Dwarf Fortress
Dwarf Fortress mods
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1,385 mods, most downloaded first · newest update 26 Oct 2026
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- Remy's Rocksby HugoatAdds a few more cutesy materials for my bestie!43 downloadsupdated 4 y ago
- Adamantine Colossusby 76561199072201677Adds an extremely overpowered Adamantine colossus, uses fluffy wambler sprite. I could've used the Bronze Colossus Sprite, but I didn't. Has Claws I mostly made this test creating a creature, It is not balanced in any way. I would be very impressed if any of you could kill this thing. (Cave-ins d...43 downloadsupdated 3 y ago
- Undescended Geldable Mammals Fixby cornchevThe vanilla game contains some grievious errors in terms of which mammals it represents as geldable. For example, elephants are geldable despite their testicles being located behind their kidneys(!!!), which I sincerely doubt they could survive having removed without modern surgical techniques. S...43 downloadsupdated 4 y ago
- the Saunaby Aradar!!Temperature is required for this mod to function properly!! the sauna, the answer to ones own secret bliss, and while it cannot help your current fort from the slow death spiral of super morbid obesity and rampant alcoholism, it will protect future forts and help them achieve peak physical form...43 downloadsupdated 18 mo ago
- No Humans and Elvesby serithinflightThese are the default Dwarf Fortress civilizations without humans and elves. Simplified but redundant now.43 downloadsupdated 3 y ago
- Groklings - A New Playable Creatureby Captain_ChipzI used groklings in a series of Dungeons & Dragons campaigns I ran as a kid, I recently thought of them and thought the would be a good fit for Dwarf Fortress. The Groklings have portraits and layered graphics. Vanilla assets were used to make them. Groklings were created in an age before time by...43 downloadsupdated 7 mo ago
- Dwarf WalkingDwarf Walking Give your fortress a livelier walk. Standing dwarf citizens lean left and right on alternating steps, then settle upright as they move between tiles. What it does Adds an alternating whole-sprite lean to ordinary walking, with grounded feet and no jumping motion. Uses a 200 ms visua...43 downloadsupdated 5 d ago
- Lefty keys with VIM navigationby snappaheadLefty Vimkeys Version 1.0 Finally some love for us three Left-handed DF players ;) This mod replaces the game's default hotkeys to allow you (almost) only use your right hand on the keyboard, while using your left hand with the mouse. Navigation is set to VIMs hjkl (left, down, up, right) keys, a...42 downloadsupdated 4 y ago
- Kobolds into Cuteboldsby KoboldTurn those ugly goblinbolds into cutebolds. Does not edit sprites (currently breaks them so play with ascii) nor make kobolds playable in fortress mode, can in adventure mode. Simply edits their bodies and description to be more in line with the cutebolds designed by /tg/weaver, aswell as make th...42 downloadsupdated 20 mo ago
- Dwarvemon Beta 简体中文汉化Dwarvemon Beta 的简体中文汉化数据。翻译宝可梦、道具、工坊及随包的 PMD、TCG、MissingNo 和其他可选模块。 需要 DFCN 汉化核心 与 Dwarvemon Beta。 数据由 DFCN 自动读取,无需在世界模组列表启用。42 downloadsupdated 12 d ago
- Terra do Sol, Chapter 0 - Inca Cosmogonyby 墨水Terra do Sol Chapter 1: Inca Cosmogony Terra do Sol aims to bring the diverse and vibrant cultures of pre-Columbian South America into the world of Dwarf Fortress. This project is a respectful tribute, built around authentic representation through new civilizations, religions, creatures, and worl...41 downloadsupdated 10 mo ago
- Dwarven Civs Get Chaussesby ColeslawBy default, dwarven civs do not get chausses. This mod gives them chausses. Simple. If you want dwarves to have their typical clothes in addition to chausses, then ALSO use chipathingy's "All Armor and Clothing Accessible" mod, found here: If you also want capes to go with your chausses, use /GG/...41 downloadsupdated 2 y ago
- Cart Quality CapacityCart Quality Capacity 2.0 — Minecarts and wheelbarrows scale container capacity by material value and quality. capacity formulas - mat_mult = 1.0 if non-metal; if metal: 1 + (material_value × 5) / 100 capacity = floor(base × mat_mult × quality_mult) quality_mult: ordinary 0.8, well-crafted 1.2, f...41 downloadsupdated 1 mo ago
- Dango Modby 76561199206152101Adds adorable dango creatures from TFT to Dwarf Fortress! Dangos are hunting and war trainable, fear their fierce bites! They are also naturally occurring in the wild. They are breedable and butcherable for their fruit, but you would never do that, would you? Different dangos have different perso...40 downloadsupdated 3 y ago
- Sleigh Rideby iProcyonæDescription Wagons have been replaced with sleighs that are pulled by Santa's reindeer. These reindeer are war trainable and start out with some combat skill for some festive fun. FAQ Will you make anything else Christmassy? This is a part of a larger mod I'm working on but I'm not feeling great...40 downloadsupdated 4 y ago
- Advanced Spellcrafts Reactions Modby 76561199162549099Adds Advanced Agriculture style reactions to Spellcrafts.40 downloadsupdated 18 mo ago
- Bird Engraved Floorsby SoldarisReplaces the vanilla dwarf face engraved floor with a bird tile40 downloadsupdated 14 mo ago
- watchersby GoezerAdds watchers, floating eyes with tentacles and a deadly gaze. They are intelligent creatures and roam the caverns in search for knowledge.39 downloadsupdated 4 y ago
- Dwarf Fortress Custom Language Sampleby ElsaTheHoboThis is my sample mod for creating a custom language file with VulgarLang. Reddit post:39 downloadsupdated 4 y ago
- WereRats werecreatureby AradarWereRats a were creature playable in fort or adventure mode. In adventure mode some people may attack you, if they witness you change into a wererat. WereRats spread through bite, Curse, and fecal contamination. Wererats can throw there own excrement that can cause some minor injury. WereRat hant...39 downloadsupdated 19 mo ago
- Ice Carvingby 76561198799708249Gives ice more uses by cutting it into carved ice at a stonecutter's workshop. Carved ice can be used in crafting like a normal stone boulder or for making ice windows. It has a higher temperature range where it stays solid compared to the default ice material, though it's still not fire or magma...39 downloadsupdated 10 mo ago
- All Colors Are Beautiful - ClownlessAdds 92 hand-curated custom color gradients for all stones, metals, alloys and ores. 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 treated, all colors will a...39 downloadsupdated 1 mo ago
- Hare Man Civ - Playable Hare Peopleby PunchBunnyThis is a mod that makes hare people playable. Based off of ATotalParadox's Beaver People mod. One key difference from that mod is that the hare people are dwarf sized, not the regular size of hare people who are about twice as big as dwarves. This is to avoid complications with armor and weapons...37 downloadsupdated 4 y ago
- Proto-humansby AradarAn abominiation from the darkest reaches of the shadow realms, a terror so profound it will leave you speechless. Proto-Humans are an ancient evil from a pocket shadow realm, fleeing the destruction of their world they seek a new home to conquer, new hungers to sate. Proto Humans are just differe...37 downloadsupdated 2 y ago
- Ironclad Beetle Wildness PatchOptional patch for my Ironclad Beetle mod. It removes common domestic and wagon puller tokens from the Ironclad beetles. Making them unavailable at embark. They still will show up as mounts in goblin sieges if you're unlucky enough. And you still can tame them normally if you manage to capture a...37 downloadsupdated 20 d ago
- DF Tweaks - QoL Improvementsby ArgonOwlSome of my personal QoL ideas... not exactly balanced, will probably make gameplay easier.36 downloadsupdated 17 mo ago
- Essences are not Fishby 76561199162549099A mod that removes the Biome tags from Spellcrafts Essences. This makes the essences unobtainable from fisherdwarves.36 downloadsupdated 3 y ago
- Friendly Necromancers and Teddy Bear Undeadby DikbutDaGrateNecromancers now learn the secret of huggles and snuggles. Adds weird reanimated teddy bear zombies, who are stuffed with fluffin', and have interesting behaviors. (Been sitting on this one for like a year, and never bothered to release it. It can be pretty cute though.)36 downloadsupdated 15 mo ago
- Grim Darkby Matthew SLarger, more diverse, dangrous civs35 downloadsupdated 3 y ago
- Erebor Axe and Deepforge CrossbowDwarven Arsenal adds two powerful custom weapons to the dwarven civilization, both craftable at the Bowyer's Workshop. Erebor Battleaxe A massive two-handed double-headed axe forged from two steel bars, one silver bar and one wood log. It delivers two edged attacks per swing — a hack and a cleave...35 downloadsupdated 5 mo ago
- Craftables - Painted Wood (Advanced Botanical Variety)by lonewinedCraftables - Painted Wood (Advanced Botanical Variety) Introduces carpenter crafting recipes for painted wood blocks using Advanced Botanical Variety plant dyes. 1 Wood Log + 1 Jug of Oil + 1 Bag of Dye = 4 Painted Wood Blocks This recipe was inspired by real life linseed oil paint, which is comp...34 downloadsupdated 14 mo ago
- Proper Capitalizationby 76561199586694751A small mod that edits the vanilla languages so that all words can be properly capitalized. Specifically, it does this by removing all diacritics from word-initial letters (Due to the way DF handles fonts, I'm pretty sure this is the only possible method.) Load this after "Vanilla Languages" in t...33 downloadsupdated 17 mo ago
- DF:VOTM Mythical Itemsby Aradarthis mod requires LUA to function and requires these two files to completely function DF VOTM base mod DF VOTM Clan:Tzimisce This mod adds another layer of Votm elements, replacing vanilla mythical remnants with VOTM artifacts, renames dungeon guardians and changes how items of power are distribu...33 downloadsupdated 12 mo ago
- Aeramore 简体中文汉化|DFCN 扩展Aeramore 简体中文汉化 为 The Aeramore Expansion(艾拉莫尔扩展)制作的独立简体中文汉化扩展包,配合 DFCN 使用。不是 Aeramore 原模组,也不是 DFCN 核心。 适配版本 矮人要塞 53.16;Aeramore 7.41。需要已正确安装、支持汉化数据扩展的 DFCN 模组 汉化内容 已翻译模组新增的种族、文明、生物、装备、材料、金属、工坊、配方、植物与种子。 以及部分魔法、交互和战报文本。另对材料子菜单、酿造条件、工坊悬停说明、纪念碑菜单和部分贸易物品类型作了补充。 本包只提供显示翻译,不改动原模组的标识符、数值、配方逻辑和世界内容。 安装与使...33 downloadsupdated 12 d ago
- H.E. Bolts,arrows and blow dartsby Aradar***Temperature is required for this to work correctly.*** This mod adds an new mineral Semtex primer, this is smelted into Semtex bars, that can only be made into ammo at the metal smith. You can embark with Semtex primer,bars,bolts Semtex primer is found where you find iron, you can check the em...32 downloadsupdated 14 mo ago
- Forest Squirrel Peopleby Robot FaceMakes it so FOREST entities can have squirrel people. Each forest civilization will choose between elves, red squirrel people, gray squirrel people, or flying squirrel people (who can't actually fly) at world gen. Mechanically they should do all the same things as elves, so don't trade wood to th...32 downloadsupdated 4 y ago
- Don't Drink Troll Bloodby TangentialThreatIt works now. You may have to purge your installed mods folder if you had a previous version, which is apparently a thing you need to do when updating any DF mod. Do not allow a cat to touch the blood of trolls. Do not apply troll blood to food. Do not throw a bleeding troll into a well. Or... do.32 downloadsupdated 4 y ago
- Gadget's Kobold Caverns - Bumbr Patch CGETitle might be misleading. It's not really a patch, but a replacement. This is the only way I managed to add black Koboldite items to the game. I didn't fix original CGE bug with naked people on start caused by broke Woven Item tag. Requires both my patch and the origianl Gadgets Kobold Caverns32 downloadsupdated 3 y ago
- Blind cave ogre (joke mod)by Deon ☣A Silly little mod that changes the sprite and the portrait of the blind cave ogre, giving it obsidian sunglasses. Definitely Not VonGalactic's (streamer's) request.31 downloadsupdated 11 mo ago
- Ossetian languageWæ bon xorz! This mod replaces the dwarven language with ossetian. Due to some problems with letter-spacing, I used "ä" instead of "æ".30 downloadsupdated 7 mo ago
- Animal Person Swimming FixReplaces the innate swimming ability with a learnable one for all non-aquatic and non-amphibious animal people. Affected creatures can now level up swimming. --- Fixes the bug where animal people can't level up their Swimming skill. In vanilla DF, animal people get , which locks their Swimming sk...30 downloadsupdated 2 mo ago
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