Mods / materials

• FForthammer Fantasyby 76561198382999276Adds a large variety of things from Warhammer Fantasy, including guns, runes, 10 new civilizations, 12 new secrets based on the lores of magic, as well as many creatures, megabeasts, runes and more. DFhack is required for many advanced features. Place the file "onMapLoadForthammer.init" in the fo...8.4k downloadsupdated 5 mo ago
• CCobalt Craftingby Evil DwightCobaltite is already in the game, but you can't really do much with it except make stone items. This simple mod allows you to make cobalt bars from cobaltite, for use in furniture, tools and crafts, similar to titanium and gold. The main purpose of this mod is to make cobaltite useful, and to giv...4.7k downloadsupdated 4 y ago
• SSpellcrafts Mod - Magic Systems in Dwarf Fortressby Eric BlankA complete high magic mod for Dwarf Fortress. Additional info available in the Bay12 thread: **Reminder: Most of the sprites used are derivations of the vanilla game's sprites.** May 10, 2026; Update to fix gemstones not being generated in worlds using this mod. Will not be compatible with old wo...4.3k downloadsupdated 6 mo ago
• EExtra Ceramicsby Aura█▓▒▒░░░Extra Ceramics░░░▒▒▓█ == ADDITIONS == Make/Glaze Clay reactions for: Chairs, Coffins, Display Cases, Flasks, Goblets, Pedestals, Slabs Glaze reactions for: Hives CHANGE LOG (1.2): Hopefully fixed a bug, added Tables and Buckets to producible and glaze-able clay items. == MODIFICATIONS == "...4.0k downloadsupdated 2 y ago
• JJust One More Thing... Carpentryby AuraAdds a couple more items that can be crafted with the carpenter's workshop. █▓▒▒░░░Just One More Thing... Carpentry░░░▒▒▓█ == ADDITIONS == New reactions in the carpenter's workshop: Craft statues, slabs, and even mechanisms with wood now! TWO new (arguably useful) weapons! - Training Maces and Tr...3.7k downloadsupdated 4 y ago
• AArgMod Metallurgy, Mineralogy, & Chemistryby ArgendaussAdds new minerals, metals, and chemical reagents. Delve for hundreds of new minerals. Produce mineral acids and other reagents in the new chemist building. Process ores with acids/bases to isolate new metal oxides and smelt them with strong deoxidizers like aluminum/magnesium to produce advanced...1.5k downloadsupdated 3 mo ago
• MMithril Oreby Salty Moist CrustDescription Adds mithril as mid- to late-game ore. It is a pretty light and strong metal, but not as strong as adamantine. You will probably only be able to equip one or two champions with mithril gear because of its scarcity. The ore can be found only in igneous extrusive layers and is about twi...1.5k downloadsupdated 4 y ago
• EExtra Clay Bricksby Dapper RaptorCheck out another mod of mine that does a similar thing to this one, but for glass blocks instead: Extra Glass Blocks Doesn't it seem silly that you get 4 bricks from one rock boulder, and all you need is that boulder, but you only get one brick per clay, even though you need to use both clay AND...1.2k downloadsupdated 4 y ago
• VVanilla material elasticity fixesby PutnamPatches material raws to have more realistic properties. Since Dwarf Fortress's materials are assumed homogenous and isotropic, there are only two degrees of freedom for elasticity, and therefore they can be calculated using only two data points. Some metals thus have incorrect elasticity propert...844 downloadsupdated 4 y ago
• EEBs Adventurer Craftingby Eric BlankReactions to allow producing crafts and equipment in adventurer mode. MUST be on the BETA branch to make use of these. The reactions are generally organized by material, and are accessible through the crafting menu. Many of them require a sharp implement (any bladed object counts) but otherwise r...779 downloadsupdated 2 y ago
• EExtra Glass Blocksby Dapper RaptorCheck out another mod of mine that does a similar thing to this one, but for clay bricks instead: Extra Clay Bricks Making glass blocks takes quite a bit more effort than making stone blocks, but you only get 1 instead of 4... that seems a bit unfair. You need sand and fuel for glass blocks, and...756 downloadsupdated 4 y ago
• BBountiful Bricks and Blocksby zeayaA very simple mod that adds new reactions to: - Create 8 blocks from a wooden log at a Carpenter's workshop - Create 8 blocks from a boulder at a Stoneworker's Workshop - Create 4 (green/clear/crystal) glass blocks from one bag of sand or rock crystal (with pearlash and fuel as needed) at a Glass...706 downloadsupdated 6 mo ago
• MMetals & Alloys Expandedby WellopelloThis mod currently add 14 new metals and 9 new ores to the game for your dwarves to mine and smelt. The various metals should flesh out different stages of the game giving you an alternative to Iron and Steel. Into the mid to late game you will be able to smelt up to advanced alloys. Most metals...642 downloadsupdated 1 mo ago
• DDEUTSCH-MOD (Materials)by GuanorEine Mod, um die Materials-Namen auf Deutsch anzeigen zu lassen. Die Übersetzungen sind meine eigenen, in Verbindung mit Google Translate und Google Suche nach den richtigen Synonymen. Da ich NUR die Bezeichnungen geändert habe, aber an den Werten der Materialien nichts geändert habe, kann man im...576 downloadsupdated 4 y ago
• SSpellcrafts Mod (NO CIVs)by ShilohA complete high magic mod for Dwarf Fortress but without the new civs.510 downloadsupdated 2 y ago
• MMaterials Plusby PutnamAdds a few alloys and a bunch of ores to get some of the extra materials added by the metal library. It might be better to have the minerals in the metal library? I dunno. I prefer to keep things modular, when possible, which it is now. This mod is at least partially an example for that. Image is...408 downloadsupdated 4 y ago
• AAlchemy Part 1by 76561199366022161Alchemy Part 1: Applied Transmutation NOTE: All reactions are attached to the soap maker's workshop in lieu of a new workshop for the time being. "Alchemy is, at its heart, the science of magic. Like all sciences, the foundational principals of alchemy are rules that will behave predictably when...320 downloadsupdated 4 y ago
• AArgMod Glass & Ceramicsby ArgendaussNew submod for ArgMod. Tons of new ceramic additions, plus the glass and glaze reactions migrated from the core mod in its 1.2 update. == Ceramics == I decided that it would be cool if each clay type had its own pottery type (ware) and built from there. Each kind of clay when fired directly makes...303 downloadsupdated 3 mo ago
• GGrowable Metalsby DaedalusAdds growable metals to the game, allowing for (an easier) source of renewable metal. Either select the seeds at embark time, or harvest them in cavern layers. Plant the seeds as a normal underground crop, and mill the produced crop into a metal powder at a quern or millstone, which can then be s...269 downloadsupdated 10 mo ago
• AArms, Armor and Adulterants of Eardaby 76561199366022161"When the oceans fractured and evil of new measure spewed forth into the world, we thought it was the end. How wrong we were... it was only the beginning. It was not even the first beginning. By Adar's light we shall fight the darkness and see this world through to it's grandest of eras." -Gestub...244 downloadsupdated 4 y ago
• TThe Rainbow Factoryby 76561199366022161NOTE: All reactions are added to the glass and tanner's workshops in lieu of a new workshop for the time being. This mod creates the Rainbow Factory, a system of coloring many base materials almost any color. This is making use of spectra, a material produced from corpses and body parts including...213 downloadsupdated 4 y ago
• AArgMod Mythical Materialsby ArgendaussFantastical elements from ArgMod cut in update 1.2 and moved to this submod. includes fantasy minerals - Blurite (Runescape), Rubedite (TES:O), Dystrum (DRG) added by me - via dependency on Tobb's Deep Rocks (DRG): Croppanite , Bismonite, and Umanite. Loading ArgMod after Tobb's DRG mod fixes the...160 downloadsupdated 3 mo ago
• RRemy's Rocksby HugoatAdds a few more cutesy materials for my bestie!43 downloadsupdated 4 y ago
• TTerra do Sol, Chapter 0 - Inca Cosmogonyby 墨水Terra do Sol Chapter 1: Inca Cosmogony Terra do Sol aims to bring the diverse and vibrant cultures of pre-Columbian South America into the world of Dwarf Fortress. This project is a respectful tribute, built around authentic representation through new civilizations, religions, creatures, and worl...41 downloadsupdated 10 mo ago

24 materials mods, most downloaded first. Each one has its own page here with what it needs to run and where its author publishes it; the files themselves stay with the author and are never re-hosted on this site.