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Utilities are third party applications useful for Dwarf Fortress players and modders, and this page serves as a list of them. Dwarf Fortress is a difficult game to play, and any help that can be had in the task is welcome help. This page lists utilities useful for modders and player alike. If you would like to add an article on a specific game utility to the wiki, please do so under the Utility namespace. Not included on this page: tileset repositories and graphics set repositories have been given their own, separate page. Mods have also been listed under their own Modification namespace. To avoid namespace clutter websites are considered utilities, though they really aren't, and have been included.

A subsection of the Bay12 forums is devoted to such third party programs, and contains development threads for most of them.

Filesharing

Dwarf Fortress File Depot

The Dwarf Fortress File Upload Service - an excellent place to store mods, community games, tilesets and other files. Courtesy of Janus; for files related to Dwarf Fortress only.

Dwarf Fortress Map Archive

The Dwarf Fortress Map Archive is a large collection of user-submitted maps and vidoes and a nice flash viewer for perusing them. Maps are uploaded, stored, and downloaded in a special compressed format created by the DF Map Compressor; videos are stored in a compressed version of Toady One's own video-recording format.

3D Visualizers

Fortress Overseer

Fortress Overseer has been the only 3d visualizer since DF 2010. It has been completely rewritten and is currently updated to support DF 2012 (currently supporting versions 34.11 and 31.25). Overseer works indirectly, by using dfhack to 'mapexport' a file which can then be rendered in 3D. DirectX 9 must be installed, though this requirement is not documented. Official forum thread

Isoworld 2.0

Isoworld is an isometric world map viewer, which can display each of the detailed maps exported from Legends Mode. It also has a pictographic view which makes finding waterfalls easy.

Isoworld can link with DFhack to display a game view at full spatial resolution in wider context, including tracking the game view. This is particularly useful for adventure mode.

Music and Sounds

SoundSense

SoundSense is a tool that parses game logs and reacts to game events with sound effects, incidental music and dwarfy comments.

forum thread, download at homepage.

Interface tools

DFHack Utility Plugins

A collection of DFHack plugins that improve the in-game interface with features such as:

• Search function in screens with big lists.
• Ability to place furniture before it's built and have it automatically allocated when available.
• Ability to place constructions with box select (like laying designations), including easier material selection and open space placement (without having to wait till adjacent constructions are built).
• Easier pasturing, live happiness monitor, mouse support, stocks dashboard.

Game manipulation tools

Dwarf Therapist

Dwarf Therapist gives you an advanced GUI to manage and check dwarf job allocations, military assignments (40d), statistics (such as attributes, personality traits and happiness), plus sort dwarves by various criteria (eg. profession, migration wave, happiness, number of assigned jobs etc.) and generally manage the Dwarven Resources of your fortress in a very convenient way.

Version 0.6.12 is out. This version supports DF builds up to 0.34.02 by default, but with the auto-update it supports up to 0.34.11.

Read the full changelog here: http://code.google.com/p/dwarftherapist/source/browse/CHANGELOG.txt

Discussion on Bay 12 Games forums: http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=66525

For Mac users

A DT version for natively running it on OSX is in the works by DwarfEngineeer and beta versions compatible with 34.03+ are now available on the dwarftherapist downloads page. A mac version of this utility (built by ghalidrim) is outdated and is compatible with DF version 31.25. It is free for download at the DF file depot. It is also possible to use DT with the latest version of DF by using

Dwarf Therapist and Dwarf Fortress on Mac using Wine

1. Download latest windows versions DF and DT.
2. Download winebottler http://winebottler.kronenberg.org/. It should also download wine. Launch them both.
3. Click the Wine icon on your taskbar and find Change Prefix.
4. From there, create a prefix (it may auto-detect some other games and create prefixes for them, don't bother with that) in a convenient directory, call it 'generic' or something.
5. Click Change Prefix again after it's done configuring and make sure Wine is using that one.
6. Move DF and DT to the Program Files associated with the *general* prefix. DT won't find any running versions of DF otherwise. Mine was located in *username*/documents/generic/drive_c/program files.
7. When launching DF and DT a small window pops up asking which prefix you want to use, choose general.
8. Strike the earth.

If Dwarf Therapist in Wine starts running slow or gets really laggy, find it's preference file, "Dwarf Therapist.ini," and trash it. It is located in *username*/documents/generic/drive_c/users/*usernameagain*/application data/UDP Software/. If you are using MacNewbie, it is located in "~/.config/UDP Software/".

Splinterz Fork

This is a fork from the original DwarfTherapist made by user Splinterz: http://code.google.com/r/splintermind-attributes/

This version contains the "labor optimizer" semi-automatic labor management system. As of 2013-07-24 Windows and Linux builds are avaliable.

Discussion thread and changelog here

Dwarf Builder (OSX)

"Dwarf Builder" for OS X is also available. It contains a working version of Dwarf Therapist, which can be created using "Build Dwarf Therapist" (or DT).

DFHack

DFHack is an advanced Dwarf Fortress memory access library and a set of tools and scripts using this library, providing direct object-oriented access to Dwarf Fortress's internals as if it were compiled into the game itself. Releases support versions up through 0.34.11 (as of June 22nd, 2012). Runs on Windows, Linux, and MacOS X.

DFHack has an official forum thread.

Code and binary releases are available from the Github site.

Fortress layout tools

DF Designator

DF Designator helps you build fortresses from either image files or Quickfort .CSV files. It also has a user interface that allows you to assign hotkeys to blueprints and to combine blueprints in multi z-level designs. Windows, Mac and Linux versions are available.

Quickfort

Quickfort is an AutoHotkey-based utility for Dwarf Fortress that helps you build fortresses from "blueprint" .CSV files (comma separated values). These files are easily created and edited in an app like Excel. Most building-oriented DF commands are supported through the use of multiple .CSV files to describe the different phases of DF construction (designation, building, stockpiles, and making adjustments. Also see Quickfort Community Blueprints.

Modding tools

Blast

A raw compiler and assembler that helps with compatibility. It also has a more minimalistic, lighter (but less hand-holding) fork called Rubble.

World Map / World Gen Tools

Perfect World DF

requires an additional (tiny) download to be funtional for current versions (34.#): http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=5491 . generate worlds to your liking easier or faster than df's ingame map maker. easy access to world settings too to modify. forum thread

Dwarf Fortress World Generator

A small bash script for automating world generation of large numbers of worlds on GNU/Linux. pastbin,reddit thread

Dwarf Map Maker

A photoshop action script which turns legends mode exported maps into a much prettier fantasy map. There is also a version available for GIMP.

Other/miscellaneous

dfterm3

Dfterm3 is a remote Dwarf Fortress playing software for multiple users through a web interface. It is a successor to dfterm2, which does exactly the same on telnet instead of a web browser.

Exita

Exita is a python program that takes your DF world map exports and dump them into several different text outputs.

Raw Explorer

Raw files manager.

Legends Viewer

Allows browsing legends easily.

• • Please note if you use DFHack's workflow tool, clear your workflow in either adventure mode or fortress mode prior to exporting the XML. The settings are stored in HEX format as legendary figures and you will get the HEX error when trying to import the XML into the viewer.

Lazy Newb Pack

A commonly-used software bundle with a nice launcher. Allows to start playing DF really quickly on a new machine - no need to download and integrate tilesets and tools like Dwarf Therapist, SoundSense, etc - or even know what you need to get. The newer packs also include many third-party fixes for common bugs, which work automatically, and a large number of significant user interface improvements. The launcher makes changing settings or graphics options much easier (press button, instead of editing files) and can even remember to launch selected utilities whenever you open a game of Dwarf Fortress.

The latest versions are:

• PeridexisErrant Lazy Newb Pack (windows)
• MacNewbie Pack ReBorn (OS X)
• Lazy Newb Pack Installer for Linux

The older versions have not been updated in more than a year. While they are still available, they're also incompatible with more recent tools and bug fixes:

• Lazy Newb Pack (windows, outdated)
• MacNewbie Pack Cyan v0.6 (OS X, outdated)
• There is no previous Linux edition.

DFMon

An announcement monitoring/filtering program, useful to get rid of job cancellation spam.

Tools under development

The tools listed below are under development for DF 2012, but cannot perform the task they are intended for at this time.

DFMAP(Title subject to change) Is a tool currently under development by the Authors Kabookie(Art Direction) and Neo Kabuto(Programming) That will take the RAW files of your currently generated map and turn them into beautiful renditions of ancient maps. The project should be completed the first quarter of 2013. For any information contact us at: kaleb@tribenine.org/