Alternate creature sorting

In Dwarf Fortress, a creature is defined as any animate, normally-mobile being that can interact with the world. Although most creatures are animals, dwarves, giant cave spiders, and even megabeasts are all also considered creatures. Various creatures can and will interact with a fortress or adventurer in many different ways.When learning about what creatures there are and the purposes they serve, sometimes it helps to be able to sort them in different ways, such as by where they are found, what features they may have, and similar things. This page was created to allow people to sort creatures by different means to suit other purposes.

Common table labeling

Tile: The tile assigned to the creature, how you will see it without a graphic set.

Name: The name of the creature as it shows up in-game.

Type: This divides the creatures up to a number of groups. "Person" refers to the main races, "Animal Person" refers to the intelligent, bipedal animal people, "Animal" refers to the majority of creatures, "Megabeast" will include both megabeast and semi-megabeasts, and "Vermin" which refers to any creature below 2 kg that is frequently unnoticeable.

Playable: If "No", the creature is not playable in any modes. "Fort" indicates that the creature is playable in fortress mode ([SITE_CONTROLLABLE]). "Adv" indicates that the creature is playable in adventure mode. All creatures except humans must have a population in an [ALL_MAIN_POPS_CONTROLLABLE] civilization in order to be playable in adventure mode; goblins (and other creatures) cannot be played from a goblin civ. Humans can be played whether or not a population exists due to [OUTSIDER_CONTROLLABLE], but an [ALL_MAIN_POPS_CONTROLLABLE] civ still needed to have existed at some point. Creatures with [LOCAL_POPS_CONTROLLABLE] are also playable in adventure mode.

Area: This refers to general areas that creatures are found. "Above Ground" creatures are found on the surface, "Subterranean" creatures are found below ground, "Domestic" are creatures exclusively domestic, "Aquatic" creatures will refer only to creatures exclusively found in non-subterranean water, "Semi-Aquatic" are creatures found exclusively near water, but can go on land.

Hostile: If "Yes" then the creature will attack on sight, if "No" then the creature is either neutral or friendly, and if "Variable" it can vary randomly if the creature will be hostile. This is most seen in animal people. Undead creatures are always hostile to living things.

Food Source: If "Yes" then the creature can be butchered into an edible substance that your dwarves will feed on.

Adult Body Size: The average size of the creature when an adult. This can be anywhere from 1 for a fly to 25,000,000 for a dragon. The creature's volume in cm³, which for creatures made of flesh more or less equals the creature's weight in grams.[1] These sizes do not correspond to the sizes which trigger pressure plates. Size is modified with height and broadness (i.e. incredible skinny and short is below the average weight, while a fat and tall one is above it).

Pet Value: This is the value the creature can be bought and sold for as a pet during trading.

However, these are just the universally used labels, each table will have additional labels to allow more variety in sorting.

Complete Creature List

This section has every possible creature, including vermin, that are in the game, allowing you to sort them based on your needs.

Creature Biomes and Locations

This section has the various creatures sorted based on biomes and locations.

Domestic Creatures and Their Uses

Here you can view all domestic creatures and sort them based on how you may use them, such as egg laying, pack animals, or food.

Tile	Name	Food Source	Adult Body Size	Pet Value (×)	Wild Caught	Egg Laying	Milkable	Shearable	Pack Animal	Wagon Puller	Trainable	Other
a	Alpaca	Yes	70,000	200	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	No
p	Blue peafowl	Yes	4,000	10	Yes, Tropical broadleaf forest	Yes	No	No	No	No	No
c	Cat	Yes	5,000	20	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	Good at hunting vermin
c	Cavy	No	800	3	Yes, Tropical savanna, grassland, and shrubland	No	No	No	No	No	No	Agile, useful as live bait
c	Chicken	Yes	3,000	10	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No
C	Cow	Yes	600,000	300	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No
d	Dog	Yes	30,000	30	No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes
d	Duck	No	1,000	10	Yes, Any lakes or wetland	Yes	No	No	No	No	No
D	Donkey	Yes	300,000	200	No	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	No
g	Goat	Yes	50,000	50	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No
g	Goose	Yes	4,500	10	Yes, Temperate lakes and temperate marshes	Yes	No	No	No	No	No
g	Guineafowl	No	1,500	10	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No
H	Horse	Yes	500,000	200	No	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No
L	Llama	Yes	180,000	200	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	No
M	Mule	Yes	400,000	200	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	No
C	One-humped camel	Yes	500,000	500	Yes, Any desert	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	No
p	Pig	Yes	60,000	100	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No
r	Rabbit	No	500	3	Yes, Temperate savanna, grassland, and shrubland	No	No	No	No	No	No
R	Reindeer	Yes	130,000	200	Yes, Tundra and taiga	No	Yes	No	No	No	No
s	Sheep	Yes	50,000	100	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	No
t	Turkey	Yes	5,000	10	Yes, Temperate forest, swamp and shrubland	Yes	No	No	No	No	No
C	Two-humped camel	Yes	500,000	500	Yes, Any desert	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	No
W	Wagon	No	12,000	Not tameable	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	A special "creature" - see article
W	Water buffalo	Yes	1,000,000	200	Yes, Tropical wetland	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No
Y	Yak	Yes	700,000	200	Yes, Mountains	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No