Dwarf Fortress
Dwarf Fortress Files
- Platform: Linux, Mac, PC
- Publisher:
- Developer: Bay 12 Games
- Genre: Strategy Top-Down
Dwarf Fortress is a single-player fantasy game. You can control a dwarven outpost or an adventurer in a randomly generated, persistent world.
Although Dwarf Fortress is still in a work in progress, many features have already been implemented.
* The world is randomly generated with distinct civilizations spanning over 1000 years of detailed history, dozens of towns, hundreds of caves and regions with various wildlife.
* The world persists as long as you like, over many games, recording historical events and tracking changes.
* Command your dwarves as they search for wealth in the mountain.
o Craft treasures and furniture from many materials and improve these objects with precious metals, jewels and more.
o Defend yourself against attacks from hostile civilizations, the wilderness and the depths.
o Support the nobility as they make demands of your populace.
o Keep your dwarves happy and read their thoughts as they work and relax.
o Z coordinate allows you to dig out fortresses with multiple levels. Build towers or conquer the underworld.
o Build floodgates to divert water for farming or to drown your adversaries... and don't forget the magma!
o Surgery, sutures, splints, crutches and more: care for your wounded dwarves instead of leaving them to fend for themselves.
o Much much more...
* Play an adventurer and explore, quest for glory or seek vengeance.
o Meet adversaries from previous games.
o Recruit people in towns to come with you on your journey.
o Explore without cumbersome plot restrictions.
o Seamlessly wander the world -- up to 197376 x 197376 squares total -- or travel more rapidly on the region map.
o Accept quests from the town and civilization leaders.
o Retire and meet your old characters. Bring them along on an adventure with a new character or reactivate them and play directly.
o Z coordinate allows you to move between twisting underground caverns and scale structures, fighting adversaries above and below.
* The combat model uses skills, body parts, individual tissues, material properties, wrestling, charging and dodging between squares, bleeding, pain, nausea, various poison effects and much more.
* A dynamic weather model tracks wind, humidity and air masses to create fronts, clouds, rain storms and blizzards.
* Over two hundred rock and mineral types are incorporated into the world, placed in their proper geological environments.
* Add new creatures, weapons, plants, metals and other objects via modifiable text files.
* Extended ASCII character set rendered in 16 colors (including black) as well as 8 background colors (including black).
