Dwarf Fortress

Dwarf Fortress is a freeware 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.

Features:

• 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. Craft treasures and furniture from many materials and improve these objects with precious metals, jewels and more.
• Defend yourself against attacks from hostile civilizations, the wilderness and the depths.
• Support the nobility as they make demands of your populace.
• Keep your dwarves happy and read their thoughts as they work and relax.
• Z coordinate allows you to dig out fortresses with multiple levels. Build towers or conquer the depths.
• Build floodgates to divert water for farming or to drown your adversaries.
• Much much more...
• Play an adventurer and explore, quest for glory or seek vengeance. Meet adversaries from previous games.
• Recruit people in towns to come with you on your journey.
• Explore without cumbersome plot restrictions.
• Seamlessly wander the world -- up to 197376 x 197376 squares total -- or travel more rapidly on the region map.
• Accept quests from the town and civilization leaders.
• Retire and meet your old characters. Bring them along on an adventure with a new character or reactivate them and play directly.
• Z coordinate allows you to move seamlessly between dungeon levels and scale structures fighting adversaries above and below.
• The combat model uses skills, body parts, wrestling, charging and dodging between squares, bleeding, pain, nausea, 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).

What is new in this release:

• stopped bamboo flicker
• stopped dwarves from ripping patients out of traction to bring them to bed
• made it display traction state in health screen
• decreased triggers for cleaning a bit to try to stop paranoid over-cleaning of patients
• fixed key conflict for clay crafts/statue
• corrected NECK_SPINE bodypart token
• made rodent man bite use teeth properly
• dragon/hydra natural stance skill removed, given claw attack
• corrected baby guineafowl to "keets"

What is new in version 0.31.19:

• I worked on some crashes for a while and finished a number of the easier bugs (overzealous nest box claiming by random beasts, some raw/key errors, and a few display problems). Tonight and for a few days I'm going to be continuing on with bugs from the new version until we've reversed most of the new damage, and then I'll be working on old bugs for a bit

What is new in version 0.31.01:

• Burrows to help you organize your fortress
• Hospitals and surgeons to heal your wounded
• as well as more control of your army and squads.

What is new in version 28_181_40d11:

• Bugfixes