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Vanilla material elasticity fixes
Created by Putnam
Patches material raws to have more realistic properties. Since Dwarf Fortress's materials are assumed homogenous and isotropic, there are only two degrees of freedom for elasticity, and therefore they can be calculated using only two data points. Some meta...
Milkable Gorillas
Created by DizzyCrash
============================ Big Monkey Milkers "Essential Mod" ============================ (o)(o) (o)(o) === Mod Summery === (o)(o) (o)(o) Gorillas have bwoobs so why not milk em? Am I right? Well now you can with this essential mod, The oversight of the...
See-Through Smoothing Designations
Created by Trainzack
This replaces the smoothing and engraving designation graphic with something that's easier to see through. How to Install This mod has to be enabled during world generation setup. There is no officially supported way of installing this mod into an existing...
Audible Alerts
Created by Trainzack
Makes most alerts trigger a sound. This is really helpful if you, like me, keep missing important alerts. Installation Instructions When creating a world, select this mod from the mod menu. This mod should be loaded after the vanilla mods. Uninstallation I...
Trainable Animals Expanded
Created by perl
This mod makes every animal in the game tameable, hunting trainable, war trainable, and able to become a pet or exotic pet. This also includes giant animals. Some animals might be more useful than others, but this mod removes all restrictions! More specifi...
Cooking witch kitchen salt
Created by zwei2stein
Adds kitchen salt as cooking ingredient. You can obtain bag of salt by grinding rock salt boulder in quern....
Human Town
Created by Pama
Allows you to build human settlements. They work almost like dwarves, except for the different mechanics and needs related to the race itself. To make it work: Add the mod to the mod list during the world creation screen and make sure it's above "vanilla e...
Work Detail Icons
Created by Trainzack
A set of 8 icons lovingly stolen from the base game that replace the I II III IV V VI VII VIII symbols that designate custom work details. It's a bit fiddly to select the one you want, but even if you aren't choosy these are helpful. Thanks to Wookieguy fo...
Misery ZFog
Created by UntrustedLife
Turns the Z-Level Fog from blue to misery green and makes it more transparent, mostly for those modpacks that need just a bit more misery. Praise misery. Thank you to Munashe who made the Reduce Z-Level Fog Mod which inspired me to make this one....
Black ZFog
Created by UntrustedLife
Turns the Z-Level Fog from blue to black, But also reduces opacity a bit. Which makes it easier to distinguish water and fog and just looks really nice and spooky. If you like this mod, but also want the shadows recolored black. Try my 'Black Shadows and Z...
Extra Ceramics
Created by Aura
█▓▒▒░░░Extra Ceramics░░░▒▒▓█ == ADDITIONS == Make/Glaze Clay reactions for: Chairs, Coffins, Display Cases, Flasks, Goblets, Pedestals, Slabs Glaze reactions for: Hives CHANGE LOG (1.2): Hopefully fixed a bug, added Tables and Buckets to producible and gla...
Obvious Engravings
Created by Trainzack
Modifies the sprites for engraved walls to make the engravings three times as obvious. FAQ I liked how in the ASCII versions you could see a symbol that represented each engraving. Can you bring that back? At the moment, it's not possible to have more than...
Interface Tweaks
Created by Trainzack
Interface Tweaks Version 1.6 This mod adds visible hotkeys to most actions that have hotkeys, replaces the disband squad button with a trash can so you stop disbanding squads on accident, makes the difference between selected and deselected UI icons more o...
[Vanilla] Deon's missing Plant Graphics replacement
Created by Deon ☣
https://i.imgur.com/R4GtvHi.png Vanilla lacks graphics for all seeds and plants from aboveground. This mod adds missing graphics. Some of them are duplicates (i.e. for different types of sorghum the picked graphic is the same), but most of them are unique....
Giant Dodos
Created by Shazza
Magnifient, dopey, feathery mounds of friendship. The humble Giant Dodo is another of Dwarfkind's best friends; as sturdy and quick as a horse, with the loveably dopey charm of a yak. Aside from being an all-round work animal, these mighty beasts can be ri...
Latin language
Created by Deon ☣
Allows entities to use latin language. To use in your own mod, specify in the entity descriptor file. This mod doesn't do anything on its own, it's for modders to use in custom races. But I've made submods that require this mod, that change vanilla entity ...
[Language] Latin dwarves
Created by Deon ☣
https://i.imgur.com/R4GtvHi.png Dwarves use latin language. Requires the following mod to function: Latin Language...
[Language] Latin elves
Created by Deon ☣
https://i.imgur.com/R4GtvHi.png Elves use latin language. Requires the following mod to function: Latin Language...
[Language] Latin humans
Created by Deon ☣
https://i.imgur.com/R4GtvHi.png Humans use latin language. Requires the following mod to function: Latin Language...
[Language] Latin goblins
Created by Deon ☣
https://i.imgur.com/R4GtvHi.png Goblins use latin language. Requires the following mod to function: Latin Language...
Bone Crafting
Adds new crafting options to build most furniture and items using bones & horns at the Bone Crafter Workshop (vanilla graphic, I will learn how to art eventually). Currently works with critter bones only. No Elf bone tables (yet)....
Rounded hills
Created by Poss
Makes hill corners less sharp and more natural Version 1.6 now includes support for all vanilla surfaces and compatibility for custom tilesets like Detailed Landscapes ...
Rounded wooden doors
Created by Poss
Makes wooden doors circular like hobbit houses. Glass doors become arched and metal doors become vault doors. Stone doors are unaffected...
Ceramics Expanded
Created by Qev
This mod expands the ceramic industry, allowing your dwarves to make more items out of ceramics, and use more materials for glazing with a wide variety of colours, depending on what resources are available at the embark. Note: This mod will mark several no...
Slaves To Armok Title Screen
Created by Thief Wrench Jeff
A throwback to titles that once were. Praise Armok the God of Blood! Makes it so that the main screen reads, "Slaves to Armok: God of Blood Chapter II: Dwarf Fortress" You might want to make a copy of the original file before replacing it with this edited ...
Fermented Milk
Created by Qev
Allows your dwarves to make alcoholic drinks by fermenting milk at a Still, using the Brewing labour. Probably similar to Inner Mongolian lai jiu, which is distilled to 40% ABV, since anything less would be undwarfly. Note that this requires milk in barrel...
Better Suspend Button
Created by Banaani
Makes the suspend/pause button in burrows red when suspended. Also affects zones and some other stuff since they use the same graphics....
Smelters Burn Waste
Created by Broms
Smelters has a new category for burning waste! Can burn enemy body parts, enemy corpses, and five vermin at a time. There is a very low chance (5% for body parts, 15% for corpses, 0% for vermin) of creating a bar of coke. The smoke from burning gives the d...
Golden Geese
Created by Barely_Creative
Description Adds Golden Geese that lay golden eggs. They are a type of goose that you can bring with you on embark (for 5k Dwarfbucks) or will rarely hatch from eggs. The Golden Goose can hatch from ~1 out of 1001 eggs, and has gold feathers (both the mate...
Conundrum's Tweaks - Ramps & Flooring
Created by Pathblinder
Edit's the three overworld ramp types (Stone, Grass and Soil) to appear more natural by accounting for their individual characteristics. Also changes the outlines of the related floor tiles to match the aesthetic. No more polished grass....
Territorial Hippos and Wild Hogs (Now Featuring Elephants)
Created by SamJF
Makes the mighty hippos, elephants, and wild hogs less of a pushover by removing their "BENIGN" tag and adding "PRONE_TO_RAGE." Now you know why you fear the hog. This has the rare side effect of certain elf caravans bringing rude male elephants with them....
War Possums
Created by Elsie
This mod allows your dwarves to train possums in the art of war. Also changes some flavor text relating to possums being marsupials and changes their young to joeys instead of babies. Live fast, eat trash UPDATE Possums are now considered common domestic a...
Alligator Man Civ
Created by IrishChords
make you able to play as Alligator Man in fortress mode with full custom clothes,and armor. this is my first project, and the sprite iam working on is from the base game is too small to make a significant graphic with my current skill also they eat meat......
Alternate Ramp Icons
Changes the default bright blue ramp icons into transparent red and green ones. In case it is not working, you can try to replace the vanilla ramp icons completely. Go to "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Dwarf Fortress\data\vanilla\vanilla_in...
Milkable Cats
Created by WumpusKing
Put the cats to work. Make some cheese. It's milkable cats!...
Smooth Smooth Walls and Noticeable Engravings
Created by Criptfeind
This mod makes smooth walls more smooth by removing the rock graphic behind the smoothed walls and makes engravings pitch black to make them more noticeable....
Burn Wood Items
Created by GrogMasheen
A custom reaction, Input = 4x wood material items, Output = 1x Charcoal & 1x Ash, Perfomed by wood burner at wood furnace. Patches & does not overwrite entity folder. Install notes>> Just add it to you load list at worldgen....
Metal Beds
Created by WolframeBlack
This mod adds a variety of metal beds to your metalsmith workshop. I often wondered why dwaves can make all sorts of metal furniture but not beds. Well, no more of that. Let your citizens sleep in comfort and beauty they deserve! Requires new world to work...
Metallurgy (Now with 100% more OP workshops!)
Created by PoeticIron
BETA - use at your own risk, this is my first time screwing around in DF raws beyond the usual 'time to make sandy loam count as sand because I'm lazy'. The mod currently adds two workshops, both for ore/metal processing, both more efficient than 'vanilla'...
ON/OFF Burrows activation button
Created by Tau
Changes the pause button on the Burrows screen for ON/OFF button....
Old Dwarf Fortress logo in main menu
Created by LiquidRing
Replace Steam version logo in main menu to old Dwarf Fortress logo with Armok. For manualy install, go to your mods folder after subscribing to this mod (steamapps/common/Dwarf Fortress/mods), copy the all files in data/art included, and paste it into your...
See-Through Smoothing Designations w/ Priority
Created by aanthony3
This replaces the smoothing and engraving designation graphic with something that's easier to see through and still allows the priority numbers to be visible. It is based on the original See-Through Smoothing Designations mod by Trainzack. How to Install T...
Decoration - vanity buildings
Created by Deon ☣
I was working on a Vanity module for my New Genesis Mod, but then decided that maybe people who do not play my main mod wanted to decorate their fortress... So I took it out and made it a separate module. "New Genesis" mod not required, but fully supported...
Cobalt Crafting
Created by Haethei
Cobaltite is already in the game, but you can't really do much with it except make stone items. This simple mod allows you to make cobalt bars from cobaltite, for use in furniture, tools and crafts, similar to titanium and gold. The main purpose of this mo...
Creature Graphics Extended
Created by Jacko
https://imgur.com/C6WWPmC.png !! THIS MOD IS STILL IN EARLY DEVELOPMENT / EXPECT MANY THINGS TO BE CHANGED AND ADDED / IT PROBABLY WON'T LOOK AS NICE AS THE THUMBNAIL !! Creature Graphics Extended aims to improve upon the existing graphics of Dwarf Fortres...
More Diverse Wildlife
Created by perl
This mod overhauls the encounter rates of wildlife spawns in this game and lifts many biome and frequency restrictions. Now you can see a more diverse variety of animals in your embarks, regardless of where you start. TLDR: Less ravens/crundles/giant birds...
Logical Beds
Created by Wyntr Stardust
Makes beds require cloth in their construction, and allows beds to be made from stone and metal, as well as cloth sleeping bags and leather bedrolls. Beds are valued based on primary construction material, so for example a gold bed is worth more than a sch...
Bit of Diversity
Created by Count
I always liked the mechanic of animal people and some other strange species joining civilizations and showing up in your fortress, but I've noticed that there are a lot of sentient creatures that can't do that. This mod adds the ability to speak and join c...
Mineral Powders
Created by Wyntr Stardust
A new reason to build a millstone! Grind minerals to powder! Some are useful pigments! This is a growing library of mineral powders that a few of my mods will be dependent on, but feel free to use for your own mod or right-out-of-the-box to get new dyes. N...
Meteorite
Created by Wyntr Stardust
Now you can occasionally find long-fallen meteorites buried in certain strata. Meteorites can be smelted, usually into iron but sometimes into other trace metals. They can also be polished and made into decently valuable goods. Craftsdwarves can work meteo...
Beaver People Civilization
Created by ATotalParadox
Current Features Upgrades Beaver Men to Beaver People, a playable civilization with Bark based Weapons and Armor. Beaver People! Strong Bite Attack! Never be unarmed again. Innate Swimmers! Get the water works going and worry less about drowning! (Due to w...
Bulk Sewing
Created by Van Silke
NOTE: After DFHack introduced a tailor script, this mod is more or less pointless now so I won't be updating it. Go get DFHack! Newest version (1.0.1) adds several reactions, thus it needs generating a new world to work properly. Sorry! Set and forget. Add...
Glassworks
Created by Wyntr Stardust
Ever wondered why you can't make red or blue glass, when the materials to do so are already in game? Well, now you can! Complete with everything that you can normally make from glass. Blue Glass items are made at a glass furnace with a bag of sand, a bag o...
Burn Remains
Created by Haethei
Allows you to burn vermin remains, body parts and corpses at a wood furnace. Each reaction consumes 1 log as fuel, and they will produce ash bars. You can burn 5 vermin, 2 body parts or 1 corpse at a time. NOTE: Please make sure you make a separate stockpi...
Set Production
Created by Thurasiz
Combines some item productions into predefined sets. Stone bedrooms, tombs and barracks. Metal and leather armor. Cloth and leather clothing. (Armor does not include gloves or gauntlets because of longstanding bugs)] This mod was created in the first place...
Chocobos
Created by MVRITR3VA
Adds chocobos to the game. Mechanically somewhere between horses and ostriches. War trainable and mountable.Civs can domesticate them if they encounter them during worldgen. First mod made to learn DF modding....
Live Combat Log
Created by PrivateRiem
Adds a live combat log, with combat sound. This update was long overdue. https://i.imgur.com/U2KJThK.png If the combat sound is not to your liking, you can either replace it with a sound of your choice (google is your friend here) or replace the file with ...
Specific Decoration
Created by Sassy Corn 423
IMPORTANT NOTES: This mod adds ~6900 reactions total (separating item materials, items, decor materials and decor techniques results in exponentially growing reaction counts) so the Work Order page can get very laggy (~2 seconds to populate). Check out the...
Angry War Geese (and Swans)
Created by Mackeroni
Allows Geese and Swans to be War trained, as well as removes MEANDERER (To allow them to follow assigned military units properly) and adds the PRONE_TO_RAGE flag similar to badgers, honey badgers and wolverines. As they should be. As requested: Version 1.1...
Smelt Ore By Product
Created by Qev
Just a simple mod that adds a new category to the Smelter, "Smelt ores by product." This allows you task orders to smelt any ore of a given metal in a single order, instead of having to select the specific ores. One caveat, smelting copper ores will no lon...
Dark Ages V: War & Mythos [ 5.0.8 ]: (2024 Dev Log)
Created by GM-X
https://i.imgur.com/VocFGkA.png High horror world generation, monsters, cryptids, extreme undead, curses, magic spells, pets, savage animals, and crafting. Developed since 2013. https://i.imgur.com/8G5jTIx.png https://i.imgur.com/zUq1etf.png Rebuilt for Pr...
Giant Desert Scorpion
Created by Toss Thrown
A gigantic arachnid with huge pincers and a poisonous barbed tail. It is found in the savage lands. If you are ready for some excitement and terror, and who isn't. I present the giant desert scorpion, last seen in vanilla DF 42.03. There may be a reason th...
More Visitors, Sieges, and Caravans
Created by perl
This mod overhauls the vanilla entities to make the world feel more alive. Visitor restrictions have been unlocked and now you can see elf, goblin, and animal-people mercenaries asking to join your fort's military or to slay beasts, more frequent visitors,...
Caipirinha - Cocktail Fortress
Created by Jon_Nova
Add the option to brew lime to make a caipirinha. You can use Lime, Round Lime, Finger Lime and Desert Lime....
Shaped Shoes/Boots
Created by Dawnmist
Allows military dwarves to change into armored boots when equipping their uniforms by adding the SHAPED tag to shoes/boots. This mod implements the recommended work-around to allow military dwarves to change footwear when equipping armor that is specified ...
Pillowforts, the Fabric Felt Round the World
Created by welkin.shibboleth
This adds a simple new reaction to the screw press, which lets you create felt cloth blocks from fabric. Beware! If you want to use specific fabrics, you'll need to set up your screw press to take from stockpiles that only contain that fabric. Also, dyes d...
Additional Races: Ratfolk
Created by SEEU
https://i.imgur.com/0dFMX4S.png https://i.imgur.com/2JMy5hy.png The Ratfolk are a civilization of rat humanoids that skitter under mountains and hills in rabid search for power. They fight with anything: dwarves, humans, and even each other. Ratfolk leader...
Magma Golem
Created by Ya Boi Sheev
Adds a new rare creature to the magma sea that is a far more dangerous version of the magma man....
Detailed Landscapes
Created by Poss
Adds graphics to vanilla environmental tiles that had no visuals. This returns environmental diversity which was actually in the game the whole time. Dwarf fortress is known for its amazing level of simulation, but the steam version simplifies a huge diver...
Sand & Clay Anywhere
Created by lmlsna
This mod patches all soil to count as both fire clay and sand, allowing glass and stoneware to be made anywhere where soil is present. Revenge of the sandy clay loam! Note that as a side-effect all soil will use the sand graphic, though they keep their ori...
Golder Gold
Created by Geone
Changes the color of gold to be more golden and less brown. Affects bars, furniture, tools, etc; anything that can be made out of gold. This won't work on existing saves via the workshop. To manually add this mod to an existing save: copy inorganic_metal_g...
Valuable Underground Trees
Created by Incarnate
This mod makes underground trees more valuable than surface trees. Value is balanced and proportionate to the depth at which these trees normally grow (x2 - fungiwood & tower-caps, x3 - black-caps, goblin-caps, spore trees & tunnel tubes, x5 - blood thorns...
Cuter Cavern Moss
Created by wombat_tree
Changes the colours of the cavern moss so that the first layer in particular isn't a horrible vomit yellow....
Domesticated Rutherers
Created by wombat_tree
Domesticates rutherers so they can be embarked with, allows them to be sheared for wool, milked, trained for war, and changes their sprite to be chonkier. There are also a variety of other changes made to make them better for fort defense, they grow to ful...
Armory Workshop
Created by MrGlasses
https://i.imgur.com/yVmoiTi.png Adds a new workshop for your Dwarves to craft sets of armor and encrust them with the various gems that you find as you dig down. This allows you to quickly craft new sets of armor instead of adding in multiple workorders OR...
Blast Powder
Created by Wyntr Stardust
Mix saltpeter, sulfur, and charcoal together to create BLASTING POWDER (aka, old-school black gunpowder) Put a metal pipe on the end of some wood and you have the most basic firearm in history! !! BE VERY CAREFUL WITH FIRE AROUND YOUR STOCKPILES !! CURRENT...
Wood Block Carpentry
Created by eb
UPDATE 2023/01/12: implemented most of neph's suggestions except for the ones I can't do (water wheels, windmills) or don't plan on doing (crafts). Regarding the rest, I don't plan on touching any vanilla files if I can help it. Feel free to use this mod a...
Wood Processing Workshop
Created by eb
update 2023/01/12: Uploaded a balanced version of the mod, using ideas from neph's comments below. Also uploaded a floorless version of the mod. update 2023/01/02: workshop sprite realigned to be flush with bottom edge, like all other workshops Adds a work...
More Grindable Ores (Requires Metallurgy mod)
Created by eb
2023/01/05 update: adjusted the pig iron reaction to actually give 8 bars instead of 4, and upped slag chance from 10% to 40%. Adds more options for the Ore Grinder from the Metallurgy mod, it should be able to grind every "real" metal ore up to and includ...
Grindable Cobaltite (Requires Cobalt Crafting and Metallurgy mod)
Created by eb
Submod for Metallurgy mod and Cobalt Crafting that makes cobaltite grindable in the Ore Grinder. Other grindable ores in 2nd screenshot are from my other mod, More Grindable Ores...
Workshops without floors
Created by skuldomg
Workshops don't have floors anymore....
Better Engravings: Elaborate Design
Created by Xenon
As much as cool are dwarf heads engraved into stone, while playing as kobolds it is kinda out of place... I put this mod there for other people who would rather have something different :)...
Perspective Walls
Created by Thomrade
Buy me a coffee if you would like to help me justify the time spent modding instead of working paying contracts: https://bmc.link/comradetum Changes the wall graphics to a version using 2.5d forced perspective, You can see the front face of the wall, like ...
Vampire Curse Embark
Created by GhostPutty
Steadily converts everyone to vampires in any good or neutral region. This mod creates a new type of vampire rather than interacting with the generated vampires of the world. I initially created this mod to test vampires without the arena but thought someo...
SK Colorful Priority Buttons
Created by Shkaph4ik
Mod changes white priority buttons to colorful. This is clean mod, it have own tileset and will overwrite only what you see in preview. Мод меняет белые кнопки приоритета на цветные. Почему бы и нет? Это чистый мод, он имеет свой тайлсет и перезапишет толь...
Silk Eggs
Created by keg
Silk creatures now lay eggs in nest boxes, which can be hatched or eaten as normal. Weavers can take these eggs and convert them into 10 thread a piece automatically at a farmers workshop. The following animals will lay silk eggs: -giant cave spider -giant...
SK GigaDwarfs Stress
Created by Shkaph4ik
Mod changes stress smilies to GigaDwarfs. This is clean mod, it have own tileset and will overwrite only what you see in preview. Мод меняет смайлики стресса на ГигаДварфов. Высеченные из камня бородатые морды! Это чистый мод, он имеет свой тайлсет и перез...
SK GigaDwarfs Clouds
Created by Shkaph4ik
Mod makes clouds bigger and changes some status icons to GigaDwarfs. This mod overwrite all vanilla tileset. Мод делает облачка больше и меняет некоторые иконки статусов на ГигаДварфов. Борода или лопата? Мод перезапишет весь ванильный тайлсет. My other mo...
Better Vampires
Created by Wyntr Stardust
A very simple, light-weight mod that gives vampires an in-game reason to drink blood by making them stronger after feeding and weaker if they go without. ...
Emperor Bamboo
Created by Righthandoftyr
Add a large variety of 'emperor bamboo' trees that have a chance to appear in tropical moist broadleaf forests. It produces less wood than most normal trees when cut down, but grows very fast so it's highly renewable. It's tied with candlenut for density, ...
Vampire Variants
Created by Wyntr Stardust
Vanilla WorldGen allows for multiple types of vampire curses, but only has 1. This mod fixes that by adding new forms of vampirism to your worlds, inspired by vampire folklore from around the world. NEW TYPES OF VAMPIRES Vampyr - highly WIP, currently the ...
Smell The Coffee
Created by Wyntr Stardust
CURRENT FEATURES - Mill Coffee Beans into Coffee Grounds. - Brew Coffee From Coffee Grounds at a Kitchen or Still. PLANNED FEATURES - Cappuccinos, Lattes, and Sweet Coffees. - Temporary Speed and Focus boost after ingesting coffee. KNOWN ISSUES/BUGS - None...
Glass Fortress
Created by Dax
Do you like glass? Would others describe it as an "unhealthy obsession" or "tearing the family apart?" Would you like to make even more items out of glass? Boy do I have the mod for you then! This mod adds new categories to the glass furnace, one for each ...
Rebalance Metals
Created by Mirazent
This modification adds to create weapons, ammunition and armor from Aluminum, Platinum, Gold and Rose Gold. I recommend to install together with More Material Item I also corrected the properties of these metals for myself, because I considered that the di...
Wood Processing Workshop (Balanced)
Created by eb
note: this is NOT compatible with the original mod. If you want to use the floorless submod with this, you can either copy the workshop graphics over and rename it to match, or you can comment below and I can do it when I have the time. Or if you have the ...
Wood Processing Workshop Floorless submod
Created by eb
This mod checks compatibility for the original version of Wood Processing Workshop, if you're using the balanced version either copy and paste this mod's workshop graphics (the png only!) over and rename it or comment below and I can release a proper submo...
Temple of Monstrosity
Created by GhostPutty
Use the temple of monstrosity to perform rituals to create werebeasts, vampires and necromancers. Create werebeast, vampire and necromancy catalyst powder from various gems that are available from embark. Powder supplies one summon. Rarer gems can be made ...
Bone Equipment
Created by A Nickel
Allows your dwarves to make bone armor, weapons and trap components. Note that bone equipment is quite poor, and weaponry isn't very good either. Good for a last ditch effort, or for training dwarves in an environment with little wood and metal. I recommen...
Intelligent Cats
Created by erioxis
Now cats are smart and can talk. Cats are tagged , so cats will be able to talk, but they will need to drink, eat and sleep...
Metal plate floor
This mod replaces vanilla metal floor texture with metal plate. Who would want diagonal wood-like looking bars on the floor when you could have a BIG and SHINY metal plate anyway? Also replaces metal ramp texture. Compatible with any other mod that don't r...
Wooden Clogs
Created by Thomrade
Buy me a coffee if you would like to help me justify the time spent modding instead of working paying contracts: https://bmc.link/comradetum This mod adds a recipe to craft wooden shoes (Clogs) at a carpenters workshop. Each log produces two wooden clogs. ...
Blue Cobaltite
Created by levstk
The mod changes cobaltite to be blue, as it is in the ascii version (and older versions of the game). Very low effort, but hey, you get what you pay for....
Useful Kiln
Created by Anmer
The kiln, like in real life, can fit multiple items for glazing and produce multiple bricks at a time. It is still possible to use the old reactions in the Kiln for single items, but the new ones save fuel and time. New Reactions: make clay bricks (4) glaz...
Slings & Shot
Created by Thomrade
Buy me a coffee if you would like to help me justify the time spent modding instead of working paying contracts: https://bmc.link/comradetum Adds crafting recipe for sling weapons from leather or cloth, to the leatherworkers shop and clothers workshop resp...
Bunny Fortress
Created by Rattata
Adds a playable "lapine" rabbit race, playing similar to dwarves. While not as strong or brave as dwarves, lapines are quick and nimble, along with having access to mauls, pikes, and bows in exchange for maces and crossbows. Have fun building your fluffy d...
Recycle clothes and armor (cloth and leather)
Created by kaffelars
Recycle cloth and leather clothing/armor Do you have an excess of unused poor quality leather armor from various sieges? Tons of worn clothes filling up your stockpiles? Here is a solution to these problems. This mod adds new reactions to allow your dwarve...
Cloth Recycling
Created by Qev
Allows your dwarves to recycle fabric clothing and bags at a Clothier's workshop into lower-value "reclaimed thread" for re-use. Non-Steam users can find it on DFFD as " Cloth Recycling"! Every two items recycled produces one full spool of thread, but the ...
MicroMod: Sunflowers
Created by /GG/BOT
Sunflowers Adds the Common Sunflower to the surface world, a multi-purpose flower with edible seeds and useful oil. Functionally, they work similar to Quarry Bushes, but on the surface. Picked Sunflowers can be processed (to bags) in the farmer's workshop ...
KM.One's Training Pool
Created by KM.One
Tired of your dwarf drowning? Find it frustrating when they sit right by the shore and drowned without even moving? This mod is for you. to pick which dwarf just assign them to the workshop. otherwise you never know who will go train. Thanks to Cross Lamen...
Exotic Clothing
Created by Dr. Necessiter
Provides your dwarves the skills needed to craft exotic clothing such as turbans, veils, and togas!...
Wooden fences
Created by seanybeanz
DISCLAIMER! I couldn't figure out how to do the mod so I ended up just copy+pasting Genesis Vanity Buildings mod by Deon and changing it. Also the fence sprite itself is just a free asset I found on google. But hey, wooden fences were sorely missing from v...
More Book Titles
Created by La Creatura
This mod adds 70 120 150 185 220 245 new book titles! (I plan to add even more) You can suggest your own book title in the comment section and (maybe) I will add it with the next update Feel free to share hilarious / epic titles generated in your world in ...
The Parasyte-Thing
Created by GhostPutty
Adds a horrific parasyte to the game. Inspired by The Thing and Parasyte It combines the dangers of werebeasts, necromancers and vampires. They are extremely dangerous and contagious. Parasyte things can appear on the surface randomly like titans, but they...
Pool Spawn Fix
Created by Vattic
Fixes a bug/oversight that stops a handful of creatures from appearing in the world. Including Giant Toads, of all creatures! What oversight? Some non-vermin creatures are listed to only spawn in pools, but only vermin can spawn in pools. How does the fix ...
Parakeets and cockatiels no longer vermin
This classification offended some birds I know....
Plump Helmet Men Revolution
Created by indigofenix
The dwarves have domesticated the Plump Helmet Men. You can train them for hunting and war, butcher them for food, and even brew wine from their flesh. They multiply quickly, but beware...if they outnumber their dwarven oppressors, they may rise up and tak...
Revised Domestics
Created by 20firebird
An overhaul of domestic animals to make them more useful and more specialized for specific industries. Meat: Rabbits, ducks, and cavies are large enough to provide meat. Turkeys are larger and mature faster, at one year old instead of two. Pigs can no long...
Ketaros Stones Variations
Created by Ketaros
This mod adds a massive variation to one of the most important aspect of the game, the stones! Minerals and ores now will have variations to the physical look of all the stones in the game, keeping the same color style. https://i.imgur.com/oxYddPx.png http...
Ketaros Buttons Improved
Created by Ketaros
What is this mod? This mod adds background to the menu buttons improving drastically the quality. I opted to use Silver/Gray to innactive and Golden/Yellow to active, what helps a lot to see and improves the game play quality. As a bonus I created a menu s...
Caboose's cambrian arthropods
Created by Col. Caboose
A collection of arthropods from the cambrian explosion, from dinocardids to megacheira. This contains 19 (mostly accurate) little critters, though do keep in mind that naturally these guys live in the ocean, though some live in rivers and saltwater lakes, ...
Playable cat civilization
Created by enoua5
Makes cats a playable civilization. Specific changes Made cats intelligent, not pets, and playable Added a cat civilization with cat-specific ethics, values, and items Added a cat language Added some cat specfic tools Gave cats the ability to hold tools an...
Nefari And Bubbles DF. 1.2
Created by Dirtyfatninja
This is just an Overhaul of Graphics. Themed I've changed many of the sprites the new update is quite large it's axles and gears I also changed hatch covers and there locks are now vines as are they on the doors which need to be a bit darker in tone, there...
Transparent (Glass) Floors
Created by Replica
Makes glass floors more transparent! Had a thonk about graphics and the vanilla glass floors being slightly transparent and realized the game is fine with you using transparent png's on the sprites and tiles themselves. So I figured, why not make the glass...
SoundSense Originals
Created by DPh Kraken
Adds Dwarven Music (2012) and Songs of Saltfork (2015) by Simon Swerwer to the in-game music rotation, originally appearing in the SoundSense utilty. Includes 20 tracks for a 1 hour runtime, among them the original Koganusan mix and vocal party songs. Disc...
Simon Swerwer Soundtrack
Created by Hippiecab
Adds soundtrack by Simon Swerwer. Music and images provided by Simon Swerwer at his website . Music files have been exported to Ogg Vorbis from FLAC-files, having the best possible quality. The volume has been normalized to match the vanilla music. The qua...
Crundlekin Civilization
Created by GhostBat
This mod adds a civilization of playable Crundlekin, based on their cave dwelling kin - the crundle. An overhaul complete with custom clothing and items, with some tweaks to cave crundles as well. Crundlekin - Why? Dwarves attempted to domesticate the cave...
Soap Blocks
Created by The Scrungler
PLEASE NOTE: Blocks made from soap cannot be stored in stockpiles. This is a quirk with stockpiles themselves being hardcoded, and I can't fix it without bizarre workarounds that I'm not skilled enough to implement. This being a reaction mod, it requires a...
Cave Tree Farming
Created by Incarnate
Recommended to use with the "Valuable Underground Trees" mod: https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2910640248 Lets you extract seeds from subterranean tree logs, plant them as a crop, harvest a sapling/fungling after a few months (or year...
Fancy Frames
Created by crundle
Replace the yellow interface frames with something more fancy. does not yet include the reports screen tabs....
Accurate Cat Graphics
Created by mcnuggy
This mod edits cat graphics so their eye color and fur color for each part of their body is accurate to their description, leading to a few hundred thousand different possible variations. This is part of an expanding series of expanded animal graphic mods....
Maned Wolves
Created by Generic Hyena #2
A small mod that adds maned wolves (Chrysocyon Brachyurus). Maned wolves inhabit any grasslands, shrublands and savannas, hunt vermin, are solitary creatures, and fairly rare. They are enjoyed for their long legs, their unique bark, and their distinctive m...
Tobb's War Crocodiles
Created by dr. icenort
A mini-mod that alters cave crocodiles and saltwater crocodiles so your dwarves can train them as war animals....
Better Creature Descriptions
Created by annaflyte
Better Creature Descriptions Better Creature Descriptions enhances and unifies the in-game descriptions of all vanilla creatures This is a partial port of Taffer's DF Revised. Taffer's Revised is a beloved old mod and I am going to be working on porting al...
Stained Glass
Created by niemst
Stained Glass Old - Colors in the Industry (Stained Glass) TL;DR; This mod adds stained glass and the ability to make objects from it. Please see my other mods: https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3157869674 Introduction I felt really co...
Necromancers everywhere
Created by Nils de Lumière
Necromancers Everywhere ! More necromancers, including goblin necromancers, elf necromancers, kobold necromancers, and so on. !!! What This Mod Does !!! This mod aims to introduce more necromancers during world generation. What This Mod Does: It enables el...
Candymakers
Created by ryno
Make a candy factory in Dwarf Fortress This is a mod for Dwarf Fortress that adds a new workshop to the game called a Confectionery where you can craft confections such as candies, chocolates, caramels, gumdrops, and marshmallows. It also adds a new type o...
Topples' Halflings
Created by Topples
Halfling Civilization A playable civilization consisting of a society of halflings. What are halflings? About half the size of a human. They are a considerably weak race with higher than normal social capabilities. They tend to lack the great ambitions tha...
Classic Map - Main Menu Replacer
Created by LeftoverPat
Replaces the default Main Menu background with the bay12 website's wallpaper. Method 1: Subscribing Subscribe to this mod. Copy title_background.png from steamapps\common\Dwarf Fortress\mods\3209897708 (1)\graphics\art Paste into steamapps\common\Dwarf For...
DW420's Floors
Created by DW420
Texture replacements for the following: Stone Floors Wooden Floors Metal Floors Engraved Floors (the above mentioned plus natural stone) Paved roads. ----Changelog. 1.1 Tweaked stone texture. Looks great for surrounding 1 row engraved corridors . ...
War & Hunter Training for All Animals - Efficient Compatible
War & Hunter Training for animals done with efficient methods that maximize compatibility and minimize the changes made. I noticed the other mods that try to do the same, often cut/replace the entire creature data to make changes. This mod only adds the ne...
More Vanilla Creatures
Created by ryno
Adds more creatures to the game that are either based on the existing ones, or would otherwise fit in the vanilla game. If you use Advanced Agriculture, you'll need this compatibility patch: https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3324629244...
Toys and games
Created by niemst
Toys and games TL;DR; New toys for dwarfs, elves, humans, goblins, and kobolds. The mod introduces a set of toys and games that can be created from various materials. Please see my other mods: https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=31578696...
Writing systems
Created by niemst
Writing Systems TL;DR This mod introduces unique writing systems for different races in Dwarf Fortress, adding depth to how knowledge is preserved and shared across cultures. Last compatible version 1.13 - introduced dependency on Base Resources mod, and u...
Flowing Water
Created by Poss
Animates water so you can see it flowing. Helps identify risky water, shows directions for machinery and helps adventurers find water that is safe to drink It matches the water simulation's direction of flow. The game actually already does this animation u...
Water Flow Indicator Arrows
Created by ryno
the mod applies an overlay to water that shows arrows which indicate the directional flow i created this in 5 seconds as an alternative to Poss's mod of a similar nature, check it out here: https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3419529410 ...
Square Well
Created by 1j0
Square images for the well to be nicely placed near floored tiles. □■□■□■□■□■□■□■□■□■□■□■□■□■□■□■ You can manually rename new image and rewrite original image with modded one so it can always work without loading a mod and for your older worlds since its j...
Interface Tweaks Adventure Mode
Created by mcnuggy
Adds hotkey buttons to the adventure mode UI in the same style as the original Interface Tweaks which this mod barrows it's name from. After having played fortress mode almost exclusively with Trainzack's Interface Tweaks mod, I was very accustomed to seei...
UI Makeover
Created by Lucidess
Welcome to my first DF mod, and there might be more over time, who knows. The changes made to the UI are purely cosmetic, no gameplay changes are made, only a few images have been edited. This mod was originally designed to rework the Minecart Route menu, ...
Mandate Manager
Created by RebOOter
-- ATTENTION --- This mod needs DFHack to be installed. You can simply get it here (https://steamhost.cn/app/2346660/DFHack__Dwarf_Fortress_Modding_Engine/) Overview Tired of creating new orders for endless nobles’ mandates again, and again, and ...
DFxTwitch Scripts
Created by Squid Coder
These are the scripts needed for DFxTwitch Do NOT reupload these scripts as your own, not even in modified form. You will need to install DFxTwitch and its requirements: https://github.com/SquidCoderIndustries/DFxTwitch/releases/latest Post bug reports and...
Dwarven Memorial
Created by RebOOter
-- ATTENTION --- This mod needs DFHack to be installed. You can simply get it here (https://steamhost.cn/app/2346660/DFHack__Dwarf_Fortress_Modding_Engine/) Overview Remember your fallen, who united with the stone. Remember your brothers, who fac...
Better Work Details
Created by RebOOter
-- ATTENTION --- This mod needs DFHack to be installed. You can simply get it here (https://steamhost.cn/app/2346660/DFHack__Dwarf_Fortress_Modding_Engine/) Overview This mod will help you to edit your labors and work details more deeply. What th...
Better Combat Log
Created by RebOOter
-- ATTENTION --- This mod needs DFHack to be installed. You can simply get it here (https://steamhost.cn/app/2346660/DFHack__Dwarf_Fortress_Modding_Engine/) Overview What a glorious battle, my brothers! We struck this forgotten beast down with th...
RebOOter's Library
Created by RebOOter
-- ATTENTION --- This mod needs DFHack to be installed. You can simply get it here (https://steamhost.cn/app/2346660/DFHack__Dwarf_Fortress_Modding_Engine/) Overview There are some utilities and functions that I use in my other mods. So there's n...
Advanced Burrows
Created by RebOOter
-- ATTENTION --- This mod needs DFHack to be installed. You can simply get it here (https://steamhost.cn/app/2346660/DFHack__Dwarf_Fortress_Modding_Engine/) Overview This mod adds a few more options to interact with burrows: Add the possibility t...
VSR - Superior Snakes and Serpents
Created by LeadfootSlim
Spice up your gameplay with the Vanilla Spice Rack series! Designed for compatibility with the base game and DF Classic, these mods have NO new graphics, items or monsters. Instead, they improve the vanilla experience by breathing new life into existing en...
Better University
Better University introduces a full system of university workshops: dwarves can visit specialized training halls to hone crafts, sciences, and combat skills outside of real production. This gives the fortress an aletrnative way to train newcomers and impro...