Community Created Mods and Utilities
Most of the major mods are listed here, along with tutorials and utilities.
I hope you find it useful.
THESE MODS ARE OUTDATED, IF YOU HAVE THE CURRENT VERSION OF DF THESE WILL PROBABLY NOT WORKTutorials: If your having any problems overcoming the steep learning curve of dwarf fortress these are the things to check out.
The Complete and Utter Newby Tutorial for Dwarf Fortress If you are completely mystified by dwarf fortress, start here =)
Dwarf Fortress Wiki This is an excellent source of information on dwarf fortress, and has tutorial pages devoted to all levels of player.
Dwarf fortress video tutorialsThese are videos created to help instruct new players on care and feeding of a fortress.
Shaostoul's Modding Guide If your custom reactions are not working, head here!
Simple Fortress These are some world generation and embark profiles I made to give you a far less hectic time in the first few years of your fortress as you will have food, drink, armor, weapons and enough materials to set up industries.
MacNewbie beginner pack for Mac
The DF Starter Pack bundles Dwarf Fortress with the best community graphics packs, tools, and interface improvements already configured - so getting the best of everything only takes a single download and no fiddling. It replaces the old
Lazy Newb Pack.
Lazy Newb Pack Installer for Linux - a script which downloads and configures Linux-native versions of the LNP components, with dependency and checksum verification.
Essential Utilities: These utilities take some of the repetition out of many of the common tasks, or can be used to repair things when they break
Dwarf Therapist-Splinterz Version <--- It makes Dwarf fortress playable. It's that good. Get it! This has some more updates and features as the original DT author has been on hiatus.
DF Hack *updated link* Allows you to fix DF as it does odd things. The cleanmap and Remove item ownership are must have's!
Dwarf Fortress Mods: These change Dwarf fortress and alter its balance sometimes adding new abilities and items into the game.
Profit's Item Annihilator My mod, allows you to create a workshops which destroys useless clothing, stone and someday corpses.
black lung adds dangerous coal dust to coal veins.
A&P a mod that adds Aliens and Predators from their respective movie franchises.
Community Combat OverhaulFantasy Flavor This mod is a work in progress attempting to bring a little deeper fantasy setting to DF.
Caln Elcarië "Currently featuring 8 civilisations, 17 new plants, 20 new plant products, 9 new creatures, and 4 new materials"
Fanciful Creatures Adds some creatures some expect to see in the fantasy settings.
Fur, Hide and FeathersThis mod expands butchery and tanning to produce a variety of new products.
Dwarven Higher Learning Mod A mod that allows you alternate ways to train several skills.
Seasonal Crops A one crop per year mod.
Wanderer's Friend Makes several creature materials (scale, fur, etc) tannable and adds extensive Adventure mode crafting
Flora and FaunaFortress Defense Mod The Fortress Defense Mod adds new enemies to the game in order to add greater challenge.
S.L.A.D.EWarlord's Bonfire mod Heh Heh Fire Fire. Heh Heh Heh
Monster Hunter Universe Adds a number of things from the Monster Hunter Games
Hippo Pack The minimal version has several new workshops and a greenhouse that turns seeds into plants.
Mosquito of Power Wow... Way better than malaria!
Dwarf Caramel Changes dwarven animals to more underground specific ones.
Bridge of Power Adds a couple new ores that are more powerful than steel.
NobleMod - adds a whole variety of nobles back into the game and makes the default ones work.
BattleCraft 4.5 Magic/Blacksmith/Train in Adventure mode, Embark as Goblin/Human in Fortress, ect.
Dwarven Lamination It adds a system to recycle wooden items into logs by breaking them down to scrap wood and making a new log from scrap wood using new glues.
Mechanixm's Vanilla DF Plus Adds a few new workshops that offer some of the niceties of other mods, without all the changes.
Expanded Glazes ModJaxmod Termitefolk Colony: Adds termitepeople as a playable, wood-eating, caste-based civilization.
Slimes,Blobs,and JelliesCreeper DF CivMod adds two civilisations, two new metals, new ranged weapons and ammo.
goblin fortressUltimate Plant Overhaul reworks the plant system of DF to provide a much more balanced farming experience as well as providing more diversity to the plant world
-@ Super Heroes & Villains @- Adds Superheroes and Super-villains to your game
Dicemod some new entities, metals, and items.
The Bloodwinery Brew blood brought by caravans, and obtained from body parts or meat into alcohol.
Daleks Adds Daleks from Doctor Who to your game.
Modest Mod a collection of tweaks, bugfixes, and FPS boosters.
Accelerated DF (+Modest Mod) - A mod that increases FPS by ~25%. Includes all Modest-Mod-Bugfixes, several utilities and a GUI for 3 tilesets.
Black Powder Firearms Three new workshops, six new weapons and counting, to create firearms and ammunition.
Demon ModDifficulty+ Plugin Racesfey beast Dragonic Civilization Three powerful enemy civilizations, two allied civilizations, and the playable dragon civilization. 15 different types of dragons
PlayableCiv+ Lucelle Weapons and Armour Adds in over 100 historical weapons and armor from a variety of cultures.
More leather mod allows you to get more then 1 piece of leather from butchering animals
Upgradable Leather Tiers This mod adds an upgrade tree for leather pieces, and allows users to have a low/no metal embark.
Block Crafting Workshop allows users to make some simple furniture out of blocks, to fit more in line with the lower stone drops.
"Green Gel mod"? Creates a workshop chain to Change one type of plant into another at a 50% ratio.
Deeper Dwarven Domestication optionally adds to or replaces the common domestic animals with subterranean and mountain themed creatures. Includes lovingly crafted custom graphics.
Dwarven Voices gives dwarves a bit more flavor and independent expression in the game. Geared toward community games.
Fear the Night adds many kinds of custom vampires, werebeasts, disturbances, curses, necromancers, nightcreatures...
Broken ArrowTeh LOLmod adds Necrothreaders, High Lord Threadomancers, Haxxors, laptops that shoot lulz, reindeer cavalry, chainsaws, drills among other things
Orichalcum This mod gives uses to otherwise underused minerals and objects in-game, as well as an expanding on the present categories of items and minerals.
Major Mods: These Change a host of aspects while still keeping core game play intact
GENESIS Reborn This is a major mod even as far as major mods go. Please see the page for full description.
Civilization Forge 2+ Adds new races, armor, weapons, animals, plants, and rocks as well as many balance changes to make Dwarf Fortress more interesting and fun
Automaton Fortress Allows the player to play as the robotic Automatons.
Kobold Camp A hard mod that allows you to play as the Kobold Civilization.
Legendary Lands A mod that substantially increases the biodiversity of the world above, and the world below, as well as increasing the difficulty of the game in general.
Dwarf Fortress Advanced adds many tweaks and features, like religion, block industry, new castes, creatures,entities,megabeasts, noble positions,+ some mods from others
Dwarvenrealms Over 220 new creatures, terrifying megabeasts, goblins, orcs, and the ever-present threat of the terrifying Dragon Priests.
Dig Deeper GOLD 475+ items of new content including; new plants, new creatures, new metals, new woods, new gems, new stones, new crafts and more.
Legend of Forlorn Realms Adds a variety of creatures, items, races, and a tier-based system of "advancement" in the form of new buildings and reactions. Lots of hidden features.
Dorf Space Dead space type stuff.
Regeneration: Forced Evolution Tech tree made up of three branches; Magic, Religion, and Tech. new creatures and civs. each faction (race) has its own strengths. Humans might come with holy metal or wizards, where Gnomes might have Steam Powered Battle Mechs.
Direforged Mod several new entities, many with their own languages, more than fifty creatures of various nature, from hiveable vermin to megabeasts and night creatures, decorative and mythic workshops, and a gem-based adventure mode magic system.
Mecha-Genesis, A Genesis ModCorrupted "You will die" - Mods creator
My Little Pwnies☼Masterwork DF☼ - A mod package 6 times the size of DF, but still true to the atmosphere. Adds 500+ Buildings, 10000+ Reactions and 1400+ Creatures. Includes 25 tilesets, settings and 6 playable and unique races. Includes Utilities and 2 playable race plugins ->
☼Orc Fortress☼ and
☼Kobold Camp☼Dwarf Chocolate It adds a large amount of content constructed and presented in the style of standard DF.
Fantastic Dwarf Fortress: a mod that aims to remove micromanagement while still managing to add features. Aims to have an easier early game but a harder end-game.
Prehistoric Man sends the dwarf fortress world back in time.
Mod Packs and Lists of Mods: Chariot's Updated Mods Some plant, tree's and meal mods currently
MixModInzaniak's furnace of modsEvil: Moddercluster the Mad Yarns of Editing adds 6 new civilizations, populated by 9 new races, including language files and unique equipment for each of them.
CivMWForgeDwarf Fortress Graphics packs: These change the tilesets and the graphics of the game.
Phoebus' Graphic SetBeefmo 2010Chariot's Full Graphics SetIronhand's Graphics SetMayday'sBlob-Jelly-Slime graphics for the "Slimes,Blobs,and Jellies" mod.
Taffers tilesetCLA Graphic SetObsidian Graphics set - with animated grass
Spacefox 16x16 Graphic and TilesetTotal Conversion mods: These can convert the entire dwarf fortress play experience into something else
Post-Apocalypse :
You've just left your vault with a group of people. A new broken world lies before you. Battle restless beasts, mutants and raiders to establish a new community in the post-apocalyptical world.Hunter's Moon Humans Vs Werewolves.
Fremen Sietch (Dune mod) †++†SAECULAR†++† A total conversion mod, it currently offers 23 unique race/subrace/caste/gender combinations, Adventure Mode Spellcraft and Shifting Weapons for certain characters, (sub)race-specific and general weapons/armor, numerous additions/changes to fortress mode, and much more.
Colonisation: Year 3000 Seventeen sleeper ships from seventeen nations were launched and arrived at a newly terraformed planet in the Year 3000... They are not friends.
Dragon Age mod Converts the world to that of the dragon age world. Not sure how total the conversion is yet.
=-~Corrosion~-= A zombie total conversion mod. 4 new castes, more workshops, changes to combat, no stone mining.
Nchardahrk An Elder scrolls world conversion.
Final Fantasy Summons Mod A mod adding content from Final Fantasy up until X. Includes Al-Bhed, Magicite, and worldkilling monsters.
Underhive Settlement Inspired by Necromunda, a game set in the Warhammer 40k universe, take on the role of free settlers in the Underhive. - Updated to the new maintainers page.
Warhammer: Fortress A growing total conversion based on warhammer fantasy, many playable races and custom buildings
Rise of the Mushroom Kingdom You should view what this mod does, it is Mario themed, but I do not think I can make a description to do it justice.
Fortbent a Homestuck mod that adds playable trolls and lots of other Homestuck stuff
Dragon Ball Play as the saiyans in a quest to... avoid tantrum spirals as much as possible!
Secure, Contain, Protect Found a site for the foundation! Avoid being killed by the Chaos Insurgency and don't let the Church of the Broken god steal your stuff!
The Legend of Zelda: Earthward Pick - A Zelda mod. Play as the Gorons, who can eat rocks! Play adventurer mode and get the Master Sword after beating 3 bosses
Modding Utilities: These are tools that help with modding your fortress.
This is the modding guide on the Dwarf Fortress wiki, which may be helpful.DFLang Generates Language files
Raw tile selector & Raw tile merger Raw tile selector: Simple graphical interface to select tiles and colors for plants, stones and small creatures. Raw tile merger: Easy to use tool to update tile and color data of unmodified raws by comparing them to modified raws.
Custom Workshop Workshop Allows you to quickly design custom workshops building patterns.
Creation Forge A standard cheat building that allows quick testing of new worlds.
vbase Extensive set of body parts and creature variations intended as a modder's resource
DF Raw Patcher The utility goes through the DF raws and modifies the values that were changed in your Mod raws, and adds new entries where none previously existed.
Mozy online Backup Free up to 2GB. if you dont use this USE SOME BACKUP!!!
Dropbox A little more geared to file sharing, but still can be used as a backup device. Convenient if you use several machines.
Tile Genie Allows you to take multiple tile sets and combine them in to one set by picking and choosing the tiles.
Temperature Conversion Utility An html temperature converter.
UristV - Arena mode map editing.
Dwarf Fortress Mod manager Allows the creation and editing of mods and makes merging them together easy. Also helps to export mods into compact patch files, allows splitting and tweaking mods, & much more.
Random Raw Creator (RRC) This tool uses a list of nouns to create new raws for DF. It can create random Toys, Plants, Weapons, Stone, Food, Instruments, Minerals, and Gems.
DF World Tinker An advanced modding tool. It allows code gurus to add custom workshops and reactions to an established fort. Also, it can swap materials around and find raw data for Titans.
Random plant creation script Creates 70-80 new random plant species. It uses existing language and symbol files to generate random plant names and derive properties from the name.
Tileset Resizer Tileset Resizer is a collection of Octave Functions to resize Dwarf Fortress tilesets with minimum loss of quality.
Project: Modder's Resource FAQ, Links, and a offline Wiki in html.
Dwarf Heightmap HTML5 This looks like perfect world in HTML 5.
Syntax Highlighting for DF raws a simple package for Sublime Text that syntax highlights the DF raws.
LangCreate, a DF utility for creating pseudo-realistic languages.
RandCreatures, a DF utility that creates random creatures, civs, and megabeasts.
DF entity editor Helps mixing mods by checking entity strings for permitted reactions, and adding missing lines.
Blast - Raw parser, compiler and assembler. Needs Perl installed.
Notepad++ Highlighting New version of it to work with the newer raw files.
Rubble Rubble, An all-in-one modding utility and mod loader, comes with some useful addons. Current addon list is:
Better DorfsVisualizer Utilities: These read the map layout from Dwarf fortress memory and generate different most of the time 3d projections of the terrain in DF.
Fortress Overseer Stonesense IsoWorld Miscellaneous mods and utilities: These do not fit neatly into other categories, if they become numerous I will make new sections for them.
PerfectWorldDF Utility to make your own world in any manner you want and how you want it to be. You want a world that looks like a smiley face or the united states? THIS IS THE UTILITY!
SoundSense A sound engine for DF which brings tons of new sound FX and music. It takes the game to a whole new level. Many who try it are no longer willing to play without. (version independent)
Quickfort Some people would classify this as an essential utility, it allows you to use .CSV spreadsheets to plan and build a fort... Very rapidly I might add.
ChromaFort A Utility to be used with quickfort. Turns bitmaps into .CSV Spreadsheets. (Version N/A)
Embark Anywhere Extract into dwarf fortress folder and run the .exe while selecting a site.
Just embark Just run this once and it will hack your DF so you can embark anywhere.
Nano Fortress This Utility allows you to embark on areas that are normally too small, like a 1 by 1 tile fortress
DFusion * Embark expander: have other races join * Simple_embark: modify your start dwarf count * Friendship: allows other races to do jobs * Tools: Race changer, Job select enabler, Embark anywhere, Adventurer swapper, Make creatures follow * Adv_tools: some tools for adventurers * Migrants: immigrants are random races
Dwarf Foreman Automatic job manager. Allows you to do certain things like setting a level of stock you want something to be at and taking the repetitiveness out of general fortress management.
NoExotic Removes the exotic tags from creatures to allow them to be trained without a dungeon master. (Should still work)
Legends Viewer World Viewer.) Recreates Legends Mode from exported data. Browser like navigation, including tabs, allows to easily view other people/places/entities by just clicking names in the event logs or search lists, including a graphical map.
Runesmith A entity information and alteration Program.
DGC Dwarven Guidance Counselor: As the name suggests, it gives job recommendations based on attributes & traits.
Pathing Simulator A maze navigation simulator which functions as a demo for path finding optimizations. (version independent)
WinMerge Open source software. Useful for installing mods as you can see what is changing.
M.O.U.S.E Fortress An AHK script allowing you to use mouse commands inside Dwarf Fortress. This has been updated to work with the current version of DF.
Raw Explorer Helps with modding raw files.
Dwarfquery parses the Legend File into a more human readable form
Utility Plugins This is a potentially game-changing set of utilities that work with DF hack.
dfWorldTinker A command line utility to edit some data after world generation.
PictureFort - a utility that converts images to Quickfort blueprints; more flexible and stable than Chromafort.
Obsolete: Mods and tools which are no longer used or are outdated.
density and color Changes the properties of stone perhaps a bit more to real life values. (Changes it made have been merged into DF vanilla)
Notepad++ syntax highlighting for DF raws This makes modding a little clearer
Wizard Tower Looks really unique. Has been superseded by DF chocolate. 4/14/2013
10-15-20-30 Embark size As the name implies, it allows you to change your embark party to 10, 15, 20, or 30 dwarves. * Does not work with current version as of 5/1/2013
Dwarves in a new World - Legend of Zelda - This mod drops the dwarves into the world of Hyrule (or thereabout). Will no longer be updated 5/4/2013
Dwarf Therapist GUI For assigning jobs to your dwarves, this has been superseded by another and appears to be no longer maintained.
Guidelines for Additions:
#1 This mod list is CLOSED! No more additions as of 7/27/2014
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