Dwarf Fortress mods
Dwarf Fortress metal mods
Everything filed under metal by its own author, ordered by how much it is used.
17 metal mods, most downloaded first · newest update 25 Oct 2026
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- Cobalt 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
- Dwarven Chemistryby Wyntr Stardust# DWARVEN CHEMISTRY # This mod adds a new workshop, the Laboratory, at which various new !FUN! reactions can occur. Other mods, such as my 'Dwarven Alchemy' mod, may make use of the Laboratory, adding new reactions. New features will continue to be added. CURRENT FEATURES - Rare Metal Extraction...3.9k downloadsupdated 4 y ago
- Real Alloysby Evil DwightModifies the material properties and smelting process of alloys, making them more useful and realistic. If you want a mod that changes the material values without changing the smelting process, check out my other mod: Vanilla has a decent alloy system already, but I felt like I wanted to make som...2.0k downloadsupdated 4 y ago
- ArgMod 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
- Alloy Valueby Evil DwightModifies the material values of alloys to make them more reasonable across the board. This mod is a simpler version of my other "Real Alloys" mod that just changes the value of alloys instead of messing with the recipes. In vanilla DF, many of the alloys weren't really worth the effort to make th...1.0k downloadsupdated 4 y ago
- Real Alloys Reforgedby A NickelModifies the material properties and smelting process of alloys, making them more useful and realistic. Updated to work with the Siege Update (53.01). Original mod can be found here:982 downloadsupdated 11 mo ago
- Lead oxide (litharge)by ПлитаYou can smelt lead or galena to litharge to do crystal glass instead rock crystal. Earlier it was lead oxide, but someone told me, that English has better word for it. Current video became old, but it still enough to understand this mod, I'm to lazy to change it. Now: 1 lead bar ---> 4 litharges...627 downloadsupdated 18 mo ago
- Purple Leadby lonewinedPurple Lead Changes DISPLAY_COLOR and BUILD_COLOR of lead to dark magenta (the same color as rutile and pitchblende) and STATE_COLOR to dark indigo. This mod should be compatible with all mods that don't modify DISPLAY_COLOR, BUILD_COLOR or STATE_COLOR tags of lead, or alternatively can be put in...443 downloadsupdated 21 mo ago
- Lead Oxide Civ Patchby Catwet12This Civ Patch allows Lead oxide to be used within the following Civs: A Dance of Six Legs Additional Races Aeramore Age of Civilizations Boarth Age of Man Age of Man - Fantasy Races Ancient Races: Dwarves of the Deep Ancient Races: High Elven Empire Ancient Races: The Goblin Kingdom Ancient Race...323 downloadsupdated 3 y ago
- Crimson Candyby lonewinedCrimson Candy Changes DISPLAY_COLOR and BUILD_COLOR of adamantine to red (the same color as hematite) and STATE_COLOR to crimson (the same color as blood thorn). This mod should be compatible with all mods that don't modify DISPLAY_COLOR, BUILD_COLOR or STATE_COLOR tags of adamantine, or alternat...306 downloadsupdated 21 mo ago
- Uranium Processingby enoua5Uranium Procesing In the real world, pitchblende (also known as uraninite) is an ore of uranium. Despite pitchblende being in the game, it's a non-economic stone that can't be smelted. This mod changes that! Processing Yellowcake All uranium products begin by producing yellowcake. Process pitchbl...301 downloadsupdated 21 mo ago
- Black Bronze, but Purpleby deep0x20This teeny tiny mod changes the colour of black bronze to almost the original colour, indigo! Why only almost the right colour? Shouldn't it be purple? It should be set to purple, but indigo is a little darker so it works like an inbetween of Toady's new vision and the old colour. Also setting th...189 downloadsupdated 3 y ago
- Mostahl, High-Alloy Steelby Cascadian CavemanOne day, a dwarf had too much to drink before heading back to work at the smelter. In their inebriated state, they added a littany of impurities to the steel they were attempting to make, mistaking pyrolusite for coal - much to their surprise, the resulting alloy wasn't nearly as brittle as antic...170 downloadsupdated 10 mo ago
- ArgMod 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
- Refinish Metalby grungeisdead# REFINISH METAL (REQUIRES DFHACK) --- Refinish metal bars using inorganic reagents specific to your load order. Grind stone, metal, and gems to dust, and use it to produce refinished metal affected in name and colour, and for material finishes value, by your chosen dust reagent. Refinish Metal e...129 downloadsupdated 4 d ago
- Toad Men Civby 76561198964686314Adds playable toad men which have a faster learning for ranged combat and a extra sharp metal TOADSTEN which is a alloy of tungsten and copper. Have FUN104 downloadsupdated 2 y ago
- ArgMod x Mostahl Compatibility Patchby ArgendaussImplements mostahl, a strong high-alloy steel, within the ArgMod framework. Reaction updated to take: 2 Steel + 2 Cast/Pig Iron + 1 Ferrochrome + 1 Ferronickel + 1 Ferrovanadium + 1 Ferromoly + 1 Ferromang + 1 Ferrocobalt + coke + 2 flux = 10 Mostahl + 2 Slag Note that if the ArgMod x VMO Compati...55 downloadsupdated 8 mo ago
17 metal 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.

