v0.31:Utilities

Please only list utilities that are known to work with the newest version here.

Here are third party applications useful for Dwarf Fortress.

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.

3D Visualizers

Stonesense by Jonask, Solifuge and Kaypy

Stonesense Screenshot

Stonesense is a third party real-time visualizer that lets you view your Dwarf Fortress world in a classic isometric perspective.

More information is available in this forum thread.

Stonesense Slate now supports v0.31.03 - get it here

Reveal

Reveal (or Reveal.exe as it is commonly referred to) is a program that runs alongside Dwarf Fortress and shows all "unexplored" or "undug" tiles of the map (in fortress mode). To reveal entire map designate the entire bottom level to be mined and then remove designation before running reveal (Not required in the latest version using the parameters below, simply start the .exe file.). Playing on revealed map might (read "will") cause some bugs (like not being able to build magma buildings or a tower-cap farm, losing all plants/trees on the map, and a lot more). Using Reveal has been known to corrupt saved game folders. and, as such, it is highly recommended to only use Reveal to preview a biome's layout and then restart without running Reveal.

There are two versions of Reveal, one for Vista and newer, one for XP and older.

The new version of Reveal.exe (Reveal2) is in public beta, you can find it here Reveal2. Please report problems in 0x517A5D's Talk page.

Pasting the following code into reveal2.ini makes it work for the newest (DF2010) version of Dwarf Fortress:

;; DF2010 31.02
[4BBDF378]
map_data=0x016ad718
map_x_count=0x016ad738
map_y_count=0x016ad73c
map_z_count=0x016ad740

[4BB45F99] can be substituted in for 31.01.

For 31.03, the following works:

; .31.03
[4BC3C470]
dwarf_fortress=0x00A5ED94
map_data=0x016AE760
map_x_count=0x016AE780
map_y_count=0x016AE784
map_z_count=0x016AE788
map_data_designation_offset=0x29C

However, do not save your game, it can mess up many things including civilizations (Giant Toad and Cave Crocodile civilizations, you will also embark with those if it should occur.)

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 etc.) and generally manage the Dwarven Resources of your fortress in a very convenient way.

Version 5.1 is out (4/24/10). This version supports DF build 3.01.03.

New dedicated support forum: http://code.google.com/p/dwarftherapist/

Dfterm

Dfterm is a tool to run dwarf fortress via terminals remotely. multiple people can connect and watch or join in.

Main article here: Dfterm.

DFHack

DFHack is a Dwarf Fortress memory access library and a set of basic tools using this library. The library is a work in progress, so things might change as more tools are written for it. The current (0.3.1.4) release only supports the new DF 0.31.01, 0.31.02 and 0.31.03 versions. It consists of some of the more useful DFHack tools.

Code and binary releases are available from the Github site.

DFhack tools for DF 2010

dfcleanmap

Cleans all the bloodsmears that get scattered all over the map.

dfliquids

Allows creating liquids (water and magma), making them flow or preventing them from flowing. Newly also allows making obsidian walls. It's a command-prompt style utility where you type in very simple commands. Replaces the older magma_create tool.

dfprospector

Lists all available minerals on the map and how much of them there is.

dfreveal

Reveals the whole map. Newly can also hide what it revealed. Use with caution, releases HFS! Same warnings as to the original Reveal tool apply.

dfvdig

Designates a whole vein for digging. When using the '-x' option, it will dig stairs into other z-levels. Point the cursor at a vein and run this thing :)

DF Map Compressor / DF Map Archive

• SL's DF Map Compressor - Website
• Dwarf Fortress Map Archive

The DF Map Compressor encodes multiple bitmaps exported from Dwarf Fortress into a single, very compressed, .fdf-map file. The fdf-map file can then be shared with your friends by uploading to the DF Map Archive that features an online viewer (written in Flash).

The map compressor was created by Shadowlord in May 2007. Extract from the website :

"The DF Map Compressor is a program I made to encode Dwarf Fortress fortress or world map images into a much smaller format than is possible with normal image formats. Here's a quick summary of how it works: It determines the size of your tiles from your DF font file (or asks you), splits the map up into tiles, identifies duplicate tiles, writes out every unique tile image, and then writes out a list of ID#s for each tile position which points to the tile image for that tile. What it outputs is piped through the LZMA compressor (the one used in 7-zip), to compress it further. The .df-map file which it writes out is usually less than 100 KB in size. (By comparison, a PNG of the same map can exceed 2 megabytes, depending on how well you compress it, whether you change the color depth, and whether you are using a graphical tileset or detailed font)."

Read more about the DF Map Archive on Markavian's User page.

DF Designer

DF Designer, by soundnfury is a fort layout planning tool. It enables you to work out your designs before you start to build, and even see how they look in 3-D. It's written in C with SDL, and both Linux and Windows builds are available. The source code is freely available under the GPL. Since DF Designer does not 'talk to' Dwarf Fortress, it is version-independent.

Raw tile tools

Raw tile selector

Provides an easy to use graphical interface to select which tiles and colors should be displayed for plants, stones and small creatures.

Made to ease the job of creators of tilesets with edited raws. It will also be useful for users that dislike decisions made by tileset creators or users that could not find the edited raws for a tileset.

Currently for windows xp only.

Raw tile merger

Provides an easy to use interface to change the tile and color data of raws to match the data of another set of raw files.

Made to ease the job of creators of tilesets with edited raws when new versions of df are released. The edited raws for your tileset for a new df version can now be created with a few clicks.

WinMerge

Winmerge allows you to compare the contents of folders or files. It highlights any differences between files and allows you to merge them. It is most useful for modders or users of mods. If you compare modified raw files with unmodified ones you can quickly see any differences.