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 over 1000 years of detailed history, dozens of towns, hundreds of 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 and the depths.
• 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 depths.
• Build floodgates to divert water for farming or to drown your adversaries.
• Much much more...


• Play an adventurer and explore, quest for glory or seek vengeance:
• Meet adversaries from previous games.
• Recruit people in towns to come with you on your journey.
• Explore without cumbersome plot restrictions.
• Seamlessly wander the world -- up to 197376 x 197376 squares total -- or travel more rapidly on the region map.
• Accept quests from the town and civilization leaders.
• 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 seamlessly between dungeon levels and scale structures fighting adversaries above and below.


• The combat model uses skills, body parts, wrestling, charging and dodging between squares, bleeding, pain, nausea, and much more.

• 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).