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A pair of cards from the Secret Lair x Dwarf Fortress: Create New World set against a screenshot from Dwarf Fortress.

Dwarf Fortress is coming to Magic: The Gathering and I'm beginning to suspect Wizards of the Coast is targeting me, specifically

By Lincoln Carpenter published

News ASCII art, meet card art.

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Tarn Adams sitting in front of a laptop, edited with a screen from Factorio

Tarn Adams, co-creator of Dwarf Fortress, has over 1,400 hours in Factorio and is currently obsessed with terraforming games: 'Dwarf Fortress just doesn't accommodate a full-on sci-fi thing'

By Rick Lane published

Deep dive Bay 12 Games' co-founder talks playing The Planet Crafter, Beast, and more than 40 years of saved desktops.

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A trio of dwarves descend into the depths in the Dwarf Fortress key art.

Dwarf Fortress forensic specialists blame mysterious case of spontaneous human combustion on a historical artifact that suddenly remembered it's four times hotter than the surface of the sun

By Lincoln Carpenter published

News It's always right when you get back home from a road trip that you realize you've been carrying a thermonuclear hazard.

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Dwarf Fortress, but a wizard

Dwarf Fortress issues a 'naked dwarf fix' after accidentally turning players' pride-and-joy into bearded nudist colonies

By Rich Stanton published

News Must've been quite chilly.

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A trio of dwarves descend into the depths in the Dwarf Fortress key art.

Dwarf Fortress kicks off another year of bonkers patch notes with the saddest 6-word story ever told: 'Mothers no longer seek ghostly babies'

By Lincoln Carpenter published

News For sale: baby shoes, haunting ignored.

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A baby dressed in prison stripes behind bars.

'The return of baby driver': The Dwarf Fortress Siege Update briefly reintroduced an old bug where dwarf babies pilot their moms like mech suits until they die of dehydration because babies don't know what drinking is

By Lincoln Carpenter published

News It has been 0 days without dwarven baby disasters.

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Key art of a dwarf fortress under siege.

Dwarf Fortress' Siege Update is out now, renewing Bay 12 Games' quest to create a simulation more complex than life itself

By Rick Lane published

News Revamps how enemies attack your fortress, and how you can defend it.

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Key art of a dwarf fortress under siege.

Dwarf Fortress is getting a siege update in November with goblin battering rams and defense-destroying troll engineers that'll dismantle over a decade of dwarven siege strategy

By Lincoln Carpenter published

News The new crossbow emplacement turrets should help, though.

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A player character in Streets of Fortuna considers a chest of gold being offered by an NPC.

Founder of Dwarf Fortress and Caves of Qud publisher Kitfox Games says its procgen sims for sickos are 'giving storytelling tools back to the people when games and passive media took them away'

By Lincoln Carpenter published

News Streets of Fortuna, Kitfox's own in-development "megasim," is chasing that same systems-driven storytelling.

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A lineup of different sprites created for Dwarf Fortress' Adventure Mode.

Dwarf Fortress just made it easier for modders to add their own procedural creatures, items, curses, and more: 'All of these things have been hard-coded in Dwarf Fortress, inaccessible to modders. Now the algorithms and data are available'

By Lincoln Carpenter published

News My productivity has never been more endangered.

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