Mods

• IIce Drakesby SoldarisAdds fearsome Ice Drakes that roam the frozen wastes and conduct independent raids on fortresses. These draconic creatures are smaller than true dragons but still formidable predators. They can be found in cold surface biomes and the first cavern layer.200 downloadsupdated 5 mo ago
• CCraftables - Sandstone (Dyed Edition: Grind Bones And Shells Into Flux)by lonewinedCraftables - Sandstone (Dyed Edition: Grind Bones And Shells Into Flux) Introduces kiln crafting recipes for new colored sandstone varieties using Grind Bones And Shells Into Flux bone and chitin dyes. 1 Container of Water + 1 Bag of Quicklime + 1 Bag of Sand + 1 Bag of Dye = 4 Sandstone Blocks T...200 downloadsupdated 14 mo ago
• DDwarven Life Expandedby MeowMeowPunchDeprecated - Replaced by the mods of the Dwarven Life Expanded series This mod is deprecated and is replaced by a series of smaller, modular mods named Dwarven Life Expanded, or DLE. I decided to overhaul the mod structure in order to make it easier to update and maintain, but also to allow peopl...198 downloadsupdated 4 y ago
• RRemove Royal Jellyby 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 removes royal jelly from h...195 downloadsupdated 3 y ago
• GGrow Upby MoonClipperA really simple mod, all it does it make it so dwarf children turn into adults at age 12, instead of 18.195 downloadsupdated 13 mo ago
• NNo Benign Creatures - Efficient Compatibleby Mr. T-XP x64 Crosby EditionRemoves tag from most creatures that have it, using efficient methods that maximize compatibility. All changes have been made with minimal code, surgically making the changes without cutting/replacing creature data. This means this mod should have zero compatibility issues and will never need an...193 downloadsupdated 3 y ago
• [[Language] Latin dwarvesby Deon ☣Dwarves use latin language. Requires the following mod to function: Latin Language193 downloadsupdated 4 y ago
• SSizzlin's Dwarven Spotifyby 76561199130613662⚠️ REQUIRES DFHACK TO FUNCTION ⚠️ A music player DFhack overlay to trigger the soundtrack of the game. Compatible with ALL soundtrack mods, for example d'berts and simon swerwers. Able to add custom tracks into the game! Not at all associated with spotify the audio streaming and media service pro...193 downloadsupdated 4 mo ago
• NNo More Dead Dogs (or Other Pets)by JeremyNo More Dead Dogs prevents dogs, cats, and guinea pigs from dying of starvation, dehydration, aging, drowning, or infection. To avoid overpopulation, they will no longer produce any offspring. They may still succumb to severe injuries and incidents.192 downloadsupdated 4 y ago
• MMyth & Mendeleev (Lua)by DPh KrakenReplaces the vanilla divine metal properties with periodic elements. Requires v52.01+. Features • 48 possible elements, including non-vanilla metals from Putnam's metal library. • Divine metals have accurate physical properties, except they have a 1.2x max edge and can't be melted. Divine copper...192 downloadsupdated 19 mo ago
• CClan Namesby feyganThis is a dfhack script and runs from the dfhack window. To test it has installed correctly run "matri_surnames--version" from dfhack. If all is well you should get a version name, if not then it has not installed correctly. Manual install requires dropping the .lua into Steam\steamapps\common\Dw...192 downloadsupdated 4 mo ago
• NNo Common Domestics (Beta)by 20firebirdWARNING: This mod is in beta. It has not been fully tested, and may not be well-balanced. Proceed carefully! This mod removes the COMMON_DOMESTIC tag from all animals that have it - but, simultaneously, makes them spawn in the wild, so that civilizations may meet and domesticate them in world gen...191 downloadsupdated 3 y ago
• EErgonomic Hotkeys (Neo)by TrainzackErgonomic Hotkeys (Neo) Version 1.6 This mod replaces the game's default hotkeys with a set of hotkeys designed to be easily accessed with the left hand alone. The hotkeys also closely mirror the layout of the buttons on screen for easy memorization. You can finally stop hunting all around your k...189 downloadsupdated 3 y ago
• BBlack 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
• PPlayable Devilsby BaalthorosAdds a race of playable devils somewhat inspired by the lawful evil devils from the 9 hells. THE DEVILS They are totally fire immune, and not easy to break emotionally. They are also not living, being soulless devils, so they don't have to worry about the undead or even becoming a night creature....189 downloadsupdated 4 y ago
• MMasterwork Skavenby mayonnaiseLong long ago I saw that DF Masterwork had an (unfinished) Skaven civilization in it's raws. So, I decided... why don't I just continue to develop this? Right now, it doesn't feature much, and doesn't have much art... but it DOES have a few DFHack scripts. I am DESPERATELY seeking testers and art...189 downloadsupdated 3 y ago
• DDwarven Armoryby KasaTwo in one mod that gives access to all weapons, clothes, and armor for Dwarves to craft and use, two handed weapons will be used in two hands unless Dwarves increase to specific sizes listed in the DF wiki.188 downloadsupdated 4 y ago
• NNewbie Safety Net #5: Super Dwarven Agilityby ironleviathanJust getting started with Dwarf Fortress? Not compatible with Newbie Safety Net #4 If the last mod in the series gave your dwarves a little boost to speed in order to boost their productivity, then this mod here is about making your dwarves hyper productive. Dwarves tend to have less-then-human-a...187 downloadsupdated 4 y ago
• EEugene's Dino Bite: Extinct Animal-People Combat Fixby TheTubbeRestores missing natural combat attacks to all 100 extinct animal-people in Dwarf Fortress (v53.15+)! By default, the game's creature variation templates strip natural weapons from humanoid versions of prehistoric beasts. This mod brings back full combat playability to Adventure Mode and the Obje...187 downloadsupdated 4 mo ago
• EEncrust Specific Craftsby ArgendaussAdds separate reactions for encrusting rings, bracelets, earrings, amulets, crowns, scepters, goblets/mugs, and totems, with separate iterations for encrusting with gems, stones, and glass. Each reaction requires an unimproved craft. Set an encrust rings reaction on repeat, and all your rings wil...187 downloadsupdated 3 mo ago
• HHobgoblins Graphical Patchby SomeoneA fix for Hobgoblins in the same fashion I did the Nillians one. Sorry if it breaks your game for some reason. Load with higher priority than the original mod. As with before, there are no portraits or anything added to this. This patch simply fixes weapons and shields being invisible.185 downloadsupdated 16 mo ago
• CCraftables - Sandstone (Dyed Edition: Underground Tree Dyes)by lonewinedCraftables - Sandstone (Dyed Edition: Underground Tree Dyes) Introduces kiln crafting recipes for new colored sandstone varieties using Underground Tree Dyes. 1 Container of Water + 1 Bag of Quicklime + 1 Bag of Sand + 1 Bag of Dye = 4 Sandstone Blocks This recipe was inspired by real life cement...184 downloadsupdated 14 mo ago
• OOyster Mushrooms!by Damp BeesDo your dwarves crave seafood but they live inside a mountian? This adds Oyster mushrooms for dwarves to plant. Processing to bag yields literal oysters. Great for inland dwarfs to get shells.183 downloadsupdated 19 mo ago
• CCursed Animal Husbandryby AradarLUA is required for this mod to function this mod enables breedable forgotten beasts , titans , and angelics All beasts ATM breed via litters. Beasts are born adult. All beasts have a 50/50 chance of having Intelligent offspring that become citizens of the site government allowing them to be used...183 downloadsupdated 13 mo ago
• FFlux Flourby Queen of PigeonsAdds 2 reactions at the mill and smelter, to make fluxless embarks thinkable. Allows a fort to squeeze ~20 flux reactions out of 1 flux stone and 1 quicklime, but only if their miller is Urist Sisyphus183 downloadsupdated 4 y ago
• BBaja Blast Flavored Titanium & Other Randomized Materials (Names, Properties, and Alloys)by DikbutDaGrateBaja Blast Flavored Titanium & Other Randomized Materials (Names, Properties, and Alloys) Current version: v42 Utilizes the new lua modding support to add a small number of unique individual new metals and alloys into an individual game world. No two materials are alike, and are generated differe...181 downloadsupdated 14 mo ago
• KKobold Fort Splash Screenby ToyDragonA simple, edited version of the modded Dwarf Fortress logo, Dorf Fort, to make it say Kobold Fort Do you have that mod for running a kobold fortress? Would you like to have the kobolds take over your splash screen? Well, look no further! Original by revaign: Navigate to your mods folder after sub...180 downloadsupdated 4 y ago
• BBurrow To Stockpileby RebOOter-- ATTENTION --- This mod needs DFHack to be installed. You can simply get it here ( --- ATTENTION 2 --- This is the experimental mod in work-in-progress state! Use it at your own risk and backup your save files before proceeding. Overview This mod will allow you to do one simple but powerful thi...179 downloadsupdated 16 mo ago
• AAll Colors Are BeautifulAdds 118 hand-curated custom color gradients for all stones, metals, alloys, ores and special materials. The gradients have been designed to stay close to their real world materials while giving each one a unique color identity. Because of the current limitations of how color gradients are treate...179 downloadsupdated 2 mo ago
• DDecoration EmporiumA new workshop to decorate your Fortress with signs, flags, torches, and more. How to use: After installing in a new world (sorry), build the Decoration Emporium Workshop using 2 blocks. From there, choose items to create. Most require basic materials like boulder and log. Some need advanced mate...179 downloadsupdated 1 mo ago
• FFallout Creaturesby DemeterCurrently has: -Deathclaws (all variations, including hairy deathclaws from FO:Tactics and Glowing deathclaws from FO4) -"X"lurks (all variations, including "capital" mirelurks from FO3, "commonwealth" mirelurks from FO4, as well as swamplurks and lakelurks from Point Lookout and FO:NV) -Bloatfli...177 downloadsupdated 4 y ago
• TTefnut's Expansionby TefnutThis mod is full of new creatures, plants, and materials, meant to feel like a Vanilla+, of sorts. Creatures have rudimentary sprites for now until I can commission better ones. Thumbnail preview is art of Tefnut, one example of a Dramiluff. Contents of the mod! *New Dramiluff creature for in-uni...177 downloadsupdated 25 d ago
• KKhazad Bronze, Casari Steel & Durinsteelby SoldarisKhazad Bronze — a rediscovered dwarven secret: copper + tin + nickel refined into a golden alloy. Smeltable from bars or ores; tougher and pricier than regular bronze, forgeable into any gear. Casari Steel — named for the Dwarves in Quenya, “Casari”; a blue-grey nickel steel made bars-only from s...176 downloadsupdated 14 mo ago
• GGen Alpha Slang Modby LevyatonAdds 100+ modern Gen Alpha/internet slang terms to Dwarf Fortress for contemporary comedy enhancement.175 downloadsupdated 2 mo ago
• SSome Weapons & Armor Availableby A NickelDwarves can now craft most weapons, and create all forms of armor and clothing. No more civilizations that were able to figure out low boots, but not high boots! This version of the mod excludes weapons that dwarves cannot actually use. If you want to actually craft everything, check out my other...175 downloadsupdated 11 mo ago
• WWatercoloursby iProcyonæBored of regular old water? Want to taste 1/6 of the rainbow at a time? Wdym rainbows have 7 colours not 6, get out of here! Description Changes the colour of water to one of your choice to fit your biome or for fun. Requires you to manually swap a text file in between saves to swap colours on ex...174 downloadsupdated 4 y ago
• WWood Processing Workshop Floorless submodby ebThis mod checks compatibility for the original version of Wood Processing Workshop, if you're using the balanced version either copy and paste this mod's workshop graphics (the png only!) over and rename it or comment below and I can release a proper submod. submod for Wood Processing Workshop th...174 downloadsupdated 4 y ago
• NNo KitFox and fmod logoby LiquidRingRemove KitFox and fmod logo from main menu, fmod replace to signature from old DF main menu. For manual install, go to your mods folder after subscribing to this mod (steamapps/common/Dwarf Fortress/mods), copy the all files in /art included, and paste it into your Dwarf Fortress art folder under...173 downloadsupdated 4 y ago
• SSowbugsby BeaAdds sowbugs, along with the equally crucial sowbug men, sowbug children, and giant sowbugs -- with graphics!173 downloadsupdated 4 y ago
• SSoot and Sand Plantsby ButtonClickerThis mod adds soot spuds (or ashtatoes) and glass peas. Soot spuds can be made into flour (mill), drink (still), ash (screw press), or cooked and eaten. Glass peas can be made into white sand (mill), but are inedible. Both plants are underground crops.172 downloadsupdated 4 y ago
• VVitali-beesby [FOR]micaGood-biome bees with magic jelly (antiseptic), honey (weak regenerative), mead (strong tissue-only healing) and venom (painkiller, numbing agent). Which are all also weak aphrodesiacs. Have fun!171 downloadsupdated 4 y ago
• EExtinct Intelligent Creature Attacksby KhælexAdds bite, gore, scratch, and other such attacks to vanilla extinct intelligent creatures171 downloadsupdated 4 mo ago
• MMerperson Civilizationby 76561198828562555Adds Merperson civilizations: - Merpeople can now breathe air in addition to water. - They'll send caravans in the winter. - They're like elves in that they're picky with what they take. However, they're fine with wood products and hate animal products.170 downloadsupdated 4 y ago
• MMostahl, 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
• GGeometric Patterned Engraved Tilesby SaucialisteThis esthetic mod replaces the vanilla engraved tiles sprites with a geometric pattern inspired by arabic traditionnal tiling.170 downloadsupdated 9 mo ago
• DDwarves of the Deadby zeebThis mod brings the zombie apocalypse to Dwarf Fortress. That's it, that's all it does. Enjoy!170 downloadsupdated 5 mo ago
• BBronze Age Worldby 76561198434556418Bronze Age World This mod seeks to transform the world of Dwarf fortress into one more similar to the Bronze age of both history and myth. It removes iron and steel, but also adds new bronze-derived metals, meteoric iron, cloth armor, the ability to create stone tools and weapons from knapped sto...170 downloadsupdated 3 mo ago
• AAdditional Races Ixthid FORKEDby 76561199148823041A fork of SEEU mod Additional Races Ixthid. Link to original Original Description: The Ixthid are a vicious race of mostly intelligent insectile monstrosities that live in the rocky flatlands and deserts. They enjoy shiny things and are more than willing to steal and murder for them with no regar...169 downloadsupdated 11 mo ago

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