Dwarf Fortress is a very popular strategy-based city builder game that was released in 2022. If you don’t know, Dwarf Fortress lets you generate and build your world. Your job is to manage all the dwarves, ensure that they survive, are protected from various types of threats, and, most importantly of all, have the resources that are needed for the dwarves’ community to grow.
While the game is already fun to play by itself, players like to bring out and enjoy more of the game with the help of mods. So, if you are a Dwarf Fortress player or are planning to start playing this game, we have listed the best Dwarf Fortress Mods that you can check out for a better experience.
Best Dwarf Fortress Mods: Top Picks
The mods that we have listed are free to use,2 so do give these mods a try and take your Dwarf Fortress to the next level.
Accurate Animal Graphics
It might not seem like a big deal, but some people like to have a ton of variations, and with the numerous Accurate animal graphics mods, you’re likely to get many variations of one particular animal itself. Different animals will have different eye colors as well as fur colors.
- Accurate bovine graphics (Steam)
- Accurate cat graphics (Steam)
- Accurate dog graphics (Steam)
- Accurate equine graphics (Steam)
- Accurate rodent graphics (Steam)
- Accurate ungulate graphics (Steam)
- Accurate wool graphics (Steam)
Additional Races
If you want more variety, you can check the additional races mods. These mods let you add more civilizations to your game. Two in particular that are famous are the Grolls and Ratfolk races.
The Grolls ensure that the communities are safe, as their warleader and the pack are always raiding the enemies. Meanwhile, the Ratfolk target the hills and mountains, looking for any type of enemies they come across. Their main goal is to search for power.
- Additional Races: Grolls (Steam)
- Additional Races: Ratfolk (Steam)
Audible Alerts
Are you tired of missing out on alerts and happenings that take place in your game? With the help of the Audible Alert mod, you will no longer miss any alerts. Every time an important event takes place, a sound will be played. However, you will need to note that there is no option to turn off particular alerts. It’s either turn the alert mode on or turn it off.
- Audible Alert Mod (Steam)
Interface Tweaks
Interface mods are usually created so that it is a bit easier for new players to navigate around and understand what hotkeys can be used to perform specific actions. With this mod, you will see the hotkey shortcuts present, which help you to prevent pressing the wrong keys, resulting in wrong actions performed in your game.
- Interface Tweaks (Steam)
Perspective Walls
Want to get a perspective of the walls from the game? With the Perspective Walls mod, you can now enable 2.5D walls that allow you to see the front face of the walls. This wall mod supports all major walls i the game. Here is the list:
- Constructed Block
- Engraved Walls
- Fortifications
- Metal Bar
- Natural Ice Walls
- Ore Veins
- Sand
- Smoothed Ice Walls
- Smoothed Rock
- Soil
- Unsmoothed Rock
- Wood Log
- Perspective Walls (Steam)
Tougher Bodies
Are you tired of how weak your dwarves are? Especially the pens with no skills, or even the pens with no armor? Well, this mod now helps your dwarves’ body armor become more durable and also helps to heal the dwarves when they get attacked. Different skin, muscle, and fat levels can be added to help your dwarves recover from injuries.
- Tougher Bodies (Steam)
Sumptuously Engraved Tiles
Not a very groundbreaking mod, but a simple mod that changes the graphics for the tiles in your game. This mod switches the default dwarf faced tiled graphic to a more eye-pleasing graphic that works perfectly with tiles.
- Engraved Tiles (Steam)
Better Fonts
Tired of how the default font size is across the game? If you want clearer fonts in a better resolution, you can check out this Better Fonts mod. This mod changes the font resolution across the system UI. some UI elements may still mean the default one but, be assured, there will be updates to fix those issues as well.
- Better Fonts (Nexus Mods)
New Green Slime Creature
This mod lets you add a new creature to the game. This is no ordinary creature. The Green Slime is a discrete predator that will transform into anything that it comes in contact with. Do add this character to your game to make the gameplay interesting.
- Green Slime (Nexus Mods)
Procedural Dragons
Do you want to have cool looking dragons in your game? This mod turns your dragons into unique beasts that have variations in color and body types. While it might seem nice to have these dragons, you need to be careful as they have taken down a number of dwarves with their breath of fire.
- Procedural Dragon (Steam)
Following Water
As you know, Dwarf Fortress has a number of water sources from where you supply it to your fortress. By default, the water in the game has no animation. But, if you like to give your water a little realistic touch, this flowing water mod is your best pick. With this animation, you can also identify in what direction the water is flowing and whether it is a risk to you or not.
- Flowing Water (Steam)
Of course, there are a ton of other mods available in Dwarf Fortress, so if you use mods that you feel should make this list, do list them in the comments section below.
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