Dwarf Fortress
Dwarf Fortress is a single-player fantasy game, similar to
NetHack.
You can control a dwarven outpost or an adventurer in a
randomly generated, persistent world.
The game features three modes of play (Dwarf Fortress,
Adventurer and Legends modes), a distinct, randomly-generated world
(complete with terrain, wildlife and legends), gruesome combat
mechanics and vicious schools of carp.
The basic point of the Dwarf Fortress mode is to:
- Build/dig a place for your dwarves to work and live
- Ensure survivability by providing food and water/drink for
every dwarf
- Provide basic comfort by building beds/quarters, a dining
room
- Defend your fortress (traps/military)
- From the way Toady implements some features, have a lot of
(twisted) fun
- Accumulate wealth
- Build and sustain a bustling full 200 dwarf fortress (this
is already a bit "optional")
Features include:
- 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
- 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)
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