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Dwarf Fortress balance mods
Everything filed under balance by its own author, ordered by how much it is used.
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62 balance mods
- Seasonish Cropsby XenonexSeasonish Crops This mod makes surface crops seasonal, and subterranean crops grow year-round (the opposite of vanilla behaviour). Also greatly increases most growing times for better challenge / balance. Finally, it makes dwarves never get rusty at their Planting skill, as they may go many month...12.7k downloadsupdated 13 mo ago
- Advanced Agricultureby DroseranAdvanced Agriculture is a complete overhaul of the vanilla plants and agricultural systems. This mod should be installed after any mods that change the vanilla civilizations, and is likely not compatible with other mods that affect vanilla plants. DFHack is strongly recommended with this mod! Thi...11.7k downloadsupdated 1 mo ago
- Vanilla Weapon Overhaul (v5.1)by lmlsnaTweaks vanilla equipment with the goal of improving balance and variety in a way that is systemic and intuitive. Aims to strike a good balance between realism and vanilla-esque spectacle. Shifts attack stats in a way that presents more trade-offs and decision-making complexity in selecting an att...9.6k downloadsupdated 8 mo ago
- Broms Smelters Clean Wasteby BromsSmelters can clean up waste (refuse/hostile corpses) now. Burnt body parts/corpses generate smoke that gives a slight mood boost, and has a very low chance (5% for body parts, 15% for corpses) of creating a bar of coke.8.0k downloadsupdated 14 mo ago
- Arsenal and Cultural Overhaulby Digganob2.0 UPDATE! CIVILIZATIONS! WEAPONS! ARMOR! SURCOATS! This update adds 11 new weapons from VWO Extended, including: - Arming Swords - Bastard Swords - Falchions - Rapiers - Polehammers - Poleaxes - Hatchets - War Axes - Glaives - Double-Bit Axes - Longbows + Broadhead Arrows & Bolts All of these n...5.2k downloadsupdated 8 mo ago
- Tougher Bodiesby lmlsnaSomething I’ve noticed in all the weapons testing I’ve done is that creatures are incredibly fragile. Mere punches and kicks from a dwarf with no combat skills and average strength can tear apart another dwarf’s muscles and bruise bones through iron armor because of how vulnerable limbs are to in...5.0k downloadsupdated 3 mo ago
- Masterfork Overhaul (BETA)by ZeyonNote: This mod is in early beta, which means you will encounter bugs/broken items/sprites/textures/creatures, etc.. Please be patient while I am investigating and fixing them. Thank you. An extensive overhaul of Dwarf Fortress inspired by the Masterwork mod For author credits check the informatio...4.4k downloadsupdated 23 d ago
- Enhanced Tradeby DroseranElves bring tree fruits and grown wood objects to trade, so obviously they are fine with utilizing plants as long as the plants are not harmed in the process. So why don't they bring berries and ground fruits to trade? Well, with this mod, now they do! Once the elven diplomats arrive, you can als...3.5k downloadsupdated 17 mo ago
- Tougher Bodies - Peripheral Nerve Healingby lmlsnaThis mod is a standalone alternative to Tougher Bodies which also includes a mechanism of peripheral nerve healing. The mod must replace the “vanilla materials” and “vanilla bodies” modules. This is necessary because the CUT and SELECT methods of mod implementation do not function on material tem...2.6k downloadsupdated 3 mo ago
- Skilled Animals & Megabeastsby lmlsnaWildlife was one of my biggest “expectation vs reality” moments in Dwarf Fortress. All these giant predators sound scary, the wiki even builds them up as being scary, yet whenever you send your militia after them you’ll find that they have a major skill issue when it comes to combat against civil...2.6k downloadsupdated 3 mo ago
- Tougher Bodies - A&CO Editionby DigganobA version of Tougher Bodies adapted to be used with Arsenal and Cultural Overhaul. This version uses peripheral nerve healing. Replace the objects folder with the one from the normal Tougher Bodies to remove it.2.4k downloadsupdated 8 mo ago
- Biodiversity Boosterby lmlsnaThis is a patch that sets frequency to 100 for all vanilla non-intelligent creatures. This increases variety by ensuring that creatures will always exist within their relevant biomes when possible and that all creatures have an equal random chance to appear rather than some being massively overre...2.4k downloadsupdated 3 mo ago
- Bourbon's March of Wrathby BourbonFor the main release of DF. Don't forget to upvote and favorite or tell your friends, Steam tends to push much, much smaller mods on the front page. Tired of vanilla DF, but not wanting to go too far down the rabbit hole of high fantasy? Want to play races other than dwarves, or wanting a new twi...1.7k downloadsupdated 19 mo ago
- Seed Extractor (ALL RACES VERSION)by LarsonAdds the Option to " Extract Seeds from plants" in the Farmers Workshop - it will give you 2 seeds per plant - so you can finally sustain your Farm without having to wait for your people to eat your raw food or brew or trade to get seeds. This Version supports ALL Races so Humans, Elves, Dwarves,...1.5k downloadsupdated 10 mo ago
- ReDragons Tweaksby CaldfirMinor fixes to dragons (and cave-dragons). Vanilla dragons have fallen behind compared to generated fire-breathing titans/beasts, and have difficulty just surviving worldgen. This is my attempt to bump them up to match the competition with minimal change to the flavor of DF dragons. Also some mat...1.5k downloadsupdated 10 mo ago
- Extended Necromancyby niemstExtended necromancy Related Content My other mods Dead end paths to immortality Detailed Content Procedurally generated names for secrets, with non-immortal necromancers marked by terms like fragment of. Shared adjectives between secrets and abilities (e.g., fallen in secret and profession names)...1.3k downloadsupdated 13 mo ago
- VWO Patch - Fantastic Fantasy Fortressby lmlsnaPatch that adjusts Fantastic Fantasy Fortress weapons to fit seamlessly with Vanilla Weapon Overhaul. The specific numbers involved in each attack are available in the same public spreadsheet as the main mod. The following load order is important due to oddities with how cut/replace patches work...1.3k downloadsupdated 10 mo ago
- Low Population Tweaksby Dapper RaptorTweaks a number of values in the game to balance the experience for smaller population forts. This is useful if you are keeping your population lower to manage fps issues, or just like to be able to track your dwarfs more easily in a smaller group. Current values are balanced around a population...1.2k downloadsupdated 4 y ago
- Biodiversity Booster - Fantastic Fantasy Fortressby lmlsnaApplies Biodiversity Booster changes to Fantastic Fantasy Fortress. Patching for this mod was contributed by Moonwarden64.1.2k downloadsupdated 10 mo ago
- Wood Block Carpentryby ebUPDATE 2023/01/12: implemented most of neph's suggestions except for the ones I can't do (water wheels, windmills) or don't plan on doing (crafts). Regarding the rest, I don't plan on touching any vanilla files if I can help it. Feel free to use this mod as the basis for your own though. Also add...1.2k downloadsupdated 4 y ago
- SA&M - Fantastic Fantasy Fortressby lmlsnaApplies Skilled Animals & Megabeasts' natural skill sets to Fantastic Fantasy Fortress. Patching for this mod was contributed by Moonwarden64.1.2k downloadsupdated 10 mo ago
- Ivoryby niemstIvory TL;DR Change the value of ivory, horns, shells, and bones to make them more valuable. Check my other mods Introduction I didn't like the value of ivory, horns, shells, and bones in the game are all the same. So I decided to slightly adjust them to create a realistic material hierarchy. If u...1.1k downloadsupdated 12 mo ago
- VWO Extended (v1.5)by lmlsnaStandalone extended version of Vanilla Weapon Overhaul that features a sizable yet bloat-free expansion to the vanilla weapon roster and some additional tweaks to the vanilla weapons to help these additions fit in. Includes all changes from the main mod. Utilizes layered graphics provided by Digg...1.1k downloadsupdated 8 mo ago
- Mammals of Gluttony & Greed - Coreby LlamageddonFixes milking, meat drops on small creatures and milkable animal people. Also adds accurate creature names, and some flavour text to them and the games' lexicon. *Update note: Small update to help ordering of MOGG modules in-game, and some tweaks to the creature variations that should make it eas...1.0k downloadsupdated 4 y ago
- Claije's Seasonal Farming Extendedby UnapologeticPunsterGives subterranean crops year-round growth, and above ground crops seasonal growth with realistic growth periods, adds three cavern crops, and tasks to the farmer's workshop, kiln, and mills. Makes Grains and bean pods require threshing to plant their seeds, makes some nuts require hulling, and o...1.0k downloadsupdated 4 y ago
- Stone Boltsby RighthandoftyrThe siege update brought the bolt throwers, which are great but go through a LOT of ammo. Either you burn through a prodigious amount of non-renewable metal bars, or you limit them to wood and bone bolts that feel like you're shooting nerf darts. This mod is supposed to provide a middle option in...905 downloadsupdated 5 mo ago
- No Stone Aquifersby MuslukRemoves Aquifer from Sandstone, Puddingstone and Conglomerate, but leaves all other soils and sands alone. From my dfhack reveal shenanigans, I mostly encountered the aquifers to pretty much stop with the topsoil layer, unless you're mining under the ocean somehow. Sure you CAN smooth these stone...830 downloadsupdated 4 y ago
- ReColossus Tweaksby CaldfirAdditions and enhancements to the Bronze Colossus. Adds alternate-caste versions of the Colossus for mid-tier alloys. Colossus now drops a special item (tool category) rather than a random statue. These "colossus parts" are quite valuable as a display-object, or can be melted to provide 300 bars...825 downloadsupdated 10 mo ago
- Vanilla Materials Overhaul (v1.4)by lmlsnaThe goals of this mod are to add materials as well as modify existing materials to produce more grounded behavior in combat and provide a less linear progression of material options for both metals and non-metals. The new materials continue upon the vanilla theme of “medieval but with unexpectedl...821 downloadsupdated 8 mo ago
- Better Spidersby 76561198839012155Makes the bodies of all vanilla spiders more detailed, by adding body parts like fangs, pedipalps and extra eyes currently missing for spiders. They also recieve new attacks to use their bodies more effective in general. Should serve to buff affected creatures. All Spiders +Pedipalps +Chelicerae...693 downloadsupdated 10 mo ago
- Civilized Attacks Onlyby lmlsnaRemoves scratches and biting from civilized creatures via select patch. Currently includes Dwarves, Humans, Elves, Goblins, and Kobolds.686 downloadsupdated 9 mo ago
- Claije's Seasonal Farming + Extra Subterranean Cropsby UnapologeticPunsterGives subterranean crops year-round growth, and above ground crops seasonal growth with realistic growth periods, and adds three cavern crops, tasks to the farmer's workshop, kiln, and mills. Claije's Seasonal Farming + Extra Subterranean Crops This mod makes surface crops seasonal, with grow tim...654 downloadsupdated 4 y ago
- Remove Plant Alignmentby DroseranI recommend instead using Advanced Agriculture. Advanced Agriculture combines the effects of most of my previous farming mods, making installation much easier. It also fixes several bugs relating to plants and their processing present in vanilla Dwarf Fortress. This mod allows sliver barb and sun...638 downloadsupdated 13 mo ago
- Burn Wood Itemsby GrogMasheenA custom reaction, Input = 4x wood material items, Output = 1x Charcoal & 1x Ash, Perfomed by wood burner at wood furnace. Patches & does not overwrite entity folder. Install notes>> Just add it to you load list at worldgen.617 downloadsupdated 4 y ago
- Vitae Elixir (Regeneration potion)by Deon ☣This mod resolves the issue of inability to regenerate lost limbs or nerves via existing in game mechanics. New plant: graftreed Plantable underground all four seasons. Grow duration 1 season (very long). The plant by itself does nothing, and you cannot "accidentally" brew it into a drink. Instea...518 downloadsupdated 9 mo ago
- Druchii Raceby Young ChiggaDescription This adds a new dark elf race as a playable civilization based off of Warhammer. Main Features Civilization: Drukhari civilization renowned for their martial prowess and technology Playable Race: "Druchii" which are an ancient and highly advanced alien race of fey humanoids Reaction:...507 downloadsupdated 4 y ago
- Tanning - Reduxby LlamageddonThis is a rebalance of tanning and leather production quantities. It doesn't use globs and has non-linear scaling, in line with the vanilla scaling for other creature butchering byproducts. It also keeps the original skin graphics intact. Tanning Redux This makes skin drop from butchered corpses...484 downloadsupdated 4 y ago
- MOGG - Gluttony (Dairy) (modular)by LlamageddonThis adds extra dairy products and categories for Mammals of Gluttony & Greed - Core. *Update note: Small update to help mod ordering in the games' list and some renaming to facilitate a larger update that is in the works. Mammals of Gluttony & Greed - Dairy It adds in general categories for dair...474 downloadsupdated 4 y ago
- Tekkud's Farmsteadby TekkudThis mod reworks almost every plant and adds new products to make at the Farmer's Workshop, Kitchen, Mill, and Screw Press. This allows for sustainable farming of almost every plant. It also adds dairy products like cream and butter, flour and oil from tree nuts, wax from bayberries, new sugars,...438 downloadsupdated 12 mo ago
- MOGG - GL (Dairy) - Absolute Unitsby LlamageddonThis modifies the three largest land mammals and their giant variations in DF to the MOGG format. Yes, I know this might seem a bit "silly" (although what does that mean in DF?) but for me this is more about realism, within the bounds of the game. Considering everything else DF simulates, why sho...385 downloadsupdated 4 y ago
- MOGG - GL (Dairy) - Pinnipedsby LlamageddonThis modifies all pinnipeds (seals and walruses) and their giant variations in DF to the MOGG format. All the usual changes; 4 unique preferences for each creature, accurate names and adjectives. It also adds a x2 metrial value multiplier for elephant seals, walruses and their giant counterparts...376 downloadsupdated 4 y ago
- Civ Crucible Core - Difficulty, Realism, Fixes and moreby Snow GibbonThis module encompasses various tweaks to vanilla DF to reintroduce difficulty, variety and fill holes and oversights in the game. Wildlife is more difficult to handle, plants are distributed differently, food is less abundant, and a plethora of smaller tweaks to make the game a little more inter...335 downloadsupdated 3 y ago
- Rebalance Metalsby MirazentThis modification adds to create weapons, ammunition and armor from Aluminum, Platinum, Gold and Rose Gold. I recommend to install together with More Material Item I also corrected the properties of these metals for myself, because I considered that the difference in the technological level betwe...308 downloadsupdated 4 y ago
- Cremate Vermin Remains Reactionby GrogMasheenA custom reaction, Input = 5x vermin remains & fuel (or magma power), Output = 1x Ash, Perfomed by furnace operator at a kiln (or magma kiln). Patches & does not overwrite entity folder. Install notes>> Just add it to you load list at worldgen.305 downloadsupdated 4 y ago
- MOGG - GL (Dairy) - Mustelidsby LlamageddonThis introduces updated mustelids (weasels, badgers, otters and more) and their diary products, to Mammals of Gluttony and Greed. As usual, every creature has at least four preferences and all names for gender, juveniles and collateral adjective. They produce mustelid's milk and mustelid cheese w...292 downloadsupdated 4 y ago
- MOGG - Greedby LlamageddonThis adds fur as a butcherable item to some animals, and fur clothing and items to the leather works. MOGG - Greed Update incoming, I lied, it looks like this will be one big update, I'll tick relevant items off the old planned features below as I get closer to release. *(sorry for the delay on t...271 downloadsupdated 4 y ago
- Classic Difficulty and Embark settingsby KasaA copy of the classic v47 world settings for those who want to experience the classic DF difficulty. Like Shagomir's mod I am unable to overwrite the default prefs folder and so this mod must be installed manually. Installation: 1. Back up your original Embark profile and world gen files 2. place...233 downloadsupdated 4 y ago
- Cremate Vermin/body parts in asheryby Crazy CanadianCremate remains in ashery to produce ash and flux (limestone). 10 vermin = 3 ash 1 limestone. 2 body parts = 1 ash and 1 limestone.229 downloadsupdated 4 y ago