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In Dwarf Fortress, creatures are defined as any (for the sake of this article, non-vermin) beings you can interact with. They come in all shapes and sizes, and range from the civilized races like Dwarves to evil monsters like giant cave spiders. Various creatures will interact with your fortress in many different ways.

See also: Animals

Reading the Table

Tile	Name	Playable	Hostile	Food Source	Adult Body Size	Pet Value (×)	Biome	Features

The above columns indicate, in order:

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 ingame.

Playable: If "No", the creature is not playable. "Fort" indicates that the creature is playable in Dwarf Fortress mode. "Adv" indicates that creature is playable in Adventure mode. (Note that creatures that are usually unplayable in adventure mode (such as Goblins) may be made playable by the world's history.)

Hostile: If "Yes" then the creature will attack on sight, if "No" then the creature is either neutral or friendly. Undead creatures are always hostile.

Food Source: If "Yes" then the creature can be butchered into 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 500 for a rabbit 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. These sizes do not correspond to the sizes which trigger pressure plates. Size is modified with height and broadness (ie. 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.

Biome: Where the creature can be found.

Features: Any special features the creature possesses, these can include things such as causing a syndrome, breathing fire, or spinning webs.

Creatures

Civilized

Main Races

Tile	Name	Playable	Hostile	Food Source	Adult Body Size	Pet Value (×)	Biome	Features
☺	Dwarf	Fort, Adv	No	No	60,000	Not tameable	Fortresses	Trading race
e	Elf	Adv	Variable1	No	60,000	Not tameable	Forest retreats	Trading race
g	Goblin	No	Variable1	No	60,000	Not tameable	Dark fortresses	Trading race, Snatchers2
U	Human	Adv	Variable1	No	70,000	Not tameable	Towns and cities	Trading race
k	Kobold	No	Variable1	No	20,000	Not tameable	Caves	Skulking race

1. Whether or not you are hostile with select civilized races is randomized for every game world.

2. Snatchers try to snatch children of other civilizations. Snatched individuals become part of the Snatcher's civ.

Animalman Races

Note: These creatures can form crude civilizations underground but will not trade with you. They wield some weapons and can join adventurers.

Tile	Name	Playable	Hostile	Food Source	Adult Body Size	Pet Value (×)	Biome	Features
a	Amphibian man	No	Variable1	Yes	20,000	Not tameable	Underground	Amphibious
a	Antman	No	Variable1	Yes	Variable2	Not tameable	Underground	Four castes
b	Bat man	No	Variable1	Yes	70,000	Not tameable	Underground	Can fly
f	Cave fish man	No	Variable1	Yes	70,000	Not tameable	Underground	Amphibious
s	Cave swallow man	No	Variable1	Yes	70,000	Not tameable	Underground	Can fly
o	Olm man	No	Variable1	Yes	70,000	Not tameable	Underground	Amphibious
r	Reptile man	No	Variable1	Yes	50,000	Not tameable	Underground	Amphibious
r	Rodent man	No	Variable1	Yes	40,000	Not tameable	Underground
s	Serpent man	No	Variable1	Yes	50,000	Not tameable	Underground	Amphibious; Causes Syndrome

1. Whether a animalman civilization treats you as hostile or not seems random, though this has not been tested.^[Verify]

2. Antmen body sizes depend on their caste.

Domestic Animals

Tile	Name	Playable	Hostile	Food Source	Adult Body Size	Pet Value (×)	Biome	Features
a	Alpaca	No	No	Yes	70,000	200	N/A	Domestic, milkable and can be sheared
p	Blue peafowl	No	No	Yes	4,000	10	Tropical broadleaf forest	Domestic, lay eggs
c	Cat	No	No	Yes	5,000	20	N/A	Domestic
c	Cavy	No	No	No	800	3	Tropical savanna, grassland, and shrubland	Domestic
c	Chicken	No	No	Yes	3,000	10	N/A	Domestic, lay eggs
C	Cow	No	No	Yes	600,000	300	N/A	Domestic and milkable
d	Dog	No	No	Yes	30,000	30	N/A	Domestic and trainable
d	Duck	No	No	No	1,000	10	Any lakes and any wetland	Domestic, lay eggs
D	Donkey	No	No	Yes	300,000	200	N/A	Domestic and milkable
g	Goat	No	No	Yes	50,000	50	N/A	Domestic and milkable
g	Goose	No	No	Yes	4,500	10	Temperate lakes and temperate marshes	Domestic, lay eggs
g	Guineafowl	No	No	No	1,500	10	N/A	Domestic, lay eggs
H	Horse	No	No	Yes	500,000	200	N/A	Domestic and milkable
L	Llama	No	No	Yes	180,000	200	N/A	Domestic, milkable and can be sheared
M	Mule	No	No	Yes	400,000	200	N/A	Domestic
C	One-humped camel	No	No	Yes	500,000	500	Any desert	Domestic, milkable
p	Pig	No	No	Yes	60,000	100	N/A	Domestic and milkable
r	Rabbit	No	No	No	500	3	Temperate savanna, grassland, and shrubland	Domestic
R	Reindeer	No	No	Yes	130,000	200	Tundra and taiga	Domestic and milkable
s	Sheep	No	No	Yes	50,000	100	N/A	Domestic, milkable and can be sheared
t	Turkey	No	No	Yes	5,000	10	Temperate forest, swamp and shrubland	Domestic, lay eggs
C	Two-humped camel	No	No	Yes	500,000	500	Any desert	Domestic, milkable
W	Wagon	No	No	No	12,000	Not tameable		A special "creature" - see article
W	Water buffalo	No	No	Yes	1,000,000	200	Tropical wetland	Domestic, milkable
Y	Yak	No	No	Yes	700,000	200	Mountains	Domestic, milkable

Special

Megabeasts

Tile	Name	Playable	Hostile	Food Source	Adult Body Size	Pet Value (×)	Biome	Features
C	Bronze colossus	No	Yes	No	20,000,000	Not tameable	All land	Made of bronze, fairly hard to kill
D	Dragon	No	Yes	Yes	25,000,000	10000	All land	Breathes fire, trainable
H	Hydra	No	Yes	Yes	8,000,000	10000	All land	Has seven heads
R	Roc	No	Yes	Yes	20,000,000	10000	All land	Can fly, trainable

Semi-Megabeasts

Tile	Name	Playable	Hostile	Food Source	Adult Body Size	Pet Value (×)	Biome	Features
C	Cyclops	No	Yes	Yes	8,000,000	Not tameable	All land	One eyed
E	Ettin	No	Yes	Yes	8,000,000	Not tameable	All land	Has two heads
G	Giant	No	Yes	Yes	9,000,000	Not tameable	All land
M	Minotaur	No	Yes	Yes	220,000	Not tameable	All land

Nonexistent

Tile	Name	Playable	Hostile	Food Source	Adult Body Size	Pet Value (×)	Biome	Features
C	Centaur	No	N/A	No	N/A	N/A	Nowhere	Only found in engravings
C	Chimera	No	N/A	No	N/A	N/A	Nowhere	Only found in engravings
G	Griffon	No	N/A	No	N/A	N/A	Nowhere	Only found in engravings

Above Ground

Tile	Name	Playable	Hostile	Food Source	Adult Body Size	Pet Value (×)	Biome	Features
A	Alligator	No	Yes	Yes	400,000	650	Freshwater swamps, marshes and rivers	Amphibious
B	Beak dog	No	Yes	Yes	150,000	50	Evil marshes	Can be mounted by goblins
g	Bilou	No	No	Yes	6,000	500	Tropical broadleaf forest
B	Black bear	No	Yes	Yes	120,000	300	Taiga and temperate forest	Steals booze
g	Black-crested gibbon	No	No	Yes	6,000	500	Tropical broadleaf forest
g	Black-handed gibbon	No	No	Yes	6,000	500	Tropical broadleaf forest
M	Blizzard man	No	Yes	No	300,000	Not tameable	Tundra and glaciers
b	Bonobo	No	No	Yes	50,000	500	Tropical broadleaf forest and shrubland
b	Buzzard	No	Yes	Yes	1,400	30	All desert and temperate grassland, savanna, and marsh	Steals food
c	Capybara	No	No	Yes	45,000	100	Any wetland	Makes sounds in Adventure mode
c	Cavy	No	No	No	800	3	Tropical savanna, grassland, and shrubland	Domestic
c	Cheetah	No	Yes	Yes	50,000	200	Tropical savanna, grassland, and shrubland
c	Chimpanzee	No	No	Yes	50,000	500	Tropical broadleaf forest and shrubland
C	Cougar	No	Yes	Yes	60,000	100	Any forest and shrubland
g	Dark gnome	No	Yes	No	15,000	Not tameable	Evil mountains	Steals booze
d	Deer	No	No	Yes	140,000	50	Taiga and temperate forest
d	Duck	No	No	No	1,000	10	Any lakes and any wetland	Domestic, lay eggs
E	Elephant	No	No	Yes	5,000,000	500	Tropical forest and shrubland	Trainable
E	Elk	No	No	Yes	300,000	100	Tundra and temperate grassland
b	Foul blendec	No	Yes	Yes	60,000	250	Most evil forest
f	Fox	No	No	Yes	6,000	25	Taiga and temperate forest
g	Gazelle	No	No	Yes	20,000	50	Tropical savanna and grassland
C	Giant cheetah	No	Yes	Yes	100,000	200	Tropical savanna, grassland, and shrubland	Trainable
S	Giant desert scorpion	No	Yes	Yes	200,000	2500	Savage desert	No pain, no stun, no emotion; deadly Syndrome
E	Giant eagle	No	Yes	Yes	100,000	700	Savage mountains	Trainable
J	Giant jaguar	No	Yes	Yes	150,000	100	Savage tropical areas, any desert	Trainable
L	Giant leopard	No	Yes	Yes	100,000	100	Savage tropical areas, any desert	Trainable
L	Giant lion	No	Yes	Yes	400,000	200	Some land	Trainable
T	Giant tiger	No	Yes	Yes	450,000	200	Some savage tropical areas	Trainable
P	Gigantic panda	No	No	Yes	650,000	1000	Temperate forest	Trainable
G	Giraffe	No	No	Yes	1,000,000	500	Tropical savanna and shrubland
g	Goose	No	No	Yes	4,500	10	Temperate lakes and temperate marshes	Domestic, lay eggs
G	Gorilla	No	No	Yes	150,000	500	Tropical broadleaf forest and swamp	Trainable
g	Gray gibbon	No	No	Yes	6,000	500	Tropical broadleaf forest
g	Grimeling	No	Yes	No	70,000	Not tameable	Evil swamps
B	Grizzly bear	No	Yes	Yes	200,000	500	Taiga and temperate forest	Steals booze, trainable
g	Groundhog	No	No	Yes	3,000	50	Temperate savanna, grassland, and shrubland
m	Hoary marmot	No	No	Yes	10,000	50	Mountains
w	Ice wolf	No	Yes	Yes	50,000	50	Evil tundra and glaciers	Pack animal
M	Moose	No	No	Yes	525,000 (males) 315,000 (females)	300	Taiga and temperate forest
g	Mountain gnome	No	No	No	15,000	Not tameable	Good mountains	Steals booze
g	Mountain goat	No	No	Yes	50,000	50	Mountains
M	Muskox	No	No	Yes	285,000	300	Tundra and grassland	Pulls wagons
N	Nightwing	No	Yes	Yes	120,000	50	Evil desert	Can fly
C	One-humped camel	No	No	Yes	500,000	500	All desert	Domestic, milkable
P	Panda	No	No	Yes	130,000	300	Temperate forest
B	Polar bear	No	Yes	Yes	400,000	100	Tundra and glaciers	Steals booze, trainable
R	Reindeer	No	No	Yes	130,000	200	Tundra and taiga	Domestic and milkable
R	Rhinoceros	No	No	Yes	3,000,000	500	Tropical savanna, grassland and shrubland
C	Saltwater crocodile	No	Yes	Yes	800,000	700	Any tropical swamps, marshes and rivers
S	Sasquatch	No	Yes	Yes	300,000	Not tameable	Temperate forest and taiga
s	Slugman	No	No	Yes	50,000	Not tameable	Any wetland and moist tropical broadleaf forest	No bones
s	Snailman	No	No	Yes	50,000	Not tameable	Any wetland and moist tropical broadleaf forest	No bones
s	Strangler	No	Yes	Yes	40,000	250	Evil tropical moist broadleaf forest
t	Turkey	No	No	Yes	5,000	10	Temperate forest, swamp and shrubland	Domestic, lay eggs
C	Two-humped camel	No	No	Yes	500,000	500	All desert	Domestic, milkable
U	Unicorn	No	No	Yes	600,000	1000	Good taiga, forest, and shrubland
W	Water buffalo	No	No	Yes	1,000,000	200	Tropical wetland	Domestic, milkable
W	Werewolf	No	Yes	Yes	120,000	50 or 1000	Evil tundra, taiga, temperate forest and shrubland
w	Wolf	No	Yes	Yes	40,000	50	Tundra, taiga, and temperate forest/shrubland
Y	Yak	No	No	Yes	700,000	200	Mountains	Domestic, milkable
Y	Yeti	No	Yes	Yes	300,000	Not tameable	Mountains, glaciers, and tundra

Subterranean

Tile	Name	Playable	Hostile	Food Source	Adult Body Size	Pet Value (×)	Biome	Features
M	Amethyst man	No	Yes	No	70,000	Not tameable	Caverns	Leaves behind an amethyst
B	Blind cave bear	No	Yes	Yes	200,000	500	Caverns
O	Blind cave ogre	No	Yes	Yes	7,000,000	500	Caverns
M	Blood man	No	Yes	No	70,000	Not tameable	Caverns
b	Bugbat	No	No	Yes	10,000	20	Caverns
o	Cave blob	No	No	No	20,000	50	Caverns	Causes syndrome
C	Cave crocodile	No	Yes	Yes	600,000	750	Caverns
D	Cave dragon	No	Yes	Yes	15,000,000	10,000	Caverns
f	Cave floater	No	No	No	40,000	50	Caverns	Causes syndrome
e	Creeping eye	No	No	Yes	20,000	50	Caverns
c	Crundle	No	Yes	Yes	10,000	50	Caverns
D	Draltha	No	No	Yes	2,500,000	500	Caverns
d	Drunian	No	No	Yes	50,000	50	Caverns	Steals food and items
E	Elk bird	No	No	Yes	100,000	400	Caverns
i	Fire imp	No	Yes	Yes	6,000	Not tameable	Magma	Throws fireballs
M	Fire man	No	Yes	No	70,000	Not tameable	Magma	Throws fireballs and leaves behind ashes
o	Flesh ball	No	No	Yes	70,000	10	Subterranean water
%	Floating guts	No	No	Yes	20,000	10	Caverns
M	Gabbro man	No	Yes	No	70,000	Not tameable	Caverns	Leaves behind gabbro
B	Giant bat	No	Yes	Yes	100,000	750	Caverns	Trainable
S	Giant cave spider	No	Yes	Yes	100,000	2,500	Caverns	Spins/throws webs and causes syndrome
C	Giant cave swallow	No	No[Verify]	Yes	100,000	700	Caverns	Trainable
W	Giant earthworm	No	No	Yes	1,500,000	500	Caverns
m	Giant mole	No	No[Verify]	Yes	200,000	350	Caverns	Steals food and booze
O	Giant olm	No	Yes	Yes	300,000	750	Caverns
R	Giant rat	No	No[Verify]	Yes	100,000	500	Caverns	Steals food and booze
T	Giant toad	No	Yes	Yes	300,000	750	Caverns
g	Gorlak	No	No	Yes	50,000	Not tameable	Good caverns
G	Green devourer	No	Yes	Yes	70,000	200	Caverns
g	Gremlin	No	No	No	10,000	N/A	Caverns	Cause mischief around fortress
s	Helmet snake	No	Yes	Yes	50,000	30	Caverns	Causes syndrome
h	Hungry head	No	Yes	Yes	5,000	50	Caverns	Flying
M	Iron man	No	Yes	No	70,000	Not tameable	Caverns	Causes syndrome
J	Jabberer	No	Yes	Yes	4,500,000	1500	Caverns
r	Large rat	No	No	Yes	25,000	250	Caverns	Steals food
C	Magma crab	No	No	Yes	30,000	200	Magma	Throws molten basalt
M	Magma man	No	Yes	No	70,000	Not tameable	Magma	Leaves behind obsidian
m	Manera	No	Yes	No	60,000	Not tameable	Evil caverns
M	Molemarian	No	Yes	No	90,000	400	Caverns
M	Mud man	No	Yes	No	70,000	Not tameable	Caverns
n	Naked mole dog	No	No	Yes	60,000	350	Caverns	Steals food
m	Plump helmet man	No	No	No	50,000	Not tameable	Caverns
p	Pond grabber	No	Yes	Yes	30,000	50	Caverns
R	Reacher	No	Yes	Yes	70,000	100	Caverns
R	Rutherer	No	No	Yes	3,000,000	600	Caverns	Exotic Mount
t	Troglodyte	No	Yes	No	6,000	Not tameable	Caverns
T	Troll	No	Yes	Yes	250,000	Not tameable	Caverns	Forms civilizations
C	Voracious cave crawler	No	Yes	Yes	900,000	1000	Caverns

Aquatic

Note: This does not include subterranean sea creatures.

Tile	Name	Playable	Hostile	Food Source	Adult Body Size	Pet Value (×)	Biome	Features
A	Alligator	No	Yes	Yes	400,000	650	Freshwater swamps, marshes and rivers	Amphibious
s	Angelshark	No	No	Yes	15,000	200	Oceans
S	Basking shark	No	No	Yes	15,000,000	1000	Oceans
S	Blacktip reef shark	No	Yes	Yes	15,000	200	Oceans
S	Blue shark	No	Yes	Yes	300,000	400	Oceans
α	Bluefin tuna	No	No	Yes	600,000	200	Oceans
α	Bluefish	No	No	Yes	15,000	200	Oceans
S	Bull shark	No	Yes	Yes	150,000	500	Oceans
α	Carp	No	No	Yes	40,000	50	Freshwater rivers and lakes
α	Cod	No	No	Yes	50,000	200	Oceans
c	Coelacanth	No	No	Yes	80,000	200	Oceans
ò	Common skate	No	No	Yes	100,000	200	Oceans
~	Conger eel	No	No	Yes	50,000	400	Oceans
d	Duck	No	No	No	1,000	10	Any lakes and any wetland	Domestic, lay eggs
p	Emperor penguin	No	No	Yes	30,000	10	Arctic ocean
s	Frill shark	No	Yes	Yes	60,000	500	Oceans
G	Giant grouper	No	No	Yes	600,000	200	Oceans
g	Goose	No	No	Yes	4,500	10	Temperate lakes and temperate marshes	Domestic, lay eggs
B	Great barracuda	No	Yes	Yes	60,000	200	Oceans
S	Great white shark	No	Yes	Yes	2,000,000	500	Oceans
α	Halibut	No	No	Yes	200,000	200	Oceans
S	Hammerhead shark	No	Yes	Yes	500,000	500	Oceans
H	Hippo	No	No	Yes	1,500,000	400	Tropical rivers and lakes
l	Leechman	No	yes	Yes	50,000	Not tameable	Freshwater lakes	No bones, sucks blood
p	Little penguin	No	No	No	1,500	10	Arctic ocean
S	Longfin mako shark	No	Yes	Yes	30,000	500	Oceans
g	Longnose gar	No	no	Yes	20,000	200	Temperate rivers and lakes
►	Manta ray	No	No	Yes	2,300,000	500	Oceans
α	Marlin	No	No	Yes	800,000	500	Tropical and temperate oceans
M	Merperson	No	No	No	70,000	Not tameable	Good oceans
α	Milkfish	No	No	Yes	10,000	50	Almost all water
S	Nurse shark	No	No	Yes	150,000	300	Oceans
α	Ocean sunfish	No	No	Yes	1,000,000	500	Oceans
α	Opah	No	No	Yes	200,000	200	Oceans
p	Penguin	No	No	No	4,000	10	Arctic ocean
α	Pike	No	No	Yes	35,000	200	Temperate rivers and lakes
p	Platypus	No	No	No	2,000	10	All rivers
C	Saltwater crocodile	No	Yes	Yes	800,000	700	Any tropical swamps, marshes and rivers
~	Sea lamprey	No	Yes	Yes	20,000	200	Almost all water
M	Sea monster	No	Yes	Yes	8,000,000	1000	Evil oceans
S	Sea serpent	No	Yes	Yes	9,000,000	1000	Savage oceans
S	Shortfin mako shark	No	Yes	Yes	80,000	500	Oceans
s	Spiny dogfish	No	No	Yes	30,000	200	Oceans
S	Spotted wobbegong	No	No	Yes	80,000	200	Oceans
ò	Stingray	No	No	Yes	5,000	200	Almost all water
α	Sturgeon	No	No	Yes	1,500,000	300	Oceans and rivers
α	Swordfish	No	No	Yes	650,000	500	Oceans
S	Tiger shark	No	Yes	Yes	500,000	500	Oceans
α	Tigerfish	No	Yes	Yes	50,000	200	Tropical freshwater rivers and lakes
W	Walrus	No	No	Yes	1,500,000	400	Arctic ocean
W	Whale	No	No	Yes	20,000,000	1000	Oceans
W	Whale shark	No	No	Yes	20,000,000	1000	Oceans
S	Whitetip reef shark	No	Yes	Yes	15,000	200	Oceans

Hidden Fun Stuff

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Tile	Name	Playable	Hostile	Food Source	Adult Body Size	Pet Value (×)	Biome	Features
&	Demon	No	Yes	N/A	N/A	Not tameable	Hell	See article for more information
Any	Forgotten beast	No	Yes	N/A	N/A	Not tameable	All underground	See article for more information
Ñ	Night creature	No	Yes	N/A	N/A	Not tameable	All above-ground	See article for more information
Any	Titan	No	N/A	N/A	N/A	Not tameable	All above-ground	See article for more information