How to Download Dwarf Fortress

1. Click on the Dwarf Fortress download button below.
2. Choose "Install" to install the game on the windows steam client.
3. Follow the on-screen prompts
4. Let it download the Full Version.
5. Once a game is downloaded, use the Windows Steam Client to play the game.

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This guide describes how to use Steam Proton to play and run Windows games on your Linux computer. Some games may not work or may break because Steam Proton is still at a very early stage.

1. Activating Steam Proton for Linux:
Proton is integrated into the Steam Client with "Steam Play." To activate proton, go into your steam client and click on Steam in the upper right corner. Then click on settings to open a new window. From here, click on the Steam Play button at the bottom of the panel. Click "Enable Steam Play for Supported Titles."

Alternatively: Go to Steam > Settings > Steam Play and turn on the "Enable Steam Play for Supported Titles" option.

Valve has tested and fixed some Steam titles and you will now be able to play most of them. However, if you want to go further and play titles that even Valve hasn't tested, toggle the "Enable Steam Play for all titles" option.

2. Choose a version
You should use the Steam Proton version recommended by Steam: 3.7-8. This is the most stable version of Steam Proton at the moment.

3. Restart your Steam
After you have successfully activated Steam Proton, click "OK" and Steam will ask you to restart it for the changes to take effect. Restart it. Your computer will now play all of steam's whitelisted games seamlessly.

4. Launch Stardew Valley on Linux:
Before you can use Steam Proton, you must first download the Stardew Valley Windows game from Steam. When you download Stardew Valley for the first time, you will notice that the download size is slightly larger than the size of the game.
This happens because Steam will download your chosen Steam Proton version with this game as well. After the download is complete, simply click the "Play" button.

Windows Pc Requirements

Minimum:

• OS: XP SP3 or later
  
• Processor: Dual Core CPU - 2.4GHz+
  
• Memory: 4 GB RAM
  
• Graphics: 1GB of VRAM: Intel HD 3000 GPU / AMD HD 5450 / Nvidia 9400 GT
  
• Storage: 500 MB available space

Recommended:

• Processor: Dual Core CPU - 4GHz+
  
• Memory: 4 GB RAM
  
• Storage: 500 MB available space

Linux Requirements

No minimum requirements!!
No maximum requirements!!

Mac Requirements

No minimum requirements!!
No maximum requirements!!

The deepest, most intricate simulation of a world that's ever been created. The legendary Dwarf Fortress is now on Steam. Build a fortress and try to help your dwarves survive, OR adventure as a single hero against a deeply generated world.

Prepare for the deepest, most intricate simulation of a world that has ever been created.

• Not just generated geometry -- a whole simulated world. Generated rise and fall of civilizations, personalities, creatures, cultures, etc. Infinite hours of gameplay.
  
• Now with graphics! (Optional ASCII mode available.)
  
• Steam Workshop integration for easier modding
  
• A lifetime “living” project - created/updated since 2003, with no end in sight
  
• Generate your unique world and manage a bustling colony of dwarves, even as they probably mine towards their eventual demise.
  
• Optional ADVENTURER MODE: explore the generated world as a single hero in an RPG
  
• Optional LEGENDS MODE: read the history of the generated world and your games in it
  
• A new endless hobby, just for you!

The legendary Dwarf Fortress is now on Steam! Build a fortress and try to help your dwarves survive, despite threats of starvation, dragons, and madness.



In this complex construction/management/roguelike simulation, every generated world brings a unique challenge, whether it’s dwarves with their own simulated personalities or aquifers. Observe what makes your civilization fall into eventual decline, and learn for next time… until something else inevitably goes wrong.

The combat model includes skills, body parts, material properties, aimed attacks, wrestling, pain, nausea, various poison effects, and much more.

It’s difficult to convey the depth of the generation. Hundreds of animals and monsters, many of which are randomly created for each world, as well as generated poetry, musical forms, instruments, and dances for your dwarves to practice and perform. A dynamic weather model tracks wind, humidity, and air masses to create fronts, clouds, storms, and blizzards. Over two hundred rock and mineral types can appear, in their proper geological environments.

Your purchase includes Dwarf Fortress Classic if you prefer to play without graphics or music or Steam-specific features, in the “classic” beta branch.

Remember: Losing is fun!


Nothing substantial is new or changed, under the hood. It’s still good old Dwarf Fortress, but with graphics support and music by default. A few bells and whistles won’t change that.

You may already be familiar with the tile set mod packs from Michał “Mayday” Madej and Patrick Martin “Meph” Schroeder. They’re collaborating on an all-new, from-scratch tileset, as seen in the trailer and screenshots. Meanwhile, Dabu has composed a few musical tracks, to match the seasons, and some other audio bits and pieces.


Command your dwarves as they search for wealth in their generated mountain. Your dwarves will need a steady supply of food and beer, but they’ll also need your guidance in surviving attacks from hostile civilizations, the wilderness, or even the dead.

• Craft treasures and furnitures from various materials
  
• Establish a barony and support the increasingly demanding nobility
  
• Read your dwarves’ thoughts to keep them happy
  
• Build floodgates to divert water for farming, and/or prevent magma mishaps
  
• Build structures and watch your dwarves discover and build their culture, like taverns, libraries, temples, honey, wax, pottery, animal training, bookbinding, and more.

Choose a sentient race from your generated world (usually dwarf, human, or elf, but potentially goblin or animal person) and quest for glory.. Or seek vengeance.

• Recruit people to join you on your journey
  
• Explore without cumbersome plot restrictions, from capitals to catacombs, labyrinths to bandit camps.
  
• The original nemesis system: Meet adversaries from the previous games
  
• Earn a reputation as a hero, soldier, thug, musician, etc, with various civilizations
  
• Stealth system with vision arcs, respecting vegetation density and other factors
  
• Use signs like shoe impressions and animal tracks to hunt and avoid danger
  
• Steal a mummy’s treasure or learn forbidden secrets from a necromancer’s tower
  
• Visit your retired fortresses and meet your old dwarves -- even ask them to join you!

• The original inspiration for RimWorld, Prison Architect, Minecraft and more.
  
• One of the first video games acquired by the Museum of Modern Art in New York
  
• Updated for over 16 years by two brothers, Tarn “Toady One” and Zach “Threetoe” Adams

With the goal of simulating all of existence, Bay 12 estimates they’re only about 42% done.

“You've got to play Dwarf Fortress to truly understand the madness of its creators – and of its biggest fans.”
WIRED

“It's in systems that the beauty of their game lies, systems that are capable of generating in minutes worlds that contain more richness than some entire game franchises.”
Polygon

“[...] Once you’re hooked, it feels vast, enveloping, alive.”
New York Times