Dwarf Fortress News

• Made hero mode select hearthperson by default
  
• Fixed crash from visiting certain forest retreats
  
• Fixed some crashes related to local adventurer info not being set immediately after travel
  
• Fixed crash issue from demanding tribute from mythical sites
  
• Fixed a crash from unit sheets of certain creatures (e.g. roosters)
  
• Added more combat music
  
• Added sounds for items being put into containers
  
• Updates some confirm sounds
  
• Fixed some footstep sounds
  
• Fixed issue causing music to sound as if it's indoors
  
• Fixed some issues with ambient sound
  
• Added a keyboard-based look-and-interact cursor ('l')
  
• Stopped items like weapons and shields from starting in the same hand after character creation
  
• Stopped mythical sites from appearing on rivers (again)
  

• Fixes an audio crash
  
• Kobs/gobs shouldn't steal mythic artifacts
  
• Undead shouldn't take over mythic sites near to market towns
  
• Mythical sites shouldn't be placed over rivers as frequently
  

• Added some mythical dungeons, materials, and related temple quests
  
• Added a few magical items
  
• Added initial god quest for chosen mode
  
• Added mythical healing substances in mythical sites
  
• Added messages for healing effects
  
• Chosen/hero get bonus reputation for the purpose of gaining followers
  
• Environmental display in top right (weather, light, temp, etc.)
  
• Quest journal outline on right side of main screen
  
• Vampire blood sense markers
  
• Memory map
  
• Stealth vision cones
  
• Goblin/kobold glowing eyes in the dark
  
• Added liquid/ramp arrow toggles to adv mode
  
• Announced when somebody pushes past you and cancels your action
  
• Made people stop moving when you talk to them (if they aren't fighting)
  
• Added shared items to wrestling interface so you can struggle for possession without using inventory screen
  
• Fixed audio for snow/mud footsteps
  
• Added buttons so ramps can be used with hatches
  
• Separated adv/fort volume settings
  
• Fixed jump tooltip
  
• Stopped adventurers from starting in pits if other sites are available
  
• Stopped rbut from quitting out of character creation
  
• Removed adventure mode feature discovery announcements
  
• Updated more classic tiles and brought back cursors
  

• Dye vs profession coloration toggleable in both modes
  
• Stopped migrant families with negative age younger siblings in young worlds
  
• Removed case sensitivity from unit filters
  
• Fixed a crash from subtabbing to certain buildings
  
• Made help close button act consistently when help is minimized
  
• Fixed bug where syndrome would target too few tissues
  
• Fixed issue with occasional infinite loop on population placement
  
• Fixed bug where many priests would move to different homes after world generation
  
• Fixed crash involving river audio polling
  

• Started adding tutorial (camera, movement, menu options, popups for many menus)
  
• Menu sounds during character creation and the adventure log
  
• Improved river and campfire audio loops
  
• Can click on portrait for status
  
• Hive no longer looks like clothing
  
• Made string display more compatible with fan translations
  
• Made threading more stable
  
• Fixed modding crash involving creature variations
  
• Audio crash fixed
  
• Update to bin/barrel container graphics so they show their contents in more detail
  
• Added tracking symbols (shift + K for now)
  
• Added classic glyphs (still need to work on screen layout)
  
• Fixed Linux crash-on-exit
  
• Better respected caste population ratios
  
• Added more information to crash logs
  
• Fixed command line world generation
  
• Fix for recent audio crash
  
• Palettized wieldables and wearables for dwarves/humans/elves/goblins/kobolds
  
• Graphical left/right hand distinction on wieldables
  
• Child/baby images for humans/elves/goblins/kobolds
  
• Visible soldiers/groups on world map in adventure mode
  
• Adventure mode sound indicators in unseen areas
  
• Ability to assume identity in adventure mode
  
• Can view wounds in dwarf mode arena without diagnosis
  
• Your adventurer can ride and push minecarts, use levers, bash down locked doors and hatches, topple statues
  
• You can now use wells in towns
  
• Adventure music plays based on context
  
• Full personality customization available in adventure character creation
  
• A few Linux audio crashes fixed
  

• Composing poems, music, dances, and writing things down is back in
  
• Wrestle button now handles wrestling
  
• Encumbrance is visible in inventory screen and there are a few alert levels for being over-encumbered
  
• Speed is visible in the movement options
  
• Indicators for ongoing movement, attacks, and dodges during player's turn in combat
  

• Throwing/shooting crash fixed
  
• Fixed input/display issues in kitchen menu
  
• Handled several issues with gifting pets
  
• Certain goblin torsos weren't being displayed
  
• Butchering and crafting is now in
  
• Abilities menu! Raise the dead if you learn the secrets, pet animals, spit, breathe fire and use other special powers in mods or as an arena-controlled creature/undead
  
• Left click to move to distant tiles
  
• Interaction-given syndrome tracking/timing improved
  
• NPCs should run and sleep again
  
• Added the trade/barter/demand conversation menu
  
• Sites without tables in their stockpile get emergency tables for their shops for now
  
• Printed tabletop items on tables, and stopped many other building items from printing on top of creatures
  
• Sound off init option should work in adventure mode now
  
• Adventurers are no longer unaware of their own name
  
• Adventurers should no longer be sprinting/walking/etc forever when retired into a fort
  
• Fixes that linux crash on the trainer menu again
  
• Makes liquids/powders not spill out of containers on unretire
  
• Right click menu has option to move more than one tile
  
• Npc sheets no longer give away their names unless you know them
  
• Cleaned up an intermittent crash from playing multiple adventure worlds
  
• Fixed crash from some old adventurers
  
• Stopped lockpicking menu from popping up until that's ready
  
• Fixed cave adaptation
  
• Optimization for loading speed with regards to flow events
  
• Restricted some actions like bookkeeping from happening outside fort mode
  
• Centered display of some wide-bodied creatures (some bears, anaconda, python, some animal people
  
• Fixed region map scrolling crash
  
• Crash fix related to multithreading
  

Bay 12 Games / Kitfox Games have announced that Dwarf Fortress - Adventure Mode is set for release on January 23rd, and there's a big Beta update out now.

Read the full article here: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/dwarf-fortress-adventure-mode-launches-january-23-plus-beta-28-is-out-now/

Bay 12 Games / Kitfox Games have announced that Dwarf Fortress - Adventure Mode is set for release on January 23rd, and there's a big Beta update out now.

Read the full article here: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/dwarf-fortress-adventure-mode-launches-january-23-plus-beta-28-is-out-now

• Child portraits!
  
• Baby portraits!
  
• Pebble floors are differentiated from stone floors
  
• Mythical remnant images by sphere
  
• Fixed broken human hair palettes
  
• Fixed missing hoods for cloaks in portraits
  
• Fixed coin palettes and pile size images
  
• Fixed off-center mythical dungeon map images
  

• Tame vermin can be made available as pets in fort mode!
  
• Added adventure soundtrack to Fortress mode
  
• Added adventure mode music track credits
  
• Improved initial loading speed
  
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• Changed description and added tip if chosen destiny is disabled
  
• Correct destiny name shown on character sheet in creation
  
• Difficulty tooltips
  
• Creature description tooltips on character creation
  
• Civilization description tooltips on character creation
  
• Home site description tooltips on character creation
  
• Ordered adventurer start sites by population
  
• Belief description tooltips on character creation
  
• Tweaked spacing in background paragraph in character creation
  
• Added character archetypes to character creation for attributes and skills
  
• Skill/attribute tooltips in character creation
  
• Made some additional skills available in character creation
  
• Made character creator choose better starting materials if some points can be spared
  
• Changed item category order
  
• Highlighted item categories in character creation that are for fortress mode
  
• Item quality button explanation in character creation
  

• Added mythical animal populations to mythical sites
  
• Made mythical populations wear less armor and decreased leader skills somewhat
  
• Added more protection against unintended infighting at mythical sites, though goblins can still argue
  
• Compass for retrieve artifact quest
  
• Improved adventure shopkeeper placement and table handling
  
• Stopped chosen from starting in towns with ruined temples
  
• Added handling of player that has been knocked out or unable to act for a long time
  
• Made reputation visible for people and groups in adv log in chosen/hero modes
  
• Improved adventurer log map display somewhat
  
• Added more information about where companions are located in companion list
  
• Right click allows drinking from tiles
  
• Right click on self has view option
  
• Right click on hatch gives option to go below
  
• Made adventurer NPCs tend toward taverns instead of castles
  
• Made priests start in their temples more correctly
  
• Hover info for sounds, vampire senses, memory map
  
• Fixed problem where enemy healing liquids healed you instead
  
• Added more chosen god popups
  
• Added some adventure mode help guides
  
• Made stop travel button flash if travel is impossible
  
• Clarified wording of surrounding obstacles message
  
• Clarified wording in talk button tutorial window
  
• Added announcement button to menu overview
  
• Improved travel restrictions check
  
• Added highlight for travel restrictions
  
• Made divine intervention stronger
  
• Fixed divine intervention crash against projectiles
  
• Cleaned up quest display between games
  
• Added more combat audio layers
  
• Changed songs less often in adventure mode
  
• Fixed audio crash related to ambiance
  

• Fixed broken medium taupe coloration for nightmare sphere screaming mouths fabric
  

• Fixed a bug that made hive sprites appear as socks and cloaks