Dwarf Fortress Scepter (2024)

FAQs

How long does it take to beat dwarf fortress? ›

Since there is no way to win, it only ends when the entire colony is defeated by the various possible threats, or the player decides to abandon or retire the fortress. Adventure mode, a turn-based, open-ended roguelike where the player starts off as an adventurer.

DF is not necessarily difficult but it's complex and sometimes uses slightly weird logic. Once you get your brain around that though, running a medium size fort is totally doable. After a point, the complexity will ramp up again solely because there's loads of stuff to manage and take care of.

It is absolutely possible to make a thriving colony, however as there is no way to necessarily 'win' dwarf fortress, you will eventually start new fortresses no matter if your previous one was destroyed by demons or if you just grew bored.

Dwarf fortress is difficult for two reasons 1: Unintuitive interface. It takes some time just to learn how to do basic things and find the information you need. 2: Complexity. Once you know every possible command you can give you need to figure out what to do.

Since a single seed can produce up to six harvestable plants (or more — see fertilizing below) and each plant yields one (easy) meal at a Kitchen, a fortress with the max population of 200 dwarves could (hypothetically) survive on a 6x6 farm plot for food.

Angels, and their variants, are the absolute strongest creatures in the game, acting as the "final bosses" of the game if playing in "Adventure Mode".

The world size doesn't affect FPS all that much as far as I know (embark size does) but it does affect the time it takes when saving. For those that don't know... Water flowing down multiple levels also makes a huge impact.

The 250 year limit is the default limit. You can change this at the world generation screen (pick year 500 instead) or by going into advanced worldgen. The longer your history, the bigger your world, the bigger your embark, the more heavier and likely crash-prone your game. Just FYI.

Failure is the cornerstone of fun in Dwarf Fortress, and with so many ways to fail, there are endless amounts of hilarious stories to tell. Mighty fortresses have been brought low by a tavern brawl gone wrong. Countless hamlets were hit by the consequences of hunting in a haunted biome.

What is the best weapon against zombies in Dwarf Fortress? ›

The answer is Picks, Battle Axes and Short Swords. Blunt weapons massively impair your dwarves.

Walls are fine. Doors and such can be broken by building destroyer enemies unless they're artefact doors, which are indestructible, so if you get lucky enough to have a dwarf make one, keep it for special uses where you want an indestructible door, because you can't make them normally.

Infinity. Dwarf Fortress has no win condition. With a single exception in Archcrystal, your fortress is likely to be wiped out within the first 10–20 years; if you even get that far.

If you've played Rimworld or similar, you'll get comfortable after 4-10 hours depending on your learning speed. If you haven't, it may take significantly longer, but I'd say no more than an hour of videos should get you started.

I believe this game is mostly cpu intensive so theres like the best single core cpu you can get yourself go for that.