Dwarf Fortress News

It's almost time!

Adventure Mode will be launching out of beta on January 23rd, 2025. Watch the release date announcement trailer here:

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Thank you to all the urists who participated in the beta and left their helpful feedback. The mode has come a long way since it first launching in beta and we couldn't have done it without your help! We are excited to shift focus back to Fortress Mode very soon but this is also not the end of Adventure Mode development. Many updates in the future will be applied to both modes and there's still more to add to Adventure Mode in the future. As with everything in Dwarf Fortress development, it will all come in due time. More details about the next steps soon.

We also have beta 28 out today with a long list of improvements and additions:

[h2]Beta 28 changes[/h2]

Graphics

• 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
  

Also

• 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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Adventure mode character creation changes

• 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
  

Adventure mode general changes

• 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
  

Other tweak

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

Strike the Earth (again!)

- Tarn + Alexandra

Hey Urists,

We have a Fortress Mode patch this week, with a bunch of fixes and tweaks and most notably with the new container graphics. See exactly what's inside your barrels and boxes for easy sorting!



We are still working on Adventure Mode things but won't have a patch for a few weeks which means this will be our last update before the holidays. But not to worry, it will be coming VERY SOON! When Adventure Mode leaves beta, it will unify both branches so a lot of upgrades in Adventure Mode will be making their way to Fort Mode as well. We hope you have a relaxing and restful holiday!


[h2]Patch Notes for 50.15[/h2]

Graphics additions/changes

• Expanded graphics for containers
  
• Added ability to view worn clothing by dye or by profession
  
• Shields in right arms displayed in correct order
  

Major bug fixes

• Fixed crash in Linux related to object pools
  

Other bug fixes/tweaks

• Added some safeguards to ages of generated migrant children
  
• Made tutorial close button behave consistently when tutorial is minimized
  
• Made the agitation decay setting work properly
  
• Removed case sensitivity on unit filters
  
• Fixed some issues with list sorting
  
• Fixed crash related to possible null building in sheets
  
• Fixed a crash with creature variation mods
  
• Fixed some threading issues in unit loops
  
• Fixed problem with mod version compatibility setting
  
• Fixed command line world generation
  
• Made game respect caste population ratio in more places
  
• Fixed some possible null pointer references
  
• Added more information to crash log headers
  

-Kitfox and Bay 12 Games

Hey Urists,

We have a large Adventure Mode beta patch today, including the introduction of "Chosen Mode" which gives you access to 'divine quests' from the gods. It's designed to give more guidance to players looking for a more traditional RPG experience. It's not complete yet, and this with the tutorial are the only things left to work on before we can release Adventure Mode out of beta!

To access Chosen Mode you will need to build a new world, and it should be at least 100 years old, but the god stuff kicks in right after the tutorial if you have selected Chosen Mode. Almost all 100+ year old worlds support it, but it requires the correct configuration of temples etc. so occasionally it doesn't work, we don't yet have a fall back position for that quite yet. If you un-check the tutorial on the start screen, it'll still do the Chosen stuff immediately when you start. But it's just a 'quest' to go speak to a priest in a nearby temple, and it gives you a compass to the priest. We need to do more with ensuring that players can make it to the temple. Some helping popups from the god and fixes to being stuck in castles and unable to travel will be coming as well. We are trying to catch all the cases to make it more friendly.



Players who are a bit more used to things should be able to go through the whole cycle now, and have some reasonably hard though somewhat one-note dungeons to go through with their parties. The god/temple stuff is ultimately pretty simple, but we'll have a chance to hone it through December now.

[h2]Tarn's Seasonal Update Video[/h2]

In case you missed it, we uploaded a new devlog by Tarn on Youtube where he highlights some of the biggest features that have made their way to Adventure mode over the past few months!

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[h2]Patch Notes for Beta 26[/h2]

Toward finishing Adventure Mode beta

• 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
  

Other changes

• 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
  

- Tarn + Alexandra