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1,385 mods, most downloaded first · newest update 26 Oct 2026
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- Krampus of Midwinter (Festive Megabeast)by MarkFeatures At the edge of the year, when the nights grow long and the world turns inward, Krampus walks. This mod introduces Krampus as a midwinter megabeast drawn from Alpine folklore and Dwarf Fortress tradition. He does not come as a simple killer, but as a punisher and disturber. His presence u...114 downloadsupdated 10 mo ago
- Fix Whipby eDen Jack970Simply fixes the lightsaber-like whips from vanilla ! Also increases the cost of whips from 1 unit to 3 units for balance and realism purposes. A few details : this mod prevents whips from cutting through steel armor because of the contact area of 1 that they get in vanilla. How does it work ? I...113 downloadsupdated 17 mo ago
- Dwarf spit is lethal to elvesby 76561199072201677Makes dwarf spit kill elves. Also makes it heal fellow dwarfs, up to the point of regrowing body parts. Does absolutely nothing to other races113 downloadsupdated 2 y ago
- Pigeon manby Deon ☣Adds pigeon men. Requires "More vanilla creatures".113 downloadsupdated 11 mo ago
- No Stockpile Ropeby gwilRemoves stockpile ropes, a cause of countless tripping incidents. Critical Dwarf safety measure courtesy of twitch.tv/gwilym113 downloadsupdated 5 mo ago
- Compatibility Advanced Spinning and Standardized Materialsby calibhaanCrops in Advanced Spinning Menu give Standart Fiber113 downloadsupdated 4 y ago
- Forgotten Beast Silk Tuningby 806009691## Forgotten Beast / Titan Silk Tuning !!THIS IS A DFHack lua mod!! !!Only Works With DFHack!! This mod changes the runtime silk materials generated for Forgotten Beasts and Titans. It does **not** modify the global `SILK_TEMPLATE`, and it does **not** affect normal spiders, cave spiders, giant c...113 downloadsupdated 5 mo ago
- Ironclad BeetleAdds the Ironclad Beetle. A giant cave-dwelling insect that can be butchered for it's thick iron shells. It takes 10 full years to mature and reaches the size of a rhino. War and Hunting trainable. Can be milked for blue honey-like dew that can be brewed into mead. Grazer and requires large pastu...113 downloadsupdated 22 d ago
- Miscellaneous Megabeastsby diamond mummy(Development for this mod has been paused indefinitely, but is fully playable and completed for the most part.) A mod which adds a few new semi/megabeasts to your world. The additions are listed below: Semimegabeasts: Glass Contraption: A huge glass statue with the ability to breathe deadly glass...112 downloadsupdated 4 y ago
- Craftables - Sandstone (Dyed Edition: Advanced Botanical Variety)by lonewinedCraftables - Sandstone (Dyed Edition: Advanced Botanical Variety) Introduces kiln crafting recipes for new colored sandstone varieties using Advanced Botanical Variety plant dyes. 1 Container of Water + 1 Bag of Quicklime + 1 Bag of Sand + 1 Bag of Plant Dye = 4 Sandstone Blocks This recipe was i...112 downloadsupdated 14 mo ago
- Arachne Race Modby TraalexA custom race of half-human, half-spider creatures. They play similarly to dwarves where possible. Uses giant cave spider graphics as a placeholder.112 downloadsupdated 3 y ago
- Basher Modby DiegenschnipeThis mod adds five creatures based on the "Basher" creatures from Dakota Krout's "Divine Dungeon" series of books. They should appear both above ground and in the cavern layers, All varieties are fully trainable, just keep in mind they probably aren't very balanced.112 downloadsupdated 4 y ago
- Fun New Metallurgyby darrianA complete metallurgical overhaul for Dwarf Fortress. Fun New Metallurgy replaces vanilla iron and steel progression with 15 original metals, 8 structured alloys, and 3 race-exclusive legendary alloys. Each material has a defined combat role — bladed, blunt, or armor — creating meaningful progres...112 downloadsupdated 8 mo ago
- Aeramore Advanced Agriculture Dark Elf Civ Patchby Catwet12This mod makes The Aeramore Expansion V7.21 compatible with Dark Elf Civilization Patch for Advanced Agriculture! Make sure to subscribe to Aeramore Advanced Agriculture Patchs and Aeramore Advanced Orchards Patch for the full Advanced Agriculture and Orchards experience to be in Aeramore! If you...111 downloadsupdated 3 y ago
- Dwarven Gourmandby Dr. MelonA *flavour* text mod. Adds additional prepared meals and descriptions to the Kitchen. "Easy" meals: Soup Salad Stir-fry Sandwich Pickled - written as "foodname (pickled)" Burger Paste Mashed - written as "foodname (mashed)" Salted - written as "foodname (salted)" Smoked - written as "foodname (sm...110 downloadsupdated 4 y ago
- DFO:RISE OF THE SYNTHSby Aradar↑@@@DFO ↑↑↑Rise↑↑↑ ↑↑↑of↑↑↑ ↑↑↑the↑↑↑ ↑↑↑Synths↑↑↑@@@↑ War............war never changes. Mr. McHouse lied to me, to us, to all of us. I thought he was our friend, our savior our shining beacon of hope in this dark hell of a wasteland. But it was all a lie, it was never about a better, brighter to...110 downloadsupdated 2 y ago
- Blood Money Cartelby Aradar@@@This is mainly an adventure mode update, with some fortress numbers/graphics tweaking@@@ ***"Blinded by The Light" begins playing******* <==Welcome=to=Blood=Money=Cartel==LEGENDARY=HIGHS===~ And that was it.....it was over....Jack had won.....they were all hooked............. every last one, c...110 downloadsupdated 13 mo ago
- Nerfed whips, scourges and daggersby Blue PhoenixNerfs whips, scourges and daggers to not behave like lightsabers anymore.109 downloadsupdated 4 y ago
- Cephalopodsby BeepAdds an adventure-mode playable race of sentient land octopi. They do not form civilizations, but may join civilizations and become civilized like Gorlaks. This mod was made for myself because I have a bit of a mollusk obsession and I didn't like that the already-existing octopus people were just...109 downloadsupdated 4 y ago
- Blocks to Bouldersby ebI HIGHLY recommend using the magnifying glass option when queuing this reaction to avoid unintended side effects like your dwarves using a block of native gold to make siltstone because it was the closest block. Adds a reaction to the Screw Press that turns 4 blocks into 1 boulder. The first bloc...109 downloadsupdated 4 y ago
- Advanced Plantingby DroseranI recommend instead using Advanced Agriculture as it adds this and fixes many other bugs/issues with vanilla plants. 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 p...109 downloadsupdated 6 d ago
- Bronze Age World creaturesby 76561198434556418Adds new creatures and sprites to the game, intended to be used with the Bronze Age World mod. This mod was mostly made by Gladius, all praise goes to him Baby wishes too. I collaborated for the pixel art & steam upload only.109 downloadsupdated 3 mo ago
- BrythonLexi's Adventure Mode Craftingby 76561198424749014This mod greatly expands the amount of crafting that adventurers can do in Adventure Mode! Allows items such as leather armour, more stone tools, wood/stone finished goods, and decorations.108 downloadsupdated 3 y ago
- DwarfTalk: Fortress ChatterDwarfTalk: Fortress Chatter A shared conversation journal for fortress life. Listen in as your dwarves chat about meals, craft, work, and everyday life. DwarfTalk uses real social encounters and each participant's recorded emotion to write offline dialogue. Occupations and supported personality t...108 downloadsupdated 6 d ago
- Maidan's Maidanic Elves Mod!by MaidanMakes Elves playable (for real now (really!)) in the form of the Maidanic Elves, turns them into something other than leaf-lovers (hopefully), gives them some bonuses to ensure Elven supremacy in the Dwarves' own game! This mod was made for personal use, since I loved entity modding and wanted to...107 downloadsupdated 4 y ago
- No Elvesby serithinflightThese are the default Dwarf Fortress civilizations without elves. Now simplified.107 downloadsupdated 23 mo ago
- FR_Forgeby frost.9Fr_forge When Urist, son of Urist, a dual crossbow–wielding melee fighter, was forced to retire due to new politics in the fortress, he made one last attempt to prove the blunt superiority of crossbows and crushed an onyx opal with a single blow from his wooden crossbow in front of the whole tave...107 downloadsupdated 3 mo ago
- Craftable Foreign Weaponsby genesseeLets you craft most usable foreign weapons. No two-hand weapons, as dwarves cannot use them due to a bug. This mod correctly implements these changes so that it does not overwrite the entity_default folder, making it compatible with other mods that modify that file. Which is.. a lot of mods. Made...106 downloadsupdated 4 y ago
- Pesky Pestsby CaldfirMakes mosquitoes and blood-gnats actually suck blood. This will create a bad thought in the victim, and cause more bloodsuckers to spawn-in to torment your dwarfs. Bloodsuckers: - Mosquitoes: tropical pools/lakes/wetlands, inactive during summer - Midges: temperate pools/lakes/wetlands, inactive...106 downloadsupdated 11 mo ago
- Sif Muna's Clever Cave Crittersby Sif MunaSad that you can't use all of those freaky cave critters for something besides decor and meat? Want to train giant cave crocodiles to associate goblins with food? If so, this mod can help! This mod's a simple addition that should (if the new SELECT_CREATURE string works like I think it should) al...105 downloadsupdated 4 y ago
- Giant Nodes 4.02×2 mineral nodes; DFHack required Creates up to 50 2x2 walls containing metal ores, economic stone, and/or fuel. Random bones surrounded by obisidian also an option for additional flavor(bones are value 0) Commands: gnode settings/ list / status / overlay / delete105 downloadsupdated 1 mo ago
- Toad Men Civby 76561198964686314Adds playable toad men which have a faster learning for ranged combat and a extra sharp metal TOADSTEN which is a alloy of tungsten and copper. Have FUN104 downloadsupdated 2 y ago
- [Language] Latin elvesby Deon ☣Elves use latin language. Requires the following mod to function: Latin Language104 downloadsupdated 4 y ago
- Sober Dwarvesby Qtwmakes the dwarves not alcohol dependant. special thanks to Baalthoros for helping me figure this out! any errors in the mod are my fault though.103 downloadsupdated 4 y ago
- Clipped Wingsby chipathingyThis mod removes the ability to fly from most giant birds. Now they can only attack you from the ground!103 downloadsupdated 4 y ago
- Disco Paletteby TrainzackA horrible color palette. 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) in your own work, even if you benefit financially, so long as you give proper attribution and...102 downloadsupdated 4 y ago
- Simple World - Materialsby shadetreeiiA very un-dwarfy mod that removes many tree types, makes gems generic by color, combines soils into 'dirt', combines many non-economic stones to 'stone', and simplifies metal ores. Please consider this a beta release, please let me know if any reactions do not work or materials do not spawn. Gems...102 downloadsupdated 4 y ago
- Eastern dunes of the Distant Reachesby dumbaqWARNING! THIS IS WORLDGEN PRESET! Does nothing without proper installation! Welcome to Onolastis (Mountainous Dunes) Description: - Medium sized map 65 x 65 - Created via Prefect World and Photoshop - Scorching dry map with very low drainage - Few large deserts - Scarse forests with dozens of swa...102 downloadsupdated 4 y ago
- Ubeequitousby ctrlaltmilkMakes honeybees ubiquitous, ensuring access to beekeeping in all regions.102 downloadsupdated 5 mo ago
- Tiger People Variationsby MidKilAdds 9 new color variations, and a cub sprite to tiger people. Also includes color variant portraits and a portrait for tiger people cubs. (Currently the cub portrait doesn't work I don't know why) This mod must be above Vanilla Creature Graphics in the mod load order to work. This is my first mo...102 downloadsupdated 4 mo ago
- Banana Worldgen FixFixes long-standing bug 0010581 on the official DF bug tracker: banana trees never spawn during world generation, on embark, or as regrown saplings, because banana is defined with no wood material at all (). The game's tree-placement logic appears to require a real wood material to consider a spe...102 downloadsupdated 2 mo ago
- Veridian Elementalby SoldarisAdds crystalline Veridian Elementals that roam the wilds. They are neutral and may become pets, both for hunting and as war pets.101 downloadsupdated 5 mo ago
- Item Quality & ValueItem Quality & Value Displays color-coded Roman numerals I–VII beside native item names. Items with visible inlays or decorations also show their estimated per-item value directly, such as 1000. Requires DFHack 53.* Features Displays item quality and value in item details, character inventory, in...101 downloadsupdated 8 d ago
- No Modern Animals (Primal addon) (Deprecated as of the 53.15 Dino Update)by Enemy Post(Maintained for compatibility purposes with the similarly deprecated Primal mod) Removes the modern surface animals for a more prehistoric world. To use, remove the vanilla creature graphics and load this mod in their place. Credits: A great deal of thanks to Man0warable for his work collecting t...100 downloadsupdated 12 mo ago
- Civ Crucible - Undinesby Snow GibbonThis module adds the Undine entity to the game, a race of aquatic humanoids hailing from fresh waters. They make the world’s finest musicians and have a number of gimmicks based around harmony and resonance. Warning: no graphics. Use at your own peril. Description It would be tempting to classify...100 downloadsupdated 4 y ago
- Mammals of Gluttony & Greed - Prude Patchby Llamageddon*Update notes (v1.05): Fix - updated dependency to new internal ID of MOGG - Core. It should now load correctly with the latest version of that mod, but this version now requires the latest version of Core for it to work. Should remove any terminology from any MOGG creature mods that could be dee...100 downloadsupdated 4 y ago
- YingFortressby 76561199024034143Embark as a yinglet caravan, and travel the world as a shelltoothed ratbird. Perhaps you'll find a slab, or maybe one may experience a inconvenient change? This mod contains an assortment of things from and within the Out of Placers Community. Note: This mod currently lacks graphics for most thin...100 downloadsupdated 1 mo ago
- Painters Workshopby EldalotePainters workshop - Paint your rock and wood Want to have a bright orange fort, but can't find enough bauxite? This will solve your problems. Can turn any non-eco stone into another non-eco stone, and flux into other types of flux. Also colours logs. Doesn't require actual paint. Yes, sort of che...99 downloadsupdated 4 y ago
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