Dinos are coming June 25th! 🦖 Dwarf Fortress Dev Update

We're back and excited to announce that the Dino Update will be arriving June 25th!

Featuring:

• 100 dinos and extinct creatures, including baby and dinomen versions

• Dinos can be used for war, as a pet or as food

• 5 new settings to adjust how dinos appear in your world

• Animal people graphical update with held equipment and some bodywear

• ...and more!

There will be a wide variety of creatures from the Cambrian Explosion all the way to the extinct mammals and birds of the Holocene era. You'll need to create a new world to see the dinos but you should see the animal people update in existing saves. Dinos are totally optional and there will be some new settings so you can adjust how they appear in Create New World.

Here is just a small sample of the sprites, organized by era (Cambrian creatures too small to show up on graphic):

Interview with Dino Artist!

If you'd like to see even more examples, I talked to artist Guido/Neoriceisgood to get the inside scoop on how the team selected and depicted all the dinos:

20th Anniversary Celebrations

We're celebrating the 20th anniversary of the original Dwarf Fortress all year and we've got some fun things lined up for this summer (details coming soon). We've also been sending out prize packs for folks who are organizing their own Dwarf Fortress gatherings. If you're interested in running your own event, feel free to fill out this form and we might send you some goodies! The form will only be open for another month.

We'll have more dino info and full patch notes on update launch day! See you then!

-Alexandra