I intentionally generated an awful 2000 year old frozen world where the goblins, and a few dwarven necromancers and their thralls are the dominant species. The last non necromancer dwarven civilisation of Triangular Guilds lasted for 788 years in isolation, before they dug to deep and unleashed their own doom.

🔥🎮 Join Us for a 24-Hour Dwarf Fortress Extravaganza! 🎮🔥

Channel Link!

We've done this for ten years, and for ten years you've helped me to reach for my goals.

Our event is nearly over, and we still have far to go: we still need your help to reach our goal this year so come out and lend us your support! This year, we're on track to have raised over ten thousand dollars for sick kids, and I'd like you to be part of that accomplishment.

Thus, once more we strike the earth for the sake of charitable endeavor, once more into the depths of dwarven depravity with another Extra Life charitable drive! Come out, show your support, watch me try to remember which direction is up when I'm digging, and maybe even help some kids get medical care in the process.

-------------------------------------------------------- WHO? --------------------------------------------------------

Me. You. A pile of sweaty dwarves. (If you think that's bad, are you sure you're in the right place?)

-------------------------------------------------------- WHAT? -------------------------------------------------------

For extra Life 2024, as I have done in ten previous years, I will stream Dwarf Fortress and raise money for kids.

Every. Single. Day. Thirty Four Days of Dwarf Fortress, piped right into your ocular inputs.

And, as the channel incentives will show you:

• Everyone gets a callout in the donations on stream! (Yes, you can donate as a handle or anonymously if you prefer!)
• If you donate enough you can have a dwarf named in EVERY FORT FOR THE ENTIRE EVENT.
• If you can spring for $50, you can have one of my starting seven in EVERY FORT FOR THE ENTIRE EVENT.

-------------------------------------------------------- WHEN? --------------------------------------------------------

Every Single Day, from October 1st through November 2nd (THE BIG ONE). I'll stream four hours of Dwarf Fortress every single day, usually in the afternoon, but schedule will vary. Since this is a tutorial series, we start a new for about once a week to take things from the top -- until The Big One, when we run a single fort for 24 hours straight on stream.

If you need specifics, check https://www.twitch.tv/nirruden/schedule (4pm EST today, schedule may vary).

------------------------------------------------------- WHERE: -------------------------------------------------------

The same place as every year I've done this event: https://www.twitch.tv/nirruden

--------------------------------------------------------- WHY: --------------------------------------------------------

Because Dwarf Fortress is amazing, because you guys are amazing, and because we're raising money for kids, of course!

--------------------------------------------------------- HOW? ---------------------------------------------------------

Easy! You can donate to Extra Life in three ways:

1. I'll have a link to the donation drive below my Twitch stream at all times.

2. You can reach my donation landing page directly.

3. Or, if you like the cause but would rather not be associated with the channel, to Extra Life directly. (I will receive no notice, notification or credit for these donations, but I'd rather you donate to the cause than skip out due to me!)

(Please, for my sanity, don't donate to the channel directly.)

I'm not a professional streamer and I'm not doing this to make money for myself or to build an audience to monetize, but to raise money for kids. If you want to show gratitude, or support, or just set money on fire, please send it to the kids, whether via my efforts or not. As always, the first donation pledged via the channel was mine - I hope you will join me.

Now, let's strike the earth!

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This pit got filled with water, and dwarves, by mistake. I have tried mining the stuck dwarves out but the water keeps refreezing into a wall, as fast as I can mine it.

Dropping some food and drink down into the pit. Dwarves are not looking good.

The dwarves do not seem capable of reaching the relief supplies.

I will keep you posted on my efforts. I have tried dropping some wall down there in hopes of creating a ramp with the rubble, but it was not enough. Will next attempt to drop a larger section of wall into the hole to create a ramp for rescuers to go down. Some of my dwarves are not bad swimmers.

Hey guys! I am new to the game and enjoy it so far! However are there any good guides to the game to help a new player out? Thank you!

Does anyone have any advice? I know it's a bit of a hot take, and I do like the enemies and the fighting, but I want a cozy civilization where I just see how big I can get, focusing on crafts, arts, and stuff I can't really focus on when I'm worried about attacks or caverns or "the fun place"

I really don't want cave spiders or beasts or caverns mainly, they freak/stress me out. I just wanna get to late stages in the game with a big civilization focused on the arts instead of warfare. I've been putzing around with detailed mode, but don't exactly know what I'm doing, and the steam version seems to have different/more detailed names for things than the wiki? Any help or suggested mods are appreciated, thanks!!

Hey guys this is my first game in dwarf fortress and for some reason when my dwarves are in this area they die for some reason and I wanted to ask you two things 1: how can I heal my dwarves And 2: How can I know what events have happened to my dwarves or to the world itself? Thanks btw ♥️

So I finally dug down into hell. It took ages because my dwarves kept refusing to dig where I told them to, potentially related to some temperature shenanigans.

I have a perfect trap hall prepared, as well as a vampire venting his frustrations on a lever up on the surface - but when I finally opened the pits of hell, I saw the demons all piss off to the south, flying away from the entrance to my fortress. Only three demons made of steam entered my beautiful trap hall (And died very quickly,) and the rest had business elsewhere I guess. Around 100 demons! I have DFHack, so I opened up gui/reveal hell and checked where those bastards were off to. They're all just chilling out inside one of the other adamantine spires on the map. Just an entire spire, filled with 100 clowns. I checked the spire, it's completely enclosed. The three steam demons made it up to me, but all the other guys went on vacation!

Anyway, I've started draining the water from the third cavern layer into hell and have just left it open in the hopes the circus will come back. It's been months and they're all still sitting in that pillar. Maybe I'll send a sacrificial squad down to hell to try and entice them back...

I'm currently training in adventure mode on bronze colossus after using quad cave blob training method to train dodging really fast with a specific Player camp construction. I'm at least maybe over level 30 axeman from level 0 and I see no signs of wear. The sharp rock I used to craft was exceptional in quality while helve was a masterwork. The axe itself is ordinary.

Previously when I chose to fight with craftable stone axe it took me 8 night trolls to deplete stone axe's durability entirely and break it.

Channel Link!

We've done this for ten years, and for ten years you've helped me to reach for my goals.

Our event is nearly over, and we still have far to go: we still need your help to reach our goal this year so come out and lend us your support! This year, we're on track to have raised over ten thousand dollars for sick kids, and I'd like you to be part of that accomplishment.

Thus, once more we strike the earth for the sake of charitable endeavor, once more into the depths of dwarven depravity with another Extra Life charitable drive! Come out, show your support, watch me try to remember which direction is up when I'm digging, and maybe even help some kids get medical care in the process.

-------------------------------------------------------- WHO? --------------------------------------------------------

Me. You. A pile of sweaty dwarves. (If you think that's bad, are you sure you're in the right place?)

-------------------------------------------------------- WHAT? -------------------------------------------------------

For extra Life 2024, as I have done in ten previous years, I will stream Dwarf Fortress and raise money for kids.

Every. Single. Day. Thirty Four Days of Dwarf Fortress, piped right into your ocular inputs.

And, as the channel incentives will show you:

• Everyone gets a callout in the donations on stream! (Yes, you can donate as a handle or anonymously if you prefer!)
• If you donate enough you can have a dwarf named in EVERY FORT FOR THE ENTIRE EVENT.
• If you can spring for $50, you can have one of my starting seven in EVERY FORT FOR THE ENTIRE EVENT.

-------------------------------------------------------- WHEN? --------------------------------------------------------

Every Single Day, from October 1st through November 2nd (THE BIG ONE). I'll stream four hours of Dwarf Fortress every single day, usually in the afternoon, but schedule will vary. Since this is a tutorial series, we start a new for about once a week to take things from the top -- until The Big One, when we run a single fort for 24 hours straight on stream.

If you need specifics, check https://www.twitch.tv/nirruden/schedule (4pm EST today, schedule may vary).

------------------------------------------------------- WHERE: -------------------------------------------------------

The same place as every year I've done this event: https://www.twitch.tv/nirruden

--------------------------------------------------------- WHY: --------------------------------------------------------

Because Dwarf Fortress is amazing, because you guys are amazing, and because we're raising money for kids, of course!

--------------------------------------------------------- HOW? ---------------------------------------------------------

Easy! You can donate to Extra Life in three ways:

1. I'll have a link to the donation drive below my Twitch stream at all times.

2. You can reach my donation landing page directly.

3. Or, if you like the cause but would rather not be associated with the channel, to Extra Life directly. (I will receive no notice, notification or credit for these donations, but I'd rather you donate to the cause than skip out due to me!)

(Please, for my sanity, don't donate to the channel directly.)

I'm not a professional streamer and I'm not doing this to make money for myself or to build an audience to monetize, but to raise money for kids. If you want to show gratitude, or support, or just set money on fire, please send it to the kids, whether via my efforts or not. As always, the first donation pledged via the channel was mine - I hope you will join me.

Now, let's strike the earth!

howdy! the title pretty much explains why I'm here so I'll cute to the chase. I've got some questions about the steam release of DF (dwarf fortress) and figure this would be the place to ask them.

a while back I heard that the steam release didn't have half the content as the original, is that still true? is there anything from the original that the steam release is lacking?

is the game still receiving updates?

how buggy is it? and are the bugs being addressed?

and that's about it.

Is there a mod that allows us to assign names to save files, or rename save files? the default naming convention is not helpful and makes it hard for me to figure out which save is the one I want unless I only play one file at a time.

Our weekly thread for posting interesting events without cluttering up /r/dwarffortress. Screenshots, stories, details, achievements, or other posts are all welcome here! (That includes adventure and legends mode, even if there's no fortress involved.)

https://preview.redd.it/l9l64gu0g6yd1.jpg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=500ec258c59608f858497e12663e610443f4aa09

Part of why I enjoy playing in worlds with very short world generations is that I like to mark the point between "where werebeasts/vampires/necromancers exist" and "after werebeasts/vampires/necromancers exist". But I think this is the first time where I've actually been able to witness the first one myself.

I didn't even have to try to queue him up for this, either, he's just been That Miserable for twenty years.

https://preview.redd.it/sbsflgdni6yd1.jpg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=174bcfe848813e7f38602c3e8717bbb1f6dcb539