improvements are done, and we\'ve made some additional progress, we\'ll make another post to see how these additions will be incorporated.
\nAnd of course, we\'d like to start bringing more and more myths and magic and world changes into the game, probably through the avenues of covens and religion, but we\'ll see how that develops as all of the above progresses, since it will be important to be flexible. \n\n
Community Requests
\nWe hear you! There are many of you who have been asking for classic keyboard controls from the ascii version to make their way to Steam. We know this is important for the veterans who have developed muscle memory for the last 20 years. In order to do this we are going to move the interface elements out into lua. The expansion of lua is an ongoing project and work on interface widget luafication has already begun. But we dont have any dates or timelines.\n\nWe also get occasional questions about the Mac port, but as we announced earlier in 2025, we have chosen to put that port on hold indefinitely. The improvements and advances made wouldn\'t have been possible if we had been supporting that platform.\n\n
Tarn Time Winter 2025
Tarn reflects on the siege update and outlines the features hes excited to work on next. Watch here:
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Hundreds of new Animal Portraits are in!
\n[img src=\"https://cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/34693670/217f73ce4b3b9dba7cb51d6a2715b8338196e0ed.png\"][/img]
Part of todays update includes over 350 new animal and creature portraits from artist Neoriceisgood/Guido Bos . Theres lots to discover here with everything from the majestic horse to the timid fluffy wambler. We\'ll be chatting with Guido soon about his art and process, so comment with your question below if you have a specific curiosity!
\nBundle with Songs of Syx
Dwarf Fortress players can get a 10% additional discount on the newly updated fantasy city-builder Songs of Syx by picking up the bundle, on top of its current 25% off sale. This is the perfect game for Dwarf Fortress fans who want even more simulated armies and battle.\n\n[dynamiclink href=\"https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/63443/\"][/dynamiclink]
So thats all for 2025! We hope you have a relaxing Holidays and your dwarves will be nestled all snug in their beds, while visions of a fey mood dance in their heads. Well be back in the new year with a magical mindset!
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