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1,385 mods, most downloaded first · newest update 26 Oct 2026
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- MicroMod: 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
- Glass 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
- Extended Vanilla Flavorsby niemstExtended Vanilla Flavors Work in progress. It is just beginning. But I'm open to suggestions and ideas. TL;DR Adds new syndromes and material effects to vanilla elements. Check my other mods Introduction I was not happy that almost every material, plant, etc. feel the same. Like the wood from any...1.0k downloadsupdated 21 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
- Magma Golemby Ya Boi SheevAdds a new rare creature to the magma sea that is a far more dangerous version of the magma man.1.0k downloadsupdated 2 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
- MicroMod: 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
- Fairer Half Of Megabeastsby SanctusarThis mod changes the sprites and portraits for the Female Humanoid Megabeast to a more feminine version. This is the less silly alternative to my other version of this mod. This mod should have no problems working with other mods, it simply replaces the sprites and portraits for the female giants.1.0k downloadsupdated 6 mo ago
- Vampire Clan Bloodlinesby DikbutDaGrateVampire Clan Bloodlines DikbutDaGrate's Submission to Kitfox Game's Dwarf Fortress Mod Jam Inspired by the variations of vampiric bloodlines featured in other RPG games, this mod makes a lua-based attempt at introducing similar features into Dwarf Fortress. This mod features procedurally varied v...995 downloadsupdated 12 mo ago
- Dogs hunt verminby Ironbreaker's SongLets dogs hunt vermin.986 downloadsupdated 13 mo ago
- MicroMod: 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
- Grind bones, shells, chitin into flux Civ Patchby Catwet12This Civ Patch allows Grind bones, shells, chitin into flux (and more) 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...983 downloadsupdated 3 y ago
- Black Steelby 76561198398857776Based on my other Auric Steel mod. Adds an alloy of steel and black bronze that performs identically to steel, but looks like black bronze. Very imposing! 2 steel + 1 black bronze + fuel = 2 black steel bars 2 steel + 1 obsidian + fuel = 2 black steel bars982 downloadsupdated 10 mo 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 12 mo ago
- Sif Muna's Kobold Kampby Sif MunaThis mod makes Kobolds an early bronze age playable civ. You've got a limited amount of technological access, and instead of metalsmithing your bolds will be hard at work using pit kilns to smelt simple ores, then working cold metals by beating them until they're what you want. If you've got acce...981 downloadsupdated 4 y ago
- Maned Wolvesby Generic Hyena #2A small mod that adds maned wolves (Chrysocyon Brachyurus). Maned wolves inhabit any grasslands, shrublands and savannas, hunt vermin, are solitary creatures, and fairly rare. They are enjoyed for their long legs, their unique bark, and their distinctive manes. I'm tempted to add their funny cann...980 downloadsupdated 3 y ago
- New Playable Race, Blendecsby BralbaardAbout the mod: This mod introduces a (playable) race of goat people known as blendecs. It was mainly designed based on how I like to play the game, but I hope others will enjoy it too. Blendecs are of course related to the ‘foul blendecs’ that can be found in the vanilla game, and, lore-wise, are...980 downloadsupdated 12 mo ago
- Descritivos Tradução PT-BRby Dois cachorros numa moto - SKINSATTENTION: This mod has been discontinued, if you want to translate your Dwarf Fortress follow these steps: Download the latest .zip file (above) from the github page: Unzip the .zip file in the root folder of your Dwarf Fortress and run the file: dfint-installer.exe Select Portuguese- Brazilian...978 downloadsupdated 4 y ago
- Illithidsby MyphicbowserThe Illithids from the D&D universe have been lovingly brought into the universe of Dwarf Fortress, now you TO can commit warcrimes involving brains! I won't spend too long detailing this mod but I will tell you that included with this mod is a Playable Mindflayer Civ, an incredibly dangerous Bra...972 downloadsupdated 3 y 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...965 downloadsupdated 9 mo ago
- Item Taggerby TasowyIMMENSE THANKS TO THE DF AND DFHACK COMMUNITIES AND ALL OF THEIR CONTRIBUTORS HUGE THANKS TO DPHKRAKEN AND DROSERAN FOR MODDING HELP AND FEEDBACK REQUIRES DFHACK TO USE Appends informational tags (brew,cook,edi,color,eco,flux,fuel,msafe to relevant item names so they appear in-game as part of ite...964 downloadsupdated 2 mo ago
- Dwarven Cuisine - More Breadby VarsoconaYou want… More? You want… More Bread?! Well, our Chef Under the Mountain is happy to oblige! We are happy to introduce a new recipe… Cavern Bread! This bread can be made entirely with ingredients found, farmed, or gathered beneath the earth. But that’s not all… We’re also throwing in two addition...962 downloadsupdated 3 y ago
- Dwarven Cuisine - Baconby VarsoconaYou've had Finely-Minced Pig Meat... You've had a Pig Meat Roast. But have you ever had... Bacon? This is the question our Chef Under The Mountain is here to ask you today. And if the answer is no, we have the solution. We have the capability. To make Pig Meat better, tastier, even more desirable...960 downloadsupdated 3 y ago
- Better 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
- 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...943 downloadsupdated 7 mo ago
- Cerberus Megabeastby Slime QueenAdds a massive three headed doggi to the ranks of your megabeasts.941 downloadsupdated 4 mo ago
- Dwarfiumby zeebAn end-game alloy made by combining adamantine with platinum, the best of two worlds. The Damascus steel of Dwarf Fortress. The recipe is the same as steel, only replacing iron and pig iron with adamantine and platinum: 1x adamantine wafer 1x platinum bar 1x flux stone 1x coal 2x dwarfium bars Cu...937 downloadsupdated 4 y ago
- Well-Flooredby ctrlaltmilkAdds floors to wells, and additionally adds transparency to the open portion of the well.934 downloadsupdated 4 mo ago
- Cloth Recyclingby QevAllows your dwarves to recycle fabric clothing and bags at a Clothier's workshop into lower-value "reclaimed thread" for re-use. Non-Steam users can find it on DFFD as "[50.xx] Cloth Recycling"! Every two items recycled produces one full spool of thread, but the wear-and-tear of the process, and...931 downloadsupdated 20 mo ago
- Glueby niemstGlue TL;DR Add new set of materials and reactions to make glue from various sources. Check my other mods Introduction This is a just a resource mod. It adds new set of materials and reactions to make glue. It does not adds any other content that uses the glue further. It is expected to be used as...925 downloadsupdated 15 mo ago
- Craftables - Sandstone (Dyed Edition)by lonewinedCraftables - Sandstone (Dyed Edition) Introduces kiln crafting recipes for new colored sandstone varieties using vanilla plant dyes. Compatible with Dwarf Fortress v.52.03 or higher. 1 Container of Water + 1 Bag of Quicklime + 1 Bag of Sand + 1 Bag of Dye = 4 Sandstone Blocks This recipe was insp...914 downloadsupdated 4 mo ago
- Kobolds For Fort Modeby OttfriedDoes not fully work with vanilla Kobolds, since they are too small to pick up equipment D: Just a small addition so you can play as Kobolds in fort mode. Pretty much only copied the dwarven entity file and changed dwarves with kobolds. kobolds should otherwise be the same as in sneaking around an...913 downloadsupdated 3 y ago
- Mods Placeholder (for installing mods after world creation)by niemstSee YouTube Instructions Info This mod is a placeholder that can be used to add mods into existing worlds. In SOME cases, it is possible to install mods into a dwarf fortress world AFTER world creation — using the mod update menu that appears when the game detects a higher version of an installed...912 downloadsupdated 3 y ago
- MultiDwarf - Multiplayer Dwarf FortressMultiDwarf Multiplayer Dwarf Fortress ## updated for DFHack 53.16-r3 - v10.0.27 ## updated 10.0.26 - added Native menus ## updated for DFHack 53.16-r2 - v9.8.30 ## New Update should fix strobing issue - v9.8.29 This is still a work in progress! Please report problems on Github or Discord (discord...910 downloadsupdated 13 d ago
- Elves 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
- Great Dragonsby ScrimboAdds a new kind of winged dragon to the game. These dragons are 20% larger than a full-grown vanilla dragon regardless of age. Some of them have metal scales, and will give metal bars when butchered when used with my butcherable metal mod! (Now a separate mod to avoid potential conflicts)904 downloadsupdated 4 y ago
- All Races Playable Redoby Lord NichThis mod lets you play as dwarves, humans, elves, goblins, or kobolds while adding or changing as little as possible. This is a nice redo so that the bugs players had with the other version are fixed, including Putnam's point of unnecessary CUTs, weapon glitches, and some various things like dyes...904 downloadsupdated 5 mo ago
- Age of Civilizations - Jotnarby TwinCrowsThe Jotnar are morose, dark-hearted humans that align with goblins. They're modeled after the Chaos Warriors of Warhammer Fantasy. Remote, barbaric people who are "touched by chaos". But they also have similarities to the Cimmerian race of Conan the Barbarian. They worship the cosmos and constell...902 downloadsupdated 19 mo ago
- Predefined Necromancy (Discontinued)by niemstPredefined necromancy - Discontinued I was able to get better results with LUA procedural generation, so I discontinued this mod. Please use Extended Necromancy instead. TL;DR Adds few secret to replace autogenerated necromancy. In intention to config world with 0 secrets types. Please check my o...896 downloadsupdated 15 mo ago
- Painted Dogsby Generic Hyena #2A small mod that adds painted dogs (lycaon pictus) also known as African wild dogs, African hunting dogs, and painted wolves. African wild dogs are: - large diurnal carnivore predators, that form tight social packs - are liked for their large ears, distinctive coat, and social interaction - produ...891 downloadsupdated 3 y ago
- Void berryby kaffelarsEvil version of the Sun berry (same value). Grows near water in evil, non-freezing biomes. Can be eaten raw, cooked or brewed into void wine.886 downloadsupdated 4 y ago
- Chocobosby MVRITR3VAAdds chocobos to the game. Mechanically somewhere between horses and ostriches. War trainable and mountable.Civs can domesticate them if they encounter them during worldgen. First mod made to learn DF modding.885 downloadsupdated 4 y ago
- Pitcher Pumpby lonewinedPitcher Pump Introduces a new 1x1 workshop with custom graphics, used for drawing water from the ground and pouring into containers up to their maximum capacity: - buckets - 10 units of water - barrels - 100 units of water - large pots - 100 units of water - glass vials - 3 units of water A pitch...883 downloadsupdated 15 mo ago
- Great Empires of mostly Humankindby L. LoireDive into a world of brutal empires, each vying for ultimate dominion. Mostly human, but sometimes strange beings find their way into these domains: most of them would be human, but there is a chance of creating a dwarven, goblin or beastman empire with the same ideals, tech etc The northern empi...882 downloadsupdated 11 mo ago
- Dwarven Steelby MrGlassesNormal steel, while superior to iron and anything those dirty forest hippies can even dream of crafting, is still full of impurities. With SUPERIOR DWARVEN STEEL, however, those impurities are further removed, resulting in a steel that is superior to all metals, save for divine metals gifted by t...879 downloadsupdated 4 y ago
- Oab's Workshop: Dwarvesby PoeOverview: Full replacement of all dwarf related sprite sheets. Includes thousands of unique dwarf facial/hair/beard combinations, as well as new sprite sheets for dwarf corpses, undead variants, all dwarf related weapons, armor and clothing. This is a collection of work I did from 2018-2019 assem...877 downloadsupdated 4 y ago
- Nefari And Bubbles DF.by DirtyfatninjaThis is just an Overhaul of Graphics. I can't seem to get it to work Properly but a Workaround till I figure it out is Click Subscribe then go to the Steam Apps Common Folder in there find this Mod Grab the Files and paste them over You main Vanilla Folders overwrite and that should work.871 downloadsupdated 4 y ago
- Animal 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
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