Dwarf Fortress
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1,385 mods, most downloaded first · newest update 26 Oct 2026
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- Exotic Weaponsby HerdoBows? Flails? CURVED SWORDS?! YES. Gives access to many of the exotic weapons found through the world that were previously uncraftable. Should be working now. It seems inconsistent as to whether the mod loads when creating a new world, but that seems to be the case with other mods I've tested on...651 downloadsupdated 4 y ago
- White Z-Level Fog 10%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%648 downloadsupdated 4 y ago
- Remove Plant Alignmentby 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. This mod allows sliver barb and sun...648 downloadsupdated 15 mo ago
- ArgMod x VMO Compatibility Patchby ArgendaussBridges ArgMod Mineralogy, Metallurgy, & Chemistry and Vanilla Materials Overhaul Ironworking reactions match VMO with some bulk recipes to match ArgMod. Remaining reactions match ArgMod. All ArgMod alloys adjusted to VMO format with the following equations: 1. Max Edge = 3000 2. Shear Yield & Fr...647 downloadsupdated 2 mo ago
- MicroMod: 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
- Cultist Civilizationby Infinite EyesPlayable corrupted human civ that worships sea monsters. They have evil ethics. Their art and religion tends to be related to evil, holiness, and the ocean. Their weapons are: Great Axes, Scourges, Scimitars, Flails, Daggers, Morningstars, and Bows. Their animals are: Sea Monsters, Crabs, Giant H...644 downloadsupdated 14 mo ago
- Almost Everything Healsby TangentialThreatAppends a healing rate to almost all tissues, such as fingernails. Overwrites vanilla bodies.642 downloadsupdated 11 mo ago
- Metals & 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 2 mo ago
- Glass Bedsby QevA simple mod that allows your dwarves to make beds out of glass, using the regular glassmaking materials. (mind the edges!) Non-Steam users can find it on DFFD as "[50.xx] Glass Beds"!641 downloadsupdated 4 y ago
- Animal Person Potionsby GhostPuttyCreate potions for transforming into animal people at a still. Combine Beastly brew with a scroll crafted from a giant animal to make the related animal person potion River spirits + Sewer brew = Beastly brew Beastly brew + giant <animal> scroll = <animal> person potion You can use a giant wolf p...638 downloadsupdated 4 y ago
- Metal Cloth Industryby Right Hand of the DevilUPDATED Extract thread from any metal bar at the new Extractor Workshop. to build one you'll need an Anvil and 3 building materials. use the loom to turn them into cloth, use the clothes workshop to make clothes out of your new metal cloth!!! will store made clothes in a stockpile go full Moist V...637 downloadsupdated 5 mo ago
- Dwarven Cuisine - Simple Breadby VarsoconaHear ye! Hear ye! Our Chef Under The Mountain has another announcement that we are excited to share with you...More Bread! We’ve heard your requests; we’ve studied the reports and we’ve come up with a solution. It seems not every Fortress has the time, space, or incentive to acquire the vast arra...634 downloadsupdated 3 y ago
- Gadget's Kobold Caverns - Skulking Filthby gadgetpatchA Hard Mode plugin for Kobold Caverns. In SKULKING FILTH mode, civil kobolds will send thieves to their neighbors, the way their cave-dwelling cousins do. This makes non-kobold civs start out as fundamentally hostile to your settlers. Good luck~ GAMEPLAY NOTES: Other thieving civs, like fellow Ko...632 downloadsupdated 4 y ago
- Less Busy Floorsby PunkRockVampireTiny mod that removes the face from engraved floors, so they look less cluttered. I know there's another mod that does similar, but it doesn't remove the face from constructed engraved floors and this mod does.629 downloadsupdated 4 y ago
- Advanced Agriculture Crops All Year Patchby DroseranThis mod allows all surface crops from Advanced Agriculture to be farmed regardless of season. This mod must be loaded after Advanced Agriculture. Check out my other Dwarf Fortress mods: My Dwarf Fortress Workshop If you enjoy my mods, consider sending me a donation on Ko-fi. My mods will always...629 downloadsupdated 5 mo ago
- Burn Wood Itemsby GrogMasheenA custom reaction, Input = 4x wood material items, Output = 1x Charcoal & 1x Ash, Perfomed by wood burner at wood furnace. Patches & does not overwrite entity folder. Install notes>> Just add it to you load list at worldgen.628 downloadsupdated 4 y ago
- No Arena Restrictionsby VatticRemoves restrictions on which creatures you can summon in the arena. Mild spoilers.627 downloadsupdated 4 y 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
- Tobb's Greek Myth Monstersby dr. icenortA small mod that adds three new semi-megabeasts from Greek mythological narrative. Woe betide those who cross their path! Check out my other mods here: Creatures The Calydonian Boar "Its eyes glowed with bloodshot fire: its neck was stiff with bristles, and the hairs, on its hide, bristled stiffl...624 downloadsupdated 3 y ago
- Dragons can Speakby HippiecabSuper tiny mod that gives dragons the ability to speak. That's all.623 downloadsupdated 15 mo ago
- Mostly 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
- More coke!by WolframeBlackMaking coke from bituminous coal and lignite now gives more coke (25 and 15 respectively, to be exact). Also making coal now is an automated job (like kitchen and fishery) There's also a version that removes the fuel requirement for this task This mod adds a new job rather than change the existin...619 downloadsupdated 4 y ago
- Domestic Egglayer Nerfby DarkweaveReduces domestic poultry egg clutch sizes from the vanilla values to 1-3 eggs per clutch. Blue Peafowl reduced from vanilla 6 to 8 to new range 1 to 3 Chicken reduced from vanilla 4 to 15 to new range 1 to 3 Duck reduced from vanilla 8 to 13 to new range 1 to 3 Goose reduced from vanilla 3 to 8 t...605 downloadsupdated 4 y ago
- Three Kobolds In A Trench Coatby Jaunty LiverAllows dieties to see through the perfect disguise. (Intelligent creatures who profane temples have a chance to actually be three kobolds in a trench coat, and will continue to live as three kobolds in a trench coat)602 downloadsupdated 2 y ago
- [outdated] Animal Catalogue - Badgerfolk (playable)by THE WIZARDFormerly Melestrom. This mod adds a race of badgerfolk to the game as a playable civ. They do not override other races. They come with custom spritework and a custom language!601 downloadsupdated 3 y ago
- DEUTSCH-MOD (Items)by GuanorEine Mod, um die Item-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 Items nichts geändert habe, kann man im Mod-Menü d...601 downloadsupdated 4 y ago
- MicroMod: 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
- Cute 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
- Give Green Devourer Acid!by DizzyCrash============== DEVOURER ACID ============== So I was reading the description of the green devourer and it mentions how they use acid to dissolve their prey.. But imagine my surprise when I find they have no acid? Not even on the insides! So with a quick little tweak I have blessed our hungry frie...596 downloadsupdated 4 y ago
- Dragon Size Fixby ThatZenoGuySimple mod which makes dragons much more frightening, as now both cave dragons and regular dragons reach 99% of their maximum size in about 10 years!596 downloadsupdated 3 y ago
- Animal Person Curse Embarkby GhostPuttyAs time passes your Dwarves and any visitors to your fort may transform into a random animal person or werebeast. They may also change into vampires or necromancers. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ If you get a creature with b...594 downloadsupdated 4 y ago
- Red Steelby 76561198398857776Based on my other Auric Steel mod. Adds an alloy of steel and hematite that performs identically to steel, but is a deep red colour. Perfect for an imperial guard! 2 steel + 1 hematite + fuel = 2 red steel bars 2 steel + 1 cinnabar + fuel = 2 red steel bars593 downloadsupdated 18 mo ago
- Color Item Libraryby DPh KrakenAdds a bunch of colored materials in different forms to be used as a modding reference or pixel-art aid. Each possible in-game color (automatically updated to the dye update) is represented as metal, textile, dye, and stone. You can spawn and preview these items in the arena, with adventure react...593 downloadsupdated 4 mo ago
- Plump Helmet Men Revolutionby indigofenixThe dwarves have domesticated the Plump Helmet Men. You can train them for hunting and war, butcher them for food, and even brew wine from their flesh. They multiply quickly, but beware...if they outnumber their dwarven oppressors, they may rise up and take back their freedom!592 downloadsupdated 4 y ago
- Ornate Floor Engravingsby SofusOrlandeauJust a simple graphic option for engraved floors.589 downloadsupdated 8 mo ago
- Adventurous 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
- White Steelby 76561198398857776Based on my other Auric Steel mod. Adds an alloy of steel and aluminum that performs identically to steel, but looks like aluminum. Makes for a very striking military! 2 steel + 1 aluminum + fuel = 2 white steel bars 2 steel + 1 silver + fuel = 2 white steel bars584 downloadsupdated 18 mo ago
- Voliol's Various Vivantsby VoliolThis mod adds various real-life creatures and plants that were previously "missing" from Dwarf Fortress (+two edible fungi). It adds 39 "full-size" animals, 35 vermin, 8 trees, 3 "grasses", 7 crop-plants, and 2 plantable fungi.580 downloadsupdated 3 y ago
- Weeb's Metallurgyby ZwiebelkaramellEver wanted to make a platinum warhammer? An aluminum sword? Ever wanted to fill a goblin with lead? Well now you can! Weeb's Metallurgy allows practical and interesting metals to be used for weapons and armour, and also adds a few new ones. Nickel, Zinc, Brass, Platinum, Lead, Aluminum, and Nick...577 downloadsupdated 23 mo ago
- Magma Sieveby CoolTomA mod that adds a new workshop to the game, the magma sieve. Why let all that molten rock go to waste when you can use it? Drop chances: 15% Gabro 15% Orthoclase 15% Basalt 15% Alunite 10% Galena 5% Hematite 5% Magnetite 20% Obsidian Its no guranteed that you will get any of these products on an...576 downloadsupdated 16 mo ago
- DEUTSCH-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
- Large Gem Furnitureby PalidoozyI liked the large gemstone crafting from Dark Ages, but sometimes I just want to play a more vanilla game, and there were some items I wanted that were missing. So I wrote my own mod to add in the ability to craft some stuff out of large gemstones! Make your own dead cat statues out of sardonyx!...573 downloadsupdated 4 y ago
- Creature Portraits Revertby HokyoseiReverts the new creature portraits to how they were in 53.7. PLACE ABOVE VANILLA_CREATURE_GRAPHICS.571 downloadsupdated 10 mo ago
- DnD Lifespansby dumbmudThis mod aims to enhance gameplay by editing the lifespans of the four major races (dwarfs, elves, goblins, and kobolds) in Dwarf Fortress. Their lifespans are now based on values inspired by the Dungeons & Dragons rulebooks. WARNING: If you want to play with long history, I recommend generating...566 downloadsupdated 23 mo ago
- Elf 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
- Workplaceby 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 18 mo ago
- Cookable 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
- Fantastic Trees and Advanced Orchards Patchby Catwet12This mod makes Fantastic Trees compatible with Advanced Orchards ! This Patch also allows this mod 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...557 downloadsupdated 3 y ago
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