Dwarf Fortress News

Dwarf Fortress on Steam now has the game's best management tool

Dwarf Fortress hasn't been on Steam all that long, but it's already proven to be a colossal success. The colony management game has really been decades in the making, and in that time there have been plenty of mods and community additions to Dwarf Fortress to help you either manage the chaos or ignite it into oblivion. In fact, the well-loved Dwarf Therapist extension, which helps you manage and check on all your Dwarfs, has been updated, and now includes the new Steam version too.

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A massive Dwarf Fortress Pokemon mod is now on Steam

It's no surprise that the classic Dwarf Fortress Pokemon mod followed the game over the Steam - and in fact, 'Dwarvemon' arrived in the Steam Workshop the same day as the new graphical edition of Bay 12 Games' legendary colony management game launched in Early Access. The mod has just been updated, and includes 905 Pokemon, their unique abilities, and special mechanics for evolutions and more.

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Dwarf Fortress has sold half a million copies on Steam

Dwarf Fortress released on Steam on December 6th and by the end of the month it had sold half a million copies. That's according to the monthly Bay 12 Games report, in which its developers traditionally share their revenue figures from player donations. Now they have Steam sales figures to share.

Patch notes v50.05 (Jan 5, 2023)

Thanks for all your patience over the holidays! We're back and after only a few days, Putnam has already been on fire, fixing:

Major

Fixed saved corruption caused by certain armies bringing uninitialized protocreatures instead of monsters

Other fixes/tweaks

Sped up line-of-sight code
Bees no longer included in food count

We're pretty sure the army corruption was causing the majority of crashes people were experiencing, so this should hopefully help a lot of you. It was in turn causing quite a bit of stress and chaos on our end. Now, with this big slice of chaos behind us, Tarn & Putnam can turn their eyes to other improvements and fixes for the coming weeks.

Meanwhile, we'll be streaming on Twitch next week, on January 9th and 14th as the start of our new event schedule (Mondays 8-10pm Eastern, and Saturdays 5-9pm Eastern). Our streamer will be SalfordSal, sharing her expertise with yet more people through the Kitfox channel. Join us and chat with fellow artisans!

Best,
Tanya from Kitfox

'We win… and it's your fault!'—Dwarf Fortress hits almost half a million sold in under a month

The storming success of Dwarf Fortress continues apace. DF programmer and co-designer, Tarn Adams, announced this week that the game's "premium" Steam version sold almost half a million copies last month after its December 6 release. It seems like people are queueing around the block to spend money on a game that's been freely available for 16 years, and rightly so: Dwarf Fortress is an incredible and incredibly unique game...
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