Dwarf Fortress mods
Dwarf Fortress mod mods
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795 mod mods, most downloaded first · newest update 25 Oct 2026
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- Wyrmsby SmileyVRWyrms are small, dog-sized, draconic predators that lives on plains and temperate forests.91 downloadsupdated 4 y ago
- Undead Fortress (For Extra FUN!)by MarkTurns the world into a zombie-ridden, necromantic hellhole: a global regional interaction periodically raises sentient corpses anywhere you embark, roughly once per week, giving you time to handle corpses. Risen corpses are hostile undead (OPPOSED_TO_LIFE, NOT_LIVING). No DFHack required. Corpse...91 downloadsupdated 13 mo ago
- Human Fortressby 76561198875678724The other mod that allows you to play humans also includes elves, thieving kobolds and child snatching goblins. this one will allow you to play humans without your embark civ list being clogged by such filth.90 downloadsupdated 4 y ago
- Gorlak Fortessby 76561199659514752This mod creates a playable Gorlak Civilization. Born in the caverns, the gorlaks learned nearly everything they know from their distant cousins the dwarves. Or, was it the other way around? Due to them having civilizations, you will also see a lot more gorlaks in your world regardless of what ra...90 downloadsupdated 10 mo ago
- Wyvernsby nytpuAdd wyverns as a playable and naturally-occuring intelligent wilderness creatures. They are flying, egg-laying mammals slightly larger than humans that spawn in any savage surface biome. While they only have wings with no other forelimbs, they have hand/finger-like appendages on their wings that...89 downloadsupdated 2 y ago
- [Language] Latin goblinsby Deon ☣Goblins use latin language. Requires the following mod to function: Latin Language89 downloadsupdated 4 y ago
- PaperCrane1001s Miscby TheCheats and simplifiers for testing things out. Clay in everything, sand in everything, steel, adam and coke from nothing, seeds every season, no aquifers88 downloadsupdated 4 mo ago
- VGI Metallurgyby VilhatarnVil's Game Improvements-Metallurgy overhauls metal and alloy values and recipes. Alloys now always generate value relative to their inputs, but cannot be made directly from ores. Bismuth bronze, sterling silver, and trifle pewter are removed; alternate recipes still exist to use bismuth and lead...87 downloadsupdated 5 mo ago
- playable elvesby GoezerAdds an alternate controllable elven civilization and Lets you play as a member of them.87 downloadsupdated 4 y ago
- Col. Caboose's Stuff (OLD)by Col. CabooseStuff I've added from rapiers and muskets, to gambeson and brigandine, to an entire skaven species.84 downloadsupdated 4 y ago
- Critter Fortressby Sif MunaThis is a mod in the early stages of development to spice up the worldgen civilizations with various critter people. Currently, it only serves to replace dwarves with the Caprini, goatlike critters who have a similar propensity for alcohol and fey moods. As more sprites are knocked out this mod w...84 downloadsupdated 4 y ago
- Elf B Goneby THE WIZARDMod that removes elves. I had uploaded a similar thing but people kept being weird in the comments. Please be normal or I will turn comments off again.83 downloadsupdated 3 y ago
- Mountain Giantsby SoldarisMountain Giants have a deep animosity towards Dwarves and will attack their bases upon sight.83 downloadsupdated 5 mo ago
- Gadget's Kobold Caverns Bumbr Patchby BumbrMy reimagining of the original Kobold Caverns Mod. This is the initial release. I made it for myself, implementing changes I wanted in my game according to my vision. All values are approximate and may be changed later. FEATURES: New Kobold specific metal - Koboldite worse then steel, better then...81 downloadsupdated 3 y ago
- 1001's Reaction Libraryby TheThere's a peculiar issue with DF modding that keeps us from adding mods mid save. This fixes part of that by adding a bunch (currently 100) of useless reactions that don't do anything UNLESS you assign something to them, like a new mod that you just added to the save folder. This is not basic mod...81 downloadsupdated 4 y ago
- White Z-Level Fog 50%by BennyTurns the Z-Level Fog from blue to white, mostly to make it easier to differentiate between water and fog. BASE MOD: 10% 20% 30% 40% 50%81 downloadsupdated 4 y ago
- Colored Goldsby lordofdrgnsAdded Multiple Gold Alloys of differen colors using 4 unit formulas80 downloadsupdated 4 y ago
- Pillowforts, the Fabric Felt Round the Worldby welkin.shibbolethThis adds a simple new reaction to the screw press, which lets you create felt cloth blocks from fabric. Beware! If you want to use specific fabrics, you'll need to set up your screw press to take from stockpiles that only contain that fabric. Also, dyes do not currently persist into the blocks,...77 downloadsupdated 4 y ago
- Animal People Entityby GoezerAdds multiple controllable civilizations in worldgen controlled by elephant or lion man etc.75 downloadsupdated 4 y ago
- More mushroom dyeby Reformed Rabbi Woodrow WilsonAdds Black (ink cap), Red (hematite puffball), and purple (royal bolete) dye-bearing mushrooms. farmable by dwarves, selectable seeds on embark, harvestable in caverns, functionally entirely the same as dimple cups (even look the same due to laziness), but produce a different color dye.74 downloadsupdated 22 mo ago
- Nefari And Bubbles DF. 1.1by DirtyfatninjaThis is just an Overhaul of Graphics. this is outdated but has some unique sprites you might like to use the old versions or take from to add to the new version!73 downloadsupdated 4 y ago
- Unified Dwarvesby pornhub.eduThis mod limits worldgen to creating one dwarven civ, for a small but unified people. Also useful if you want to generate and play a dead civ and rebuild the dwarven people from square 0!72 downloadsupdated 4 y ago
- DW420's Dwarf texture tweaksby DW420Various texture tweaks and replacements, all pertaining to Dwarves. PLEASE NOTE: If some profession shows up with the wrong colours...it's because the devs haven't assigned them. AFAIK (and that is very little) about half of the palette is currently unused. 100% DONE: Beards, Helmets -Everything...72 downloadsupdated 3 y ago
- Fr_militaryby frost.9Fr_military Attention, squad! Formation! CORPORAL URIST! ONE BOOT!? Are you planning to hop around the battlefield like some armokdamn furry elf? Have you lost your mind!? The next time I see your bare foot in my formation, you will be promoted to a handicaped scholar! Is that clear!? CORPORAL SI...72 downloadsupdated 9 mo ago
- -1001- Magma Furnaceby TheAdded reaction to wood furnace to turn stone into magma. To use, make iron minecarts to be filled, then queue them up.70 downloadsupdated 4 y ago
- Skull Snakesby 76561199069264827When the most fearful of giants die, their skulls and spines can rip out of their bodies, creating the dangerous Skull Snakes. Adds a new Megabeast into your DF games!70 downloadsupdated 2 y ago
- Opaque Black ZFogby UntrustedLifeDo you miss classic dfs lack of fog? Well this mod turns the Z-Level Fog from blue to opaque black and removes transparency, so you can see exactly what level you are on with no pesky transparency. Thank you to Munashe who made the Reduce Z-Level Fog Mod which inspired me to make this one.69 downloadsupdated 4 y ago
- Titan Fest 2024 Megabeasts Modby DikbutDaGrateAdds the contestants from 2024's Titan Fest as Megabeasts. Update: No longer works as of 52.01 -- Game now rejects some of the creatures during world generation. Previously, the error log would hiccup on a few things, and then it would roll with it.69 downloadsupdated 2 y ago
- Work Detail Icons for Hewnby ScurvyAn alternate set of icons for custom work details, blatantly stolen from the Hewn Tileset files. Intended for use with Hewn Tileset and Better Work Details, though neither is strictly required. Load order: - Hewn (Or any tileset/UI MOD) - Work Detail Icons for Hewn68 downloadsupdated 5 mo ago
- White Z-Level Fog 40%by BennyTurns the Z-Level Fog from blue to white, mostly to make it easier to differentiate between water and fog. BASE MOD: 10% 20% 30% 40% 50%66 downloadsupdated 4 y ago
- Serpentfolk modby Soldaris66 downloadsupdated 14 mo ago
- Venomous Koboldsby SpiderBiteGives Kobolds are fast acting, but also short lived, venomous bite based off the blue ringed octopus; quick acting and causes nausea, dizzyness, and paralyzing, along with numbness.66 downloadsupdated 3 y ago
- Ore2Steelby ORCACommanderBypass making pig iron in order to make steel directly from ore. there is a small yield penelty compared to the pig iron method65 downloadsupdated 4 y ago
- Aliensby who?Adds xenomorphs.61 downloadsupdated 19 mo ago
- Chipathingy's Terrible Graphics packby chipathingyThis is a graphics pack for people like me who do not have the time or talent to make proper graphics for their Dwarf Fortress mods. Included are both regular, large and statue images for each letter from A to Z, in both lower and upper case! There are 15 different colours for each letter (corres...59 downloadsupdated 4 y ago
- Ork modby SoldarisA mod that adds male and female Orks. They will attack you in warbands from time to time.59 downloadsupdated 14 mo ago
- Dinosaur Rebalanceby KijiroChanges made to Extinct creatures only58 downloadsupdated 3 mo ago
- Short-Lived Dwarvesby TrainzackDrastically reduces the lifespan of dwarves, but offsets this by drastically increasing their their skill learning rate. License This mod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license. This means that you can use the contents of this work (as-is or modified...57 downloadsupdated 4 y ago
- stone and wood traps, some utility reactionsby Right Hand of the Devilmake serrated discs, spiked balls, spikes, giant axe blades and corkscrews from wood and stone hollow stones to make buckets make 10 stone bins at a time make 10 large pots at a time from stone make 10 stone blocks at a time56 downloadsupdated 3 y ago
- Col. Caboose's Stuff (OLD)by Col. CabooseStuff I've added from rapiers and muskets, to gambeson and brigandine, to an entire skaven species. (There is a newer version of this mod available on my workshop)55 downloadsupdated 4 y ago
- Brave Cavies Vanillaby PiratePawsLiveAdds Brave Cavies to the game which can be Trained for War/Hunting. USE ONLY ONE Brave Cavies Mod at a time! Both are mutually exclusive! Learning Brave Cavies Train your cavy friends for war and hunting. Take your small furry friends and claim victory! This also removes the need to graze, so you...55 downloadsupdated 4 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 9 mo ago
- Crundlingsby Johnny OakgroveAdds Crundle children (Crundlings), which in turn makes it possible to fully tame Crundles. This is the cut-down version for the more traditionalist Crundle enthusiast of my Crundles are better than Cats mod: The crundle child sprite is already in the game files, Crundles were simply missing the...54 downloadsupdated 4 y ago
- Lynx Fortressby FluffyVixenA simple mod that replaced dwarves in default (mountain) playable civilization with lynx men. It doesn't add any sprites or objects, just uses ones already in the game. It slightly modifies vanilla lynx men to match dwarven lifespan and enable artifacts (strange moods) for them. Tips: lynx men ar...54 downloadsupdated 2 y ago
- Misery ZFogby UntrustedLifeTurns the Z-Level Fog from blue to misery green and makes it more transparent, mostly for those modpacks that need just a bit more misery. Praise misery. Thank you to Munashe who made the Reduce Z-Level Fog Mod which inspired me to make this one.54 downloadsupdated 4 y ago
- Turbansby 76561198828349109Provides your dwarves the skills needed to craft turbans53 downloadsupdated 16 mo ago
- Pepsi Pigby kravunHave you ever wanted to add the famous pepsi pig from the bleeding pepsi big meme into Dwarf Fortress? Probably not, but you now can! This mod features a pig, but not a normal pig. A pig that bleeds pepsi. !FUN! inducing pepsi is indeed in the game as of 1.3.0 update.51 downloadsupdated 2 y ago
- Reign of the Viluby SleppaThis mod adds a new race to the world, called the vilu. They're hostile plants, though due to their biology and inability to wear armor, they wont pose too much of a threat to an established fortress. They can do some damage to civilians, and can take a hit if they're struck in the right places,...48 downloadsupdated 8 mo ago
795 mod 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.

