Dwarf Fortress

a.k.a. Slaves to Armok: God Of Blood - Chapter II: Dwarf Fortress

created and published by Bay 12 Games in 2006-08-08, running on Windows
type: simulation, manag./econ., strategy, adventure, role-play
genre: Fantasy, City-building, Colony simulation, Fortress simulation, God game, Open World Survival Crafting, Roguelike, Sandbox, Survival simulation
perspective: bird's-eye
player options: single player
other: Freeware
languages: eng
4.9/5

Official description

Dwarf Fortress is a single-player fantasy game. You can control a dwarven outpost or an adventurer in a randomly generated, persistent world.

Although Dwarf Fortress is still in a work in progress, many features have already been implemented.

*The world is randomly generated with distinct civilizations spanning centuries of detailed history, hundreds of towns, caves and regions with various wildlife.
*The world persists as long as you like, over many games, recording historical events and tracking changes.
*Command your dwarves as they search for wealth in the mountain.
---Craft treasures and furniture from many materials and improve these objects with precious metals, jewels and more.
---Defend yourself against attacks from hostile civilizations, the wilderness, the depths, the dead and creatures of the night.
---Trade for all manner of exotic goods with your neighbors.
---Establish a barony and support the nobility as they make demands of your populace.
---Keep your dwarves happy and read their thoughts as they work and relax.
---Z coordinate allows you to dig out fortresses with multiple levels. Build towers or conquer the underworld.
---Build floodgates to divert water for farming or to drown your adversaries... and don't forget the magma!
---Surgery, sutures, splints, crutches and more: care for your wounded dwarves instead of leaving them to fend for themselves.
---Retire your fortress, then unretire it after spending time playing other roles in the world.
---Honey, wax, pottery, windmills, waterwheels, soap, plaster, wool, eggs, dyes, cheese, glass, animal training, and much much more...
*Play an adventurer and explore, quest for glory or seek vengeance.
---Meet adversaries from previous games.
---Recruit people to come with you on your journey.
---Explore without cumbersome plot restrictions -- thriving capitals, villages, catacombs, labyrinths, bandit camps, caves and more!
---Seamlessly wander the world or travel more rapidly on the region map and in underground tunnels.
---Travel by day and search for a place to shelter as night falls.
---Listen to rumors and help out town and civilization leaders.
---Earn a reputation as a hero, friend, soldier, enemy, thug, etc. with the various civilizations in the world.
---Retire and meet your old characters. Bring them along on an adventure with a new character or reactivate them and play directly.
---Z coordinate allows you to move between twisting underground caverns and scale structures, fighting adversaries above and below. Climb, jump and sprint!
---Stealth system with vision arcs which also respects vegetation density and other factors.
---Use signs like shoe impressions and animal tracks to hunt and avoid danger.
---Steal a mummy's treasure or learn the secrets of life and death at a necromancer's tower.
---Visit your retired fortresses and ask your dwarves to join you on adventures.
*The combat model uses skills, body parts, individual tissues, material properties, aimed attacks, wrestling, one-time opportunities, charging and dodging between squares, bleeding, pain, nausea, various poison effects and much more. Attacks and other movements extend over several instants, allowing you to deliberately catch enemy blows or plan your counter-attack.
*Hundreds of animals and other monsters, including many that are randomly generated for each world.
*Multi-tile climbable trees and many, many kinds of plants. Fruit, flowers and falling leaves.
*A dynamic weather model tracks wind, humidity and air masses to create fronts, clouds, rain storms and blizzards.
*Over two hundred rock and mineral types are incorporated into the world, placed in their proper geological environments.
*Add new creatures, weapons, plants, metals and other objects via modifiable text files.
*Extended ASCII character set rendered in 16 colors (including black) as well as 8 background colors (including black).

Dwarf Fortress Official Website - # 2015-08-07 18:47:03 - official description - source

Comment

The game has two modes, adventure mode which resembles any rogue-like game and the dwarf fortress strategic mode where you build and maintain the fortress and its dwarves.

Sanguine # 2008-02-08 06:59:14

Technical specs

display: text
Minimum:
* Windows 98
* 512 MB RAM
* 100 MB HD space

Sanguine # 2008-12-01 06:30:40

Editor notes (2)

Latest version: 0.31.25 (as of 2011-03-28)
* 0.28.181.40d (2008-09-06)

Oldest recorded version was released on 2006-08-08.

The game's release date should be modified to the date on which "feature complete" version is released (when and if such a thing is released).

# 2008-12-01 06:28:37
2002 Development started
2006 First public release

At the time of writing, the game is still in alpha. We (UVL management) should consider this "finished" (as in, set the release date for) when the game has implemented everything everything in the core components and reqs described in this page. However, unlike many other games listed as "in development" here on UVL, Dwarf Fortress is quite playable already.

Following concepts were found in future plans for DF: diplomacy, ruins, a-life, magic, natural disasters, dimensional travel, trading, hunger, outlaws, literal experience, injuries, taxes, stealth, item durability, riding, ...

# 2008-02-08 06:53:44

Authors / Staff

design

Tarn Adams (designer)
Zach Adams (designer)

coding

Tarn Adams (programmer)

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