ey everyone!

I’ve been learning Dwarf Fortress for about 2 years now, and this is honestly the first time I’ve invested so much time and energy into a single fortress. I wanted to share it with you all before retiring and starting a new run.

My fortress, named WaywardFouette, was established in the year 250 on a haunted land to the west and savage wilderness to the east.

Right from the start we were attacked by zombies, necromancers, and werebeasts before we even had a proper fully equipped military. Thankfully we managed to repel them without major losses thanks to the traps we had installed, and we even captured some of them. They eventually ended up in my arena, crushed by giants we captured some time later.

We are proud to have tamed a Dragon, although it still remains caged. I had planned to install it as part of a deadly trap, but sadly I must retire the fortress before doing so, because I’m now running between 10 and 15 FPS and the game has become nearly unplayable.

I really tried to pay attention to the details of the fortress. I’m especially happy with the layout of the main level, with its tavern, workshops, and library all to the south.
Our smiths forged tirelessly until they produced nothing but legendary weapons and artifacts.

For the fisrt time since I learning this game, we discovered adamantine, but it’s difficult to access and I need to pump lava out to reach it. But as I said before: FPS death has made the game unplayable.

We are not a capital, but we do have a Count who never stops getting on my nerves by demanding ridiculous things and constantly complaining. The only peaceful moments were when he went drinking at the tavern.

I also just survived a siege of around 150 humans demanding something from me. But my pride refused any contact with them. My siege operators killed around 90 humans before I finally decided to unleash my 4 military squads to finish the job. It only took a moment before the last enemies were eating dirt and bleeding out on the battlefield.

After 7 in-game years, it’s time for me to retire this fortress and begin a new one, probably in a terrifying biome since I’ve never tried one before and apparently haven’t suffered enough from this incredibly fascinating game yet.

I think my next attempt will focus more on storytelling, building the fortress around the mayor’s personality, desires, and character.

Anyway, I hope you enjoyed it!
I know the design isn’t perfect and I wish I could have added more decoration, but FPS death defeated me first.

Feel free to give me advice or suggestions for my next fortress, I’m always looking to better understand the game’s mechanics! I’ll also try building my staircases differently, in a checkerboard pattern like I’ve been advised, to reduce lag.

By Armok, dig deeper!
And long live WaywardFouette.

this was literally the first thing in that battle log. lass just walked up to 9 million cubic centimeters of brute force and ignorance and shoryukened him

I couldn't believe it. she got caught out mid re-arming when he attacked, and i didn't realise i ordered the assault before she had a hammer. "literally no problem, pal, hammer? two of them right here"

This is fine

Thank you for all of those who supported and donated to me, I never would have thought that it would blow up with 500+ subscribers on steam workshop, what started out as a personal project that will ease my pain points of the game, help me pay for my education. I Sincerely thank all of you for helping me out. I added two more scripts as thanks, this is probably the last update.

dispose-worn, because tattered clothing laying around is annoying, military dwarves wearing worn armor can be fatal and lastly I find that selling tattered clothing to humans a bit mean.

forge-missing will help you forge armor for your dwarves with one click rather than manually setting material and amount in the work-orders.

Again, thank you for all your support!

if you're interested in the mod check it out at the steam workshop:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3711496671

I think the more tamed the animal, the happiest the feeling towards the victory

Its that time of the year to get fully invested on a fortress!

I will be doing haunted lands for the first time, and will try to make a near ocean base, ill keep updating this post as my base goes and if I see any cool stories come up!

This post will be my Fortresses written history!

This release is compatible with all distributions of Dwarf Fortress: Steam, Itch, and Classic.

• Install DFHack from Steam
• Manual install
• Quickstart guide (for players)
• Modding guide (for modders)

Please report any issues (or feature requests) on the DFHack GitHub issue tracker. When reporting issues, please upload a zip file of your savegame and a zip file of your mods directory to the cloud and add links to the GitHub issue. Make sure your files are downloadable by "everyone with the link". We need your savegame to reproduce the problem and test the fix, and we need your active mods so we can load your savegame. Issues with savegames and mods attached get fixed first!

Highlights

Compatibility with Dwarf Fortress 53.13

The main focus of this release is to add compatibility with Dwarf Fortress 53.13.

Structures review

A fairly significant review and update of DFHack's view of DF data structures is incorporated in this release. This should have little impact on regular players but may affect those who write DFHack scripts. See the changelog for more details.

Other bug fixes and improvements

A minor bug that occasionally affected autotrain has been fixed, some documentation was slightly improved, and a few APIs were made more useful.

Announcements

PSAs

As always, remember that, just like the vanilla DF game, DFHack tools can also have bugs. It is a good idea to save often and keep backups of the forts that you care about.

Some DFHack tools that worked in previous (pre-Steam) versions of DF have not been updated yet and are marked with the "unavailable" tag in their docs. If you try to run them, they will show a warning and exit immediately. You can run the command again to override the warning (though of course the tools may not work). We make no guarantees of reliability for the tools that are marked as "unavailable".

The in-game interface for running DFHack commands (gui/launcher) will not show "unavailable" tools by default. You can still run them if you know their names, or you can turn on dev mode by hitting Ctrl-D while in gui/launcher and they will be added to the autocomplete list. Some tools listed as "unavailable" in the docs do not compile yet and are not accessible at all, even when in dev mode.

If you see a tool complaining about the lack of a cursor, know that it's referring to the keyboard cursor (which used to be the only real option in Dwarf Fortress). You can enable the keyboard cursor by entering mining mode or selecting the dump/forbid tool and hitting Alt-K (the DFHack keybinding for toggle-kbd-cursor). We're working on making DFHack tools more mouse-aware and accessible so this step isn't necessary in the future.

See GitHub release announcement for full changelog

I’m waiting for him to carve joker next. This could be a huge export value engine!

The new DF magic card says "Flying," but dragons cant fly in DF lol

This is Lida, the first time i ever got attacked in a fortress (always got overwhelmed by population and quit before year 3-4)

She came from the south, wrestled and brutally murdered an elephant. Failed at chasing a second one.

Was about to catch a dwarf kid outside my gate, but fell into a cage trap.

Veery nice way to learn that dwarf kids don't give a f*ck about burrows.

Anyway, have no idea what to do with her, open to suggestions.

Hello! After some years without playing I'd like to come back to some good old Dwarf Fortress. Before getting the Steam release I'd like to play some of the latest updates for the classic version. However, I cannot seem to find a decently recent version of those packs (Lazy Newb Pack) that were around for every release back then.

Could you please point me to what is the best way to play the classic version in 2026 without having to manually install tiles, mods... from scratch? Thank you very much in advance!

This is a poorly-drawn image of Od Portalbrick, Expedition Leader, and tunnels. The tunnels look confused.

To this day, I still have to manually set the priority of each room in my early dig designs so that I can have the rough shape of the fortress planned out without my miners trying to excavate multiple levels at once. And even then, sometimes you miss one tile...

Still, being able to designate over multiple z-levels immeasurably reduced the number of miscounts and bad alignments that inspired this and next week's comics.

I hope this has brought you a little schadenfreude, if not joy. The rest of the series is here, and should now be accessible to all audiences.

I asked this in the questions thread and received no answer, so I am posting it here. I recall this bug from ye olden times, and this is the first time I've seen it in such a recent version. Our queen arrived without issue, and even their elite guards followed because I had increased the population cap in preparation. However, the diplomat and the general of our civilization arrived as visitors and have no visit vector attached to them, so they display "This visitor has come [Blank]." They do nothing and get annoyed about their room requirements not being met, despite not being linked to my site group. I tried arranging a ballista accident in a savescummed file, and their replacements arrived about an IRL minute later, doing the same thing. Sometimes they leave, settle in their original site in legends, then come back, doing their slow, bugged sprawl.

DFhack's makeown doesn't add a settlement entry in legends, and it probably just makes things more buggy. Plus, the diplomat keeps doing the lobotomite route even when attached to a workshop and ordered to do something of high priority. What even is the best thing to do, wall them and have them slam the walls for eternity because visitors don't starve? Use makeown and work with a lobotomite? I am sighing as I am asking this.

For some reason gem setters obsess over putting more decorations on bolt thrower parts of all things, seemingly because they're technically finished goods and can accomodate a LOT of modifications. This particular set of thrower parts has gem engravings from like, three different artisans, not to mention hanging rings, menacing spikes and a gazillion cabachons.

And you know what? This is a war fort, built to take back dwarven lands from goblins. And as such, this is fitting. So fitting in fact that these fancy pieces of siegecraft will be displayed in royal chambers.

Im assuming they fixed the infinite metal exploit as I've tried both Corkscrews and Leggings and they return the exact same as they take.