Mods / tweak

• SSpeedyDwarfby SunshineCanine61Short of having DFHacks' "fastdwarf # #" for speedy and/or teleporting dwarves, here's an alternative - patching the "Gait". Explanation: dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/Gait. Make those dwarves constantly powerwalk to all the sh- stuff they need to do, & still succumb to !FUN! because you were w...1.4k downloadsupdated 4 y ago
• KKM.One's Training Poolby KM.OneTired of your dwarf drowning? Find it frustrating when they sit right by the shore and drowned without even moving? This mod is for you. to pick which dwarf just assign them to the workshop. otherwise you never know who will go train. Thanks to Cross Lament for the pool sprites. If anyone knows h...1.3k downloadsupdated 4 y ago
• SSlightly Less Uristby JerimeeAdds more domains (beyond Artifice and Earth) to the pool of possible Dwarf names. Doesn't remove names, just add a few more to the mix. The domains added are NEW, MUSIC, BALANCE, TRUTH, MYSTERY, ORDER, SKY, ASSERTIVE, and PROTECT. So, for example, with this mod a dwarf might be generated with fi...1.3k downloadsupdated 4 y ago
• TTobb's War Crocodilesby dr. icenortA mini-mod that alters cave crocodiles and saltwater crocodiles so your dwarves can train them as war animals.1.3k downloadsupdated 3 y ago
• LLow 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
• 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
• WWood 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
• IIvoryby 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...1.2k downloadsupdated 14 mo ago
• CCartilage Rotsby VatticStops cartilage and some other materials from building up in your refuse stockpiles by letting them rot away. Included materials: Cartilage Chitin Scales (lizard skin) Feathers (bird skin with feathers) Flame (breaks off fire creatures) Sponge (same but for sponges) This mod must be loaded before...1.1k downloadsupdated 4 y ago
• TTweaked Domesticationby Chro-NOMakes nearly all giant animals trainable for war and hunting as well as a handful of regular animals. Most creatures that lacked a child stage have been given one, and so can now be truly domesticated. Giant spiders lay silk eggs (used Keg's silk egg mod for the silk eggs, download that mod to sp...1.1k downloadsupdated 21 mo ago
• PProto-industrialization expanded (1.4) v53.10by brbAllows for basic chemistry, milling of stones, craftable sands, extractions of compounds, chemical mixtures, and more efficient forms of production through machine workshops. -Adds 13 workshops total. -Does not require DFhack -Required for “Dwarven Firearms” to function Version compatibility: --P...1.1k downloadsupdated 10 mo ago
• MMammals 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...1.1k downloadsupdated 2 mo ago
• MMicroMod: always Cloaksby GGBOTSets Cloaks to 'Forced', making them always available/craftable for Dwarves. During world generation several types of armour/clothing can be "known" or not by civilizations, scaling on rarity. Technically your civilization could happen to know the science behind making Togas! But usually not - si...1.0k downloadsupdated 4 y ago
• GGlass Fortressby DaxDo you like glass? Would others describe it as an "unhealthy obsession" or "tearing the family apart?" Would you like to make even more items out of glass? Boy do I have the mod for you then! This mod adds new categories to the glass furnace, one for each type of glass (Green, Clear, Crystal). Ea...1.0k downloadsupdated 4 y ago
• MMicroMod: Dwarves can Enrage!by GGBOTUrist Smash! Grants fighting Dwarves the ability to become Enraged at all enemies! Gaining the natural anger issues of the humble Wolverines and Honey Badgers. Specifically: Add to Dwarves (creatures_standard), which is the tag that causes animals like Honey Badgers to have a chance to become 'En...1.0k downloadsupdated 4 y ago
• MMicroMod: always Robesby GGBOTSets Robes to 'Forced', making them always available/craftable for Dwarves. During world generation several types of armour/clothing can be "known" or not by civilizations, scaling on rarity. Technically your civilization could happen to know the science behind making Togas! But usually not - sin...984 downloadsupdated 4 y ago
• BBetter Engravings: Simple Tilesby Marcrow [Post-Xenon]I didn't like to have my floors all be in image od a dwarf, even more considering i play as different civs most often.. :P I changed it so it makes it look more like tiles after engraving.951 downloadsupdated 4 y ago
• WWell-Flooredby ctrlaltmilkAdds floors to wells, and additionally adds transparency to the open portion of the well.934 downloadsupdated 4 mo ago
• EElves Aren't Immortal(Just long-lived)by Den BjornenElves have long livespans rather than being immortal. They live 220 to 300 years. This has minimal effect on fortress gameplay, but world history for older worlds will be a bit different from usual.908 downloadsupdated 4 y ago
• AAnimal People Reduxby 20firebirdAPR gives Dwarf Fortress' animal people a new coat of paint. It fixes various bugs and oddities with animal people - no longer will grazing humanoids starve to death in your fortress, and water-dwelling animal people can now come on land, rather than basically absent from gameplay. It also gives...870 downloadsupdated 22 mo ago
• CCavern Creature Tweaksby 20firebirdTweaks and revisions to various underground creatures - shallow and deep. Changes include: - Nerfing the spawn rates of crundles and troglodytes, to make them a little bit less annoying. - Elk birds no longer graze, but produce more eggs. Dralthas produce fewer offspring, as I've had trouble with...859 downloadsupdated 3 y ago
• RReColossus 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...845 downloadsupdated 12 mo ago
• DDwarthen Dynastiesby 76561198934725576Turns your fortress's historical figures into a living family tree. Requires DFHack - the mod will not work without it. Dwarves take surnames from their spouses (a coin flip decides who takes whose name in a same-sex marriage) and children take their biological father's surname; step/adopted chil...826 downloadsupdated 3 mo ago
• WWar & Hunter Training for All Animals - Efficient Compatibleby Mr. T-XP x64 Crosby EditionWar & Hunter Training for animals done with efficient methods that maximize compatibility and minimize the changes made. I noticed the other mods that try to do the same, often cut/replace the entire creature data to make changes. This mod only adds the necessary tokens to the creatures of the ga...810 downloadsupdated 3 y ago
• BButcherable Metalby ScrimboAllows (butcherable) creatures with metal body parts to give metal bars when butchered. Doesn't do much in the vanilla game, but was made to split this feature off of my Great Dragons mod. Only applies to vanilla metals. A couple of my mods benefiting from this are: Great Dragons: Iron Pigs:788 downloadsupdated 4 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
• RRemove Bumblebee Productsby DroseranThis mod removes bumblebee honeycomb, honey, mead, royal jelly, and wax. Bumblebee products were not intended to be added to the game, but dwarves can still have these unobtainable items as preferences. This mod does not affect any materials from honey bees, honey bee products are completely unaf...745 downloadsupdated 4 y ago
• MMicroMod: Brass Knucklesby GGBOTKnuckledusters! Adds Metal knuckles - a new blunt weapon type, using the Striker skill to Punch, Jab or Uppercut your foes. Specifics: Made at the Metalsmith - weapons menu. Unique 'Forge brass knuckle' reaction added to Metalsmith. Accessible to Dwarves, Humans and Goblins. Stats/Balance: The kn...745 downloadsupdated 4 y ago
• MMore Grindable Ores (Requires Metallurgy mod)by eb2023/01/05 update: adjusted the pig iron reaction to actually give 8 bars instead of 4, and upped slag chance from 10% to 40%. Adds more options for the Ore Grinder from the Metallurgy mod, it should be able to grind every "real" metal ore up to and including aluminum. Also adds a menu of reactio...745 downloadsupdated 4 y ago
• BBreeding Fixby EnderPatches creature orientation tokens for all vanilla creatures so that males are exclusively attracted to females and vice versa. This ensures breeding pairs form reliably, leading to more births, larger populations, and stronger generational continuity. Works on all creatures with both male and f...733 downloadsupdated 4 mo ago
• MMilkable Catsby WumpusKingPut the cats to work. Make some cheese. It's milkable cats!722 downloadsupdated 4 y ago
• MMario's Stepford Dwarvesby Mario WizardTweaks dwarves' personalities to make them extra resilient to stress. Sets Bravery to max and Anxiety Propensity, Emotional Obsessiveness, and Vengefulness to minimum.714 downloadsupdated 4 y ago
• BBetter 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...711 downloadsupdated 12 mo ago
• DDwarven Civs Get ALL Clothes & Armor!by ColeslawThis mod gives dwarven civilizations access to ALL clothes and armor (capes, chausses, head veils, high boots, masks, turbans, and more!) I found that other similar mods that claimed to give dwarves everything were not entirely accurate as they excluded a select few items, so I decided to create...694 downloadsupdated 20 mo ago
• FFerrets - Hunting & War - New Creaturesby LlamageddonThis adds domesticated ferrets to the game. They can be trained in hunting and war. It also adds polecats, their wild ancestors. Ferrets - Hunting and War After updating mustelids I was very surprised that ferrets, the only domesticated member of that group of animals, were not in the game, this...677 downloadsupdated 4 y ago
• VVenom Immunity Expandedby VatticThis mod makes more creatures immune to venom in line with real life. Changes The following creatures, and their man and giant variants, have been made immune to some venoms: pig honey badger hedgehog opossum mongoose Venoms from these creatures specifically: king cobra black mamba helmet snake O...665 downloadsupdated 4 y ago
• CCompressed Metal Barsby noyhcaTEnables the ability to create reversible, compressed metal bars in order to save space (and fps). This adds a recipe in the forge to turn 100 bars of metal into a single bar of compressed metal, the recipes to turn 1 bar of compressed metal into 100 bars of normal metal is also included. Currentl...662 downloadsupdated 4 y ago
• MMicroMod: always High Bootsby GGBOTSets High Boots to 'Forced', making them always available/craftable for Dwarves. During world generation several types of armour/clothing can be "known" or not by civilizations, scaling on rarity. Oddly enough, I usually see this happen with "just" High Boots not existing, which can feel a bit Me...646 downloadsupdated 4 y ago
• NNo Arena Restrictionsby VatticRemoves restrictions on which creatures you can summon in the arena. Mild spoilers.627 downloadsupdated 4 y ago
• DDragons can Speakby HippiecabSuper tiny mod that gives dragons the ability to speak. That's all.623 downloadsupdated 15 mo ago
• MMostly English Languagesby GrogMasheenDiscover the meaning of all those flavorful person and place names by translating the vanilla fantasy languages into mostly English. Install notes>> This mod replaces Vanilla_Languages, and should be loaded in the same position in the load order. For easy install, at world gen, install this mod,...622 downloadsupdated 4 y ago
• MMicroMod: enable Morningstarsby GGBOTPraise Armok! (and the many others!) Unlocks (just) the foreign weapon Morningstars for your Dwarves. Because sometimes you just want your Macelords to have menacing spikes on their majestic steel maces, or your Haunted Embark fort is just begging to become the holiest collection of temples you c...598 downloadsupdated 4 y ago
• CCute Kobold Palette & Heads Expansionby HunterGerhartAdds new palettes, head variations, body variations and eyes to Cute Kobolds, tested with Cute Kobold Caverns. Requires Topples layered graphics. !!Must!! be manually installed by bringing the Cute Kobold Caverns mod inside this one, without overwriting. Original mods: (Cute Kobolds) (Gadget's Ko...597 downloadsupdated 8 mo ago
• AAdventurous Giantsby MustanaamiottoAllows all semi-megabeasts to be playable as outsiders in adventure mode. Should be compatible with most other mods, as the only changes are adding OUTSIDER_CONTROLLABLE tag to all semi-megabeasts & cleaning up the appearance tags. Only affects the four vanilla semi-megabeasts.584 downloadsupdated 19 mo ago
• EElf Metalby XBOX Live ArcadeLooking for a reason to keep the elves happy, or want elven sieges to be more Fun? Maybe you just want more goblinite. This is the mod for you. This mod removes the default elf civilization and replaces it with an identical one that also has access to metalworking, giving them access to metal wea...565 downloadsupdated 20 mo ago
• WWorkplaceby niemstWorkplace TL;DR Just a simple, general purpose workplace. To be used in other mods. Please see my other mods: Detailed Content This mod introduces new workshop: WORKPLACE Workshop is 1x1 tile building can be built for any build material. It do not have any reactions assigned to it yet. Its shortc...560 downloadsupdated 19 mo ago
• CCookable Meadby 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. Allows prepared meals to be made wi...559 downloadsupdated 4 y ago
• BBlue Cobaltiteby levstkThe mod changes cobaltite to be blue, as it is in the ascii version (and older versions of the game). Very low effort, but hey, you get what you pay for.517 downloadsupdated 4 y ago

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