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Ambush

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[[File:ambush_olm_preview.png|thumb|238px|right|An ambush with [[Cave fish man|cave fish men]] in a cavern.]]
An '''ambush''' is a type of attack in [[fortress mode]] where a small force of enemy {{Catlink|humanoids}} attempts a sneak attack on your [[fortress]]. Smaller in scope than a full [[siege]], ambushes are not related to the number of [[dwarf|dwarves]] in your fortress. Enemies arrive in one or more separate "squads" of maybe 6-10 individuals that (try to) work and move as a team, similar to a dwarf military [[squad]].

Unlike [[siege]]s, ambushes are not [[announcement|announced]] immediately, and the attacking units are only revealed when your fortress becomes aware of the attackers in a way that does trigger an announcement, either when they set off a [[cage trap]] or come sufficiently close to a dwarf, [[caravan]] member, or [[pet]] (they ignore non-hostile wildlife). Ambushes can also be discovered manually if the player happens upon on an invader [[corpse]] and some [[goblinite]] in one of your weapon [[trap]]s (which do not cause announcements when they are triggered). Once an ambush squad is detected visually by a dwarf or pet, an ambush will generate a [[Announcement#Major announcement|major announcement]], the wording of which depends on the invader. There may be more than one enemy squad on the map, and each must be detected separately.

Ambushes, just like [[siege]]s, nearly always happen at the beginning of a season, generally in the first 15 days of the first month, often arriving with [[caravan]]s, but can happen at any time. Note that elves will usually ambush with more than one squad (up to 50+), each of which has to be detected separately and triggers a separate announcement. If ambushers are caught in cage traps, they will be marked as Caged Prisoner in the unit screen. These prisoners can be dragged around between cages (or tossed over tall towers), although there may be a risk of jailbreak. If you abandon your fortress while an ambush is active, you will receive the message "Your strength has been broken." Finally, when the leader of an ambush is killed (or captured), but not the other units, they will stand around and "wait" for their leader; this is probably a [[bug]].

== Types of ambushes ==
=== Elves ===
{{dftext|An ambush! Curse all friends of nature!|4:1}}

[[Elven]] ambushes may occur if your [[civilization]] is at war with a neighboring elven civilization. These ambushes have the same structure as the elven sieges, where their numbers and the nature of an ambush may very well catch an unprepared fortress off-guard. They might also bring exotic beasts as they may do during sieges, as well as [[animal people]] that can fight alongside the elves.

As soon as an ambush is detected, a group of a dozen elves will appear at the map. Be aware that an ambush does not only have one wave of enemies, but detection of several scores of elves is highly possible. But as with elven sieges, the elves themselves are very poorly equipped and carry only [[wood]]en armor and weaponry. [[Clothing]] is also known to be dropped by slain <s>hippies</s> elves.

=== Kobolds ===
{{dftext|An ambush! Skulking vermin!|4:1}}

[[Kobold]] ambushes are triggered by a long enough string of successful kobold thievery. This usually only happens when kobold thieves manage to steal from an outdoor cache of some sort that your dwarves cannot access for some reason, possibly fallen [[goblinite]] from or during an ongoing siege. Kobold ambushes are mostly notable for being much more annoying than kobold thieves, and should not be allowed to occur.

It should be noted that the first ambushes from kobolds are full of recruits who have never seen a dwarf in their life, and will almost always scatter and run away instead of fighting.

=== Necromancers ===
{{dftext|An ambush! Drive them out!|4:1}}

[[Necromancer]]s will also occasionally ambush your fortress, if you are in range of their [[Tower (necromancy)|tower]] and they opt out of a full-on [[siege]]. Necromancer ambushes consist of several necromancers, each one being detected individually; an early warning sign for a necromancer ambush is the presence of [[undead]] in non-evil [[biome|biomes]]. The necromancers themselves are harmless, being regular old unarmed humanoids; however, very bad things will happen if they manage to find their way within sight of any left-over goblin sieges, [[corpse]] or [[refuse]] [[stockpile]]s, or (Armok forbid) last month's [[dragon]] invader. For this reason it is highly recommended that fortresses within sounding range of a tower internalize or [[atom smasher|atom smash]] all of their meat byproducts, and set [[standing orders]] to "gather refuse from outside" and clean up any meaty outdoor bits.

=== Cavern Dwellers ===
{{dftext|Cavern dwellers! Send them back to the darkness!|4:1}}
[[File:Olm_People_Invaders.png|thumb|right|125px|They just keep coming!]]
[[File:Don't be next Bomrek.png|200px|thumb|left|Urist didn't make it out. Don't be next, Bomrek.]]

Upon breaching the [[caverns]], your fortress may occasionally be attacked by a large swarm of underground [[animal people]], such as [[Olm man|olm men]]. As with most ambushes, they often remain hidden until they get close enough to attack, but unlike other ambushes, their numbers can be well into the dozens or more, resulting in alert and notification spam as a new wave of them is discovered, so while these appear to use the mechanics of an ambush, they are somewhere between an ambush and a siege.

Cavern dwellers are typically armed with [[shields]] and [[spears]] made of random military-grade metals, up to and including [[steel]], but no [[armor]]. As such, they are easily dispatched by well-equipped dwarven veterans, but their numbers can quickly overwhelm even your mightiest warriors if one of them is caught alone during a patrol. They can be especially deadly versus your civilians, as well as any inexperienced fighters or [[monster slayer]]s.

They may also bring pets or mounts, at the worst gigantic war [[jabberer|jabberers]] or [[rutherer|rutherers]], which can pose their own set of problems, as either of those is too large to be crushed by a bridge.

They may attempt to relocate to a safer location in the caverns if they begin to lose, but they sometimes don't fully leave the map - amphibians may dive underwater and lie in wait to lick their wounds, which can have [[Fun]] consequences if your ☼Steel-clad☼ dwarves dive in chasing a kill, only to drown when they can't get back out, leaving all of their equipment at the bottom of an infinitely-replenishing lake, potentially forever lost. If this becomes a problem, creating a [[swimming pool]] or other means of teaching your dwarves to swim en masse should become a priority, as should engraved [[slabs]] to prevent [[ghosts]].

As caverns are always "indoors," massive clouds of [[miasma]] from the rotting corpses can also quickly become an issue for anyone doing work down there, as there are typically far too many to dispose of in a timely fashion.

=== Other ===
[[Quester]]s seeking an artifact may attempt to sneak in and steal their target from your fortress. If discovered, they may run away or attack, depending on their temperament.

[[Werebeast]]s from the wilds may also attempt to ambush your fortress during a full moon. If discovered, they trigger a message similar to the one that is shown when a Megabeast attacks ("The Were(creature) (name) has come! ... Now you will know why you fear the night."). At the conclusion of the full moon, they return to their normal form and attempt to leave the site. If discovered in this state, they will still be announced as above, but with the details of their current form ("The Human (name) has come! A medium size creature prone to great ambition.")

== Notes ==

* Hidden ambushers do not display combat reports, but their combat actions may be included in other units' combat reports.
* Upon discovery of an unconscious or otherwise incapacitated ambusher, the game will announce "There is a (creature) hidden away here." instead of the usual ambush announcement.{{cite forum|35009/581009}}
* Hidden ambushers are revealed upon death, without any announcement.

== Adventure Mode ==

Ambushes also occur from Fast Travel in [[Adventurer mode]]. When traveling, [[Army|armies]] and other traveling figures are shown as shields/asterisks, and if hostile, then approaching the region tile they occupy will trigger an ambush. Depending on the savagery of the land, you may also be randomly ambushed by the dominant predator(s) of the biome. Traveling alone at night in certain [[evil]] biomes may result in a [[bogeyman]] ambush.

When ambushed, the fast travel map will close and you will appear on the local map with your ambusher(s). If they're in view, they will be identified in a major announcement, but if obscured by terrain, distance, or lighting, then the announcement will inform you "You feel uneasy." As long as your ambushers can detect you or a party member, you will be unable to fast travel, as "You don't feel safe enough to travel."

Typical ambushes come from roving large predators (including [[giant]]s, giant [[Undead|zombies]], [[night troll]]s, etc) and [[Army|patrols]] from a hostile settlement nearby (such as from enemy civs or [[Bandit|raider]] [[camp]]s.) Muggers harassing towns also trigger ambushes; though they don't appear hostile at first, they intend to commit crimes against persons and property, including yours. And angered settlements or raider groups may take revenge by sending assassins who will strike even in the safe confines of a city.

If you're unprepared for the ambush, you can evade it successfully by escaping your pursuer's view, using terrain, speed, and stealth, until you're able to fast travel safely. This is easiest against random predators who can't detect you at the time of ambush. When evading [[historical figure]]s, fast traveling to another region tile adjacent to it will trigger another ambush, so you must get sufficient distance from them in order to successfully elude them.

== See also ==
* [[Security design]]
* [[Siege]]
* [[Wealth]]

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Ethic

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'''Ethic''' tags are used in the [[Entity token|entity raw files]] to determine how different civilizations feel about various issues. Relationships between civilizations are based on their ethic responses in relation to each other; similar ethics result in friendship, while conflicting ethics result in animosity. Strongly conflicting ethics often trigger [[war]]s during [[world generation]]. (In practice, this generally causes [[Elf|elves]] to declare war on everybody else over killing plants and making trophies, and everybody else to declare war on the elves over the devouring of [[Person|sapient beings]].)

Some ethics also affect [[fortress mode]] features, such as [[justice]], or [[trading]]. In [[adventurer mode]], ethics can affect the [[level of conflict]] (lethal, or no quarter). During [[world generation]], ethics also affect how the entity treats its kills, such as devouring them or making trophies out of them.

== Example ==
In the [[raw file]]s for entities, ethics appear as follows:
[ETHIC:LYING:PERSONAL_MATTER]

This means that the entity will treat lying as a personal matter - more technically, the value of its LYING ethic is set to PERSONAL_MATTER.

== Ethic types ==
{| {{prettytable}}
|- bgcolor="#dddddd"
!Token
!Extra Information
|-
| {{text anchor|ASSAULT}}
| The result of a tantrumming citizen attacking another in fortress mode. Other effects unknown.
|-
| {{text anchor|EAT_SAPIENT_KILL}}
| This determines if members of the civilization will sometimes devour defeated enemy combatants.
|-
| {{text anchor|EAT_SAPIENT_OTHER}}
| This includes whether or not a civilization is willing to [[butcher]] other sapients. Note that any sapient creature that dies on site will never be butchered by citizens in fortress mode, and if butchered in adventure mode the products are inedible and unusable. However, this works for offsite behaviors (caravans will deliver products made from sentients, etc.) Also note that if an item doesn't actually come from a sapient creature that died on site (i.e: it was generated as part of a caravan or site) it is usable and edible regardless of ethics.
|-
| {{text anchor|KILL_ANIMAL}}
| A response of JUSTIFIED_IF_EXTREME_REASON, JUSTIFIED_IF_SELF_DEFENSE, or anything from MISGUIDED to UNTHINKABLE (see below) causes the entity to refuse animal products in trade — namely, [[material token|materials]] with [IMPLIES_ANIMAL_KILL]. Animal products sold by caravans will be marked as "grown", which means kosher for their ethics, for example grown leather.
|-
| {{text anchor|KILL_ENEMY}}
| If REQUIRED, all lethal combat with an enemy who is an enemy of the whole entity will put the creature in [[no quarter]] mode.
|-
| {{text anchor|KILL_ENTITY_MEMBER}}
| If REQUIRED, all lethal combat with an enemy in the same entity will put the creature in [[no quarter]] mode. Determines whether and how often entity members will be murdered.
|-
| {{text anchor|KILL_NEUTRAL}}
| If REQUIRED, all lethal combat with an enemy who is neutral with the entity will put the creature in [[no quarter]] mode, and the creature will also demand that strangers identify themselves; it will also greatly increase war aggression in worldgen.
|-
| {{text anchor|KILL_PLANT}}
| This includes a civilization's position towards wood — any response from MISGUIDED to UNTHINKABLE (see below) causes the entity to refuse wooden objects (except for "grown" wooden objects) in trade, and also prohibits them from bringing caravan [[wagon]]s. Caravans will sell grown wood objects (if the civ has WOOD_PREF) and even grown non-wood objects, that elves refuse to buy (if the civ uses misc processed wood products).
|-
| {{text anchor|LYING}}
| Giving false witness reports?{{verify}}
|-
| {{text anchor|MAKE_TROPHY_ANIMAL}}
| This determines whether animal kills will lead to characters with trophies. [[Historical figure]]s can arrive at your fortress with leather, horn, ivory, tooth, hair, bone or nail jewellery from slain non-sapients, and fortress citizens may put on [[crafts]] made from their kills as well.
|-
| {{text anchor|MAKE_TROPHY_SAME_RACE}}
| This determines whether kills of one's own race will lead to characters with trophies. [[Historical figure]]s can arrive at your fortress with leather, tooth, hair, bone or nail jewellery from their race. Example: a goblin with a -goblin tooth ring-.
|-
| {{text anchor|MAKE_TROPHY_SAPIENT}}
| This determines whether kills of other sapients will lead to characters with trophies - as previously, but regarding other races, including INTELLIGENT.
|-
| {{text anchor|OATH_BREAKING}}
| The result of a citizen violating noble mandates in fortress mode. Other effects unknown.
|-
| {{text anchor|SLAVERY}}
|Civilization will enslave defeated enemies and bring them back to their site. Also affects whether you may trade caged sapient beings to merchants. Aside from diplomacy, higher/lower values don't seem to affect anything beyond if a civilization is willing to take slaves at all. {{verify}}
|-
| {{text anchor|THEFT}}
| This determines whether the civilization will try to steal goods and how it will respond when stolen from.{{verify}}
|-
| {{text anchor|TORTURE_ANIMALS}}
|Determines if the civilization will kill all animals of the conquered site, or preserve them for further use.
|-
| {{text anchor|TORTURE_AS_EXAMPLE}}
|Civilization will sometimes execute non-combatants after defeating enemy defenders.
|-
| {{text anchor|TORTURE_FOR_FUN}}
|
|-
| {{text anchor|TORTURE_FOR_INFORMATION}}
|
|-
| {{text anchor|TREASON}}
| Protects position-holders from being murdered like everyone else – the reason that demon overlords of goblins manage to live for centuries, despite goblins' regard of killing each other as being a personal matter.
|-
| {{text anchor|TRESPASSING}}
| Ignoring burrow restrictions {{verify}}
|-
| {{text anchor|VANDALISM}}
| The result of a tantruming citizen breaking furniture in fortress mode. Other effects unknown.
|}

==Ethic values==
As used internally (see below), roughly in order of acceptability:

{| {{prettytable}}
|- bgcolor="#dddddd"
! Num !! Token
|-
| 0 || {{text anchor|NOT_APPLICABLE}} || Also used as a fallback if not set.
|-
| 1 || {{text anchor|ACCEPTABLE}}
|-
| 2 || {{text anchor|PERSONAL_MATTER}}
|-
| 3 || {{text anchor|JUSTIFIED_IF_NO_REPERCUSSIONS}}
|-
| 4 || {{text anchor|JUSTIFIED_IF_GOOD_REASON}}
|-
| 5 || {{text anchor|JUSTIFIED_IF_EXTREME_REASON}}
|-
| 6 || {{text anchor|JUSTIFIED_IF_SELF_DEFENSE}}
|-
| 7 || {{text anchor|ONLY_IF_SANCTIONED}}
|-
| 8 || {{text anchor|MISGUIDED}}
|-
| 9 || {{text anchor|SHUN}}
|-
| 10 || {{text anchor|APPALLING}}
|-
| 11 || {{text anchor|PUNISH_REPRIMAND}}
|-
| 12 || {{text anchor|PUNISH_SERIOUS}} || Will result in either a beating or a month in prison. See: [[Justice#Punishments]]
|-
| 13 || {{text anchor|PUNISH_EXILE}} || Mentioning in history: "...after being exiled following a criminal conviction."
|-
| 14 || {{text anchor|PUNISH_CAPITAL}} || Will result in either 8 months in prison or 50 hammerstrikes. See: [[Justice#Punishments]]
|-
| 15 || {{text anchor|UNTHINKABLE}}
|-
| 16 || {{text anchor|REQUIRED}}
|}

==Ethic value numbers in relation to each other==
The following table describes how entities respond to other cultures, with the observer on the vertical axis and their target on the horizontal axis.
If an entity's accumulated animosity towards another passes a certain threshold (determined by the ruler's personality) then it will run a risk-assessment check. If passed, this will lead to a declaration of war.

In general, entities react much more strongly to actions that violate ''their'' taboos than to the outlawing of their customs in other civilisations.
For example, Civ A finds slavery Acceptable, but Civ B considers it a Capital Offence.
* Civ A will consider Civ B most unreasonable (−5) for executing people over such a non-issue.
* Civ B will be shocked and disgusted (−15) that Civ A engages in such a debased activity.
* The end result is mutual negativity. However, Civ B is 3× ''more'' offended, and much more likely to go to war over the issue — assuming, of course, they think they have a chance of winning.

{| {{prettytable}}
|- bgcolor="#dddddd"
! rowspan=2 colspan=2 |  
! colspan=16 | TARGET
|- bgcolor="#dddddd"
!width=6%| Accept. ||width=6%| Personal ||width=6%| Reperc. ||width=6%| Good ||width=6%| Extreme ||width=6%| Self-Def. ||width=6%| Sanct. ||width=6%| Misguid. ||width=6%| Shun ||width=6%| Appall. ||width=6%| Reprim. ||width=6%| Serious ||width=6%| Exile ||width=6%| Capital ||width=6%| Unthink. ||width=6%| Req.
|-
! rowspan=16 | {{rotate|OBSERVER}}     
! Acceptable || {{tc|blue|+1}} || {{tc|blue|+1}} || {{tc|blue|+1}} || 0 || 0 || 0 || 0 || {{tc|red|−1}} || {{tc|red|−2}} || {{tc|red|−2}} || {{tc|red|−2}} || {{tc|red|−3}} || {{tc|red|−5}} || {{tc|red|−5}} || {{tc|red|−2}} || {{tc|blue|+1}}
|-
! Personal || {{tc|blue|+1}} || {{tc|blue|+1}} || {{tc|blue|+1}} || 0 || 0 || 0 || 0 || {{tc|red|−1}} || {{tc|red|−2}} || {{tc|red|−2}} || {{tc|red|−2}} || {{tc|red|−3}} || {{tc|red|−5}} || {{tc|red|−5}} || {{tc|red|−2}} || {{tc|blue|+1}}
|-
! No Reperc. || {{tc|blue|+1}} || {{tc|blue|+1}} || {{tc|blue|+1}} || 0 || 0 || 0 || 0 || {{tc|red|−1}} || {{tc|red|−2}} || {{tc|red|−2}} || {{tc|red|−2}} || {{tc|red|−3}} || {{tc|red|−5}} || {{tc|red|−5}} || {{tc|red|−2}} || {{tc|blue|+1}}
|-
! Good Reas. || 0 || 0 || 0 || {{tc|blue|+2}} || {{tc|blue|+1}} || 0 || 0 || 0 || {{tc|red|−1}} || {{tc|red|−1}} || {{tc|red|−1}} || {{tc|red|−1}} || {{tc|red|−1}} || {{tc|red|−1}} || {{tc|red|−1}} || 0
|-
! Extreme Reas. || {{tc|red|−1}} || {{tc|red|−1}} || 0 || {{tc|blue|+1}} || {{tc|blue|+2}} || 0 || 0 || 0 || {{tc|red|−1}} || {{tc|red|−1}} || {{tc|red|−1}} || {{tc|red|−1}} || {{tc|red|−1}} || {{tc|red|−1}} || {{tc|red|−1}} || {{tc|red|−1}}
|-
! Self-Defence || {{tc|red|−2}} || {{tc|red|−2}} || {{tc|red|−1}} || 0 || {{tc|blue|+1}} || {{tc|blue|+2}} || 0 || 0 || 0 || {{tc|red|−1}} || {{tc|red|−1}} || {{tc|red|−1}} || {{tc|red|−1}} || {{tc|red|−1}} || {{tc|red|−1}} || {{tc|red|−2}}
|-
! Sanctioned || {{tc|red|−2}} || {{tc|red|−2}} || {{tc|red|−1}} || 0 || {{tc|blue|+1}} || 0 || {{tc|blue|+2}} || 0 || 0 || {{tc|red|−1}} || {{tc|red|−1}} || {{tc|red|−1}} || {{tc|red|−1}} || {{tc|red|−1}} || {{tc|red|−1}} || {{tc|red|−2}}
|-
! Misguided || {{tc|red|−1}} || {{tc|red|−1}} || 0 || 0 || 0 || 0 || 0 || {{tc|blue|+2}} || {{tc|blue|+1}} || {{tc|blue|+1}} || {{tc|blue|+1}} || 0 || 0 || {{tc|red|−1}} || {{tc|blue|+1}} || {{tc|red|−1}}
|-
! Shun || {{tc|red|−1}} || {{tc|red|−1}} || 0 || 0 || 0 || 0 || 0 || {{tc|blue|+1}} || {{tc|blue|+2}} || {{tc|blue|+1}} || {{tc|blue|+1}} || 0 || 0 || {{tc|red|−1}} || {{tc|blue|+1}} || {{tc|red|−1}}
|-
! Appalling || {{tc|red|−5}} || {{tc|red|−5}} || {{tc|red|−3}} || {{tc|red|−2}} || {{tc|red|−1}} || {{tc|red|−1}} || {{tc|red|−2}} || {{tc|blue|+1}} || {{tc|blue|+1}} || {{tc|blue|+2}} || {{tc|blue|+1}} || {{tc|blue|+1}} || {{tc|blue|+1}} || 0 || {{tc|blue|+1}} || {{tc|red|−5}}
|-
! Reprimand || {{tc|red|−5}} || {{tc|red|−5}} || {{tc|red|−3}} || {{tc|red|−2}} || {{tc|red|−1}} || {{tc|red|−1}} || {{tc|red|−2}} || {{tc|blue|+1}} || {{tc|blue|+1}} || {{tc|blue|+1}} || {{tc|blue|+2}} || {{tc|blue|+1}} || {{tc|blue|+1}} || 0 || {{tc|blue|+1}} || {{tc|red|−5}}
|-
! Serious || {{tc|red|−10}} || {{tc|red|−10}} || {{tc|red|−7}} || {{tc|red|−3}} || {{tc|red|−2}} || {{tc|red|−2}} || {{tc|red|−3}} || 0 || {{tc|blue|+1}} || {{tc|blue|+1}} || 0 || {{tc|blue|+2}} || {{tc|blue|+1}} || {{tc|blue|+1}} || {{tc|blue|+1}} || {{tc|red|−10}}
|-
! Exile || {{tc|red|−10}} || {{tc|red|−10}} || {{tc|red|−7}} || {{tc|red|−3}} || {{tc|red|−2}} || {{tc|red|−2}} || {{tc|red|−3}} || 0 || {{tc|blue|+1}} || {{tc|blue|+1}} || 0 || {{tc|blue|+1}} || {{tc|blue|+2}} || {{tc|blue|+1}} || {{tc|blue|+1}} || {{tc|red|−10}}
|-
! Capital || {{tc|red|−15}} || {{tc|red|−15}} || {{tc|red|−10}} || {{tc|red|−5}} || {{tc|red|−3}} || {{tc|red|−3}} || {{tc|red|−5}} || 0 || 0 || {{tc|blue|+1}} || 0 || {{tc|blue|+1}} || {{tc|blue|+1}} || {{tc|blue|+2}} || {{tc|blue|+1}} || {{tc|red|−15}}
|-
! Unthinkable || {{tc|red|−15}} || {{tc|red|−15}} || {{tc|red|−10}} || {{tc|red|−5}} || {{tc|red|−3}} || {{tc|red|−3}} || {{tc|red|−5}} || 0 || {{tc|blue|+1}} || {{tc|blue|+1}} || 0 || {{tc|blue|+1}} || {{tc|blue|+1}} || {{tc|blue|+1}} || {{tc|blue|+2}} || {{tc|red|−15}}
|-
! Required || {{tc|blue|+1}} || {{tc|blue|+1}} || {{tc|blue|+1}} || 0 || 0 || 0 || 0 || {{tc|red|−1}} || {{tc|red|−2}} || {{tc|red|−2}} || {{tc|red|−2}} || {{tc|red|−3}} || {{tc|red|−5}} || {{tc|red|−5}} || {{tc|red|−2}} || {{tc|blue|+1}}
|}

All above info was collected and interpreted from the data given by Toady himself at [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=22151.msg239689].

== Ethics of vanilla civilizations ==
[[Animal people]] currently have the same ethics as [[kobold]]s.

{| {{prettytable}}
|- bgcolor="#dddddd"
! Issue
! Mountain (dwarf)
! Forest (elf)
! Plains (human)
! Evil (goblin)
! Skulking (kobold)
|-
| Killing member of the same entity
| Capital punishment
| Justified with extreme reason
| Justified with good reason
| Personal matter
| Exile
|-
| Killing neutral sapient
| Only if sanctioned
| Acceptable
| Justified if no repercussions
| Required
| Required
|-
| Killing enemy
| Acceptable
| Acceptable
| Acceptable
| Required
| Required
|-
| Killing animal
| Acceptable
| Justified in self-defence
| Acceptable
| Acceptable
| Acceptable
|-
| Killing plant
| Acceptable
| Unthinkable
| Acceptable
| Acceptable
| Acceptable
|-
| Torture as example
| Unthinkable
| Acceptable
| Acceptable
| Acceptable
| Unthinkable
|-
| Torture for information
| Unthinkable
| Misguided
| Acceptable
| Acceptable
| N/A
|-
| Torture for fun
| Unthinkable
| Unthinkable
| Appalling
| Acceptable
| Acceptable
|-
| Torture of animals
| Unthinkable
| Unthinkable
| Shunned
| Acceptable
| Unthinkable
|-
| Treason
| Capital punishment
| Exile
| Capital punishment
| Capital punishment
| Unthinkable
|-
| Oathbreaking
| Capital punishment
| Exile
| Capital punishment
| Personal matter
| N/A
|-
| Lying
| Personal matter
| Exile
| Personal matter
| Personal matter
| N/A
|-
| Vandalism
| Serious punishment
| Reprimand
| Serious punishment
| Personal matter
| N/A
|-
| Trespassing
| Serious punishment
| Reprimand
| Serious punishment
| Personal matter
| N/A
|-
| Theft
| Serious punishment
| Reprimand
| Serious punishment
| Personal matter
| N/A
|-
| Assault
| Serious punishment
| Exile
| Serious punishment
| Personal matter
| Personal matter
|-
| Slavery
| Capital punishment
| Exile
| Acceptable
| Personal matter
| Unthinkable
|-
| Eating sapients
| Unthinkable
| Unthinkable
| Unthinkable
| Personal matter
| Unthinkable
|-
| Eating sapients (that have been killed in battle)
| Unthinkable
| Acceptable
| Unthinkable
| Personal matter
| Unthinkable
|-
| Making a trophy from a corpse of the same race
| Appalling
| Unthinkable
| Acceptable
| Acceptable
| Unthinkable
|-
| Making a trophy from a corpse of another sapient race
| Shunned
| Unthinkable
| Acceptable
| Acceptable
| Unthinkable
|-
| Making a trophy from the corpse of an animal
| Acceptable
| Unthinkable
| Acceptable
| Acceptable
| Unthinkable
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Gigantic tortoise

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'''Gigantic tortoises''' are the monstrous version of [[giant tortoise]]s. Along with [[gigantic panda]]s and [[gigantic squid]]s, they receive the "gigantic" title instead of "giant", since there is a normal version of those creatures that is already referred to as "giant".

Due to the fact that tortoises are not only benign, they also react first and foremost by retracting into their shell, if a herd of gigantic tortoises walk onto your map, it is possible to actually build [[cage trap]]s directly underneath a tortoise that is in its shell to capture it without worry.

With the males half the size of an [[elephant]] at full size (5 years), these creatures provide enough food products to feed a decent-sized fortress for a year. Also, due to the fact that they are born in clutches of 5-10 at a time, a breeding pair and offspring of gigantic tortoises is fully capable of supplying all the food a fortress will ever need. For moods, they also provide shells.

While they are benign, they can still be used for your fortress defense; their shells are impressively difficult for enemy troops to penetrate (and nigh unbreakable for unarmed enemies), making them a great distraction that may as well be used to buy time as to give your dwarves a chance to attack unsuspecting [[goblin]]s.

Some dwarves [[Preferences|like]] gigantic tortoises for their ''great size''.

[[File:gigantic_tortoise_preview.jpg|thumb|350px|center|"That shell could be our second dining hall!" ''Art by Romain Kurdi'']]
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Clay

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'''Clay''' is one of the many types of [[soil]] that can be found in [[soil layer]]s. [[Aquifer]]s are never present in clay layers.

== Ceramics ==
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Five different soil types are classified as clay: clay, [[clay loam]], [[sandy clay]], [[silty clay]], and [[fire clay]], each of which can be gathered for use in [[Ceramic industry|ceramics]]. If your [[embark]] site has at least one type of clay, it will be shown as ''Clay'' in the embark screen's biome viewer. Notably, soil of the types [[sandy clay loam]] and [[silty clay loam]] ''can not'' be used for ceramics despite their names.

The gathering and use of clay is done from a [[kiln]] or [[magma kiln]] and behaves similarly to most material production, but includes elements similar to [[glass]] production. In order to gather clay, a [[activity zone#Clay Collection|gathering zone]] must first be designated over a clay-bearing tile (note that clay can be collected from adjacent clay walls, even diagonally), much like with [[sand]]; however, gathering clay creates a clay "boulder" (the same as raw stone) and does not require a bag. As with sand, clay can be gathered indefinitely from a single tile – any dwarf with the item hauling [[labor]] enabled can collect clay.

Clay can be made into pots, [[block|bricks]], [[statue]]s, [[hive]]s and [[Finished goods|craft]]s. Small pots, called [[jug]]s, function similarly to bags and waterskins, while large pots are treated like barrels. Creating any object from clay requires a unit of fuel, or a magma kiln.

Before an [[earthenware]] pot (large or small) can hold liquids, it must be '''glazed'''. Glazing is performed at a [[kiln]] and requires either a unit of [[ash]] or a unit of [[cassiterite]] ([[tin]] ore), plus a unit of fuel. [[Stoneware]] and [[porcelain]] pots do not need to be glazed.

When an underground plant ([[tree|trees]], [[shrub|shrubs]], [[grass]] or moss) grows on a muddy stone floor tile (after discovering a [[Caverns|cavern]]) and is either trampled, gathered, cut down or removed via building a dirt road on top of it, the floor tile turns into a soil type appropriate to the [[biome]] – for biomes which lack soil layers altogether (such as mountains and glaciers), a random soil type will be selected, which might sometimes be clay.

[[Grass]], [[tree|sapling]]s and [[shrub]]s can grow on clay soil, which causes the underlying clay to be temporarily unavailable for collection, giving the message "Urist McClaydigger cancels Collect Clay: Clay vanished" if the job is in progress, or "Urist McClaydigger cancels Collect Clay: Need valid, active clay collection zone" if the job is new. You can easily remove the grass ''and'' prevent it from growing back by either building a dirt [[road]] ({{menu icon|b|n|O}}) over the grass, or put a floor [[grate]] over the clay floor to prevent growth while allowing clay to be collected, but you must first remove the grass/sapling/shrub.

Occasionally, it is possible to "cultivate" clay by channeling down into the lowest normal layer of the caverns, revealing a "[[Semi-molten rock|magma flow]]" above a floor of [[semi-molten rock]] (and a [[ramp]] on the level below, if the square had not previously been revealed). If a [[floor]] is constructed over the flow, then deconstructed, a natural floor of clay or [[sand]] may be left behind. In some cases, this may be the sole domestic source of clay for a fortress.

Gathered clay is treated as a boulder, though its uses are limited compared to stone. In addition to being usable for pottery, it can be used as a building material. However, it cannot be carved directly into finished goods, [[Jeweler's workshop|polished]] for decoration, fired from [[catapult]]s, or loaded into [[stone-fall trap]]s.

[[File:Clay-ss-2005.jpg|thumb|300px|center|Naturally occurring clay.]]

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Table

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|graphic=[[File:Table_Premium.png]]
|name=Table
|tile=╤
|wood=y
|stonecarve=y
|metal=y
|bars=3
|glass=y
|rooms=
* [[dining room|Dining Room]]
* [[meeting hall|Meeting Hall]]
|value=10
|size=30,000
}}

A '''table''' is a piece of [[furniture]] necessary for [[dwarf|dwarves]] to eat [[food]] in comfort. A table is also needed to define a [[dining room]] and serve as an operating surface in a [[hospital]]. Tables are also a component to build [[traction bench]]es.

Tables can be created from one [[wood]] log at a [[Carpenter's workshop]], one [[stone]] at a [[Mason's workshop]], three metal [[bar]]s at a [[Metalsmith's forge]], or one bag of [[sand]] at a [[Glass furnace]].

=== Dining ===
A table cannot be used without a chair, and a chair without a table is insufficient for avoiding a negative thought for "ate with no table".

If more than one chair is placed around a single table, other dwarves ''will'' sit down to eat but will receive [[thought]]s for "eating at a crowded table". Their reaction, positive or negative, depends on their [[Personality facet#GREGARIOUSNESS|gregariousness]]. There is no corresponding thought for eating alone, so building tables with only one chair prevents potential [[stress]].

Dwarves primarily use tables to eat [[food]], avoiding the negative [[thought]] for eating without a proper table. Since dwarves first try to sit down and only then check whether there's a table to put their food on, the proper placement of chairs is more important for proper dining. Tables without an adjacent chair will simply not be used for eating; if two tables are adjacent to a single chair, one will go unused. Chairs without adjacent tables, however, will cause unhappy thoughts whenever dwarves sit on them to eat, and a single table with multiple adjacent chairs can also lead to unhappy thoughts if two dwarves sit on the chairs: only one can put their food on the table, the other will have to eat from their lap and will complain about having no table.

An unassigned [[dining room]] will be used by any dwarves without an assigned dining room, resulting in positive [[thought]]s scaled to the [[Zone#Quality_and_value|quality]] of the dining room. Creating a high-value dining room is one of the easiest ways to give your dwarves a happy thought. Note, however, that dwarves with a table (or chair) in their [[quarters]] may opt to eat there instead, so it is generally best to only to do so when [[Noble#Needs|required]] by [[noble]]s.

=== Other uses ===
In a [[hospital]] zone, tables are used during [[surgery]] as an operating surface. Multiple dwarves can be operated on at the same time on one table ''(this may be a bug).''

Tables are also used as an input, along with [[mechanism]] and [[rope]]s, at the [[Mechanic's workshop]] to make a [[traction bench]]. The quality of each component is not reflected in the quality of the traction bench, and only the material of the table is used as the material for the bench.

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A [[noble]] might [[demand]] a [[glass]] table, so they can watch themselves while they are [[eating]].

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Lua scripting

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''This article is about procedural raw generation. Information on [[Utility:DFHack]] scripting can be found at https://docs.dfhack.org/en/stable/.''

'''[https://www.lua.org/ Lua] scripting''' is a feature of Dwarf Fortress's [[modding]] system. It is used to write definitions for procedurally-generated objects, with the stated goal of "supporting future [[Magic|magical]] endeavors." [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9rzhFwgfUk]

It was added as an experimental feature in version 51.06 [https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/975370/view/547854206358257941?l=english] and incorporated into the 52.01 release. [https://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/index.html#2025-07-21][https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/975370/view/547867141501617961]

Inorganic [[Material definition token|materials]], [[Language token|languages]], [[Creature token|creatures]], [[Interaction token|interactions]], [[Item token|items]] (currently excluding instruments), [[reaction]]s, [[Entity token|entities]], and [[Plant token|plants]] are open to this system.

Scripts are loaded from a mod's ``scripts/init.lua`` file, and can ``require()`` other files.

==Videos==
Announcement video:
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9rzhFwgfUk More powerful mods coming to Dwarf Fortress via Lua]
Tutorials:
*[https://youtu.be/QMxgsUogIIk Generating raws with Lua]
*[https://youtu.be/DEBTWMlUQzA Random creatures with Lua]

==Structure==

As of right now, Lua scripting is confined to generation of procedural objects. This is done by running the ``generate()`` function, a global function loaded in ``'''data/init/generators.lua'''``. It runs unit tests, preprocess, do_once (or do_once_early), materials, items, languages, creatures, interactions, entities and postprocessing, in that order.

When random objects are first generated, the game populates two global tables, ``world`` and ``random_object_parameters``.

* ``world`` contains info about the world currently being generated (or, in the future, played in). It contains [[World token|worldgen parameters]], raw object definitions, and a few other fields.

* ``random_object_parameters`` contains what the game expects to be generated in the current generation call.

You can print the contents of these tables to the log to see what data is available. The [https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3492961907 Runtime Dataminer] mod includes a script to read these tables.

DFHack also has a version of [https://github.com/DFHack/df-structures/blob/master/df.world.xml df.world], though these tables are not necessarily equivalent. Headers and paths may differ, even when referencing the same data.

===Debugging===
You can set the global ``debug_level`` variable to print some debug info. It's a number, but what numbers are there are completely arbitrary. If it's >0, it'll run unit tests; if it's >=0.5, it'll display what step of generation it's at, at every step. You can use ``get_debug_logger(x)`` to return a function that logs to ``lualog.txt`` if the debug level is at least ``x``.

Unit tests are functions that return a table, containing ``good``, which, if truthy, is considered passed, and ``info``, which is a string that contains information on said pass or fail. These unit tests should have no side effects, i.e. they shouldn't muck with global state any. Here's an example unit test shipped with the generators:

{{Scriptdata
|title=unittests.get_random_creature
|script=
get_random_creature=function()
local cr=world.creature.get_random_creature()
local res={}
res.good=type(cr)=='table'
res.info=res.good and ("Got a random creature: "..cr.token) or "No random creature could be gotten, even at most permissive!"
return res
end}}

===Object generation===
When ``generate()`` is called, it uses ``random_object_parameters`` to determine what is generated.

Before the world map is generated, ``random_object_parameters.pre_gen_randoms`` is true for one generation. Once the map is finalized, ``random_object_parameters.main_world_randoms`` is true for one generation when "generating prehistory"; most of the initial randomization takes place here. Further generation calls, such as for [[experiment]]s being created, do not set these variables to true.

If you're registering an entirely new procedural object type, you can generate it during these steps. The game includes a number of tables which you can add functions to, the game runs each function in them when generating raws.

*``do_once`` only runs in the "main world randoms" generation call and is the safest option for adding new objects.
*``do_once_early`` runs in the "pre-gen randoms" generation call, and can be used for objects that need to be placed in the map like minerals or surface animal populations.
*``preprocess`` runs before either of the former tables, but is run during every ``generate()`` call and you cannot predict when this happens.
*``postprocess`` runs at the end of each ``generate()`` call, after the other steps complete.

You can see examples of registering objects through these steps on the [[Lua script examples]] page.

If you want to use ``preprocess`` or ``postprocess`` to generate raws, you can check if it's the right generation step by reading the aforementioned ``random_object_parameters``. The [[Lua script examples#Adamantine alloys|"adamantine alloys" example]] includes such a check.

You can also mess around with ``random_object_parameters`` in preprocessing. Vanilla demon types are assigned here, and you can change the proportions as an end user if you want.

====Generation from list====
After ``preprocess`` and ``do_once``, the game then generates all of the individual objects that the ``random_object_parameters`` expects. This is where the vanilla random object types are built, and by adding new functions to the [[Lua functions#Generation tables|generation tables]], it is possible to add alternatives to objects in those categories. For example, a creature generated from ``creatures.werebeast`` will respect the "werebeast count" world generation setting.
The general procedure for this is that the game calls the ``generate_from_list()`` function on a table of functions, which calls every function and picks one of the resulting values at random depending on their weights.

For example, the ``interactions.secrets`` table contains one entry, that for necromancers; it returns a table containing three entries: ``{raws=tbl,weight=1,spheres=spheres}``.

*``raws`` is the full raw text of the interaction.
*``weight`` is the random weight for the interaction, i.e. if you add another function which returns a table containing ``weight=2``, that will be twice as likely as necromancers.
*``spheres`` is some extra data the generator might be able to use. It actually doesn't, at this point, but one could override ``generate_random_interactions()`` with their own version that takes into account ``spheres`` and, say, tries to evenly distribute generated secrets over available spheres. (This didn't end up in vanilla, primarily out of concerns of bug-like behavior cropping up).

====Languages====
Languages are special, though; as can be seen in the [[Divine language/script]] or [[Lua script examples#Identity language|identity language]]. The ``languages`` table just expects to return table containing translations, e.g. ``tbl["ABBEY"]="abbey"``. If you want to procedurally add words or symbols (and yes, these are both doable), you can do so with ``raws.register_languages()`` in another function table.

==Creatures==
Creatures have a lot more to them than other procedural objects. Forgotten beasts are, in a sense, the simplest of them:

{{Scriptdata
|title=creatures.fb.default
|script=
creatures.fb.default=function(layer_type,tok)
local tbl={}
local options={
strong_attack_tweak=true,
spheres={CAVERNS=true},
is_evil=true,
sickness_name="beast sickness",
token=tok
}
tbl=split_to_lines(tbl,[[
[FEATURE_BEAST]
[ATTACK_TRIGGER:0:0:2]
[NAME:forgotten beast:forgotten beasts:forgotten beast]
[CASTE_NAME:forgotten beast:forgotten beasts:forgotten beast]
[NO_GENDER]
[CARNIVORE]
[DIFFICULTY:10]

[NATURAL_SKILL:WRESTLING:6]
[NATURAL_SKILL:BITE:6]
[NATURAL_SKILL:GRASP_STRIKE:6]
[NATURAL_SKILL:STANCE_STRIKE:6]
[NATURAL_SKILL:MELEE_COMBAT:6]
[NATURAL_SKILL:DODGING:6]
[NATURAL_SKILL:SITUATIONAL_AWARENESS:6]
[LARGE_PREDATOR]
]])
add_regular_tokens(tbl,options)
tbl[#tbl+1]=layer_type==0 and "[BIOME:SUBTERRANEAN_WATER]" or "[BIOME:SUBTERRANEAN_CHASM]"
if layer_type==0 then options.spheres.WATER=true end
options.spheres[pick_random(evil_spheres)]=true
options.do_water=layer_type==0
populate_sphere_info(tbl,options)
local rcp=get_random_creature_profile(options)
add_body_size(tbl,math.max(10000000,rcp.min_size),options)
tbl[#tbl+1]="[CREATURE_TILE:"..tile_string(rcp.tile).."]"
build_procgen_creature(rcp,tbl,options)
return {creature=tbl,weight=1}
end}}

This is a lot of info! First, you build an ``options`` table; it's possible to make a full [[Lua functions#Options|list of options used in vanilla]], but other mods can also use arbitrary options. It then adds all the usual special-to-forgotten-beast tokens, in a big string, followed by calling ``add_regular_tokens(tbl,options)``, which adds some stuff common to all (vanilla) procedural creatures, based on the options given.

It sets ``do_water`` and the WATER [[sphere]] if the FB is in a water [[cavern]], an option which whitelists certain random creature profiles, as well as adding a random evil sphere.

``populate_sphere_info()`` is similar to ``add_regular_tokens()``; it adds all of the spheres in ``options.spheres`` to the creature, using the {{token|SPHERE}} token, then, if certain options are set, does more.

Then, it gets a random creature profile using ``get_random_creature_profile()`` and the options, uses ``add_body_size()`` to set the BODY_SIZE tokens and attendant things that come with it, sets the creature tile, and finally runs the Big Function, ``build_procgen_creature()``, which creates the description, body, tissues, et cetera.

===Random Creature Profiles===
{{main|Random creature profile}}
A random creature profile is a type of "thing" a generated creature can be. For example:

{{Scriptdata
|title=random_creature_types.GENERAL_QUADRUPED
|script=
GENERAL_QUADRUPED={
name_string="quadruped",
tile='Q',
body_base="QUADRUPED",
c_class="UNIFORM",
cannot_have_get_more_legs=true,
min_size=70000,
weight=1000
},
}}

Of these, only ``cannot_have_get_more_legs`` is optional. ``build_procgen_creature()`` has direct access to the rcp, as the first argument, and thus extra table entries can be used however you like.

``body_base`` points to a key in ``body_base_fun``, which is used to set creature options (walking and [[Procedural graphics layer|PCG layering]] are set this way) and returns a list of [[body token]]s. Quadrupeds use a special function to vary the sprite, so here's the body base function for a humanoid.

{{Scriptdata
|title=body_base_fun.HUMANOID
|script=
HUMANOID=function(rcp,options)
options.pcg_layering_base="BEAST_HUMANOID"
options.walk_var="STANDARD_BIPED_GAITS"
options.walk_speed=900
return {"RCP_UPPER_BODY","RCP_LOWER_BODY","RCP_NECK","RCP_HEAD","RCP_TWO_PART_ARMS","RCP_TWO_PART_LEGS"}
end
}}

``c_class`` also refers to another determines the kind of tissue layers the creature has. "FLESHY", "MAMMAL", "CHITIN_EXO", etc imply a biological creature with sinew, blood, different organs, nerves, and so on. "UNIFORM" describes a creature made of a single material, the choice influenced by its options. The ``random_creature_class`` and ``random_creature_material`` tables store the info for these traits.

Organic creatures can be tweaked to alter their surfaces, such as becoming skinless, hairy, or even uniform.

===Tweaks===

In the broadest sense, a tweak is any deviation from the creature profile. The aforementioned surface changes, new body parts, and attack interactions are all examples of tweaks.

A number of [[Lua functions#Options|options]] change the available tweaks or force one to happen, for example:
*``options.no_tweak`` disables random tweaks.
*``options.strong_attack_tweak`` allows the creature to always pick from the ``attack_tweaks`` table; ie: "Beware its webs!"
*``options.humanoidable_only`` makes the creature "twisted into humanoid form" (if evil), or "a <creature> in humanoid form" (if otherwise).

One potential use of ``btc1_tweaks`` (see [[Lua functions#Creature patching]]) is to add custom tweak candidates, pointing to keys in ``tweaks``.

===Color pickers===

Color picker functions can give more fitting [[color]] choices based on the options, instead of the default full spectrum. There are color pickers for certain malevolent [[sphere]]s, giving them a dark appearance. [[Werebeast]]s use a flag to only have natural brown or black colors.

If the creature matches ``cond`` and a given [[Descriptor color token|descriptor color]] matches ``color``, then it is added to the list of candidates. Colors have {{Tooltip|h,s,v|Hue, saturation, value}} and {{Tooltip|r,g,b|Red, green, blue}} values ranging from 0-1 (except hue, which ranges 0-360 degrees).

{{Scriptdata
|title=color_picker_functions
|script=color_picker_functions={
death_misery={
cond=function(options)
return options.spheres.DEATH or options.spheres.MISERY
end,
color=function(color)
-- GRAY TO BLACK/BLUEISH GREEN THAT ARE SOMEWHAT GRAYISH AND MORE BLUE
return (color.v<=0.75 and color.s<=0.001) or (color.v==color.b and color.s<=0.25)
end
},
darkness_night={
cond=function(options)
return options.spheres.DARKNESS or options.spheres.NIGHT
end,
color=function(color)
-- GRAY TO BLACK OR DARK BLUISH
return color.v<=0.4 and (color.s < 0.001 or (color.h>180 and color.h<=240))
end
},
werebeast={
cond=function(options)
-- werebeasts only, in vanilla
return options.animal_coloring_allowed
end,
color=function(color)
--BROWN OKAY TOO
return color.h>=30 and color.h<=48 and color.b<=0.15 and color.v<=0.75 and color.v > 0
end
}
}
}}

``options.blood_color`` works like a color picker function. If any colors match its function, then its [[blood]] will be colored like one of them. [[Bogeymen]] and [[nightmare]]s have a function that gives them magenta blood, for example, but you can create your own blood color functions.

Creatures with other blood types, such as ichor, are unaffected.

{{Scriptdata
|title=options.blood_color (Bogeyman)
|script=blood_color=function(cl)
-- DARKER MAGENTA COLORS
return cl.h>=260 and cl.h <= 340 and cl.v <= 0.5 and cl.v >= 0.1
end
}}

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Great axe

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[[File:great_axe_sprite_preview.png|right]]
A '''great axe''' is an [[attack types|edged]] [[weapon]] that is essentially a larger [[battle axe]]. Great axes are more than 50% larger than standard battle axes, and its blade has a 50% larger contact area and 33% greater penetration, for even more limb-severing fun.

Great axes use and train the [[Axedwarf]] skill. As foreign weapons, dwarves cannot [[forge]] great axes, limiting supply to whatever low-[[quality]] specimens can be traded from human [[caravan]]s, or scavenged from invaders.

[[Weapon#Size|Due to the size of great axes]], dwarves are unable to equip them. Like other multi-grasp weapons, [[human]]s are able to wield great axes, and some manage to do so one-handed.

==Analysis==
A multi-grasp, edged weapon. Due to increased size, penetration, and contact, great axes are technically superior to battle axes...provided that, like any multi-grasp weapon, the user is of the right size to use them in a one-grasp manner without getting a penalty to hit, which will unfortunately almost never be the case in Fortress Mode. If a creature can only equip them two-handed without triggering the penalty, they will suffer from the lack of a shield and losing either [GRASP] means they'll be forced to one-hand a weapon they shouldn't, triggering said hefty accuracy penalty. Thus, in the majority cases they will lose out to battle axes since the majority of creatures cannot single-grasp great axes without triggering said penalty, meanwhile battle axes can be wielded with one hand and combined with a shield by anyone.
Otherwise, if able to be single-grasped properly by its wielder, the great axe makes for an excellent weapon well-suited for limb severing and decapitation and is particularly an ideal weapon for the majority of Adventure Mode threats, though like other edged, slashing weapons may have issues with armored enemies and those of very large size.

{{Translation| dwarven = saràm libash | elvish = apaca cuthefi | goblin = snuz agun | human = umon osp}}

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Two-handed sword

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[[File:two_handed_sword_sprite_preview.png|right]]
A '''two-handed sword''' is an [[attack types|edged]] [[weapon]] that is 3× the size of a [[short sword]], with 5× the contact area. Two-handed swords have the same basic attacks as other swords, but benefit from increased damage potential, at a cost of reduced usability. Two-handed swords can span up to 6 ft. in length, and, as the name implies, were intended for use with a two-hand grip. The enormous contact area of two-handed swords allows massive wounds to be inflicted on nearly any target, no matter their size, if body parts are not simply cloven apart or removed altogether.

Two-handed swords use and train the [[swordsman]] / Swordsdwarf skill. As foreign weapons, dwarves cannot [[forge]] two-handed swords, limiting supply to whatever low-[[quality]] specimens can be traded from human [[caravan]]s or scavenged from invaders.

[[Weapon#Size|Due to the size of two-handed swords]], dwarves are unable to equip them. Humans are able to hold them, and while the average human must use two hands, many are large enough to wield it in one hand, contrary to its name.

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Pike (weapon)

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:''For a comparison of different weapons, see [[Weapon]].''
:''For the fish, see [[Pike (fish)]].''

[[File:pike_weapon_sprite_preview.png|right]]A '''pike''' is a piercing [[weapon]] that is essentially a very long [[spear]]. Pikes are twice the size of standard [[spear]]s, with a 20% increase in penetration (which, theoretically, should prove useful when fighting [[forgotten beast|large monsters]]). Attack range is not currently modeled, so pikes are neither granted the initial attack nor rendered useless as enemies advance to close combat range.

Pikes use and train the [[Pikeman]] / Pikedwarf skill. As foreign weapons, dwarves cannot [[forge]] pikes, limiting supply to whatever low-[[quality]] specimens can be traded from human [[caravan]]s and scavenged from invaders.

[[Weapon#Size|Due to the size of pikes]], dwarves are unable to equip them. [[Human]]s are large enough to wield this weapon, and many manage to do so one-handed.

In Adventure Mode, if your character passes the one-handed check for being capable of single-handing a multi-grasp weapon, the pike seems to actually be the most effective all-around weapon in the game. Provided the weapon's material is sufficient, a pike is capable of damaging any threat from armored soldiers to megabeasts. The only drawbacks are that it lacks the quick, easy decapitation of an edged weapon and thus may not as reliably be able to instantly kill in a single attack as them, and like spears they are prone to getting stuck in an enemy, necessitating a turn to wrestle it out or move one space in any direction to automatically pull it out.

{{Gamedata}}
{{Weapons}}
{{Category|Weapons}}

Armok

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[[File:Armok sprite.png|right]]
'''Armok''', God of [[Blood]], is the name of the creator deity in the lore of the original ''[http://www.bay12games.com/armok/ Slaves to Armok: God of Blood]'', and the in-game explanation for that game's random world generation:

:''"Armok, the God of Blood, is just about the only constant in these chaotic random universes. A general sense of conflict keeps Armok appeased - when the universe becomes too boring, it is set on the anvil of creation to be reforged."''

:''"The destruction of the world by Armok will arise inevitably in most game worlds. As civilizations spread and the frontier closes, the world will start to look homogeneous. Armok, looking upon this decadence in disgust, will reform the world. Basically, when the universe has become too boring, it will be changed."''

:''"But who or what is Armok? ARMOK is the God of Blood…The Supreme God, he gives name to the game, his powers are literally endless…He creates and destroys whole Universes just for pleasure and fun. He enjoys watching death, destruction and, of course, blood run on his Universe…In a Universe, he can have billions of worshippers, while in another his existence might be unknown...but HE EXISTS. This cannot be denied, and allows to play almost any type universe…from a standard fantasy-type world to a “primitive”, stone age world…and, why not a “future world” with star travel? In fact, when Armok creates a Universe, he likes putting more than one planet in it!

:''Remember…Armok can control and destroy all other creatures, including the other, ”lesser” gods, but he usually enjoys watching civilizations grow, because he hopes that one day these civilizations will fight each other, and thus generate conflict and slaughter!"''

Despite the above description, Armok is not actually present in ''Dwarf Fortress'' proper; he does not appear as a [[deity]] available for worshipping, nor does Toady One intend to add him into the game. Not that it stops players from referencing him, especially when something extremely [[fun]] is ensuing. As implied by his role of reshaping reality for the sake of his own amusement, Armok is essentially an in-lore name for the player of the game.

==Name ==
The name of the Dwarven God comes from the variable "arm_ok", which is from [[Toady One|Tarn Adams]]'s fantasy game, ''Dragslay''. The variable was used to count the number of arms left, for inventory purposes. ([http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/3549/interview_the_making_of_dwarf_.php?page=2 Source])

Armok was immediately after used by a Bay12 forums user as a name, and afterwards, it stuck.

==Playable Armok mod==
{{mod}}
Copy this into any creature file in the raws, and play with your very own avatar of the God of Blood! Shoots fireballs, smites heretics with dragonfire, and slays mortal creatures with a single touch!

<div style="height:200px; overflow:auto;"><pre>
[CREATURE:ARMOK]
[DESCRIPTION:The blood god is risen.]
[NAME:avatar of armok:avatars of armok:avatar of armok]
[CREATURE_TILE:'A'][COLOR:4:0:1]
[BODY:HUMANOID:MOUTH:TONGUE]
[EXTRAVISION]
[NOBREATHE][NOSTUN][NONAUSEA][NOPAIN][NO_DIZZINESS]
[NOEMOTION][NOSTUCKINS][NOTHOUGHT][NOEXERT][NO_DRINK][NO_EAT][NO_SLEEP]
[NO_GENDER][CAN_SPEAK]
[PARALYZEIMMUNE][WEBIMMUNE]
[NOT_LIVING]
[BUILDINGDESTROYER:2][NOT_BUTCHERABLE]
[SWIMS_INNATE]
[OUTSIDER_CONTROLLABLE]
[CANOPENDOORS][CAN_LEARN]
[NO_THOUGHT_CENTER_FOR_MOVEMENT]
[NO_CONNECTIONS_FOR_MOVEMENT]
[EQUIPS]
[PREFSTRING:omnipotence]
[FIREIMMUNE]
[FLIER]
[NATURAL_SKILL:MELEE_COMBAT:25]
[NATURAL_SKILL:RANGED_COMBAT:25]
[NATURAL_SKILL:WRESTLING:25]
[NATURAL_SKILL:BITE:25]
[NATURAL_SKILL:GRASP_STRIKE:25]
[NATURAL_SKILL:STANCE_STRIKE:25]
[NATURAL_SKILL:DODGING:25]
[NATURAL_SKILL:MISC_WEAPON:25]
[NATURAL_SKILL:AXE:25]
[NATURAL_SKILL:SWORD:25]
[NATURAL_SKILL:DAGGER:25]
[NATURAL_SKILL:MACE:25]
[NATURAL_SKILL:HAMMER:25]
[NATURAL_SKILL:SPEAR:25]
[NATURAL_SKILL:CROSSBOW:25]
[NATURAL_SKILL:SHIELD:25]
[NATURAL_SKILL:ARMOR:25]
[NATURAL_SKILL:SIEGECRAFT:25]
[NATURAL_SKILL:SIEGEOPERATE:25]
[NATURAL_SKILL:BOWYER:25]
[NATURAL_SKILL:PIKE:25]
[NATURAL_SKILL:WHIP:25]
[NATURAL_SKILL:BOW:25]
[NATURAL_SKILL:BLOWGUN:25]
[NATURAL_SKILL:THROW:25]
[TISSUE:SLADE]
[TISSUE_NAME:slade:NP]
[TISSUE_MATERIAL:INORGANIC:SLADE]
[MUSCULAR]
[FUNCTIONAL]
[STRUCTURAL]
[RELATIVE_THICKNESS:1]
[CONNECTS]
[TISSUE_SHAPE:LAYER]
[TISSUE_LAYER:BY_CATEGORY:ALL:SLADE]
[USE_MATERIAL_TEMPLATE:POISON:CREATURE_EXTRACT_TEMPLATE]
[STATE_NAME:ALL_SOLID:touch of death]
[STATE_ADJ:ALL_SOLID:touch of death]
[STATE_NAME:LIQUID:touch of death]
[STATE_ADJ:LIQUID:touch of death]
[STATE_NAME:GAS:touch of death]
[STATE_ADJ:GAS:touch of death]
[PREFIX:NONE]
[ENTERS_BLOOD]
[SYNDROME]
[SYN_NAME:curse of the blood god]
[SYN_AFFECTED_CLASS:GENERAL_POISON]
[SYN_IMMUNE_CREATURE:ARMOK:ALL]
[SYN_INJECTED]
[CE_NECROSIS:SEV:1000:PROB:100:BP:BY_CATEGORY:ALL:ALL:START:30:PEAK:60:END:1200]
[BODY_SIZE:10:0:200000000]
[BODY_APPEARANCE_MODIFIER:HEIGHT:100:100:100:100:100:100:100]
[BODY_APPEARANCE_MODIFIER:BROADNESS:100:100:100:100:100:100:100]
[CAN_DO_INTERACTION:MATERIAL_EMISSION]
[CDI:ADV_NAME:Hurl fireball]
[CDI:USAGE_HINT:ATTACK]
[CDI:BP_REQUIRED:BY_CATEGORY:HAND]
[CDI:FLOW:FIREBALL]
[CDI:TARGET:C:LINE_OF_SIGHT]
[CDI:TARGET_RANGE:C:15]
[CDI:MAX_TARGET_NUMBER:C:1]
[CDI:WAIT_PERIOD:1]
[CAN_DO_INTERACTION:MATERIAL_EMISSION]
[CDI:ADV_NAME:Smite]
[CDI:USAGE_HINT:ATTACK]
[CDI:BP_REQUIRED:BY_CATEGORY:HAND]
[CDI:FLOW:DRAGONFIRE]
[CDI:TARGET:C:LINE_OF_SIGHT]
[CDI:TARGET_RANGE:C:15]
[CDI:MAX_TARGET_NUMBER:C:1]
[CDI:WAIT_PERIOD:1]
[ATTACK:PUNCH:BODYPART:BY_TYPE:GRASP]
[ATTACK_SKILL:GRASP_STRIKE]
[ATTACK_VERB:touch:touches]
[ATTACK_CONTACT_PERC:100]
[ATTACK_PENETRATION_PERC:100]
[ATTACK_FLAG_WITH]
[ATTACK_PRIORITY:MAIN]
[SPECIALATTACK_INJECT_EXTRACT:LOCAL_CREATURE_MAT:POISON:LIQUID:100:100]
[ITEMCORPSE:STATUE:NO_SUBTYPE:INORGANIC:SLADE]
[ITEMCORPSE_QUALITY:5]
</pre></div>

then copy this into entity_default.txt to play as the Blood God Incarnate in adventure mode. Don't worry, they won't appear in fortress mode or worldgen... yet.

<div style="height:200px; overflow:auto;"><pre>
[ENTITY:CHEATER]
[ALL_MAIN_POPS_CONTROLLABLE]
[CREATURE:ARMOK]
</pre></div>

Updated for v0.42 
Original creature design taken from GenericOverusedName on the Bay12 Forums. ({{f|45820.45}})

[[Category:Lore]]
[[Category:World]]
[[ru:Armok]]
{{unversioned}}

File:Armok sprite.png

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DPhKraken: Armok's official depiction from the 20th Anniversary event. [https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/975370/view/701020331235606547]

== Summary ==
Armok's official depiction from the 20th Anniversary event. [https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/975370/view/701020331235606547]
== Licensing ==
{{Non-free Dwarf Fortress Screenshot}}

Halberd

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{{Quality|Exceptional}}
{{av}}
:''For a comparison of different weapons, see [[Weapon]].''

[[File:halberd_sprite_preview.png|right]]
A '''halberd''' is an [[attack types|edged]] [[weapon]] that is essentially a combination of long-hafted axe and short spear. Halberds are 50% greater in size than dwarven [[battle axe]]s and gain a piercing stab attack, but lose the axe's blunt pommel strike. Additionally, the halberd's blade has half the contact area and 33% greater penetration, meaning this slashing weapon is ''much'' more effective vs. armor than its smaller cousins. Attack range is not currently modeled, so halberds are neither granted distance attack bonuses nor rendered useless as enemies advance to close combat range.

Halberds use and train the [[Axeman]] / Axedwarf skill. As foreign weapons, dwarves cannot [[forge]] halberds, limiting supply to whatever low-[[quality]] specimens can be traded from human [[caravan]]s or scavenged from invaders.

[[Weapon#Size|Due to the size of halberds]], dwarves are unable to equip them. [[Human]]s are large enough to wield this weapon, and many manage to do so one-handed.

{{Gamedata}}
{{Weapons}}
{{Category|Weapons}}

Long sword

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{{Quality|Exceptional}}
{{av}}
:''For a comparison of different weapons, see [[Weapon]].''

[[File:long_sword_sprite_preview.png|right]]
A '''long sword''' is an [[attack types|edged]] [[weapon]] that is more than twice the size of a [[short sword]], but still 30% smaller than a [[two-handed sword]]. While not as powerful as a [[two-handed sword]], it has the potential to be used in one hand, making it a better defensive option, as the other hand retains the ability to use a [[shield]]. Long swords have the same basic attacks as other swords, but benefit from increased damage potential over short swords.

Long swords use and train the [[swordsdwarf]] skill. As foreign weapons, dwarves cannot [[forge]] long swords, limiting supply to whatever low-[[quality]] specimens can be traded from human [[caravan]]s or scavenged from invaders.

Although longer than standard short swords, dwarves are still [[Weapon#Size|able to equip]] long swords.

{{Translation| dwarven = romek dastot | elvish = beresi ocade | goblin = xom oxox | human = inid thil}}

{{Gamedata}}
{{Weapons}}
{{Category|Weapons}}

Talk:Weapon

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== Quality and its effects ==
In the section [[Weapon#Quality_and_strange_moods|Quality and strange moods]] it is mentioned that quality affects sharpness (base quality has "50%" sharpness, for example). I can't find any source for that, and it's a bit confusing. Later, on the [[Weapon#Combat_formulae|Combat formulae]] section, that sharpness percentage is no longer used. In that section, I interpret that the used value is the raws number (divided by 10.000) and the weapon quality multiplier. If my understanding is correct, then either the sharpness % is not used (in which case I don't know why it would be there) or there is something missing to understand it correctly. --[[User:Jose96xd|Jose96xd]] ([[User talk:Jose96xd|talk]]) 14:10, 24 October 2024 (UTC)
:The "source" for weapon quality affecting sharpness is an analysis of the game's code - all weapons (and ammo, siege ammo, trap components, tools, and small rocks) have a "current_edge" property, and it's initialized to 50-100% of the material's MAX_EDGE based on its quality level. Exactly how that sharpness works into the damage formula, I don't know. --[[User:Quietust|Quietust]] ([[User talk:Quietust|talk]]) 01:53, 25 October 2024 (UTC)
:It's in the second formula as "Sha * w_quality", though it looks to me like the explanation for w_quality should use the percentages instead of the multipliers.[[User:Ziusudra|Ziusudra]] ([[User talk:Ziusudra|talk]]) 02:04, 25 October 2024 (UTC)
:That actually makes sense since the multipliers it mentions currently (x1 base quality, x3 artifact) seem to be about the probability to hit. I have programmed the formulas and can easily change stuff and will try to gather experimental data. --[[User:Jose96xd|Jose96xd]] ([[User talk:Jose96xd|talk]]) 07:41, 25 October 2024 (UTC)
:I have run some tests. With base-quality iron spears, math using the current weapon quality (x1 base quality, x3 artifact) should penetrate steel armor, but it doesn't. If we use the sharp quality multiplier (50% base quality, 100% artifact), the results of the experiments and the math match. I believe that's the proper number to use in the formula. I'm going to change this page and the material science page (since the formula comes from there). If there is any other place that also uses this formula (with the x1, x3 rather than the %) it should be changed too. --[[User:Jose96xd|Jose96xd]] ([[User talk:Jose96xd|talk]]) 10:19, 25 October 2024 (UTC)
::Be careful when changing the formulas - your latest modification actually '''changes the numerical result''', which means it might be incorrect now. --[[User:Quietust|Quietust]] ([[User talk:Quietust|talk]]) 12:52, 25 October 2024 (UTC)
::I don't think I follow. There is no section with numerical results for the edge condition, so I don't know what you mean. The previous formula (or at least my implementation of it) didn't match the experimental results, and it didn't make logical sense for the "hit chance" to be the one multiplying the sharpness of the material (basically, before the sharpness % weren't used anywhere). --[[User:Jose96xd|Jose96xd]] ([[User talk:Jose96xd|talk]]) 13:09, 25 October 2024 (UTC)

== Combat Formulae - What is "min"? ==

Under projectile math, "min" is not addressed in the listing out all of the combat math variables, and it is unclear what it represents.

== Bug 5812 (Weapon Minimum Size) ==

Many large weapons list dwarves being unable to equip large weapons{{bug|5812}} as a bug. Putnam's statement is 'it is 100% intentional that it uses the base size instead of size+muscle for two handed/minimum size on weapons' [https://discord.com/channels/329272032778780672/1049402643342168114/1437585410493780228]. In line with this, the pages listing 5812 are to reflect the fact that this is intended. --[[User:DPhKraken|DPhKraken]] ([[User talk:DPhKraken|talk]]) 16:06, 15 July 2026 (UTC)

Weapon

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{{av}}
:''This page deals entirely with manufactured weapons. For natural weapons, see [[Natural weapon]].''
[[File:weapons_sprites_preview.png|right]]A '''weapon''', in the sense described on this page, is any [[item]] specifically designed to be wielded in [[combat]] against others. In [[fortress mode]], weapons can be made at a [[metalsmith's forge]] (all metal weapons, including [[crossbow]]s, and [[bolt]]s in stacks of 25) using a single bar of metal*, a [[bowyer's workshop]] ([[wood|wooden]] and [[bone]] crossbows and bolts in stacks of 25 or 5 respectively) with a single [[log]] or [[bone]], or at a [[craftsdwarf's workshop]] (obsidian short swords* only) with one stone of obsidian plus one log.

: (* No "wooden handle" is required for most non-wooden weapons. The unique [[obsidian]] option for [[short sword]]s is the sole exception to this. Any metal weapons, including short swords made from metal, need no wood for their production.)
Graphically, each weapon's color palette will change according to the material used to make them.

Many creatures with a humanoid form ([[giant]], [[magma man|magma men]], [[animal people]], etc.), or even some non-humanoid creatures with hands can also wield weapons. [[Civilization|Civilized]] creatures and animal people have sprites showing them wielding the weapon; weapons can otherwise be seen in the creature's "items" tab.

== Basics ==
=== Native vs. foreign ===
[[File:weapon_prev1.png|right]]In fortress mode, weapons can be split into two categories: those that you can produce, and those that you can't. [[Weaponsmith]]s can produce seven types of native weapons at a [[metalsmith's forge]], but there are also fourteen foreign weapons that can be found in the hands of enemy combatants, or bought from trading caravans (note that due to size several foreign weapons currently are effectively unusable by dwarves). These may use skills your dwarves are unfamiliar with, it is impossible to buy them in bulk, and they are of variable quality and material. Like all weapons, they tend to be expensive as trade goods, and may be worth using if you can secure a high-quality specimen (see [[#Quality and strange moods|Quality]] below). Since they are common for other nations, it is important to understand their properties when you have to fight enemies wielding them.

=== Types of weapons ===
{{main|Attack types}}
Mechanically, all weapon attacks are separated into "edge" and "blunt" types, although these can be further split into four practical categories:
*Slashing
*Piercing
*Crushing
*Ranged

(Weapons that are native to dwarven culture, that dwarves can create for themselves, are listed first, with ''foreign weapons'', types that must be looted off dead enemies or traded for, listed in parentheses and italics. Dwarves can use many types of foreign weapons, but finding a good-[[quality]] one is rare.)

====Slashing weapons====
* [[battle axe]]s, [[short sword]]s ''(also [[scimitar]]s, [[scourge]]s, [[great axe]]s, [[halberd]]s, [[long sword]]s and [[two-handed sword]]s)''

These work by concentrating their force along a sharp edge, allowing them to cut gashes in or to completely sever body parts. Severing is most likely when the body part's thickness is smaller than the weapon's contact edge. They make the quickest work of unarmored opponents who are not tremendously large. They are far less effective against armored targets, however, as armor will usually prevent the cutting, converting strikes into weaker blunt damage. An advantage of severing parts is that they cannot be targeted again, allowing dwarves to better focus on more vital parts.

'''Short swords''' are, generally speaking, less effective than axes. Although categorized as a "slashing" weapon, analysis of combat statistics shows that short swords also deliver piercing and bludgeoning blows (the latter from the butt-end of the handle). However, they do all of these less effectively than other weapons in those categories, making them the "Jack of all trades, master of none" weapon. However, if going against heavily armored opponents, they do have that occasional piercing attack as an advantage over axes, if only that. Also, if [[obsidian]] is available (along with spare wood), obsidian short swords can be produced outside of the usual metal industry chain of production.

====Crushing weapons====
* [[war hammer]]s, [[mace]]s, training weapon attacks (see below), melee attacks with [[crossbow]]s ''(also [[flail]]s, [[maul]]s, [[whip]]s)''

Also known as "blunt" or "bludgeoning" weapons, these work by concentrating their force behind a tiny, blunt point, (notably, war hammers have half the contact area of spears), smashing right through armor and breaking bones beneath their blows. As broken bones cause extreme pain, living creatures that can feel it will often "give in" to it and fall unconscious very quickly. Attacks against such helpless targets will always result in perfectly accurate and perfectly square strikes to the head, which will usually cause fatal brain injury. Nevertheless, blunt weapons are still slower to kill unarmored enemies than slashing weapons are.

====Piercing weapons====
* [[spear]]s, [[pick]]s, [[crossbow]] bolts ''(also [[dagger]]s, [[Pike (weapon)|pikes]], [[morningstar]], [[arrow]]s and [[blowdart]]s)''

These work by concentrating their force at a point, allowing them to punch through armor and damage internal organs. They often get stuck in the opponent, forcing their wielder to spend valuable time pulling the weapon back out between uses.

====Ranged weapons====
* [[crossbow]]s ''(also [[bow]]s and [[blowgun]]s)''

[[File:weapon_prev2.png|right]]These are effectively lightweight piercing weapons which work from a distance. When opponents engage the user in melee, the users are then forced to wield these weapons as melee weapons. Ranged weapons depend on shoot force and the material composition of the ammunition to deal damage. Best used against light to medium armored targets. All ranged ammunition deals "edged" damage. Wielding any of these as melee weapons is not recommended.

====Training weapons====
There exists one more umbrella category of weapon: the so-called "'''training weapon'''". Training weapons are wooden, and are made at a [[carpenter's workshop]]. Training axes, spears, and short swords can be constructed in fortress mode. They all do blunt impact damage, but only a tiny amount due to the poor [[material science|material properties]] of wood for a combat weapon. While every weapon is actually safe to use in [[Training|sparring]], the primary purpose of training weapons in fortress mode is to allow your dwarves to start training before you have a working metal industry. They can also be used during live combat exercises (beating upon a disarmed goblin, etc.) to extend the training session's length. Finally, they may be issued to the guards to reduce the lethality of a [[justice|criminal beating]].

=== Weapon skill ===
{{main|Combat skill#Weapon skill}}
Every type of weapon has its own associated [[military]] [[skill]]. The higher a dwarf is in his skill with a weapon, the better he will be able to use it in combat, connecting hammer blows to more advantageous sweet spots and sending spears right through enemy hearts and lungs with greater accuracy. The higher the weapon skill, the better at fighting the dwarf will be.

Once a dwarf has reached "Great" skill in a certain weapon, they become '''[weapon] lords''' for that specific weapon. They will love fighting and will no longer complain about long patrol duties. Weapon skill is trained in fighting enemies in combat, demonstrations, and combat drills.

=== Attachment ===
A dwarf that has used a particular weapon for a long time will grow [[Attachment|attached]] to it, equipping it whenever their uniform allows them to. This is fine if they are wielding a ☼steel mace☼, but a major problem if they are wielding what is meant to be a training weapon (be it a wooden axe or a copper spear). You can avoid this pitfall by not using training weapons and not forging weapons until you have real weaponsmithing underway. These events generate [[announcement]]s. If a dwarf does become attached, you can easily force him to relinquish the weapon by assigning a 'specific weapon' instead in his equipment view.

In addition, dwarves that reach a certain number or level of kills, or train long enough with a weapon, will name it. This prompts a major announcement. The weapon in question may have no kills associated with it (legendary dwarves occasionally name their weapons while training with them). Once named, the weapon will appear in the artifact list, albeit in blue. It is unknown if named weapons perform better than unnamed weapons. Dwarves may also become attached to shields and name them in the same way.

=== Quality and strange moods ===
The [[quality]] of a weapon has a significant impact on its combat performance, as well as its [[value]].

{{:Item quality/Table}}

Weaponsmithing is a [[moodable]] profession, which means that you can get [[artifact]] weapons. Artifact weapons have a 3x combat bonus and can be made out of a wide range of materials; ordinarily a [[hippo]] [[bone]] spear is impossible, but a moody dwarf can create one with a stack of hippo bone. Artifact weapons made of totally inappropriate materials are inferior to regular ones made of weapons-grade metal, although the exact balance is still under discussion. As with other moodable skills, a dwarf who creates an artifact using the weaponsmith skill stands a [[Strange mood#Skills_and_workshops|high chance]] of becoming a legendary weaponsmith.

==== Moods and other metals ====
Some (old, 2011) [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=92852.msg2601760#msg2601760 dwarven science] has also been conducted on the slashing value, using picks made from non-weapons-grade materials. These (somewhat limited) results seem to indicate the following ''rough'' order of preference in terms of ''slashing'' weapon properties (but take note of the artifact To-Hit multiplier as well) ([[weapons-grade]] metals are underlined): Adamantine, Steel, Iron/Pig Iron*, Bronze/Bismuth Bronze*, Platinum, Brass, Black Bronze, Billon, Rose Gold, Electrum, Bismuth, Aluminum, Gold, Copper, Tin, Sterling Silver, Silver, Nickel, Zinc, Lead, Nickel Silver, Trifle Pewter, Fine Pewter, Lay Pewter.
: (* The [[RAW]]s show identical values for for [[Bronze]] and [[Bismuth Bronze]]. ''At the time of this testing'' (2011), [[Iron]] and [[Pig Iron]] were likewise identical, but pig iron has since become noticeably inferior to iron.)

=== Weapons as tools ===
[[Hunter]]s use crossbows, [[wood cutter]]s use [[battle axe]]s, and [[miner]]s use [[pick]]s. They must be in possession of these items to do their jobs, and it's as simple as that.

Hunters gain [[marksdwarf]] skill from hunting, but wood cutters do not gain [[axedwarf]] weapon skill from cutting trees. Miners gain [[mining]] skill, which is not considered a military skill, but is used as a weapon skill when fighting with a pick. A dwarf using a weapon as a tool will not use the same tool as a military weapon, instead dropping their tool to pick up another for military use.{{bug|1451}} Dwarves may carry only one weapon as a tool at a time; for example, woodcutters/hunters will drop their axes then go and pick up crossbows every time they begin hunting.

=== Ammunition ===
:''Main article: [[Ammunition]]''

[[Crossbow]]s and other ranged weapons require [[ammunition]] (in the case of the crossbow, [[bolt]]s). This ammunition is carried in a [[quiver]] in packs of about 25, and when they run out they will switch to using their ranged weapons as crude hammers. It's often a good idea to try to get them to retreat once they run out of ammo — crossbows are meant for shooting, not bashing.

=== Secondary weapons ===
Although it sounds like a cool idea, equipping a marksdwarf with a backup short sword "just in case" doesn't often work, as dwarves are just as quick to run up to their foes and start bashing them with a crossbow as they are to draw their swords and do it properly.

=== "Best" weapon choices ===
To put it simply, the combat system behind ''Dwarf Fortress'' is ''very'' complicated. It's not just a question of ''"What is the weapon with the biggest number?"'' - no such thing here. If you want technical specifics, that's addressed in the bottom half of this article (and elsewhere), but for now, from both study of the formulae and observed behavior, there are some patterns for what weapons seem to work "best" against certain targets, and what don't, and (basically) why.

''Dwarf Fortress'' combat is rarely "one-shot", nor is it a long process of whittling away a huge pile of "hit points" (which do not exist in DF). Your best tactic is to try to quickly cripple or stun an opponent, so that you can then deliver a killing blow against a (momentarily) defenseless target, and then move on to the next opponent. The recommended weapons are chosen with this in mind.

==== Superior metal rule ====
As a general rule, if a weapon slashes or pierces, it wants to be made from a "better" metal than the [[armor]] it's trying to penetrate. If it is, it goes through more easily; if it is equal, it has some problems, and if it's inferior, it has some real problems. That does '''not''' mean that a copper spear can't hurt a superior-metal-clad target - just understand that the odds drop compared to weapons of equal metal, and, similarly, superior weapons start to ignore armor of inferior metal.

Also, note that this effectively works in steps - copper is weak against bronze/iron targets, but feeble against steel.

(Note: In this section, if 2 metals are equivalent to each other, they will be placed together in parentheses for ease of comparison. Bronze and Bismuth Bronze are identical for all combat values.)

* [[steel]], the clear best*
* ([[bronze]]/[[bismuth bronze]] or [[iron]]), very respectable, roughly equivalent** to each other
* [[copper]], a distant third
* [[silver]], for slashing/piercing, a ''very'' distant last. For bludgeoning (hammers/maces), a rough equivalent to steel, but also much heavier, quickly tiring any but the [[strength|strongest]] and/or most [[Attribute#Endurance|enduring]] dwarves. Note that silver ''cannot'' be used for crossbows (which use the Hammerdwarf skill in melee).

:: (* There are also [[adamantine]] and [[divine metal]]s, which are late game only, and a league above steel. These are not the subject of a "basic" discussion.)
:: (** There are some "X weapon vs Y armor" situations where iron is slightly better than bronzes, but also a couple situations where bronze is actually slightly better than iron - but each is a very specific case. "Roughly equivalent" is a good rule of thumb.)

Ranged attacks (for dwarves, [[crossbow]]s, but also bows and arrows for enemies) are also piercing, and suffer even more from the "superior metal" rule, especially since everything except adamantine has essentially equal density when it comes to bolts due to their max velocity and force. It can be very disheartening to see all those cheap bolts bounce off their armored targets when it matters most.

Note that [[Attack_types#Blunt_weapons|blunt]] weapons, such as [[mace]]s or [[war hammer]]s, do '''''not''''' follow this rule. For them, generally speaking, "heavier is better", so [[density|denser]] metals, such as silver, perform well, although the hardness of steel makes it another strong performer. In terms of which is actually better, it depends on the skill level of the dwarf swinging the weapon. Unskilled dwarves are much better off using steel because of its lower weight; silver tires them out far too quickly. This means blunt weapons made of steel are good for militias, or any squad that doesn't do much dedicated training. For more skilled dwarves, however, silver's weight tends to tire the wielder out much slower now, and the extra damage per hit makes it better than steel in this case. This means that if you have a squad that trains for most of the year, they will make much better use of a silver blunt weapon than a steel one. For the other weapons-grade metals, they are all a close third to these and are perfectly serviceable, as the small differences in density do not matter that much. Rare heavy artifact blunt weapons from [[gold]] or, better, [[platinum]], do only slightly more damage (despite being 273% the density of steel, platinum only gets about 1% more momentum), but with the greater weight comes a greater risk of tiring out the wielder in a long fight.[http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=181479]

====Shields and Crossbows====
[[File:shield_crossbow_preview.png|right]]Two atypical "blunt weapons" are of particular note - both [[shield]]s and (once engaged in melee) [[crossbow]]s are used to bash enemies, using the basic principles outlined above. Heavier metal shields and crossbows are superior to wooden versions for bashing damage; "typical" Wood has a [[density]] of ~500, vs. Iron (and Steel) 7850, vs. Bronze/Bismuth Bronze 8250, so metal is simply more effective. Also metal is harder when striking, adding slightly more to the damage, and making it far more durable - wooden versions will take XX[[wear]]XX more quickly and eventually break (which is always awkward in the middle of combat, and annoying to replace either way). Note that Silver weighs in at 10,490, but is not available for Shields or Crossbows outside of rare [[mood]]s.

Note also that the Shield skill not only increases both offensive and defensive effectiveness but also reduces effective Encumbrance of an equipped shield. While for a Novice a lighter weight wooden Shield is highly recommended to avoid fatigue, skilled shield wielders can reduce effective metal shield weight down close to wooden values without cause for concern.

==== vs. unarmored ====
This includes most wild [[animal]]s, [[siege]]-mounts, [[thief|thieves]], [[kobold]]s, etc. Leather/bone armor helps against animal attacks, not against metal weapons.

It may also include some [[semi-megabeast]]s and [[megabeast]]s, depending on specifics.

* recommended weapon: any sharp weapon

Most unarmored creatures are biological beings much larger than dwarf, a situation where spear excels at reaching the vitals. Axes have 60% the penetration and swords 40% of the penetration of spears, but much larger areas, which leads to much more bleeding and more chance of pulping. In theory, all edged weapons follow the "superior metal" rule, but, against unarmored targets, skin and bone will always lose to ''any'' edged metal weapon - even silver! (However, see "vs. undead", below.)

Blunt weapons can break bones, which stuns the target and allows a killing blow, but removing a limb is obviously better. War hammers break bones more easily than maces, causing pain, though maces achieve total pulping blows sooner. However, unless you're facing small enemies even the best blunt weapon is going to lose to the worst sharp weapon.

Crossbows can hit a vital organ, knee or guts if lucky, but otherwise are slow to cripple and may get off only 2-3 shots before melee combat begins. They are, however, excellent for chasing down fleeing targets, making them ideal against various thieves/wildlife.

And the bonus lesson here is... armor your military.

==== vs. [[armor]]ed ====

Usually showing up only during a [[siege]] or [[ambush]]. [[Quality]] has a significant effect, but copper chain pieces have much less stopping power than bronze/iron plate pieces.

* recommended weapon: steel spear
* other choices: any steel sharp weapon, any warhammer or pick

Your typical goblin or human sieges will never have steel. Even when undead have it, the coverage is only partial.

Steel spears are the only edged weapon that can consistently pierce armor. Unless held by an extremely strong dwarf or made of adamantine, a sword will have difficulty getting through a breastplate, and an axe '''never''' will.

Steel swords have biggest variety of attacks, allowing them to both stab organs and remove limbs. Picks have the velocity of a blunt weapon with the edge of a sharp weapon, giving them extra punch. Functionally, having "superior metal" will make the battle much like removing enemy armor.

(Note also that piercing weapons have a chance to get stuck in an opponent, which can lead to [[wrestling]] to get the weapon out, or to apply more punishment.)

Blunt weapons work on flexible chain just as well as against an unarmored opponent, and can deform solid armor (which is everything "not chain") to land a killing blow. Warhammers are superior to maces in penetrating solid, "non-chain" armor and breaking bones.

Slashing weapons really suffer here, and especially so against non-chain targets. It's critical that they be superior metal if you want any chance of them having much reliable effect against heavy armor. A lucky blow can still take a limb, but often slashing blows just do little more than anger the target, even with steel.

Crossbows suffer doubly from superior metal issues against chain, and it only gets worse against plate [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=160814.msg7192083#msg7192083 3]

==== vs. [[undead]] ====

* recommended weapon: mace or war hammer if you want to have a single corpse, axe if you want efficiency.
* other choices: sword will do a fine job.

u/MrNorrelDoesHisPart:

"Maces did indeed perform the best in terms of creating the smallest number of additional reanimated opponents. They always scored perfectly and thus don’t have a margin of error. Axes produced the largest number of additional reanimated opponents, and spears produced relatively few reanimated body parts...(However) Axes and spears tie for fastest and maces come a distant third. Although it is true that an axe is much messier than a mace, it seems that an axe’s greater killing ability more than compensates for this problem. Maces thus appear to be the best choice when cleanliness is a priority but the worst choice when combat efficiency is important."

*Newest Dwarven [https://www.reddit.com/r/dwarffortress/comments/11bh54h/combat_science_iii_fighting_the_undead/ !!Science!!] shows that while axe create a messy pile of reanimated corpse, the axe generally takes only 1/3 the time to kill all the reanimated bits. Therefore without considering the extra hauling labor, battle axe is the superior solution to reanimated corpse.

War hammers can be preferable to maces when fighting living enemies that you don't want to resurrect. Killing a living enemy with a war hammer will usually result in a mangled corpse just like in the case of maces, but a war hammer will deal more damage due to its superior ability to penetrate outer layers and damage internal organs and bones, as well as better ability to stun enemies. An axe can still kill unarmored living creatures faster, but it will cut off limbs and head which can later resurrect. Resurrected body parts are often easy to kill, even for unarmed dwarves (although sometimes they are significantly stronger, such as a resurrected neck killing multiple dwarves), but can generate job cancellation spam and unhappy thoughts from being attacked by the dead. Also, resurrected body parts may need to be killed many times before they are mangled, even when using maces or war hammers.

==== vs. Undead megabeast and other large fleshy creatures ====

** recommended weapon if has access to steel: large army with steel spears.
** recommended weapon if has access to adamantine: adamantine axe.
** unrecomended weapon: anything inferior than steel.

The result varies between axe, spear and sword. When a squad of 4 armored dwarves fight an undead cyclops with metal inferior to adamantine, only the ones armed with steel spears have a chance of winning. The squads with axe, mace and sword stand no fighting chance.

With an adamantine weapon, however, axe and sword outperforms spear. Even one grandmaster axedwarf with an adamantine axe stands a chance to defeat the undead cyclops.

==== vs. others ====
This category consists of the rare "not like anything else" creature, the type you get when you breach the [[cavern]]s or [[magma]] (or deeper), or once your fortress is large enough to get their attention.

* recommended weapon: (varies)
* other choices: any steel axe (depending), crossbow (from behind fortifications), whip

There are many different types here, and no one approach works for all. Some are merely gigantic but (more or less) "normal", but many are non-organic, and most enjoy the "[[No Pain|don't feel pain]]" tag, including [[titan]]s, [[forgotten beast]]s, [[bronze colossus]]es, [[Iron man|iron men]], and [[HFS|hidden fun stuff]]. Many of these enemies ''have'' no internal organs while being huge, weakening the effectiveness of pain and pierce. Some are still flesh and blood, and they're functionally like unarmored wildlife, but some are made from some material that may be very difficult to slash at.* In the worst case of being made of steel, it leaves chipping away at the target until they collapse from cumulative damage, which means either penetrating a LOT of armor (warhammer or ideally whip) or breaking everything (mace). Some few megabeasts are metal (e.g. [[bronze colossus]]), and the "superior metal" rule goes ''strongly'' in effect there - use steel sharp weapons for them, though whip would be best if you don't have those.

(* although a forgotten beast made of, for instance, "mud" is laughably easy to kill)

Ranged attacks are useful for taking care of the ones who are unapproachable themselves while being incredibly fragile. And at the very least, you're at less risk when raining down bolts from above, even if it won't do much damage.

==== Final verdict ====
Now, all that said, overall, if you had to choose one "least worst" weapon, it would probably have to be... the steel short sword. It has no true counters, no enemy it cannot ever defeat - while axes falls to iron men and copper armor and maces/hammers/spears falls to big creatures. If you cannot get steel, a second option would be the goblin-made whip, which is still somewhat effective against bronze colossuses and big beasts, and maces and hammers will always be effective no matter what they're made of.

Outside that, for edged/piercing weapons (axe, spear, bolts, and sword) against unarmored (and non-"unusual" targets) any metal will be overpowered, easily cutting/chopping/piercing all equally. Soft targets aside, make edged/piercing weapons out of the best metal you can (steel > iron > bronze > copper > silver) for use against armor, if/when you meet that. Crushing weapons (in order: hammer, mace, and crossbow in melee) can be any metal, steel being quite a bit better for untrained dwarves, and silver being the best for trained dwarves. If you want to add megabeasts into the consideration, go with steel to be safe, for any weapon type.

= Technical =
From here down, there are tables of values pulled from the raws, some technical analyses, a few statistical observations, and some solid and speculative inferences and conclusions.

Insert obligatory "math warning" here.

== Weapons ==
=== Native weapons ===
{| class="wikitable" border="border"
! Type
! Graphic
! Size
! Attack
! [[Attack type]]
! Contact Area
! Penetration
! Velocity
! Skill Used
! Hands Used
! [[Weaponsmith|Metal]]
! [[Bowyer|Wood]]
! [[Bowyer|Bone]]
! [[Stone crafter|Obsidian]]
|- valign="top"
|rowspan="3"| [[battle axe|Battle Axe]]
|rowspan="3"| [[File:battle_axe_sprite.png]]
|rowspan="3"| 800
| Hack || Edge || 40000 || 6000 || 1.25×
|rowspan="3"| Axe
|rowspan="3"| one
|rowspan="3"| Yes
|rowspan="3"| No
|rowspan="3"| No
|rowspan="3"| No
|-
| Flat slap || Blunt || 40000 || (6000) || 1.25×
|-
| Pommel strike || Blunt || 100 || (1000) || 1.0×
|-
| [[Crossbow]] (Melee)
| [[File:crossbow_sprite.png]]
| 400
| Bash || Blunt || 10000 || (4000) || 1.25×
| Hammer
| two
| Yes
| Yes
| Yes
| No
|-
| [[Mace]]
| [[File:mace_sprite.png]]
| 800
| Bash || Blunt || 20 || (200) || 2.0×
| Mace
| one
| Yes
| No
| No
| No
|-
| [[Pick]] (foreign)
| [[File:pickaxe_sprite.png]]
| 500
| Strike || Edge || 100 || 4000 || 2.0×
| Mining
| one
| Yes
| No
| No
| No
|- valign="top"
|rowspan="4"| [[short sword|Short Sword]]
|rowspan="4"| [[File:short_sword_sprite.png]]
|rowspan="4"| 300
| Slash || Edge || 20000 || 4000 || 1.25×
|rowspan="4"| Sword
|rowspan="4"| one
|rowspan="4"| Yes
|rowspan="4"| No
|rowspan="4"| No
|rowspan="4"| Yes
|-
| Stab || Edge || 50 || 2000 || 1.0×
|-
| Flat slap || Blunt || 20000 || (4000) || 1.25×
|-
| Pommel strike || Blunt || 100 || (1000) || 1.0×
|- valign="top"
|rowspan="2"| [[Spear]]
|rowspan="2"| [[File:spear_sprite.png]]
|rowspan="2"| 400
| Stab || Edge || 20 || 10000 || 1.0×
|rowspan="2"| Spear
|rowspan="2"| one
|rowspan="2"| Yes
|rowspan="2"| No
|rowspan="2"| No
|rowspan="2"| No
|-
| Shaft bash || Blunt || 10000 || (6000) || 1.25×
|-
| [[war hammer|War Hammer]]
| [[File:war_hammer_sprite.png]]
| 400
| Bash || Blunt || 10 || (200) || 2.0×
| Hammer
| one
| Yes
| No
| No
| No
|}

Note that although the [[pick]] is a foreign weapon, it can be produced by dwarves and is therefore considered native.{{bug|680}}

=== Details ===
*If you find your dwarves wearing more than one weapon – or any unwanted [[armor]], for that matter – one way to get rid of them is to dump the weapon from their inventory screen (click on the dwarf -> Items tab -> choose the item on [[File:Mag glass icon.png]] -> [[File:Button dump.png]] or [[File:Button_forbid.png]]). This does not always work, as they might re-equip the item. Another option is to remove any weapons and/or shields listed on their military equip screen. This too does not always work. At least "left-handedness" seems to not pose a problem. If you cancel the work and selecting a job that needs a tool they will sometimes put it back in the pile. Example: Miners use picks, cancel their mining job and they will put the pick away AFTER you ordered it to be dumped.
* Using weapons is much more effective than unarmed combat – an untrained swordsdwarf with an [[iron]] weapon can defeat a grand master [[wrestler]], provided neither is wearing armor. Larger weapons tend to do more damage due to the [[Material science#Attack Momentum|momentum formula]]
* The size for a weapon is its volume in cm3.
* Attacks of type EDGE will either slice or pierce their target, depending on the contact area and penetration depth, while BLUNT attacks tend to damage internal organs without necessarily causing significant damage to outer layers.
* The contact area represents the area of contact of the weapon, and the penetration determines how deep the attack goes (and is apparently ignored entirely for BLUNT attacks – indicated by numbers in parentheses). The game does not distinguish between "piercing" and "slashing" attacks, despite this page using those terms often--the only difference is that piercing weapons have small contact area and slashing ones have large contact area. Penetration tends to be the same between either, but large contact area makes it much more difficult for weapons to get through armor--armor that a spear can barely pierce would require '''400 times''' as much momentum for an axe to pierce.
* The velocity is a direct multiplier on the attack's [[Material science#Attack Momentum|momentum]] - for example, war hammers have a 2x velocity multiplier, presumably to model the fact that the hammer's mass is concentrated at the tip which, when combined with a long handle, permits swinging it harder than a weapon whose mass is evenly distributed (such as a sword).
* Crossbows can be made of metal, wood, and bone. Metal crossbows are made by a [[weaponsmith]] at a [[forge]], while wood and bone crossbows are made by a [[bowyer]] at a [[bowyer's workshop]]. The material of a crossbow does not affect its firing ability, only its melee damage. A dwarf's marksmanship skill is only affected by the core [[item quality|quality]] of the bow. This may be a consideration when deciding which dwarf you want outfitting your marksdwarves: a [[experience|legendary]] bowyer is a better choice than a proficient weaponsmith.
* Dwarves will never select a pick for a weapon if allowed "individual choice." You must specify picks as part of their uniform, or on the individual equip screen, if you wish to utilize them as weapons.

=== Training weapons ===
All [[training weapon]]s must be made of [[wood]] at the [[carpenter's workshop]].

{| class="wikitable" border="border"
|-
! Type
! Graphic
! Size
! Attack
! [[Attack type]]
! Contact Area
! Penetration
! Velocity
! Skill Used
|- valign="top"
|rowspan="3"| Training Axe
|rowspan="3"| [[File:training_axe_sprite.png]]
|rowspan="3"| 800
| Hack || Blunt || 30000 || (6000) || 1.25×
|rowspan="3"| Axe
|-
| Flat slap || Blunt || 30000 || (6000) || 1.25×
|-
| Pommel strike || Blunt || 100 || (1000) || 1.0×
|- valign="top"
|rowspan="4"| Training Sword
|rowspan="4"| [[File:training_sword_sprite.png]]
|rowspan="4"| 300
| Slash || Blunt || 20000 || (4000) || 1.25×
|rowspan="4"| Sword
|-
| Stab || Blunt || 50 || (2000) || 1.0×
|-
| Flat slap || Blunt || 20000 || (4000) || 1.25×
|-
| Pommel strike || Blunt || 100 || (1000) || 1.0×
|- valign="top"
|rowspan="2"| Training Spear
|rowspan="2"| [[File:training_spear_sprite.png]]
|rowspan="2"| 400
| Stab || Blunt || 200 || (10000) || 1.0×
|rowspan="2"| Spear
|-
| Shaft bash || Blunt || 10000 || (6000) || 1.25×
|}

=== Foreign weapons ===
Using any multi-grasp weapon in a single hand (i.e. with a shield in the other hand) without being of the proper size/broadness (which dwarves in Fortress Mode almost never are), gives you a disability to hit - do not equip two-handed swords with a shield, for instance. '''The game will not stop you from doing this''', so be wary about it.

In Adventurer Mode, however, if your character passes the one-handed check for single-handing a multi-grasp weapon, it is possible to wield a two-handed sword, or any multi-grasp weapon, in one hand without penalty (allowing for the simultaneous use of a shield). For example, if you create a human character, and manage to spawn into a world with a "broad body" or a "tall body" in the character description, you will be able to single-hand any multi-grasp weapon (and will be forced to, much like you are forced to single-hand any single-grasp weapon), which allows for the simultaneous, disability-free use of a shield, thus making your damage and defensive capabilities much higher than they would be with a single-grasp weapon and shield. Note that upping Strength to Superior (and eventually Superhuman) will make all attacks more likely to deal extra damage, making cutting off the limbs of your enemies much easier.

{| class="wikitable" border="border"
|-
! Type
! Graphic
! Size
! Attack
! [[Attack type]]
! Contact Area
! Penetration
! Velocity
! Skill Used
! Used by
! Hands Used (average human)
|- valign="top"
|rowspan="4"| [[Two-handed sword]]
|rowspan="4"| [[File:two_handed_sword_sprite.png]]
|rowspan="4"| 900
| Slash || Edge || 100000 || 8000 || 1.25×
|rowspan="4"| Sword
|rowspan="4"| [[Goblin]], [[Human]]
|rowspan="4"| Multi-grasp
|-
| Stab || Edge || 50 || 4000 || 1.0×
|-
| Flat slap || Blunt || 100000 || (8000) || 1.25×
|-
| Pommel strike || Blunt || 100 || (1000) || 1.0×
|- valign="top"
| [[Blowgun]] (Melee)
| [[File:blowgun_sprite.png]]
| 150
| Bash || Blunt || 10000 || (4000) || 1.25×
| Sword
| Subterranean [[animal people]]
| Single-grasp
|- valign="top"
| [[Bow]] (Melee)
| [[File:bow_sprite.png]]
| 300
| Bash || Blunt || 10000 || (4000) || 1.25×
| Sword
| [[Elf]], [[Goblin]], [[Human]], [[Kobold]]
| Single-grasp
|- valign="top"
| [[Flail]]
| [[File:flail_sprite.png]]
| 500
| Bash || Blunt || 200 || (4000) || 2.5×
| Mace
| [[Goblin]], [[Human]]
| Single-grasp
|- valign="top"
|rowspan="3"| [[great axe|Great Axe]]
|rowspan="3"| [[File:great_axe_sprite.png]]
|rowspan="3"| 1300
| Hack || Edge || 60000 || 8000 || 1.25×
|rowspan="3"| Axe
|rowspan="3"| [[Goblin]], [[Human]]
|rowspan="3"| Multi-grasp
|-
| Flat slap || Blunt || 60000 || (8000) || 1.25×
|-
| Pommel strike || Blunt || 100 || (1000) || 1.0×
|- valign="top"
|rowspan="3"| [[Halberd]]
|rowspan="3"| [[File:halberd_sprite.png]]
|rowspan="3"| 1200
| Slash || Edge || 20000 || 8000 || 1.25×
|rowspan="3"| Axe
|rowspan="3"| [[Goblin]], [[Human]]
|rowspan="3"| Multi-grasp
|-
| Stab || Edge || 50 || 2000 || 1.0×
|-
| Shaft bash || Blunt || 20000 || (6000) || 1.25×
|- valign="top"
|rowspan="3"| [[Dagger]] (Large)
|rowspan="3"| [[File:dagger_sprite.png]]
|rowspan="3"| 200
| Slash || Edge || 1000 || 800 || 1.25×
|rowspan="3"| Dagger
|rowspan="3"| [[Goblin]], [[Kobold]]
|rowspan="3"| Single-grasp
|-
| Stab || Edge || 5 || 1000 || 1.0×
|-
| Pommel strike || Blunt || 20 || (600) || 1.0×
|- valign="top"
|rowspan="4"| [[long sword|Long Sword]]
|rowspan="4"| [[FIle:long_sword_sprite.png]]
|rowspan="4"| 700
| Slash || Edge || 60000 || 6000 || 1.25×
|rowspan="4"| Sword
|rowspan="4"| [[Elf]], [[Goblin]], [[Human]]
|rowspan="4"| Single-grasp
|-
| Stab || Edge || 50 || 3000 || 1.0×
|-
| Flat slap || Blunt || 60000 || (6000) || 1.25×
|-
| Pommel strike || Blunt || 100 || (1000) || 1.0×
|- valign="top"
| [[Maul]]
| [[File:maul_sprite.png]]
| 1300
| Bash || Blunt || 100 || (6000) || 2.0×
| Hammer
| [[Goblin]], [[Human]]
| Multi-grasp
|- valign="top"
|rowspan="2"| [[Morningstar]]
|rowspan="2"| [[File:morningstar_sprite.png]]
|rowspan="2"| 500
| Bash || Edge || 10 || 500 || 2.0×
|rowspan="2"| Mace
|rowspan="2"| [[Goblin]], [[Human]]
|rowspan="2"| Single-grasp
|-
| Pommel strike || Blunt || 50 || (1000) || 1.0×
|- valign="top"
|rowspan="2"| [[pike (weapon)|Pike]]
|rowspan="2"| [[File:pike_weapon_sprite.png]]
|rowspan="2"| 800
| Stab || Edge || 20 || 12000 || 1.0×
|rowspan="2"| Pike
|rowspan="2"| [[Goblin]], [[Human]]
|rowspan="2"| Multigrasp
|-
| Shaft bash || Blunt || 10000 || (6000) || 1.25×
|- valign="top"
|rowspan="4"| [[Scimitar]]
|rowspan="4"| [[File:scimitar_sprite.png]]
|rowspan="4"| 300
| Slash || Edge || 20000 || 4000 || 1.25×
|rowspan="4"| Sword
|rowspan="4"| [[Goblin]], [[Human]]
|rowspan="4"| Single-grasp
|-
| Stab || Edge || 50 || 2000 || 1.0×
|-
| Flat slap || Blunt || 20000 || (4000) || 1.25×
|-
| Pommel strike || Blunt || 50 || (1000) || 1.0×
|- valign="top"
| [[Scourge]]
| [[File:scourge_sprite.png]]
| 300
| Lash || Edge || 10 || 50 || 2.0×
| Whip
| [[Goblin]]
| Single-grasp
|- valign="top"
| [[Whip]]
| [[File:whip_sprite.png]]
| 100
| Lash || Blunt || 1 || (10) || 5.0×
| Whip
| [[Goblin]], [[Human]]
| Single-grasp
|- valign="top"
|rowspan="3"| Stone axe
|rowspan="3"|[[File:stone_axe_sprite.png]]
|rowspan="3"| 400
| Hack || Edge || 800 || 400 || 1.25×
|rowspan="3"| Axe
|rowspan="3"| Player in [[adventurer mode]]
|rowspan="3"| Single-grasp
|-
| Slap|| Blunt || 800|| 400 || 1.25×
|-
| Strike || Blunt || 20|| 400 || 1.0×
|- valign="top"
|rowspan="3"| Carving knife
|rowspan="3"|[[File:carving_knife_sprite.png]]
|rowspan="3"| 150
| Slash || Edge || 800 || 600 || 1.25×
|rowspan="3"| Dagger
|rowspan="3"| Non-warrior NPCs in [[adventurer mode]]
|rowspan="3"| Single-grasp
|-
| Stab || Edge || 4 || 800 || 1.0×
|-
| Strike|| Blunt || 15|| 400 || 1.0×
|- valign="top"
|rowspan="3"| Boning knife
|rowspan="3"|[[File:boning_knife_sprite.png]]
|rowspan="3"| 50
| Slash || Edge || 500 || 300 || 1.25×
|rowspan="3"| Dagger
|rowspan="3"| Non-warrior NPCs in [[adventurer mode]]
|rowspan="3"| Single-grasp
|-
| Stab || Edge || 2 || 400 || 1.0×
|-
| Strike|| Blunt || 10 || 200 || 1.0×
|- valign="top"
|rowspan="3"| Slicing knife
|rowspan="3"|[[File:slicing_knife_sprite.png]]
|rowspan="3"| 150
| Slash || Edge || 900 || 700|| 1.25×
|rowspan="3"| Dagger
|rowspan="3"| Non-warrior NPCs in [[adventurer mode]]
|rowspan="3"| Single-grasp
|-
| Stab || Edge || 3 || 900 || 1.0×
|-
| Strike|| Blunt || 15 || 400 || 1.0×
|- valign="top"
|rowspan="3"| Meat cleaver
|rowspan="3"|[[File:meat_cleaver_sprite.png]]
|rowspan="3"| 300
| Hack|| Edge || 800 || 400 || 1.25×
|rowspan="3"| Axe
|rowspan="3"| Non-warrior NPCs in [[adventurer mode]]
|rowspan="3"| Single-grasp
|-
| Clap || Blunt || 800 || 400 || 1.25×
|-
| Strike || Blunt || 20 || 400 || 1.0×
|- valign="top"
|rowspan="2"| Carving fork
|rowspan="2"| [[File:carving_fork_sprite.png]]
|rowspan="2"| 150
| Stab|| Edge || 1 || 100 || 1.0×
|rowspan="2"| Dagger
|rowspan="2"| Non-warrior NPCs in [[adventurer mode]]
|rowspan="2"| Single-grasp
|-
| Strike || Blunt || 15 || 400 || 1.0×
|}

===Special variations===
Some rare entities have their own [[divine equipment|procedurally generated variations]] of weapons. Currently, these weapons are produced by copying the default properties of the "base" weapon, and adding an adjective ("bulky", "large-headed", "branching", etc.) or renaming the weapon altogether ("blade", "curved sword"). Dwarves in [[strange mood]]s which select from all weapons with a certain tag may produce one of these procedurally generated weapons. Since they retain the properties of their base items, these weapons should be as usable as a standard weapon of the base type.

== Size ==

Weapons have a minimum size to use at all, and a minimum size to use one-handed. Adult dwarves vary in size between 33,750 and 93,750 (average 60,000) based on their height and broadness. 'One-handed' vs. 'two-handed' checks are performed correctly, but 'can wield' vs. 'can't wield' ignores height and broadness modifiers. So dwarves in fortress mode will never equip two-handed swords, great axes, halberds, mauls, or pikes. Other weapons have a minimum wielding size of less than 60000, and are wielded one-handed if the individual dwarf is large enough. See [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=119068.msg3790913#msg3790913 this] forum post.

The following table shows approximately how many dwarves ''should be'' able to use each weapon one- or two-handed (see [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=101379.msg3029579#msg3029579 this forum post] for details), with all fractional numbers being approximate. While there are seven categories each for height and broadness, the number used is chosen randomly from within each category.

Note that there are other factors (such as fat and muscle mass) affecting dwarf size, and e.g. [[DFHack]] {{k|Alt}}+{{k|I}} will take them into account, but (at least in adventure mode) only base height and broadness appear to determine weapon wieldability.

Additionally, even if a creature is large enough to wield a weapon with one hand/appendage, it is still possible to wield it with both/more through [[Wrestling#Bugs|wrestling]] by first lodging it into a target, then grabbing it with a free hand/appendage, and then pulling it free.

Where the size check affects weapon wielding for dwarves, correct approximate figures are given in brackets.
{| class="wikitable sortable" border="border"
|-
! Type
! Min Size
(Two-Handed)
! Min Size
(One-Handed)
! Dwarves
Can't Wield
! Dwarves Wield
Two-Handed
! Dwarves Wield
One-Handed
|- valign="top"
| [[battle axe|Battle Axe]]
| 42500
| 47500
| 1/49 (0)
| 10/49 (11/49)
| 38/49
|- valign="top"
| [[Crossbow]] (Melee)
| 15000
| 0
| -
| -
| 49/49
|- valign="top"
| [[Mace]]
| 32500
| 37500
| -
| 1/49
| 48/49
|- valign="top"
| [[Pick]]
| 42500
| 47500
| 1/49 (0)
| 10/49 (11/49)
| 38/49
|- valign="top"
| [[short sword|Short Sword]]
| 32500
| 37500
| -
| 1/49
| 48/49
|- valign="top"
| [[Spear]]
| 5000
| 47500
| -
| 11/49
| 38/49
|- valign="top"
| [[war hammer|War Hammer]]
| 32500
| 37500
| -
| 1/49
| 48/49
|- valign="top"
| Training Axe
| 42500
| 47500
| 1/49 (0)
| 10/49 (11/49)
| 38/49
|- valign="top"
| Training Sword
| 32500
| 37500
| -
| 1/49
| 48/49
|- valign="top"
| Training Spear
| 42500
| 47500
| 1/49 (0)
| 10/49 (11/49)
| 38/49
|- valign="top"
| [[two-handed sword|2H Sword]]
| 62500
| 77500
| 32/49 (ALL)
| 14/49 (0)
| 3/49 (0)
|- valign="top"
| [[Blowgun]] (Melee)
| 15000
| 0
| -
| -
| 49/49
|- valign="top"
| [[Bow]] (Melee)
| 15000
| 0
| -
| -
| 49/49
|- valign="top"
| [[Flail]]
| 42500
| 47500
| 1/49 (0)
| 10/49 (11/49)
| 38/49
|- valign="top"
| [[great axe|Great Axe]]
| 62500
| 77500
| 32/49 (ALL)
| 14/49 (0)
| 3/49 (0)
|- valign="top"
| [[Halberd]]
| 62500
| 77500
| 32/49 (ALL)
| 14/49 (0)
| 3/49 (0)
|- valign="top"
| [[Dagger]] (Large)
| 5000
| 27500
| -
| -
| 49/49
|- valign="top"
| [[long sword|Long Sword]]
| 52500
| 57500
| 11/49 (0)
| 7/49 (18/49)
| 31/49
|- valign="top"
| [[Maul]]
| 62500
| 77500
| 32/49 (ALL)
| 14/49 (0)
| 3/49 (0)
|- valign="top"
| [[Morningstar]]
| 32500
| 37500
| -
| 1/49
| 48/49
|- valign="top"
| [[pike (weapon)|Pike]]
| 62500
| 77500
| 32/49 (ALL)
| 14/49 (0)
| 3/49 (0)
|- valign="top"
| [[Scimitar]]
| 32500
| 37500
| -
| 1/49
| 48/49
|- valign="top"
| [[Scourge]]
| 22500
| 27500
| -
| -
| 49/49
|- valign="top"
| [[Whip]]
| 22500
| 27500
| -
| -
| 49/49
|}

==Material==

As a general rule, weapons and armor can only be forged from weapon-grade metals: copper, bronze/bismuth bronze, iron, steel, adamantine, and divine metal. Most weapons (not crossbows) can also be made from silver, and [[training weapon]]s ''(axe, sword and spear only)'' can be made from wood (though these are ''not'' needed nor recommended). Leather, wood, shell or bone can be used to make a very light form of standard armor pieces. Other exceptions include obsidian [[short sword]]s, [[trap weapon]]s (which can also be forged from any wood or any [[glass]]), and items created during a [[strange mood]].

{{v0.31 material metal table head}}

{{v0.31 material metal table row|name=Adamantine|color={{Tile|/|3:1}}3:3:1|source=[[Raw adamantine]]|notes= |soliddensity=0.200|mp=25000|val=300|valinc=+50|impactyield=5000|impactfracture=5000|impactelasticity=0|shearyield=5000|shearfracture=5000|shearelasticity=0
}}

{{v0.31 material metal table row|name=Divine metal|notes= |soliddensity=1.0|val=300|impactyield=1000|impactfracture=2000|impactelasticity=0|shearyield=1000|shearfracture=2000|shearelasticity=0
}}

{{v0.31 material metal table row|name=Steel|color={{Tile|/|0:1}}0:7:1|source=[[Iron]] + [[Pig iron]] + [[flux]] stone + [[fuel]] '''!'''|notes= |soliddensity=7.85|val=30|valinc=+20|mp=12718|impactyield=1505|impactfracture=2520|impactelasticity=940|shearyield=430|shearfracture=720|shearelasticity=215
}}

{{v0.31 material metal table row|name=Bismuth bronze|color={{Tile|/|6:1}}6:6:1|source=2 [[Copper]] + 1 [[Tin]] + 1 [[Bismuth]] '''!'''|notes= |soliddensity=8.25|val=6|valinc=+4|mp=11868|impactyield=602|impactfracture=843|impactelasticity=547|shearyield=172|shearfracture=241|shearelasticity=156
}}

{{v0.31 material metal table row|name=Bronze|color={{Tile|/|6:0}}6:4:0|source=[[Tin]] + [[Copper]]|notes= |soliddensity=8.25|val=5|valinc=+3|mp=11868|impactyield=602|impactfracture=843|impactelasticity=547|shearyield=172|shearfracture=241|shearelasticity=156
}}

{{v0.31 material metal table row|name=Iron|color={{Tile|/|0:1}}0:7:1|source=[[Hematite]], [[Limonite]], [[Magnetite]]|notes= |soliddensity=7.85|mp=12768|val=10|valinc=+2|impactyield=542|impactfracture=1080|impactelasticity=319|shearyield=155|shearfracture=310|shearelasticity=189
}}

{{v0.31 material metal table row|name=Copper|color={{Tile|/|6:0}}6:4:0|source=[[Native copper]], [[Malachite]], [[Tetrahedrite]]|notes= |soliddensity=8.93|mp=11952|val=2|valinc=+0, +0, -1*|impactyield=245|impactfracture=770|impactelasticity=175|shearyield=70|shearfracture=220|shearelasticity=145
}}

{{v0.31 material metal table row|name=Silver|color={{Tile|/|7:1}}7:7:1|source=[[Native silver]], [[Horn silver]], [[Galena]] (50%), [[Tetrahedrite]] (20%) |notes= |soliddensity=10.49|mp=11731|val=10|valinc=+0, +0, +5*, +7*|impactyield=350|impactfracture=595|impactelasticity=350|shearyield=100|shearfracture=170|shearelasticity=333
}}

{{v0.31 material metal table row|name=Platinum|color={{Tile|/|7:1}}7:7:1|source=[[Native platinum]]|notes= Only available as artifact weapons.|soliddensity=21.4|mp=13182|val=40|valinc=+?, +?, +?, +?|impactyield=350|impactfracture=700|impactelasticity=152|shearyield=100|shearfracture=200|shearelasticity=164
}}

{{v0.31 material metal table row|name=Bone|color={{Tile|/|7:1}}7:7:1|source=Creatures|notes= |soliddensity=0.50|mp=NONE(burn at 10250)|val=1|valinc=+?, +?, +?, +?|impactyield=200|impactfracture=200|impactelasticity=100|shearyield=115|shearfracture=130|shearelasticity=100
}}

{{v0.31 material metal table row|name=Wood|color={{Tile|/|6:0}}7:7:1|source=Trees|notes= |soliddensity=0.50|mp=NONE(burn at 10250)|val=1|valinc=+?, +?, +?, +?|impactyield=10|impactfracture=10|impactelasticity=1000|shearyield=40|shearfracture=40|shearelasticity=1000
}}

{{v0.31 material metal table row|name=Shell|color={{Tile|/|2:0}}7:7:1|source=Creatures|notes= Only available as artifact weapons.|soliddensity=0.50|mp=NONE(burn at 10250)|val=1|valinc=+?, +?, +?, +?|impactyield=200|impactfracture=200|impactelasticity=100|shearyield=115|shearfracture=130|shearelasticity=100
}}

{{v0.31 material metal table row|name=Leather|color={{Tile|/|2:0}}7:7:1|source=Creatures|notes= Material data added for comparison.|soliddensity=0.50|mp=NONE(burn at 10250)|val=1|valinc=+?, +?, +?, +?|impactyield=10|impactfracture=10|impactelasticity=50000|shearyield=25|shearfracture=25|shearelasticity=50000
}}

{{v0.31 material metal table row|name=Obsidian|color={{Tile|/|0:1}}7:7:1|source=Lava|notes= Only available for Short Swords.|soliddensity=2.67|mp=13600|val=3|valinc=+0|impactyield=1000|impactfracture=1000|impactelasticity=2222|shearyield=35|shearfracture=35|shearelasticity=114
}}

{{v0.31 material metal table row|name=Crystal glass|color={{Tile|/|7:1}}7:7:1|source=Sand|notes= Only available as trap components.|soliddensity=2.6|mp=13600|val=10|valinc=+0|impactyield=1000|impactfracture=1000|impactelasticity=2222|shearyield=33|shearfracture=33|shearelasticity=113
}}

{{v0.31 material metal table row|name=Clear glass|color={{Tile|/|3:0}}7:7:1|source=Sand|notes= Only available as trap components.|soliddensity=2.6|mp=13600|val=5|valinc=+0|impactyield=1000|impactfracture=1000|impactelasticity=2222|shearyield=33|shearfracture=33|shearelasticity=113
}}

{{v0.31 material metal table row|name=Green glass|color={{Tile|/|2:0}}7:7:1|source=Sand|notes= Only available as trap components.|soliddensity=2.6|mp=13600|val=2|valinc=+0|impactyield=1000|impactfracture=1000|impactelasticity=2222|shearyield=33|shearfracture=33|shearelasticity=113
}}

|}

*''Combat information'' is used internally by the game to determine the combat properties of weapons and armor made from this metal:
**'''Density''': Used in conjunction with other factors - heavier weapons (higher numbers) hit with a bit more force, very light weapons tend to have less penetration. Value shown here is g/cm3, which is the raw value divided by 103
**'''Impact yield''': Used for blunt-force combat; ''higher'' is better for blunt weapons, but ''lower'' is better for armor. This is the raw value divided by 103 (i.e., kPa).
**'''Impact fracture''': Used for blunt-force combat; ''higher'' is better. This is the raw value divided by 103 (i.e., kPa).
**'''Impact elasticity''' (or '''strain at yield'''): Used for blunt-force combat; ''lower'' is better. This is the raw value.
**'''Shear yield''': Used for cutting calculations in combat; ''higher'' is better. This is the raw value divided by 103 (i.e., kPa).
**'''Shear fracture''': Used for cutting calculations in combat; ''higher'' is better. This is the most important indicator of edged strength. This is the raw value divided by 103 (i.e., kPa).
**'''Shear elasticity''' (or '''strain at yield'''): Used for cutting calculations in combat; ''lower'' is better. This is the raw value.

*General Term Explanations (from Wikipedia)
**'''Yield Strength''' - The stress at which material strain changes from elastic deformation to plastic deformation, causing it to deform permanently.
**'''Fracture Strength''' - The stress coordinate on the stress-strain curve at the point of rupture.
**'''Stress''' - Force per area = F/A
**'''Strain''' - Deformation of a solid due to stress = Stress/Young's Modulus

=== Explanation ===
* '''Yield Strength''' is the amount of stress required to permanently deform (bend) a material (plastic deformation).
* '''Fracture Strength''' is the amount of stress required to permanently break (rupture) a material.
* '''Elasticity''' or '''Strain at yield''' is the amount of deformation (bending) that occurs at the yield point.

=== Implications ===
Yield strength combined with strain at yield can tell what a material will do under stress (be it from a hammer, axe, or arrow); higher yield means that it takes more stress to deform, while lower strain at yield means that it will deform less when stress is applied.

== Combat formulae ==

Penetration is poorly understood, but most of the rest of combat is fairly well understood. Maybe it defines how deep a blade may go through layers of armor and flesh and bones and even cut off limbs. This may explain why it does not apply for blunt attacks that do not go through layers.

First, you need to calculate your weapon's momentum.

Melee Weapon Momentum: M = Skill * Size * Str * Vel / (106 * (1 + i_Size/(w_density*w_size) ))
* Dwarf Melee Momentum: M = 0.06 * Str * Vel / (1 + i_Size/(w_density*w_size) )
* Quick attacks halve melee momentum, wild and heavy attacks multiply it by 1.5
* Attacking a prone opponent in melee doubles momentum.

Ranged Weapon Momentum: M = (w_density*w_size)/105 * min(105*(SHOOT_FORCE/20)/(w_density*w_size), SHOOT_MAXVEL/10)
* Bow and Crossbow Momentum: M = (w_density*150)/105 * min(105/(w_density*3), 20)
** If 20 is smaller because the ammunition is density 1666 or less, M = w_density*3/100 = w_density*0.03
** If 20 is larger because the ammunition is density 1667 or larger, M = 50
* Blowgun Momentum: M = (w_density*20)/105 * min(105/(w_density*4), 100)
** If 100 is smaller because the ammunition is density 250 or less, M = w_density/50 = w_density*0.02
** If 100 is larger because the ammunition is density 251 or more, M = 5

where:
* '''M''' is the momentum.
* '''Skill''' is a gradual multiplier based on skill level, from 1x base up to 2x at Grand Master.
* '''Str''' is the creature's strength (e.g. 1250 for the average dwarf)
* '''Vel''' is the weapon's velocity modifier if present (e.g. 1.25x, 2x)
* '''Size''' is the average creature size (e.g. 60000 for dwarves)
* '''i_Size''' is the specific creature's size
** Dwarves range from a minimum size of 33750 to a maximum size of 93750, with an average size of 60000.
* '''w_density''' is the weapon's material's density for melee weapons, or the ammunition's density for ranged weapons
* '''w_size''' is the weapon's size for melee weapons, or the ammunition's size for ranged weapons
* '''SHOOT_FORCE''' is the ranged weapon's SHOOT_FORCE constant, which is used to determine its maximum momentum.
* '''SHOOT_MAXVEL''' is the ranged weapon's SHOOT_MAXVEL constant, which is used to determine its maximum velocity, where ammo momentum = ammo mass * ammo velocity.

An edged weapon undergoes the following comparison:

M >= (aSY/wSY + (A+1)*aSF/wSF) * (10 + 2*a_quality) / (Sha * w_quality),

where:
* '''aSY''' is the armor's SHEAR_YIELD, which is based on its material
* '''wSY''' is the weapon's SHEAR_YIELD, which is based on its material
* '''aSF''' is the armor's SHEAR_FRACTURE, which is based on its material
* '''wSF''' is the weapon's SHEAR_FRACTURE, which is based on its material
* '''A''' is attack [[Material science#Contact_Area|contact area]]
* '''Sha''' is weapon material [[edge|sharpness]] multiplier (1x for most metals, 1.2x for [[divine metal]], 1.5x for [[glass]], 2x for [[obsidian]], 10x for [[adamantine]] and 0.1x for all other materials)
* '''w_quality''' is weapon [[quality]] sharpness multiplier (0.5x for normal quality, 0.7x for fine, 1x for masterwork, etc.)
* '''a_quality''' is armor [[quality]] multiplier

Expressed in the above terms,

* 0.06 * Str * Vel / (1 + i_Size/(w_density*w_size)) >= (aSY/wSY + (A+1)*aSF/wSF) * (10 + 2*Qa) / (Sha * w_quality)
* 0.06 * Sha * w_quality * Str * Vel / (1 + i_Size/(w_density*w_size)) >= (aSY/wSY + (A+1)*aSF/wSF) * (10 + 2*a_quality)
* 0.06 * Sha * w_quality * Str * Vel / ((1 + i_Size/(w_density*w_size)) * (10 + 2*a_quality)) >= aSY/wSY + (A+1)*aSF/wSF

Because Shear Yield and Shear Fracture are always within a power of 10 of each other for actually available materials, but the smallest possible A value is 20 (a blowgun dart, which is smaller than the smallest item of clothing/armor a dwarf can wear), this means that in practice, Shear Fracture is significantly more important than Shear Yield, and you can reliably compare weapons and armor without paying attention to Shear Yield. In both cases, higher is better on both weapons and armor, as is quality. Sharpness only matters to the weapon, and smaller contact area is better for the attacker.

If the test is passed, attack momentum is decreased by some 5% and the layer is considered punctured/severed, and the process continues to the next layer, including working through layers of the defender's body. If the test is failed, the attack becomes blunt for this layer.

If the attack is blunt, either due to starting off blunt or due to failing the above test, it is then subjected to this test:

2 * w_size * wIY > A * a_density

where:
* '''a_density''' is the armor material's density
* '''wIY''' is the weapon's impact yield in MPa (i.e. raw value divided by 106). {{verify}}

Failure means the attack bounces off, meaning denser, larger armor resists blunt attacks better, but larger blunt weapons with smaller contact areas and higher impact yields get through armor better. This also means adamantine armor is some of the worst in the game at outright deflecting attacks, due to its poor density, but this is not typically relevant, as impact yields are typically at least 10 times larger than density values for the actual metals available, so this step is routinely passed by most weapons regardless of relative materials.

On success, the following test is applied:

M >= (2*aIF - aIY) * (2 + 0.4*a_quality) * A,

where:
* '''aIF''' is the armor's impact fracture in MPa (i.e. raw value divided by 106)
* '''aIY''' is the armor's impact yield in MPa (i.e. raw value divided by 106).

Note that the armor wants as high impact fracture as possible to make this test fail. The armor also wants low impact yield, although the weapon's impact fracture does not matter, and high quality and high contact area.

On a success, attack momentum is decreased by some 5% and the layer is considered punctured/severed, and the process continues to the next layer, including working through layers of the defender's body. If the attack was edged, it becomes edged again. On a failure, the momentum is multiplied by SHEAR_STRAIN_AT_YIELD/50000 for edged attacks or IMPACT_STRAIN_AT_YIELD/50000 for blunt attacks, then it becomes *permanently* blunt, and is passed on to the next layer. This means most rigid metal armor will reduce blocked attacks by 98%-99%, but elastic armor, such as a mail shirt, has both strain at yield values raised to 50000, so it multiplies by 1 at this step (i.e. does nothing to the momentum, but does still convert it to blunt) regardless of material.

== Combat testing ==
In regards to edged weaponry: [[adamantine]] and [[steel]] take first and a distant second place respectively, with [[iron]] a slightly less distant third best material in the game, nearly matched by the [[bronze]]s. Beyond that is [[copper]], the second worst material, and [[silver]] is the worst weapon material available (and due to the existence of training weapons, not even useful in that regard).

Additionally, with regards to blunt weapons, almost all of the non-adamantine materials perform equally well, with a very slight edge towards steel and silver. Here is the thread with the details: [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=53571.0].

Keep in mind that, given how unbelievably complicated this system is, very little should be taken as word of law yet.

{| class="wikitable"
|-
!
! Best
! Better
! Good
! Fair
! Poor
! Terrible
! Notes
|-
| Armor
| Adamantine
| Steel
| Iron
| Bronze, Bismuth Bronze
| Copper
|
|
|-
| Edged Weapons
| Adamantine
| Steel
| Iron
| Bronze, Bismuth Bronze
| Copper
| Silver
| For piercing iron armor, copper is better than bronze, but when piercing copper or bronze armor, bronze is better than copper.
|-
| Ammunition
| Steel, Iron, Bronze, Bismuth Bronze, Copper, Silver
|
| Adamantine
|
|
|
| Adamantine bolts deflect off of adamantine armor, but otherwise their performance is on par with bolts made out of other metals.
|-
| Blunt Weapons
| Platinum, Slade
| Steel, Silver
| Copper, Bismuth Bronze, Bronze, Iron
|
|
| Adamantine
| All six standard weapon metals perform nearly identically. Steel has a slightly higher rate of critical wounds, while silver is slightly more likely to penetrate armor. Platinum (only available as [[artifact]] weapons) has twice the density of silver and several other improved properties, making it the best metal for impact weapons, though very limited in production. Adamantine's light weight makes it a terrible choice for blunt weapons, roughly the same as making a weapon out of [[featherwood]] or cork.
|}

Cross referencing this table with the table at the top of this section seems to indicate that low densities, high impact fractures, and high shear fractures contribute to the killing power of edged weapons.

===Analysis===
Testing of weapons (15 dwarves-versus-15 dwarves combat) in the [[object testing arena]] shows that the best dwarven-made weapon against unarmored humanoids is the battle axe, while the war hammer performs the best against armored targets.

Even in 15×(steel armor+silver war hammer) versus 15×(adamantine armor+adamantine battle axe) matches, hammerdwarves won with less than 50% casualties (mostly one-strike kills). However, when the dwarves in question were without armor or only wearing leather/cloth, the result was inverted — axedwarves won with less than 50% casualties. In battles against megabeasts, 6 silver hammerdwarves were barely able to scratch a [[bronze colossus]] (attacks were glancing away) due to bronze being a better "weapon" material.

This is because silver has the highest solid density of all materials that can regularly be made into weapons by dwarves. Tests show that indeed [[gold]] and [[platinum]] (increasingly dense) do increasing amounts of damage, and that war hammers remain the tool of choice, however they can only be produced by a moody dwarf (and a very lucky one at that).

For more on ranged ammunition see the forum thread [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=116151.0 Dwarven Research: A Comparison Study on the Effectiveness of Bolts vs Armors].

More arena tests are available in the [[Main:Military testing|Military testing]] article.

==Bugs==
*Equipping weapons/armor on military is erratic. This is likely due to a single piece of weapons/armor being erroneously assigned to multiple dwarves and seems to occur when dwarves are upgrading their equipment or going on raids. Removing and reassigning equipment for all military dwarves can temporarily fix this problem.{{Bug|535}}
*In the Premium version, the sprite sheets for equipped gear are mostly incomplete. The material of equipped gear is currently distinguished for [[dwarf|dwarves]], for [[elf|elves']] and [[kobold|kobolds']] [[armor]] (including metal armor), and for elves' wooden weapons; everything else has a default, 'gray' color palette.
*The Premium version has placeholder sprites for equipped artifact gear (which can be any material), but these are not used for gear of nonstandard materials spawned in the [[object testing arena]], resulting in creatures that use them appearing un-equipped.

==See also==
* [[User:Shinziril#Weapons_and_Armor|Outstanding research]] on weapons and armor by Shinziril

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Tool

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[[File:tools_sprites_preview.png|right]]'''Tools''' are finished goods, used for a variety of mundane purposes by civilians and [[night creature]]s. Some tools can also be used as [[weapon]]s, though it is usually much better to use, say, a [[sword]] over a carving fork. [[Tools#Other tools|Other tools]] can be created and used by your dwarves in [[fortress mode]], including as [[furniture]]. [[Honeycomb]]s also count as tools, and are stockpiled as such.

You can select handheld tools as starting equipment if your adventurer hails from a human civilization.

==Tools Usable as Weapons==
{| class="wikitable" border="border"
! Type
! Graphic
! Size
! Attack
! [[Attack type]]
! Contact Area
! Penetration
! Velocity
! [[DF2012:Combat_skill#Weapon_skills|Skill Used]]
|- valign="top"
|rowspan="3"| Carving knife
|rowspan="3"|[[File:carving_knife_sprite.png]]
|rowspan="3"|150
| Slash || Edge || 800 || 600 || 1.25×
|rowspan="3"| Dagger
|-
| Stab || Edge || 4 || 800 || 1×
|-
| Handle strike || Blunt || 15 || (400) || 1×
|- valign="top"
|rowspan="3"| Boning knife
|rowspan="3"|[[File:boning_knife_sprite.png]]
|rowspan="3"|50
| Slash || Edge || 500 || 300 || 1.25×
|rowspan="3"| Dagger
|-
| Stab || Edge || 2 || 400 || 1×
|-
| Handle strike || Blunt || 10 || (200) || 1×
|- valign="top"
|rowspan="3"| Slicing knife
|rowspan="3"|[[File:slicing_knife_sprite.png]]
|rowspan="3"|150
| Slash || Edge || 900 || 700 || 1.25×
|rowspan="3"| Dagger
|-
| Stab || Edge || 3 || 900 || 1x
|-
| Handle strike || Blunt || 15 || (400) || 1×
|- valign="top"
|rowspan="3"| Meat cleaver
|rowspan="3"|[[File:meat_cleaver_sprite.png]]
|rowspan="3"|300
| Hack || Edge || 800 || 400 || 1.25×
|rowspan="3"| Axe
|-
| Flat slap || Blunt || 800 || (400) || 1.25×
|-
| Handle strike || Blunt || 20 || (400) || 1×
|- valign="top"
|rowspan="2"| Carving fork
|rowspan="2"|[[File:carving_fork_sprite.png]]
|rowspan="2"|150
| Stab || Edge || 1 || 100 || 1×
|rowspan="2"| Dagger
|-
| Handle strike || Blunt || 15 || 400 || 1×
|- valign="top"
|rowspan="3"| (Stone) Axe
|rowspan="3"|[[File:stone_axe_sprite.png]]
|rowspan="3"|400
| Hack || Edge || 800 || 400 || 1.25×
|rowspan="3"| Axe
|-
| Flat slap || Blunt || 800 || 400 || 1×
|-
| Helve strike || Blunt || 20 || 400 || 1×
|}

==Other Tools==

{| class="wikitable sortable" border="border"
|-
! Type
! Tile
! Graphic
! Size (cm³)
! Material
! Capacity (cm³)
! Base Value
! Usage
|-
| Cauldron || style="text-align:center;" | {{Tile|ô|7:1}} || style="text-align:center;" | [[File:cauldron_sprite.png]] || 4000 || Metal 6 || 100,000 || 50 || Cooking liquids
|-
| Ladle || style="text-align:center;" | {{Tile|♪|7:1}} || style="text-align:center;" | [[File:ladle_sprite.png]] || 100 || Metal 1 || n/a || 10 || Liquid scoop
|-
| Bowl || style="text-align:center;" | {{Tile|°|7:1}} || style="text-align:center;" | [[File:bowl_sprite.png]] || 100 || Stone 1 || 3,000 || 10 || Meal container
|-
| Mortar || style="text-align:center;" | {{Tile|°|7:1}} || style="text-align:center;" | [[File:mortar_sprite.png]] || 100 || Stone 1 || 1,000 || 10 || Grind powder, receptacle
|-
| Pestle || style="text-align:center;" | {{Tile|/|7:1}} || style="text-align:center;" | [[File:pestle_sprite.png]] || 20 || Stone 1 || n/a || 10 || Grind powder, grinder
|-
| [[Nest box]] || style="text-align:center;" | {{Tile|◘|7:1}} || style="text-align:center;" | [[File:nest_box_sprite.png]] || 1000 || Any Hard 1 || 2,000 || 10 || Contains eggs
|-
| [[Jug]] || style="text-align:center;" | {{Tile|σ|7:1}} || style="text-align:center;" | [[File:jug_sprite.png]] || 300 || Any Hard 1 || 10,000 || 10 || Liquid container
|-
| [[Large pot]] || style="text-align:center;" | {{Tile|Φ|7:1}} || style="text-align:center;" | [[File:large_pot_sprite.png]] || 5000 || Any Hard 1 || 60,000 || 10 || Food storage
|-
| [[Hive]] || style="text-align:center;" | {{Tile|▬|7:1}} || style="text-align:center;" | [[File:hive.png]] || 2000 || Any Hard 1 || 5,000 || 10 || [[Beekeeping industry|Beekeeping]]
|-
| [[Honeycomb]] || style="text-align:center;" | {{Tile|∞|7:1}} || style="text-align:center;" | [[File:honeycomb_sprite.png]] || 1000 || n/a 1 || n/a || 10 || n/a
|-
| [[Storage|Pouch]] || style="text-align:center;" | {{Tile|¡|7:1}} || style="text-align:center;" | [[File:pouch_sprite.png]] || 100 || Soft 1 || 1,000 || 10 || Small object storage
|-
| [[Minecart]] || style="text-align:center;" | {{Tile|■|0:7:1}} || style="text-align:center;" | [[File:minecart_sprite.png]] || 40,000 || Wood/Metal 6 || 500,000 || 50 || Tracked cart
|-
| [[Wheelbarrow]] || style="text-align:center;" | {{Tile|Ö|7:1}} || style="text-align:center;" | [[File:wheelbarrow_sprite.png]] ||30,000 || Wood/Metal 6 || 100,000 || 50 || Heavy object hauling
|-
| [[Stepladder]] || style="text-align:center;" |{{Tile|₧|7:1}} || style="text-align:center;" | [[File:stepladder_sprite.png]] || 40,000 || Wood/Metal 6 || n/a || 50 || Fruit collection
|-
| Scroll rollers || style="text-align:center;" | {{Tile|÷|7:1}} || style="text-align:center;" | [[File:scroll roller sprite.png ]] || 100 || Any Hard 1 || n/a || 10 || Roll up sheets
|-
| [[Book binding]] || style="text-align:center;" |{{Tile|÷|7:1}} || style="text-align:center;" | [[File:book_binding_sprite.png]] || 100 || Any Hard 1 || n/a || 10 || Protect folded sheets
|-
| [[Scroll]] || style="text-align:center;" |{{Tile|∞|7:1}} || style="text-align:center;" | [[File:scroll_sprite.png]] || 200 || Any Sheet 1 || n/a || 20 || Contains writing
|-
| [[Quire]] || style="text-align:center;" |{{Tile|≡|7:1}} || style="text-align:center;" | [[File:quire_sprite.png]] || 100 || Any Sheet 1 || n/a || 20 || Contains writing
|-
| [[Bookcase]] || style="text-align:center;" |{{Tile|≡|0:7:1}} || style="text-align:center;" | [[File:bookcase_sprite.png]] || 1000 || Any Hard 6 || 100,000 || 10 || Bookcase (Furniture)
|-
| Helve || style="text-align:center;" | {{Tile|\|7:1}} || style="text-align:center;" | [[File:helve_sprite.png]] ||250 || Branch 1 || n/a || 10 || Crafting stone axes in [[adventure mode]]
|-
| [[Pedestal]] || style="text-align:center;" | {{Tile|ï|7:1}} || style="text-align:center;" | [[File:pedestal_sprite.png]] || 500 || Any Hard 6 || || 10 || Display furniture
|-
| [[Display case]] || style="text-align:center;" | {{Tile|π|0:7:1}} || style="text-align:center;" | [[File:display_case_sprite.png]] || 1000 || [[Log]] + [[Window]]|| || 10 || Display furniture
|-
| [[Altar]] || style="text-align:center;" | {{Tile|É|7:1}} || style="text-align:center;" | [[File:altar_sprite.png]] || 500 || Any Hard 6 || || 10 || Offering place (Furniture)
|-
| [[Die]] (a.k.a. dice) || style="text-align:center;" | {{Tile|◘|7:1}} || style="text-align:center;" | [[File:die_sprite.png]] || 5 || Any Hard 1 || || 1 || Divination
|-
| [[Instrument#Components|Instrument component]] || style="text-align:center;" | {{Tile|¢|7:1}} || style="text-align:center;" | [[File:Instrument sprite.png]] || Varies || Varies || || 10 || Constructing [[instrument]]s
|}

Hard materials include stone, metal, wood, and glass. Soft materials include silk, plant fibers, leather and adamantine thread. Sheet materials include papyrus, paper, and parchment.

A tool needs capacity of 600 per unit of [[liquid]] to contain: a jug can hold 10,000/600 = 16 units of liquid, a submerged minecart scoops 500,000/600 = 833 units of magma or water, etc.

==See also==
* [[Tool token]]

{{Translation
| dwarven = lòr
| elvish = wanala
| goblin = êngan
| human = shem
}}

{{Category|Items| }}
{{Gamedata|{{raw|v50:item_tool.txt|}}}}
[[ru:Tool]]

Version history

2026-07-09T21:38:31Z

DPhKraken: /* Dwarf Fortress v53 */

This page documents the complete release history of ''Dwarf Fortress'', starting from the very first public release of [[23a:Release information/0.21.93.19a|0.21.93.19a]]. See each release's page for more information.

== Dwarf Fortress v53 ==
{| class=wikitable
! style="width:85px"|Version
! style="width:100px"|Date of release
! Note
|-
| [[Release information/53.15|53.15]] || 2026-6-25
| '''Dino Update''': Extinct animals, animal people equipment graphics
|-
| [[Release information/53.14|53.14]] || 2026-5-20
| ''Hotfix'' for announcements crash
|-
| [[Release information/53.13|53.13]] || 2026-5-13
| More messenger actions, idle undead and pathing optimizations, and general fixes
|-
| [[Release information/53.12|53.12]] || 2026-4-14
| General QoL tweaks for petitions, trade, mining, squads, and more
|-
| [[Release information/53.11|53.11]] || 2026-3-4
| General fixes
|-
| [[Release information/53.10|53.10]] || 2026-1-12
| ''Hotfixes'' and more aquatic animal portraits
|-
| [[Release information/53.09|53.09]] || 2026-1-7
| General fixes, new portraits, experiment graphics
|-
| [[Release information/53.08|53.08]] || 2025-12-19
| ''Hotfix'' for mining and deconstruction speed
|-
| [[Release information/53.07|53.07]] || 2025-12-18
| Siege related ''Bugfixes'' and more animal portraits
|-
| [[Release information/53.06|53.06]] || 2025-11-24
| Siege related ''Bugfixes'' and a new song
|-
| [[Release information/53.05|53.05]] || 2025-11-18
| Quick fix for a few sorting issues.
|-
| [[Release information/53.04|53.04]] || 2025-11-17
| ''Hotfix'' for Siege Update and other ''Bugfixes''.
|-
| [[Release information/53.03|53.03]] || 2025-11-10
| ''Hotfix'' for Siege Update.
|-
| [[Release information/53.02|53.02]] || 2025-11-04
| ''Hotfix'' for Siege Update.
|-
| [[Release information/53.01|53.01]] || 2025-11-03
| '''Siege Update''': Invaders can dig, destroy, build, and plan. Improved siege engines including new [[bolt thrower]].
|-
|}

== Dwarf Fortress v52 ==
{| class=wikitable
! style="width:85px"|Version
! style="width:100px"|Date of release
! Note
|-
| [[Release information/52.05|52.05]] || 2025-10-01
| Miscellaneous ''Bugfixes''
|-
| [[Release information/52.04|52.04]] || 2025-08-28
| ''Bugfixes'' relating to traveling squads
|-
| [[Release information/52.03|52.03]] || 2025-08-07
| Added new [[Dye]] related plants and features
|-
| [[Release information/52.02|52.02]] || 2025-07-24
| ''Hotfix''
|-
| [[Release information/52.01|52.01]] || 2025-07-21
| Lua update for easier mod making and future advanced systems
|}

== Dwarf Fortress v51 ==
{| class=wikitable
! style="width:85px"|Version
! style="width:100px"|Date of release
! Note
|-
| [[Release information/51.13|51.13]] || 2025-06-27
| ''Hotfix'' for dehydration issues
|-
| [[Release information/51.12|51.12]] || 2025-06-26
| Ranged weapon updates
|-
| [[Release information/51.11|51.11]] || 2025-04-21
| Turned off underground humanoid invasions until fixed, traveling creatures retain room ownership, artifact weapon images
|-
| [[Release information/51.10|51.10]] || 2025-04-03
| ''Hotfix'' for path overflow fix
|-
| [[Release information/51.09|51.09]] || 2025-04-02
| [[Forbidden]] [[coffin]]s now unusable; [[mining]], [[woodcutting]], [[hunting]] [[labor]]s now mutually exclusive; stopped [[Reclaim_fortress_mode|reclaim/unretire]] [[magma]] overflows
|-
| [[Release information/51.08|51.08]] || 2025-03-13
| ''Hotfix'' for issue preventing player input during fast travel in Adventure Mode after a popup appears
|-
| [[Release information/51.07|51.07]] || 2025-03-12
| Quick-pick most-recently-used material for constructions, ordinary adventurers can start anywhere in their civilization, several ''Bugfixes''.
|-
| [[Release information/51.06|51.06]] || 2025-02-26
| Nerfs prepared food value, adjusts metal settings, adds option to disable rectangle size info box, several ''Bugfixes''.
|-
| [[Release information/51.05|51.05]] || 2025-02-12
| Adds Adventure mode speedometer and fixes ASCII Travel map. Adds tree growth graphics. Re-implements non-varied terrain in ASCII mode. ''Bugfixes''.
|-
| [[Release information/51.04|51.04]] || 2025-01-27
| Fixed Steam modding workshop support. ''Steam only''.
|-
| [[Release information/51.03|51.03]] || 2025-01-25
| Fixed two screeching ogg vorbis audio files and made an unknown binary change. ''Premium-only''.
|-
| [[Release information/51.02|51.02]] || 2025-01-221 2025-01-23
| '''Public Adventure release''': Audio changes, keyboard look, ''Bugfixes''.
|-
| [[Release information/51.01|51.01]] || 2024-04-172 2025-01-213
| '''Adventure beta''': [[Adventure mode]] now available, with a new [[soundtrack]] and [[interface]]. Graphics changes, skill archetypes, [[Chosen]] mode, [[mysterious dungeon]]s. ''Steam only''.
|}

1: Dwarf Fortress v51.02 was initially released on the beta branch on Steam ~24 hours before the official release.

2: Adventure mode had an extended beta testing period, with 28 updates being worked on concurrently with v50 releases. This is the initial launch date.

3: The final version of 51.01 was released to the beta branch on this date, and is not listed in-game as a beta.

== Dwarf Fortress v50 ==
{| class=wikitable
! style="width:85px"|Version
! style="width:100px"|Date of release
! Note
|-
| [[Release information/50.15|50.15]] || 2024-12-12
| More container graphics, color clothing by dye or profession, negatively-aged migrant fix, more ''Bugfixes''.
|-
| [[Release information/50.14|50.14]] || 2024-09-25
| Child/baby graphics for 5 major civs, more crop & equipment graphics, ''Bugfixes''.
|-
| [[Release information/50.13|50.13]] || 2024-04-23
| Added portraits for most races, ''Bugfixes''.
|-
| [[Release information/50.12|50.12]] || 2024-03-06
| ''Bugfixes'', improvements to UI and UX.
|-
| [[Release information/50.11|50.11]] || 2023-10-03
| ''Bugfixes''
|-
| [[Release information/50.10|50.10]] || 2023-09-19
| [[Alerts]] and combat [[reports]] can be viewed. Linux support. Crash logging. In game [[Settings#Announcements|Announcement Settings]].
|-
| [[Release information/50.09|50.09]] || 2023-06-28
| Updated to SDL2, performance optimization, experimental multithreading (field of view calculations became a separate thread).
|-
| [[Release information/50.08|50.08]] || 2023-05-02
| Re-introduced [[XML dump|XML]] export in [[legends mode]], аdded graphics for many plants and child/baby creatures.
|-
| [[Release information/50.07|50.07]] || 2023-02-07
| ''Hotfix'' - embark warning fix
|-
| [[Release information/50.06|50.06]] || 2023-02-07
| Re-introduced [[arena mode]].
|-
| [[Release information/50.05|50.05]] || 2023-01-05
| ''Bugfixes and optimizations''
|-
| [[Release information/50.04|50.04]] || 2022-12-22
| '''Classic release''': released the free [[Classic]] version on [https://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/ bay12games.com], and enabled classic mode in the Premium version. Added ability to advance time by one frame, and assign everyone to a burrow.
|-
| [[Release information/50.03|50.03]] || 2022-12-12
| ''Premium-only bugfixes''. Improved UX for selecting building materials.
|-
| [[Release information/50.02|50.02]] || 2022-12-08
| ''Premium-only bugfixes''
|-
| [[Release information/50.01|50.01]] || 2022-12-06
| '''Premium release''': launched the paid [[Premium]] version on Steam and itch.io. Introduced [[graphics]], full [[Mouse control|mouse support]], a new user [[interface]], tutorials, and new [[soundtrack|music]] and sound effects. A number of features from v0.47 were lost in 50.01 (see [[Missing features]]).
|}

== Dwarf Fortress v0.47 ==
{| class=wikitable
! style="width:85px"|Version
! style="width:100px"|Date of release
! Note
|-
| [[DF2014:Release information/0.47.05|0.47.05]] || 2021-01-28
| ''Bugfix''
|-
| [[DF2014:Release information/0.47.04|0.47.04]] || 2020-02-29
| ''Bugfix''
|-
| [[DF2014:Release information/0.47.03|0.47.03]] || 2020-02-16
| ''Bugfix''
|-
| [[DF2014:Release information/0.47.02|0.47.02]] || 2020-02-06
| ''Bugfix''
|-
| [[DF2014:Release information/0.47.01|0.47.01]] || 2020-01-29
| ''Release'': introduced creation of [[guildhall]]s and [[temple]]s. Introduced [[traitor]]s and [[villain]]s. Many new events in world generation, organizations, sites, pets and mounts in adventure mode, [[Aquifier#Light aquifers|light aquifers]].
|}

== Dwarf Fortress v0.44 ==
{| class=wikitable
! style="width:85px"|Version
! style="width:100px"|Date of release
! Note
|-
| [[DF2014:Release information/0.44.12|0.44.12]] || 2018-06-23
| ''Hotfix'';
|-
| [[DF2014:Release information/0.44.11|0.44.11]] || 2018-06-23
| Civilizations create nearby sites and associate them with your fortress, can request/send workers, long-term memories can lead to personality changes
|-
| [[DF2014:Release information/0.44.10|0.44.10]] || 2018-05-05
| Dwarves now have short-term and long-term memories of emotional events, Adventurer mode log improved
|-
| [[DF2014:Release information/0.44.09|0.44.09]] || 2018-04-01
| ''Hotfix'';
|-
| [[DF2014:Release information/0.44.08|0.44.08]] || 2018-03-29
| ''Bugfix'';
|-
| [[DF2014:Release information/0.44.07|0.44.07]] || 2018-03-12
| ''Hotfix'';
|-
| [[DF2014:Release information/0.44.06|0.44.06]] || 2018-03-09
| Raids can pillage/raze sites and demand tribute, will gain skills (e.g. military tactics) during missions
|-
| [[DF2014:Release information/0.44.05|0.44.05]] || 2018-01-14
| ''Hotfix'';
|-
| [[DF2014:Release information/0.44.04|0.44.04]] || 2018-01-10
| ''Bugfix'';
|-
| [[DF2014:Release information/0.44.03|0.44.03]] || 2017-12-25
| ''Bugfix'';
|-
| [[DF2014:Release information/0.44.02|0.44.02]] || 2017-11-23
| ''Hotfix'';
|-
| [[DF2014:Release information/0.44.01|0.44.01]] || 2017-11-22
| ''Release''; can now send raids to other sites, build museums using pedestals and display cases, artifacts created during worldgen, civilizations can send spies to gather information on artifacts
|}

== Dwarf Fortress v0.43 ==
{| class=wikitable
! style="width:85px"|Version
! style="width:100px"|Date of release
! Note
|-
| [[DF2014:Release information/0.43.05|0.43.05]] || 2016-06-20
| '''64-bit support''', bugfixes
|-
| [[DF2014:Release information/0.43.04|0.43.04]] || 2016-06-20
| ''Bugfix'';
|-
| [[DF2014:Release information/0.43.03|0.43.03]] || 2016-05-22
| ''Bugfix'';
|-
| [[DF2014:Release information/0.43.02|0.43.02]] || 2016-05-11
| ''Hotfix'';
|-
| [[DF2014:Release information/0.43.01|0.43.01]] || 2016-05-09
| ''Release''; Adventurers can create sites, make stone axes, fell trees, perform carpentry, and construct buildings; Fortress mode work orders can now specify start conditions, restart frequencies, and how many workshops can be used
|}

== Dwarf Fortress v0.42 ==
{| class=wikitable
! style="width:85px"|Version
! style="width:100px"|Date of release
! Note
|-
| [[DF2014:Release information/0.42.06|0.42.06]] || 2016-02-10
| Can specify exact materials for jobs, make specific crafts, apply specific decorations, and even customize the details of art images; Adventurers can now do bone carving, complete with custom images
|-
| [[DF2014:Release information/0.42.05|0.42.05]] || 2016-01-17
| Reputations for hunters and protection from bandits
|-
| [[DF2014:Release information/0.42.04|0.42.04]] || 2015-12-26
| More varieties of [[animal people]] and giant animals, Vampire purges during worldgen, bugfixes
|-
| [[DF2014:Release information/0.42.03|0.42.03]] || 2015-12-12
| ''Bugfix'';
|-
| [[DF2014:Release information/0.42.02|0.42.02]] || 2015-12-05
| ''Bugfix'';
|-
| [[DF2014:Release information/0.42.01|0.42.01]] || 2015-12-01
| ''Release''; introduced taverns, temples, and libraries, added new musical instruments and performance skills, introduced [[need]]s to replace dwarves going On Break, added visitors who can petition for fortress membership, scholars and historians can write books and spread knowledge, and drinking alcohol actually causes inebriation (and eventually fatal alcohol poisoning)
|}

== Dwarf Fortress v0.40 ==
{| class=wikitable
! style="width:85px"|Version
! style="width:100px"|Date of release
! Note
|-
| [[DF2014:Release information/0.40.24|0.40.24]] || 2015-01-07
| ''Bugfix''; Misc. bugfixes; allowing 1x1 forts
|-
| [[DF2014:Release information/0.40.23|0.40.23]] || 2014-12-24
| ''Bugfix''; Fixed farming job cancellations, armies camping forever, typos, and channeling bug
|-
| [[DF2014:Release information/0.40.22|0.40.22]] || 2014-12-21
| ''Bugfix''; Fixed multi-item jobs and toggle marker tweak
|-
| [[DF2014:Release information/0.40.21|0.40.21]] || 2014-12-19
| ''Hotfix''; Fixed a crash bug and other issues
|-
| [[DF2014:Release information/0.40.20|0.40.20]] || 2014-12-18
| Job priorities rewrite; vein and cluster automining
|-
| [[DF2014:Release information/0.40.19|0.40.19]] || 2014-11-26
| [[Gelding]] and related profession/skill/etc
|-
| [[DF2014:Release information/0.40.18|0.40.18]] || 2014-11-20
| ''Hotfix''; Fixed a smelting issue on Windows
|-
| [[DF2014:Release information/0.40.17|0.40.17]] || 2014-11-19
| ''Bugfix'';
|-
| [[DF2014:Release information/0.40.16|0.40.16]] || 2014-11-12
| ''Bugfix'';
|-
| [[DF2014:Release information/0.40.15|0.40.15]] || 2014-11-05
| ''Bugfix'';
|-
| [[DF2014:Release information/0.40.14|0.40.14]] || 2014-10-25
| Thought/emotion rewrite, stopped site invaders from always winning
|-
| [[DF2014:Release information/0.40.13|0.40.13]] || 2014-09-17
| ''Bugfix'';
|-
| [[DF2014:Release information/0.40.12|0.40.12]] || 2014-09-10
| ''Bugfix'';
|-
| [[DF2014:Release information/0.40.11|0.40.11]] || 2014-09-03
| ''Bugfix'';
|-
| [[DF2014:Release information/0.40.10|0.40.10]] || 2014-08-24
| ''Bugfix'';
|-
| [[DF2014:Release information/0.40.09|0.40.09]] || 2014-08-17
| ''Bugfix''; Misc. bugfixes
|-
| [[DF2014:Release information/0.40.08|0.40.08]] || 2014-08-11
| ''Hotfix''; Fixed a crash bug and issues with constructions
|-
| [[DF2014:Release information/0.40.07|0.40.07]] || 2014-08-10
| ''Bugfix''; AI and invasion fixes
|-
| [[DF2014:Release information/0.40.06|0.40.06]] || 2014-08-03
| ''Bugfix''; stack bugfixes.
|-
| [[DF2014:Release information/0.40.05|0.40.05]] || 2014-07-27
| ''Bugfix''; fixed large world slowdown, decreased rampant tree growth, many old and new bugfixes.
|-
| [[DF2014:Release information/0.40.04|0.40.04]] || 2014-07-20
| ''Bugfix''; several crash fixes, made saplings grow properly.
|-
| [[DF2014:Release information/0.40.03|0.40.03]] || 2014-07-13
| ''Bugfix''; broke save game compatibility again due to more save corruption, several crash fixes.
|-
| [[DF2014:Release information/0.40.02|0.40.02]] || 2014-07-10
| ''Bugfix''; broke save game compatibility due to save corruption, several crash fixes.
|-
| [[DF2014:Release information/0.40.01|0.40.01]] || 2014-07-07
| ''Release''; Introduced world generation running in the background while fortresses and adventurers progress, un-retiring of fortresses, multiple tile trees, climbing & jumping, and more.
|}

== Dwarf Fortress v0.34 ==
In a [http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/index.html devlog] entry for 2011-01-30, Threetoe announced plans for a series of nine numbered releases ("Short-term Goals" on the [http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/dev.html dev page]) to finish off the long-planned "caravan" development arc. Release 1, improving towns and introducing markets, along with a variety of supernatural creature types, was predicted to have a version number of [http://www.bay12games.com/media/df_talk_14_transcript.html#14.16 0.33 or 0.34] and was released on Valentine's Day 2012 as version 0.34.01.

{| class=wikitable
! style="width:85px"|Version
! style="width:100px"|Date of release
! Note
|-
| [[v0.34:Release information/0.34.11|0.34.11]] || 2012-06-04
| ''Bugfix''
|-
| [[v0.34:Release information/0.34.10|0.34.10]] || 2012-05-21
| ''Bugfix''
|-
| [[v0.34:Release information/0.34.09|0.34.09]] || 2012-05-17
| ''Bugfix''
|-
| [[v0.34:Release information/0.34.08|0.34.08]] || 2012-05-14
| Hauling overhaul - minecarts and wheelbarrows, more accurate projectiles, reduced mining yields, advanced stockpile/workshop links
|-
| [[v0.34:Release information/0.34.07|0.34.07]] || 2012-03-30
| ''Bugfix''
|-
| [[v0.34:Release information/0.34.06|0.34.06]] || 2012-03-23
| Updates to animal training ([[dungeon master]] removed, having been nonfunctional since 0.31.01), return of good/evil trees and shrubs
|-
| [[v0.34:Release information/0.34.05|0.34.05]] || 2012-03-06
| ''Bugfix''
|-
| [[v0.34:Release information/0.34.04|0.34.04]] || 2012-02-29
| ''Hotfix''
|-
| [[v0.34:Release information/0.34.03|0.34.03]] || 2012-02-28
| ''Bugfix''
|-
| [[v0.34:Release information/0.34.02|0.34.02]] || 2012-02-18
| ''Bugfix''; broke save compatibility due to save corruption, numerous fixes for old issues
|-
| [[v0.34:Release information/0.34.01|0.34.01]] || 2012-02-14
| Introduction of human cities (shops, marketplaces, sewers, dungeons) and tombs, addition of [[interaction]]s ([[necromancer]]s, [[werebeast]]s, [[vampire]]s, etc.), historical migrants, truly evil regions, updated [[justice]] system, many [[Animal sponsorship drive|"sponsorship" creatures]], [[Gem#Gem cuts|gem cuts]], many adventure mode tweaks and minor features
|}

== Dwarf Fortress v0.31 ==
{| class=wikitable
! style="width:85px"|Version
! style="width:100px"|Date of release
! Note
|-
| [[v0.31:Release information/0.31.25|0.31.25]] || 2011-03-28
| ''Hotfix''
|-
| [[v0.31:Release information/0.31.24|0.31.24]] || 2011-03-27
| ''Hotfix''
|-
| [[v0.31:Release information/0.31.23|0.31.23]] || 2011-03-26
| ''Hotfix''
|-
| [[v0.31:Release information/0.31.22|0.31.22]] || 2011-03-24
| ''Bugfix''
|-
| [[v0.31:Release information/0.31.21|0.31.21]] || 2011-03-06
| ''Bugfix''
|-
| [[v0.31:Release information/0.31.20|0.31.20]] || 2011-03-06
| ''Hotfix''
|-
| [[v0.31:Release information/0.31.19|0.31.19]] || 2011-02-16
| Worldgen starvation, usually wiping out kobolds; grazing; ceramics; jugs, pots, nest boxes, beehives (and bees); site finder changes. Last major 0.31 release, and the (unnumbered) beginning of the caravan arc series.
|-
| [[v0.31:Release information/0.31.18|0.31.18]] || 2010-11-16
| ''Hotfix''
|-
| [[v0.31:Release information/0.31.17|0.31.17]] || 2010-11-11
| Bandits, Night Creatures, Bogeyman, Adventure mode improvements, combat aiming, castles
|-
| [[v0.31:Release information/0.31.16|0.31.16]] || 2010-10-04
| ''Hotfix''
|-
| [[v0.31:Release information/0.31.15|0.31.15]] || 2010-10-03
| ''Bugfix''
|-
| [[v0.31:Release information/0.31.14|0.31.14]] || 2010-09-23
| ''Hotfix''
|-
| [[v0.31:Release information/0.31.13|0.31.13]] || 2010-09-15
| Entity populations, sprawl, river density tweaking, TrueType font support
|-
| [[v0.31:Release information/0.31.12|0.31.12]] || 2010-07-25
| ''Hotfix''
|-
| [[v0.31:Release information/0.31.11|0.31.11]] || 2010-07-23
| ''Bugfix''
|-
| [[v0.31:Release information/0.31.10|0.31.10]] || 2010-07-11
| ''Hotfix''
|-
| [[v0.31:Release information/0.31.09|0.31.09]] || 2010-07-10
| Adventure mode knapping and butchery, combat improvements
|-
| [[v0.31:Release information/0.31.08|0.31.08]] || 2010-06-19
| ''Hotfix''
|-
| [[v0.31:Release information/0.31.07|0.31.07]] || 2010-06-19
| ''Bugfix''
|-
| [[v0.31:Release information/0.31.06|0.31.06]] || 2010-06-09
| ''Bugfix''
|-
| [[v0.31:Release information/0.31.05|0.31.05]] || 2010-06-04
| ''Bugfix''
|-
| [[v0.31:Release information/0.31.04|0.31.04]] || 2010-05-16
| Merge with the 40d19 branch bringing the return of Mac downloads, SDL and Linux downloads, OpenGL optimizations, macros, and zooming
|-
| [[v0.31:Release information/0.31.03|0.31.03]] || 2010-04-12
| Ability to create undead in arena
|-
| [[v0.31:Release information/0.31.02|0.31.02]] || 2010-04-08
| ''Bugfix''
|-
| [[v0.31:Release information/0.31.01|0.31.01]] || 2010-04-01
| Overhaul of many aspects of the game: new material system, new fortress military system, healthcare and combat system was heavily expanded, creatures now have 19 [[attributes]] which affect [[skills]], body features influences gameplay, underground areas have been totally redone, introduced [[raws]], [[genetics]], [[caste]]s, [[burrow]]s, [[poison]]s, [[Tree#Underground trees|underground trees]], [[forgotten beast]]s, [[arena mode]], and dozens of minor changes
|}

== 3D Version (before 2010) ==
A test branch including 0.28.181.40d2 thru 0.28.181.40d19: OpenGL optimizations, macros, zooming, and native Linux support. Not available on [[Bay 12 Games]], but can be found on the [https://archive.org/details/dwarf-fortress?tab=collection&and%5B%5D=year%3A%5B2009+TO+2010%5D Internet Archive]

{| class=wikitable
! style="width:85px"|Version
! style="width:100px"|Date of release
! Note
|-
| [[40d:Release information/0.28.181.40d|0.28.181.40d]] || 2008-09-06
| ''Bugfix''; [[40d:Cat cancels Store Item in Stockpile: Too injured|Cat bug introduced]]
|-
| [[40d:Release information/0.28.181.40c|0.28.181.40c]] || 2008-08-21
| ''Hotfix'', partial print now allows specifying a frame count
|-
| [[40d:Release information/0.28.181.40b|0.28.181.40b]] || 2008-08-20
| Partial print, windowed/fullscreen gridsizes
|-
| [[40d:Release information/0.28.181.40a|0.28.181.40a]] || 2008-08-18
| Embark profiles added, [[note]]s extended to embark map, customizable forbid [[orders]] added (used ammunition, dead creatures' possessions, etc.), and dwarves now try to store items in partially-filled containers instead of empty ones
|-
| [[40d:Release information/0.28.181.39f|0.28.181.39f]] || 2008-08-09
| [[Custom grid]] sizes added
|-
| [[40d:Release information/0.28.181.39e|0.28.181.39e]] || 2008-07-23
| ''Hotfix''
|-
| [[40d:Release information/0.28.181.39d|0.28.181.39d]] || 2008-07-23
| Added [[Site finder]], can display hidden map features when choosing a site, [[Note]] support implemented, and worldgen presets added
|-
| [[40d:Release information/0.28.181.39c|0.28.181.39c]] || 2008-07-16
| ''Hotfix''
|-
| [[40d:Release information/0.28.181.39b|0.28.181.39b]] || 2008-07-14
| ''Hotfix''; trees in [[Elf|Elven]] forest retreats no longer have names
|-
| [[40d:Release information/0.28.181.39a|0.28.181.39a]] || 2008-07-13
| Lots of worldgen changes, including ethics (leading to wars and conquered sites), dynamic era naming, worldgen roads/bridges/tunnels, megabeasts being killed during worldgen, megabeasts being undead; cats and trained animals are now named on adoption, human weapon stores stock more stuff (including ammo), placing [[construction]]s now destroys engravings, and flying creatures no longer give birth in mid-air
|-
| [[40d:Release information/0.27.176.38c|0.27.176.38c]] || 2008-02-24
| ''Bugfix''
|-
| [[40d:Release information/0.27.176.38b|0.27.176.38b]] || 2008-02-23
| First Macintosh-compatible release; Dwarves no longer carry their artifacts around, booze food no longer melts, worlds can now have custom sizes
|-
| [[40d:Release information/0.27.176.38a|0.27.176.38a]] || 2008-02-15
| Magma pipes now refill, ZERO_RENT and BABY_CHILD_CAP init.txt options were added, strange moods no longer convert workshops, metal crossbows now made by [[weaponsmith]]s instead of [[bowyer]]s, dwarves chat and make friends/grudges and get married, unhappy thoughts from [[masterpiece]] destruction are now reduced based on the number of masterpieces the dwarf has made, and plants can now drown in deep water
|-
| [[40d:Release information/0.27.173.38a|0.27.173.38a]] || 2008-02-04
| [[Sphere]]s added, lots of new entity tags, numerous worldgen improvements, religions implemented, undead [[ruin]]s removed
|-
| [[40d:Release information/0.27.169.33g|0.27.169.33g]] || 2007-12-21
| Mud no longer dries up during winter, occupied cages are named according to their contents, brand new "Bring to depot" interface, [[strange mood]]s no longer require glass until you actually make some
|-
| [[40d:Release information/0.27.169.33f|0.27.169.33f]] || 2007-12-14
| ''Bugfix''; mud and blood no longer spread, auto-[[forbid]] fired ammunition, donkey/horse foals are now named properly, graphics sets can now use custom tiles for appointed nobles, and flux stones now have a value of 2 again.
|-
| [[40d:Release information/0.27.169.33e|0.27.169.33e]] || 2007-12-08
| ''Bugfix''; in particular, nobles no longer order themselves to be punished for failed mandates, donkeys can now breed, most types of vermin no longer have bones, and most types of fish no longer have lungs or throats
|-
| [[40d:Release information/0.27.169.33d|0.27.169.33d]] || 2007-11-30
| ''Bugfix''
|-
| [[40d:Release information/0.27.169.33c|0.27.169.33c]] || 2007-11-23
| Animals screen now labels war dogs and hunting dogs correctly, [[sliver barb]]s now have seeds, and process priority can now be configured in init.txt
|-
| [[40d:Release information/0.27.169.33b|0.27.169.33b]] || 2007-11-16
| [[Carp]] and other fish no longer gain [[swimming]] skill (making them ''slightly'' less dangerous), and various ore types now properly show up as '*' when mined.
|-
| [[40d:Release information/0.27.169.33a|0.27.169.33a]] || 2007-11-01
| added [[wood]]en [[block]]s, renamed aluminum ore to "native aluminum", [[mountain gnome]]s and [[dark gnome]]s no longer butcherable
|-
| [[40d:Release information/0.27.169.32a|0.27.169.32a]] || 2007-10-29
| The very first fully 3D version
|}

== 2D Version ==
{| class=wikitable
! style="width:85px"|Version
! style="width:100px"|Date of release
! Note
|-
| [[23a:Release information/0.23.130.23a|0.23.130.23a]] || 2007-01-18
| ''Hotfix'' - Final version
|-
| [[23a:Release information/0.23.125.23b|0.23.125.23b]] || 2007-01-16
| ''Hotfix''
|-
| [[23a:Release information/0.23.125.23a|0.23.125.23a]] || 2007-01-16
| Temperature support was further improved, population/FPS caps were added, coffins could now be restricted to only dwarves or only pets, and animals could now be marked for slaughter from their {{K|v}}-{{K|p}} screen. Spirits of fire also got a '''lot''' hotter. For some reason, [[23a:horse|horse]]s are now made of [[iron]].
|-
| [[23a:Release information/0.22.123.23a|0.22.123.23a]] || 2006-12-21
| More workshop orders were added - auto collect webs, auto slaughter, auto butcher, auto tan; male cows are now called bulls, and whips can no longer get stuck in opponents
|-
| [[23a:Release information/0.22.121.23b|0.22.121.23b]] || 2006-12-16
| The ability to disable temperature and weather were added (to boost FPS)
|-
| [[23a:Release information/0.22.121.23a|0.22.121.23a]] || 2006-12-14
| Bins could now be made from metal, and the embark screen now described your biome and listed what civilizations were nearby
|-
| [[23a:Release information/0.22.120.23b|0.22.120.23b]] || 2006-12-10
| Improved temperature support was added
|-
| [[23a:Release information/0.22.120.23a|0.22.120.23a]] || 2006-11-23
| The ability to use custom [[graphics sets]] was added
|-
| [[23a:Release information/0.22.110.23c|0.22.110.23c]] || 2006-11-17
| ''Hotfix''
|-
| [[23a:Release information/0.22.110.23b|0.22.110.23b]] || 2006-11-15
| ''Hotfix''
|-
| [[23a:Release information/0.22.110.23a|0.22.110.23a]] || 2006-11-14 {{cite devlog|2006|11|14}}
| [[Dye]]s and dyeing were implemented, allowed sewing cloth/leather images into goods, as well as more detailed [[decoration|art]] (historical figures and events, special shapes); standing orders now allowed auto collecting webs and only using dyed cloth
|-
| [[23a:Release information/0.22.110.22f|0.22.110.22f]] || 2006-11-03
| ''Bugfix''; additionally, butterflies, fireflies, and dragonflies can no longer be kept as pets. [[Boatmurdered]] began in this version.
|-
| [[23a:Release information/0.22.110.22e|0.22.110.22e]] || 2006-10-29
| ''Hotfix''
|-
| [[23a:Release information/0.22.110.22d|0.22.110.22d]] || 2006-10-29
| ''Hotfix''
|-
| [[23a:Release information/0.22.110.22c|0.22.110.22c]] || 2006-10-29
| Custom [[stockpile]]s were added (previously, there were only 16 basic stockpile types; things like [[potash]] would be stored with your metal bars and you could not force [[seed]]s to be kept near the farm).
|-
| [[23a:Release information/0.22.110.22b|0.22.110.22b]] || 2006-10-21
| ''Hotfix''
|-
| [[23a:Release information/0.22.110.22a|0.22.110.22a]] || 2006-10-21
| Inventory system changes (most notably, gloves and boots were split into two items (left & right for gloves))
|-
| [[23a:Release information/0.22.107.21a|0.22.107.21a]] || 2006-10-02
| Various changes to [[adventurer mode]] - guards and families, plus "." as a wait key
|-
| [[23a:Release information/0.21.105.21a|0.21.105.21a]] || 2006-09-25
| ''Hotfix''
|-
| [[23a:Release information/0.21.104.21c|0.21.104.21c]] || 2006-09-25
| Making potash no longer required making ashes into lye first.
|-
| [[23a:Release information/0.21.104.21b|0.21.104.21b]] || 2006-09-16
| Workshop profiles were added, along with showing genders on the Animal status screen
|-
| [[23a:Release information/0.21.104.21a|0.21.104.21a]] || 2006-09-08
| [[Designation|Designating]] with the mouse was added
|-
| [[23a:Release information/0.21.104.19d|0.21.104.19d]] || 2006-09-02
| ''Bugfix''
|-
| [[23a:Release information/0.21.104.19c|0.21.104.19c]] || 2006-09-02
| The ability to hide engravings was added, announcement consolidation (x15), seasonal blood cleanup was temporarily added (and would remain until version 0.31)
|-
| [[23a:Release information/0.21.104.19b|0.21.104.19b]] || 2006-08-27
| ''Bugfix''
|-
| [[23a:Release information/0.21.104.19a|0.21.104.19a]] || 2006-08-27
| The ability to "chasm" items was added (complete with attacks from chasm creatures as a result), as well as butchering cats
|-
| [[23a:Release information/0.21.102.19a|0.21.102.19a]] || 2006-08-24
| Dwarves could now have custom nicknames and professions, fullscreen could be toggled, starting animals would have mixed genders, horses could breed
|-
| [[23a:Release information/0.21.101.19d|0.21.101.19d]] || 2006-08-21
| ''Bugfix''
|-
| [[23a:Release information/0.21.101.19c|0.21.101.19c]] || 2006-08-20
| ''Bugfix''
|-
| [[23a:Release information/0.21.101.19b|0.21.101.19b]] || 2006-08-20
| ''Bugfix''
|-
| [[23a:Release information/0.21.101.19a|0.21.101.19a]] || 2006-08-19
| Adventurers could now have custom first names
|-
| [[23a:Release information/0.21.100.19a|0.21.100.19a]] || 2006-08-16
| Gender symbol was added to unit views, config options for disabling sound and the intro movie, command-line world generation, ability to export local map
|-
| [[23a:Release information/0.21.95.19c|0.21.95.19c]] || 2006-08-14
| Farm plot fertilization could be controlled directly
|-
| [[23a:Release information/0.21.95.19b|0.21.95.19b]] || 2006-08-13
| ''Bugfix''
|-
| [[23a:Release information/0.21.95.19a|0.21.95.19a]] || 2006-08-12
| ''Bugfix''
|-
| [[23a:Release information/0.21.93.19c|0.21.93.19c]] || 2006-08-10
| ''Bugfix''
|-
| [[23a:Release information/0.21.93.19b|0.21.93.19b]] || 2006-08-10
| ''Bugfix''
|-
| [[23a:Release information/0.21.93.19a|0.21.93.19a]] || 2006-08-08
| Initial public release
|}
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Creature token

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The <code>[OBJECT:CREATURE]</code> [[token]] begins the definition of a ''Dwarf Fortress'' [[creature]] [[raw file]]. Each creature definition that follows begins with the {{token|creature|c|creature ID}} token, and the creature's exact properties and behavior are then specified by the use of further creature tokens. All known creature tokens are listed below.

Vanilla creature definitions can be found in <code>[[Game folder|<Dwarf Fortress>]]\data\vanilla\vanilla_creatures\</code>.
Creature ID is also used with [[graphics token]]s to make customizable [[graphics set]]s.

The [[caste]] tokens allow defining sub-species within the broader creature definition, including true biological castes and lesser variations, such as sexes. Creature tokens can either be 'Creature' or 'CASTE-only' type which can only be applied to creature or caste respectively, or 'CASTE' which can be applied to both. In the table bellow, creature type distinguishes tokens that can be applied to creature only, caste only, and both ('creature', 'CASTE-only', and 'CASTE' respectively)

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==A==
{| {{prettytable}}
|- bgcolor="#ddd"
! width="20%" | Token
! width="10%" | Type
! width="20%" | Arguments
! width="50%" | Description

|-
| {{text anchor|ADOPTS_OWNER}}
| Caste
|
| Prevents the tamed creature from being made available for adoption, instead allowing it to automatically adopt whoever it wants. The basic requirements for adoption are intact, and the creature will only adopt individuals who have a [[preference]] for their species. Used by [[cat]]s in the vanilla game. When {{k|v}}iewing a tame creature with this token, the message "This animal isn't interested in your wishes" will appear instead of "This [adorable] animal can't work" or "This animal is waiting to be trained".

|-
| {{text anchor|ALCOHOL_DEPENDENT}}
| Caste
|
| Makes the creature need [[alcohol]] to get through the working day; it will choose to drink booze instead of [[water]] if possible. Going sober for too long reduces speed.

|-
| {{text anchor|ALL_ACTIVE}}
| Caste
|
| When set, the creature will appear at any time of day. Overrides {{token|DIURNAL|c}}, {{token|NOCTURNAL|c}}, {{token|CREPUSCULAR|c}}, {{token|MATUTINAL|c}}, and {{token|VESPERTINE|c}}.

|-
| {{text anchor|ALTTILE}}
| Creature
|
*'character' or tile number
| If set, the creature will blink between its {{token|TILE|c}} and its ALTTILE.

|-
| {{text anchor|AMBUSHPREDATOR}}
| Caste
|
| Makes the creature start out hidden and remain near its original location until its prey draws near. When combined with {{token|WEBBER|c}}, causes them to lay gigantic webs near their spawn location, though only for creatures present during embark.

|-
| {{text anchor|AMPHIBIOUS}}
| Caste
|
| Allows a creature to breathe both in and out of [[water]] (unlike {{token|AQUATIC|c}}) - does not prevent drowning in [[magma]].

|-
| {{text anchor|APP_MOD_DESC_RANGE}}
| Appearance Modifier
|
*Range (6 values, low to high)
| Based on info from [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=113762.msg3473069#msg3473069 Wannabehero on the forums]: When used with an appearance modifier token (BP_APPEARANCE_MODIFIER or BODY_APPEARANCE_MODIFIER), tells the game what numeric ranges to map to which descriptors.

The game uses 7 descriptor levels for each modifier, with the center one generally being to omit the thing from the creature description entirely. The six values in APP_MOD_DESC_RANGE define the boundaries between each described range. If this is not specified it uses the numbers 10:50:95:105:150:190.

|-
| {{text anchor|APP_MOD_GENETIC_MODEL}}
| Appearance Modifier
|
*Model (Accepts DOMINANT_MORE, DOMINANT_LESS, and MIX)
| Defines a genetic model for the relevant appearance modifier(s). May or may not do anything significant at present.

|-
| {{text anchor|APP_MOD_IMPORTANCE}}
| Appearance Modifier
|
*number
| Determines how important the appearance modifier is, for determining whether it shows up in the creature description.{{verify}}

|-
| {{text anchor|APP_MOD_NOUN}}
| Appearance Modifier
|
*noun
*SINGULAR or PLURAL
| Creates a noun for the appearance, and whether it is singular or plural.

|-
| {{text anchor|APP_MOD_RATE}}
| Appearance Modifier
|
*Rate (integer)
*Scale (DAILY, YEARLY)
*min (growth)
*max (growth)
*start year
*start day
*end year
*end day
| Setting the growth rate of the modifier. The last two tokens can be replaced by NO_END to have growth continue indefinitely.

|-
| {{text anchor|APPLY_CREATURE_VARIATION}}
| Caste
|
*creature variation ID
*(optional) any amount of arbitrary arguments
| Applies the specified [[creature variation token|creature variation]]. See [[Creature_variation_token#Arguments_and_conditional_tokens]] for how the subsequent arguments may be used.

|-
| {{text anchor|APPLY_CURRENT_CREATURE_VARIATION}}
| Special
|
| Applies the effects of all pending {{token|CV_ADD_TAG|c}} and {{token|CV_REMOVE_TAG|c}} tokens that have been defined in the current creature.

|-
| {{text anchor|AQUATIC}}
| Caste
|
| Enables the creature to breathe in water, but causes it to air-drown on dry land.

|-
| {{text anchor|ARENA_RESTRICTED}}
| Caste
|
| Causes the creature to be excluded from the [[object testing arena]]'s creature spawning list. Typically applied to spoileriffic creatures.

|-
| {{text anchor|ARTIFICIAL_HIVEABLE}}
| Creature
|
| Enables the creature to be kept in artificial [[hive]]s by [[beekeeper]]s.

|-
| {{text anchor|AT_PEACE_WITH_WILDLIFE}}
| Caste
|
| Prevents the creature from attacking or frightening creatures with the {{Token|NATURAL|c}} tag.

|-
| {{text anchor|ATTACK}}
| Caste
|
*token
*selection criteria (it's complicated)
| Defines the attack name, and the body part used. See [[#Attack Tokens|below]] for valid subtokens
'''Example:''' 
<code>[ATTACK:GORE:BODYPART:BY_CATEGORY:HORN]</code> 
''GORE'' = name of the attack 
''BODYPART:BY_CATEGORY:HORN'' = the horn is used to attack (presuming the creature has one)

|-
| {{text anchor|ATTACK_TRIGGER}}
| Caste
|
*population
*exported wealth
*created wealth
| Specifies when a [[megabeast]] or [[semi-megabeast]] will attack the fortress. The attacks will start occurring when all of the requirements are met. Setting a value to 0 disables the trigger.

|}

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==B==
{| {{prettytable}}
|- bgcolor="#ddd"
! width="20%" | Token
! width="10%" | Type
! width="20%" | Arguments
! width="50%" | Description

|-
| {{text anchor|BABY}}
| Caste
|
*integer
| Age at which creature is considered a child, the default is zero. One can think of this as the duration of the baby stage.

|-
| {{text anchor|BABYNAME}}
| Caste
|
*singular
*plural
| Defines a new name for a creature in baby state at the caste level. For non-caste-specific baby names, see {{token|GENERAL_BABY_NAME|c}}.

|-
| {{text anchor|BEACH_FREQUENCY}}
| Caste
|
*integer
| Creature may be subject to [[beaching]], becoming stranded on [[Beach|shores]], where they will eventually air-drown. The number indicates the frequency of the occurrence. Presumably requires the creature to be {{token|AQUATIC|c}}. Used by [[orca]]s, [[sperm whale]]s and [[sea nettle jellyfish]] in the vanilla game.

|-
| {{text anchor|BENIGN}}
| Caste
|
| The creature is non-aggressive by default, and will never automatically be engaged by companions or soldiers, running away from any creatures that are not friendly to it, and will only defend itself if it becomes enraged. Can be thought of as the counterpoint of the {{token|LARGE_PREDATOR|c}} tag. When tamed, animals with this tag will be useless for fortress defense.

This and {{token|TRADE_CAPACITY|c}} are required for {{token|PACK_ANIMAL|c}} to function properly, if an animal contains the aforementioned requirements without this tag: items loaded by the merchants will be dropped upon departure.

|-
| {{text anchor|BIOME}}
| Creature
|
* [[biome token]]
| Select a [[biome]] the creature may appear in.

|-
| {{text anchor|BLOOD}}
| Caste
|
* <[[material token]]>
* <[[Material_definition_token#Material_States|material state]]>
| Specifies what the creature's blood is made of.

|-
| {{text anchor|BLOODSUCKER}}
| Caste
|
| Causes [[vampire]]-like behaviour; the creature will suck the [[Creature_token#BLOOD|blood]] of unconscious victims when its [[Syndrome#TIME_SINCE_SUCKED_BLOOD|thirst for blood]] grows sufficiently large. When controlling the creature in adventure mode, this can be done at will. Seems to be required to make the creature denouncable (in-world) as a creature of the night.

|-
| {{text anchor|BODY}}
| Caste
|
*body parts
| Draws body parts from OBJECT:BODY files (such as body_default.txt)
'''Example:''' 
[BODY:BODY_WITH_HEAD_FLAG:HEART:GUTS:BRAIN:MOUTH] 
This is the body from a [[purring maggot]]. It creates a body with head, a heart, some guts, a brain, and a mouth. That's all a maggot needs.

The body parts need to be listed in an order such that any parent part appears before its connected children. For example [BODY:HEART:BODY_WITH_HEAD_FLAG] produces a "Body Token Recognized But Could Not Connect: HEART" error because HEART can't find any UPPERBODY(s) to connect to. Switching the order to [BODY:BODY_WITH_HEAD_FLAG:HEART] fixes the problem because now the UPPERBODY is created before the HEART tries to connect to it.

'''If the body is left undefined, the creature (or caste) will be tagged as [DOES_NOT_EXIST].''' {{verify}}

|-
| {{text anchor|BODY_APPEARANCE_MODIFIER}}
| Caste
|
*ATTRIBUTE
*lowest
*lower
*low
*median
*high
*higher
*highest
| These body modifiers give individual creatures different characteristics. In the case of HEIGHT, BROADNESS and LENGTH, the modifier is also a percentage change to the BODY_SIZE of the individual creature. The seven numbers afterward give a distribution of ranges. Each interval has an equal chance of occurring.
'''Example:''' 
[BODY_APPEARANCE_MODIFIER:HEIGHT:90:95:98:100:102:105:110] 
''HEIGHT'' : marks the height to be changed 
''90:95:98:100:102:105:110'' : sets the range from the shortest (90% of the average height) to the tallest (110% of the average height) creature variation.

|-
| {{text anchor|BODY_DETAIL_PLAN}}
| Caste
|
*PlanName
*Arguments
| Loads a plan from listed OBJECT:BODY_DETAIL_PLAN files, such as b_detail_plan_default.txt. Mass applies USE_MATERIAL_TEMPLATE, mass alters RELSIZE, alters body part positions, and will allow tissue layers to be defined. Tissue layers are defined in order of skin to bone here.
'''Example:''' 
[BODY_DETAIL_PLAN:VERTEBRATE_TISSUE_LAYERS:SKIN:FAT:MUSCLE:BONE:CARTILAGE] 
This creates the detailed body of a [[fox]], the skin, fat, muscle, bones and cartilage out of the vertebrate tissues. 
A [[Purring maggot|maggot]] would only need: 
''[BODY_DETAIL_PLAN:EXOSKELETON_TISSUE_LAYERS:SKIN:FAT:MUSCLE]''

|-
| {{text anchor|BODY_SIZE}}
| Caste
|
*years
*days
*size
| Sets size at a given age. Size is in cubic centimeters, and for normal body materials, is roughly equal to the creature's average weight in grams.
'''Example:''' 
[BODY_SIZE:0:0:10000] 
[BODY_SIZE:1:168:50000] 
[BODY_SIZE:12:0:220000] 
This describes the size of a [[minotaur]]. Its birth size would be 10,000 cm3 (~10 kg). At 1 year and 168 days old it would be 50,000 cm3 (~50 kg). And as an adult (at 12 years old) it would be 220,000 cm3 and weigh roughly 220 kg.

|-
| {{text anchor|BODYGLOSS}}
| Caste
|
*gloss
| Substitutes body part text with replacement text. Draws gloss information from OBJECT:BODY files (such as body_default.txt)

|-
| {{text anchor|BONECARN}}
| Caste
|
| Creature eats bones. Implies {{token|CARNIVORE|c}}. Currently does not work due to a bug ({{Bug|11069}}).

|-
| {{text anchor|BP_ADD_TYPE}}
| Caste
|
| Adds a type to a body part - used with {{token|SET_BP_GROUP|c}}. In vanilla DF, this is used for adding the type '[[Body token#GELDABLE|GELDABLE]]' to the lower body of certain [[cat|creatures]].

|-
| {{text anchor|BP_APPEARANCE_MODIFIER}}
| Caste
|
*QUALITY
*lowest
*lower
*low
*median
*high
*higher
*highest
| Sets up the breadth of possibilities for appearance qualities for a selected BP group. EG. Eyes (CLOSE_SET, DEEP_SET, ROUND_VS_NARROW, LARGE_IRIS),Lips (THICKNESS), Nose (BROADNESS, LENGTH, UPTURNED, CONVEX), Ear (SPLAYED_OUT, HANGING_LOBES, BROADNESS, HEIGHT), Tooth (GAPS), Skull (HIGH_CHEEKBONES, BROAD_CHIN, JUTTING CHIN, SQUARE_CHIN), Neck (DEEP_VOICE, RASPY_VOICE), Head (BROADNESS, HEIGHT)

|-
| {{text anchor|BP_REMOVE_TYPE}}
| Caste
|
| Removes a type from a body part. Used with {{token|SET_BP_GROUP|c}}.

|-
| {{text anchor|BUILDINGDESTROYER}}
| Caste
|
*1 or 2
| Allows a creature to destroy furniture and buildings. Value [1] targets mostly doors, hatches, furniture and the like. Value [2] targets anything not made with the {{k|b}} + {{k|C}} commands.
|}

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==C==
{| {{prettytable}}
|- bgcolor="#ddd"
! width="20%" | Token
! width="10%" | Type
! width="20%" | Arguments
! width="50%" | Description

|-
| {{text anchor|CAN_DO_INTERACTION}}
| Caste
|
*interaction token
| The creature can perform an interaction. See [[interaction token]].

|-
| {{text anchor|CAN_LEARN}}
| Caste
|
| The creature gains [[skill]]s and can have [[labor|professions]]. If a member of a civilization (even a pet) has this token, it'll need to eat, drink and sleep. Note that this token makes the creature unable to be eaten by an adventurer, so it is not recommended for uncivilized monsters. Adventurers lacking this token can allocate but not increase attributes and skills. Skills allocated will disappear on start. A creature with at least this token or the {{token|CAN_SPEAK|c}} token will be able to have [[Personality value|values]] and [[Personality goal|goals]].

|-
| {{text anchor|CAN_SPEAK}}
| Caste
|
| Can [[talking|talk]]. Note that this is not necessary for a creature to gain social skills but to make friends in fortress mode. A creature with at least this token or the {{token|CAN_LEARN|c}} token will be able to have [[Personality value|values]] and [[Personality goal|goals]].

|-
| {{text anchor|CANNOT_CLIMB}}
| Caste
|
| Creature cannot [[climber|climb]], even if it has free grasp parts.

|-
| {{text anchor|CANNOT_JUMP}}
| Caste
|
| Creature cannot [[jump]].

|-
| {{text anchor|CANNOT_UNDEAD}}
| Caste
|
| Acts like {{token|NOT_LIVING|c}}, except that {{token|OPPOSED_TO_LIFE|c}} creatures will attack them.

|-
| {{text anchor|CANOPENDOORS}}
| Caste
|
| Defunct, as doors cannot be set as tightly closed anymore.

|-
| {{text anchor|CARNIVORE}}
| Caste
|
| Creature ''only'' eats [[meat]]. If the creature goes on rampages in worldgen, it will often devour the people/animals it kills.

|-
| {{text anchor|CASTE}}
| Creature
|
*name
| Defines a [[caste]].

|-
| {{text anchor|CASTE_ALTTILE}}
| Caste
|
*tile number or "letter"
| Caste-specific {{token|ALTTILE|c}}. Requires {{token|CASTE_TILE|c}}.

|-
| {{text anchor|CASTE_COLOR}}
| Caste
|
*fg
*bg
*brightness
| Caste-specific {{token|COLOR|c}}.

|-
| {{text anchor|CASTE_GLOWCOLOR}}
| Caste
|
*fg
*bg
*brightness
| Caste-specific {{token|GLOWCOLOR|c}}.

|-
| {{text anchor|CASTE_GLOWTILE}}
| Caste
|
*tile value or "letter"
| Caste-specific {{token|GLOWTILE|c}}.

|-
| {{text anchor|CASTE_NAME}}
| Caste
|
*singular
*plural
*adjective
| While {{token|NAME|c}} describes the name of the species, {{token|CASTE_NAME|c}} names individuals of the species. Unlike other caste-specific descriptions, this token is required, even for creatures without separate castes. If left undefined, the creature will not show up in the [[arena]] and members of the species will be labeled as "nothing".

|-
| {{text anchor|CASTE_PROFESSION_NAME}}
| Caste
|
*[[Unit type token]] (Profession)
*singular
*plural
| Caste-specific {{token|PROFESSION_NAME|c}}.

|-
| {{text anchor|CASTE_SOLDIER_ALTTILE}}
| Caste
|
*'character' or tile number
| Caste-specific {{token|SOLDIER_ALTTILE|c}}. Requires {{token|CASTE_SOLDIER_TILE|c}}.

|-
| {{text anchor|CASTE_SOLDIER_TILE}}
| Caste
|
*'character' or tile number
| Caste-specific {{token|CREATURE_SOLDIER_TILE|c}}.

|-
| {{text anchor|CASTE_TILE}}
| Caste
|
* tile number or "letter"
| Caste-specific {{token|CREATURE_TILE|c}}.

|-
| {{text anchor|CAVE_ADAPT}}
| Caste
|
| Causes the creature to develop [[cave adaptation]].

Allows for creature's race to be involved in jokes that end in "And the [race] saw the sun and vomited on the spot!"

|-
| {{text anchor|CDI}}
| Caste
|
*Varies
| Specifies interaction details following a {{token|CAN_DO_INTERACTION|c}} token. See [[interaction token]].

|-
| {{text anchor|CHANGE_BODY_SIZE_PERC}}
| Caste
|
*integer
| Multiplies body size by a factor of (integer)%. 50 halves size, 200 doubles.

|-
| {{text anchor|CHANGE_FREQUENCY_PERC}}
| Creature
|
*integer
| Multiplies frequency by a factor of (integer)%.

|-
| {{text anchor|CHILD}}
| Caste
|
*integer
| Age at which creature is considered an adult - one can think of this as the duration of the [[children|child]] stage. Allows the creature's offspring to be rendered fully tame if [[animal trainer|trained]] during their childhood.

|-
| {{text anchor|CHILDNAME}}
| Caste
|
*singular
*plural
| Defines a new name for a creature in the child state at the caste level. For non-caste-specific child names, see {{token|GENERAL_CHILD_NAME|c}}.

|-
| {{text anchor|CLUSTER_NUMBER}}
| Creature
|
*min
*max
| The minimum/maximum numbers of how many creatures per spawned cluster. Vermin fish with this token in combination with temperate ocean and river biome tokens [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=51864.msg1122319#msg1122319 will perform seasonal migrations]. Defaults to 1:1 if not specified.

|-
| {{text anchor|CLUTCH_SIZE}}
| Caste
|
*min
*max
|Number of [[egg]]s laid in one sitting.

|-
| {{text anchor|COLONY_EXTERNAL}}
| Caste
|
| Caste hovers around colony.

|-
| {{text anchor|COLOR}}
| Creature
|
*foreground
*background
*brightness
| Color of the creature's tile. (See [[Color]] for usage.)

|-
| {{text anchor|COMMON_DOMESTIC}}
| Caste
|
| When combined with any of {{token|PET|c}}, {{token|PACK_ANIMAL|c}}, {{token|WAGON_PULLER|c}} and/or {{token|MOUNT|c}}, the creature is guaranteed to be domesticated by any [[civilization]] with {{token|COMMON_DOMESTIC_PET|e}}, {{token|COMMON_DOMESTIC_PACK|e}}, {{token|COMMON_DOMESTIC_PULL|e}} and/or {{token|COMMON_DOMESTIC_MOUNT|e}} respectively. Such civilizations will always have access to the creature, even in the absence of wild populations. This token is invalid on {{token|FANCIFUL|c}} creatures.

|-
| {{text anchor|CONVERTED_SPOUSE}}
| Caste
|
| Creatures of this caste's species with the {{token|SPOUSE_CONVERTER|c}} and {{token|NIGHT_CREATURE_HUNTER|c}} tokens will kidnap {{token|SPOUSE_CONVERSION_TARGET|c}}s of an appropriate sex and convert them into castes with CONVERTED_SPOUSE.

|-
| {{text anchor|COOKABLE_LIVE}}
| Caste
|
| Set this on a vermin creature to allow it to be cooked in meals while it is still alive, as well as when it's dead but not yet [[fishery|cleaned]]. Used by some water-dwelling vermin such as [[mussel]]s, [[oyster]]s, and [[cave lobster]]s. Currently does not work correctly when applied to non-{{token|FISHITEM|c}} vermin.{{bug|13200}}

|-
| {{text anchor|CRAZED}}
| Caste
|
| Creature is '[[insanity|berserk]]' and will attack all other creatures, except members of its own species that '''also''' have the CRAZED tag. It will show {{DFtext|Berserk|4:1}} in the [[unit list]]. Berserk creatures go on rampages during [[world generation|worldgen]] much more frequently than non-berserk ones.

|-
| {{text anchor|COPY_TAGS_FROM}}
| Special
|
*creature ID
| Copies another specified creature. This will override any definitions made before it; essentially, it makes this creature identical to the other one, which can then be modified. Often used in combination with {{token|APPLY_CREATURE_VARIATION|c}} to import standard variations from a file. The vanilla [[giant animal]]s and [[animal person|animal people]]s are examples of this token combination.

|-
| {{text anchor|CREATURE}}
| Creature
|
*creature ID
| A unique, arbitrary identifier that begins the definition of each new creature, and is used to reference the creature in other tokens and raws.

|-
| {{text anchor|CREATURE_CLASS}}
| Caste
|
*classname
| An arbitrary creature classification. Can be set to anything, but the only vanilla uses are GENERAL_POISON (used in syndromes), EDIBLE_GROUND_BUG (used as targets for {{token|GOBBLE_VERMIN_CLASS|c}}), MAMMAL, and POISONOUS (both used for kobold pet eligibility). If a creature has the REAL_WORLD_EXTINCT class, they can be customized in how they appear during world generation, and will also have another class creature class to denote what prehistoric period they existed in. A single creature can have multiple classes.

The full list of tokens that use creature classes is:

* Creature tokens: {{token|GOBBLE_VERMIN_CLASS|c}}, {{token|GOBBLE_VERMIN_CLASS|c}}
* Interaction tokens: {{token|IT_AFFECTED_CLASS|in}}, {{token|IT_IMMUNE_CLASS|in}}
* Animal definition (Entity) tokens: {{token|ANIMAL_CLASS|e}}, {{token|ANIMAL_FORBIDDEN_CLASS|e}}
* Position (Entity) token: {{token|ALLOWED_CLASS|po}}
* Syndrome tokens: {{token|SYN_AFFECTED_CLASS|sy}}, {{token|SYN_IMMUNE_CLASS|sy}}, {{token|CE_SENSE_CREATURE_CLASS|sy}}
* Extinction tokens: CAMBRIAN, CARBONIFEROUS, CENOZOIC, CRETACEOUS, DEVONIAN, JURASSIC, ORDOVICIAN, PERMIAN, SILURIAN, TRIASSIC [Todo: add token links]
|-
| {{text anchor|CREATURE_SOLDIER_TILE}}
| Creature
|
*'character' or tile number
| Creatures active in their civilization's [[military]] will use this tile instead.

|-
| {{text anchor|CREATURE_TILE}}
| Creature
|
*'character' or tile number
| The symbol of the creature in ASCII mode.

|-
| {{text anchor|CREPUSCULAR}}
| Caste
|
| When set, the creature will appear at dawn (between 4:30 AM and 6:00 AM) and in the evening (between 8:00 PM and 10:05 PM) in [[Adventurer mode]].

|-
| {{text anchor|CURIOUSBEAST_EATER}}
| Caste
|
| Allows a creature to [[Steals food|steal and eat edible items]] from a site. It will attempt to grab a food item and immediately make its way to the map's edge, where it will disappear with it. If the creature goes on rampages during worldgen, it will often steal food instead of attacking. Trained and tame instances of the creature will no longer display this behavior.

|-
| {{text anchor|CURIOUSBEAST_GUZZLER}}
| Caste
|
| Allows a creature to (very quickly) [[Steals drink|drink your alcohol]]. Or spill the barrel to the ground. Also affects undead versions of the creature. Unlike food or item thieves, drink thieves will consume your alcohol on the spot rather than run away with one piece of it. Trained and tame instances of the creature will no longer display this behavior.

|-
| {{text anchor|CURIOUSBEAST_ITEM}}
| Caste
|
| Allows a creature to [[Steals items|steal things]] (apparently, of the highest value it can find). It will attempt to grab an item of value and immediately make its way to the map's edge, where it will disappear with it. If a creature with any of the CURIOUSBEAST tokens carries anything off the map, even if it is a caravan's pack animal, it will be reported as stealing everything it carries. If the creature goes on rampages in worldgen, it will often steal items instead of attacking - [[kea]] birds are infamous for this. Trained and tame instances of the creature will no longer display this behavior. Also, makes the creature unable to drop hauled items until it enters combat.

|-
| {{text anchor|CV_ADD_TAG}}
| Special
|
*TAG NAME
| Adds a tag. Used in conjunction with creature variation templates.

|-
| {{text anchor|CV_REMOVE_TAG}}
| Special
|
*TAG NAME
| Removes a tag. Used in conjunction with creature variation templates.
|}

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==D==
{| {{prettytable}}
|- bgcolor="#ddd"
! width="20%" | Token
! width="10%" | Type
! width="20%" | Arguments
! width="50%" | Description

|-
| {{text anchor|DEMON}}
| Caste
|
| Found on generated [[demon]]s.

At least 1 demon generated, or custom must have the {{token|FLIER|c}} token in order for the [[Underworld|horrifying screams]] event to trigger.

|-
| {{text anchor|DESCRIPTION}}
| Caste
|
*text
| A brief description of the creature type, as displayed when viewing the creature's description/[[Thoughts and preferences|thoughts & preferences]] screen.

|-
| {{text anchor|DIE_WHEN_VERMIN_BITE}}
| Caste
|
| Causes the creature to die upon attacking. Used by [[honey bee]]s to simulate them dying after using their stingers.

|-
| {{text anchor|DIFFICULTY}}
| Caste
|
*integer
| Increases experience gain during adventure mode. Creatures with a difficulty of 11 or higher are not assigned for quests in adventure mode. Vanilla [[semimegabeast]]s have a difficulty of 5 and [[megabeast]]s have a difficulty of 10.

|-
| {{text anchor|DIURNAL}}
| Caste
|
| When set, the creature will only appear during the day (between 6:00 AM and 8:00 PM) in [[Adventurer mode]].

|-
| {{text anchor|DIVE_HUNTS_VERMIN}}
| Caste
|
| The creature hunts vermin by diving from the air. On tame creatures, it has the same effect as {{token|HUNTS_VERMIN|c}}. Found on [[peregrine falcon]]s.

|-
| {{text anchor|DOES_NOT_EXIST}}
| Creature
|
| Adding this token to a creature prevents it from appearing in generated worlds (unless it's marked as [[Entity_token#ANIMAL_ALWAYS_PRESENT|always present]] for a particular civilisation). For example, adding it to [[dog]]s will lead to worlds being generated without dogs in them. Also removes the creature from the [[object testing arena]]'s spawn list. If combined with {{token|FANCIFUL|c}}, artistic depictions of the creature will occur regardless. Used by [[centaur]]s, [[chimera]]s and [[griffon]]s in the vanilla game.

Note: a creature tagged as DOES_NOT_EXIST can still be [[Interaction_token#I_EFFECT|summoned]] successfully, as long as it has a body defined in its raws [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=165213.msg8086938#msg8086938], or, another creature can [[Syndrome#CE_BODY_TRANSFORMATION|transform]] into it.
|}

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==E==
{| {{prettytable}}
|- bgcolor="#ddd"
! width="20%" | Token
! width="10%" | Type
! width="20%" | Arguments
! width="50%" | Description

|-
| {{text anchor|EBO_ITEM}}
| Caste
|
*[[item token]]
*[[material token]] (ANY_HARD_STONE can be used for the material)
| Defines the item that the creature drops upon being [[butcher|butchered]]. Used with {{token|EXTRA_BUTCHER_OBJECT|c}}.

|-
| {{text anchor|EBO_SHAPE}}
| Caste
|
*gem shape
| The shape of the creature's extra [[butcher|butchering]] drop. Used with {{token|EXTRA_BUTCHER_OBJECT|c}}.

|-
| {{text anchor|EGG_MATERIAL}}
| Caste
|
* <[[material token]]>
* <[[Material_definition_token#Material_States|material state]]>
| Defines the material composition of [[egg]]s laid by the creature. [[creature_token#LAYS_EGGS|Egg-laying]] creatures in the default game define this 3 times, using LOCAL_CREATURE_MAT:EGGSHELL, LOCAL_CREATURE_MAT:EGG_WHITE, and then LOCAL_CREATURE_MAT:EGG_YOLK. Eggs will be made out of eggshell. Edibility is determined by tags on whites or yolk, but they otherwise do not exist.

|-
| {{text anchor|EGG_SIZE}}
| Caste
|
*size
| Determines the size of laid [[egg]]s. Doesn't affect hatching or cooking, but bigger eggs will be heavier, and may take longer to be hauled depending on the hauler's strength.

|-
| {{text anchor|EQUIPMENT_WAGON}}
| Creature
|
| Makes the creature appear as a large 3×3 [[wagon]] responsible for carrying trade goods, pulled by two {{token|WAGON_PULLER|c}} creatures and driven by a merchant.

|-
| {{text anchor|EQUIPS}}
| Caste
|
| Allows the creature to wear or wield items.

|-
| {{text anchor|EVIL}}
| Creature
|
| The creature is considered evil and will only show up in evil biomes. Civilizations with {{token|USE_EVIL_ANIMALS|e}} can domesticate them regardless of exotic status. Has no effect on cavern creatures except to restrict taming. A civilization with evil creatures can colonize evil areas.

Civilizations which list evil creatures as one of their main population options will potentially emerge following an underworld mining disaster, with the added caveat that a demon will be in charge of the civ. The rules which govern which noble position the demon in charge adopts however, are unclear. It either picks one of the predefined positions, or simply makes its own.

|-
| {{text anchor|EXTRA_BUTCHER_OBJECT}}
| Caste
|
* [[Body token#CATEGORY|BY_CATEGORY]] or [[Body token#CONTYPE|BY_TYPE]] or [[Body token#BP|BY_TOKEN]]
* TYPE, CATEGORY, or TOKEN
| The creature drops an additional object when [[butcher|butchered]], as defined by {{token|EBO_ITEM|c}} and {{token|EBO_SHAPE|c}}. Used for [[gizzard stone]]s in default creatures. For some materials, needs to be defined after caste definitions with SELECT_CASTE:ALL{{Bug|6355}}

|-
| {{text anchor|EXTRACT}}
| Caste
|
* [[material token]]
| Defines a creature extract which can be obtained via [[small animal dissection]].

|-
| {{text anchor|EXTRAVISION}}
| Caste
|
| The creature can see regardless of whether it has working eyes and has full 360 degree vision, making it impossible to strike the creature from a blind spot in combat. Invisible creatures will also be seen, namely [[intelligent undead]] using a "vanish" power.
|}

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==F==
{| {{prettytable}}
|- bgcolor="#ddd"
! width="20%" | Token
! width="10%" | Type
! width="20%" | Arguments
! width="50%" | Description

|-
| {{text anchor|FANCIFUL}}
| Creature
|
| The creature is a thing of legend and known to all civilizations. Its materials cannot be requested or preferred. The tag also adds some art value modifiers. Used by a [[Fanciful|number of creatures]]. Conflicts with {{token|COMMON_DOMESTIC|c}}.

|-
| {{text anchor|FEATURE_ATTACK_GROUP}}
| Caste
|
| Found on [[Animal people#Subterranean animal people|subterranean animal-man]] tribals. Currently defunct. In previous versions{{verify}}, it caused these creatures to crawl out of chasms and underground rivers.

|-
| {{text anchor|FEATURE_BEAST}}
| Caste
|
| Found on [[forgotten beast]]s. Presumably makes it act as such, initiating underground attacks on fortresses, or leads to the pop-up message upon encountering one{{verify}}. Displays the creature's {{token|DESCRIPTION|c}} in its [[legends mode]] entry and hides the creature from displaying in a world_sites_and_pops file. Does not create historical figures like generated forgotten beasts do.

Requires specifying a {{token|BIOME|c}} in which the creature will live, and both surface and subterranean biomes are allowed. Does not stack with {{token|LARGE_ROAMING|c}} and if both are used the creature will not spawn. Appears to be incompatible with {{token|DEMON|c}} even if used in separate castes.

|-
| {{text anchor|FEMALE}}
| Caste
|
| Makes the creature biologically female, enabling her to [[Breeding|bear young]]. Usually specified inside a caste.

|-
| {{text anchor|FIREIMMUNE}}
| Caste
|
| Makes the creature immune to [[Interaction_token#FIREBALL|FIREBALL]] and [[Interaction_token#FIREJET|FIREJET]] attacks, and allows it to path through high temperature zones, like lava or fires, but does not, by itself, make the creature immune to the damaging effects of burning in [[fire]], and does not prevent general heat damage or melting on its own (this would require adjustments to be made to the creature's body [[Material_definition_token|materials]] - see the [[Dragon/raw|dragon raws]] for an example).

|-
| {{text anchor|FIREIMMUNE_SUPER}}
| Caste
|
| Like {{token|FIREIMMUNE|c}}, but also renders the creature immune to [[Interaction_token#DRAGONFIRE|DRAGONFIRE]] attacks.

|-
| {{text anchor|FISHITEM}}
| Caste
|
| The creature's corpse is a single [[Item_token#FISH_RAW|FISH_RAW]] food item that needs to be cleaned (into a [[Item_token#FISH|FISH]] item) at a [[fishery]] to become edible. Before being cleaned the item is referred to as "raw". The food item is categorized under "fish" on the food and stocks screens, and when uncleaned it is sorted under "raw fish" in the stocks (but does not show up on the food screen).
Without this or {{token|COOKABLE_LIVE|c}}, [[fishing|fished]] vermin will turn into food the same way as non-vermin creatures, resulting in multiple units of food (meat, brain, lungs, eyes, spleen etc.) from a single fished vermin. These units of food are categorized as meat by the game.

|-
| {{text anchor|FIXED_TEMP}}
| Caste
|
*temperature
| The creature's body is constantly at this temperature, heating up or cooling the surrounding area. Alters the temperature of the creature's inventory and all adjacent tiles, [[Temperature|with all the effects that this implies]] - may trigger wildfires at high enough values. Also makes the creature immune to extreme heat or cold, as long as the temperature set is not harmful to the materials that the creature is made from. Corpses and body parts of creatures with a fixed temperature maintain their temperature even after death.

Note that temperatures of 12000 and higher may cause [[path|pathfinding]] issues in fortress mode.

|-
| {{text anchor|FLEEQUICK}}
| Caste
|
| If engaged in combat, the creature will flee at the first sign of resistance. Used by [[kobold]]s in the vanilla game.

|-
| {{text anchor|FLIER}}
| Caste
|
| Allows a creature to fly, independent of it having wings or not. Fortress Mode pathfinding only partially incorporates flying - flying creatures need a land path to exist between them and an area in order to access it, but as long as one such path exists, they do not need to use it, instead being able to fly over intervening obstacles. Winged creatures with this token can lose their ability to fly if their wings are crippled or severed. Winged creatures without this token will be unable to fly. (A 'wing' in this context refers to any body part with its own [[Body_token#FLIER|FLIER]] token).

At least 1 [[Demon]] must have the flier token in order for the [[Underworld|horrifying screams]] event to trigger.

|-
| {{text anchor|FREQUENCY}}
| Creature
|
*number, max 100
| The {{token|FREQUENCY|c}} value plays two separate roles. The first is in determining the initial distribution of creatures across the world map. Each creature is randomly assigned a single x, y co-ordinate on the world map, which act as the epicenter for that creature's distribution. A square is drawn around that x, y co-ordinate with a Manhattan radius equal to the {{token|FREQUENCY|c}} value divided by 100 times the world map size. For example, in a 256 by 256 size world map, the [[lion]] might be assigned 14, 112. The [[lion]] has {{token|FREQUENCY:5|c}}, and so a square is drawn by moving 13 tiles in each direction from the [[lion]]'s x, y co-ordinate. This is the [[lion]]'s "territory".

Each sub-region in the world will attempt to fill lists of wildlife. There are five lists - {{token|VERMIN_GROUNDER|c}}, {{token|VERMIN_SOIL|c}}, {{token|VERMIN_SOIL_COLONY|c}}, {{token|LARGE_ROAMING|c}}, and {{token|LARGE_PREDATOR|c}}, corresponding with the relevant tokens. The game will attempt to place seven creatures in each list for each sub-region. The game will select the seven nearest valid creatures. Creatures are valid for sub-region's list if they have the requisite token for that list, if they have the valid token for that sub-region's biome (for example, the [lion] can only be selected for {{token|BIOME:SAVANNA_TROPICAL|c}}, {{token|BIOME:GRASSLAND_TROPICAL|c}}, and {{token|BIOME:SHRUBLAND_TROPICAL|c}}, and if their "territory" as defined by their random epicenter and {{token|FREQUENCY|c}} radius overlaps with that sub-region. These lists then determine the creatures that can actually appear within that sub-region during gameplay.

There are some exceptions to the above. If the game was not capable of filling all seven entries in a list, it will drop the overlapping territory requirement, and simply pull the nearest creature which has the correct token and biome availability. Conversely, if a creature has an epicenter but has not appeared on any of the list for any of the world map's sub-regions, the creature will be assigned to the relevant list for the nearest appropriate sub-region - meaning it is occasionally possible to have lists of eight creatures or more. This is more common in smaller worlds where there are less possible sub-regions to be assigned towards. Creatures with the {{token|GOOD|c}} and {{token|EVIL|c}} tokens ignore the epicenter distribution system altogether. They are always capable of appearing in appropriate biomes which are {{token|GOOD|b}} or {{token|EVIL|b}} respectively. This is not true for {{token|SAVAGE|c}}, which acts more like the biome tokens. Creatures with {{token|UBIQUITOUS|c}} have a "territory" which covers the entire map, regardless of their epicenter (although they can still fail to be chosen if there are 7 creatures which are eligible and have nearer epicenters to the sub-region in question).

The second use for {{token|FREQUENCY|c}} is to determine how often a creature actually appears on map. In Fortress Mode, the game will try and spawn large wildlife (creatures with {{token|LARGE_ROAMING|c}} or {{token|LARGE_PREDATOR|c}} in fairly regular waves. These waves include {{token|LARGE_ROAMING|c}}, {{token|LARGE_ROAMING|c}} combined with {{token|FLIER|c}}, {{token|LARGE_PREDATOR|c}}, and {{token|CURIOUS_BEAST|c}} - so a [[lion]] does not compete for selection with a [[gazelle]]. When the game decides it needs to spawn in a fresh wave of e.g. {{token|LARGE_ROAMING|c}} creatures, it will select one of the creatures available to it from the lists for that sub-region at random, with all creatures weighted equally. Once it has selected a creature, it then effectively rolls a d100 against the relevant creature's {{token|FREQUENCY|c}}. If the d100 is equal to the creature's {{token|FREQUENCY|c}} or less, that creature is then spawned in. If the d100 is above the creature's {{token|FREQUENCY|c}}, the game returns to the relevant list and selects again. {{token|UBIQUITOUS|c}} acts as {{token|FREQUENCY:100|c}} for these purposes - in other words, the creature cannot fail the d100 check and will always be spawned in if it is selected from the list.

Defaults to 50.

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==G==
{| {{prettytable}}
|- bgcolor="#ddd"
! width="20%" | Token
! width="10%" | Type
! width="20%" | Arguments
! width="50%" | Description

|-
| {{text anchor|GAIT}}
| Caste
|
* <gait type>
* <gait name>
* <max [[Gait#Speed|speed]]>
* <build up time>
* <max turning [[Gait#Speed|speed]]>
* <start [[Gait#Speed|speed]]>
* <energy expenditure>
* <gait flag(s)>
| Defines a gait by which the creature can move. See [[Gait]] for more information. Specifically, you likely want to use one of the existing STANDARD_X_GAITS creature variations, as described in [[Gait#Gaits_and_Modding|this subsection]].

* <max speed> indicates the maximum [[Gait#Speed|speed]] achievable by a creature using this gait
* <start speed> indicates the creature's speed when it starts moving using this gait
* <build up time> indicates how long it will take for a creature using this gait to go from <start speed> to <max speed>. For example, a value of 10 means that it should be able to reach the maximum speed by moving 10 [[tile]]s in a straight line over even terrain.
* <max turning speed> indicates the maximum speed permissible when the creature suddenly changes its direction of motion. The creature's speed will be reduced to <max turning speed> if travelling at a higher speed than this before turning.
* <energy expenditure> indicates how energy-consuming the gait is. Higher values cause the creature to tire out faster. Persistent usage of a high-intensity gait will eventually lead to exhaustion and [[Status_icon#Non-flashing|collapse]].

'''NO_BUILD_UP''' can be specified instead of a <start speed> value to make the <max speed> instantly achievable upon initiating movement (this is equivalent to a <build up time> of 0). Note that <build up time> and <max turning speed> are both ignored if specified alongside this (as NO_BUILD_UP trumps <build up time> and preserves <max speed> whilst turning, and <max turning speed> cannot exceed <max speed>) so it is permissible to omit them so long as they are '''both''' omitted together.

It's possible to specify a <start speed> greater than the <max speed>; the moving creature will decelerate towards its <max speed> in this case.

'''valid gait types:'''
*'''WALK''' 
Used for moving normally over ground tiles.

*'''CRAWL''' 
Used for moving over ground tiles whilst [[Status_icon#Non-flashing|prone]].

*'''SWIM''' 
Used for moving through tiles containing [[water]] or [[magma]] at a [[Water#Depth|depth]] of at least 4/7.

*'''FLY''' 
Used for moving through [[open space]].

*'''CLIMB''' 
Used for moving whilst [[Climber|climbing]].

'''valid gait flags:'''
* '''AGILITY''' 
Speeds/slows movement depending on the creature's [[Attribute#Agility|Agility]] stat.

* '''STRENGTH''' 
Speeds/slows movement depending on the creature's [[Attribute#Strength|Strength]] stat.

* '''LAYERS_SLOW''' 
Makes [[Tissue_definition_token#THICKENS_ON_ENERGY_STORAGE|THICKENS_ON_ENERGY_STORAGE]] and [[Tissue_definition_token#THICKENS_ON_STRENGTH|THICKENS_ON_STRENGTH]] tissue layers slow movement depending on how thick they are. Adding the STRENGTH gait flag counteracts the impact of the latter layer.

* '''STEALTH_SLOWS:'''<percentage> 
Slows movement by the specified percentage when the creature is [[Ambusher|sneaking]].

|-
| {{text anchor|GENERAL_BABY_NAME}}
| Creature
|
*singular
*plural
| Like {{token|BABYNAME|c}}, but applied regardless of caste.

|-
| {{text anchor|GENERAL_CHILD_NAME}}
| Creature
|
*singular
*plural
| Like {{token|CHILDNAME|c}}, but applied regardless of caste.

|-
| {{text anchor|GENERAL_MATERIAL_FORCE_MULTIPLIER}}
| Caste
|
*value A
*value B
| Has the same function as {{token|MATERIAL_FORCE_MULTIPLIER|c}}, but applies to all attacks instead of just those involving a specific material. Appears to be overridden by MATERIAL_FORCE_MULTIPLIER ([[werebeast]]s, for example, use both tokens to provide resistance to all materials, with one exception to which they are especially vulnerable).

|-
| {{text anchor|GENERATED}}
| Creature
|
| Found on procedurally generated creatures like [[forgotten beast]]s, [[titan]]s, [[demon]]s, [[angel]]s, and [[night creature]]s. Cannot be specified in user-defined raws.

|-
| {{text anchor|GETS_INFECTIONS_FROM_ROT}}
| Caste
|
| Makes the creature get [[Health_care#Infection|infections]] from necrotic tissue.

|-
| {{text anchor|GETS_WOUND_INFECTIONS}}
| Caste
|
| Makes the creature's wounds become [[Health_care#Infection|infected]] if left untreated for too long.

|-
| {{text anchor|GLOWCOLOR}}
| Creature
|
*foreground
*background
*brightness
| The colour of the creature's {{token|GLOWTILE|c}}.

|-
| {{text anchor|GLOWTILE}}
| Creature
|
*ascii character
| If present, the being glows in the dark (generally used for Adventurer Mode). The tile is what replaces the being's current tile when it is obscured from your sight by darkness. The default setting for kobolds (a yellow quotation mark) provides a nice "glowing eyes" effect. The game is also hardcoded to automatically convert quotation mark GLOWTILES into apostrophes if the creature has lost one eye. This works at the generic creature level - for caste-specific glow tiles, use {{token|CASTE_GLOWTILE|c}} instead.

|-
| {{text anchor|GNAWER}}
| Caste
|
*verb
| The creature can and will gnaw its way out of [[animal trap]]s and [[cage]]s using the specified verb, depending on the material from which it is made (normally wood).

|-
| {{text anchor|GOBBLE_VERMIN_CLASS}}
| Caste
|
*class
| The creature eats vermin of the specified class.

|-
| {{text anchor|GOBBLE_VERMIN_CREATURE}}
| Caste
|
*creature
*caste
| The creature eats a specified [[vermin]].

|-
| {{text anchor|GO_TO_END}}
| Special
|
| When using tags from an existing creature, inserts new tags at the end of the creature.

|-
| {{text anchor|GO_TO_START}}
| Special
|
| When using tags from an existing creature, inserts new tags at the beginning of the creature.

|-
| {{text anchor|GO_TO_TAG}}
| Special
|
| When using tags from an existing creature, inserts new tags ''before'' the specified tag.

|-
| {{text anchor|GOOD}}
| Creature
|
| Creature is considered good and will only show up in good biomes - [[unicorn]]s, for example. Civilizations with {{token|USE_GOOD_ANIMALS|e}} can domesticate them regardless of exotic status. Has no effect on cavern creatures except to restrict taming. A civilization that has good creatures can colonise good areas in world-gen.

|-
| {{text anchor|GRASSTRAMPLE}}
| Caste
|
*value
| The value determines how rapidly [[grass]] is trampled when a creature steps on it - a value of 0 causes the creature to never damage grass, while a value of 100 causes grass to be trampled as rapidly as possible. Defaults to 5.

|-
| {{text anchor|GRAVITATE_BODY_SIZE}}
| Caste
|
*target value
| Used in Creature Variants. This token changes the adult body size to the average of the old adult body size and the target value and scales all intermediate growth stages by the same factor.

|-
| {{text anchor|GRAZER}}
| Caste
|
*number
| The creature is a grazer - if tamed in fortress mode, it needs a pasture to survive. The higher the number, the less frequently it needs to eat in order to live. Not used since 0.40.12, replaced by {{token|STANDARD_GRAZER|c}} to fix {{bugl|4113}}.
|}

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==H==
{| {{prettytable}}
|- bgcolor="#ddd"
! width="20%" | Token
! width="10%" | Type
! width="20%" | Arguments
! width="50%" | Description

|-
| {{text anchor|HABIT}}
| Caste
|
*type
*probability
| Defines certain behaviors for the creature. The habit types are:
*COLLECT_TROPHIES
*COOK_PEOPLE
*COOK_VERMIN
*GRIND_VERMIN
*COOK_BLOOD
*GRIND_BONE_MEAL
*EAT_BONE_PORRIDGE
*USE_ANY_MELEE_WEAPON
*GIANT_NEST
*COLLECT_WEALTH.
These require the creature to have a {{token|LAIR|c}} to work properly, and also don't seem to work on creatures who are not a {{token|SEMIMEGABEAST|c}}, {{token|MEGABEAST|c}}, or{{token|NIGHT_CREATURE_HUNTER|c}}.

|-
| {{text anchor|HABIT_NUM}}
| Caste
|
*number or TEST_ALL
| "If you set HABIT_NUM to a number, it should give you that exact number of habits according to the weights.".{{cite forum|60554/1719248}} All lists of HABITs are preceded by [HABIT_NUM:TEST_ALL]

|-
| {{text anchor|HAS_NERVES}}
| Caste
|
| The creature has nerves in its muscles. Cutting the muscle tissue can sever motor and sensory nerves, disabling the limb.

|-
| {{text anchor|HASSHELL}}
| Caste
|
| The creature has a shell. Seemingly no longer used - holdover from previous versions.

|-
| {{text anchor|HIVE_PRODUCT}}
| Creature
|
*number
*[[time]]
*[[item token]]s
| What product is harvested from [[Beekeeping industry|beekeeping]].

|-
| {{text anchor|HOMEOTHERM}}
| Caste
|
*number or NONE
| Default 'NONE'. The creature's normal body [[temperature]]. Creature ceases maintaining temperature on death unlike fixed material temperatures. Provides minor protection from environmental temperature to the creature.

|-
| {{text anchor|HUNTS_VERMIN}}
| Caste
|
| Creature hunts and kills nearby [[vermin]], randomly walking between places with food laying on the ground or in stockpiles, to check for possible [VERMIN_EATER] vermin, but they'll kill any other vermin too. Do not include this creature token on an intelligent entity that you intend to play as in fortress mode because it will prevent them from feeding themselves.

|}

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==I==
{| {{prettytable}}
|- bgcolor="#ddd"
! width="20%" | Token
! width="10%" | Type
! width="20%" | Arguments
! width="50%" | Description

|-
| {{text anchor|IMMOBILE}}
| Caste
|
| The creature cannot move. Found on [[sponge]]s. Will also stop a creature from breeding in fortress mode (MALE and FEMALE are affected, if one is IMMOBILE; no breeding will happen).

|-
| {{text anchor|IMMOBILE_LAND}}
| Caste
|
| The creature is immobile while on land. Only works on {{token|AQUATIC|c}} creatures which can't breathe on land.

|-
| {{text anchor|IMMOLATE}}
| Caste
|
| The creature radiates [[fire]]. It will ignite, and potentially completely destroy, items the creature is standing on. Also gives the vermin a high chance of escaping from [[animal trap]]s and [[cage]]s made of any flammable materials (specifically ones that could be ignited by magma).

|-
| {{text anchor|INTELLIGENT}}
| Caste
|
| Alias for {{token|CAN_SPEAK|c}} + {{token|CAN_LEARN|c}}.

|-
| {{text anchor|ITEMCORPSE}}
| Caste
|
* [[item token]]
* [[material token]]
| Determines if the creature leaves behind a non-standard corpse (i.e. wood, statue, bars, stone, pool of liquid, etc.). [[Ethics]] may prevent actually using the item in jobs or reactions.

|-
| {{text anchor|ITEMCORPSE_QUALITY}}
| Caste
|
* number
| The [[quality]] of an item-type corpse left behind. Valid values are: 0 for ordinary, 1 for well-crafted, 2 for finely-crafted, 3 for superior, 4 for exceptional, 5 for masterpiece.
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==L==
{| {{prettytable}}
|- bgcolor="#ddd"
! width="20%" | Token
! width="10%" | Type
! width="20%" | Arguments
! width="50%" | Description

|-
| {{text anchor|LAIR}}
| Caste
|
*type
*probability
| Found on megabeasts, semimegabeasts, and night creatures. The creature will seek out sites of this type and take them as lairs. The lair types are:
*SIMPLE_BURROW
*SIMPLE_MOUND
*WILDERNESS_LOCATION
*SHRINE
*LABYRINTH

|-
| {{text anchor|LAIR_CHARACTERISTIC}}
| Caste
|
*characteristic
*probability
| Defines certain features of the creature's lair. The only valid characteristic is HAS_DOORS.

|-
| {{text anchor|LAIR_HUNTER}}
| Caste
|
| This creature will actively hunt adventurers in its lair.

|-
| {{text anchor|LAIR_HUNTER_SPEECH}}
| Caste
|
*speech file
| What this creature says while hunting adventurers in its lair.

|-
| {{text anchor|LARGE_PREDATOR}}
| Caste
|
| Will attack other creatures that are smaller than it. Tamed large predators will still attack wildlife. In [[fortress mode]], only one group of "large predators" (possibly two groups on "savage" maps) will appear on any given map. In [[adventurer mode]], large predators will try to ambush and attack you (and your party will attack them back). When tamed, large predators tend to be much more aggressive to enemies than non-large predators, making them a good choice for an animal army. They may go on rampages in worldgen, and adventurers may receive quests to kill them. Also, they can be mentioned in the intro paragraph when starting a fortress e.g. "ere the wolves get hungry."
A single biome supports 7 large predator species, picking randomly and rolling a d100 under its {{token|FREQUENCY|c}} to add it until all 7 slots are filled.

Incompatible with {{token|PACK_ANIMAL|c}} on a technicality, if included: hauled items are likely to be dropped upon entering the map (even if {{token|TRADE_CAPACITY|c}} is present) in contrast to when the merchants depart.

|-
| {{text anchor|LARGE_ROAMING}}
| Creature
|
| This is the core requisite tag allowing the creature to spawn as a wild animal in the appropriate biomes. Requires specifying a {{token|BIOME|c}} in which the creature will spawn. Does not require specifying a frequency, population number, or cluster number.

This tag stacks with {{token|MEGABEAST|c}}, {{token|SEMIMEGABEAST|c}}, or {{token|NIGHT_CREATURE_HUNTER|c}}; if used with one of these tags, the creature will spawn as both a boss and as a wild animal. This tag does not stack with {{token|FEATURE_BEAST|c}} and if both are used the creature will not spawn. This tag is unaffected by {{token|DEMON|c}}.
Large roamers are not able to spawn in Pool biomes as they do not connect to the edge of the map and are too small, Lake biomes are a suitable alternative.

|-
| {{text anchor|LAYS_EGGS}}
| Caste
|
| Creature lays [[egg]]s instead of giving birth to live young.

|-
| {{text anchor|LAYS_UNUSUAL_EGGS}}
| Caste
|
* [[item token]]
* [[material token]]
| Creature lays the specified item instead of regular eggs.

|-
| {{text anchor|LIGAMENTS}}
| Caste
|
* [[material token]]
*healing rate
| The creature has ligaments in its {{token|CONNECTIVE_TISSUE_ANCHOR|td}} tissues (bone or chitin by default). Cutting the bone/chitin tissue severs the ligaments, disabling motor function if the target is a limb.

|-
| {{text anchor|LIGHT_GEN}}
| Caste
|
| A vermin featuring this tag will remain visible to an adventurer even at night.

Subterranean vermin which feature this token will flicker in unexposed and unrevealed cavern layers while playing in Fortress Mode.

|-
| {{text anchor|LISP}}
| Caste
|
| Creature uses "sssssnake talk" (multiplies 'S' when talking - "My name isss Recisssiz."). Used by [[Serpent man|serpent men]] and [[Reptile man|reptile men]] in the vanilla game. C's with the same pronunciation (depending on the word) are not affected by this token.

|-
| {{text anchor|LITTERSIZE}}
| Caste
|
* minimum
* maximum
| Determines the number of offspring per one birth; default 1-3, not used in vanilla raws. See also {{token|MULTIPLE_LITTER_RARE|c}}.

|-
| {{text anchor|LOCAL_POPS_CONTROLLABLE}}
| Creature
|
| Allows you to play as a wild animal of this species in adventurer mode. Prevents trading of (tame) instances of this creature in caravans.

|-
| {{text anchor|LOCAL_POPS_PRODUCE_HEROES}}
| Creature
|
| Wild animals of this species may occasionally join a civilization. Prevents trading of (tame) instances of this creature in caravans.

|-
| {{text anchor|LOCKPICKER}}
| Caste
|
| Lets a creature open [[door]]s that are set to forbidden in fortress mode.

|-
| {{text anchor|LOOSE_CLUSTERS}}
| Creature
|
| The creatures will scatter if they have this tag, or form tight packs if they don't.

|-
| {{text anchor|LOW_LIGHT_VISION}}
| Caste
|
*number
| Determines how well a creature can see in the dark - higher is better. Dwarves have 10000, which amounts to perfect nightvision.
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==M==
{| {{prettytable}}
|- bgcolor="#ddd"
! width="20%" | Token
! width="10%" | Type
! width="20%" | Arguments
! width="50%" | Description

|-
| {{text anchor|MAGICAL}}
| Caste
|
| According to Toady One, this is completely interchangeable with {{token|AT_PEACE_WITH_WILDLIFE|c}} and might have been used in very early versions of the game by wandering wizards, or the ent-type tree creatures that used to be animated by elves. [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=169696.msg8316954#msg8316954]

|-
| {{text anchor|MAGMA_VISION}}
| Caste
|
| The creature is able to see while submerged in [[magma]].

|-
| {{text anchor|MALE}}
| Caste
|
| Makes the creature biologically male; usually declared inside a caste.

|-
| {{text anchor|MANNERISM|MANNERISM_*}}
| Caste
|
*occasionally body part
| Adds a possible mannerism to the creature's profile. See [[creature mannerism token]] for further info.

|-
| {{text anchor|MATERIAL}}
| Creature
|
*material id
| Begins defining a new local material. Follow this with standard material definition tokens to define the material. A maximum of 200 materials can be defined on any given creature.

|-
| {{text anchor|MATERIAL_FORCE_MULTIPLIER}}
| Caste
|
*[[Material token]]
*value A
*value B
| When struck with a weapon made of the specified material, the force exerted will be multiplied by A/B, thus making the creature more or less susceptible to this material. For example, if A is 2 and B is 1, the force exerted by the defined material will be doubled. If A is 1 and B is 2, it will be halved instead. See also {{token|GENERAL_MATERIAL_FORCE_MULTIPLIER|c}}, which can be used to make this sort of effect applicable to all materials.

|-
| {{text anchor|MATUTINAL}}
| Caste
|
| When set, the creature will only appear at dawn (between 4:30 AM and 6:00 AM) in [[Adventurer mode]].

|-
| {{text anchor|MAXAGE}}
| Caste
|
*min
*max
| Determines the creature's natural lifespan, using the specified minimum and maximum age values (in years). Each individual creature with this token is generated with a predetermined date (calculated down to the exact [[time|tick]]!) between these values, at which it is destined to die of old age, should it live long enough. Note that the probability of death at any given age does not increase as the creature gets older [http://i.imgur.com/A1A4aA9.png].
Creatures which lack this token are naturally immortal. The [[Syndrome#CE_ADD_TAG|NO_AGING]] syndrome tag will prevent death by old age from occurring. Also note that, among civilized creatures, castes which lack this token will refuse to marry others with it, and vice versa.

|-
| {{text anchor|MEANDERER}}
| Caste
|
| Makes the creature slowly stroll around, unless it's in combat or performing a job. If combined with {{token|CAN_LEARN|c}}, will severely impact their [[pathfinding]] and lead the creature to move extremely slowly when not performing any task. <s>Problematically applies to animal people based on the animal, and war trained animals{{bug|9588}}</s> As of version 52.05, meandering behavior no longer applies to animal people and to animals that are trained for war or hunting..

|-
| {{text anchor|MEGABEAST}}
| Caste
|
| A 'boss' creature; a small number of those are created during worldgen, their histories and descendants (if any) will be tracked in worldgen (as opposed to simply 'spawning'), and they will occasionally go on rampages, potentially leading to worship if they attack the same place multiple times. Their presence and number will also influence world age names. When appearing in fortress mode, they will have a pop-up message announcing their arrival. They will remain hostile to the fortress military even after being tamed.{{bug|10731}} See [[megabeast]] page for more details.

Requires specifying a {{token|BIOME|c}} in which the creature will live. Subterranean biomes appear to not be allowed. Does stack with {{token|LARGE_ROAMING|c}} and if both are used the creature will spawn as both historical bosses and as wild animals.

|-
| {{text anchor|MENT_ATT_CAP_PERC}}
| Caste
|
*[[Attribute|ATTRIBUTE]] Token
*Cap %
|Default is 200. This means you can increase your attribute to 200% of its starting value (or the average value + your starting value if that is higher).

|-
| {{text anchor|MENT_ATT_RANGE}}
| Caste
|
*[[Attribute|ATTRIBUTE]]
*lowest
*lower
*low
*median
*high
*higher
*highest
| Sets up a [[Attribute#Soul_attributes|mental attribute]]'s range of values (0-5000). All mental attribute ranges default to 200:800:900:1000:1100:1300:2000.

|-
| {{text anchor|MENT_ATT_RATES}}
| Caste
|
*[[Attribute|ATTRIBUTE]] Token
*cost to improve
*unused counter rate
*rust counter rate
*demotion counter rate
| [[Attribute#Soul_attributes|Mental attribute]] gain/decay rates. Lower numbers in the last three slots make decay occur faster. Defaults are 500:4:5:4.

|-
| {{text anchor|MILKABLE}}
| Caste
|
* [[material token]]
* frequency
| Allows the creature to be [[milk]]ed in the [[farmer's workshop]]. The frequency is the amount of [[time|ticks]] the creature needs to "recharge" (i.e. how much time needs to pass before it can be milked again). Does not work on [[#CAN_LEARN|sentient]] creatures, regardless of [[ethics]].

|-
| {{text anchor|MISCHIEVIOUS}}
| Caste
|
| Alias for {{token|MISCHIEVOUS|c}}.

|-
| {{text anchor|MISCHIEVOUS}}
| Caste
|
| The creature spawns [[stealth]]ed and will attempt to path into the fortress, pulling any [[lever]]s it comes across. It will be invisible on the map and [[unit list]] until spotted by a citizen, at which point the game will pause and recenter on the creature. Used by [[gremlin]]s in the vanilla game. "They go on little missions to mess with various fortress buildings, not just levers."

|-
| {{text anchor|MODVALUE}}
| Caste
|
| Seemingly no longer used.

|-
| {{text anchor|MOUNT}}
| Caste
|
| Creature may be used as a [[mount]]. No use for the player in fortress mode, but enemy sieging forces may arrive with cavalry. Mounts are usable in adventure mode.

|-
| {{text anchor|MOUNT_EXOTIC}}
| Caste
|
| Creature may be used as a [[mount]], but civilizations cannot domesticate it in worldgen without certain exceptions.

|-
| {{text anchor|MULTIPART_FULL_VISION}}
| Caste
|
| Allows the creature to have all-around vision, as long as it has multiple heads that can see.

|-
| {{text anchor|MULTIPLE_LITTER_RARE}}
| Caste
|
| Makes the species usually produce a single offspring per birth, with a 1/500 chance of using the {{token|LITTERSIZE|c}} as usual. Requires {{token|FEMALE|c}}.

|-
| {{text anchor|MUNDANE}}
| Creature
|
| Marks if the creature is an actual real-life creature. Only used for age-names at present.
|}

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==N==
{| {{prettytable}}
|- bgcolor="#ddd"
! width="20%" | Token
! width="10%" | Type
! width="20%" | Arguments
! width="50%" | Description

|-
| {{text anchor|NAME}}
| Creature
|
*singular
*plural
*adjective
| The generic name for any creature of this type - will be used for referring to the species in the abstract, such as the default material prefix. For labeling individual creatures, {{token|CASTE_NAME|c}} is necessary. If left undefined, the creature will be labeled as "nothing" by the game.

Some examples of adjective use:
* "super''dwarven'' strength"
* "the ''dwarven'' hillocks of X"
* Deity species as in "''feline'' deity"
* Megabeast attacks in worldgen. One with multiple dragons being a "''draconic'' rampage"

|-
| {{text anchor|NATURAL}}
| Caste
|
| Animal is considered to be natural. NATURAL animals will not engage creatures tagged with {{token|AT_PEACE_WITH_WILDLIFE|c}} in combat unless they are members of a hostile entity and vice-versa.

|-
| {{text anchor|NATURAL_ANIMAL}}
| Caste
|
| Alias of {{token|NATURAL|c}}.

|-
| {{text anchor|NATURAL_SKILL}}
| Caste
|
*[[Skill_token|Skill token]]
*value
| The creature possesses the specified [[skill]] at this level inherently - that is, it begins with the skill at this level, and the skill may never rust below that. A value of 15 is legendary.

|-
| {{text anchor|NIGHT_CREATURE}}
| Caste
|
| Creatures with this token can appear as [[experiment|experiments]]. Causes the creature to count as {{token|NOT_LIVING|c}}.

Killing a creature featuring this token provides one point of "hero" reputation. Adds the creature's description as part of the initial summary of their historical figure in legends mode. People will react to creatures with this token as a night creature (natch). In adventure mode, ambushes involving these units will say "Night creature!" instead of "Ambush!"

Prevents creature behavior enabled by {{token|LARGE_PREDATOR|c}}.

Removes the high nature value check imposed by {{token|LOCAL_POPS_PRODUCE_HEROES|c}}.

Prevents the AI from using ANIMATE interactions, unless the newly-animated{{token|OPPOSED_TO_LIFE|c}}undead will not attack them. The check for this is specifically whether the unit is:
*a ghost
*an animated unit
*a unit with the {{token|NO_AGING|c}} token added via {{token|CE_ADD_TAG|c}}. (This allows for the default exclusion of elves and goblins, unless raised as intelligent undead.)

|-
| {{text anchor|NIGHT_CREATURE_BOGEYMAN}}
| Caste
|
| Creatures with this token can appear in [[bogeyman|bogeyman ambushes]] in [[adventure mode]], where they adopt classical bogeyman traits such as stalking the adventurer and vaporising when dawn breaks. Such traits do not manifest if the creature is encountered outside of a bogeyman ambush (for instance, as a megabeast or a civilised being). In addition, their corpses and severed body parts turn into [[smoke]] after a short while. Note that setting the "Number of Bogeyman Types" in [[advanced world generation]] to 0 will only remove randomly-generated bogeymen.

|-
| {{text anchor|NIGHT_CREATURE_EXPERIMENTER}}
| Caste
|
| Found on some [[necromancer]]s. Creatures with this tag may periodically "perform horrible experiments" offscreen, during which they can use creature-targeting interactions with an <code>[[Interaction_token#I_SOURCE|[I_SOURCE:EXPERIMENT]]]</code> tag on living creatures in their area. Worlds are generated with a list of procedurally-generated experiments, allowing necromancers to turn living people and animals into [[Infected_ghoul|ghouls]] and [[Experiment|other experimental creatures]], and these will automatically be available to all experimenters; it does not appear possible to prevent this. You can mod in your own custom experiment interactions, but these are used very infrequently due to the large number of generated experiments.

|-
| {{text anchor|NIGHT_CREATURE_HUNTER}}
| Caste
|
| Found on [[night troll]]s and [[werebeast]]s. Implies that the creature is a [[night creature]], and shows its description in [[legends mode]] entry. The creature is always hostile and will start [[no quarter]] combat with any nearby creatures, except for members of its own race. Note that this tag does not override the creature's normal behavior in [[fortress mode]] except for the aforementioned aggression, and doesn't prevent the creature from fleeing the battles it started. It also removes the creature's materials from stockpile settings list, making them be stored there regardless of settings.

Does stack with {{token|LARGE_ROAMING|c}} and if both are used the creature will spawn as both historical hunters and as wild animals; this requires specifying a {{token|BIOME|c}} in which the creature will live, and subterranean biomes are allowed.

This tag causes the usual behaviour of werebeasts in worldgen, that is, fleeing towns upon being cursed and conducting raids from a lair. If this tag is absent from a deity curse, the accursed will simply be driven out of towns in a similar manner to [[vampire]]s. When paired with SPOUSE_CONVERTER, a very small population of the creature will be created during worldgen (sometimes only a single individual will be created), and their histories will be tracked (that is, they will not spawn spontaneously later, they must either have children or convert other creatures to increase their numbers). The creature will settle in a lair and go on rampages during worldgen. It will actively attempt to seek out potential conversion targets to abduct, convert, and have children with (if possible).

|-
| {{text anchor|NIGHT_CREATURE_NIGHTMARE}}
| Caste
|
| Found on [[nightmare]]s. Corpses and severed body parts derived from creatures with this token turn into [[smoke]] after a short while.

|-
| {{text anchor|NO_AUTUMN}}
| Caste
|
| The creature caste does not appear in [[Calendar|autumn]].

|-
| {{text anchor|NO_CONNECTIONS_FOR_MOVEMENT}}
| Caste
|
| Creature doesn't require connected body parts to move{{verify}}; generally used on undead creatures with connections that have rotted away.

|-
| {{text anchor|NO_DIZZINESS}}
| Caste
|
| Creature cannot become [[Symptom#Dizziness|dizzy]].

|-
| {{text anchor|NO_DRINK}}
| Caste
|
| Creature does not need to drink.

|-
| {{text anchor|NO_EAT}}
| Caste
|
| Creature does not need to [[food|eat]].

|-
| {{text anchor|NO_FEVERS}}
| Caste
|
| Creature cannot suffer [[Symptom#Fever|fevers]].

|-
| {{text anchor|NO_GENDER}}
| Caste
|
| The creature is biologically sexless, making it unable to [[breeding|breed]].

|-
| {{text anchor|NO_PHYS_ATT_GAIN}}
| Caste
|
| The creature cannot raise any [[Attribute#Body_attributes|physical attributes]].

|-
| {{text anchor|NO_PHYS_ATT_RUST}}
| Caste
|
| The creature cannot lose any [[Attribute#Body_attributes|physical attributes]].

|-
| {{text anchor|NO_SLEEP}}
| Caste
|
| Creature does not need to sleep, but can still be rendered unconscious by other means.

|-
| {{text anchor|NO_SPRING}}
| Caste
|
| The creature caste does not appear in [[Calendar|spring]].

|-
| {{text anchor|NO_SUMMER}}
| Caste
|
| The creature caste does not appear in [[Calendar|summer]].

|-
| {{text anchor|NO_THOUGHT_CENTER_FOR_MOVEMENT}}
| Caste
|
| The bodyparts of this creature don't need to be connected to an organ with the {{token|THOUGHT|body}} tag in order to have motor function. Generally used on creatures that don't have brains. If a creature doesn't have a thought part and doesn't have this token, it will be unable to grasp or stand. Nautilus men experience this issue in vanilla.

|-
| {{text anchor|NO_UNIT_TYPE_COLOR}}
| Caste
|
| Prevents creature from selecting its color based on its profession (e.g. Miner, Hunter, Wrestler).

|-
| {{text anchor|NO_VEGETATION_PERTURB}}
| Caste{{Verify}}
|
| Likely prevents the creature from leaving broken vegetation tracks.{{Verify}}

|-
| {{text anchor|NO_WINTER}}
| Caste
|
| The creature caste does not appear in [[Calendar|winter]].

|-
| {{text anchor|NOBONES}}
| Caste
|
| Creature cannot be picked up for worldgen fell moods and cannot be made a skeleton deity.

|-
| {{text anchor|NOBREATHE}}
| Caste
|
| Creature doesn't need to breathe or have {{token|BREATHE|body}}parts in its body, nor can it drown or be strangled. Creatures living in magma must have this tag, otherwise they will drown.

|-
| {{text anchor|NOCTURNAL}}
| Caste
|
| When set, the creature will only appear at night (after 10:05 PM and before 4:30 AM) in [[Adventurer mode]].

|-
| {{text anchor|NOEMOTION}}
| Caste
|
| Creature has no emotions, thus; it is immune to the effects of [[stress]] and unable to rage, and its [[need]]s cannot be fulfilled in any way. Used on [[undead]] in the vanilla game.

|-
| {{text anchor|NOEXERT}}
| Caste
|
| Creature can't become tired or over-exerted from taking too many combat actions, or moving at full speed for extended periods of time.

|-
| {{text anchor|NOFEAR}}
| Caste
|
| Creature doesn't feel fear and will never flee from battle, and will be immune to [[ghost]]s' attempts to 'scare it to death'. Additionally, it causes [[bogeyman|bogeymen]] and [[nightmare]]s to become friendly towards the creature.

|-
| {{text anchor|NOMEAT}}
| Caste
|
| Creature will not be hunted or fed to wild beasts.

|-
| {{text anchor|NONAUSEA}}
| Caste
|
| Creature isn't nauseated by gut hits and cannot vomit.

|-
| {{text anchor|NOPAIN}}
| Caste
|
| Creature doesn't feel pain.

|-
| {{text anchor|NOSKIN}}
| Caste
|
| Creature will not drop a hide when [[butcher|butchered]].

|-
| {{text anchor|NOSKULL}}
| Caste
|
| Creature will not drop a skull on butchering, rot, or decay of severed head.

|-
| {{text anchor|NOSMELLYROT}}
| Caste
|
| Does not produce [[miasma]] when rotting.

|-
| {{text anchor|NOSTUCKINS}}
| Caste
|
| Weapons can't get stuck in the creature.

|-
| {{text anchor|NOSTUN}}
| Caste
|
| Creature can't be stunned and knocked unconscious by pain or head injuries. Creatures with this tag never wake up from sleep in Fortress Mode. If this creature needs to sleep while playing, it will die.

|-
| {{text anchor|NOT_BUTCHERABLE}}
| Caste
|
| Corpses from this creature cannot be [[butcher|butchered]]. Does not prevent the creature from being slaughtered while alive, however.

|-
| {{text anchor|NOT_LIVING}}
| Caste
|
| Cannot be raised from the dead by necromancers or evil clouds. Implies the creature is not a normal living being. Used by [[vampire]]s, [[Mummy|mummies]] and inorganic creatures like the [[amethyst man]] and [[bronze colossus]]. Creatures who are {{token|OPPOSED_TO_LIFE|c}} (undead) will be docile towards creatures with this token.

|-
| {{text anchor|NOTHOUGHT}}
| Caste
|
| Creature doesn't require a {{token|THOUGHT|body}} body part to survive. Has the added effect of preventing speech, though directly controlling creatures that would otherwise be capable of speaking allows them to engage in conversation.
|}

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==O==
{| {{prettytable}}
|- bgcolor="#ddd"
! width="20%" | Token
! width="10%" | Type
! width="20%" | Arguments
! width="50%" | Description

|-
| {{text anchor|ODOR_LEVEL}}
| Caste
|
*number
| How easy the creature is to [[smell]]. The higher the number, the easier the creature is to sniff out. Defaults to 50. Vanilla creatures have values from 0 (undetectable) to 90 (noticeable by humans and dwarves).

|-
| {{text anchor|ODOR_STRING}}
| Caste
|
*string
| What the creature [[smell]]s like. If no odor string is defined, the creature name (not the caste name) is used.

|-
| {{text anchor|OPPOSED_TO_LIFE}}
| Caste
|
| Is hostile to all creatures except undead and other non-living ones and will show {{DFtext|Opposed to life|0:1}} in the [[unit list]]. Used by [[undead]] in the vanilla game. Functions without the {{token|NOT_LIVING|c}} token, and seems to imply said token as well. Undead will not be hostile to otherwise-living creatures given this token. Living creatures given this token will attack living creatures that lack it, while ignoring other living creatures that also have this token.

|-
| {{text anchor|ORIENTATION}}
| Caste
|
*MALE/FEMALE
*disinterested chance
*casual chance
*strong chance
| Determines caste's likelihood of having sexual attraction to certain sexes. Values default to 75:20:5 for the same sex and 5:20:75 for the opposite sex. The first value indicates how likely to be entirely uninterested in the sex, the second decides if the creature will be able to become lovers with that sex, the third decides whether they will be able to marry in worldgen and post-worldgen world activities (which implies being able to become lovers). Marriage seems to be able to happen in fort mode play regardless, as long as they are lovers first.

|-
| {{text anchor|OUTSIDER_CONTROLLABLE}}
| Caste
|
| Lets you play as an [[Adventurer_mode_character_creation#Outsider|outsider]] of this species in adventure mode.

|}

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==P==
{| {{prettytable}}
|- bgcolor="#ddd"
! width="20%" | Token
! width="10%" | Type
! width="20%" | Arguments
! width="50%" | Description

|-
| {{text anchor|PACK_ANIMAL}}
| Caste
|
| Allows the creature to be used as a pack animal. Used by [[trading|merchants]] without wagons and adventurers. Also prevents creature from dropping hauled items on its own -- do ''not'' use for player-controllable creatures! May lead to the creature being domesticated during worldgen, even if it doesn't have {{token|COMMON_DOMESTIC|c}}.

Creatures with this tag but without {{token|BENIGN|c}}, and/or with {{token|LARGE_PREDATOR|c}} leads to hauled items being dropped.

|-
| {{text anchor|PARALYZEIMMUNE}}
| Caste
|
| The creature is immune to all [[Syndrome#CE_PARALYSIS|paralyzing]] special attacks.

|-
| {{text anchor|PATTERNFLIER}}
| Caste
|
| Used to control the bat riders with paralyze-dart blowguns that flew through the 2D chasm. Doesn't do anything now.

|-
| {{text anchor|PCG_LAYERING}}
| Creature
|
*[[Procedural graphics layer|Layering type]]
| Adds a layer to the current {{token|PROCEDURAL_CREATURE_GRAPHICS|c}} definition.

|-
| {{text anchor|PEARL}}
| Caste
|
| Does nothing.

|-
| {{text anchor|PENETRATEPOWER}}
| Caste
|
*value
| Controls the ability of [[vermin]] to find a way into containers when they are eating food from your stockpiles.

Objects made of most materials (e.g. metal) roll a number from 0-100, and if the resulting number is greater than the penetrate power, their contents escape for the time being. Objects made of [[wood]], [[leather]], [[amber]], or [[coral]] roll 0-95, and items made of [[cloth]] roll 0-90.

|-
| {{text anchor|PERSONALITY}}
| Caste
|
*ATTRIBUTE
*lowest
*median
*highest
| Determines the range and chance of personality facets. Standard is 0:50:100. See [[personality facet]] for more info.

|-
| {{text anchor|PET}}
| Caste
|
| Allows the creature to be [[Animal_trainer|tamed]] in Fortress mode. Prerequisite for all other working animal roles. Civilizations that encounter it in worldgen will tame and domesticate it for their own use. Adding this to civilization members will classify them as pets instead of citizens, with all the [[Fun|problems]] that entails. However, you can solve these problems using the popular plugin [https://dffd.bay12games.com/file.php?id=13095| Dwarf Therapist], which is completely unaffected by the tag.

|-
| {{text anchor|PET_EXOTIC}}
| Caste
|
| Allows the creature to be [[Animal_trainer|tamed]] in Fortress mode. Prequisite for all other working animal roles. Civilizations cannot domesticate it in worldgen, with certain exceptions. More difficult to tame?{{verify}} Adding this to civilization members will classify them as pets instead of citizens, with all the [[Fun|problems]] that entails. ([[Gremlin|Example]]).

|-
| {{text anchor|PETVALUE}}
| Caste
|
*value
| How valuable a tamed animal is. Actual cost in points in the embarking screen is 1+(PETVALUE/2) for an untrained animal, 1+PETVALUE for a war/hunting one.

|-
| {{text anchor|PETVALUE_DIVISOR}}
| Caste
|
*value
| Divides the creature's {{token|PETVALUE|c}} by the specified number. Used by [[honey bee]]s to prevent a single hive from being worth a fortune.

|-
| {{text anchor|PHYS_ATT_CAP_PERC}}
| Caste
|
*[[Attribute|ATTRIBUTE]] Token
*Cap %
|Default is 200. This means you can increase your attribute to 200% of its starting value (or the average value + your starting value if that is higher).

|-
| {{text anchor|PHYS_ATT_RANGE}}
| Caste
|
*[[Attribute|ATTRIBUTE]]
*lowest
*lower
*low
*median
*high
*higher
*highest
| Sets up a [[Attribute#Body_attributes|physical attribute]]'s range of values (0-5000). All physical attribute ranges default to 200:700:900:1000:1100:1300:2000.

|-
| {{text anchor|PHYS_ATT_RATES}}
| Caste
|
*[[Attribute|ATTRIBUTE]] Token
*cost to improve
*unused counter rate
*rust counter rate
*demotion counter rate
| [[Attribute#Body_attributes|Physical attribute]] gain/decay rates. Lower numbers in the last three slots make decay occur faster. Defaults for STRENGTH, AGILITY, TOUGHNESS, and ENDURANCE are 500:3:4:3, while RECUPERATION and DISEASE_RESISTANCE default to 500:NONE:NONE:NONE.

|-
| {{text anchor|PLUS_BP_GROUP}}
| Caste
|
*BY_TYPE, BY_CATEGORY, or BY_TOKEN
*body type, category, or token
| Adds a body part group to selected body part group. Presumably used immediately after {{token|SET_BP_GROUP|c}}.

|-
| {{text anchor|PLUS_MATERIAL}}
| Creature
|
*material
| Adds a material to selected materials. Used immediately after {{token|SELECT_MATERIAL|c}}.

|-
| {{text anchor|POP_RATIO}}
| Caste
|
*number (max 100000)
| Weighted population of caste; Lower is rarer. Not to be confused with {{token|FREQUENCY|c}}. A weight of 0 will{{version|51.06 experimental}} prevent a caste from spawning naturally. Regardless of pop ratio, [[Position token|Position]]s that only allow a certain caste can force it to spawn.

|-
| {{text anchor|POPULATION_NUMBER}}
| Creature
|
*min
*max
| The minimum/maximum numbers of how many of these creatures are present in each world map tile of the appropriate region. Defaults to 1:1 if not specified. If the creature's chosen {{token|CLUSTER_NUMBER|c}} happens to be larger, it will be used instead.

|-
| {{text anchor|POWER}}
| Caste
|
| Allows the being to represent itself as a deity, allowing it to become the leader of a civilized group. Not used by any creatures in the vanilla game. Requires {{token|CAN_SPEAK|c}} to actually do anything more than settle at a location (e.g. write books, lead armies, profane temples). Doesn't appear to do anything for creatures that are already civilized. Once the creature ascends to a position of leadership, it will proceed to act as a standard ruler for their entity and fulfill the same functions (hold tournaments, tame creatures, etc.).

|-
| {{text anchor|PREFSTRING}}
| Creature
|
*string
| Sets what other creatures [[Preferences|prefer]] about this creature. "Urist likes dwarves for their beards." Multiple entries will be chosen from at random. Creatures lacking a PREFSTRING token will never appear under another's preferences.

|-
| {{text anchor|PROCEDURAL_CREATURE_GRAPHICS}}
| Creature
|
* [[Graphics_token#Basic_creature_sprite_types|Sprite type]] or Caste then sprite type
| Makes the creature have procedural graphics built for it, like forgotten beasts/demons/titans/experiments. Must be associated with PCG_LAYERING tokens.

|-
| {{text anchor|PROFESSION_NAME}}
| Creature
|
*[[Unit type token]] (Profession)
*singular
*plural
| The generic name for members of this profession, at the creature level. In order to give members of specific castes different names for professions, use {{token|CASTE_PROFESSION_NAME|c}} instead.

|-
| {{text anchor|PRONE_TO_RAGE}}
| Caste
|
*Chance
| Creature has a percentage chance to flip out at visible non-friendly creatures. Enraged creatures attack anything regardless of timidity and get a strength bonus to their hits. This is what makes [[badger]]s so hardcore.

|-
| {{text anchor|PUS}}
| Caste
|
* <[[material token]]>
* <[[Material_definition_token#Material_States|material state]]>
| The creature has pus. Specifies the stuff secreted by [[Health_care#Infection|infected wounds]].
|}

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==R==
{| {{prettytable}}
|- bgcolor="#ddd"
! width="20%" | Token
! width="10%" | Type
! width="20%" | Arguments
! width="50%" | Description

|-
| {{text anchor|RELSIZE}}
| Caste
|
*BY_CATEGORY, BY_TYPE, BY_TOKEN
*body category, type, or token
*Relsize
| Specifies a new relative size for a part than what is stated in the body plan. For example, dwarves have larger livers.

|-
| {{text anchor|REMAINS}}
| Caste
|
*singular
*plural
| What the creature's [[remains]] are called.

|-
| {{text anchor|REMAINS_COLOR}}
| Caste
|
| What color the creature's [[remains]] are.

|-
| {{text anchor|REMAINS_ON_VERMIN_BITE_DEATH}}
| Caste
|
| Goes with {{token|VERMIN_BITE|c}} and {{token|DIE_WHEN_VERMIN_BITE|c}}, the vermin creature will leave remains on death when biting. Leaving this tag out will cause the creature to disappear entirely after it bites.

|-
| {{text anchor|REMAINS_UNDETERMINED}}
| Caste
|
| Nothing.

|-
| {{text anchor|REMOVE_MATERIAL}}
| Creature
|
*material token
| Removes a material from the creature.

|-
| {{text anchor|REMOVE_TISSUE}}
| Creature
|
*tissue token
| Removes a tissue from the creature.

|-
| {{text anchor|RETRACT_INTO_BP}}
| Caste
|
*BY_TYPE, BY_CATEGORY or BY_TOKEN
*body type, [[Body_token#CATEGORY|category]], or [[Body_token#BP|token]]
*Second person ("You") retract verb text
*Third person ("The giant snail") retract verb text
*Second person cancel retract text
*Third person cancel retract text
| The creature will retract into the specified body part(s) when threatened. It will be unable to move or attack, but enemies will only be able to attack the specified body part(s). When one of the specified body part is severed off, the creature automatically unretracts and cannot retract anymore. More than one body part can be selected by using BY_TYPE or BY_CATEGORY.

Second-person descriptions are used for adventurer mode natural ability. "<pro_pos>" can be used in the descriptions, being replaced with the proper pronoun (or lack thereof) in-game.

Undead curled up creatures are buggy, specifically those that retract into their upper bodies: [[echidna]]s, [[hedgehog]]s and [[pangolin]]s.{{bug|11463}}{{bug|10519}} The upper body is prevented from collapsing by a separate body part (the middle spine), which cannot be attacked when the creature is retracted. See {{token|PREVENTS_PARENT_COLLAPSE|bo}}. Living creatures eventually succumb to blood loss, but undead creatures do not. Giant creatures also take a very long time to bleed out.
|-
| {{text anchor|RETURNS_VERMIN_KILLS_TO_OWNER}}
| Creature
|
| Cat behavior. If it kills a vermin creature and has an owner, it carries the remains in its mouth and drops them at their feet. Requires {{token|HUNTS_VERMIN|c}}.

|-
| {{text anchor|ROOT_AROUND}}
| Caste
|
*BY_TYPE, BY_CATEGORY or BY_TOKEN
*body type, [[Body_token#CATEGORY|category]], or [[Body_token#BP|token]]
*Second person ("You") verb text
*Third person ("The hen") verb text
| Creature will occasionally root around in the grass, looking for insects. Used for flavor in Adventurer Mode, spawns vermin edible for this creature in Fortress Mode. Creatures missing the specified body part will be unable to perform this action. The action produces a message (visible in adventure mode) in the form:

{{DFtext|[creature] [verb text] the [description of creature's location].|6:0}}

In adventure mode, the "rooting around" ability will be included in the "natural abilities" menu, represented by its second person verb text.

|}

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==S==
{| {{prettytable}}
|- bgcolor="#ddd"
! width="20%" | Token
! width="10%" | Type
! width="20%" | Arguments
! width="50%" | Description

|-
| {{text anchor|SAVAGE}}
| Creature
|
| The creature will only show up in "savage" biomes. Has no effect on cavern creatures. Cannot be combined with {{token|GOOD|c}} or {{token|EVIL|c}}.

|-
| {{text anchor|SECRETION}}
| Caste
|
*<[[material token]]>
*<[[Material_definition_token#Material_States|material state]]>
*BY_TOKEN / BY_CATEGORY / BY_TYPE
*<[[Body_token#BP|body part ID]]> / <[[Body_token#CATEGORY|category]]> or ALL / <type (e.g. [[Body_token#GRASP|GRASP]])>
*<[[Body_detail_plan_token#BP_LAYERS|tissue layer]]> or ALL
*<trigger>
| Causes the specified tissue layer(s) of the indicated body part(s) to secrete the designated material. A size 100 ('covering') [[contaminant]] is created over the affected body part(s) in its specified material state (and at the temperature appropriate to this state) when the trigger condition is met, as long as one of the secretory tissue layers is still intact. Valid triggers are:
*'''CONTINUOUS'''
Secretion occurs once every 40 [[time|ticks]] in [[fortress mode]], and every tick in [[adventurer mode]].
*'''EXERTION'''
Secretion occurs continuously (at the rate described above) whilst the creature is at minimum {{Tile|Tired|6:1}} following physical exertion. Note that this cannot occur if the creature has {{token|NOEXERT|c}}.
*'''EXTREME_EMOTION'''
Secretion occurs continuously (as above) whilst the creature is distressed. Cannot occur in creatures with {{token|NOEMOTION|c}}.

|-
| {{text anchor|SELECT_ADDITIONAL_CASTE}}
| Creature
|
*<caste>
| Adds an additional previously defined caste to the selection. Used after {{token|SELECT_CASTE|c}}.

|-
| {{text anchor|SELECT_CASTE}}
| Creature
|
*<caste> or ALL
| Selects a previously defined caste

|-
| {{text anchor|SELECT_MATERIAL}}
| Creature
|
*<[[material token]]>
| Selects a locally defined material. Can be ALL.

|-
| {{text anchor|SELECT_TISSUE}}
| Creature
|
*tissue token
| Selects a tissue for editing.

|-
| {{text anchor|SEMIMEGABEAST}}
| Caste
|
| Essentially the same as {{token|MEGABEAST|c}}, but more of them are created during worldgen. See the [[semi-megabeast]] page for details.

|-
| {{text anchor|SENSE_CREATURE_CLASS}}
| Caste
|
* <[[Creature_token#CREATURE_CLASS|creature class]]>
* [[Tilesets|<tile value or character>]]
* [[Color#Color_values|<foreground color>:<background color>:<foreground brightness>]]
| Gives the creature the ability to sense creatures belonging to the specified [[Creature_token#CREATURE_CLASS|creature class]] even when they lie far beyond line of sight, including through walls and floors. It also appears to reduce or negate the combat penalty of [[Wound#Blindness|blind]] units when fighting creatures they can sense. In [[adventure mode]], the specified tile will be used to represent sensed creatures when they cannot be seen directly.

|-
| {{text anchor|SET_BP_GROUP}}
| Caste
|
*selection criteria BY_TYPE, BY_CATEGORY, BY_TOKEN
*category, type, or token
| Begins a selection of body parts.

|-
| {{text anchor|SKILL_LEARN_RATE}}
| Caste
|
*<[[skill_token]]>
*<percentage>
| The rate at which this creature learns this skill. Requires {{token|CAN_LEARN|c}} or {{token|INTELLIGENT|c}} to function.

|-
| {{text anchor|SKILL_LEARN_RATES}}
| Caste
|
*<percentage>
| The rate at which this creature learns all skills. Requires {{token|CAN_LEARN|c}} or {{token|INTELLIGENT|c}} to function.

|-
| {{text anchor|SKILL_RATE}}
| Caste
|
*[[skill_token]]
*<% of improvement points gained>
*<unused counter rate>
*<rust counter rate>
*<demotion counter rate>
| Like {{token|SKILL_RATES|c}}, but applies to individual skills instead. Requires {{token|CAN_LEARN|c}} or {{token|INTELLIGENT|c}} to function.

|-
| {{text anchor|SKILL_RATES}}
| Caste
|
*<% of improvement points gained>
*<unused counter rate>
*<rust counter rate>
*<demotion counter rate>
| Affects skill gain and decay. Lower numbers in the last three slots make decay occur faster ([SKILL_RATES:100:1:1:1] would cause rapid decay). The counter rates may also be replaced with NONE.
Default is [SKILL_RATES:100:8:16:16]. Requires {{token|CAN_LEARN|c}} or {{token|INTELLIGENT|c}} to function.

|-
| {{text anchor|SKILL_RUST_RATE}}
| Caste
|
*[[skill_token]]
*value
*value
*value
| The rate at which this skill decays. Lower values cause the skill to decay faster. Requires {{token|CAN_LEARN|c}} or {{token|INTELLIGENT|c}} to function.

|-
| {{text anchor|SKILL_RUST_RATES}}
| Caste
|
*value
*value
*value
| The rate at which all skills decay. Lower values cause the skills to decay faster. Requires {{token|CAN_LEARN|c}} or {{token|INTELLIGENT|c}} to function.

|-
| {{text anchor|SLAIN_CASTE_SPEECH}}
| Caste
|
*[[Speech file|text set]]
| Caste-specific {{token|SLAIN_SPEECH|c}}.

|-
| {{text anchor|SLAIN_SPEECH}}
| Creature
|
*[[Speech file|text set]]
| Boasting speeches relating to killing this creature. Examples include [[text_dwarf.txt/raw|text_dwarf.txt]] (<code>[SLAIN_SPEECH:SLAIN_DWARF]</code>) and text_elf.txt (<code>[SLAIN_SPEECH:SLAIN_ELF]</code>) in data\vanilla\vanilla_creatures\objects.

|-
| {{text anchor|SLOW_LEARNER}}
| Caste
|
| Shorthand for {{token|CAN_LEARN|c}} + <code>[[Creature_token#SKILL_LEARN_RATES|[SKILL_LEARN_RATES:50]]]</code>.{{verify}} Used by a number of 'primitive' creatures (like [[ogre]]s, [[giant]]s and [[troglodyte]]s) in the vanilla game. Applicable to player races. Prevents a player from recruiting nobility, even basic ones. Subterranean creatures with this token combined with {{token|EVIL|c}} will become servants of goblins in their civilizations, in the style of [[troll]]s.

|-
| {{text anchor|SMALL_REMAINS}}
| Caste
|
| Creature leaves "[[item token#REMAINS|remains]]" instead of a corpse. Used by [[vermin]].

|-
| {{text anchor|SMELL_TRIGGER}}
| Caste
|
*value
| Determines how keen a creature's sense of smell is - lower is better. At 10000, a creature cannot smell at all.

|-
| {{text anchor|SOLDIER_ALTTILE}}
| Creature
|
*'character' or tile number
| If this creature is active in its civilization's military, it will blink between its default tile and this one.

|-
| {{text anchor|SOUND}}
| Caste
|
* Sound application (currently accepts ALERT or PEACEFUL_INTERMITTENT)
* Sound range (in tiles)
* Sound delay (lower values = sound is produced more often)
* VOCALIZATION or NONE (determines whether the sound requires breathing or not)
* First-person description
* Third-person description
* Description when out of sight
| Creature makes sounds periodically, which can be heard in Adventure mode.
* First-person reads "You '''bark'''"
* Third-person reads "The [[capybara]] '''barks'''"
* Out of sight reads "You hear '''a loud bark'''"
with the text in bold being the description arguments of the token.

|-
| {{text anchor|SOURCE_HFID}}
| Creature
|
*Integer
| Found on generated [[angel]]s. This is the historical figure ID of the deity with which the angel is associated. Since HFIDs are not predictable before worldgen, this isn't terribly usable in mods.

|-
| {{text anchor|SPECIFIC_FOOD}}
| Caste
|
* PLANT or CREATURE
* Plant/creature ID
| Creature will only appear in biomes with this plant or creature available. Grazers given a specific type of grass (such as [[panda]]s and [[bamboo]]) will only eat that grass and nothing else, risking starvation if there's none available.

|-
| {{text anchor|SPHERE}}
| Creature
|
* [[Sphere#Available_spheres|sphere]]
| Sets what religious spheres the creature is aligned to, for purposes of being worshipped via the {{token|POWER|c}} token. Affects the creature's name. Creatures with spheres opposed to Death (ie: HEALING, LONGEVITY, YOUTH) will be much less likely to pursue the secrets of life and death.

|-
| {{text anchor|SPOUSE_CONVERSION_TARGET}}
| Caste
|
| This creature can be converted by a night creature with {{token|SPOUSE_CONVERTER|c}}.

|-
| {{text anchor|SPOUSE_CONVERTER}}
| Caste
|
| If the creature has the {{token|NIGHT_CREATURE_HUNTER|c}} tag, it will kidnap {{token|SPOUSE_CONVERSION_TARGET|c}}s and transform them into the caste of its species with the {{token|CONVERTED_SPOUSE|c}} tag during worldgen. It may also start families this way.

|-
| {{text anchor|SPREAD_EVIL_SPHERES_IF_RULER}}
| Caste
|
| If the creature rules over a [[site]], it will cause the local landscape to be corrupted into [[Surroundings#Evil|evil surroundings]] associated with the creature's [[Creature_token#SPHERE|sphere]]s. The creature must have at least one of the following [[sphere]]s for this to take effect: BLIGHT, DEATH, DISEASE, DEFORMITY, NIGHTMARES. The first three kill vegetation, while the others sometimes do. The last two get [[Plant_token#EVIL|evil plants]] and [[Creature_token#EVIL|evil animals]] sometimes. NIGHTMARES gets [[bogeyman|bogeymen]]. [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=169696.msg8162224#msg8162224] Used by [[demon]]s in the vanilla game.

|-
| {{text anchor|STANCE_CLIMBER}}
| Caste
|
| Caste does not require <code>[[Body_token#GRASP|[GRASP]]]</code> body parts to climb -- it can climb with <code>[[Body_token#STANCE|[STANCE]]]</code> parts instead.

|-
| {{text anchor|STANDARD_GRAZER}}
| Caste
|
| Acts as {{token|GRAZER|c}} but set to 20000*G*(max size)^(-3/4), where G defaults to 100 but can be set in d_init, and the whole thing is trapped between 150 and 3 million. Used for all grazers in the default creature raws.

|-
| {{text anchor|STRANGE_MOODS}}
| Caste
|
| The creature will get [[strange mood]]s in fortress mode and can produce artifacts.

|-
| {{text anchor|SUPERNATURAL}}
| Caste
|
| Gives the creature knowledge of any secrets with <code>[[Interaction_token#IS_SECRET|[SUPERNATURAL_LEARNING_POSSIBLE]]]</code> that match its [[Creature_token#SPHERE|spheres]] and also prevents it from becoming a [[vampire]] or [[werebeast]]. Other effects are unknown.

|-
| {{text anchor|SWIMS_INNATE}}
| Caste
|
| The creature naturally knows how to swim perfectly and does not use the [[swimmer]] skill, as opposed to {{token|SWIMS_LEARNED|c}} below. However, Fortress mode AI never paths into water anyway, so it's less useful there.

|-
| {{text anchor|SWIMS_LEARNED}}
| Caste
|
| The creature swims only as well as their present [[Swimmer|swimming skill]] allows them to.

|-
| {{text anchor|SYNDROME_DILUTION_FACTOR}}
| Caste
| <[[Syndrome#SYN_IDENTIFIER|syndrome identifier]]>:<percentage>
| Dilutes the effects of syndromes which have the specified identifier. A percentage of 100 is equal to the regular syndrome effect severity, higher percentages reduce severity.
|}

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==T==
{| {{prettytable}}
|- bgcolor="#ddd"
! width="20%" | Token
! width="10%" | Type
! width="20%" | Arguments
! width="50%" | Description

|-
| {{text anchor|TENDONS}}
| Caste
|
* [[material token]]
*healing rate
| The creature has tendons in its {{token|CONNECTIVE_TISSUE_ANCHOR|td}} tissues (bone or chitin by default). Cutting the bone/chitin tissue severs the tendons, disabling motor function if the target is a limb.

|-
| {{text anchor|THICKWEB}}
| Caste
|
| The creature's [[web]]s can catch larger creatures.

|-
| {{text anchor|TISSUE}}
| Creature
|
*name
| Begins defining a tissue in the creature file. Follow this with standard tissue definition tokens to define the tissue properties.

|-
| {{text anchor|TISSUE_LAYER}}
| Caste
|
*BY_TYPE, BY_CATEGORY, BY_TOKEN
*TYPE,CATEGORY, or TOKEN
*TISSUE
*LOCATION
| Adds the tissue layer to wherever it is required.
Non-argument Locations can be FRONT, RIGHT, LEFT, TOP, BOTTOM. Argument locations are AROUND and CLEANS, requiring a further body part and a % of coverage/cleansing

|-
| {{text anchor|TISSUE_LAYER_OVER}}
| Caste
|
*BY_TYPE, BY_CATEGORY, BY_TOKEN
*TYPE,CATEGORY, or TOKEN
*TISSUE
*LOCATION
| Alias for TISSUE_LAYER

|-
| {{text anchor|TISSUE_LAYER_UNDER}}
| Caste
|
*BY_TYPE, BY_CATEGORY, BY_TOKEN
*TYPE,CATEGORY, or TOKEN
*TISSUE
| Adds the tissue layer under a given part.
For example, an [[iron man]] has a gaseous poison within, and this tissue (GAS is its name) has the token [TISSUE_LEAKS] and its state is GAS, so when you puncture the iron outside and damage this tissue it leaks gas (can have a syndrome by using a previous one in the creature sample.) [TISSUE_LAYER_UNDER:BY_CATEGORY:ALL:{tissue}] {tissue} is what will be under the TISSUE_LAYER; here is an example Tissue from the Iron Man: 
[TISSUE:GAS] [TISSUE_NAME:gas:NP] [TISSUE_MATERIAL:LOCAL_CREATURE_MAT:GAS] [TISSUE_MAT_STATE:GAS] [RELATIVE_THICKNESS:50] [TISSUE_LEAKS] [TISSUE_SHAPE:LAYER]

|-
| {{text anchor|TITAN}}
| Caste
|
| Found on [[titan]]s. Cannot be specified in user-defined raws.

|-
| {{text anchor|TRADE_CAPACITY}}
| Caste
|
*number
| How much the creature can carry when used by merchants. 1000 by default. Completely ignored if the animal does not also have PACK_ANIMAL or WAGON, instead using BODY_SIZE^(2/3)/20, even if they're a pack animal due to ANIMAL_ALWAYS_PACK_ANIMAL.

|-
| {{text anchor|TRAINABLE}}
| Caste
|
| Shortcut for {{token|TRAINABLE_HUNTING|c}} + {{token|TRAINABLE_WAR|c}}.

|-
| {{text anchor|TRAINABLE_HUNTING}}
| Caste
|
| Can be [[Animal trainer|trained]] as a hunting beast, increasing speed.

|-
| {{text anchor|TRAINABLE_WAR}}
| Caste
|
| Can be [[Animal trainer|trained]] as a war beast, increasing strength and endurance.

|-
| {{text anchor|TRANCES}}
| Caste
|
| Allows the creature to go into [[martial trance]]s. Used by dwarves in the vanilla game.

|-
| {{text anchor|TRAPAVOID}}
| Caste
|
| The creature will never trigger [[trap]]s it steps on. Used by a [[Trapavoid|number of creatures]]. Doesn't make the creature immune to remotely activated traps (like retractable spikes being triggered while the creature is standing over them). TRAPAVOID creatures lose this power if they're immobilized while standing in a trap, be it by stepping on thick web, being paralyzed or being knocked unconscious.

|-
| {{text anchor|TRIGGERABLE_GROUP}}
| Creature
|
*min
*max
| A large swarm of vermin can be disturbed, usually in adventurer mode.

|-
| {{text anchor|TSU_NOUN}}
| Caste
|
*noun
*SINGULAR or PLURAL
| Noun for the {{token|TISSUE_STYLE_UNIT|c}}, used in the description of the tissue layer's style.
|}

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==U==
{| {{prettytable}}
|- bgcolor="#ddd"
! width="20%" | Token
! width="10%" | Type
! width="20%" | Arguments
! width="50%" | Description

|-
| {{text anchor|UBIQUITOUS}}
| Creature
|
| Creature will occur in every region with the correct biome. Does not apply to {{token|EVIL|c}}/{{token|GOOD|c}} tags. Supersedes {{token|FREQUENCY|c}} for the purposes of distributing populations through the map, they are present in every part of the valid biome. Respects {{token|FREQUENCY|c}} for the frequency of unit [[Creature token#CLUSTER_NUMBER|cluster]] spawns being of this species.

|-
| {{text anchor|UNDERGROUND_DEPTH}}
| Creature
|
*mindepth
*maxdepth
| Depth that the creature appears underground. Numbers can be from 0 to 5. 0 is actually 'above ground' and can be used if the creature is to appear both above and below ground. Values from 1-3 are the respective [[cavern]] levels, 4 is the [[magma sea]] and 5 is the [[HFS]]. A single argument may be used instead of min and max. [[Demon]]s use only 5:5; user-defined creatures with both this depth and {{token|FLIER}} will take part in the initial wave from the HFS alongside generated demons, but without {{token|FLIER}} they will only spawn from the map edges. Civilizations that can use underground plants or animals will only export (via the embark screen or caravans) things that are available at depth 1.

|-
| {{text anchor|UNDERSWIM}}
| Caste
|
| The creature is displayed as blue when in [[Water#Depth|7/7 water]]. Used on fish and amphibious creatures which swim under the water.

|-
| {{text anchor|UNIQUE_DEMON}}
| Caste
|
| Found on generated [[demon]]s; causes the game to create a single named instance of the demon, per caste, which will emerge from the underworld and take over civilizations during worldgen.

|-
| {{text anchor|USE_CASTE}}
| Creature
|
*new caste token
*old caste token
| Defines a new caste derived directly from a previous caste. The new caste inherits all properties of the old one. The effect of this tag is automatic if one has not yet defined any castes: "Any caste-level tag that occurs before castes are explicitly declared is saved up and placed on any caste that is declared later, unless the caste is explicitly derived from another caste."
Roostre: "When DF detects duplicate tokens in the raws of the same object, a failsafe seems to kick in; it takes the bottom-most of the duplicates, and disregards the others. In the case of tokens added by a mod, it prioritizes the duplicate in the mod." This means that if a tag is defined in the base-caste and redefined in the derived caste, the derived tag overwrites the base tag.

|-
| {{text anchor|USE_MATERIAL}}
| Creature
|
*new material ID
*old material ID
| Defines a new local creature material and populates it with all properties defined in the specified local creature material. A maximum of 200 materials can be defined on any given creature.

|-
| {{text anchor|USE_MATERIAL_TEMPLATE}}
| Creature
|
*new material token
*material template
| Defines a new local creature material and populates it with all properties defined in the specified template. A maximum of 200 materials can be defined on any given creature.

|-
| {{text anchor|USE_TISSUE}}
| Creature
|
*new tissue token
*old tissue id
| Defines a new local creature tissue and populates it with all properties defined in the local tissue specified in the second argument.

|-
| {{text anchor|USE_TISSUE_TEMPLATE}}
| Creature
|
*new tissue token
*tissue template
| Loads a tissue template listed in OBJECT:TISSUE_TEMPLATE files, such as tissue_template_default.txt.

|-
| {{text anchor|UTTERANCES}}
| Creature
|
| Changes the language of the creature into unintelligible 'kobold-speak', which creatures of other species will be unable to understand. If a civilized creature has this and is not part of a {{token|SKULKING|e}} civ, it will tend to start wars with all nearby civilizations and will be unable to make peace treaties due to 'inability to communicate'.
|}

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==V==
{| {{prettytable}}
|- bgcolor="#ddd"
! width="20%" | Token
! width="10%" | Type
! width="20%" | Arguments
! width="50%" | Description

|-
| {{text anchor|VEGETATION}}
| Caste
|
| Like {{token|AT_PEACE_WITH_WILDLIFE}}, but also makes the creature more valued in artwork by civilisations with the PLANT [[sphere]]. [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=169696.msg8316954#msg8316954] Used by [[grimeling]]s in the vanilla game.

|-
| {{text anchor|VERMIN_BITE}}
| Caste
|
*chance of occurrence{{verify}}
*verb (bitten, stung, etc.)
* [[material token]]
* [[Material_definition_token#Material_States|material state]]
| Enables vermin to bite other creatures, injecting the specified material. See {{token|SPECIALATTACK_INJECT_EXTRACT|c}} for details about injection - this token presumably works in a similar manner.{{verify}}

|-
| {{text anchor|VERMIN_EATER}}
| Creature
|
| The vermin creature will attempt to eat exposed food. See {{token|PENETRATEPOWER|c}}. Distinct from {{token|VERMIN_ROTTER|c}}.

|-
| {{text anchor|VERMIN_FISH}}
| Creature
|
| The vermin appears in [[water]] and will attempt to swim around. Required to catch the vermin with [[fishing]] or [[Fishery|capturing a live fish]].

|-
| {{text anchor|VERMIN_GROUNDER}}
| Creature
|
| The creature appears in "general" surface ground locations. Note that this doesn't stop the creature from flying if it can (most vermin birds have this tag).

|-
| {{text anchor|VERMIN_HATEABLE}}
| Caste
|
| Some dwarves will [[Preferences|hate]] the creature and get unhappy thoughts when around it. See the [[Hateable|list of hateable vermin]] for details.

|-
| {{text anchor|VERMIN_MICRO}}
| Caste
|
| This makes the creature move in a swarm of creatures of the same race as it (e.g. swarm of flies, swarm of ants).

|-
| {{text anchor|VERMIN_NOFISH}}
| Caste
|
| The creature cannot be caught by [[fishing]].

|-
| {{text anchor|VERMIN_NOROAM}}
| Caste
|
| The creature will not be observed randomly roaming about the map.

|-
| {{text anchor|VERMIN_NOTRAP}}
| Caste
|
| The creature cannot be caught in baited [[animal trap]]s; however, a "[[Trapper|catch live land animal]]" task may still be able to capture one if a dwarf finds one roaming around.

|-
| {{text anchor|VERMIN_ROTTER}}
| Creature
|
| The vermin are attracted to rotting stuff and loose food left in the open and cause unhappy thoughts to dwarves who encounter them. Present on flies, knuckle worms, acorn flies, and blood gnats.

|-
| {{text anchor|VERMIN_SOIL}}
| Creature
|
| The creature randomly appears near dirt or mud, and may be uncovered by creatures that have the {{token|ROOT_AROUND|c}} interaction such as [[goose|geese]] and [[chicken]]s. Dwarves will ignore the creature when given the "Capture live land animal" task.

|-
| {{text anchor|VERMIN_SOIL_COLONY}}
| Creature
|
| The vermin will appear in a single tile cluster of many vermin, such as a colony of ants.

|-
| {{text anchor|VERMINHUNTER}}
| Caste
|
| Old shorthand for "does cat stuff". Contains {{token|AT_PEACE_WITH_WILDLIFE|c}} + {{token|RETURNS_VERMIN_KILLS_TO_OWNER|c}} + {{token|HUNTS_VERMIN|c}} + {{token|ADOPTS_OWNER|c}}.

|-
| {{text anchor|VESPERTINE}}
| Caste
|
| When set, the creature will only appear in the evening (between 8:00 PM and 10:05 PM) in [[Adventurer mode]].

|-
| {{text anchor|VIEWRANGE}}
| Caste
|
*value
| Value should determine how close you have to get to a critter before it attacks (or prevents adv mode travel etc.) Default is 20.

|-
| {{text anchor|VISION_ARC}}
| Caste
|
*binocular vision arc
*non-binocular vision arc
| The width of the creature's vision arcs, in degrees (i.e. 0 to 360). The first number is binocular vision, the second is non-binocular vision. Binocular vision has a minimum of about 10 degrees, monocular, a maximum of about 350 degrees. Values past these limits will be accepted, but will default to ~10 degrees and ~350 degrees respectively. Defaults are 60:120.
|}

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==W==
{| {{prettytable}}
|- bgcolor="#ddd"
! width="20%" | Token
! width="10%" | Type
! width="20%" | Arguments
! width="50%" | Description

|-
| {{text anchor|WAGON_PULLER}}
| Caste
|
| Allows the creature to pull caravan wagons. If a civilization doesn't have access to any, it is restricted to trading with pack animals.

|-
| {{text anchor|WEBBER}}
| Caste
|
* [[material token]]
| Allows the creature to create [[web]]s, and defines what the webs are made of.

|-
| {{text anchor|WEBIMMUNE}}
| Caste
|
| The creature will not get caught in thick [[web]]s. Used by creatures who can shoot thick webs (such as [[giant cave spider]]s) in order to make them immune to their own attacks.
|}

==Attack Tokens==

Attacks can use four different part selection criteria. Except for TISSUE_LAYER, the base game makes use of all of these in its attacks.

{| {{prettytable}}
|- bgcolor="#ddd"
! width="20%" | Part type token
! width="30%" | Arguments
! width="60%" | Description

|-
| {{text anchor|BODYPART}}
|
* BY_TYPE/BY_TOKEN/BY_CATEGORY
* type/token/category
| This attack uses a particular body part; for example, ATTACK:PUNCH:BODYPART:BY_TYPE:GRASP will make it use any part that can hold onto an object.

|-
| {{text anchor|TISSUE_LAYER}}
|
* BY_TYPE/BY_TOKEN/BY_CATEGORY
* type/token/category
* tissue layer
| This attack uses a specific tissue layer on a specific body part; ATTACK:SCRATCH:TISSUE_LAYER:BY_TYPE:GRASP:BONE will make it use the bone of the hands.

|-
| {{text anchor|CHILD_BODYPART_GROUP}}
|
* BY_TYPE/BY_TOKEN/BY_CATEGORY
* type/token/category
* BY_TYPE/BY_TOKEN/BY_CATEGORY
* type/token/category
| Uses a body part that is subordinate to another; ATTACK:SLAP:CHILD_BODYPART_GROUP:BY_CATEGORY:ARM_LOWER:BY_TYPE:GRASP will make it use every hand attached to each lower arm (so it will generate one attack per lower arm, each of which will use every hand on that arm, assuming there are multiple hands per arm).

|-
| {{text anchor|CHILD_TISSUE_LAYER_GROUP}}
|
* BY_TYPE/BY_TOKEN/BY_CATEGORY
* type/token/category
* BY_TYPE/BY_TOKEN/BY_CATEGORY
* type/token/category
* tissue layer
| As CHILD_BODYPART_GROUP, but specifying a tissue, too; ATTACK:BITE:CHILD_BODYPART_GROUP:BY_CATEGORY:HEAD:BY_CATEGORY:TOOTH

|}

{| {{prettytable}}
|- bgcolor="#ddd"
! width="20%" | Token
! width="10%" | Type
! width="20%" | Arguments
! width="50%" | Description

|-
| {{text anchor|ATTACK_SKILL}}
| Caste
|
*[[Skill token]]
| Defines the skill used by the attack.

|-
| {{text anchor|ATTACK_VERB}}
| Caste
|
*2nd person
*3rd person
| Descriptive text for the attack.

|-
| {{text anchor|ATTACK_CONTACT_PERC}}
| Caste
|
*% value
| The contact area of the attack, measured in % of the body part's volume. Note that all attack percentages can be more than 100%.

|-
| {{text anchor|ATTACK_PENETRATION_PERC}}
| Caste
|
*% value
| The penetration value of the attack, measured in % of the body part's volume. Requires ATTACK_FLAG_EDGE. Maximum value: 15000.

|-
| {{text anchor|ATTACK_PRIORITY}}
| Caste
|
*MAIN or SECOND
| Usage frequency. MAIN attacks are 100 times more frequently chosen than SECOND. Opportunity attacks ignore this preference.

|-
| {{text anchor|ATTACK_VELOCITY_MODIFIER}}
| Caste
|
*number
| The velocity multiplier of the attack, multiplied by 1000.

|-
| {{text anchor|ATTACK_FLAG_CANLATCH}}
| Caste
|
| Attacks that damage tissue have the chance to latch on in a wrestling hold. The grabbing bodypart can then use the "shake around" wrestling move, causing severe, armor-bypassing tensile damage according to the attacker's body volume.

|-
| {{text anchor|ATTACK_FLAG_WITH}}
| Caste
|
| Displays the name of the body part used to perform an attack while announcing it, e.g. "The weaver punches the bugbat with his right hand".

|-
| {{text anchor|ATTACK_FLAG_EDGE}}
| Caste
|
| The attack is edged, with all the effects on physical resistance and contact area that it entails.

|-
| {{text anchor|ATTACK_PREPARE_AND_RECOVER}}
| Caste
|
* Preparation time
* Recovery time
| Determines the length of time to prepare this attack and until one can perform this attack again. Values appear to be calculated in adventure mode ticks.

|-
| {{text anchor|ATTACK_FLAG_BAD_MULTIATTACK}}
| Caste
|
| Multiple strikes with this attack cannot be performed effectively.

|-
| {{text anchor|ATTACK_FLAG_INDEPENDENT_MULTIATTACK}}
| Caste
|
| Multiple strikes with this attack can be performed with no penalty. The creature will use all attacks with this token at once.

|-
| {{text anchor|SPECIALATTACK_INJECT_EXTRACT}}
| Caste
|
*<[[material token]]>
*<[[Material_definition_token#Material_States|material state]]>
*<min quantity>
*<max quantity>
| When added to an attack, causes the attack to inject the specified material into the victim's bloodstream. Once injected, the material will participate in [[temperature|thermal]] exchange within the creature - injecting something like molten [[iron]] (INORGANIC:IRON:LIQUID) would cause most unmodded creatures to melt (note that some of the injected material also [[contaminant|splatters]] over the bodypart used to carry out the attack, so it should be protected appropriately). If the injected material has an associated [[syndrome]] with the [[Syndrome#SYN_INJECTED|[SYN_INJECTED]]] token, it will be transmitted to the victim. If the attack is blunt, the injected material lacks the [[Material definition token#ENTERS_BLOOD|[ENTERS_BLOOD]]] token, the attacked bodypart has no [[Tissue_definition_token#VASCULAR|[VASCULAR]]] tissues, or the victim is bloodless, the material will splatter over the attacked body part instead.

|-
| {{text anchor|SPECIALATTACK_INTERACTION}}
| Caste
|
*interaction
| When this attack lands successfully, a specified interaction will take effect on the target creature. The attack must break the target creature's skin in order to work. This will take effect in worldgen as well. If the attack would break skin, the interaction will occur '''before the attack actually lands'''.

|-
| {{text anchor|SPECIALATTACK_SUCK_BLOOD}}
| Caste
|
*min
*max
| Successful attack draws out an amount of blood randomized between the min and max value. Beware that this '''will''' trigger any ingestion syndromes attached to the target creature's blood - for example, using this attack on a vampire will turn you into one too.
|}

==Tissue Layer Tokens==
Tissue layers are added to a creature's body parts by the creature tokens [[#TISSUE_LAYER|TISSUE_LAYER]], [[#TISSUE_LAYER_OVER|TISSUE_LAYER_OVER]], [[#TISSUE_LAYER_UNDER|TISSUE_LAYER_UNDER]], and the body detail plan token [[#TL_LAYERS|TL_LAYERS]].

These tissue layers are not the same thing as tissues, which are defined at creature level, but rather applications of the tissues. If the SKIN tissue of a creature is the more general and abstract notion of what skin is for that creature, then a tissue layer may be the "actual" skin on the creature's nose, head, or second toe. As most creatures have more than one body part, tissue layers are normally selected en masse.

Some tissue layer tokens are analogous to tissue definition tokens, e.g. [[#TL_CONNECTS|TL_CONNECTS]] to [[tissue_definition_token#CONNECTS|CONNECTS]].

{| {{prettytable}}
|- bgcolor="#ddd"
! width="20%" | Token
! width="10%" | Type
! width="20%" | Arguments
! width="50%" | Description

|-
| {{text anchor|SELECT_TISSUE_LAYER}}
| Caste
|
*TISSUE
*BY_CATEGORY, BY_TYPE, BY_TOKEN
*Location - category, type, or token | Selects a tissue at a location
* (optional) FRONT, BACK, LEFT, RIGHT, TOP, BOTTOM, AROUND.
| Begins a selection of tissue layers.
[SELECT_TISSUE_LAYER:HEART:BY_TYPE:HEART]

|-
| {{text anchor|PLUS_TISSUE_LAYER}}
| Caste
|
*TISSUE
*BY_CATEGORY, BY_TYPE, BY_TOKEN
*Location - category, type, or token
| Adds tissue layers to those selected.

|-
| {{text anchor|SET_TL_GROUP}}
| Caste
|
*TISSUE
*BY_CATEGORY, BY_TYPE, BY_TOKEN
*Location - category, type, or token
*tissue
| Begins a selection of tissue layers. Only usable for descriptor and cosmetic purposes.

Research has implied it may be redundant with SELECT_TISSUE_LAYER, as the latter allows for cosmetics as well as "functional" tokens such as TL_MAJOR_ARTERIES. Vanilla raws still use SET_TL_GROUP though, for all cosmetic purposes. More research is needed on this subject.

|-
| {{text anchor|PLUS_TL_GROUP}}
| Caste
|
*BY_CATEGORY, BY_TYPE, BY_TOKEN
*Location - category, type, or token
*tissue
| Adds tissue layers to those selected. Like SET_TL_GROUP, it may be redundant even if used in the vanilla raws.

|-
| {{text anchor|SET_LAYER_TISSUE}}
| Caste
|
*TISSUE
| Sets a selected tissue layer to be made of a different tissue.

|-
| {{text anchor|SHEARABLE_TISSUE_LAYER}}
| Caste
|
* tissue modifier
* required value
| Tissue layer can be sheared for its component material. The specified modifier must be at least of the desired value for shearing to be possible (for example, a [[llama]]'s wool must have a LENGTH of 300 before it is shearable).

|-
| {{text anchor|TISSUE_LAYER_APPEARANCE_MODIFIER}}
| Caste
|
*QUALITY
*lowest
*lower
*low
*median
*high
*higher
*highest
| Sets the range of qualities, including LENGTH, DENSE, HIGH_POSITION, CURLY, GREASY, WRINKLY

|-
| {{text anchor|TISSUE_STYLE_UNIT}}
| Caste
|
*tissue style unit ID
*shaping
| Sets tissue layer to be the target of TISSUE_STYLE token specified for an entity, works only on entity members. Mostly used with tissues HAIR, BEARD, MOUSTACHE, SIDEBURNS.

|-
| {{text anchor|TL_COLOR_MODIFIER}}
| Caste
|
*COLOR
*freq
*COLOR
*freq etc.
| Creates a list of colors/color patterns, giving each a relative frequency. If the given color or pattern does not exist, the tissue is described as being "transparent".

|-
| {{text anchor|TLCM_GENETIC_MODEL}}
| Caste
|
| The way the color modifier is passed on to offspring. May or may not work right now.{{verify}}

|-
| {{text anchor|TLCM_IMPORTANCE}}
| Caste
|
*number
| Presumably modifies the importance of the tissue layer color modifier, for description purposes.
HOWEVER using this appears to remove all mention of colour from creature descriptions. It does not appear in any default creatures.

|-
| {{text anchor|TLCM_NOUN}}
| Caste
|
*name
*SINGULAR or PLURAL
| Names the tissue layer color modifier, and determines the noun. Also used by [[Utility:Stonesense|Stonesense]] for colouring body parts.

|-
| {{text anchor|TLCM_TIMING}}
| Caste
|
*ROOT
*start change window years
*days
*end change window years
*days
| Determines the point in the creature's life when the color change begins and ends.

|-
| {{text anchor|TL_CONNECTS}}
| Caste
|
| Gives the CONNECTS attribute to selected layers.

|-
| {{text anchor|TL_HEALING_RATE}}
| Caste
|
*value
| Changes the HEALING_RATE of the selected tissue layers.

|-
| {{text anchor|TL_MAJOR_ARTERIES}}
| Caste
|
| Gives the "major arteries" attribute to selected layers. Used to add massive bleeding properties to the throat, made from skin.

|-
| {{text anchor|TL_PAIN_RECEPTORS}}
| Caste
|
*value
| Changes the number of pain receptors for selected tissue layers.

|-
| {{text anchor|TL_RELATIVE_THICKNESS}}
| Caste
|
*value
| Changes the relative thickness for selected tissue layers.

|-
| {{text anchor|TL_VASCULAR}}
| Caste
|
*value
| Sets a new VASCULAR value (which modulates bleeding) for selected tissue layers.

|}

==See Also==
*[[Body detail plan token]]
*[[Body token]]
*[[Material definition token]]
*[[Syndrome]]
*[[Tissue definition token]]
*[[Creature examples]]

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Ice wolf

2026-06-30T06:44:32Z

DPhKraken: I suppose if there's little other D for Dwarf material...

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|fat=12
|skull=1
|skin=hide
|lung=2
|heart=1
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|tripe=1
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'''Ice wolves''' are [[evil]]-aligned versions of the common [[wolf]] who can be found in evil [[tundra]]s and [[glacier]]s. They are almost identical to their non-icy counterparts, save for their coloration and for being 10,000 cm³ larger, coming close to the size of an adult [[dwarf]]. This makes them potentially dangerous to civilians, though an equipped [[military]] squad will make short work of them.
Ice wolves possess a [[pet]] value of 50, but lack the necessary tokens to be [[Animal trainer|trainable]].

Some dwarves [[Preferences|like]] ice wolves for their ''piercing howls''.

[[File:ice_wolf.png|thumb|380px|center|Very cold-hearted. Its howl will chill you to the bone.]]

{{D for Dwarf}}

Ice wolves have a chance to [[pet|adopt]] [[humans]] with no [[knowledge]].


[[Gremlin]]s instead prefer ice wolves for their [[Miasma|''piercing farts'']].

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Ice wolf

2026-06-30T06:37:05Z

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Vermin

2026-06-27T01:29:58Z

DPhKraken: /* Extinct */ Link to version

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[[File:vermin_sprites_preview.png|right]]'''Vermin''' includes small land [[creature]]s such as [[rat]]s, [[bat]]s, and [[lizard]]s, and also the type of [[fish]] which are caught by [[fisherdwarf|fisherdwarves]]. They are below 2 kg (4 lb) in size, much smaller than [[cat]]s. Vermin are hard to see, but can be noted if you are particularly observant, as they will occasionally blink into and out of view on the screen. Unlike other non-vermin creatures, their [[profile]] contains only their species description, unless they are caught or fully [[Animal trainer|tamed]].

The main distinctions between vermin and creatures are that vermin:
# Cannot be engaged in [[combat]] or trigger [[trap]]s, save those specifically made to trap them, though some (such as the [[cave spider]]) can bite and inflict syndromes;
# Do not usually provide [[meat]] or [[bone]]s - exceptions are the [[creepy crawler]], which can be butchered, and the [[purring maggot]], which can be milked;
# Do not breed, but "spawn", spontaneously appearing in their natural environment or [[biome]]. Some types of vermin are inexhaustible and will always be able to spawn, regardless of how many are killed or captured;
# Are sometimes "[[hateable]]", meaning dwarves can have an anti-[[preference]], which gives them a negative [[thought]] when they see the hated vermin.
{{catbox}}
Vermin can be problematic, as many types feed on [[stockpile]]s, thus making it more difficult to keep enough [[food]] and [[alcohol|drink]] to survive. Vermin can be hunted by [[cat]]s and [[peregrine falcon]]s to reduce this problem, though the [[remains]] will still need to be [[Activity zone#Garbage Dump|removed]]. Cats and falcons can be [[pasture]]d at the relevant stockpiles to further reduce the problem.

Some vermin can be captured in [[animal trap]]s, but those with the {{token|VERMIN_NOTRAP|c}} token can only be caught with a "Capture a Live Land Animal" job, while those with the {{token|VERMIN_SOIL|c}} token will be ignored for that job. Once caught, some can be trained as [[pet]]s. A few particular captured vermin can be used to produce [[extract]]s using a glass [[vial]] and the [[animal dissector]] labor. Captured [[purring maggot]]s can also be [[milk]]ed at a farmer's workshop. Vermin don't die of old age at all - if you capture one, it should last forever.

Captured vermin can be assigned to built cages, but not to pastures.

Graphically, the sprites of some flying vermin, such as the [[acorn fly]], [[fly]], [[blood gnat]], [[honey bee]], [[mosquito]] and [[pixie|pixies]], will resemble multiple bugs of that type in a single tile; they can be seen in amounts of one, three, five and nine; depending on how large the swarm is. Dwarves will eat vermin if no other [[food]] source is available, resulting in an unhappy [[thought]]. Most vermin cannot be spawned in the [[object testing arena]], as those are not able to engage in combat anyway.

In [[adventure mode]], you can reveal the location of previously-hidden, nearby vermin by pressing {{Adv menu icon|L}}. Your character can also pick up vermin if they are on the same tile. Attempting to ''eat'' any collected vermin, however, will make a unique message appear: {{DFtext|No. That's disgusting.|2:0}}, unless the character is actually starving. In [[Dwarf fortress mode|fortress mode]], meat products from vermin can be obtained via trading, such as "prepared mosquito brain" or "prepared louse heart".

Vermin can be used as thrown weapons or ammunition, with rather devastating results. A thrown [[Fluffy wambler]] was used to decapitate a [[bronze colossus]], and a [[hamster]] launched from a [[ballista]] matches, if not exceeds, the power of the ballista's steel bolts.

==Reading the Table==
{{v50_creaturecurrent table head}}
|}
The above columns indicate, in order:
*'''Graphic:''' The sprite assigned to the creature; seen only in the [[premium version#Premium_version_.282020.E2.80.93Present.29|premium version]]s.
*'''Tile:''' The symbol assigned to the vermin, how you will see it without a graphic set.
*'''Name:''' The name of the vermin as it shows up in-game.
*'''Playable:''' Whether the vermin is playable in any of the game modes. As of now, no vermin are playable.
*'''Hostile:''' Whether the vermin is hostile to the player. As of now, no vermin are hostile to dwarves.
*'''Food Source:''' If "Yes" then the vermin can be turned into food when processed in a [[fishery]].
*'''Adult Body Size:''' The average size of the vermin when an adult. This can be anywhere from 1 for a [[fly]], to 2,000 for a [[fox squirrel]]. More or less equals the creature's weight in grams.
*'''Pet Value:''' This is the value the vermin can be bought and sold for as a [[pet]], during [[trading]].
*'''Biome:''' Where the vermin can be found.
*'''Features:''' Any special features the vermin possesses, these can include alignment and special properties. The value after 'Eater' indicates the vermin's [[Creature_token#PENETRATEPOWER|container penetration value]].

==Vermin==
{{v50_creaturecurrent table head|class="wikitable sortable"}}
{{v50_creaturecurrent table row|graphic=[[File:acorn_fly_sprite_anim.gif]]|name=Acorn fly|symbol=·|color=6:0:1|food=No|playable=No|hostile=N/A|size=20|value=0|biome=Any pool|note=Savage, no trap, attracted to rot}}
{{v50_creaturecurrent table row|name=Anchovy|symbol=α|color=7:0:1|food=Yes|playable=No|hostile=N/A|size=200|value=0|biome=Temperate oceans|note=No trap}}
{{v50_creaturecurrent table row|name=Anole|symbol=∙|color=2:0:1|food=No|playable=No|hostile=N/A|size=90|value=10|biome=Any tropical forest|note=}}
{{v50_creaturecurrent table row|name=Ant|symbol=∙|color=7:0:0|food=No|playable=No|hostile=N/A|size=1|value=0|biome=Not freezing|note=No trap}}
{{v50_creaturecurrent table row|name=Axolotl|symbol=∙|color=5:0:0|food=No|playable=No|hostile=N/A|size=200|value=10|biome=Tropical saltwater, brackish and freshwater lakes|note=}}
{{v50_creaturecurrent table row|name=Banded knifefish|symbol=α|color=6:0:0|food=Yes|playable=No|hostile=N/A|size=200|value=0|biome=Tropical freshwater lakes and rivers|note=No trap}}
{{v50_creaturecurrent table row|name=Bark scorpion|symbol=∙|color=6:0:1|food=No|playable=No|hostile=N/A|size=3|value=0|biome=Tropical grasslands, savannas, shrublands, coniferous forests and any desert|note=Hateable}}
{{v50_creaturecurrent table row|name=Bat|symbol=∙|color=0:0:1|food=No|playable=No|hostile=N/A|size=100|value=10|biome=Not freezing, subterranean chasms|note=Hateable}}
{{v50_creaturecurrent table row|name=Bat ray|symbol=ò|color=7:0:0|food=Yes|playable=No|hostile=N/A|size=200|value=0|biome=Temperate and tropical oceans|note=No trap}}
{{v50_creaturecurrent table row|name=Beetle|symbol=·|color=4:0:0|food=No|playable=No|hostile=N/A|size=1|value=0|biome=Not freezing|note=No trap, no capture}}
{{v50_creaturecurrent table row|name=Black bullhead|symbol=α|color=6:0:0|food=Yes|playable=No|hostile=N/A|size=200|value=0|biome=Temperate brackish and freshwater lakes|note=No trap}}
{{v50_creaturecurrent table row|graphic=[[File:blood_gnat_sprite_anim.gif]]|name=Blood gnat|symbol=·|color=4:0:1|food=No|playable=No|hostile=N/A|size=1|value=0|biome=Any pool|note=Hateable, no trap, evil, attracted to rot}}
{{v50_creaturecurrent table row|name=Blue jay|symbol=∙|color=1:0:1|food=No|playable=No|hostile=N/A|size=100|value=30|biome=Temperate grasslands, savannas, shrublands, broadleaf and coniferous forests|note=}}
{{v50_creaturecurrent table row|name=Brook lamprey|symbol=~|color=3:0:0|food=Yes|playable=No|hostile=N/A|size=200|value=0|biome=Temperate saltwater, brackish and freshwater lakes, tropical oceans|note=No trap}}
{{v50_creaturecurrent table row|name=Brown bullhead|symbol=α|color=6:0:0|food=Yes|playable=No|hostile=N/A|size=200|value=0|biome=Temperate brackish and freshwater lakes|note=No trap}}
{{v50_creaturecurrent table row|name=Brown recluse spider|symbol=∙|color=6:0:0|food=No|playable=No|hostile=N/A|size=1|value=0|biome=Temperate broadleaf forests|note=Hateable, produces [[web]]}}
{{v50_creaturecurrent table row|name=Bumblebee|symbol=·|color=6:0:1|food=No|playable=No|hostile=N/A|size=1|value=0|biome=Not freezing|note=No trap}}
{{v50_creaturecurrent table row|name=Bushtit|symbol=∙|color=6:0:0|food=No|playable=No|hostile=N/A|size=5|value=30|biome=Any temperate forest|note=}}
{{v50_creaturecurrent table row|name=Cap hopper|symbol=∙|color=2:0:0|food=No|playable=No|hostile=N/A|size=200|value=10|biome=Subterranean water|note=}}
{{v50_creaturecurrent table row|name=Cardinal|symbol=∙|color=4:0:1|food=No|playable=No|hostile=N/A|size=50|value=30|biome=Temperate grasslands, savannas, shrublands, broadleaf and coniferous forests|note=}}
{{v50_creaturecurrent table row|name=Cave fish|symbol=α|color=7:0:1|food=Yes|playable=No|hostile=N/A|size=1000|value=0|biome=Subterranean water|note=No trap}}
{{v50_creaturecurrent table row|name=Cave lobster|symbol=¥|color=7:0:1|food=Yes|playable=No|hostile=N/A|size=600|value=0|biome=Subterranean water|note=}}
{{v50_creaturecurrent table row|name=Cave spider|symbol=∙|color=7:0:0|food=No|playable=No|hostile=N/A|size=50|value=0|biome=Subterranean water and chasm|note=Hateable, produces web}}
{{v50_creaturecurrent table row|name=Cave swallow|symbol=∙|color=0:0:1|food=No|playable=No|hostile=N/A|size=100|value=30|biome=Subterranean chasm|note=}}
{{v50_creaturecurrent table row|name=Chameleon|symbol=∙|color=2:0:1|food=No|playable=No|hostile=N/A|size=150|value=10|biome=Any tropical forest, tropical shrublands and savannas, any desert|note=}}
{{v50_creaturecurrent table row|name=Char|symbol=α|color=0:0:1|food=Yes|playable=No|hostile=N/A|size=200|value=0|biome=Temperate freshwater rivers and lakes|note=No trap}}
{{v50_creaturecurrent table row|name=Chipmunk|symbol=∙|color=6:0:0|food=No|playable=No|hostile=N/A|size=300|value=10|biome=Any temperate forest|note=}}
{{v50_creaturecurrent table row|name=Clown loach|symbol=α|color=6:0:1|food=Yes|playable=No|hostile=N/A|size=200|value=0|biome=Tropical freshwater rivers and lakes|note=No trap}}
{{v50_creaturecurrent table row|name=Clownfish|symbol=α|color=4:0:1|food=Yes|playable=No|hostile=N/A|size=200|value=0|biome=Tropical oceans|note=No trap}}
{{v50_creaturecurrent table row|name=Cockatiel|symbol=∙|color=7:0:1|food=No|playable=No|hostile=N/A|size=90|value=30|biome=Any desert, temperate grasslands|note=}}
{{v50_creaturecurrent table row|name=Creepy crawler|symbol=*|color=6:0:0|food=Yes|playable=No|hostile=N/A|size=1000|value=20|biome=Underground chasm|note=Evil, attracted to rot, butcherable}}
{{v50_creaturecurrent table row|name=Crow|symbol=∙|color=0:0:1|food=No|playable=No|hostile=N/A|size=500|value=10|biome=Temperate forests, grasslands, savannas, shrublands and wetlands, taiga|note=}}
{{v50_creaturecurrent table row|name=Cuttlefish|symbol=♂|color=6:0:0|food=Yes|playable=No|hostile=N/A|size=1000|value=10|biome=Any ocean|note=}}
{{v50_creaturecurrent table row|name=Damselfly|symbol=∙|color=3:0:1|food=No|playable=No|hostile=N/A|size=1|value=0|biome=Any pool|note=No trap}}
{{v50_creaturecurrent table row|name=Demon rat|symbol=∙|color=4:0:0|food=No|playable=No|hostile=N/A|size=300|value=20|biome=Not freezing|note=Evil, eater 3}}
{{v50_creaturecurrent table row|name=Dragonfly|symbol=∙|color=3:0:1|food=No|playable=No|hostile=N/A|size=1|value=0|biome=Any pool|note=No trap}}
{{v50_creaturecurrent table row|name=Fairy|symbol=∙|color=6:0:1|food=No|playable=No|hostile=N/A|size=100|value=10|biome=All except pools, rivers, and underground|note=No trap, good, [[fanciful]]}}
{{v50_creaturecurrent table row|name=Fire snake|symbol=∙|color=6:0:1|food=No|playable=No|hostile=N/A|size=1000|value=10|biome=Subterranean lava|note=Hateable}}
{{v50_creaturecurrent table row|name=Firefly|symbol=∙|color=2:0:1|food=No|playable=No|hostile=N/A|size=1|value=0|biome=Not freezing|note=No trap}}
{{v50_creaturecurrent table row|name=Flounder|symbol=α|color=6:0:0|food=Yes|playable=No|hostile=N/A|size=200|value=0|biome=Temperate oceans|note=No trap}}
{{v50_creaturecurrent table row|name=Fluffy wambler|symbol=∙|color=7:0:1|food=No|playable=No|hostile=N/A|size=2000|value=20|biome=Any land|note=Good, eater 1}}
{{v50_creaturecurrent table row|graphic=[[File:fly_sprite_anim.gif]]|name=Fly|symbol=·|color=0:0:1|food=No|playable=No|hostile=N/A|size=1|value=0|biome=Not freezing, any pool|note=Hateable, no trap, attracted to rot}}
{{v50_creaturecurrent table row|name=Flying squirrel|symbol=∙|color=6:0:0|food=No|playable=No|hostile=N/A|size=200|value=10|biome=Any temperate forest|note=}}
{{v50_creaturecurrent table row|name=Fox squirrel|symbol=∙|color=6:0:0|food=No|playable=No|hostile=N/A|size=2000|value=100|biome=Any temperate forest|note=Savage}}
{{v50_creaturecurrent table row|name=Glasseye|symbol=α|color=4:0:1|food=Yes|playable=No|hostile=N/A|size=200|value=0|biome=Tropical oceans|note=No trap}}
{{v50_creaturecurrent table row|name=Grackle|symbol=∙|color=0:0:1|food=No|playable=No|hostile=N/A|size=120|value=30|biome=Temperate grasslands and savannas|note=}}
{{v50_creaturecurrent table row|name=Grasshopper|symbol=·|color=2:0:1|food=No|playable=No|hostile=N/A|size=1|value=0|biome=Not freezing|note=No trap}}
{{v50_creaturecurrent table row|name=Gray squirrel|symbol=∙|color=7:0:0|food=No|playable=No|hostile=N/A|size=300|value=10|biome=Any temperate forest|note=}}
{{v50_creaturecurrent table row|name=Green tree frog|symbol=∙|color=2:0:1|food=No|playable=No|hostile=N/A|size=100|value=10|biome=Temperate freshwater lakes, pools, swamps and marshes|note=}}
{{v50_creaturecurrent table row|name=Guppy|symbol=α|color=1:0:1|food=Yes|playable=No|hostile=N/A|size=200|value=0|biome=Tropical brackish, saltwater and freshwater lakes and rivers|note=No trap}}
{{v50_creaturecurrent table row|name=Hagfish|symbol=~|color=6:0:0|food=Yes|playable=No|hostile=N/A|size=200|value=0|biome=Arctic and temperate oceans|note=No trap}}
{{v50_creaturecurrent table row|name=Hake|symbol=α|color=7:0:1|food=Yes|playable=No|hostile=N/A|size=200|value=0|biome=Arctic and temperate oceans|note=No trap}}
{{v50_creaturecurrent table row|name=Hamster|symbol=∙|color=7:0:0|food=No|playable=No|hostile=N/A|size=150|value=10|biome=Not freezing|note=Hateable, eater 2}}
{{v50_creaturecurrent table row|name=Hedgehog|symbol=∙|color=6:0:0|food=No|playable=No|hostile=N/A|size=800|value=10|biome=Temperate shrublands and savannas|note=}}
{{v50_creaturecurrent table row|name=Herring|symbol=α|color=3:0:1|food=Yes|playable=No|hostile=N/A|size=200|value=0|biome=Arctic and temperate oceans|note=No trap}}
{{v50_creaturecurrent table row|graphic=[[File:honey_bee_sprite_anim.gif]]|name=Honey bee|symbol=·|color=6:0:1|food=No|playable=No|hostile=N/A|size=1|value=1|biome=Not freezing|note=Usable for [[beekeeping industry]], no trap}}
{{v50_creaturecurrent table row|name=Jumping spider|symbol=·|color=0:0:1|food=No|playable=No|hostile=N/A|size=1|value=0|biome=Not freezing|note=Hateable}}
{{v50_creaturecurrent table row|name=Knuckle worm|symbol=~|color=0:0:1|food=No|playable=No|hostile=N/A|size=1000|value=100|biome=Not freezing|note=Evil}}
{{v50_creaturecurrent table row|name=Large roach|symbol=∙|color=6:0:0|food=No|playable=No|hostile=N/A|size=1|value=5|biome=Not freezing|note=Hateable, eater 2, no trap}}
{{v50_creaturecurrent table row|name=Leech|symbol=~|color=0:0:1|food=No|playable=No|hostile=N/A|size=100|value=10|biome=Any lake and pool|note=Hateable, no trap, no capture}}
{{v50_creaturecurrent table row|name=Leopard gecko|symbol=∙|color=6:0:1|food=No|playable=No|hostile=N/A|size=50|value=10|biome=Any desert|note=}}
{{v50_creaturecurrent table row|name=Lion tamarin|symbol=∙|color=6:0:1|food=No|playable=No|hostile=N/A|size=620|value=10|biome=Tropical moist broadleaf forests|note=}}
{{v50_creaturecurrent table row|name=Lizard|symbol=∙|color=6:0:0|food=No|playable=No|hostile=N/A|size=200|value=10|biome=Not freezing|note=Hateable, eater 1}}
{{v50_creaturecurrent table row|name=Lorikeet|symbol=∙|color=4:0:1|food=No|playable=No|hostile=N/A|size=200|value=30|biome=Tropical moist broadleaf forests, mangrove swamps|note=}}
{{v50_creaturecurrent table row|name=Louse|symbol=·|color=6:0:0|food=No|playable=No|hostile=N/A|size=1|value=0|biome=Not freezing|note=No trap, no capture}}
{{v50_creaturecurrent table row|name=Lungfish|symbol=α|color=6:0:0|food=Yes|playable=No|hostile=N/A|size=200|value=0|biome=Tropical brackish, saltwater and freshwater lakes, rivers and pools|note=No trap}}
{{v50_creaturecurrent table row|name=Mackerel|symbol=α|color=7:0:0|food=Yes|playable=No|hostile=N/A|size=200|value=0|biome=Arctic and temperate oceans|note=No trap}}
{{v50_creaturecurrent table row|name=Magpie|symbol=∙|color=0:0:1|food=No|playable=No|hostile=N/A|size=200|value=30|biome=Temperate grasslands, savannas and shrublands|note=}}
{{v50_creaturecurrent table row|name=Mantis|symbol=·|color=2:0:1|food=No|playable=No|hostile=N/A|size=1|value=0|biome=Not freezing|note=No trap}}
{{v50_creaturecurrent table row|name=Masked lovebird|symbol=∙|color=2:0:1|food=No|playable=No|hostile=N/A|size=90|value=30|biome=Any tropical forest|note=}}
{{v50_creaturecurrent table row|name=Moghopper|symbol=∙|color=6:0:0|food=No|playable=No|hostile=N/A|size=300|value=20|biome=Any pool|note=Savage, only usable creature for [[fish dissector]]s}}
{{v50_creaturecurrent table row|name=Monarch butterfly|symbol=∙|color=4:0:1|food=No|playable=No|hostile=N/A|size=1|value=0|biome=Not freezing|note=No trap}}
{{v50_creaturecurrent table row|name=Moon snail|symbol=∙|color=4:0:1|food=No|playable=No|hostile=N/A|size=200|value=10|biome=Temperate oceans|note=Hateable, no trap, no capture}}
{{v50_creaturecurrent table row|graphic=[[File:mosquito_sprite_anim.gif]]|name=Mosquito|symbol=·|color=0:0:1|food=No|playable=No|hostile=N/A|size=1|value=0|biome=Not freezing, any pool|note=Hateable, no trap}}
{{v50_creaturecurrent table row|name=Moth|symbol=∙|color=6:0:0|food=No|playable=No|hostile=N/A|size=1|value=0|biome=Not freezing|note=No trap}}
{{v50_creaturecurrent table row|name=Mussel|symbol=m|color=7:0:1|food=Yes|playable=No|hostile=N/A|size=200|value=10|biome=Any ocean, lake and river|note=Hateable, shell source}}
{{v50_creaturecurrent table row|name=Nautilus|symbol=♂|color=4:0:1|food=Yes|playable=No|hostile=N/A|size=500|value=10|biome=Any ocean|note=shell source}}
{{v50_creaturecurrent table row|name=Olm|symbol=∙|color=7:0:1|food=No|playable=No|hostile=N/A|size=200|value=10|biome=Subterranean water|note=}}
{{v50_creaturecurrent table row|name=Oriole|symbol=∙|color=6:0:1|food=No|playable=No|hostile=N/A|size=40|value=30|biome=Temperate broadleaf forests|note=}}
{{v50_creaturecurrent table row|name=Oyster|symbol=o|color=7:0:1|food=Yes|playable=No|hostile=N/A|size=200|value=10|biome=Any ocean|note=Hateable, shell source}}
{{v50_creaturecurrent table row|name=Parakeet|symbol=∙|color=2:0:1|food=No|playable=No|hostile=N/A|size=120|value=30|biome=Tropical grasslands, savannas, shrublands and forests|note=}}
{{v50_creaturecurrent table row|name=Peach-faced lovebird|symbol=∙|color=2:0:1|food=No|playable=No|hostile=N/A|size=60|value=30|biome=Temperate grasslands, savannas, shrublands and broadleaf forests|note=}}
{{v50_creaturecurrent table row|name=Perch|symbol=α|color=7:0:1|food=Yes|playable=No|hostile=N/A|size=200|value=0|biome=Temperate freshwater rivers and lakes|note=No trap}}
{{v50_creaturecurrent table row|name=Phantom spider|symbol=∙|color=7:0:1|food=No|playable=No|hostile=N/A|size=500|value=0|biome=Temperate and tropical forests|note=Evil, produces web}}
{{v50_creaturecurrent table row|graphic=[[File:pixie_sprite_anim.gif]]|name=Pixie|symbol=·|color=3:0:1|food=No|playable=No|hostile=N/A|size=1|value=10|biome=All except pools, rivers, and underground|note=No trap, good, [[fanciful]]}}
{{v50_creaturecurrent table row|name=Pond turtle|symbol=☼|color=2:0:0|food=Yes|playable=No|hostile=N/A|size=500|value=10|biome=Any pool|note=shell source}}
{{v50_creaturecurrent table row|name=Purring maggot|symbol={|color=7:0:1|food=No|playable=No|hostile=N/A|size=1000|value=10|biome=Underground chasm|note=Hateable, produces [[milk]]}}
{{v50_creaturecurrent table row|name=Rainbow trout|symbol=α|color=2:0:1|food=Yes|playable=No|hostile=N/A|size=200|value=0|biome=Temperate freshwater rivers and lakes|note=No trap}}
{{v50_creaturecurrent table row|name=Rat|symbol=∙|color=0:0:1|food=No|playable=No|hostile=N/A|size=300|value=10|biome=Not freezing|note=Hateable, eater 2}}
{{v50_creaturecurrent table row|name=Red squirrel|symbol=∙|color=6:0:0|food=No|playable=No|hostile=N/A|size=300|value=10|biome=Any temperate forest|note=}}
{{v50_creaturecurrent table row|graphic=[[File:red-winged_blackbird_sprite.png]]|name=Red-winged blackbird|symbol=∙|color=0:0:1|food=No|playable=No|hostile=N/A|size=50|value=30|biome=Temperate salwater and freshwater marshes|note=}}
{{v50_creaturecurrent table row|name=Sailfin molly|symbol=α|color=2:0:0|food=Yes|playable=No|hostile=N/A|size=200|value=0|biome=Temperate brackish, saltwater and freshwater lakes, rivers and pools|note=No trap}}
{{v50_creaturecurrent table row|name=Salmon|symbol=α|color=4:0:1|food=Yes|playable=No|hostile=N/A|size=200|value=0|biome=Temperate brackish, saltwater and freshwater lakes, temperate oceans|note=No trap}}
{{v50_creaturecurrent table row|name=Sea nettle jellyfish|symbol=Ω|color=6:0:0|food=Yes|playable=No|hostile=N/A|size=200|value=10|biome=Temperate oceans|note=No trap}}
{{v50_creaturecurrent table row|name=Seahorse|symbol=α|color=2:0:0|food=Yes|playable=No|hostile=N/A|size=200|value=0|biome=Temperate and tropical oceans|note=No trap}}
{{v50_creaturecurrent table row|name=Shad|symbol=α|color=3:0:1|food=Yes|playable=No|hostile=N/A|size=200|value=0|biome=Temperate brackish, saltwater and freshwater lakes, temperate and arctic oceans|note=No trap}}
{{v50_creaturecurrent table row|name=Skink|symbol=∙|color=7:0:0|food=No|playable=No|hostile=N/A|size=500|value=10|biome=Any desert, temperate and tropical|note=}}
{{v50_creaturecurrent table row|name=Slug|symbol=~|color=6:0:0|food=No|playable=No|hostile=N/A|size=1|value=10|biome=Not freezing|note=Hateable, no trap, no capture}}
{{v50_creaturecurrent table row|name=Snail|symbol=∙|color=7:0:0|food=No|playable=No|hostile=N/A|size=1|value=10|biome=Not freezing|note=Hateable, no trap, no capture}}
{{v50_creaturecurrent table row|name=Sole|symbol=α|color=6:0:0|food=Yes|playable=No|hostile=N/A|size=200|value=0|biome=Temperate and arctic oceans|note=No trap}}
{{v50_creaturecurrent table row|name=Sparrow|symbol=∙|color=6:0:0|food=No|playable=No|hostile=N/A|size=30|value=30|biome=Any grassland, savanna, shrubland, temperate and tropical forest, desert and wetland|note=}}
{{v50_creaturecurrent table row|name=Spotted ratfish|symbol=α|color=6:0:0|food=Yes|playable=No|hostile=N/A|size=200|value=0|biome=Temperate oceans|note=No trap}}
{{v50_creaturecurrent table row|name=Squid|symbol=♂|color=7:0:1|food=Yes|playable=No|hostile=N/A|size=200|value=10|biome=Any ocean|note=}}
{{v50_creaturecurrent table row|name=Steelhead trout|symbol=α|color=3:0:1|food=Yes|playable=No|hostile=N/A|size=200|value=0|biome=Temperate brackish, saltwater and freshwater lakes, temperate and arctic oceans|note=No trap}}
{{v50_creaturecurrent table row|name=Termite|symbol=·|color=7:0:1|food=No|playable=No|hostile=N/A|size=1|value=0|biome=Not freezing|note=No trap}}
{{v50_creaturecurrent table row|name=Thornback ray|symbol=ò|color=6:0:0|food=Yes|playable=No|hostile=N/A|size=200|value=0|biome=Temperate and tropical oceans|note=No trap}}
{{v50_creaturecurrent table row|name=Thrips|symbol=·|color=7:0:1|food=No|playable=No|hostile=N/A|size=1|value=0|biome=Not freezing|note=No trap, no capture}}
{{v50_creaturecurrent table row|name=Tick|symbol=·|color=0:0:1|food=No|playable=No|hostile=N/A|size=1|value=0|biome=Not freezing|note=No trap, no capture}}
{{v50_creaturecurrent table row|name=Toad|symbol=∙|color=2:0:0|food=No|playable=No|hostile=N/A|size=200|value=10|biome=Any pool|note=Hateable}}
{{v50_creaturecurrent table row|name=Two-legged rhino lizard|symbol=∙|color=7:0:0|food=No|playable=No|hostile=N/A|size=1000|value=20|biome=Any land|note=Savage, eater 2}}
{{v50_creaturecurrent table row|name=White-spotted puffer|symbol=α|color=7:0:0|food=Yes|playable=No|hostile=N/A|size=200|value=0|biome=Tropical oceans|note=No trap}}
{{v50_creaturecurrent table row|name=Worm|symbol=~|color=7:0:0|food=No|playable=No|hostile=N/A|size=100|value=10|biome=Any temperate, any tropical, taiga|note=Hateable, no trap, no capture}}
{{v50_creaturecurrent table row|name=Wren|symbol=∙|color=6:0:0|food=No|playable=No|hostile=N/A|size=40|value=30|biome=Any grassland, savanna, shrubland, forest, desert and wetland|note=}}
{{v50_creaturecurrent table row|name=Yellow bullhead|symbol=α|color=6:0:0|food=Yes|playable=No|hostile=N/A|size=200|value=0|biome=Temperate brackish and freshwater lakes|note=No trap}}
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'''Note:''' All vermin with 0 value in the above table don't have the [PET_VALUE:#] tag.

===Extinct===
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The following vermin were added in version [[Release information/53.15|53.15]]. They can appear in [[savage]] biomes, though the appearance of [[extinct]] creatures depends on the world generation settings.
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{{v50_creaturecurrent table row|name=Anomalocaris|symbol=·|color=6:0:1|food=Yes|playable=No|hostile=N/A|size=450|value=20|biome=Tropical oceans, Tropical Saltwater Pool|note=Cambrian}}
{{v50_creaturecurrent table row|name=Archaeopteryx|symbol=∙|color=7:0:0|playable=No|food=No|hostile=N/A|size=750|value=20|biome=Tropical dry broadleaf forest, tropical shrubland|note=Jurassic}}
{{v50_creaturecurrent table row|name=Drepanopterus|symbol=∙|color=2:0:0|playable=No|food=Yes|hostile=N/A|size=500|value=20|biome=temperate brackish lake, temperate freshwater lake, temperate freshwater river, temperate brackish river|note=Devonian}}
{{v50_creaturecurrent table row|name=Haikouichthys|symbol=~|color=1:0:1|food=Yes|playable=No|hostile=N/A|size=13|value=20|biome=Tropical oceans, Tropical Saltwater Pool|note=Cambrian}}
{{v50_creaturecurrent table row|name=Hallucigenia|symbol=·|color=6:0:1|food=Yes|playable=No|hostile=N/A|size=1|value=20|biome=Tropical oceans, Tropical Saltwater Pool|note=Cambrian}}
{{v50_creaturecurrent table row|name=Jeholopterus|symbol=∙|color=0:0:1|playable=No|food=No|hostile=N/A|size=45|value=20|biome=Tropical moist broadleaf forest|note=Jurassic}}
{{v50_creaturecurrent table row|name=Linhenykus|symbol=∙|color=6:0:0|playable=No|food=No|hostile=N/A|size=500|value=20|biome=Tropical shrubland, badland desert, rock desert|note=Cretaceous}}
{{v50_creaturecurrent table row|name=Meganeura|symbol=·|color=2:0:1|food=No|playable=No|hostile=N/A|size=125|value=20|biome=temperate freshwater swamp, temperate freshwater marsh, temperate freshwater river, temperate broadleaf forest|note=Carboniferous, No trap}}
{{v50_creaturecurrent table row|name=Mimetaster|symbol=∙|color=2:0:0|playable=No|food=Yes|hostile=N/A|size=50|value=20|biome=temperate ocean, temperate saltwater pool|note=Devonian}}
{{v50_creaturecurrent table row|name=Oestocephalus|symbol=·|color=6:0:1|food=No|playable=No|hostile=N/A|size=300|value=20|biome=Temperate freshwater Swamp, Marsh, Lake and River|note=Carboniferous}}
{{v50_creaturecurrent table row|name=Opabinia|symbol=·|color=4:0:1|food=Yes|playable=No|hostile=N/A|size=30|value=20|biome=Tropical oceans, Tropical Saltwater Pool|note=Cambrian}}
{{v50_creaturecurrent table row|name=Ostenocaris|symbol=∙|color=7:0:1|playable=No|food=Yes|hostile=N/A|size=1|value=50|biome=Temperate Ocean, Temperate saltwater pool|note=Jurassic}}
{{v50_creaturecurrent table row|name=Procompsognathus|symbol=∙|color=2:0:0|playable=No|food=No|hostile=N/A|size=1,300|value=20|biome=Temperate broadleaf forest, temperate shrubland, badland desert|note=Triassic}}
{{v50_creaturecurrent table row|name=Pterodactylus|symbol=∙|color=6:0:0|playable=No|food=No|hostile=N/A|size=1250|value=20|biome=Tropical dry broadleaf forest|note=Jurassic}}
{{v50_creaturecurrent table row|name=Sharovipteryx|symbol=∙|color=2:0:1|playable=No|food=No|hostile=N/A|size=6|value=20|biome=Temperate broadleaf forest, temperate shrubland|note=Triassic}}
{{v50_creaturecurrent table row|name=Tullimonstrum|symbol=~|color=4:0:1|food=No|playable=No|hostile=N/A|size=160|value=20|biome=Temperate Ocean, temperate brackish pool, temperate saltwater pool, temperate brackish river|note=Carboniferous}}
{{v50_creaturecurrent table row|name=Wiwaxia|symbol=·|color=4:0:1|food=Yes|playable=No|hostile=N/A|size=3|value=20|biome=Tropical oceans, Tropical Saltwater Pool|note=Cambrian}}
|}

{{Translation
| dwarven = bomik
| elvish = nirica
| goblin = otod
| human = strilu
}}

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Aegirocassis

2026-06-27T01:14:44Z

DPhKraken: Correction on extravision, has eyes but are redundant.

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'''Aegirocassis''' are [[extinct]] [[aquatic]] arthropods from the [[wikipedia:Ordovician|Ordovician]] era. They can be found in temperate and tropical oceans. Unlike standard fish, they cannot be butchered, cannot feel pain when attacked, cannot be stunned, feel no fear and never sleep. They have [[Creature_token#EXTRAVISION|extravision]], allowing them to see even if they lose their eyes.

Some dwarves [[Preferences|like]] like aegirocassis for their ''bold head sclerites''.
 
[[File:20191205 Aegirocassis benmoulai Aegirocassis benmoulae.png|thumb|360px|center|Artist recreation of an aegirocassis. ''Art by Junnn11'']]

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Syndrome examples

2026-06-21T00:40:04Z

DPhKraken: /* Synchronizing Adventure and Fort Mode syndrome timers */

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This page was created to aid those looking to create new [[syndrome]]s. Those familiar with syndrome design (and [[Syndrome#The_anatomy_of_a_syndrome|certain complexities in particular]]) should feel free to add helpful/obscure information to the lists below to help less-experienced members of the community with their syndromes.

The syndromes on this page can be applied through [[Interaction examples|interactions]], as creature actions, curses, blessings, or secrets, or through substances, including injected venoms, contact effects, or ingested foods. Examples on this page should operate the same regardless of application method.

==General Tips==

===Synchronizing Adventure and Fort Mode syndrome timers===
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Fort mode runs 144 times faster than adventure mode - which means that a syndrome that lasts a single tick in Fort Mode will last 144 ticks in Adventure Mode. For short-term syndromes, this will cause very different behaviors between the two modes. In order to ensure that a syndrome operates the same way regardless of mode, add <code>DWF_STRETCH:144</code> to the end of the CE effect tag.

It is not possible to make a syndrome that lasts shorter than 144 ticks in Adventure Mode.

===Making a creature with a syndrome always applied===
Some syndromes have effects that you can't add to a creature's basic RAW. To fix this, you can make a material that applies the syndrome to the creature's [[Syndrome#SYN_AFFECTED_CREATURE|own species]] [[Syndrome#SYN_CONTACT|on contact]], and make it continuously [[Creature token#SECRETION|secreted]] by one of the creature's internal organs. See [[Syndrome_examples#Creatures_that_behave_differently_underground|below]] for an example of this concept in action.

Note that syndromes applied in this manner will only be added to creatures when they are loaded in fortress or adventure mode, as secretions aren't currently simulated in world generation or the like.

Of course, you can also add a <code>[[Syndrome#Creature effect tokens|PROB]]</code> value to the syndrome's various effects to determine how likely they are to actually manifest, which could be useful if you want a particular type of creature to only occasionally appear with a special ability/curse/disease/immunity/etc (as an alternative to messing around with extra [[Creature_token#CASTE|castes]]). Make sure to add at least one guaranteed permanent syndrome effect - such as one of the dummy examples shown [[Interaction_examples#Syndromes with no effect|here]], but with no <code>END</code> specified - to prevent the syndrome from being reapplied undesirably (which can occur when the secreted coating is removed and replaced by a new secretion), as this would give creatures who initially failed the <code>PROB</code> check another chance to pass it. Having a permanent effect in place prevents this from happening as reinfection cannot occur before a syndrome has ended fully.

Expanding on the above, this one-off opportunity to develop a certain syndrome effect can be turned into a recurring event by adding an <code>END</code> duration of your choice to the guaranteed dummy effect (henceforth referred to as the 'inhibitor'). For example, you might want to give a particular creature species the opportunity to evolve into another creature once every [[time|month]], with a 1/100 chance of the [[Syndrome#CE_BODY_TRANSFORMATION|transformation]] manifesting: this could be implemented as a secretion-applied syndrome with a <code>PROB:1</code> transformation effect and an <code>END:33600</code> inhibitor.

This can also be used to impose delays between the active phase of particular syndrome effects. For example, say you want to give your creature an intermittently activating regenerative ability: you could give it a secretion-derived syndrome providing the requisite [[Syndrome#Healing_Effects|healing effects]] with their <code>END</code> set to X, alongside an 'inhibitor' effect with an <code>END</code> set to X+Y, where Y is the duration of the delay.

==Stat-modifying syndromes==
Syndromes that affect the creature's stats, particularly in combat.

===Size Modification===
<code>[[Syndrome#CE_BODY_APPEARANCE_MODIFIER|CE_BODY_APPEARANCE_MODIFIER]]</code> not only changes the way a creature is described on the unit viewing screen - it also changes the combat effectiveness of the creature. The square-cube law is respected, meaning that doubling a creature's length, height, and broadness will make them 8 times as massive - an extreme boost in combat effectiveness. This does not affect the clothing they can wear.

{{gamedata|title=Giant Growth|
[SYNDROME]
[SYN_NAME:giant growth]
[CE_BODY_APPEARANCE_MODIFIER:APPEARANCE_MODIFIER:HEIGHT:200:APPEARANCE_MODIFIER:LENGTH:200:APPEARANCE_MODIFIER:BROADNESS:200:START:0]
}}

Also, you can change the size [[Syndrome#CE_BP_APPEARANCE_MODIFIER|of particular body parts]], with appropriate effects. The following syndrome, for example, will make the creature's punches more powerful (but it will not make their scratches any stronger, because their fingers are still the same size).

{{gamedata|title=Hulk Hands|
[SYNDROME]
[SYN_NAME:freakishly big hands]
[CE_BP_APPEARANCE_MODIFIER:BP:BY_CATEGORY:HAND:APPEARANCE_MODIFIER:HEIGHT:300:APPEARANCE_MODIFIER:LENGTH:300:APPEARANCE_MODIFIER:BROADNESS:300:START:0]
}}

==Counter Trigger examples==
<code>[[Syndrome#Counter_Triggers|CE_COUNTER_TRIGGER]]</code> is a fun token that lets you make syndromes with effects that activate under certain circumstances. You can use these to undo a different syndrome effect, in order to make a syndrome operate differently in different circumstances.
Each counter trigger only affects the tag directly above it.

===More curse-like vampires===
There's no real reason ''not'' to become a vampire in vanilla DF, you don't even really need to drink blood to survive. Let's change that by making a syndrome that weakens you if you don't drink blood, but makes you even stronger than vanilla vampires if you do.

{{gamedata|title=Double-edged vampire curse|
[SYNDROME]
[SYN_NAME:vampire curse]
[CE_PHYS_ATT_CHANGE:STRENGTH:50:0:TOUGHNESS:50:0:AGILITY:50:0:ENDURANCE:50:0:DISEASE_RESISTANCE:50:0:START:0] <-- Weakens the target always
[CE_PHYS_ATT_CHANGE:STRENGTH:800:0:TOUGHNESS:800:0:AGILITY:800:0:ENDURANCE:800:0:DISEASE_RESISTANCE:800:0:START:0] <-- Strengthens the target
[CE:COUNTER_TRIGGER:TIME_SINCE_SUCKED_BOOD:NONE:172799:REQUIRED] <-- Prevents the above strengthening effect from working unless the target has recently sucked blood (vampires become Thirsty at 172800)
}}

===Creatures that behave differently underground===
This is nice if you want to make an above-ground fort mode race, but don't want to actually restrict them to the surface - instead, you can give them a mood penalty for staying underground for too long.
Note that the creature must have the {{token|CAVE_ADAPT|c}} tag in order for the CAVE_ADAPT counter-trigger to work, and you will also need a constant secretion in order to ensure the syndrome is applied (see [[Syndrome_examples#Making_a_creature_with_a_syndrome_always_applied|above]]).

{{gamedata|title=Bad thoughts from spending more than a month underground example (Place this in creature raw)|
[CAVE_ADAPT]
[USE_MATERIAL_TEMPLATE:THOUGHTS:CREATURE_EXTRACT_TEMPLATE]
[SYNDROME]
[SYN_CONTACT]
[SYN_NAME:a lack of sunlight]
[SYN_AFFECTED_CREATURE:MY_CREATURE:ALL]
[CE_FEEL_EMOTION:EMOTION:GLUMNESS:SEV:50:START:0]
[CE:COUNTER_TRIGGER:CAVE_ADAPT:33600:NONE:REQUIRED]
[SECRETION:LOCAL_CREATURE_MAT:THOUGHTS:LIQUID:BY_CATEGORY:BRAIN:ALL:CONTINUOUS]
}}
You can do other things with this, like make a creature that gets extra abilities underground, or is stronger aboveground (by making the syndrome increase their strength normally, but reduce it using the counter-trigger, similar to the vampire example).

{{Category|Modding}}
{{Category|Modding_Examples}}

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[[File:attributes_v50_preview.png|thumb|262px|right|Attributes of a stoneworker.]]A creature has numerous '''attributes''' which affect its performance at various tasks, split into physical factors associated with the body, and mental factors associated with the [[soul]].

Body Attributes can be viewed in the creature's Health -> Description screen. Soul Attributes can be viewed in the creature's Personality -> Traits screen. Positive attributes are shown in green, negative attributes are shown in red, and average attributes are omitted. Said attributes may be listed as follows (may have to be highlighted to be seen): 
{{DFtext|He is slow to tire and agile, |2:0}}{{DFtext|but he is quite susceptible to disease.|4:0}}

On the Overview screen, a creature's top six most varied attributes and [[personality_trait|personality traits]] are summarized in order of how much they differ from the average dwarf. The adjectives used are more generalized than those used in the Traits screen, and are limited to two per trait (Creative and Not creative, Strong and Weak, etc.). For example, "a boundless creative imagination" is merely listed as "Creative", while "unfathomably weak" is just listed as "Weak". Since some of the adjectives used in the Overview summary overlap with some used in the Traits screen, this can be somewhat misleading. However, average and one tier above/below average traits will never be listed in the Overview screen, so only a "very weak" or below dwarf will be listed as "Weak" in the overview.

Attributes are associated with skills, so that shield use will raise endurance as an attribute, but not attributes like memory. Different attributes raised by one skill may not be raised by the same amount. Attribute and skill gain and rust rates are [[creature token]]s that are moddable in raws as such.

== Descriptions ==
In-game attribute descriptions are calculated based on the difference from the [[creature|species]] average. [[Human]]s' median attribute values are always 1000 - thus, if the median [[dwarf]] has higher than 1000 for an attribute, that means the median dwarf is better than the median human for that attribute (however, individual humans may be better than individual dwarves, due to intraspecies variation). Likewise, if the median dwarf has below 1000 for an attribute, then the median human bests the median dwarf in that contest.

The tiers at which descriptions change are 250, 500, 750, and 1000 above or below the species median. Interestingly, if a species has an attribute with a median below 1000, such as dwarves' agility, the lowest tier will never be displayed.

These descriptions are not used in [[adventurer mode]].

== Body attributes ==
The attribute values given in the tables correspond to default racial averages for dwarves only. Modded dwarves or any other creature will report the same phrases, but the underlying numbers may be very different, as they are calculated based on the species average. In almost every case, a higher attribute value is better, as opposed to [[personality trait]]s where one may prefer higher or lower depending on the situation.

=== Strength ===
Alters the damage done in melee (increases velocity of weapon swings), increases muscle mass (a thicker muscle layer also resists damage more, and larger size makes one stronger in general), and increases how much a creature can carry. Higher strength also increases the speed of fast [[gait]]s in most creatures, including running, soaring, galloping, and fast swimming, however, proportionate gains in muscle mass can eventually reduce speed enough to overtake the gains (more so with larger creatures than dwarves). The dwarven median of 1250 is higher than average.

{| class=wikitable style="width:400px;"
! Value
! Description
|-
| 2250–5000 || unbelievably strong
|-
| 2000–2249 || mighty
|-
| 1750–1999 || very strong
|-
| 1500–1749 || strong
|-
| 1001–1499 || (no description)
|-
| 751–1000 || weak
|-
| 501–750 || very weak
|-
| 251–500 || unquestionably weak
|-
| 0–250 || unfathomably weak
|}

===Agility===
This attribute affects the speed of a creature's fast-moving [[gait]]s in the same way as strength — a creature with maximum agility and strength can run faster than a creature with minimum agility and strength. The median dwarf agility of 900 is slightly below average.

Because dwarves in general have below-average agility, and because the descriptions are based on the difference from the racial average, no dwarves will ever display as "abysmally clumsy". Dwarves with an Agility of 0 or less will still move, just more and more slowly.

{| class=wikitable style="width:400px;"
! Value
! Description
|-
| 1900–5000 || amazingly agile
|-
| 1650–1899 || extremely agile
|-
| 1400–1649 || very agile
|-
| 1150–1399 || agile
|-
| 651–1149 || (no description)
|-
| 401–650 || clumsy
|-
| 151–400 || quite clumsy
|-
| 0–150 || totally clumsy
|-
| (never displayed) || abysmally clumsy
|}

===Toughness===
Increases time required to suffocate. The dwarf median of 1250 is higher than average.

{| class=wikitable style="width:400px;"
! Value
! Description
|-
| 2250–5000 || basically unbreakable
|-
| 2000–2249 || incredibly tough
|-
| 1750–1999 || quite durable
|-
| 1500–1749 || tough
|-
| 1001–1499 || (no description)
|-
| 751–1000 || flimsy
|-
| 501–750 || very flimsy
|-
| 251–500 || remarkably flimsy
|-
| 0–250 || shockingly fragile
|}

===Endurance===
Reduces the rate at which creatures become exhausted, increases the rate of tiredness recovery, increases time required to suffocate, and, if both this and WILLPOWER are effectively above 1750, prevents falling over from exhaustion. The dwarven median endurance of 1000 is exactly the human average.

{| class=wikitable style="width:400px;"
! Value
! Description
|-
| 2000–5000 || absolutely inexhaustible
|-
| 1750–1999 || indefatigable
|-
| 1500–1749 || very slow to tire
|-
| 1250–1499 || slow to tire
|-
| 751–1249 || (no description)
|-
| 501–750 || quick to tire
|-
| 251–500 || very quick to tire
|-
| 1–250 || extremely quick to tire
|-
| 0 || truly quick to tire
|}

===Recuperation===
Increases the rate of wound healing and the speed at which fat is lost. The dwarven median recuperation of 1000 is exactly the human average.

{| class=wikitable style="width:400px;"
! Value
! Description
|-
| 2000–5000 || possessed of amazing recuperative powers
|-
| 1750–1999 || incredibly quick to heal
|-
| 1500–1749 || quite quick to heal
|-
| 1250–1499 || quick to heal
|-
| 751–1249 || (no description)
|-
| 501–750 || slow to heal
|-
| 251–500 || very slow to heal
|-
| 1–250 || really slow to heal
|-
| 0 || shockingly slow to heal
|}

===Disease resistance===
Reduces the effects of resistable syndromes, increases the speed at which one gains a resistance to resistable syndromes, and reduces the chance of wounds being infected. The dwarven median disease resistance of 1000 is exactly the human average. Having a disease resistance of 5000 does not grant immunities.

{| class=wikitable style="width:400px;"
! Value
! Description
|-
| 2000–5000 || virtually never sick
|-
| 1750–1999 || almost never sick
|-
| 1500–1749 || very rarely sick
|-
| 1250–1499 || rarely sick
|-
| 751–1249 || (no description)
|-
| 501–750 || susceptible to disease
|-
| 251–500 || quite susceptible to disease
|-
| 1–250 || really susceptible to disease
|-
| 0 || stunningly susceptible to disease
|}

== Skills by body attribute ==
{{SkillsByBodyAttribute}}

==Soul attributes==
The attribute values given in the tables correspond to default racial averages for dwarves only. Modded dwarves or any other creature will report the same phrases, but the underlying numbers may be very different. In almost every case, a higher attribute value is better, as opposed to [[personality trait]]s where one may prefer higher or lower depending on the situation.

From [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=60554.msg1413312#msg1413312 this post by Toady One]:
<blockquote>
With respect to skills: most of these attributes only affect duration, when that is the only available skill effect to begin with, but they are factored into outcomes when it applies.
</blockquote>

At the [[#Skills By Soul Attribute|bottom]] is a list of which attributes affect which skills. [[:Image:DFmental.PNG|This]] pair of charts provides an easier-to-read summary of the soul attributes that are useful for doctors and soldiers.

===Analytical ability===
The dwarven median analytical ability of 1250 is slightly above average.

{| class=wikitable style="width:400px;"
! Value
! Description
|-
| 2250–5000 || awesome intellectual powers
|-
| 2000–2249 || great analytical abilities
|-
| 1750–1999 || a sharp intellect
|-
| 1500–1749 || a good intellect
|-
| 1001–1499 || (no description)
|-
| 751–1000 || poor analytical abilities
|-
| 501–750 || very bad analytical abilities
|-
| 251–500 || a lousy intellect
|-
| 0–250 || a stunning lack of analytical ability
|}

===Focus===
The dwarven median focus of 1500 is above average.

{| class=wikitable style="width:400px;"
! Value
! Description

|-
| 2500–5000 || unbreakable focus
|-
| 2250–2499 || a great ability to focus
|-
| 2000–2249 || very good focus
|-
| 1750–1999 || the ability to focus
|-
| 1251–1749 || (no description)
|-
| 1001–1250 || poor focus
|-
| 751–1000 || quite poor focus
|-
| 501–750 || really poor focus
|-
| 0–500 || the absolute inability to focus
|}

===Willpower===
If both this and ENDURANCE are effectively above 1750, prevents falling over from exhaustion. The dwarven median willpower of 1000 is exactly the human average.

{| class=wikitable style="width:400px;"
! Value
! Description
|-
| 2000–5000 || an unbreakable will
|-
| 1750–1999 || an iron will
|-
| 1500–1749 || a lot of willpower
|-
| 1250–1499 || willpower
|-
| 751–1249 || (no description)
|-
| 501–750 || little willpower
|-
| 251–500 || a large deficit of willpower
|-
| 1–250 || next to no willpower
|-
| 0 || absolutely no willpower
|}

===Creativity===
The dwarven median creativity of 1250 is slightly above the human average.

{| class=wikitable style="width:400px;"
! Value
! Description
|-
| 2250–5000 || a boundless creative imagination
|-
| 2000–2249 || great creativity
|-
| 1750–1999 || very good creativity
|-
| 1500–1749 || good creativity
|-
| 1001–1499 || (no description)
|-
| 751–1000 || meager creativity
|-
| 501–750 || poor creativity
|-
| 251–500 || lousy creativity
|-
| 0–250 || next to no creative talent
|}

===Intuition===
The dwarven median intuition of 1000 is exactly the human average.

{| class=wikitable style="width:400px;"
! Value
! Description
|-
| 2000–5000 || uncanny intuition
|-
| 1750–1999 || great intuition
|-
| 1500–1749 || very good intuition
|-
| 1250–1499 || good intuition
|-
| 751–1249 || (no description)
|-
| 501–750 || bad intuition
|-
| 251–500 || very bad intuition
|-
| 1–250 || lousy intuition
|-
| 0 || horrible intuition
|}

===Patience===
Some non-skill tasks are affected by Patience; for example, it directly impacts the rate at which a character in [[adventure mode]] will become impatient during a conversation, and thusly determines the length of the discussion.
The dwarven median patience of 1250 is slightly above the human average.
{| class=wikitable style="width:400px;"
! Value
! Description
|-
| 2250–5000 || absolutely boundless patience
|-
| 2000–2249 || a deep well of patience
|-
| 1750–1999 || a great deal of patience
|-
| 1500–1749 || a sum of patience
|-
| 1001–1499 || (no description)
|-
| 751–1000 || a shortage of patience
|-
| 501–750 || little patience
|-
| 251–500 || very little patience
|-
| 0–250 || no patience at all
|}

===Memory===
The dwarven median memory of 1250 is slightly above the human average. For [[Adventure mode]] characters, this affects how many previously-seen [[tile]]s can be remembered.

{| class=wikitable style="width:400px;"
! Value
! Description
|-
| 2250–5000 || an astonishing memory
|-
| 2000–2249 || an amazing memory
|-
| 1750–1999 || a great memory
|-
| 1500–1749 || a good memory
|-
| 1001–1499 || (no description)
|-
| 751–1000 || an iffy memory
|-
| 501–750 || a poor memory
|-
| 251–500 || a really bad memory
|-
| 0–250 || little memory to speak of
|}

===Linguistic ability===
The dwarven median linguistic ability of 1000 is exactly the human average.

{| class=wikitable style="width:400px;"
! Value
! Description
|-
| 2000–5000 || an astonishing ability with languages and words
|-
| 1750–1999 || a great affinity for language
|-
| 1500–1749 || a natural inclination toward language
|-
| 1250–1499 || a way with words
|-
| 751–1249 || (no description)
|-
| 501–750 || a little difficulty with words
|-
| 251–500 || little linguistic ability
|-
| 1–250 || very little linguistic ability
|-
| 0 || difficulty with words and language
|}

===Spatial sense===
The dwarven median spatial sense of 1500 is above the human average.

{| class=wikitable style="width:400px;"
! Value
! Description
|-
| 2500–5000 || a stunning feel for spatial relationships
|-
| 2250–2499 || an amazing spatial sense
|-
| 2000–2249 || a great feel for the surrounding space
|-
| 1750–1999 || a good spatial sense
|-
| 1251–1749 || (no description)
|-
| 1001–1250 || a questionable spatial sense
|-
| 751–1000 || poor spatial senses
|-
| 501–750 || an atrocious spatial sense
|-
| 0–500 || no sense for spatial relationships
|}

===Musicality===
The dwarven median musicality of 1000 is exactly the human average.

{| class=wikitable style="width:400px;"
! Value
! Description
|-
| 2000–5000 || an astonishing knack for music
|-
| 1750–1999 || a great musical sense
|-
| 1500–1749 || a natural ability with music
|-
| 1250–1499 || a feel for music
|-
| 751–1249 || (no description)
|-
| 501–750 || an iffy sense for music
|-
| 251–500 || little natural inclination toward music
|-
| 1–250 || next to no natural musical ability
|-
| 0 || absolutely no feel for music at all
|}

===Kinesthetic sense===
No special effect, but it should be noted that it's the most important skill-governing mental attribute for combat. The dwarven median kinesthetic sense of 1000 is exactly the human average.

{| class=wikitable style="width:400px;"
! Value
! Description
|-
| 2000–5000 || an astounding feel for the position of [his/her] own body
|-
| 1750–1999 || a great kinesthetic sense
|-
| 1500–1749 || a very good sense of the position of [his/her] own body
|-
| 1250–1499 || a good kinesthetic sense
|-
| 751–1249 || (no description)
|-
| 501–750 || a meager kinesthetic sense
|-
| 251–500 || a poor kinesthetic sense
|-
| 1–250 || a very clumsy kinesthetic sense
|-
| 0 || an unbelievably atrocious sense of the position of [his/her] own body
|}

===Empathy===
The dwarven median empathy of 1000 is exactly the human average.

{| class=wikitable style="width:400px;"
! Value
! Description
|-
| 2000–5000 || an absolutely remarkable sense of others' emotions
|-
| 1750–1999 || a great sense of empathy
|-
| 1500–1749 || a very good sense of empathy
|-
| 1250–1499 || an ability to read emotions fairly well
|-
| 751–1249 || (no description)
|-
| 501–750 || poor empathy
|-
| 251–500 || a very bad sense of empathy
|-
| 1–250 || next to no empathy
|-
| 0 || the utter inability to judge others' emotions
|}

===Social awareness===
Along with the leadership skill, determines the max follower count in adventure mode. The dwarven median social awareness of 1000 is exactly the human average.

{| class=wikitable style="width:400px;"
! Value
! Description
|-
| 2000–5000 || a shockingly profound feel for social relationships
|-
| 1750–1999 || a great feel for social relationships
|-
| 1500–1749 || a very good feel for social relationships
|-
| 1250–1499 || a good feel for social relationships
|-
| 751–1249 || (no description)
|-
| 501–750 || a meager ability with social relationships
|-
| 251–500 || a poor ability to manage or understand social relationships
|-
| 1–250 || a lack of understanding of social relationships
|-
| 0 || an absolute inability to understand social relationships
|}

== Skills by soul attribute ==
{{SkillsBySoulAttribute}}

== Skills by associated attributes ==
Skills have both Primary attributes (labeled "A") and Secondary attributes (labeled "B" and "C"). Primary attributes give a bonus for every 100 points, while secondary attributes give a bonus for every 250 points. Dwarven ranges and averages vary; see descriptions above.

{| border="1" cellpadding="2" style="border-spacing: 0; border-width: 1px; border-style: solid; text-align:center;"
|- style="background:#e5e5e5;text-align:left;vertical-align:bottom;"
! style="text-align:center;" | Skill
{{Rotated-heading|[[#Strength|Strength]]}}
{{Rotated-heading|[[#Agility|Agility]]}}
{{Rotated-heading|[[#Toughness|Toughness]]}}
{{Rotated-heading|[[#Endurance|Endurance]]}}
!rowspan="144"|
{{Rotated-heading|[[#Analytical_Ability|Analytical Ability]]}}
{{Rotated-heading|[[#Focus|Focus]]}}
{{Rotated-heading|[[#Willpower|Willpower]]}}
{{Rotated-heading|[[#Creativity|Creativity]]}}
{{Rotated-heading|[[#Intuition|Intuition]]}}
{{Rotated-heading|[[#Patience|Patience]]}}
{{Rotated-heading|[[#Memory|Memory]]}}
{{Rotated-heading|[[#Linguistic_Ability|Linguistic Ability]]}}
{{Rotated-heading|[[#Spatial_Sense|Spatial Sense]]}}
{{Rotated-heading|[[#Musicality|Musicality]]}}
{{Rotated-heading|[[#Kinesthetic_Sense|Kinesthetic Sense]]}}
{{Rotated-heading|[[#Empathy|Empathy]]}}
{{Rotated-heading|[[#Social_Awareness|Social Awareness]]}}
|-style="background:#f5f5f5;"
| [[Miner]] || {{X|A}} || || {{X|B}} || {{X|C}} || || || {{X|C}} || || || || || || {{X|B}} || || {{X|A}} || ||
|-
| [[Wood cutter]] || {{X|A}} || {{X|B}} || || {{X|C}} || || || {{X|C}} || || || || || || {{X|B}} || || {{X|A}} || ||
|-style="background:#f5f5f5;"
| [[Carpenter]] || {{X|A}} || {{X|B}} || || || || || || {{X|C}} || || || || || {{X|B}} || || {{X|A}} || ||
|-
| [[Engraver]] || || {{X|A}} || || || || || || {{X|C}} || || || || || {{X|B}} || || {{X|A}} || ||
|-style="background:#f5f5f5;"
| [[Mason]] || {{X|A}} || {{X|B}} || || {{X|C}} || || || || {{X|C}} || || || || || {{X|B}} || || {{X|A}} || ||
|-
| [[Animal trainer]] || || {{X|A}} || {{X|B}} || {{X|C}} || || || || || {{X|C}} || {{X|B}} || || || || || || {{X|A}} ||
|-style="background:#f5f5f5;"
| [[Animal caretaker]] || || {{X|A}} || || || {{X|A}} || || || || || || {{X|B}} || || || || || {{X|C}} ||
|-
| [[Fish dissector]] || || {{X|A}} || || || || || || || || || || || || || {{X|A}} || ||
|-style="background:#f5f5f5;"
| [[Animal dissector]] || || {{X|A}} || || || || || || || || || || || || || {{X|A}} || ||
|-
| [[Fish cleaner]] || || {{X|A}} || || {{X|B}} || || || || || || || || || || || {{X|A}} || ||
|-style="background:#f5f5f5;"
| [[Butcher]] || {{X|A}} || {{X|B}} || || {{X|C}} || || || || || || || || || || || {{X|A}} || ||
|-
| [[Trapper]] || || {{X|A}} || || || {{X|A}} || || || {{X|B}} || || || || || {{X|C}} || || || ||
|-style="background:#f5f5f5;"
| [[Tanner]] || || {{X|A}} || || || || || || || || || || || || || {{X|A}} || ||
|-
| [[Weaver]] || || {{X|A}} || || || || || || {{X|C}} || || || || || {{X|B}} || || {{X|A}} || ||
|-style="background:#f5f5f5;"
| [[Brewer]] || {{X|A}} || {{X|B}} || || || || || || || || || || || || || {{X|A}} || ||
|-
| [[Clothier]] || || {{X|A}} || || || || || || {{X|C}} || || || || || {{X|B}} || || {{X|A}} || ||
|-style="background:#f5f5f5;"
| [[Miller]] || {{X|A}} || {{X|B}} || || {{X|C}} || || || || || || || || || || || {{X|A}} || ||
|-
| [[Thresher]] || {{X|B}} || {{X|A}} || || {{X|C}} || || || || || || || || || || || {{X|A}} || ||
|-style="background:#f5f5f5;"
| [[Cheese maker]] || {{X|B}} || {{X|A}} || || {{X|C}} || {{X|B}} || || || {{X|C}} || || || || || || || {{X|A}} || ||
|-
| [[Milker]] || {{X|A}} || {{X|B}} || || {{X|C}} || || || || || || || || || || || {{X|A}} || ||
|- style="background:#e5e5e5;text-align:left;vertical-align:bottom;"
! style="text-align:center;" | Skill
{{Rotated-heading|[[#Strength|Strength]]}}
{{Rotated-heading|[[#Agility|Agility]]}}
{{Rotated-heading|[[#Toughness|Toughness]]}}
{{Rotated-heading|[[#Endurance|Endurance]]}}
{{Rotated-heading|[[#Analytical_Ability|Analytical Ability]]}}
{{Rotated-heading|[[#Focus|Focus]]}}
{{Rotated-heading|[[#Willpower|Willpower]]}}
{{Rotated-heading|[[#Creativity|Creativity]]}}
{{Rotated-heading|[[#Intuition|Intuition]]}}
{{Rotated-heading|[[#Patience|Patience]]}}
{{Rotated-heading|[[#Memory|Memory]]}}
{{Rotated-heading|[[#Linguistic_Ability|Linguistic Ability]]}}
{{Rotated-heading|[[#Spatial_Sense|Spatial Sense]]}}
{{Rotated-heading|[[#Musicality|Musicality]]}}
{{Rotated-heading|[[#Kinesthetic_Sense|Kinesthetic Sense]]}}
{{Rotated-heading|[[#Empathy|Empathy]]}}
{{Rotated-heading|[[#Social_Awareness|Social Awareness]]}}
|-style="background:#f5f5f5;"
| [[Cook]] || || {{X|A}} || || || {{X|B}} || || || {{X|C}} || || || || || || || {{X|A}} || ||
|-
| [[Planter]] || {{X|A}} || {{X|B}} || || {{X|C}} || || || || || || || || || || || {{X|A}} || ||
|-style="background:#f5f5f5;"
| [[Herbalist]] || || {{X|A}} || || || || || || || || || {{X|B}} || || || || {{X|A}} || ||
|-
| [[Fisherdwarf]] || {{X|B}} || {{X|A}} || || || || {{X|A}} || || || || {{X|B}} || || || || || {{X|C}} || ||
|-style="background:#f5f5f5;"
| [[Furnace operator]] || {{X|A}} || || {{X|B}} || {{X|C}} || {{X|B}} || || || || || || || || || || {{X|A}} || ||
|-
| [[Strand extractor]] || {{X|B}} || {{X|A}} || || {{X|C}} || {{X|B}} || || || || || || || || || || {{X|A}} || ||
|-style="background:#f5f5f5;"
| [[Weaponsmith]] || {{X|A}} || {{X|B}} || || {{X|C}} || || || || {{X|C}} || || || || || {{X|B}} || || {{X|A}} || ||
|-
| [[Armorsmith]] || {{X|A}} || {{X|B}} || || {{X|C}} || || || || {{X|C}} || || || || || {{X|B}} || || {{X|A}} || ||
|-style="background:#f5f5f5;"
| [[Blacksmith]] || {{X|A}} || {{X|B}} || || {{X|C}} || || || || {{X|C}} || || || || || {{X|B}} || || {{X|A}} || ||
|-
| [[Gem cutter]] || || {{X|A}} || || || {{X|C}} || || || || || || || || {{X|B}} || || {{X|A}} || ||
|-style="background:#f5f5f5;"
| [[Gem setter]] || || {{X|A}} || || || || || || {{X|C}} || || || || || {{X|B}} || || {{X|A}} || ||
|-
| [[Wood crafter]] || || {{X|A}} || || || || || || {{X|C}} || || || || || {{X|B}} || || {{X|A}} || ||
|-style="background:#f5f5f5;"
| [[Stone crafter]] || || {{X|A}} || || || || || || {{X|C}} || || || || || {{X|B}} || || {{X|A}} || ||
|-
| [[Metal crafter]] || {{X|A}} || {{X|B}} || || {{X|C}} || || || || {{X|C}} || || || || || {{X|B}} || || {{X|A}} || ||
|-style="background:#f5f5f5;"
| [[Glassmaker]] || {{X|A}} || {{X|B}} || || {{X|C}} || || || || {{X|C}} || || || || || {{X|B}} || || {{X|A}} || ||
|-
| [[Leatherworker]] || {{X|A}} || {{X|B}} || || {{X|C}} || || || || {{X|C}} || || || || || {{X|B}} || || {{X|A}} || ||
|-style="background:#f5f5f5;"
| [[Bone carver]] || || {{X|A}} || || || || || || {{X|C}} || || || || || {{X|B}} || || {{X|A}} || ||
|-
| [[Axeman]] || {{X|A}} || {{X|B}} || {{X|C}} || || || || {{X|B}} || || || || || || {{X|C}} || || {{X|A}} || ||
|-style="background:#f5f5f5;"
| [[Swordsman]] || {{X|A}} || {{X|B}} || {{X|C}} || || || || {{X|B}} || || || || || || {{X|C}} || || {{X|A}} || ||
|-
| [[Knife user]] || {{X|B}} || {{X|A}} || {{X|C}} || || || || {{X|B}} || || || || || || {{X|C}} || || {{X|A}} || ||
|- style="background:#e5e5e5;text-align:left;vertical-align:bottom;"
! style="text-align:center;" | Skill
{{Rotated-heading|[[#Strength|Strength]]}}
{{Rotated-heading|[[#Agility|Agility]]}}
{{Rotated-heading|[[#Toughness|Toughness]]}}
{{Rotated-heading|[[#Endurance|Endurance]]}}
{{Rotated-heading|[[#Analytical_Ability|Analytical Ability]]}}
{{Rotated-heading|[[#Focus|Focus]]}}
{{Rotated-heading|[[#Willpower|Willpower]]}}
{{Rotated-heading|[[#Creativity|Creativity]]}}
{{Rotated-heading|[[#Intuition|Intuition]]}}
{{Rotated-heading|[[#Patience|Patience]]}}
{{Rotated-heading|[[#Memory|Memory]]}}
{{Rotated-heading|[[#Linguistic_Ability|Linguistic Ability]]}}
{{Rotated-heading|[[#Spatial_Sense|Spatial Sense]]}}
{{Rotated-heading|[[#Musicality|Musicality]]}}
{{Rotated-heading|[[#Kinesthetic_Sense|Kinesthetic Sense]]}}
{{Rotated-heading|[[#Empathy|Empathy]]}}
{{Rotated-heading|[[#Social_Awareness|Social Awareness]]}}
|-style="background:#f5f5f5;"
| [[Maceman]] || {{X|A}} || {{X|B}} || {{X|C}} || || || || {{X|B}} || || || || || || {{X|C}} || || {{X|A}} || ||
|-
| [[Hammerman]] || {{X|A}} || {{X|B}} || {{X|C}} || || || || {{X|B}} || || || || || || {{X|C}} || || {{X|A}} || ||
|-style="background:#f5f5f5;"
| [[Spearman]] || {{X|A}} || {{X|B}} || {{X|C}} || || || || {{X|B}} || || || || || || {{X|C}} || || {{X|A}} || ||
|-
| [[Crossbowman]] || || {{X|A}} || || || || {{X|C}} || || || || || || || {{X|A}} || || {{X|B}} || ||
|-style="background:#f5f5f5;"
| [[Shield user]] || {{X|A}} || {{X|B}} || {{X|C}} || || || || {{X|B}} || || || || || || {{X|C}} || || {{X|A}} || ||
|-
| [[Armor user]] || {{X|A}} || || {{X|B}} || {{X|C}} || || || {{X|B}} || || || || || || || || {{X|A}} || ||
|-style="background:#f5f5f5;"
| [[Siege engineer]] || {{X|A}} || {{X|B}} || || {{X|C}} || {{X|A}} || || || {{X|B}} || || || || || {{X|C}} || || || ||
|-
| [[Siege operator]] || {{X|A}} || || {{X|B}} || {{X|C}} || {{X|B}} || {{X|C}} || || || || || || || {{X|A}} || || || ||
|-style="background:#f5f5f5;"
| [[Bowyer]] || || {{X|A}} || || || || || || {{X|C}} || || || || || {{X|B}} || || {{X|A}} || ||
|-
| [[Pikeman]] || {{X|A}} || {{X|B}} || {{X|C}} || || || || {{X|B}} || || || || || || {{X|C}} || || {{X|A}} || ||
|-style="background:#f5f5f5;"
| [[Lasher]] || {{X|B}} || {{X|A}} || {{X|C}} || || || || {{X|B}} || || || || || || {{X|C}} || || {{X|A}} || ||
|-
| [[Bowman]] || || {{X|A}} || || || || {{X|C}} || || || || || || || {{X|A}} || || {{X|B}} || ||
|-style="background:#f5f5f5;"
| [[Blowgunner]] || || {{X|A}} || || || || {{X|C}} || || || || || || || {{X|A}} || || {{X|B}} || ||
|-
| [[Thrower]] || {{X|A}} || {{X|B}} || {{X|C}} || || || || {{X|C}} || || || || || || {{X|A}} || || {{X|B}} || ||
|-style="background:#f5f5f5;"
| [[Mechanic]] || {{X|B}} || {{X|A}} || || {{X|C}} || {{X|A}} || || || {{X|B}} || || || || || {{X|C}} || || || ||
|-
| [[Druid]] || || {{X|B}} || {{X|C}} || {{X|A}} || || {{X|C}} || {{X|B}} || || || || || || || || || {{X|A}} ||
|-style="background:#f5f5f5;"
| [[Ambusher]] || || {{X|A}} || || || || {{X|C}} || || || || || || || {{X|A}} || || {{X|B}} || ||
|-
| [[Wound dresser]] || || {{X|A}} || || || || || || || || || || || {{X|B}} || || {{X|A}} || {{X|C}} ||
|-style="background:#f5f5f5;"
| [[Diagnostician]] || || || || || {{X|A}} || || || || {{X|C}} || || {{X|B}} || || || || || ||
|-
| [[Surgeon]] || || {{X|A}} || || || || {{X|C}} || || || || || || || {{X|B}} || || {{X|A}} || ||
|- style="background:#e5e5e5;text-align:left;vertical-align:bottom;"
! style="text-align:center;" | Skill
{{Rotated-heading|[[#Strength|Strength]]}}
{{Rotated-heading|[[#Agility|Agility]]}}
{{Rotated-heading|[[#Toughness|Toughness]]}}
{{Rotated-heading|[[#Endurance|Endurance]]}}
{{Rotated-heading|[[#Analytical_Ability|Analytical Ability]]}}
{{Rotated-heading|[[#Focus|Focus]]}}
{{Rotated-heading|[[#Willpower|Willpower]]}}
{{Rotated-heading|[[#Creativity|Creativity]]}}
{{Rotated-heading|[[#Intuition|Intuition]]}}
{{Rotated-heading|[[#Patience|Patience]]}}
{{Rotated-heading|[[#Memory|Memory]]}}
{{Rotated-heading|[[#Linguistic_Ability|Linguistic Ability]]}}
{{Rotated-heading|[[#Spatial_Sense|Spatial Sense]]}}
{{Rotated-heading|[[#Musicality|Musicality]]}}
{{Rotated-heading|[[#Kinesthetic_Sense|Kinesthetic Sense]]}}
{{Rotated-heading|[[#Empathy|Empathy]]}}
{{Rotated-heading|[[#Social_Awareness|Social Awareness]]}}
|-style="background:#f5f5f5;"
| [[Bone doctor]] || {{X|B}} || {{X|A}} || || || || {{X|C}} || || || || || || || {{X|B}} || || {{X|A}} || ||
|-
| [[Suturer]] || || {{X|A}} || || || || {{X|C}} || || || || || || || {{X|B}} || || {{X|A}} || ||
|-style="background:#f5f5f5;"
| [[Crutch-walker]] || || {{X|A}} || || {{X|B}} || || || {{X|C}} || || || || || || {{X|B}} || || {{X|A}} || ||
|-
| [[Wood burner]] || {{X|A}} || || {{X|B}} || {{X|C}} || || || || || || || || || || || {{X|A}} || ||
|-style="background:#f5f5f5;"
| [[Lye maker]] || {{X|A}} || || {{X|B}} || {{X|C}} || || || || || || || || || || || {{X|A}} || ||
|-
| [[Soaper]] || {{X|A}} || || {{X|B}} || {{X|C}} || || || || || || || || || || || {{X|A}} || ||
|-style="background:#f5f5f5;"
| [[Potash maker]] || {{X|A}} || || {{X|B}} || {{X|C}} || || || || || || || || || || || {{X|A}} || ||
|-
| [[Dyer]] || {{X|A}} || {{X|B}} || || {{X|C}} || || || || || || || || || || || {{X|A}} || ||
|-style="background:#f5f5f5;"
| [[Pump operator]] || {{X|A}} || || {{X|B}} || {{X|C}} || || || {{X|B}} || || || || || || || || {{X|A}} || ||
|-
| [[Swimmer]] || {{X|A}} || {{X|B}} || || {{X|C}} || || || {{X|C}} || || || || || || {{X|B}} || || {{X|A}} || ||
|-style="background:#f5f5f5;"
| [[Persuader]] || || || || || || || || || || || || {{X|A}} || || || || {{X|C}} || {{X|B}}
|-
| [[Negotiator]] || || || || || || || || || || || || {{X|A}} || || || || {{X|C}} || {{X|B}}
|-style="background:#f5f5f5;"
| [[Judge of intent]] || || || || || || || || || {{X|C}} || || || || || || || {{X|A}} || {{X|B}}
|-
| [[Appraiser]] || || || || || {{X|A}} || || || || {{X|C}} || || {{X|B}} || || || || || ||
|-style="background:#f5f5f5;"
| [[Organizer]] || || || || || {{X|A}} || || || {{X|C}} || || || || || || || || || {{X|B}}
|-
| [[Record keeper]] || || || || || {{X|A}} || {{X|C}} || || || || || {{X|B}} || || || || || ||
|-style="background:#f5f5f5;"
| [[Liar]] || || || || || || || || {{X|C}} || || || || {{X|A}} || || || || || {{X|B}}
|-
| [[Intimidator]] || {{X|A}} || {{X|B}} || || || || || || || || || || {{X|A}} || || || {{X|B}} || ||
|-style="background:#f5f5f5;"
| [[Conversationalist]] || || || || || || || || || || || || {{X|A}} || || || || {{X|C}} || {{X|B}}
|-
| [[Comedian]] || || {{X|A}} || || || || || || {{X|B}} || || || || {{X|A}} || || || {{X|C}} || ||
|- style="background:#e5e5e5;text-align:left;vertical-align:bottom;"
! style="text-align:center;" | Skill
{{Rotated-heading|[[#Strength|Strength]]}}
{{Rotated-heading|[[#Agility|Agility]]}}
{{Rotated-heading|[[#Toughness|Toughness]]}}
{{Rotated-heading|[[#Endurance|Endurance]]}}
{{Rotated-heading|[[#Analytical_Ability|Analytical Ability]]}}
{{Rotated-heading|[[#Focus|Focus]]}}
{{Rotated-heading|[[#Willpower|Willpower]]}}
{{Rotated-heading|[[#Creativity|Creativity]]}}
{{Rotated-heading|[[#Intuition|Intuition]]}}
{{Rotated-heading|[[#Patience|Patience]]}}
{{Rotated-heading|[[#Memory|Memory]]}}
{{Rotated-heading|[[#Linguistic_Ability|Linguistic Ability]]}}
{{Rotated-heading|[[#Spatial_Sense|Spatial Sense]]}}
{{Rotated-heading|[[#Musicality|Musicality]]}}
{{Rotated-heading|[[#Kinesthetic_Sense|Kinesthetic Sense]]}}
{{Rotated-heading|[[#Empathy|Empathy]]}}
{{Rotated-heading|[[#Social_Awareness|Social Awareness]]}}
|-style="background:#f5f5f5;"
| [[Flatterer]] || || || || || || || || || || || || {{X|A}} || || || || {{X|C}} || {{X|B}}
|-
| [[Consoler]] || || || || || || || || || || || || {{X|B}} || || || || {{X|A}} || {{X|C}}
|-style="background:#f5f5f5;"
| [[Pacifier]] || || || || || || || || || || || || {{X|A}} || || || || {{X|C}} || {{X|B}}
|-
| [[Tracker]] || || || || || {{X|A}} || || || || {{X|B}} || || || || {{X|C}} || || || ||
|-style="background:#f5f5f5;"
| [[Student]] || || || || || {{X|B}} || {{X|C}} || || || || || {{X|A}} || || || || || ||
|-
| [[Concentration]] || || || || || || {{X|A}} || {{X|C}} || || || {{X|B}} || || || || || || ||
|-style="background:#f5f5f5;"
| [[Discipline]] || || || || || || {{X|B}} || {{X|A}} || || || || || || || || || ||
|-
| [[Observer]] || || || || || || {{X|B}} || || || {{X|C}} || || || || {{X|A}} || || || ||
|-style="background:#f5f5f5;"
| [[Wordsmith]] || || || || || || || || {{X|B}} || {{X|C}} || || || {{X|A}} || || || || ||
|-
| [[Writer]] || || || || || || || || {{X|B}} || {{X|C}} || || || {{X|A}} || || || || ||
|-style="background:#f5f5f5;"
| [[Poet]] || || || || || || || || {{X|B}} || {{X|C}} || || || {{X|A}} || || || || ||
|-
| [[Reader]] || || || || || || {{X|B}} || || || || || {{X|C}} || {{X|A}} || || || || ||
|-style="background:#f5f5f5;"
| [[Speaker]] || || || || || || || || || || || || {{X|A}} || || || || {{X|C}} || {{X|B}}
|-
| [[Coordination]] || || {{X|A}} || || || || || || || || || || || {{X|B}} || || {{X|A}} || ||
|-style="background:#f5f5f5;"
| [[Balance]] || {{X|B}} || {{X|A}} || || || || || || || || || || || || || {{X|A}} || ||
|-
| [[Leader]] || || || || || || || || || || || || {{X|C}} || || || || {{X|A}} || {{X|B}}
|-style="background:#f5f5f5;"
| [[Teacher]] || || || || || || || || || || || || {{X|C}} || || || || {{X|A}} || {{X|B}}
|-
| [[Fighter]] || {{X|B}} || {{X|A}} || {{X|C}} || || || || {{X|C}} || || || || || || {{X|B}} || || {{X|A}} || ||
|-style="background:#f5f5f5;"
| [[Archer]] || || {{X|A}} || || || || {{X|C}} || || || || || || || {{X|A}} || || {{X|B}} || ||
|-
| [[Wrestler]] || {{X|A}} || {{X|B}} || || {{X|C}} || || || {{X|C}} || || || || || || {{X|B}} || || {{X|A}} || ||
|- style="background:#e5e5e5;text-align:left;vertical-align:bottom;"
! style="text-align:center;" | Skill
{{Rotated-heading|[[#Strength|Strength]]}}
{{Rotated-heading|[[#Agility|Agility]]}}
{{Rotated-heading|[[#Toughness|Toughness]]}}
{{Rotated-heading|[[#Endurance|Endurance]]}}
{{Rotated-heading|[[#Analytical_Ability|Analytical Ability]]}}
{{Rotated-heading|[[#Focus|Focus]]}}
{{Rotated-heading|[[#Willpower|Willpower]]}}
{{Rotated-heading|[[#Creativity|Creativity]]}}
{{Rotated-heading|[[#Intuition|Intuition]]}}
{{Rotated-heading|[[#Patience|Patience]]}}
{{Rotated-heading|[[#Memory|Memory]]}}
{{Rotated-heading|[[#Linguistic_Ability|Linguistic Ability]]}}
{{Rotated-heading|[[#Spatial_Sense|Spatial Sense]]}}
{{Rotated-heading|[[#Musicality|Musicality]]}}
{{Rotated-heading|[[#Kinesthetic_Sense|Kinesthetic Sense]]}}
{{Rotated-heading|[[#Empathy|Empathy]]}}
{{Rotated-heading|[[#Social_Awareness|Social Awareness]]}}
|-style="background:#f5f5f5;"
| [[Biter]] || {{X|A}} || || {{X|B}} || {{X|C}} || || || {{X|C}} || || || || || || {{X|B}} || || {{X|A}} || ||
|-
| [[Striker]] || {{X|A}} || {{X|B}} || {{X|C}} || || || || {{X|C}} || || || || || || {{X|B}} || || {{X|A}} || ||
|-style="background:#f5f5f5;"
| [[Kicker]] || {{X|A}} || {{X|B}} || {{X|C}} || || || || {{X|C}} || || || || || || {{X|B}} || || {{X|A}} || ||
|-
| [[Dodger]] || || {{X|A}} || {{X|B}} || {{X|C}} || || || {{X|C}} || || || || || || {{X|B}} || || {{X|A}} || ||
|-style="background:#f5f5f5;"
| [[Misc. object user]] || {{X|A}} || {{X|B}} || {{X|C}} || || || || {{X|C}} || || || || || || {{X|B}} || || {{X|A}} || ||
|-
| [[Knapper]] || {{X|B}} || {{X|A}} || || || {{X|B}} || || || || || || || || {{X|A}} || || {{X|C}} || ||
|-style="background:#f5f5f5;"
| [[Tactician]] || || || || || {{X|A}} || || || {{X|B}} || {{X|C}} || || || || || || || ||
|-
| [[Shearer]] || {{X|B}} || {{X|A}} || || {{X|C}} || || || || || || || || || {{X|B}} || || {{X|A}} || ||
|-style="background:#f5f5f5;"
| [[Spinner]] || {{X|B}} || {{X|A}} || || {{X|C}} || || || || || || || || || {{X|B}} || || {{X|A}} || ||
|-
| [[Potter]] || || {{X|A}} || || || || || || {{X|C}} || || || || || {{X|B}} || || {{X|A}} || ||
|-style="background:#f5f5f5;"
| [[Glazer]] || || {{X|A}} || || || || || || {{X|C}} || || || || || {{X|B}} || || {{X|A}} || ||
|-
| [[Presser]] || {{X|A}} || {{X|B}} || || {{X|C}} || || || || || || || || || || || {{X|A}} || ||
|-style="background:#f5f5f5;"
| [[Beekeeper]] || {{X|B}} || {{X|A}} || || {{X|C}} || {{X|A}} || || || || || || || || {{X|B}} || || {{X|C}} || ||
|-
| [[Wax worker]] || || {{X|A}} || || || || || || {{X|C}} || || || || || {{X|B}} || || {{X|A}} || ||
|-style="background:#f5f5f5;"
| [[Climber]] || {{X|B}} || {{X|C}} || || {{X|A}} || || || {{X|C}} || || || || || || {{X|B}} || || {{X|A}} || ||
|-
| [[Gelder]] || {{X|A}} || {{X|B}} || || {{X|C}} || || || || || || || || || || || {{X|A}} || ||
|-style="background:#f5f5f5;"
| [[Dancer]] || {{X|C}} || {{X|A}} || || {{X|B}} || || || || || || || || || {{X|B}} || {{X|C}} || {{X|A}} || ||
|-
| [[Musician]] || || || || || || {{X|C}} || || {{X|B}} || || || || || || {{X|A}} || || ||
|-style="background:#f5f5f5;"
| [[Singer]] || || || || || || {{X|C}} || || {{X|B}} || || || || || || {{X|A}} || || ||
|-
| [[Keyboardist]] || || {{X|A}} || || || || {{X|C}} || || {{X|B}} || || || || || || {{X|A}} || || ||
|- style="background:#e5e5e5;text-align:left;vertical-align:bottom;"
! style="text-align:center;" | Skill
{{Rotated-heading|[[#Strength|Strength]]}}
{{Rotated-heading|[[#Agility|Agility]]}}
{{Rotated-heading|[[#Toughness|Toughness]]}}
{{Rotated-heading|[[#Endurance|Endurance]]}}
{{Rotated-heading|[[#Analytical_Ability|Analytical Ability]]}}
{{Rotated-heading|[[#Focus|Focus]]}}
{{Rotated-heading|[[#Willpower|Willpower]]}}
{{Rotated-heading|[[#Creativity|Creativity]]}}
{{Rotated-heading|[[#Intuition|Intuition]]}}
{{Rotated-heading|[[#Patience|Patience]]}}
{{Rotated-heading|[[#Memory|Memory]]}}
{{Rotated-heading|[[#Linguistic_Ability|Linguistic Ability]]}}
{{Rotated-heading|[[#Spatial_Sense|Spatial Sense]]}}
{{Rotated-heading|[[#Musicality|Musicality]]}}
{{Rotated-heading|[[#Kinesthetic_Sense|Kinesthetic Sense]]}}
{{Rotated-heading|[[#Empathy|Empathy]]}}
{{Rotated-heading|[[#Social_Awareness|Social Awareness]]}}
|-style="background:#f5f5f5;"
| [[Stringed instrumentalist]] || || {{X|A}} || || || || {{X|C}} || || {{X|B}} || || || || || || {{X|A}} || || ||
|-
| [[Wind instrumentalist]] || || {{X|A}} || || {{X|B}} || || {{X|C}} || || {{X|B}} || || || || || || {{X|A}} || || ||
|-style="background:#f5f5f5;"
| [[Percussionist]] || {{X|C}} || {{X|A}} || || {{X|B}} || || {{X|C}} || || {{X|B}} || || || || || || {{X|A}} || || ||
|-
| [[Critical thinker]] || || || || || {{X|A}} || || || || || || || || || || || ||
|-style="background:#f5f5f5;"
| [[Logician]] || || || || || {{X|A}} || || || || || || || || || || || ||
|-
| [[Mathematician]] || || || || || {{X|A}} || || || || || || {{X|C}} || || {{X|B}} || || || ||
|-style="background:#f5f5f5;"
| [[Astronomer]] || || || || || {{X|A}} || || || || || || {{X|C}} || || {{X|B}} || || || ||
|-
| [[Chemist]] || || || || || {{X|A}} || {{X|B}} || || || || || {{X|C}} || || || || || ||
|-style="background:#f5f5f5;"
| [[Geographer]] || || || || || {{X|B}} || || || || || || {{X|C}} || || {{X|A}} || || || ||
|-
| [[Optics engineer]] || || || || || {{X|B}} || {{X|C}} || || || || || || || {{X|A}} || || || ||
|-style="background:#f5f5f5;"
| [[Fluid engineer]] || || || || || {{X|B}} || {{X|C}} || || || || || || || {{X|A}} || || || ||
|-
| [[Papermaker]] || {{X|A}} || {{X|B}} || || || || || || || || || || || {{X|B}} || || {{X|A}} || ||
|-style="background:#f5f5f5;"
| [[Bookbinder]] || || {{X|A}} || || || || || || || || || || || {{X|A}} || || {{X|B}} || ||
|-
| [[Schemer]] || || || || || || || || {{X|C}} || {{X|B}} || || || || || || || || {{X|A}}
|-style="background:#f5f5f5;"
| [[Rider]] || || {{X|A}} || || || || || {{X|C}} || || || || || || || || {{X|A}} || {{X|B}} ||
|-
| [[Stonecutter]] || {{X|A}} || {{X|B}} || || || || || || || || {{X|C}} || || || {{X|B}} || || {{X|A}} || ||
|-style="background:#f5f5f5;"
| [[Stone carver]] || {{X|B}} || {{X|A}} || || || || || || {{X|C}} || || || || || {{X|B}} || || {{X|A}} || ||
|}

Notes:
*Spatial Sense and Kinesthetic Sense are almost everywhere
*Nothing trains Disease Resistance or Recuperation
*Intimidator and Comedian, both social skills, raise Agility. Dwarven comedy is slapstick/clowning, not stand-up.
*Student skill doesn't boost skill gain except for teacher-student relations in a barracks
*Choose high-volume labors that train useful attributes for militia day-jobs/bootcamp
*Fishing, Siege Operating, and Record Keeping are useful for marksdwarves as they train the Focus attribute
*Hunting (ambusher/sneak) has identical attribute gain to Crossbow and Archer skills

== Dwarf attributes ==

Each attribute is a number between 0 and 5000, but in dwarven terms anything below 200 is rare [http://dffd.bay12games.com/file.php?id=5882] and anything above 2500 is extraordinary. In the default raws (/raw/objects/creature_standard.txt), dwarven attributes come in four levels.

Focus and Spatial Sense are referred to as "++", or two steps above default. Their range is defined as [700:1200:1400:1500:1600:1800:2500], which sets out six ranges: 700-1200, 1200-1400, etc. Dwarves have an equal chance of dropping into any of these ranges, and an equal probability again of getting any number in that range. So the bottom one-sixth of your dwarves will be really low, the top one-sixth really high, and the two-thirds in the middle huddled around average. This also means that the median and the mean are slightly different: the mean for ++ is 1516.66... while median is 1500.

Strength, Toughness, Analytical Ability, Creativity, Patience, and Memory are +, or one step above default. Their ranges are [450:950:1150:1250:1350:1550:2250], and their mean is 1266.66...

Endurance, Disease Resistance, Recuperation, Intuition, Willpower, Kinesthetic Sense, Linguistic Ability, Musicality, Empathy, and Social Awareness are AVG, or the default. Their ranges are not specified in the raws, but they are [200:700:900:1000:1100:1300:2000] for Physical and [200:800:900:1000:1100:1300:2000] for Mental.

Agility is "-", the only attribute to be below default. Its ranges are [150:600:800:900:1000:1100:1500], mean 870.83..., median 900.

== Training attributes ==

It would seem that various skills train various attributes at different rates. For physical attributes and Willpower, military training works best - it relatively quickly gives a dwarf some extra Agility and Strength, making them walk and work faster in all areas (According to [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=121573.msg3944723#msg3944723] speed is a factor in determining how fast a labor is completed).

Plant gathering trains Agility, Kinesthetic Sense, and Memory to a lesser degree. After a couple of years, plant gatherers become the faster dwarves in the fortress and are generally suitable for transfer to any demanding job.

All attribute values are capped based on their initial value, the attribute's {{token|MENT_ATT_CAP_PERC}} or {{token|PHYS_ATT_CAP_PERC}} value (which defaults to 200), and the attribute's ''median'' value (i.e. the middle value in {{token|PHYS_ATT_RANGE}} or {{token|MENT_ATT_RANGE}}) - the exact cap is either ``(starting_value * ATT_CAP_PERC) / 100`` or ``starting_value + ATT_RANGE.MEDIAN``, whichever is higher.

The speed of learning attributes is governed by "cost to improve" in {{token|PHYS_ATT_RATES}} and {{token|MENT_ATT_RATES}}. By default CTI for attributes is 500, which means the counter for using that attribute has to be incremented 500 times for the dwarf to gain 1 in that attribute. The lower the CTI, the faster an attribute increases. According to [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=66525.msg3993120#msg3993120] the counter is incremented every ten ticks a skill using that attribute is in use. This means it takes 5000 TUs or just over 4 in-game days of continuous labor to improve an attribute by 1. The improved attribute gain from military training may stem from the fact that sparring and individual combat drills train multiple skills at the same time.

''Note:'' For trading and appraising caravan goods the attribute gain is calculated differently (as in both cases incrementing the counter every ten ticks makes no sense). For appraising caravan goods the total worth of goods matters. For trading each single transaction increases the counter for the attributes (involved) in haggling (possibly by different amounts).

==Standard ranges==

The game comes pre-stocked with several sets of attribute ranges, some better than others. The signs that come after the numeral ranges indicate what level that range represents, but have no effect in and of themselves.

{|
|[0:0:0:0:0:0:0] || unattainable
|-
|[0:100:200:300:400:450:500] || ---
|-
|[0:400:600:750:800:900:1100] || --
|-
|[150:600:800:900:1000:1100:1500] || -
|-
|[200:700:900:1000:1100:1300:2000] || Default
|-
|[450:950:1150:1250:1350:1550:2250] || +
|-
|[700:1200:1400:1500:1600:1800:2500] || ++
|-
|[1250:1500:1750:2000:2500:3000:5000]|| +++
|-
|[5000:5000:5000:5000:5000:5000:5000]|| max
|}

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[[ru:Attribute]]

Creature token

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The <code>[OBJECT:CREATURE]</code> [[token]] begins the definition of a ''Dwarf Fortress'' [[creature]] [[raw file]]. Each creature definition that follows begins with the {{token|creature|c|creature ID}} token, and the creature's exact properties and behavior are then specified by the use of further creature tokens. All known creature tokens are listed below.

Vanilla creature definitions can be found in <code>[[Game folder|<Dwarf Fortress>]]\data\vanilla\vanilla_creatures\</code>.
Creature ID is also used with [[graphics token]]s to make customizable [[graphics set]]s.

The [[caste]] tokens allow defining sub-species within the broader creature definition, including true biological castes and lesser variations, such as sexes. Creature tokens can either be 'Creature' or 'CASTE-only' type which can only be applied to creature or caste respectively, or 'CASTE' which can be applied to both. In the table bellow, creature type distinguishes tokens that can be applied to creature only, caste only, and both ('creature', 'CASTE-only', and 'CASTE' respectively)

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==A==
{| {{prettytable}}
|- bgcolor="#ddd"
! width="20%" | Token
! width="10%" | Type
! width="20%" | Arguments
! width="50%" | Description

|-
| {{text anchor|ADOPTS_OWNER}}
| Caste
|
| Prevents the tamed creature from being made available for adoption, instead allowing it to automatically adopt whoever it wants. The basic requirements for adoption are intact, and the creature will only adopt individuals who have a [[preference]] for their species. Used by [[cat]]s in the vanilla game. When {{k|v}}iewing a tame creature with this token, the message "This animal isn't interested in your wishes" will appear instead of "This [adorable] animal can't work" or "This animal is waiting to be trained".

|-
| {{text anchor|ALCOHOL_DEPENDENT}}
| Caste
|
| Makes the creature need [[alcohol]] to get through the working day; it will choose to drink booze instead of [[water]] if possible. Going sober for too long reduces speed.

|-
| {{text anchor|ALL_ACTIVE}}
| Caste
|
| When set, the creature will appear at any time of day. Overrides {{token|DIURNAL|c}}, {{token|NOCTURNAL|c}}, {{token|CREPUSCULAR|c}}, {{token|MATUTINAL|c}}, and {{token|VESPERTINE|c}}.

|-
| {{text anchor|ALTTILE}}
| Creature
|
*'character' or tile number
| If set, the creature will blink between its {{token|TILE|c}} and its ALTTILE.

|-
| {{text anchor|AMBUSHPREDATOR}}
| Caste
|
| Makes the creature start out hidden and remain near its original location until its prey draws near. When combined with {{token|WEBBER|c}}, causes them to lay gigantic webs near their spawn location, though only for creatures present during embark.

|-
| {{text anchor|AMPHIBIOUS}}
| Caste
|
| Allows a creature to breathe both in and out of [[water]] (unlike {{token|AQUATIC|c}}) - does not prevent drowning in [[magma]].

|-
| {{text anchor|APP_MOD_DESC_RANGE}}
| Appearance Modifier
|
*Range (6 values, low to high)
| Based on info from [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=113762.msg3473069#msg3473069 Wannabehero on the forums]: When used with an appearance modifier token (BP_APPEARANCE_MODIFIER or BODY_APPEARANCE_MODIFIER), tells the game what numeric ranges to map to which descriptors.

The game uses 7 descriptor levels for each modifier, with the center one generally being to omit the thing from the creature description entirely. The six values in APP_MOD_DESC_RANGE define the boundaries between each described range. If this is not specified it uses the numbers 10:50:95:105:150:190.

|-
| {{text anchor|APP_MOD_GENETIC_MODEL}}
| Appearance Modifier
|
*Model (Accepts DOMINANT_MORE, DOMINANT_LESS, and MIX)
| Defines a genetic model for the relevant appearance modifier(s). May or may not do anything significant at present.

|-
| {{text anchor|APP_MOD_IMPORTANCE}}
| Appearance Modifier
|
*number
| Determines how important the appearance modifier is, for determining whether it shows up in the creature description.{{verify}}

|-
| {{text anchor|APP_MOD_NOUN}}
| Appearance Modifier
|
*noun
*SINGULAR or PLURAL
| Creates a noun for the appearance, and whether it is singular or plural.

|-
| {{text anchor|APP_MOD_RATE}}
| Appearance Modifier
|
*Rate (integer)
*Scale (DAILY, YEARLY)
*min (growth)
*max (growth)
*start year
*start day
*end year
*end day
| Setting the growth rate of the modifier. The last two tokens can be replaced by NO_END to have growth continue indefinitely.

|-
| {{text anchor|APPLY_CREATURE_VARIATION}}
| Caste
|
*creature variation ID
*(optional) any amount of arbitrary arguments
| Applies the specified [[creature variation token|creature variation]]. See [[Creature_variation_token#Arguments_and_conditional_tokens]] for how the subsequent arguments may be used.

|-
| {{text anchor|APPLY_CURRENT_CREATURE_VARIATION}}
| Special
|
| Applies the effects of all pending {{token|CV_ADD_TAG|c}} and {{token|CV_REMOVE_TAG|c}} tokens that have been defined in the current creature.

|-
| {{text anchor|AQUATIC}}
| Caste
|
| Enables the creature to breathe in water, but causes it to air-drown on dry land.

|-
| {{text anchor|ARENA_RESTRICTED}}
| Caste
|
| Causes the creature to be excluded from the [[object testing arena]]'s creature spawning list. Typically applied to spoileriffic creatures.

|-
| {{text anchor|ARTIFICIAL_HIVEABLE}}
| Creature
|
| Enables the creature to be kept in artificial [[hive]]s by [[beekeeper]]s.

|-
| {{text anchor|AT_PEACE_WITH_WILDLIFE}}
| Caste
|
| Prevents the creature from attacking or frightening creatures with the {{Token|NATURAL|c}} tag.

|-
| {{text anchor|ATTACK}}
| Caste
|
*token
*selection criteria (it's complicated)
| Defines the attack name, and the body part used. See [[#Attack Tokens|below]] for valid subtokens
'''Example:''' 
<code>[ATTACK:GORE:BODYPART:BY_CATEGORY:HORN]</code> 
''GORE'' = name of the attack 
''BODYPART:BY_CATEGORY:HORN'' = the horn is used to attack (presuming the creature has one)

|-
| {{text anchor|ATTACK_TRIGGER}}
| Caste
|
*population
*exported wealth
*created wealth
| Specifies when a [[megabeast]] or [[semi-megabeast]] will attack the fortress. The attacks will start occurring when all of the requirements are met. Setting a value to 0 disables the trigger.

|}

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==B==
{| {{prettytable}}
|- bgcolor="#ddd"
! width="20%" | Token
! width="10%" | Type
! width="20%" | Arguments
! width="50%" | Description

|-
| {{text anchor|BABY}}
| Caste
|
*integer
| Age at which creature is considered a child, the default is zero. One can think of this as the duration of the baby stage.

|-
| {{text anchor|BABYNAME}}
| Caste
|
*singular
*plural
| Defines a new name for a creature in baby state at the caste level. For non-caste-specific baby names, see {{token|GENERAL_BABY_NAME|c}}.

|-
| {{text anchor|BEACH_FREQUENCY}}
| Caste
|
*integer
| Creature may be subject to [[beaching]], becoming stranded on [[Beach|shores]], where they will eventually air-drown. The number indicates the frequency of the occurrence. Presumably requires the creature to be {{token|AQUATIC|c}}. Used by [[orca]]s, [[sperm whale]]s and [[sea nettle jellyfish]] in the vanilla game.

|-
| {{text anchor|BENIGN}}
| Caste
|
| The creature is non-aggressive by default, and will never automatically be engaged by companions or soldiers, running away from any creatures that are not friendly to it, and will only defend itself if it becomes enraged. Can be thought of as the counterpoint of the {{token|LARGE_PREDATOR|c}} tag. When tamed, animals with this tag will be useless for fortress defense.

This and {{token|TRADE_CAPACITY|c}} are required for {{token|PACK_ANIMAL|c}} to function properly, if an animal contains the aforementioned requirements without this tag: items loaded by the merchants will be dropped upon departure.

|-
| {{text anchor|BIOME}}
| Creature
|
* [[biome token]]
| Select a [[biome]] the creature may appear in.

|-
| {{text anchor|BLOOD}}
| Caste
|
* <[[material token]]>
* <[[Material_definition_token#Material_States|material state]]>
| Specifies what the creature's blood is made of.

|-
| {{text anchor|BLOODSUCKER}}
| Caste
|
| Causes [[vampire]]-like behaviour; the creature will suck the [[Creature_token#BLOOD|blood]] of unconscious victims when its [[Syndrome#TIME_SINCE_SUCKED_BLOOD|thirst for blood]] grows sufficiently large. When controlling the creature in adventure mode, this can be done at will. Seems to be required to make the creature denouncable (in-world) as a creature of the night.

|-
| {{text anchor|BODY}}
| Caste
|
*body parts
| Draws body parts from OBJECT:BODY files (such as body_default.txt)
'''Example:''' 
[BODY:BODY_WITH_HEAD_FLAG:HEART:GUTS:BRAIN:MOUTH] 
This is the body from a [[purring maggot]]. It creates a body with head, a heart, some guts, a brain, and a mouth. That's all a maggot needs.

The body parts need to be listed in an order such that any parent part appears before its connected children. For example [BODY:HEART:BODY_WITH_HEAD_FLAG] produces a "Body Token Recognized But Could Not Connect: HEART" error because HEART can't find any UPPERBODY(s) to connect to. Switching the order to [BODY:BODY_WITH_HEAD_FLAG:HEART] fixes the problem because now the UPPERBODY is created before the HEART tries to connect to it.

'''If the body is left undefined, the creature (or caste) will be tagged as [DOES_NOT_EXIST].''' {{verify}}

|-
| {{text anchor|BODY_APPEARANCE_MODIFIER}}
| Caste
|
*ATTRIBUTE
*lowest
*lower
*low
*median
*high
*higher
*highest
| These body modifiers give individual creatures different characteristics. In the case of HEIGHT, BROADNESS and LENGTH, the modifier is also a percentage change to the BODY_SIZE of the individual creature. The seven numbers afterward give a distribution of ranges. Each interval has an equal chance of occurring.
'''Example:''' 
[BODY_APPEARANCE_MODIFIER:HEIGHT:90:95:98:100:102:105:110] 
''HEIGHT'' : marks the height to be changed 
''90:95:98:100:102:105:110'' : sets the range from the shortest (90% of the average height) to the tallest (110% of the average height) creature variation.

|-
| {{text anchor|BODY_DETAIL_PLAN}}
| Caste
|
*PlanName
*Arguments
| Loads a plan from listed OBJECT:BODY_DETAIL_PLAN files, such as b_detail_plan_default.txt. Mass applies USE_MATERIAL_TEMPLATE, mass alters RELSIZE, alters body part positions, and will allow tissue layers to be defined. Tissue layers are defined in order of skin to bone here.
'''Example:''' 
[BODY_DETAIL_PLAN:VERTEBRATE_TISSUE_LAYERS:SKIN:FAT:MUSCLE:BONE:CARTILAGE] 
This creates the detailed body of a [[fox]], the skin, fat, muscle, bones and cartilage out of the vertebrate tissues. 
A [[Purring maggot|maggot]] would only need: 
''[BODY_DETAIL_PLAN:EXOSKELETON_TISSUE_LAYERS:SKIN:FAT:MUSCLE]''

|-
| {{text anchor|BODY_SIZE}}
| Caste
|
*years
*days
*size
| Sets size at a given age. Size is in cubic centimeters, and for normal body materials, is roughly equal to the creature's average weight in grams.
'''Example:''' 
[BODY_SIZE:0:0:10000] 
[BODY_SIZE:1:168:50000] 
[BODY_SIZE:12:0:220000] 
This describes the size of a [[minotaur]]. Its birth size would be 10,000 cm3 (~10 kg). At 1 year and 168 days old it would be 50,000 cm3 (~50 kg). And as an adult (at 12 years old) it would be 220,000 cm3 and weigh roughly 220 kg.

|-
| {{text anchor|BODYGLOSS}}
| Caste
|
*gloss
| Substitutes body part text with replacement text. Draws gloss information from OBJECT:BODY files (such as body_default.txt)

|-
| {{text anchor|BONECARN}}
| Caste
|
| Creature eats bones. Implies {{token|CARNIVORE|c}}. Currently does not work due to a bug ({{Bug|11069}}).

|-
| {{text anchor|BP_ADD_TYPE}}
| Caste
|
| Adds a type to a body part - used with {{token|SET_BP_GROUP|c}}. In vanilla DF, this is used for adding the type '[[Body token#GELDABLE|GELDABLE]]' to the lower body of certain [[cat|creatures]].

|-
| {{text anchor|BP_APPEARANCE_MODIFIER}}
| Caste
|
*QUALITY
*lowest
*lower
*low
*median
*high
*higher
*highest
| Sets up the breadth of possibilities for appearance qualities for a selected BP group. EG. Eyes (CLOSE_SET, DEEP_SET, ROUND_VS_NARROW, LARGE_IRIS),Lips (THICKNESS), Nose (BROADNESS, LENGTH, UPTURNED, CONVEX), Ear (SPLAYED_OUT, HANGING_LOBES, BROADNESS, HEIGHT), Tooth (GAPS), Skull (HIGH_CHEEKBONES, BROAD_CHIN, JUTTING CHIN, SQUARE_CHIN), Neck (DEEP_VOICE, RASPY_VOICE), Head (BROADNESS, HEIGHT)

|-
| {{text anchor|BP_REMOVE_TYPE}}
| Caste
|
| Removes a type from a body part. Used with {{token|SET_BP_GROUP|c}}.

|-
| {{text anchor|BUILDINGDESTROYER}}
| Caste
|
*1 or 2
| Allows a creature to destroy furniture and buildings. Value [1] targets mostly doors, hatches, furniture and the like. Value [2] targets anything not made with the {{k|b}} + {{k|C}} commands.
|}

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==C==
{| {{prettytable}}
|- bgcolor="#ddd"
! width="20%" | Token
! width="10%" | Type
! width="20%" | Arguments
! width="50%" | Description

|-
| {{text anchor|CAN_DO_INTERACTION}}
| Caste
|
*interaction token
| The creature can perform an interaction. See [[interaction token]].

|-
| {{text anchor|CAN_LEARN}}
| Caste
|
| The creature gains [[skill]]s and can have [[labor|professions]]. If a member of a civilization (even a pet) has this token, it'll need to eat, drink and sleep. Note that this token makes the creature unable to be eaten by an adventurer, so it is not recommended for uncivilized monsters. Adventurers lacking this token can allocate but not increase attributes and skills. Skills allocated will disappear on start. A creature with at least this token or the {{token|CAN_SPEAK|c}} token will be able to have [[Personality value|values]] and [[Personality goal|goals]].

|-
| {{text anchor|CAN_SPEAK}}
| Caste
|
| Can [[talking|talk]]. Note that this is not necessary for a creature to gain social skills but to make friends in fortress mode. A creature with at least this token or the {{token|CAN_LEARN|c}} token will be able to have [[Personality value|values]] and [[Personality goal|goals]].

|-
| {{text anchor|CANNOT_CLIMB}}
| Caste
|
| Creature cannot [[climber|climb]], even if it has free grasp parts.

|-
| {{text anchor|CANNOT_JUMP}}
| Caste
|
| Creature cannot [[jump]].

|-
| {{text anchor|CANNOT_UNDEAD}}
| Caste
|
| Acts like {{token|NOT_LIVING|c}}, except that {{token|OPPOSED_TO_LIFE|c}} creatures will attack them.

|-
| {{text anchor|CANOPENDOORS}}
| Caste
|
| Defunct, as doors cannot be set as tightly closed anymore.

|-
| {{text anchor|CARNIVORE}}
| Caste
|
| Creature ''only'' eats [[meat]]. If the creature goes on rampages in worldgen, it will often devour the people/animals it kills.

|-
| {{text anchor|CASTE}}
| Creature
|
*name
| Defines a [[caste]].

|-
| {{text anchor|CASTE_ALTTILE}}
| Caste
|
*tile number or "letter"
| Caste-specific {{token|ALTTILE|c}}. Requires {{token|CASTE_TILE|c}}.

|-
| {{text anchor|CASTE_COLOR}}
| Caste
|
*fg
*bg
*brightness
| Caste-specific {{token|COLOR|c}}.

|-
| {{text anchor|CASTE_GLOWCOLOR}}
| Caste
|
*fg
*bg
*brightness
| Caste-specific {{token|GLOWCOLOR|c}}.

|-
| {{text anchor|CASTE_GLOWTILE}}
| Caste
|
*tile value or "letter"
| Caste-specific {{token|GLOWTILE|c}}.

|-
| {{text anchor|CASTE_NAME}}
| Caste
|
*singular
*plural
*adjective
| While {{token|NAME|c}} describes the name of the species, {{token|CASTE_NAME|c}} names individuals of the species. Unlike other caste-specific descriptions, this token is required, even for creatures without separate castes. If left undefined, the creature will not show up in the [[arena]] and members of the species will be labeled as "nothing".

|-
| {{text anchor|CASTE_PROFESSION_NAME}}
| Caste
|
*[[Unit type token]] (Profession)
*singular
*plural
| Caste-specific {{token|PROFESSION_NAME|c}}.

|-
| {{text anchor|CASTE_SOLDIER_ALTTILE}}
| Caste
|
*'character' or tile number
| Caste-specific {{token|SOLDIER_ALTTILE|c}}. Requires {{token|CASTE_SOLDIER_TILE|c}}.

|-
| {{text anchor|CASTE_SOLDIER_TILE}}
| Caste
|
*'character' or tile number
| Caste-specific {{token|CREATURE_SOLDIER_TILE|c}}.

|-
| {{text anchor|CASTE_TILE}}
| Caste
|
* tile number or "letter"
| Caste-specific {{token|CREATURE_TILE|c}}.

|-
| {{text anchor|CAVE_ADAPT}}
| Caste
|
| Causes the creature to develop [[cave adaptation]].

Allows for creature's race to be involved in jokes that end in "And the [race] saw the sun and vomited on the spot!"

|-
| {{text anchor|CDI}}
| Caste
|
*Varies
| Specifies interaction details following a {{token|CAN_DO_INTERACTION|c}} token. See [[interaction token]].

|-
| {{text anchor|CHANGE_BODY_SIZE_PERC}}
| Caste
|
*integer
| Multiplies body size by a factor of (integer)%. 50 halves size, 200 doubles.

|-
| {{text anchor|CHANGE_FREQUENCY_PERC}}
| Creature
|
*integer
| Multiplies frequency by a factor of (integer)%.

|-
| {{text anchor|CHILD}}
| Caste
|
*integer
| Age at which creature is considered an adult - one can think of this as the duration of the [[children|child]] stage. Allows the creature's offspring to be rendered fully tame if [[animal trainer|trained]] during their childhood.

|-
| {{text anchor|CHILDNAME}}
| Caste
|
*singular
*plural
| Defines a new name for a creature in the child state at the caste level. For non-caste-specific child names, see {{token|GENERAL_CHILD_NAME|c}}.

|-
| {{text anchor|CLUSTER_NUMBER}}
| Creature
|
*min
*max
| The minimum/maximum numbers of how many creatures per spawned cluster. Vermin fish with this token in combination with temperate ocean and river biome tokens [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=51864.msg1122319#msg1122319 will perform seasonal migrations]. Defaults to 1:1 if not specified.

|-
| {{text anchor|CLUTCH_SIZE}}
| Caste
|
*min
*max
|Number of [[egg]]s laid in one sitting.

|-
| {{text anchor|COLONY_EXTERNAL}}
| Caste
|
| Caste hovers around colony.

|-
| {{text anchor|COLOR}}
| Creature
|
*foreground
*background
*brightness
| Color of the creature's tile. (See [[Color]] for usage.)

|-
| {{text anchor|COMMON_DOMESTIC}}
| Caste
|
| When combined with any of {{token|PET|c}}, {{token|PACK_ANIMAL|c}}, {{token|WAGON_PULLER|c}} and/or {{token|MOUNT|c}}, the creature is guaranteed to be domesticated by any [[civilization]] with {{token|COMMON_DOMESTIC_PET|e}}, {{token|COMMON_DOMESTIC_PACK|e}}, {{token|COMMON_DOMESTIC_PULL|e}} and/or {{token|COMMON_DOMESTIC_MOUNT|e}} respectively. Such civilizations will always have access to the creature, even in the absence of wild populations. This token is invalid on {{token|FANCIFUL|c}} creatures.

|-
| {{text anchor|CONVERTED_SPOUSE}}
| Caste
|
| Creatures of this caste's species with the {{token|SPOUSE_CONVERTER|c}} and {{token|NIGHT_CREATURE_HUNTER|c}} tokens will kidnap {{token|SPOUSE_CONVERSION_TARGET|c}}s of an appropriate sex and convert them into castes with CONVERTED_SPOUSE.

|-
| {{text anchor|COOKABLE_LIVE}}
| Caste
|
| Set this to allow the creature to be cooked in meals while it is still alive, as well as when it's dead but not yet [[fishery|cleaned]]. Used by some water-dwelling vermin such as [[mussel]]s, [[nautilus]]es and [[oyster]]s. Currently does not work correctly when applied to non-{{token|FISHITEM|c}} vermin.{{bug|13200}}

|-
| {{text anchor|CRAZED}}
| Caste
|
| Creature is '[[insanity|berserk]]' and will attack all other creatures, except members of its own species that '''also''' have the CRAZED tag. It will show {{DFtext|Berserk|4:1}} in the [[unit list]]. Berserk creatures go on rampages during [[world generation|worldgen]] much more frequently than non-berserk ones.

|-
| {{text anchor|COPY_TAGS_FROM}}
| Special
|
*creature ID
| Copies another specified creature. This will override any definitions made before it; essentially, it makes this creature identical to the other one, which can then be modified. Often used in combination with {{token|APPLY_CREATURE_VARIATION|c}} to import standard variations from a file. The vanilla [[giant animal]]s and [[animal person|animal people]]s are examples of this token combination.

|-
| {{text anchor|CREATURE}}
| Creature
|
*creature ID
| A unique, arbitrary identifier that begins the definition of each new creature, and is used to reference the creature in other tokens and raws.

|-
| {{text anchor|CREATURE_CLASS}}
| Caste
|
*classname
| An arbitrary creature classification. Can be set to anything, but the only vanilla uses are GENERAL_POISON (used in syndromes), EDIBLE_GROUND_BUG (used as targets for {{token|GOBBLE_VERMIN_CLASS|c}}), MAMMAL, and POISONOUS (both used for kobold pet eligibility). A single creature can have multiple classes.

The full list of tokens that use creature classes is:

* Creature tokens: {{token|GOBBLE_VERMIN_CLASS|c}}, {{token|GOBBLE_VERMIN_CLASS|c}}
* Interaction tokens: {{token|IT_AFFECTED_CLASS|in}}, {{token|IT_IMMUNE_CLASS|in}}
* Animal definition (Entity) tokens: {{token|ANIMAL_CLASS|e}}, {{token|ANIMAL_FORBIDDEN_CLASS|e}}
* Position (Entity) token: {{token|ALLOWED_CLASS|po}}
* Syndrome tokens: {{token|SYN_AFFECTED_CLASS|sy}}, {{token|SYN_IMMUNE_CLASS|sy}}, {{token|CE_SENSE_CREATURE_CLASS|sy}}
|-
| {{text anchor|CREATURE_SOLDIER_TILE}}
| Creature
|
*'character' or tile number
| Creatures active in their civilization's [[military]] will use this tile instead.

|-
| {{text anchor|CREATURE_TILE}}
| Creature
|
*'character' or tile number
| The symbol of the creature in ASCII mode.

|-
| {{text anchor|CREPUSCULAR}}
| Caste
|
| When set, the creature will appear at dawn (between 4:30 AM and 6:00 AM) and in the evening (between 8:00 PM and 10:05 PM) in [[Adventurer mode]].

|-
| {{text anchor|CURIOUSBEAST_EATER}}
| Caste
|
| Allows a creature to [[Steals food|steal and eat edible items]] from a site. It will attempt to grab a food item and immediately make its way to the map's edge, where it will disappear with it. If the creature goes on rampages during worldgen, it will often steal food instead of attacking. Trained and tame instances of the creature will no longer display this behavior.

|-
| {{text anchor|CURIOUSBEAST_GUZZLER}}
| Caste
|
| Allows a creature to (very quickly) [[Steals drink|drink your alcohol]]. Or spill the barrel to the ground. Also affects undead versions of the creature. Unlike food or item thieves, drink thieves will consume your alcohol on the spot rather than run away with one piece of it. Trained and tame instances of the creature will no longer display this behavior.

|-
| {{text anchor|CURIOUSBEAST_ITEM}}
| Caste
|
| Allows a creature to [[Steals items|steal things]] (apparently, of the highest value it can find). It will attempt to grab an item of value and immediately make its way to the map's edge, where it will disappear with it. If a creature with any of the CURIOUSBEAST tokens carries anything off the map, even if it is a caravan's pack animal, it will be reported as stealing everything it carries. If the creature goes on rampages in worldgen, it will often steal items instead of attacking - [[kea]] birds are infamous for this. Trained and tame instances of the creature will no longer display this behavior. Also, makes the creature unable to drop hauled items until it enters combat.

|-
| {{text anchor|CV_ADD_TAG}}
| Special
|
*TAG NAME
| Adds a tag. Used in conjunction with creature variation templates.

|-
| {{text anchor|CV_REMOVE_TAG}}
| Special
|
*TAG NAME
| Removes a tag. Used in conjunction with creature variation templates.
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==D==
{| {{prettytable}}
|- bgcolor="#ddd"
! width="20%" | Token
! width="10%" | Type
! width="20%" | Arguments
! width="50%" | Description

|-
| {{text anchor|DEMON}}
| Caste
|
| Found on generated [[demon]]s.

At least 1 demon generated, or custom must have the {{token|FLIER|c}} token in order for the [[Underworld|horrifying screams]] event to trigger.

|-
| {{text anchor|DESCRIPTION}}
| Caste
|
*text
| A brief description of the creature type, as displayed when viewing the creature's description/[[Thoughts and preferences|thoughts & preferences]] screen.

|-
| {{text anchor|DIE_WHEN_VERMIN_BITE}}
| Caste
|
| Causes the creature to die upon attacking. Used by [[honey bee]]s to simulate them dying after using their stingers.

|-
| {{text anchor|DIFFICULTY}}
| Caste
|
*integer
| Increases experience gain during adventure mode. Creatures with a difficulty of 11 or higher are not assigned for quests in adventure mode. Vanilla [[semimegabeast]]s have a difficulty of 5 and [[megabeast]]s have a difficulty of 10.

|-
| {{text anchor|DIURNAL}}
| Caste
|
| When set, the creature will only appear during the day (between 6:00 AM and 8:00 PM) in [[Adventurer mode]].

|-
| {{text anchor|DIVE_HUNTS_VERMIN}}
| Caste
|
| The creature hunts vermin by diving from the air. On tame creatures, it has the same effect as {{token|HUNTS_VERMIN|c}}. Found on [[peregrine falcon]]s.

|-
| {{text anchor|DOES_NOT_EXIST}}
| Creature
|
| Adding this token to a creature prevents it from appearing in generated worlds (unless it's marked as [[Entity_token#ANIMAL_ALWAYS_PRESENT|always present]] for a particular civilisation). For example, adding it to [[dog]]s will lead to worlds being generated without dogs in them. Also removes the creature from the [[object testing arena]]'s spawn list. If combined with {{token|FANCIFUL|c}}, artistic depictions of the creature will occur regardless. Used by [[centaur]]s, [[chimera]]s and [[griffon]]s in the vanilla game.

Note: a creature tagged as DOES_NOT_EXIST can still be [[Interaction_token#I_EFFECT|summoned]] successfully, as long as it has a body defined in its raws [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=165213.msg8086938#msg8086938], or, another creature can [[Syndrome#CE_BODY_TRANSFORMATION|transform]] into it.
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==E==
{| {{prettytable}}
|- bgcolor="#ddd"
! width="20%" | Token
! width="10%" | Type
! width="20%" | Arguments
! width="50%" | Description

|-
| {{text anchor|EBO_ITEM}}
| Caste
|
*[[item token]]
*[[material token]] (ANY_HARD_STONE can be used for the material)
| Defines the item that the creature drops upon being [[butcher|butchered]]. Used with {{token|EXTRA_BUTCHER_OBJECT|c}}.

|-
| {{text anchor|EBO_SHAPE}}
| Caste
|
*gem shape
| The shape of the creature's extra [[butcher|butchering]] drop. Used with {{token|EXTRA_BUTCHER_OBJECT|c}}.

|-
| {{text anchor|EGG_MATERIAL}}
| Caste
|
* <[[material token]]>
* <[[Material_definition_token#Material_States|material state]]>
| Defines the material composition of [[egg]]s laid by the creature. [[creature_token#LAYS_EGGS|Egg-laying]] creatures in the default game define this 3 times, using LOCAL_CREATURE_MAT:EGGSHELL, LOCAL_CREATURE_MAT:EGG_WHITE, and then LOCAL_CREATURE_MAT:EGG_YOLK. Eggs will be made out of eggshell. Edibility is determined by tags on whites or yolk, but they otherwise do not exist.

|-
| {{text anchor|EGG_SIZE}}
| Caste
|
*size
| Determines the size of laid [[egg]]s. Doesn't affect hatching or cooking, but bigger eggs will be heavier, and may take longer to be hauled depending on the hauler's strength.

|-
| {{text anchor|EQUIPMENT_WAGON}}
| Creature
|
| Makes the creature appear as a large 3×3 [[wagon]] responsible for carrying trade goods, pulled by two {{token|WAGON_PULLER|c}} creatures and driven by a merchant.

|-
| {{text anchor|EQUIPS}}
| Caste
|
| Allows the creature to wear or wield items.

|-
| {{text anchor|EVIL}}
| Creature
|
| The creature is considered evil and will only show up in evil biomes. Civilizations with {{token|USE_EVIL_ANIMALS|e}} can domesticate them regardless of exotic status. Has no effect on cavern creatures except to restrict taming. A civilization with evil creatures can colonize evil areas.

Civilizations which list evil creatures as one of their main population options will potentially emerge following an underworld mining disaster, with the added caveat that a demon will be in charge of the civ. The rules which govern which noble position the demon in charge adopts however, are unclear. It either picks one of the predefined positions, or simply makes its own.

|-
| {{text anchor|EXTRA_BUTCHER_OBJECT}}
| Caste
|
* [[Body token#CATEGORY|BY_CATEGORY]] or [[Body token#CONTYPE|BY_TYPE]] or [[Body token#BP|BY_TOKEN]]
* TYPE, CATEGORY, or TOKEN
| The creature drops an additional object when [[butcher|butchered]], as defined by {{token|EBO_ITEM|c}} and {{token|EBO_SHAPE|c}}. Used for [[gizzard stone]]s in default creatures. For some materials, needs to be defined after caste definitions with SELECT_CASTE:ALL{{Bug|6355}}

|-
| {{text anchor|EXTRACT}}
| Caste
|
* [[material token]]
| Defines a creature extract which can be obtained via [[small animal dissection]].

|-
| {{text anchor|EXTRAVISION}}
| Caste
|
| The creature can see regardless of whether it has working eyes and has full 360 degree vision, making it impossible to strike the creature from a blind spot in combat. Invisible creatures will also be seen, namely [[intelligent undead]] using a "vanish" power.
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==F==
{| {{prettytable}}
|- bgcolor="#ddd"
! width="20%" | Token
! width="10%" | Type
! width="20%" | Arguments
! width="50%" | Description

|-
| {{text anchor|FANCIFUL}}
| Creature
|
| The creature is a thing of legend and known to all civilizations. Its materials cannot be requested or preferred. The tag also adds some art value modifiers. Used by a [[Fanciful|number of creatures]]. Conflicts with {{token|COMMON_DOMESTIC|c}}.

|-
| {{text anchor|FEATURE_ATTACK_GROUP}}
| Caste
|
| Found on [[Animal people#Subterranean animal people|subterranean animal-man]] tribals. Currently defunct. In previous versions{{verify}}, it caused these creatures to crawl out of chasms and underground rivers.

|-
| {{text anchor|FEATURE_BEAST}}
| Caste
|
| Found on [[forgotten beast]]s. Presumably makes it act as such, initiating underground attacks on fortresses, or leads to the pop-up message upon encountering one{{verify}}. Displays the creature's {{token|DESCRIPTION|c}} in its [[legends mode]] entry and hides the creature from displaying in a world_sites_and_pops file. Does not create historical figures like generated forgotten beasts do.

Requires specifying a {{token|BIOME|c}} in which the creature will live, and both surface and subterranean biomes are allowed. Does not stack with {{token|LARGE_ROAMING|c}} and if both are used the creature will not spawn. Appears to be incompatible with {{token|DEMON|c}} even if used in separate castes.

|-
| {{text anchor|FEMALE}}
| Caste
|
| Makes the creature biologically female, enabling her to [[Breeding|bear young]]. Usually specified inside a caste.

|-
| {{text anchor|FIREIMMUNE}}
| Caste
|
| Makes the creature immune to [[Interaction_token#FIREBALL|FIREBALL]] and [[Interaction_token#FIREJET|FIREJET]] attacks, and allows it to path through high temperature zones, like lava or fires. Does not, by itself, make the creature immune to the damaging effects of burning in [[fire]], and does not prevent general heat damage or melting on its own (this would require adjustments to be made to the creature's body [[Material_definition_token|materials]] - see the [[Dragon/raw|dragon raws]] for an example).

|-
| {{text anchor|FIREIMMUNE_SUPER}}
| Caste
|
| Like {{token|FIREIMMUNE|c}}, but also renders the creature immune to [[Interaction_token#DRAGONFIRE|DRAGONFIRE]] attacks.

|-
| {{text anchor|FISHITEM}}
| Caste
|
| The creature's corpse is a single [[Item_token#FISH_RAW|FISH_RAW]] food item that needs to be cleaned (into a [[Item_token#FISH|FISH]] item) at a [[fishery]] to become edible. Before being cleaned the item is referred to as "raw". The food item is categorized under "fish" on the food and stocks screens, and when uncleaned it is sorted under "raw fish" in the stocks (but does not show up on the food screen).
Without this or {{token|COOKABLE_LIVE|c}}, [[fishing|fished]] vermin will turn into food the same way as non-vermin creatures, resulting in multiple units of food (meat, brain, lungs, eyes, spleen etc.) from a single fished vermin. These units of food are categorized as meat by the game.

|-
| {{text anchor|FIXED_TEMP}}
| Caste
|
*temperature
| The creature's body is constantly at this temperature, heating up or cooling the surrounding area. Alters the temperature of the creature's inventory and all adjacent tiles, [[Temperature|with all the effects that this implies]] - may trigger wildfires at high enough values. Also makes the creature immune to extreme heat or cold, as long as the temperature set is not harmful to the materials that the creature is made from. Corpses and body parts of creatures with a fixed temperature maintain their temperature even after death.

Note that temperatures of 12000 and higher may cause [[path|pathfinding]] issues in fortress mode.

|-
| {{text anchor|FLEEQUICK}}
| Caste
|
| If engaged in combat, the creature will flee at the first sign of resistance. Used by [[kobold]]s in the vanilla game.

|-
| {{text anchor|FLIER}}
| Caste
|
| Allows a creature to fly, independent of it having wings or not. Fortress Mode pathfinding only partially incorporates flying - flying creatures need a land path to exist between them and an area in order to access it, but as long as one such path exists, they do not need to use it, instead being able to fly over intervening obstacles. Winged creatures with this token can lose their ability to fly if their wings are crippled or severed. Winged creatures without this token will be unable to fly. (A 'wing' in this context refers to any body part with its own [[Body_token#FLIER|FLIER]] token).

At least 1 [[Demon]] must have the flier token in order for the [[Underworld|horrifying screams]] event to trigger.

|-
| {{text anchor|FREQUENCY}}
| Creature
|
*number, max 100
| The {{token|FREQUENCY|c}} value plays two separate roles. The first is in determining the initial distribution of creatures across the world map. Each creature is randomly assigned a single x, y co-ordinate on the world map, which act as the epicenter for that creature's distribution. A square is drawn around that x, y co-ordinate with a Manhattan radius equal to the {{token|FREQUENCY|c}} value divided by 100 times the world map size. For example, in a 256 by 256 size world map, the [[lion]] might be assigned 14, 112. The [[lion]] has {{token|FREQUENCY:5|c}}, and so a square is drawn by moving 13 tiles in each direction from the [[lion]]'s x, y co-ordinate. This is the [[lion]]'s "territory".

Each sub-region in the world will attempt to fill lists of wildlife. There are five lists - {{token|VERMIN_GROUNDER|c}}, {{token|VERMIN_SOIL|c}}, {{token|VERMIN_SOIL_COLONY|c}}, {{token|LARGE_ROAMING|c}}, and {{token|LARGE_PREDATOR|c}}, corresponding with the relevant tokens. The game will attempt to place seven creatures in each list for each sub-region. The game will select the seven nearest valid creatures. Creatures are valid for sub-region's list if they have the requisite token for that list, if they have the valid token for that sub-region's biome (for example, the [lion] can only be selected for {{token|BIOME:SAVANNA_TROPICAL|c}}, {{token|BIOME:GRASSLAND_TROPICAL|c}}, and {{token|BIOME:SHRUBLAND_TROPICAL|c}}, and if their "territory" as defined by their random epicenter and {{token|FREQUENCY|c}} radius overlaps with that sub-region. These lists then determine the creatures that can actually appear within that sub-region during gameplay.

There are some exceptions to the above. If the game was not capable of filling all seven entries in a list, it will drop the overlapping territory requirement, and simply pull the nearest creature which has the correct token and biome availability. Conversely, if a creature has an epicenter but has not appeared on any of the list for any of the world map's sub-regions, the creature will be assigned to the relevant list for the nearest appropriate sub-region - meaning it is occasionally possible to have lists of eight creatures or more. This is more common in smaller worlds where there are less possible sub-regions to be assigned towards. Creatures with the {{token|GOOD|c}} and {{token|EVIL|c}} tokens ignore the epicenter distribution system altogether. They are always capable of appearing in appropriate biomes which are {{token|GOOD|b}} or {{token|EVIL|b}} respectively. This is not true for {{token|SAVAGE|c}}, which acts more like the biome tokens. Creatures with {{token|UBIQUITOUS|c}} have a "territory" which covers the entire map, regardless of their epicenter (although they can still fail to be chosen if there are 7 creatures which are eligible and have nearer epicenters to the sub-region in question).

The second use for {{token|FREQUENCY|c}} is to determine how often a creature actually appears on map. In Fortress Mode, the game will try and spawn large wildlife (creatures with {{token|LARGE_ROAMING|c}} or {{token|LARGE_PREDATOR|c}} in fairly regular waves. These waves include {{token|LARGE_ROAMING|c}}, {{token|LARGE_ROAMING|c}} combined with {{token|FLIER|c}}, {{token|LARGE_PREDATOR|c}}, and {{token|CURIOUS_BEAST|c}} - so a [[lion]] does not compete for selection with a [[gazelle]]. When the game decides it needs to spawn in a fresh wave of e.g. {{token|LARGE_ROAMING|c}} creatures, it will select one of the creatures available to it from the lists for that sub-region at random, with all creatures weighted equally. Once it has selected a creature, it then effectively rolls a d100 against the relevant creature's {{token|FREQUENCY|c}}. If the d100 is equal to the creature's {{token|FREQUENCY|c}} or less, that creature is then spawned in. If the d100 is above the creature's {{token|FREQUENCY|c}}, the game returns to the relevant list and selects again. {{token|UBIQUITOUS|c}} acts as {{token|FREQUENCY:100|c}} for these purposes - in other words, the creature cannot fail the d100 check and will always be spawned in if it is selected from the list.

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==G==
{| {{prettytable}}
|- bgcolor="#ddd"
! width="20%" | Token
! width="10%" | Type
! width="20%" | Arguments
! width="50%" | Description

|-
| {{text anchor|GAIT}}
| Caste
|
* <gait type>
* <gait name>
* <max [[Gait#Speed|speed]]>
* <build up time>
* <max turning [[Gait#Speed|speed]]>
* <start [[Gait#Speed|speed]]>
* <energy expenditure>
* <gait flag(s)>
| Defines a gait by which the creature can move. See [[Gait]] for more information. Specifically, you likely want to use one of the existing STANDARD_X_GAITS creature variations, as described in [[Gait#Gaits_and_Modding|this subsection]].

* <max speed> indicates the maximum [[Gait#Speed|speed]] achievable by a creature using this gait
* <start speed> indicates the creature's speed when it starts moving using this gait
* <build up time> indicates how long it will take for a creature using this gait to go from <start speed> to <max speed>. For example, a value of 10 means that it should be able to reach the maximum speed by moving 10 [[tile]]s in a straight line over even terrain.
* <max turning speed> indicates the maximum speed permissible when the creature suddenly changes its direction of motion. The creature's speed will be reduced to <max turning speed> if travelling at a higher speed than this before turning.
* <energy expenditure> indicates how energy-consuming the gait is. Higher values cause the creature to tire out faster. Persistent usage of a high-intensity gait will eventually lead to exhaustion and [[Status_icon#Non-flashing|collapse]].

'''NO_BUILD_UP''' can be specified instead of a <start speed> value to make the <max speed> instantly achievable upon initiating movement (this is equivalent to a <build up time> of 0). Note that <build up time> and <max turning speed> are both ignored if specified alongside this (as NO_BUILD_UP trumps <build up time> and preserves <max speed> whilst turning, and <max turning speed> cannot exceed <max speed>) so it is permissible to omit them so long as they are '''both''' omitted together.

It's possible to specify a <start speed> greater than the <max speed>; the moving creature will decelerate towards its <max speed> in this case.

'''valid gait types:'''
*'''WALK''' 
Used for moving normally over ground tiles.

*'''CRAWL''' 
Used for moving over ground tiles whilst [[Status_icon#Non-flashing|prone]].

*'''SWIM''' 
Used for moving through tiles containing [[water]] or [[magma]] at a [[Water#Depth|depth]] of at least 4/7.

*'''FLY''' 
Used for moving through [[open space]].

*'''CLIMB''' 
Used for moving whilst [[Climber|climbing]].

'''valid gait flags:'''
* '''AGILITY''' 
Speeds/slows movement depending on the creature's [[Attribute#Agility|Agility]] stat.

* '''STRENGTH''' 
Speeds/slows movement depending on the creature's [[Attribute#Strength|Strength]] stat.

* '''LAYERS_SLOW''' 
Makes [[Tissue_definition_token#THICKENS_ON_ENERGY_STORAGE|THICKENS_ON_ENERGY_STORAGE]] and [[Tissue_definition_token#THICKENS_ON_STRENGTH|THICKENS_ON_STRENGTH]] tissue layers slow movement depending on how thick they are. Adding the STRENGTH gait flag counteracts the impact of the latter layer.

* '''STEALTH_SLOWS:'''<percentage> 
Slows movement by the specified percentage when the creature is [[Ambusher|sneaking]].

|-
| {{text anchor|GENERAL_BABY_NAME}}
| Creature
|
*singular
*plural
| Like {{token|BABYNAME|c}}, but applied regardless of caste.

|-
| {{text anchor|GENERAL_CHILD_NAME}}
| Creature
|
*singular
*plural
| Like {{token|CHILDNAME|c}}, but applied regardless of caste.

|-
| {{text anchor|GENERAL_MATERIAL_FORCE_MULTIPLIER}}
| Caste
|
*value A
*value B
| Has the same function as {{token|MATERIAL_FORCE_MULTIPLIER|c}}, but applies to all attacks instead of just those involving a specific material. Appears to be overridden by MATERIAL_FORCE_MULTIPLIER ([[werebeast]]s, for example, use both tokens to provide resistance to all materials, with one exception to which they are especially vulnerable).

|-
| {{text anchor|GENERATED}}
| Creature
|
| Found on procedurally generated creatures like [[forgotten beast]]s, [[titan]]s, [[demon]]s, [[angel]]s, and [[night creature]]s. Cannot be specified in user-defined raws.

|-
| {{text anchor|GETS_INFECTIONS_FROM_ROT}}
| Caste
|
| Makes the creature get [[Health_care#Infection|infections]] from necrotic tissue.

|-
| {{text anchor|GETS_WOUND_INFECTIONS}}
| Caste
|
| Makes the creature's wounds become [[Health_care#Infection|infected]] if left untreated for too long.

|-
| {{text anchor|GLOWCOLOR}}
| Creature
|
*foreground
*background
*brightness
| The colour of the creature's {{token|GLOWTILE|c}}.

|-
| {{text anchor|GLOWTILE}}
| Creature
|
*ascii character
| If present, the being glows in the dark (generally used for Adventurer Mode). The tile is what replaces the being's current tile when it is obscured from your sight by darkness. The default setting for kobolds (a yellow quotation mark) provides a nice "glowing eyes" effect. The game is also hardcoded to automatically convert quotation mark GLOWTILES into apostrophes if the creature has lost one eye. This works at the generic creature level - for caste-specific glow tiles, use {{token|CASTE_GLOWTILE|c}} instead.

|-
| {{text anchor|GNAWER}}
| Caste
|
*verb
| The creature can and will gnaw its way out of [[animal trap]]s and [[cage]]s using the specified verb, depending on the material from which it is made (normally wood).

|-
| {{text anchor|GOBBLE_VERMIN_CLASS}}
| Caste
|
*class
| The creature eats vermin of the specified class.

|-
| {{text anchor|GOBBLE_VERMIN_CREATURE}}
| Caste
|
*creature
*caste
| The creature eats a specified [[vermin]].

|-
| {{text anchor|GO_TO_END}}
| Special
|
| When using tags from an existing creature, inserts new tags at the end of the creature.

|-
| {{text anchor|GO_TO_START}}
| Special
|
| When using tags from an existing creature, inserts new tags at the beginning of the creature.

|-
| {{text anchor|GO_TO_TAG}}
| Special
|
| When using tags from an existing creature, inserts new tags ''before'' the specified tag.

|-
| {{text anchor|GOOD}}
| Creature
|
| Creature is considered good and will only show up in good biomes - [[unicorn]]s, for example. Civilizations with {{token|USE_GOOD_ANIMALS|e}} can domesticate them regardless of exotic status. Has no effect on cavern creatures except to restrict taming. A civilization that has good creatures can colonise good areas in world-gen.

|-
| {{text anchor|GRASSTRAMPLE}}
| Caste
|
*value
| The value determines how rapidly [[grass]] is trampled when a creature steps on it - a value of 0 causes the creature to never damage grass, while a value of 100 causes grass to be trampled as rapidly as possible. Defaults to 5.

|-
| {{text anchor|GRAVITATE_BODY_SIZE}}
| Caste
|
*target value
| Used in Creature Variants. This token changes the adult body size to the average of the old adult body size and the target value and scales all intermediate growth stages by the same factor.

|-
| {{text anchor|GRAZER}}
| Caste
|
*number
| The creature is a grazer - if tamed in fortress mode, it needs a pasture to survive. The higher the number, the less frequently it needs to eat in order to live. Not used since 0.40.12, replaced by {{token|STANDARD_GRAZER|c}} to fix {{bugl|4113}}.
|}

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==H==
{| {{prettytable}}
|- bgcolor="#ddd"
! width="20%" | Token
! width="10%" | Type
! width="20%" | Arguments
! width="50%" | Description

|-
| {{text anchor|HABIT}}
| Caste
|
*type
*probability
| Defines certain behaviors for the creature. The habit types are:
*COLLECT_TROPHIES
*COOK_PEOPLE
*COOK_VERMIN
*GRIND_VERMIN
*COOK_BLOOD
*GRIND_BONE_MEAL
*EAT_BONE_PORRIDGE
*USE_ANY_MELEE_WEAPON
*GIANT_NEST
*COLLECT_WEALTH.
These require the creature to have a {{token|LAIR|c}} to work properly, and also don't seem to work on creatures who are not a {{token|SEMIMEGABEAST|c}}, {{token|MEGABEAST|c}}, or{{token|NIGHT_CREATURE_HUNTER|c}}.

|-
| {{text anchor|HABIT_NUM}}
| Caste
|
*number or TEST_ALL
| "If you set HABIT_NUM to a number, it should give you that exact number of habits according to the weights.".{{cite forum|60554/1719248}} All lists of HABITs are preceded by [HABIT_NUM:TEST_ALL]

|-
| {{text anchor|HAS_NERVES}}
| Caste
|
| The creature has nerves in its muscles. Cutting the muscle tissue can sever motor and sensory nerves, disabling the limb.

|-
| {{text anchor|HASSHELL}}
| Caste
|
| The creature has a shell. Seemingly no longer used - holdover from previous versions.

|-
| {{text anchor|HIVE_PRODUCT}}
| Creature
|
*number
*[[time]]
*[[item token]]s
| What product is harvested from [[Beekeeping industry|beekeeping]].

|-
| {{text anchor|HOMEOTHERM}}
| Caste
|
*number or NONE
| Default 'NONE'. The creature's normal body [[temperature]]. Creature ceases maintaining temperature on death unlike fixed material temperatures. Provides minor protection from environmental temperature to the creature.

|-
| {{text anchor|HUNTS_VERMIN}}
| Caste
|
| Creature hunts and kills nearby [[vermin]], randomly walking between places with food laying on the ground or in stockpiles, to check for possible [VERMIN_EATER] vermin, but they'll kill any other vermin too. Do not include this creature token on an intelligent entity that you intend to play as in fortress mode because it will prevent them from feeding themselves.

|}

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==I==
{| {{prettytable}}
|- bgcolor="#ddd"
! width="20%" | Token
! width="10%" | Type
! width="20%" | Arguments
! width="50%" | Description

|-
| {{text anchor|IMMOBILE}}
| Caste
|
| The creature cannot move. Found on [[sponge]]s. Will also stop a creature from breeding in fortress mode (MALE and FEMALE are affected, if one is IMMOBILE; no breeding will happen).

|-
| {{text anchor|IMMOBILE_LAND}}
| Caste
|
| The creature is immobile while on land. Only works on {{token|AQUATIC|c}} creatures which can't breathe on land.

|-
| {{text anchor|IMMOLATE}}
| Caste
|
| The creature radiates [[fire]]. It will ignite, and potentially completely destroy, items the creature is standing on. Also gives the vermin a high chance of escaping from [[animal trap]]s and [[cage]]s made of any flammable materials (specifically ones that could be ignited by magma).

|-
| {{text anchor|INTELLIGENT}}
| Caste
|
| Alias for {{token|CAN_SPEAK|c}} + {{token|CAN_LEARN|c}}.

|-
| {{text anchor|ITEMCORPSE}}
| Caste
|
* [[item token]]
* [[material token]]
| Determines if the creature leaves behind a non-standard corpse (i.e. wood, statue, bars, stone, pool of liquid, etc.). [[Ethics]] may prevent actually using the item in jobs or reactions.

|-
| {{text anchor|ITEMCORPSE_QUALITY}}
| Caste
|
* number
| The [[quality]] of an item-type corpse left behind. Valid values are: 0 for ordinary, 1 for well-crafted, 2 for finely-crafted, 3 for superior, 4 for exceptional, 5 for masterpiece.
|}

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==L==
{| {{prettytable}}
|- bgcolor="#ddd"
! width="20%" | Token
! width="10%" | Type
! width="20%" | Arguments
! width="50%" | Description

|-
| {{text anchor|LAIR}}
| Caste
|
*type
*probability
| Found on megabeasts, semimegabeasts, and night creatures. The creature will seek out sites of this type and take them as lairs. The lair types are:
*SIMPLE_BURROW
*SIMPLE_MOUND
*WILDERNESS_LOCATION
*SHRINE
*LABYRINTH

|-
| {{text anchor|LAIR_CHARACTERISTIC}}
| Caste
|
*characteristic
*probability
| Defines certain features of the creature's lair. The only valid characteristic is HAS_DOORS.

|-
| {{text anchor|LAIR_HUNTER}}
| Caste
|
| This creature will actively hunt adventurers in its lair.

|-
| {{text anchor|LAIR_HUNTER_SPEECH}}
| Caste
|
*speech file
| What this creature says while hunting adventurers in its lair.

|-
| {{text anchor|LARGE_PREDATOR}}
| Caste
|
| Will attack other creatures that are smaller than it. Tamed large predators will still attack wildlife. In [[fortress mode]], only one group of "large predators" (possibly two groups on "savage" maps) will appear on any given map. In [[adventurer mode]], large predators will try to ambush and attack you (and your party will attack them back). When tamed, large predators tend to be much more aggressive to enemies than non-large predators, making them a good choice for an animal army. They may go on rampages in worldgen, and adventurers may receive quests to kill them. Also, they can be mentioned in the intro paragraph when starting a fortress e.g. "ere the wolves get hungry."
A single biome supports 7 large predator species, picking randomly and rolling a d100 under its {{token|FREQUENCY|c}} to add it until all 7 slots are filled.

Incompatible with {{token|PACK_ANIMAL|c}} on a technicality, if included: hauled items are likely to be dropped upon entering the map (even if {{token|TRADE_CAPACITY|c}} is present) in contrast to when the merchants depart.

|-
| {{text anchor|LARGE_ROAMING}}
| Creature
|
| This is the core requisite tag allowing the creature to spawn as a wild animal in the appropriate biomes. Requires specifying a {{token|BIOME|c}} in which the creature will spawn. Does not require specifying a frequency, population number, or cluster number.

This tag stacks with {{token|MEGABEAST|c}}, {{token|SEMIMEGABEAST|c}}, or {{token|NIGHT_CREATURE_HUNTER|c}}; if used with one of these tags, the creature will spawn as both a boss and as a wild animal. This tag does not stack with {{token|FEATURE_BEAST|c}} and if both are used the creature will not spawn. This tag is unaffected by {{token|DEMON|c}}.
Large roamers are not able to spawn in Pool biomes as they do not connect to the edge of the map and are too small, Lake biomes are a suitable alternative.

|-
| {{text anchor|LAYS_EGGS}}
| Caste
|
| Creature lays [[egg]]s instead of giving birth to live young.

|-
| {{text anchor|LAYS_UNUSUAL_EGGS}}
| Caste
|
* [[item token]]
* [[material token]]
| Creature lays the specified item instead of regular eggs.

|-
| {{text anchor|LIGAMENTS}}
| Caste
|
* [[material token]]
*healing rate
| The creature has ligaments in its {{token|CONNECTIVE_TISSUE_ANCHOR|td}} tissues (bone or chitin by default). Cutting the bone/chitin tissue severs the ligaments, disabling motor function if the target is a limb.

|-
| {{text anchor|LIGHT_GEN}}
| Caste
|
| A vermin featuring this tag will remain visible to an adventurer even at night.

Subterranean vermin which feature this token will flicker in unexposed and unrevealed cavern layers while playing in Fortress Mode.

|-
| {{text anchor|LIKES_FIGHTING}}
| Caste
|
| The creature will attack enemies rather than flee from them. This tag has the same effect on player-controlled creatures - including modded dwarves. Retired as of v0.40.14 in favor of {{token|LARGE_PREDATOR|c}}.

|-
| {{text anchor|LISP}}
| Caste
|
| Creature uses "sssssnake talk" (multiplies 'S' when talking - "My name isss Recisssiz."). Used by [[Serpent man|serpent men]] and [[Reptile man|reptile men]] in the vanilla game. C's with the same pronunciation (depending on the word) are not affected by this token.

|-
| {{text anchor|LITTERSIZE}}
| Caste
|
* minimum
* maximum
| Determines the number of offspring per one birth; default 1-3, not used in vanilla raws. See also {{token|MULTIPLE_LITTER_RARE|c}}.

|-
| {{text anchor|LOCAL_POPS_CONTROLLABLE}}
| Creature
|
| Allows you to play as a wild animal of this species in adventurer mode. Prevents trading of (tame) instances of this creature in caravans.

|-
| {{text anchor|LOCAL_POPS_PRODUCE_HEROES}}
| Creature
|
| Wild animals of this species may occasionally join a civilization. Prevents trading of (tame) instances of this creature in caravans.

|-
| {{text anchor|LOCKPICKER}}
| Caste
|
| Lets a creature open [[door]]s that are set to forbidden in fortress mode.

|-
| {{text anchor|LOOSE_CLUSTERS}}
| Creature
|
| The creatures will scatter if they have this tag, or form tight packs if they don't.

|-
| {{text anchor|LOW_LIGHT_VISION}}
| Caste
|
*number
| Determines how well a creature can see in the dark - higher is better. Dwarves have 10000, which amounts to perfect nightvision.
|}

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==M==
{| {{prettytable}}
|- bgcolor="#ddd"
! width="20%" | Token
! width="10%" | Type
! width="20%" | Arguments
! width="50%" | Description

|-
| {{text anchor|MAGICAL}}
| Caste
|
| According to Toady One, this is completely interchangeable with {{token|AT_PEACE_WITH_WILDLIFE|c}} and might have been used in very early versions of the game by wandering wizards or the ent-type tree creatures that used to be animated by elves. [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=169696.msg8316954#msg8316954]

|-
| {{text anchor|MAGMA_VISION}}
| Caste
|
| The creature is able to see while submerged in [[magma]].

|-
| {{text anchor|MALE}}
| Caste
|
| Makes the creature biologically male; usually declared inside a caste.

|-
| {{text anchor|MANNERISM|MANNERISM_*}}
| Caste
|
*occasionally body part
| Adds a possible mannerism to the creature's profile. See [[creature mannerism token]] for further info.

|-
| {{text anchor|MATERIAL}}
| Creature
|
*material id
| Begins defining a new local material. Follow this with standard material definition tokens to define the material. A maximum of 200 materials can be defined on any given creature.

|-
| {{text anchor|MATERIAL_FORCE_MULTIPLIER}}
| Caste
|
*[[Material token]]
*value A
*value B
| When struck with a weapon made of the specified material, the force exerted will be multiplied by A/B, thus making the creature more or less susceptible to this material. For example, if A is 2 and B is 1, the force exerted by the defined material will be doubled. If A is 1 and B is 2, it will be halved instead. See also {{token|GENERAL_MATERIAL_FORCE_MULTIPLIER|c}}, which can be used to make this sort of effect applicable to all materials.

|-
| {{text anchor|MATUTINAL}}
| Caste
|
| When set, the creature will only appear at dawn (between 4:30 AM and 6:00 AM) in [[Adventurer mode]].

|-
| {{text anchor|MAXAGE}}
| Caste
|
*min
*max
| Determines the creature's natural lifespan, using the specified minimum and maximum age values (in years). Each individual creature with this token is generated with a predetermined date (calculated down to the exact [[time|tick]]!) between these values, at which it is destined to die of old age, should it live long enough. Note that the probability of death at any given age does not increase as the creature gets older [http://i.imgur.com/A1A4aA9.png].
Creatures which lack this token are naturally immortal. The [[Syndrome#CE_ADD_TAG|NO_AGING]] syndrome tag will prevent death by old age from occurring. Also note that, among civilized creatures, castes which lack this token will refuse to marry others with it, and vice versa.

|-
| {{text anchor|MEANDERER}}
| Caste
|
| Makes the creature slowly stroll around, unless it's in combat or performing a job. If combined with {{token|CAN_LEARN|c}}, will severely impact their [[pathfinding]] and lead the creature to move extremely slowly when not performing any task. Problematically applies to animal people based on the animal, and war trained animals{{bug|9588}}.

|-
| {{text anchor|MEGABEAST}}
| Caste
|
| A 'boss' creature; a small number of those are created during worldgen, their histories and descendants (if any) will be tracked in worldgen (as opposed to simply 'spawning'), and they will occasionally go on rampages, potentially leading to worship if they attack the same place multiple times. Their presence and number will also influence age names. When appearing in fortress mode, they will have a pop-up message announcing their arrival. They will remain hostile to the fortress military even after being tamed.{{bug|10731}} See [[megabeast]] page for more details.

Requires specifying a {{token|BIOME|c}} in which the creature will live. Subterranean biomes appear to not be allowed. Does stack with {{token|LARGE_ROAMING|c}} and if both are used the creature will spawn as both historical bosses and as wild animals.

|-
| {{text anchor|MENT_ATT_CAP_PERC}}
| Caste
|
*[[Attribute|ATTRIBUTE]] Token
*Cap %
|Default is 200. This means you can increase your attribute to 200% of its starting value (or the average value + your starting value if that is higher).

|-
| {{text anchor|MENT_ATT_RANGE}}
| Caste
|
*[[Attribute|ATTRIBUTE]]
*lowest
*lower
*low
*median
*high
*higher
*highest
| Sets up a [[Attribute#Soul_attributes|mental attribute]]'s range of values (0-5000). All mental attribute ranges default to 200:800:900:1000:1100:1300:2000.

|-
| {{text anchor|MENT_ATT_RATES}}
| Caste
|
*[[Attribute|ATTRIBUTE]] Token
*cost to improve
*unused counter rate
*rust counter rate
*demotion counter rate
| [[Attribute#Soul_attributes|Mental attribute]] gain/decay rates. Lower numbers in the last three slots make decay occur faster. Defaults are 500:4:5:4.

|-
| {{text anchor|MILKABLE}}
| Caste
|
* [[material token]]
* frequency
| Allows the creature to be [[milk]]ed in the [[farmer's workshop]]. The frequency is the amount of [[time|ticks]] the creature needs to "recharge" (i.e. how much time needs to pass before it can be milked again). Does not work on [[#CAN_LEARN|sentient]] creatures, regardless of [[ethics]].

|-
| {{text anchor|MISCHIEVIOUS}}
| Caste
|
| Alias for {{token|MISCHIEVOUS|c}}.

|-
| {{text anchor|MISCHIEVOUS}}
| Caste
|
| The creature spawns [[stealth]]ed and will attempt to path into the fortress, pulling any [[lever]]s it comes across. It will be invisible on the map and [[unit list]] until spotted by a citizen, at which point the game will pause and recenter on the creature. Used by [[gremlin]]s in the vanilla game. "They go on little missions to mess with various fortress buildings, not just levers."

|-
| {{text anchor|MODVALUE}}
| Caste
|
| Seemingly no longer used.

|-
| {{text anchor|MOUNT}}
| Caste
|
| Creature may be used as a [[mount]]. No use for the player in fortress mode, but enemy sieging forces may arrive with cavalry. Mounts are usable in adventure mode.

|-
| {{text anchor|MOUNT_EXOTIC}}
| Caste
|
| Creature may be used as a [[mount]], but civilizations cannot domesticate it in worldgen without certain exceptions.

|-
| {{text anchor|MULTIPART_FULL_VISION}}
| Caste
|
| Allows the creature to have all-around vision, as long as it has multiple heads that can see.

|-
| {{text anchor|MULTIPLE_LITTER_RARE}}
| Caste
|
| Makes the species usually produce a single offspring per birth, with a 1/500 chance of using the {{token|LITTERSIZE|c}} as usual. Requires {{token|FEMALE|c}}.

|-
| {{text anchor|MUNDANE}}
| Creature
|
| Marks if the creature is an actual real-life creature. Only used for age-names at present.
|}

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==N==
{| {{prettytable}}
|- bgcolor="#ddd"
! width="20%" | Token
! width="10%" | Type
! width="20%" | Arguments
! width="50%" | Description

|-
| {{text anchor|NAME}}
| Creature
|
*singular
*plural
*adjective
| The generic name for any creature of this type - will be used for referring to the species in the abstract, such as the default material prefix. For labeling individual creatures, {{token|CASTE_NAME|c}} is necessary. If left undefined, the creature will be labeled as "nothing" by the game.

Some examples of adjective use:
* "super''dwarven'' strength"
* "the ''dwarven'' hillocks of X"
* Deity species as in "''feline'' deity"
* Megabeast attacks in worldgen. One with multiple dragons being a "''draconic'' rampage"

|-
| {{text anchor|NATURAL}}
| Caste
|
| Animal is considered to be natural. NATURAL animals will not engage creatures tagged with {{token|AT_PEACE_WITH_WILDLIFE|c}} in combat unless they are members of a hostile entity and vice-versa.

|-
| {{text anchor|NATURAL_ANIMAL}}
| Caste
|
| Alias of {{token|NATURAL|c}}.

|-
| {{text anchor|NATURAL_SKILL}}
| Caste
|
*[[Skill_token|Skill token]]
*value
| The creature possesses the specified [[skill]] at this level inherently - that is, it begins with the skill at this level, and the skill may never rust below that. A value of 15 is legendary.

|-
| {{text anchor|NIGHT_CREATURE}}
| Caste
|
| Creatures with this token can appear as [[experiment|experiments]]. Causes the creature to count as {{token|NOT_LIVING|c}}.

Killing a creature featuring this token provides one point of "hero" reputation. Adds the creature's description as part of the initial summary of their historical figure in legends mode. People will react to creatures with this token as a night creature (natch). In adventure mode, ambushes involving these units will say "Night creature!" instead of "Ambush!"

Prevents creature behavior enabled by {{token|LARGE_PREDATOR|c}}.

Removes the high nature value check imposed by {{token|LOCAL_POPS_PRODUCE_HEROES|c}}.

Prevents the AI from using ANIMATE interactions, unless the newly-animated{{token|OPPOSED_TO_LIFE|c}}undead will not attack them. The check for this is specifically whether the unit is:
*a ghost
*an animated unit
*a unit with the {{token|NO_AGING|c}} token added via {{token|CE_ADD_TAG|c}}. (This allows for the default exclusion of elves and goblins, unless raised as intelligent undead.)

|-
| {{text anchor|NIGHT_CREATURE_BOGEYMAN}}
| Caste
|
| Creatures with this token can appear in [[bogeyman|bogeyman ambushes]] in [[adventure mode]], where they adopt classical bogeyman traits such as stalking the adventurer and vaporising when dawn breaks. Such traits do not manifest if the creature is encountered outside of a bogeyman ambush (for instance, as a megabeast or a civilised being). In addition, their corpses and severed body parts turn into [[smoke]] after a short while. Note that setting the "Number of Bogeyman Types" in [[advanced world generation]] to 0 will only remove randomly-generated bogeymen.

|-
| {{text anchor|NIGHT_CREATURE_EXPERIMENTER}}
| Caste
|
| Found on some [[necromancer]]s. Creatures with this tag may periodically "perform horrible experiments" offscreen, during which they can use creature-targeting interactions with an <code>[[Interaction_token#I_SOURCE|[I_SOURCE:EXPERIMENT]]]</code> tag on living creatures in their area. Worlds are generated with a list of procedurally-generated experiments, allowing necromancers to turn living people and animals into [[Infected_ghoul|ghouls]] and [[Experiment|other experimental creatures]], and these will automatically be available to all experimenters; it does not appear possible to prevent this. You can mod in your own custom experiment interactions, but these are used very infrequently due to the large number of generated experiments.

|-
| {{text anchor|NIGHT_CREATURE_HUNTER}}
| Caste
|
| Found on [[night troll]]s and [[werebeast]]s. Implies that the creature is a [[night creature]], and shows its description in [[legends mode]] entry. The creature is always hostile and will start [[no quarter]] combat with any nearby creatures, except for members of its own race. Note that this tag does not override the creature's normal behavior in [[fortress mode]] except for the aforementioned aggression, and doesn't prevent the creature from fleeing the battles it started. It also removes the creature's materials from stockpile settings list, making them be stored there regardless of settings.

Does stack with {{token|LARGE_ROAMING|c}} and if both are used the creature will spawn as both historical hunters and as wild animals; this requires specifying a {{token|BIOME|c}} in which the creature will live, and subterranean biomes are allowed.

This tag causes the usual behaviour of werebeasts in worldgen, that is, fleeing towns upon being cursed and conducting raids from a lair. If this tag is absent from a deity curse, the accursed will simply be driven out of towns in a similar manner to [[vampire]]s. When paired with SPOUSE_CONVERTER, a very small population of the creature will be created during worldgen (sometimes only a single individual will be created), and their histories will be tracked (that is, they will not spawn spontaneously later, they must either have children or convert other creatures to increase their numbers). The creature will settle in a lair and go on rampages during worldgen. It will actively attempt to seek out potential conversion targets to abduct, convert, and have children with (if possible).

|-
| {{text anchor|NIGHT_CREATURE_NIGHTMARE}}
| Caste
|
| Found on [[nightmare]]s. Corpses and severed body parts derived from creatures with this token turn into [[smoke]] after a short while.

|-
| {{text anchor|NO_AUTUMN}}
| Caste
|
| The creature caste does not appear in [[Calendar|autumn]].

|-
| {{text anchor|NO_CONNECTIONS_FOR_MOVEMENT}}
| Caste
|
| Creature doesn't require connected body parts to move{{verify}}; generally used on undead creatures with connections that have rotted away.

|-
| {{text anchor|NO_DIZZINESS}}
| Caste
|
| Creature cannot become [[Symptom#Dizziness|dizzy]].

|-
| {{text anchor|NO_DRINK}}
| Caste
|
| Creature does not need to drink.

|-
| {{text anchor|NO_EAT}}
| Caste
|
| Creature does not need to [[food|eat]].

|-
| {{text anchor|NO_FEVERS}}
| Caste
|
| Creature cannot suffer [[Symptom#Fever|fevers]].

|-
| {{text anchor|NO_GENDER}}
| Caste
|
| The creature is biologically sexless, making it unable to [[breeding|breed]].

|-
| {{text anchor|NO_PHYS_ATT_GAIN}}
| Caste
|
| The creature cannot raise any [[Attribute#Body_attributes|physical attributes]].

|-
| {{text anchor|NO_PHYS_ATT_RUST}}
| Caste
|
| The creature cannot lose any [[Attribute#Body_attributes|physical attributes]].

|-
| {{text anchor|NO_SLEEP}}
| Caste
|
| Creature does not need to sleep, but can still be rendered unconscious by other means.

|-
| {{text anchor|NO_SPRING}}
| Caste
|
| The creature caste does not appear in [[Calendar|spring]].

|-
| {{text anchor|NO_SUMMER}}
| Caste
|
| The creature caste does not appear in [[Calendar|summer]].

|-
| {{text anchor|NO_THOUGHT_CENTER_FOR_MOVEMENT}}
| Caste
|
| The bodyparts of this creature don't need to be connected to an organ with the {{token|THOUGHT|body}} tag in order to have motor function. Generally used on creatures that don't have brains. If a creature doesn't have a thought part and doesn't have this token, it will be unable to grasp or stand. Nautilus men experience this issue in vanilla.

|-
| {{text anchor|NO_UNIT_TYPE_COLOR}}
| Caste
|
| Prevents creature from selecting its color based on its profession (e.g. Miner, Hunter, Wrestler).

|-
| {{text anchor|NO_VEGETATION_PERTURB}}
| Caste{{Verify}}
|
| Likely prevents the creature from leaving broken vegetation tracks.{{Verify}}

|-
| {{text anchor|NO_WINTER}}
| Caste
|
| The creature caste does not appear in [[Calendar|winter]].

|-
| {{text anchor|NOBONES}}
| Caste
|
| Creature cannot be picked up for worldgen fell moods and cannot be made a skeleton deity.

|-
| {{text anchor|NOBREATHE}}
| Caste
|
| Creature doesn't need to breathe or have {{token|BREATHE|body}}parts in its body, nor can it drown or be strangled. Creatures living in magma must have this tag, otherwise they will drown.

|-
| {{text anchor|NOCTURNAL}}
| Caste
|
| When set, the creature will only appear at night (after 10:05 PM and before 4:30 AM) in [[Adventurer mode]].

|-
| {{text anchor|NOEMOTION}}
| Caste
|
| Creature has no emotions, thus; it is immune to the effects of [[stress]] and unable to rage, and its [[need]]s cannot be fulfilled in any way. Used on [[undead]] in the vanilla game.

|-
| {{text anchor|NOEXERT}}
| Caste
|
| Creature can't become tired or over-exerted from taking too many combat actions, or moving at full speed for extended periods of time.

|-
| {{text anchor|NOFEAR}}
| Caste
|
| Creature doesn't feel fear and will never flee from battle, and will be immune to [[ghost]]s' attempts to 'scare it to death'. Additionally, it causes [[bogeyman|bogeymen]] and [[nightmare]]s to become friendly towards the creature.

|-
| {{text anchor|NOMEAT}}
| Caste
|
| Creature will not be hunted or fed to wild beasts.

|-
| {{text anchor|NONAUSEA}}
| Caste
|
| Creature isn't nauseated by gut hits and cannot vomit.

|-
| {{text anchor|NOPAIN}}
| Caste
|
| Creature doesn't feel pain.

|-
| {{text anchor|NOSKIN}}
| Caste
|
| Creature will not drop a hide when [[butcher|butchered]].

|-
| {{text anchor|NOSKULL}}
| Caste
|
| Creature will not drop a skull on butchering, rot, or decay of severed head.

|-
| {{text anchor|NOSMELLYROT}}
| Caste
|
| Does not produce [[miasma]] when rotting.

|-
| {{text anchor|NOSTUCKINS}}
| Caste
|
| Weapons can't get stuck in the creature.

|-
| {{text anchor|NOSTUN}}
| Caste
|
| Creature can't be stunned and knocked unconscious by pain or head injuries. Creatures with this tag never wake up from sleep in Fortress Mode. If this creature needs to sleep while playing, it will die.

|-
| {{text anchor|NOT_BUTCHERABLE}}
| Caste
|
| Corpses from this creature cannot be [[butcher|butchered]]. Does not prevent the creature from being slaughtered while alive, however.

|-
| {{text anchor|NOT_LIVING}}
| Caste
|
| Cannot be raised from the dead by necromancers or evil clouds. Implies the creature is not a normal living being. Used by [[vampire]]s, [[Mummy|mummies]] and inorganic creatures like the [[amethyst man]] and [[bronze colossus]]. Creatures who are {{token|OPPOSED_TO_LIFE|c}} (undead) will be docile towards creatures with this token.

|-
| {{text anchor|NOTHOUGHT}}
| Caste
|
| Creature doesn't require a {{token|THOUGHT|body}} body part to survive. Has the added effect of preventing speech, though directly controlling creatures that would otherwise be capable of speaking allows them to engage in conversation.
|}

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==O==
{| {{prettytable}}
|- bgcolor="#ddd"
! width="20%" | Token
! width="10%" | Type
! width="20%" | Arguments
! width="50%" | Description

|-
| {{text anchor|ODOR_LEVEL}}
| Caste
|
*number
| How easy the creature is to [[smell]]. The higher the number, the easier the creature is to sniff out. Defaults to 50. Vanilla creatures have values from 0 (undetectable) to 90 (noticeable by humans and dwarves).

|-
| {{text anchor|ODOR_STRING}}
| Caste
|
*string
| What the creature [[smell]]s like. If no odor string is defined, the creature name (not the caste name) is used.

|-
| {{text anchor|OPPOSED_TO_LIFE}}
| Caste
|
| Is hostile to all creatures except undead and other non-living ones and will show {{DFtext|Opposed to life|0:1}} in the [[unit list]]. Used by [[undead]] in the vanilla game. Functions without the {{token|NOT_LIVING|c}} token, and seems to imply said token as well. Undead will not be hostile to otherwise-living creatures given this token. Living creatures given this token will attack living creatures that lack it, while ignoring other living creatures that also have this token.

|-
| {{text anchor|ORIENTATION}}
| Caste
|
*MALE/FEMALE
*disinterested chance
*casual chance
*strong chance
| Determines caste's likelihood of having sexual attraction to certain sexes. Values default to 75:20:5 for the same sex and 5:20:75 for the opposite sex. The first value indicates how likely to be entirely uninterested in the sex, the second decides if the creature will be able to become lovers with that sex, the third decides whether they will be able to marry in worldgen and post-worldgen world activities (which implies being able to become lovers). Marriage seems to be able to happen in fort mode play regardless, as long as they are lovers first.

|-
| {{text anchor|OUTSIDER_CONTROLLABLE}}
| Caste
|
| Lets you play as an [[Adventurer_mode_character_creation#Outsider|outsider]] of this species in adventure mode.

|}

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==P==
{| {{prettytable}}
|- bgcolor="#ddd"
! width="20%" | Token
! width="10%" | Type
! width="20%" | Arguments
! width="50%" | Description

|-
| {{text anchor|PACK_ANIMAL}}
| Caste
|
| Allows the creature to be used as a pack animal. Used by [[trading|merchants]] without wagons and adventurers. Also prevents creature from dropping hauled items on its own -- do ''not'' use for player-controllable creatures! May lead to the creature being domesticated during worldgen, even if it doesn't have {{token|COMMON_DOMESTIC|c}}.

Creatures with this tag but without {{token|BENIGN|c}}, and/or with {{token|LARGE_PREDATOR|c}} leads to hauled items being dropped.

|-
| {{text anchor|PARALYZEIMMUNE}}
| Caste
|
| The creature is immune to all [[Syndrome#CE_PARALYSIS|paralyzing]] special attacks.

|-
| {{text anchor|PATTERNFLIER}}
| Caste
|
| Used to control the bat riders with paralyze-dart blowguns that flew through the 2D chasm. Doesn't do anything now.

|-
| {{text anchor|PCG_LAYERING}}
| Creature
|
*[[Procedural graphics layer|Layering type]]
| Adds a layer to the current {{token|PROCEDURAL_CREATURE_GRAPHICS|c}} definition.

|-
| {{text anchor|PEARL}}
| Caste
|
| Does nothing.

|-
| {{text anchor|PENETRATEPOWER}}
| Caste
|
*value
| Controls the ability of [[vermin]] to find a way into containers when they are eating food from your stockpiles.

Objects made of most materials (e.g. metal) roll a number from 0-100, and if the resulting number is greater than the penetrate power, their contents escape for the time being. Objects made of [[wood]], [[leather]], [[amber]], or [[coral]] roll 0-95, and items made of [[cloth]] roll 0-90.

|-
| {{text anchor|PERSONALITY}}
| Caste
|
*ATTRIBUTE
*lowest
*median
*highest
| Determines the range and chance of personality facets. Standard is 0:50:100. See [[personality facet]] for more info.

|-
| {{text anchor|PET}}
| Caste
|
| Allows the creature to be [[Animal_trainer|tamed]] in Fortress mode. Prerequisite for all other working animal roles. Civilizations that encounter it in worldgen will tame and domesticate it for their own use. Adding this to civilization members will classify them as pets instead of citizens, with all the [[Fun|problems]] that entails. However, you can solve these problems using the popular plugin [https://dffd.bay12games.com/file.php?id=13095| Dwarf Therapist], which is completely unaffected by the tag.

|-
| {{text anchor|PET_EXOTIC}}
| Caste
|
| Allows the creature to be [[Animal_trainer|tamed]] in Fortress mode. Prequisite for all other working animal roles. Civilizations cannot domesticate it in worldgen, with certain exceptions. More difficult to tame?{{verify}} Adding this to civilization members will classify them as pets instead of citizens, with all the [[Fun|problems]] that entails. ([[Gremlin|Example]]).

|-
| {{text anchor|PETVALUE}}
| Caste
|
*value
| How valuable a tamed animal is. Actual cost in points in the embarking screen is 1+(PETVALUE/2) for an untrained animal, 1+PETVALUE for a war/hunting one.

|-
| {{text anchor|PETVALUE_DIVISOR}}
| Caste
|
*value
| Divides the creature's {{token|PETVALUE|c}} by the specified number. Used by [[honey bee]]s to prevent a single hive from being worth a fortune.

|-
| {{text anchor|PHYS_ATT_CAP_PERC}}
| Caste
|
*[[Attribute|ATTRIBUTE]] Token
*Cap %
|Default is 200. This means you can increase your attribute to 200% of its starting value (or the average value + your starting value if that is higher).

|-
| {{text anchor|PHYS_ATT_RANGE}}
| Caste
|
*[[Attribute|ATTRIBUTE]]
*lowest
*lower
*low
*median
*high
*higher
*highest
| Sets up a [[Attribute#Body_attributes|physical attribute]]'s range of values (0-5000). All physical attribute ranges default to 200:700:900:1000:1100:1300:2000.

|-
| {{text anchor|PHYS_ATT_RATES}}
| Caste
|
*[[Attribute|ATTRIBUTE]] Token
*cost to improve
*unused counter rate
*rust counter rate
*demotion counter rate
| [[Attribute#Body_attributes|Physical attribute]] gain/decay rates. Lower numbers in the last three slots make decay occur faster. Defaults for STRENGTH, AGILITY, TOUGHNESS, and ENDURANCE are 500:3:4:3, while RECUPERATION and DISEASE_RESISTANCE default to 500:NONE:NONE:NONE.

|-
| {{text anchor|PLUS_BP_GROUP}}
| Caste
|
*BY_TYPE, BY_CATEGORY, or BY_TOKEN
*body type, category, or token
| Adds a body part group to selected body part group. Presumably used immediately after {{token|SET_BP_GROUP|c}}.

|-
| {{text anchor|PLUS_MATERIAL}}
| Creature
|
*material
| Adds a material to selected materials. Used immediately after {{token|SELECT_MATERIAL|c}}.

|-
| {{text anchor|POP_RATIO}}
| Caste
|
*number (max 100000)
| Weighted population of caste; Lower is rarer. Not to be confused with {{token|FREQUENCY|c}}. A weight of 0 will{{version|51.06 experimental}} prevent a caste from spawning naturally. Regardless of pop ratio, [[Position token|Position]]s that only allow a certain caste can force it to spawn.

|-
| {{text anchor|POPULATION_NUMBER}}
| Creature
|
*min
*max
| The minimum/maximum numbers of how many of these creatures are present in each world map tile of the appropriate region. Defaults to 1:1 if not specified. If the creature's chosen {{token|CLUSTER_NUMBER|c}} happens to be larger, it will be used instead.

|-
| {{text anchor|POWER}}
| Caste
|
| Allows the being to represent itself as a deity, allowing it to become the leader of a civilized group. Not used by any creatures in the vanilla game. Requires {{token|CAN_SPEAK|c}} to actually do anything more than settle at a location (e.g. write books, lead armies, profane temples). Doesn't appear to do anything for creatures that are already civilized. Once the creature ascends to a position of leadership, it will proceed to act as a standard ruler for their entity and fulfill the same functions (hold tournaments, tame creatures, etc.).

|-
| {{text anchor|PREFSTRING}}
| Creature
|
*string
| Sets what other creatures [[Preferences|prefer]] about this creature. "Urist likes dwarves for their beards." Multiple entries will be chosen from at random. Creatures lacking a PREFSTRING token will never appear under another's preferences.

|-
| {{text anchor|PROCEDURAL_CREATURE_GRAPHICS}}
| Creature
|
* [[Graphics_token#Basic_creature_sprite_types|Sprite type]] or Caste then sprite type
| Makes the creature have procedural graphics built for it, like forgotten beasts/demons/titans/experiments. Must be associated with PCG_LAYERING tokens.

|-
| {{text anchor|PROFESSION_NAME}}
| Creature
|
*[[Unit type token]] (Profession)
*singular
*plural
| The generic name for members of this profession, at the creature level. In order to give members of specific castes different names for professions, use {{token|CASTE_PROFESSION_NAME|c}} instead.

|-
| {{text anchor|PRONE_TO_RAGE}}
| Caste
|
*Chance
| Creature has a percentage chance to flip out at visible non-friendly creatures. Enraged creatures attack anything regardless of timidity and get a strength bonus to their hits. This is what makes [[badger]]s so hardcore.

|-
| {{text anchor|PUS}}
| Caste
|
* <[[material token]]>
* <[[Material_definition_token#Material_States|material state]]>
| The creature has pus. Specifies the stuff secreted by [[Health_care#Infection|infected wounds]].
|}

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==R==
{| {{prettytable}}
|- bgcolor="#ddd"
! width="20%" | Token
! width="10%" | Type
! width="20%" | Arguments
! width="50%" | Description

|-
| {{text anchor|RELSIZE}}
| Caste
|
*BY_CATEGORY, BY_TYPE, BY_TOKEN
*body category, type, or token
*Relsize
| Specifies a new relative size for a part than what is stated in the body plan. For example, dwarves have larger livers.

|-
| {{text anchor|REMAINS}}
| Caste
|
*singular
*plural
| What the creature's [[remains]] are called.

|-
| {{text anchor|REMAINS_COLOR}}
| Caste
|
| What color the creature's [[remains]] are.

|-
| {{text anchor|REMAINS_ON_VERMIN_BITE_DEATH}}
| Caste
|
| Goes with {{token|VERMIN_BITE|c}} and {{token|DIE_WHEN_VERMIN_BITE|c}}, the vermin creature will leave remains on death when biting. Leaving this tag out will cause the creature to disappear entirely after it bites.

|-
| {{text anchor|REMAINS_UNDETERMINED}}
| Caste
|
| Nothing.

|-
| {{text anchor|REMOVE_MATERIAL}}
| Creature
|
*material token
| Removes a material from the creature.

|-
| {{text anchor|REMOVE_TISSUE}}
| Creature
|
*tissue token
| Removes a tissue from the creature.

|-
| {{text anchor|RETRACT_INTO_BP}}
| Caste
|
*BY_TYPE, BY_CATEGORY or BY_TOKEN
*body type, [[Body_token#CATEGORY|category]], or [[Body_token#BP|token]]
*Second person ("You") retract verb text
*Third person ("The giant snail") retract verb text
*Second person cancel retract text
*Third person cancel retract text
| The creature will retract into the specified body part(s) when threatened. It will be unable to move or attack, but enemies will only be able to attack the specified body part(s). When one of the specified body part is severed off, the creature automatically unretracts and cannot retract anymore. More than one body part can be selected by using BY_TYPE or BY_CATEGORY.

Second-person descriptions are used for adventurer mode natural ability. "<pro_pos>" can be used in the descriptions, being replaced with the proper pronoun (or lack thereof) in-game.

Undead curled up creatures are buggy, specifically those that retract into their upper bodies: [[echidna]]s, [[hedgehog]]s and [[pangolin]]s.{{bug|11463}}{{bug|10519}} The upper body is prevented from collapsing by a separate body part (the middle spine), which cannot be attacked when the creature is retracted. See {{token|PREVENTS_PARENT_COLLAPSE|bo}}. Living creatures eventually succumb to blood loss, but undead creatures do not. Giant creatures also take a very long time to bleed out.
|-
| {{text anchor|RETURNS_VERMIN_KILLS_TO_OWNER}}
| Creature
|
| Cat behavior. If it kills a vermin creature and has an owner, it carries the remains in its mouth and drops them at their feet. Requires {{token|HUNTS_VERMIN|c}}.

|-
| {{text anchor|ROOT_AROUND}}
| Caste
|
*BY_TYPE, BY_CATEGORY or BY_TOKEN
*body type, [[Body_token#CATEGORY|category]], or [[Body_token#BP|token]]
*Second person ("You") verb text
*Third person ("The hen") verb text
| Creature will occasionally root around in the grass, looking for insects. Used for flavor in Adventurer Mode, spawns vermin edible for this creature in Fortress Mode. Creatures missing the specified body part will be unable to perform this action. The action produces a message (visible in adventure mode) in the form:

{{DFtext|[creature] [verb text] the [description of creature's location].|6:0}}

In adventure mode, the "rooting around" ability will be included in the "natural abilities" menu, represented by its second person verb text.

|}

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==S==
{| {{prettytable}}
|- bgcolor="#ddd"
! width="20%" | Token
! width="10%" | Type
! width="20%" | Arguments
! width="50%" | Description

|-
| {{text anchor|SAVAGE}}
| Creature
|
| The creature will only show up in "savage" biomes. Has no effect on cavern creatures. Cannot be combined with {{token|GOOD|c}} or {{token|EVIL|c}}.

|-
| {{text anchor|SECRETION}}
| Caste
|
*<[[material token]]>
*<[[Material_definition_token#Material_States|material state]]>
*BY_TOKEN / BY_CATEGORY / BY_TYPE
*<[[Body_token#BP|body part ID]]> / <[[Body_token#CATEGORY|category]]> or ALL / <type (e.g. [[Body_token#GRASP|GRASP]])>
*<[[Body_detail_plan_token#BP_LAYERS|tissue layer]]> or ALL
*<trigger>
| Causes the specified tissue layer(s) of the indicated body part(s) to secrete the designated material. A size 100 ('covering') [[contaminant]] is created over the affected body part(s) in its specified material state (and at the temperature appropriate to this state) when the trigger condition is met, as long as one of the secretory tissue layers is still intact. Valid triggers are:
*'''CONTINUOUS'''
Secretion occurs once every 40 [[time|ticks]] in [[fortress mode]], and every tick in [[adventurer mode]].
*'''EXERTION'''
Secretion occurs continuously (at the rate described above) whilst the creature is at minimum {{Tile|Tired|6:1}} following physical exertion. Note that this cannot occur if the creature has {{token|NOEXERT|c}}.
*'''EXTREME_EMOTION'''
Secretion occurs continuously (as above) whilst the creature is distressed. Cannot occur in creatures with {{token|NOEMOTION|c}}.

|-
| {{text anchor|SELECT_ADDITIONAL_CASTE}}
| Creature
|
*<caste>
| Adds an additional previously defined caste to the selection. Used after {{token|SELECT_CASTE|c}}.

|-
| {{text anchor|SELECT_CASTE}}
| Creature
|
*<caste> or ALL
| Selects a previously defined caste

|-
| {{text anchor|SELECT_MATERIAL}}
| Creature
|
*<[[material token]]>
| Selects a locally defined material. Can be ALL.

|-
| {{text anchor|SELECT_TISSUE}}
| Creature
|
*tissue token
| Selects a tissue for editing.

|-
| {{text anchor|SEMIMEGABEAST}}
| Caste
|
| Essentially the same as {{token|MEGABEAST|c}}, but more of them are created during worldgen. See the [[semi-megabeast]] page for details.

|-
| {{text anchor|SENSE_CREATURE_CLASS}}
| Caste
|
* <[[Creature_token#CREATURE_CLASS|creature class]]>
* [[Tilesets|<tile value or character>]]
* [[Color#Color_values|<foreground color>:<background color>:<foreground brightness>]]
| Gives the creature the ability to sense creatures belonging to the specified [[Creature_token#CREATURE_CLASS|creature class]] even when they lie far beyond line of sight, including through walls and floors. It also appears to reduce or negate the combat penalty of [[Wound#Blindness|blind]] units when fighting creatures they can sense. In [[adventure mode]], the specified tile will be used to represent sensed creatures when they cannot be seen directly.

|-
| {{text anchor|SET_BP_GROUP}}
| Caste
|
*selection criteria BY_TYPE, BY_CATEGORY, BY_TOKEN
*category, type, or token
| Begins a selection of body parts.

|-
| {{text anchor|SKILL_LEARN_RATE}}
| Caste
|
*<[[skill_token]]>
*<percentage>
| The rate at which this creature learns this skill. Requires {{token|CAN_LEARN|c}} or {{token|INTELLIGENT|c}} to function.

|-
| {{text anchor|SKILL_LEARN_RATES}}
| Caste
|
*<percentage>
| The rate at which this creature learns all skills. Requires {{token|CAN_LEARN|c}} or {{token|INTELLIGENT|c}} to function.

|-
| {{text anchor|SKILL_RATE}}
| Caste
|
*[[skill_token]]
*<% of improvement points gained>
*<unused counter rate>
*<rust counter rate>
*<demotion counter rate>
| Like {{token|SKILL_RATES|c}}, but applies to individual skills instead. Requires {{token|CAN_LEARN|c}} or {{token|INTELLIGENT|c}} to function.

|-
| {{text anchor|SKILL_RATES}}
| Caste
|
*<% of improvement points gained>
*<unused counter rate>
*<rust counter rate>
*<demotion counter rate>
| Affects skill gain and decay. Lower numbers in the last three slots make decay occur faster ([SKILL_RATES:100:1:1:1] would cause rapid decay). The counter rates may also be replaced with NONE.
Default is [SKILL_RATES:100:8:16:16]. Requires {{token|CAN_LEARN|c}} or {{token|INTELLIGENT|c}} to function.

|-
| {{text anchor|SKILL_RUST_RATE}}
| Caste
|
*[[skill_token]]
*value
*value
*value
| The rate at which this skill decays. Lower values cause the skill to decay faster. Requires {{token|CAN_LEARN|c}} or {{token|INTELLIGENT|c}} to function.

|-
| {{text anchor|SKILL_RUST_RATES}}
| Caste
|
*value
*value
*value
| The rate at which all skills decay. Lower values cause the skills to decay faster. Requires {{token|CAN_LEARN|c}} or {{token|INTELLIGENT|c}} to function.

|-
| {{text anchor|SLAIN_CASTE_SPEECH}}
| Caste
|
*[[Speech file|text set]]
| Caste-specific {{token|SLAIN_SPEECH|c}}.

|-
| {{text anchor|SLAIN_SPEECH}}
| Creature
|
*[[Speech file|text set]]
| Boasting speeches relating to killing this creature. Examples include [[text_dwarf.txt/raw|text_dwarf.txt]] (<code>[SLAIN_SPEECH:SLAIN_DWARF]</code>) and text_elf.txt (<code>[SLAIN_SPEECH:SLAIN_ELF]</code>) in data\vanilla\vanilla_creatures\objects.

|-
| {{text anchor|SLOW_LEARNER}}
| Caste
|
| Shorthand for {{token|CAN_LEARN|c}} + <code>[[Creature_token#SKILL_LEARN_RATES|[SKILL_LEARN_RATES:50]]]</code>.{{verify}} Used by a number of 'primitive' creatures (like [[ogre]]s, [[giant]]s and [[troglodyte]]s) in the vanilla game. Applicable to player races. Prevents a player from recruiting nobility, even basic ones. Subterranean creatures with this token combined with {{token|EVIL|c}} will become servants of goblins in their civilizations, in the style of [[troll]]s.

|-
| {{text anchor|SMALL_REMAINS}}
| Caste
|
| Creature leaves "[[item token#REMAINS|remains]]" instead of a corpse. Used by [[vermin]].

|-
| {{text anchor|SMELL_TRIGGER}}
| Caste
|
*value
| Determines how keen a creature's sense of smell is - lower is better. At 10000, a creature cannot smell at all.

|-
| {{text anchor|SOLDIER_ALTTILE}}
| Creature
|
*'character' or tile number
| If this creature is active in its civilization's military, it will blink between its default tile and this one.

|-
| {{text anchor|SOUND}}
| Caste
|
* Sound application (currently accepts ALERT or PEACEFUL_INTERMITTENT)
* Sound range (in tiles)
* Sound delay (lower values = sound is produced more often)
* VOCALIZATION or NONE (determines whether the sound requires breathing or not)
* First-person description
* Third-person description
* Description when out of sight
| Creature makes sounds periodically, which can be heard in Adventure mode.
* First-person reads "You '''bark'''"
* Third-person reads "The [[capybara]] '''barks'''"
* Out of sight reads "You hear '''a loud bark'''"
with the text in bold being the description arguments of the token.

|-
| {{text anchor|SOURCE_HFID}}
| Creature
|
*Integer
| Found on generated [[angel]]s. This is the historical figure ID of the deity with which the angel is associated. Since HFIDs are not predictable before worldgen, this isn't terribly usable in mods.

|-
| {{text anchor|SPECIFIC_FOOD}}
| Caste
|
* PLANT or CREATURE
* Plant/creature ID
| Creature will only appear in biomes with this plant or creature available. Grazers given a specific type of grass (such as [[panda]]s and [[bamboo]]) will only eat that grass and nothing else, risking starvation if there's none available.

|-
| {{text anchor|SPHERE}}
| Creature
|
* [[Sphere#Available_spheres|sphere]]
| Sets what religious spheres the creature is aligned to, for purposes of being worshipped via the {{token|POWER|c}} token. Also affects the creature's name.

|-
| {{text anchor|SPOUSE_CONVERSION_TARGET}}
| Caste
|
| This creature can be converted by a night creature with {{token|SPOUSE_CONVERTER|c}}.

|-
| {{text anchor|SPOUSE_CONVERTER}}
| Caste
|
| If the creature has the {{token|NIGHT_CREATURE_HUNTER|c}} tag, it will kidnap {{token|SPOUSE_CONVERSION_TARGET|c}}s and transform them into the caste of its species with the {{token|CONVERTED_SPOUSE|c}} tag during worldgen. It may also start families this way.

|-
| {{text anchor|SPREAD_EVIL_SPHERES_IF_RULER}}
| Caste
|
| If the creature rules over a [[site]], it will cause the local landscape to be corrupted into [[Surroundings#Evil|evil surroundings]] associated with the creature's [[Creature_token#SPHERE|sphere]]s. The creature must have at least one of the following [[sphere]]s for this to take effect: BLIGHT, DEATH, DISEASE, DEFORMITY, NIGHTMARES. The first three kill vegetation, while the others sometimes do. The last two get [[Plant_token#EVIL|evil plants]] and [[Creature_token#EVIL|evil animals]] sometimes. NIGHTMARES gets [[bogeyman|bogeymen]]. [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=169696.msg8162224#msg8162224] Used by [[demon]]s in the vanilla game.

|-
| {{text anchor|STANCE_CLIMBER}}
| Caste
|
| Caste does not require <code>[[Body_token#GRASP|[GRASP]]]</code> body parts to climb -- it can climb with <code>[[Body_token#STANCE|[STANCE]]]</code> parts instead.

|-
| {{text anchor|STANDARD_GRAZER}}
| Caste
|
| Acts as {{token|GRAZER|c}} but set to 20000*G*(max size)^(-3/4), where G defaults to 100 but can be set in d_init, and the whole thing is trapped between 150 and 3 million. Used for all grazers in the default creature raws.

|-
| {{text anchor|STRANGE_MOODS}}
| Caste
|
| The creature will get [[strange mood]]s in fortress mode and can produce artifacts.

|-
| {{text anchor|SUPERNATURAL}}
| Caste
|
| Gives the creature knowledge of any secrets with <code>[[Interaction_token#IS_SECRET|[SUPERNATURAL_LEARNING_POSSIBLE]]]</code> that match its [[Creature_token#SPHERE|spheres]] and also prevents it from becoming a [[vampire]] or [[werebeast]]. Other effects are unknown.

|-
| {{text anchor|SWIMS_INNATE}}
| Caste
|
| The creature naturally knows how to swim perfectly and does not use the [[swimmer]] skill, as opposed to {{token|SWIMS_LEARNED|c}} below. However, Fortress mode AI never paths into water anyway, so it's less useful there.

|-
| {{text anchor|SWIMS_LEARNED}}
| Caste
|
| The creature swims only as well as their present [[Swimmer|swimming skill]] allows them to.

|-
| {{text anchor|SYNDROME_DILUTION_FACTOR}}
| Caste
| <[[Syndrome#SYN_IDENTIFIER|syndrome identifier]]>:<percentage>
| Dilutes the effects of syndromes which have the specified identifier. A percentage of 100 is equal to the regular syndrome effect severity, higher percentages reduce severity.
|}

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==T==
{| {{prettytable}}
|- bgcolor="#ddd"
! width="20%" | Token
! width="10%" | Type
! width="20%" | Arguments
! width="50%" | Description

|-
| {{text anchor|TENDONS}}
| Caste
|
* [[material token]]
*healing rate
| The creature has tendons in its {{token|CONNECTIVE_TISSUE_ANCHOR|td}} tissues (bone or chitin by default). Cutting the bone/chitin tissue severs the tendons, disabling motor function if the target is a limb.

|-
| {{text anchor|THICKWEB}}
| Caste
|
| The creature's [[web]]s can catch larger creatures.

|-
| {{text anchor|TISSUE}}
| Creature
|
*name
| Begins defining a tissue in the creature file. Follow this with standard tissue definition tokens to define the tissue properties.

|-
| {{text anchor|TISSUE_LAYER}}
| Caste
|
*BY_TYPE, BY_CATEGORY, BY_TOKEN
*TYPE,CATEGORY, or TOKEN
*TISSUE
*LOCATION
| Adds the tissue layer to wherever it is required.
Non-argument Locations can be FRONT, RIGHT, LEFT, TOP, BOTTOM. Argument locations are AROUND and CLEANS, requiring a further body part and a % of coverage/cleansing

|-
| {{text anchor|TISSUE_LAYER_OVER}}
| Caste
|
*BY_TYPE, BY_CATEGORY, BY_TOKEN
*TYPE,CATEGORY, or TOKEN
*TISSUE
*LOCATION
| Alias for TISSUE_LAYER

|-
| {{text anchor|TISSUE_LAYER_UNDER}}
| Caste
|
*BY_TYPE, BY_CATEGORY, BY_TOKEN
*TYPE,CATEGORY, or TOKEN
*TISSUE
| Adds the tissue layer under a given part.
For example, an [[iron man]] has a gaseous poison within, and this tissue (GAS is its name) has the token [TISSUE_LEAKS] and its state is GAS, so when you puncture the iron outside and damage this tissue it leaks gas (can have a syndrome by using a previous one in the creature sample.) [TISSUE_LAYER_UNDER:BY_CATEGORY:ALL:{tissue}] {tissue} is what will be under the TISSUE_LAYER; here is an example Tissue from the Iron Man: 
[TISSUE:GAS] [TISSUE_NAME:gas:NP] [TISSUE_MATERIAL:LOCAL_CREATURE_MAT:GAS] [TISSUE_MAT_STATE:GAS] [RELATIVE_THICKNESS:50] [TISSUE_LEAKS] [TISSUE_SHAPE:LAYER]

|-
| {{text anchor|TITAN}}
| Caste
|
| Found on [[titan]]s. Cannot be specified in user-defined raws.

|-
| {{text anchor|TRADE_CAPACITY}}
| Caste
|
*number
| How much the creature can carry when used by merchants. 1000 by default. Completely ignored if the animal does not also have PACK_ANIMAL or WAGON, instead using BODY_SIZE^(2/3)/20, even if they're a pack animal due to ANIMAL_ALWAYS_PACK_ANIMAL.

|-
| {{text anchor|TRAINABLE}}
| Caste
|
| Shortcut for {{token|TRAINABLE_HUNTING|c}} + {{token|TRAINABLE_WAR|c}}.

|-
| {{text anchor|TRAINABLE_HUNTING}}
| Caste
|
| Can be [[Animal trainer|trained]] as a hunting beast, increasing speed.

|-
| {{text anchor|TRAINABLE_WAR}}
| Caste
|
| Can be [[Animal trainer|trained]] as a war beast, increasing strength and endurance.

|-
| {{text anchor|TRANCES}}
| Caste
|
| Allows the creature to go into [[martial trance]]s. Used by dwarves in the vanilla game.

|-
| {{text anchor|TRAPAVOID}}
| Caste
|
| The creature will never trigger [[trap]]s it steps on. Used by a [[Trapavoid|number of creatures]]. Doesn't make the creature immune to remotely activated traps (like retractable spikes being triggered while the creature is standing over them). TRAPAVOID creatures lose this power if they're immobilized while standing in a trap, be it by stepping on thick web, being paralyzed or being knocked unconscious.

|-
| {{text anchor|TRIGGERABLE_GROUP}}
| Creature
|
*min
*max
| A large swarm of vermin can be disturbed, usually in adventurer mode.

|-
| {{text anchor|TSU_NOUN}}
| Caste
|
*noun
*SINGULAR or PLURAL
| Noun for the {{token|TISSUE_STYLE_UNIT|c}}, used in the description of the tissue layer's style.
|}

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==U==
{| {{prettytable}}
|- bgcolor="#ddd"
! width="20%" | Token
! width="10%" | Type
! width="20%" | Arguments
! width="50%" | Description

|-
| {{text anchor|UBIQUITOUS}}
| Creature
|
| Creature will occur in every region with the correct biome. Does not apply to {{token|EVIL|c}}/{{token|GOOD|c}} tags. Supersedes {{token|FREQUENCY|c}} for the purposes of distributing populations through the map, they are present in every part of the valid biome. Respects {{token|FREQUENCY|c}} for the frequency of unit [[Creature token#CLUSTER_NUMBER|cluster]] spawns being of this species.

|-
| {{text anchor|UNDERGROUND_DEPTH}}
| Creature
|
*mindepth
*maxdepth
| Depth that the creature appears underground. Numbers can be from 0 to 5. 0 is actually 'above ground' and can be used if the creature is to appear both above and below ground. Values from 1-3 are the respective [[cavern]] levels, 4 is the [[magma sea]] and 5 is the [[HFS]]. A single argument may be used instead of min and max. [[Demon]]s use only 5:5; user-defined creatures with both this depth and {{token|FLIER}} will take part in the initial wave from the HFS alongside generated demons, but without {{token|FLIER}} they will only spawn from the map edges. Civilizations that can use underground plants or animals will only export (via the embark screen or caravans) things that are available at depth 1.

|-
| {{text anchor|UNDERSWIM}}
| Caste
|
| The creature is displayed as blue when in [[Water#Depth|7/7 water]]. Used on fish and amphibious creatures which swim under the water.

|-
| {{text anchor|UNIQUE_DEMON}}
| Caste
|
| Found on generated [[demon]]s; causes the game to create a single named instance of the demon which will emerge from the underworld and take over civilizations during worldgen.

|-
| {{text anchor|USE_CASTE}}
| Creature
|
*new caste token
*old caste token
| Defines a new caste derived directly from a previous caste. The new caste inherits all properties of the old one. The effect of this tag is automatic if one has not yet defined any castes: "Any caste-level tag that occurs before castes are explicitly declared is saved up and placed on any caste that is declared later, unless the caste is explicitly derived from another caste."
Roostre: "When DF detects duplicate tokens in the raws of the same object, a failsafe seems to kick in; it takes the bottom-most of the duplicates, and disregards the others. In the case of tokens added by a mod, it prioritizes the duplicate in the mod." This means that if a tag is defined in the base-caste and redefined in the derived caste, the derived tag overwrites the base tag.

|-
| {{text anchor|USE_MATERIAL}}
| Creature
|
*new material ID
*old material ID
| Defines a new local creature material and populates it with all properties defined in the specified local creature material. A maximum of 200 materials can be defined on any given creature.

|-
| {{text anchor|USE_MATERIAL_TEMPLATE}}
| Creature
|
*new material token
*material template
| Defines a new local creature material and populates it with all properties defined in the specified template. A maximum of 200 materials can be defined on any given creature.

|-
| {{text anchor|USE_TISSUE}}
| Creature
|
*new tissue token
*old tissue id
| Defines a new local creature tissue and populates it with all properties defined in the local tissue specified in the second argument.

|-
| {{text anchor|USE_TISSUE_TEMPLATE}}
| Creature
|
*new tissue token
*tissue template
| Loads a tissue template listed in OBJECT:TISSUE_TEMPLATE files, such as tissue_template_default.txt.

|-
| {{text anchor|UTTERANCES}}
| Creature
|
| Changes the language of the creature into unintelligible 'kobold-speak', which creatures of other species will be unable to understand. If a civilized creature has this and is not part of a {{token|SKULKING|e}} civ, it will tend to start wars with all nearby civilizations and will be unable to make peace treaties due to 'inability to communicate'.
|}

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==V==
{| {{prettytable}}
|- bgcolor="#ddd"
! width="20%" | Token
! width="10%" | Type
! width="20%" | Arguments
! width="50%" | Description

|-
| {{text anchor|VEGETATION}}
| Caste
|
| Like {{token|AT_PEACE_WITH_WILDLIFE}}, but also makes the creature more valued in artwork by civilisations with the PLANT [[sphere]]. [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=169696.msg8316954#msg8316954] Used by [[grimeling]]s in the vanilla game.

|-
| {{text anchor|VERMIN_BITE}}
| Caste
|
*chance of occurrence{{verify}}
*verb (bitten, stung, etc.)
* [[material token]]
* [[Material_definition_token#Material_States|material state]]
| Enables vermin to bite other creatures, injecting the specified material. See {{token|SPECIALATTACK_INJECT_EXTRACT|c}} for details about injection - this token presumably works in a similar manner.{{verify}}

|-
| {{text anchor|VERMIN_EATER}}
| Creature
|
| The vermin creature will attempt to eat exposed food. See {{token|PENETRATEPOWER|c}}. Distinct from {{token|VERMIN_ROTTER|c}}.

|-
| {{text anchor|VERMIN_FISH}}
| Creature
|
| The vermin appears in [[water]] and will attempt to swim around. Required to catch the vermin with [[fishing]] or [[Fishery|capturing a live fish]].

|-
| {{text anchor|VERMIN_GROUNDER}}
| Creature
|
| The creature appears in "general" surface ground locations. Note that this doesn't stop the creature from flying if it can (most vermin birds have this tag).

|-
| {{text anchor|VERMIN_HATEABLE}}
| Caste
|
| Some dwarves will [[Preferences|hate]] the creature and get unhappy thoughts when around it. See the [[Hateable|list of hateable vermin]] for details.

|-
| {{text anchor|VERMIN_MICRO}}
| Caste
|
| This makes the creature move in a swarm of creatures of the same race as it (e.g. swarm of flies, swarm of ants).

|-
| {{text anchor|VERMIN_NOFISH}}
| Caste
|
| The creature cannot be caught by [[fishing]].

|-
| {{text anchor|VERMIN_NOROAM}}
| Caste
|
| The creature will not be observed randomly roaming about the map.

|-
| {{text anchor|VERMIN_NOTRAP}}
| Caste
|
| The creature cannot be caught in baited [[animal trap]]s; however, a "[[Trapper|catch live land animal]]" task may still be able to capture one if a dwarf finds one roaming around.

|-
| {{text anchor|VERMIN_ROTTER}}
| Creature
|
| The vermin are attracted to rotting stuff and loose food left in the open and cause unhappy thoughts to dwarves who encounter them. Present on flies, knuckle worms, acorn flies, and blood gnats.

|-
| {{text anchor|VERMIN_SOIL}}
| Creature
|
| The creature randomly appears near dirt or mud, and may be uncovered by creatures that have the {{token|ROOT_AROUND|c}} interaction such as [[goose|geese]] and [[chicken]]s. Dwarves will ignore the creature when given the "Capture live land animal" task.

|-
| {{text anchor|VERMIN_SOIL_COLONY}}
| Creature
|
| The vermin will appear in a single tile cluster of many vermin, such as a colony of ants.

|-
| {{text anchor|VERMINHUNTER}}
| Caste
|
| Old shorthand for "does cat stuff". Contains {{token|AT_PEACE_WITH_WILDLIFE|c}} + {{token|RETURNS_VERMIN_KILLS_TO_OWNER|c}} + {{token|HUNTS_VERMIN|c}} + {{token|ADOPTS_OWNER|c}}.

|-
| {{text anchor|VESPERTINE}}
| Caste
|
| When set, the creature will only appear in the evening (between 8:00 PM and 10:05 PM) in [[Adventurer mode]].

|-
| {{text anchor|VIEWRANGE}}
| Caste
|
*value
| Value should determine how close you have to get to a critter before it attacks (or prevents adv mode travel etc.) Default is 20.

|-
| {{text anchor|VISION_ARC}}
| Caste
|
*binocular vision arc
*non-binocular vision arc
| The width of the creature's vision arcs, in degrees (i.e. 0 to 360). The first number is binocular vision, the second is non-binocular vision. Binocular vision has a minimum of about 10 degrees, monocular, a maximum of about 350 degrees. Values past these limits will be accepted, but will default to ~10 degrees and ~350 degrees respectively. Defaults are 60:120.
|}

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==W==
{| {{prettytable}}
|- bgcolor="#ddd"
! width="20%" | Token
! width="10%" | Type
! width="20%" | Arguments
! width="50%" | Description

|-
| {{text anchor|WAGON_PULLER}}
| Caste
|
| Allows the creature to pull caravan wagons. If a civilization doesn't have access to any, it is restricted to trading with pack animals.

|-
| {{text anchor|WEBBER}}
| Caste
|
* [[material token]]
| Allows the creature to create [[web]]s, and defines what the webs are made of.

|-
| {{text anchor|WEBIMMUNE}}
| Caste
|
| The creature will not get caught in thick [[web]]s. Used by creatures who can shoot thick webs (such as [[giant cave spider]]s) in order to make them immune to their own attacks.
|}

==Attack Tokens==

Attacks can use four different part selection criteria. Except for TISSUE_LAYER, the base game makes use of all of these in its attacks.

{| {{prettytable}}
|- bgcolor="#ddd"
! width="20%" | Part type token
! width="30%" | Arguments
! width="60%" | Description

|-
| {{text anchor|BODYPART}}
|
* BY_TYPE/BY_TOKEN/BY_CATEGORY
* type/token/category
| This attack uses a particular body part; for example, ATTACK:PUNCH:BODYPART:BY_TYPE:GRASP will make it use any part that can hold onto an object.

|-
| {{text anchor|TISSUE_LAYER}}
|
* BY_TYPE/BY_TOKEN/BY_CATEGORY
* type/token/category
* tissue layer
| This attack uses a specific tissue layer on a specific body part; ATTACK:SCRATCH:TISSUE_LAYER:BY_TYPE:GRASP:BONE will make it use the bone of the hands.

|-
| {{text anchor|CHILD_BODYPART_GROUP}}
|
* BY_TYPE/BY_TOKEN/BY_CATEGORY
* type/token/category
* BY_TYPE/BY_TOKEN/BY_CATEGORY
* type/token/category
| Uses a body part that is subordinate to another; ATTACK:SLAP:CHILD_BODYPART_GROUP:BY_CATEGORY:ARM_LOWER:BY_TYPE:GRASP will make it use every hand attached to each lower arm (so it will generate one attack per lower arm, each of which will use every hand on that arm, assuming there are multiple hands per arm).

|-
| {{text anchor|CHILD_TISSUE_LAYER_GROUP}}
|
* BY_TYPE/BY_TOKEN/BY_CATEGORY
* type/token/category
* BY_TYPE/BY_TOKEN/BY_CATEGORY
* type/token/category
* tissue layer
| As CHILD_BODYPART_GROUP, but specifying a tissue, too; ATTACK:BITE:CHILD_BODYPART_GROUP:BY_CATEGORY:HEAD:BY_CATEGORY:TOOTH

|}

{| {{prettytable}}
|- bgcolor="#ddd"
! width="20%" | Token
! width="10%" | Type
! width="20%" | Arguments
! width="50%" | Description

|-
| {{text anchor|ATTACK_SKILL}}
| Caste
|
*[[Skill token]]
| Defines the skill used by the attack.

|-
| {{text anchor|ATTACK_VERB}}
| Caste
|
*2nd person
*3rd person
| Descriptive text for the attack.

|-
| {{text anchor|ATTACK_CONTACT_PERC}}
| Caste
|
*% value
| The contact area of the attack, measured in % of the body part's volume. Note that all attack percentages can be more than 100%.

|-
| {{text anchor|ATTACK_PENETRATION_PERC}}
| Caste
|
*% value
| The penetration value of the attack, measured in % of the body part's volume. Requires ATTACK_FLAG_EDGE. Maximum value: 15000.

|-
| {{text anchor|ATTACK_PRIORITY}}
| Caste
|
*MAIN or SECOND
| Usage frequency. MAIN attacks are 100 times more frequently chosen than SECOND. Opportunity attacks ignore this preference.

|-
| {{text anchor|ATTACK_VELOCITY_MODIFIER}}
| Caste
|
*number
| The velocity multiplier of the attack, multiplied by 1000.

|-
| {{text anchor|ATTACK_FLAG_CANLATCH}}
| Caste
|
| Attacks that damage tissue have the chance to latch on in a wrestling hold. The grabbing bodypart can then use the "shake around" wrestling move, causing severe, armor-bypassing tensile damage according to the attacker's body volume.

|-
| {{text anchor|ATTACK_FLAG_WITH}}
| Caste
|
| Displays the name of the body part used to perform an attack while announcing it, e.g. "The weaver punches the bugbat with his right hand".

|-
| {{text anchor|ATTACK_FLAG_EDGE}}
| Caste
|
| The attack is edged, with all the effects on physical resistance and contact area that it entails.

|-
| {{text anchor|ATTACK_PREPARE_AND_RECOVER}}
| Caste
|
* Preparation time
* Recovery time
| Determines the length of time to prepare this attack and until one can perform this attack again. Values appear to be calculated in adventure mode ticks.

|-
| {{text anchor|ATTACK_FLAG_BAD_MULTIATTACK}}
| Caste
|
| Multiple strikes with this attack cannot be performed effectively.

|-
| {{text anchor|ATTACK_FLAG_INDEPENDENT_MULTIATTACK}}
| Caste
|
| Multiple strikes with this attack can be performed with no penalty. The creature will use all attacks with this token at once.

|-
| {{text anchor|SPECIALATTACK_INJECT_EXTRACT}}
| Caste
|
*<[[material token]]>
*<[[Material_definition_token#Material_States|material state]]>
*<min quantity>
*<max quantity>
| When added to an attack, causes the attack to inject the specified material into the victim's bloodstream. Once injected, the material will participate in [[temperature|thermal]] exchange within the creature - injecting something like molten [[iron]] (INORGANIC:IRON:LIQUID) would cause most unmodded creatures to melt (note that some of the injected material also [[contaminant|splatters]] over the bodypart used to carry out the attack, so it should be protected appropriately). If the injected material has an associated [[syndrome]] with the [[Syndrome#SYN_INJECTED|[SYN_INJECTED]]] token, it will be transmitted to the victim. If the attack is blunt, the injected material lacks the [[Material definition token#ENTERS_BLOOD|[ENTERS_BLOOD]]] token, the attacked bodypart has no [[Tissue_definition_token#VASCULAR|[VASCULAR]]] tissues, or the victim is bloodless, the material will splatter over the attacked body part instead.

|-
| {{text anchor|SPECIALATTACK_INTERACTION}}
| Caste
|
*interaction
| When this attack lands successfully, a specified interaction will take effect on the target creature. The attack must break the target creature's skin in order to work. This will take effect in worldgen as well. If the attack would break skin, the interaction will occur '''before the attack actually lands'''.

|-
| {{text anchor|SPECIALATTACK_SUCK_BLOOD}}
| Caste
|
*min
*max
| Successful attack draws out an amount of blood randomized between the min and max value. Beware that this '''will''' trigger any ingestion syndromes attached to the target creature's blood - for example, using this attack on a vampire will turn you into one too.
|}

==Tissue Layer Tokens==
Tissue layers are added to a creature's body parts by the creature tokens [[#TISSUE_LAYER|TISSUE_LAYER]], [[#TISSUE_LAYER_OVER|TISSUE_LAYER_OVER]], [[#TISSUE_LAYER_UNDER|TISSUE_LAYER_UNDER]], and the body detail plan token [[#TL_LAYERS|TL_LAYERS]].

These tissue layers are not the same thing as tissues, which are defined at creature level, but rather applications of the tissues. If the SKIN tissue of a creature is the more general and abstract notion of what skin is for that creature, then a tissue layer may be the "actual" skin on the creature's nose, head, or second toe. As most creatures have more than one body part, tissue layers are normally selected en masse.

Some tissue layer tokens are analogous to tissue definition tokens, e.g. [[#TL_CONNECTS|TL_CONNECTS]] to [[tissue_definition_token#CONNECTS|CONNECTS]].

{| {{prettytable}}
|- bgcolor="#ddd"
! width="20%" | Token
! width="10%" | Type
! width="20%" | Arguments
! width="50%" | Description

|-
| {{text anchor|SELECT_TISSUE_LAYER}}
| Caste
|
*TISSUE
*BY_CATEGORY, BY_TYPE, BY_TOKEN
*Location - category, type, or token | Selects a tissue at a location
* (optional) FRONT, BACK, LEFT, RIGHT, TOP, BOTTOM, AROUND.
| Begins a selection of tissue layers.
[SELECT_TISSUE_LAYER:HEART:BY_TYPE:HEART]

|-
| {{text anchor|PLUS_TISSUE_LAYER}}
| Caste
|
*TISSUE
*BY_CATEGORY, BY_TYPE, BY_TOKEN
*Location - category, type, or token
| Adds tissue layers to those selected.

|-
| {{text anchor|SET_TL_GROUP}}
| Caste
|
*TISSUE
*BY_CATEGORY, BY_TYPE, BY_TOKEN
*Location - category, type, or token
*tissue
| Begins a selection of tissue layers. Only usable for descriptor and cosmetic purposes.

Research has implied it may be redundant with SELECT_TISSUE_LAYER, as the latter allows for cosmetics as well as "functional" tokens such as TL_MAJOR_ARTERIES. Vanilla raws still use SET_TL_GROUP though, for all cosmetic purposes. More research is needed on this subject.

|-
| {{text anchor|PLUS_TL_GROUP}}
| Caste
|
*BY_CATEGORY, BY_TYPE, BY_TOKEN
*Location - category, type, or token
*tissue
| Adds tissue layers to those selected. Like SET_TL_GROUP, it may be redundant even if used in the vanilla raws.

|-
| {{text anchor|SET_LAYER_TISSUE}}
| Caste
|
*TISSUE
| Sets a selected tissue layer to be made of a different tissue.

|-
| {{text anchor|SHEARABLE_TISSUE_LAYER}}
| Caste
|
* tissue modifier
* required value
| Tissue layer can be sheared for its component material. The specified modifier must be at least of the desired value for shearing to be possible (for example, a [[llama]]'s wool must have a LENGTH of 300 before it is shearable).

|-
| {{text anchor|TISSUE_LAYER_APPEARANCE_MODIFIER}}
| Caste
|
*QUALITY
*lowest
*lower
*low
*median
*high
*higher
*highest
| Sets the range of qualities, including LENGTH, DENSE, HIGH_POSITION, CURLY, GREASY, WRINKLY

|-
| {{text anchor|TISSUE_STYLE_UNIT}}
| Caste
|
*tissue style unit ID
*shaping
| Sets tissue layer to be the target of TISSUE_STYLE token specified for an entity, works only on entity members. Mostly used with tissues HAIR, BEARD, MOUSTACHE, SIDEBURNS.

|-
| {{text anchor|TL_COLOR_MODIFIER}}
| Caste
|
*COLOR
*freq
*COLOR
*freq etc.
| Creates a list of colors/color patterns, giving each a relative frequency. If the given color or pattern does not exist, the tissue is described as being "transparent".

|-
| {{text anchor|TLCM_GENETIC_MODEL}}
| Caste
|
| The way the color modifier is passed on to offspring. May or may not work right now.{{verify}}

|-
| {{text anchor|TLCM_IMPORTANCE}}
| Caste
|
*number
| Presumably modifies the importance of the tissue layer color modifier, for description purposes.
HOWEVER using this appears to remove all mention of colour from creature descriptions. It does not appear in any default creatures.

|-
| {{text anchor|TLCM_NOUN}}
| Caste
|
*name
*SINGULAR or PLURAL
| Names the tissue layer color modifier, and determines the noun. Also used by [[Utility:Stonesense|Stonesense]] for colouring body parts.

|-
| {{text anchor|TLCM_TIMING}}
| Caste
|
*ROOT
*start change window years
*days
*end change window years
*days
| Determines the point in the creature's life when the color change begins and ends.

|-
| {{text anchor|TL_CONNECTS}}
| Caste
|
| Gives the CONNECTS attribute to selected layers.

|-
| {{text anchor|TL_HEALING_RATE}}
| Caste
|
*value
| Changes the HEALING_RATE of the selected tissue layers.

|-
| {{text anchor|TL_MAJOR_ARTERIES}}
| Caste
|
| Gives the "major arteries" attribute to selected layers. Used to add massive bleeding properties to the throat, made from skin.

|-
| {{text anchor|TL_PAIN_RECEPTORS}}
| Caste
|
*value
| Changes the number of pain receptors for selected tissue layers.

|-
| {{text anchor|TL_RELATIVE_THICKNESS}}
| Caste
|
*value
| Changes the relative thickness for selected tissue layers.

|-
| {{text anchor|TL_VASCULAR}}
| Caste
|
*value
| Sets a new VASCULAR value (which modulates bleeding) for selected tissue layers.

|}

==See Also==
*[[Body detail plan token]]
*[[Body token]]
*[[Material definition token]]
*[[Syndrome]]
*[[Tissue definition token]]
*[[Creature examples]]

{{Category|Modding}}
{{Category|Tokens}}
[[ru:Creature token]]

Observer

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{{av}}
{{Skill
| color = 0:0
| skill = Observer
| profession = None
| job name = None
| tasks =
* Notice creatures and [[attack]]s
* Research animal-related [[topic]]s
| attributes =
* Spatial sense
* Analytical ability
* Intuition
}}

The '''Observer''' [[skill]] represents situational awareness: the ability of a [[creature]] to notice key details about their surroundings. For general patrol, this skill increases the chance to spot a [[ambusher|stealth]] unit; the higher the skill the greater the range{{verify}}. The skill is particularly good to have for [[military|guards]] at your entrance or marksdwarves on your walls.

The maximum detection range is currently unknown, although experiments suggest that it is much longer than the 3 tiles of previous versions. Detections at a range of 20 tiles have been reported.

In combat, the observer skill is used to note and anticipate the [[attack]]s of enemies. Skilled observers are less likely to be surprised by an opponent's charge, for instance, and less likely to receive a penalty for being attacked from the side. Higher skill levels give the observer more information, such as which arm the opponent is using for its next attack.

[[Soldier]]s will gradually increase this skill while training. It is currently uncertain whether observing combat demonstrations improves observer skill directly, or if improvement is limited to [[sparring]] and [[combat]]. For targeted [[live training]], fighting a group of weak or harmless enemies should increase the number of observer rolls as your trainee is surrounded. However, Observer can also be trained just by witnessing a fight. IE; an arena with lots of opponents will also significantly train Observer, as long as the dwarves 'watching' the fights are close enough to observe the attacks.

In adventure mode, the Observer skill directly influences the level of detail shown when identifying opponents' attacks, and is used to locate hidden creatures and traps. It slowly increases during combat, by successfully spotting traps, and by walking near hidden creatures, whether detected or not. You are also able to speed up training of your '''Observer''' [[skill]] while dodging. Warning: Detecting giant cave spiders and giant brown recluse spiders may be ''more'' hazardous than remaining blissfully ignorant to their location. In [[fortress mode]], however, this is simply used by [[scholar]]s who are [[naturalist]]s.

{{DF2014:Topic/table/nature}}

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{{Category|Scholarship}}
{{Category|Combat Skills}}

Observer

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{{av}}
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{{Skill
| color = 0:0
| skill = Observer
| profession = None
| job name = None
| tasks =
* Notice creatures and [[attack]]s
* Research animal-related [[topic]]s
| attributes =
* Spatial sense
* Analytical ability
* Intuition
}}

The '''Observer''' [[skill]] represents situational awareness: the ability of a [[creature]] to notice key details about their surroundings. For general patrol, this skill increases the chance to spot a [[ambusher|stealth]] unit; the higher the skill the greater the range{{verify}}. The skill is particularly good to have for [[military|guards]] at your entrance or marksdwarves on your walls.

The maximum detection range is currently unknown, although experiments suggest that it is much longer than the 3 tiles of previous versions. Detections at a range of 20 tiles have been reported.

In combat, the observer skill is used to note and anticipate the [[attack]]s of enemies. Skilled observers are less likely to be surprised by an opponent's charge, for instance, and less likely to receive a penalty for being attacked from the side. Higher skill levels give the observer more information, such as which arm the opponent is using for its next attack.

[[Soldier]]s will gradually increase this skill while training. It is currently uncertain whether observing combat demonstrations improves observer skill directly, or if improvement is limited to [[sparring]] and [[combat]]. For targeted [[live training]], fighting a group of weak or harmless enemies should increase the number of observer rolls as your trainee is surrounded. However, Observer can also be trained just by witnessing a fight. IE; an arena with lots of opponents will also significantly train Observer, as long as the dwarves 'watching' the fights are close enough to observe the attacks.

In adventure mode, the Observer skill directly influences the level of detail shown when identifying opponents' attacks, and is used to locate hidden creatures and traps. It slowly increases during combat, by successfully spotting traps, and by walking near hidden creatures, whether detected or not. You are also able to speed up training of your '''Observer''' [[skill]] while dodging. Warning: Detecting giant cave spiders and giant brown recluse spiders may be ''more'' hazardous than remaining blissfully ignorant to their location. In [[fortress mode]], however, this is simply used by [[scholar]]s who are [[naturalist]]s.

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[[File:Thomas Waterman Wood - Thinking It Over - 1919.990 - Cleveland Museum of Art.jpg|thumb|250px|right|"How do cats ''never'' care?"]]'''Critical thinker''' is a [[scholar]] skill. It is used by scholars when thinking about history [[topics]]. It seems to be an important skill for [[scholar]]s in general, especially when writing [[book]]s/[[scroll]]s. As dwarves level in this skill very slowly, it can be worth assigning dwarves that already have a few levels in it as your [[scholar]]s.

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[[File:Thomas Waterman Wood - Thinking It Over - 1919.990 - Cleveland Museum of Art.jpg|thumb|250px|right|"How do cats ''never'' care?"]]'''Critical thinker''' is a [[scholar]] skill. It is used by scholars when thinking about history [[topics]]. It seems to be an important skill for [[scholar]]s in general, especially when writing [[book]]s/[[scroll]]s. As dwarves level in this skill very slowly, it can be worth assigning dwarves that already have a few levels in it as your [[scholar]]s.

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[[File:Thomas Waterman Wood - Thinking It Over - 1919.990 - Cleveland Museum of Art.jpg|thumb|250px|right|"How do cats ''never'' care?"]]'''Critical thinker''' is a [[scholar]] skill. It is used by scholars when thinking about history [[topics]]. It seems to be an important skill for [[scholar]]s in general, especially when writing [[book]]s/[[scroll]]s. As dwarves [[Learning|level]] in this skill very slowly, it can be worth assigning dwarves that already have a few levels in it as your [[scholar]]s.

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[[File:utilities_icon.png|120px|right]]A collection of third-party '''Utilities''' that are useful for ''[[Dwarf Fortress]]'' players and [[modding|modders]] alike, of which this page serves as a list. ''Dwarf Fortress'' is a difficult game to play, and any help that can be had in the task is welcome help.

If you would like to add an article on a ''specific'' game utility to the wiki, please do so under the [http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php?title=Special%3AAllPages&from=&to=&namespace=102 Utility] namespace.
Not included on this page: [[Main:Tileset repository|tileset repositories]] and [[Main:Graphics set repository|graphics set repositories]], due to having been given their own, separate pages. [[Modding|Mods]] have also been listed under their own [http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php?title=Special%3AAllPages&from=&to=&namespace=104 Modification] namespace.

To avoid namespace clutter, websites ''are'' considered utilities and have been included.

A [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?board=29.0 subsection of the Bay12 forums] is devoted to such third-party programs, and contains development threads for most of them.

== Game manipulation tools ==
=== DFHack ===
{{main|Utility:DFHack}}
[[File:dfhack_cmd.png|left|frameless|200px|]]
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. Runs on Windows, macOS, and Linux (natively if supported by DF, or through [https://www.winehq.org/ Wine]). The standard configuration enables a variety of included bugfixes and interface upgrades, and provides many useful tools such as "clean all". See [[Utility:DFHack|main page]] for a summary of features, common use, and more.
* Links: {{F|164123|Bay12 Forum Thread}}, [https://docs.dfhack.org/en/stable/ Documentation], [https://github.com/DFHack/dfhack/releases Releases], [https://github.com/DFHack/dfhack GitHub Repository], [https://store.steampowered.com/app/2346660/DFHack Steam page]
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=== Dwarf Therapist ===
{{main|Utility:Dwarf therapist}}
[[File:dwarf_therapist.png|left|frameless|200px|]]
Dwarf Therapist gives you an advanced GUI to manage and check dwarf job allocations, military assignments, statistics (such as attributes, personality traits and happiness), sort dwarves by various criteria (e.g. profession, migration wave, happiness, number of assigned jobs etc.) and generally manage the Dwarven Resources of your fortress in a very convenient way. Available for Windows, Mac and GNU + Linux.
* Links: {{F|168411|Bay12 Forum Thread}}, [https://github.com/Dwarf-Therapist/Dwarf-Therapist/releases Releases], [https://github.com/Dwarf-Therapist/Dwarf-Therapist/ GitHub Repository], [https://github.com/Dwarf-Therapist/Manual/releases Manual] (outdated)
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==Legends tools==
=== LegendsViewer-Next ===
[[File:LegendsViewerNext.png|border|200x200px|left]]
A web-browser-based multi-platform tool to browse the information in an [[Legends#Exporting_World_information|exported legends file]]. It creates wiki style backlinks, searchable lists, interactive maps and family trees for historical figures. LegendsViewer-Next is a replacement for the classic [[Utility:Legends viewer|Legends Viewer]] fully compatible with v50+ premium and classic. Builds for Windows, Linux and macOS are provided.
* Links: [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=154617.0 Bay12 Forum Thread], [https://github.com/Kromtec/LegendsViewer-Next Github Repository]

=== Legends Browser ===
[[File:LegendsBrowser2.png|border|200x200px|left]]
Another web-browser-based multi-platform legends information viewer (including using legends_plus.xml generated via DFHack) fully compatible with v50+ premium and classic.

* links: [https://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=179848.0 bay12forums]
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=== [[Utility:DF Storyteller|DF Storyteller]] ===
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[[File:DF_Storyteller_Logo.svg|border|200x200px|left]]
[[Utility:DF Storyteller|Dwarf Fortress Storyteller]] (DF Storyteller, DF ST) is an application that parses ''Dwarf Fortress'' legends files, stores them internally and makes them queryable using API's. (Cross platform: Windows, Linux, macOS) This utility can be used to easily create new visualizers to view the legends data.

* links: [https://dfstoryteller.com/ Website], [https://gitlab.com/df_storyteller/df-storyteller Gitlab project], list of visualizers can be found [https://gitlab.com/df_storyteller/df-storyteller/-/blob/master/docs/paintings.md here]. An example of a visualizer is [https://gitlab.com/df_storyteller/the-bard The Bard] created in DF ST.
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== 3D Visualizers ==
=== Stonesense ===
[[File:stonesense_prev.jpg|left|frameless|200px|none]]
Stonesense is a third party visualizer, implemented as a [[Utility:DFHack|DFHack]] plugin, that lets you view your fortress in a classic isometric perspective. It runs alongside ''Dwarf Fortress'', and can follow the main game's view, updating in real-time. It is included in DFHack, and can be opened by typing <code>stonesense</code> or <code>ssense</code> into the console window.

* Links: [[Utility:Stonesense]]
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=== Vox Uristi ===
[[File:VoxUristi.png|left|frameless|200px|none]]
A tool that exports fortresses to a 3D voxel format (.vox). Once exported, rendering software such as [https://ephtracy.github.io/index.html?page=mv_main MagicaVoxel (for Windows and Mac)] or alternatively [https://goxel.xyz/ Goxel (for Linux)] can make detailed 3D renders of it. It requires DFHack, and is mostly tested with the Steam version, though previous versions should work too.

* Links: [https://plule.github.io/vox-uristi Website], {{F|181728|Bay12 Forum Thread}}
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== [http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=2354 Perfect World DF] ==
A tool for creating custom world maps allowing highly customized world generation. Creates a [[world_gen.txt]] entry or file.

* Links: [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=57428.0 forum thread]

== Music and Sounds ==

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=== SoundSense ===
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[[File:soundsense_prev.png|left|frameless|100px]]
SoundSense parses game logs and plays reacts to game events with sound effects, incidental music and dwarfy comments. Due to it being written in Java, Soundsense is portable to all platforms.

Note that older Soundsense users may have different default seasonal soundtracks, which were removed and replaced in early 2011. These are available [http://www.krauselabs.net/dump/music.zip here].

* Links: [http://df.zweistein.cz/soundsense/ Website], {{F|60287|Bay12 Forum Thread}}, [https://code.google.com/archive/p/df-soundsense/ Google Code Repository]
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=== SoundCenSe ===
[[File:soundCenSe_prev.png|left|frameless|100px|]]
A C# port of SoundSense, it uses the existing sound pack files and XMLs present in SoundSense, but with some added enhancements. More information regarding what specific type of enhancements and how to install SoundCenSe can be gathered at the [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=159567.0 official forum thread]. If problems emerge while trying to get SoundSense to work with the latest versions of Java, this port may prove to be a useful alternative.

* Links: {{F|159567|Bay12 Forum Thread}}, [https://github.com/Algorithman/SoundCenSe/releases Releases], [https://github.com/Algorithman/SoundCenSe GitHub Repository]
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=== SoundSense-RS ===
[[File:SoundSense-RS_prev.png|left|frameless|100px|]]
A SoundSense alternative in Rust with a minimalistic GUI. Sound volumes can be adjusted realtime, based on channel. Events can be ignored with a custom list based on log patterns.

* Links: {{F|174585|Bay12 Forum Thread}}, [https://github.com/prixt/soundsense-rs/releases Releases], [https://github.com/prixt/soundsense-rs GitHub Repository]
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== Modding tools ==

=== [https://gitlab.com/df-modding-tools/df-raw-language-server DF RAW Language server] ===
Modding support for DF RAW files in IDE/Code/Text editors.
Checks syntax of files, detects errors and syntax highlighting.

Current extensions:
* [https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=df-modding-tools.dwarf-fortress-raw-vscode VS Code]
* [https://gitlab.com/df-modding-tools/df-raw-language-server#supported-editors-and-ides (more are coming)]

<gallery widths=200px>
File:DF_RAW_Language_server_Logo.png|DF RAW Language server Logo
File:DF_RAW_Language_server_VSCode_screenshot_1.png|DF RAW Language server in VSCode
File:DF_RAW_Language_server_VSCode_screenshot_2.png|DF RAW Language server in VSCode
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The [[wikipedia:Language_Server_Protocol|Language server]] is a shared component that can be used to easily add support for more IDE's.

=== Notepad++ Highlighting ===
language highlighting modes for the text editor Notepad++ [https://dffd.bay12games.com/file.php?id=16251 link]

== Modding tools pre v50==
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===[http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=140853.0 Rubble]===

A useful plugin-based modding tool that generates raws and supports easy installation of reactions, tilesets, macros, modding fixes and DFHack scripts. It is a fork of the now abandoned [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=125997.0 Blast]. Binaries are available for Linux 32-bits, OS X 32-bits and Windows 64-bits, as well as the source (written in Go with building instructions). As of 4.0, a GUI is available for Windows.

=== [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=150857.0 PyDwarf] ===

For players, PyDwarf is an easy way to manage and configure preferred mods in a way that avoids almost entirely the problems of outdated mods or incompatible groups of mods. For modders, PyDwarf's mod manager exposes a powerful Python API for interacting with raws and other data files.

=== [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=103360 Raw Explorer] ===
A tree-based raw files browser, editor and manager.

=== [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=174431.0 Dwarf_RAW] ===
A GUI for editing raw files, updated 2019.

=== [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=140645.0 Dwarf Fortress real-life material helper] ===
A Python script that generates raws based on custom real-life material values.

=== [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=140688.0 Roses' Random Creature Script] ===
A Python script that generates random creature raws.

=== [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=175695.0 DF Diagnosipack] ===
A collection of modding tools, with a focus on diagnosing problems and getting statistics on what is found within the raws.
It includes:
* DF Duplisearch - checks your raws folder for duplicated objects, and counts the number of objects of each type (creature, entity, reaction, etc.).
* DF Creatureclasser - tells you what [[cv:Creature_token#CREATURE_CLASS|creature classes]] are in your raws, and what they are used for.
* DF CVunpack - unpacks creature variations, so you can see how the raws for e.g. wolf men really look (spoiler: they have 7 fingers).
* DF Creaturescale - calculates creature weights, and the proportions of each body part and tissue.
* DF Biomeviewer - shows what creature/plants can be found in which biomes.
* DF Rawminer - extracts procedurally generated raws (of Forgotten Beasts etc.) from save files.

== Remote playing tools ==
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=== [[Utility:Dfterm3|Dfterm3]]===

[[Utility:Dfterm3|Dfterm3]] is a remote ''Dwarf Fortress''-playing software for multiple users through a web interface. DFterm3 enables play through a web interface, and games can also be viewed on mobile - or even played if a bluetooth keyboard is attached. The web interface should work with Chrome or Firefox browsers, but there are known problems using Internet Explorer. DFTerm3 functions via a DFHack plugin, and is thus dependent on each version of DFHack.

It is a successor to [[Utility:dfterm2|dfterm2]], which functions similarly using telnet instead of a web browser. This utility only works with version 0.34.11 or earlier.

=== [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=139167.0 Webfort] ===
[[File:webfortress.png|thumb|200px|none|Playable in Mac browser.]]
A newer alternative to dfterm3 that functions similarly, but players must wait in a queue before assuming control for a given period of time. It also functions via a DFHack plugin. Binaries are available for Windows, as well as the source (written in C++). ''(Note: [https://github.com/mifki/df-webfort main repo] unmaintained. [https://github.com/Ankoku/df-webfort New repo] last updated 5/22/2015.)''

=== [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=140892.0 DorfServer] ===
[[File:dorfserver.png|thumb|200px|none|Like Twitch, without Twitch.]]
A remote SSH-based ''Dwarf Fortress'' host software. ([http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=140892.0 repo])

=== [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=139975.0 DFEverywhere] ===

A utility that connects a locally-run ''Dwarf Fortress'' instance to a proprietary remote website, allowing remote browser-based play. ''(Note: Main website no longer available. [https://github.com/tpainter/df_everywhere Client source here.])''

=== [http://mifki.com/df Dwarf Fortress Remote] ===

iOS app (paid) that allows one to play ''Dwarf Fortress'' remotely with native UI. A server can be set up at home, or on DigitalOcean, AWS or other hosting service.

=== [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=176070.msg DFPlex ] ===

DFPlex is a plugin for DFHack which introduces simultaneous, real-time online co-op to fortress mode: each player has their own independent view, cursor, menus, etc. so nobody has to wrestle for control. It's a fork of webfort, so players join just by connecting from their web browser.

=== [https://github.com/ptitSeb/box64 Box64] ===

Box64 allows ''Dwarf Fortress'' to be run locally on Android devices. A more detailed tutorial is available [https://www.reddit.com/r/dwarffortress/comments/r80m7y/dwarf_fortress_mobile_running_dwarf_fortress_on/ here].

==Language tools==
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===[http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=47332.0 DFLang]===
A language creating tool.

===[http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=136098.0 Toadese Language Utility]===
A language editing and translating tool.

===[http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=140432.0 DFlangOpt]===
A little tool meant to prevent redundancy when importing or updating language files.

===[http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=8288 Python language extraction and injection script]===
This simple script will extract words from language files and put them a word per line, for easy automatic translation or treatment. It can also read that list and put the translated words back in their place.

==Announcement tools==
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===[http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=130590 DFMon] ===

An announcement monitoring/filtering program, useful to hide some types of job cancellation spam or other more advanced filtering. Note that you can set the game to announce no job cancellations ''without'' any utilities or mods from the {{k|o}}rders menu, with {{k|x}}.

===[http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=130030 DF Announcement Filter]===

An alternative to DFMon written in Java (and thus portable to Linux and OS X).

===[http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=153777 Announcement Window+]===

Announcement Window+ is a Python application that interfaces with ''Dwarf Fortress'' to print announcements and combat reports to a separate window. It was written to fix some annoying bugs that are present in DF Announcement Filter, which is no longer being updated.

[[File:announce+_prev.png|thumb|300px|none|One less game-pausing hotkey.]]

==Filesharing websites==
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=== [http://dffd.wimbli.com/ Dwarf Fortress File Depot] ===
The Dwarf Fortress File Upload Service - an excellent place to store mods, community games, tilesets and other files. Courtesy of [[User:Janus|Janus]]; for files related to ''Dwarf Fortress'' only.

=== [http://mkv25.net/dfma/ Dwarf Fortress Map Archive] ===
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The Dwarf Fortress Map Archive is a large collection of user-submitted maps and videos 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.

Read more about the [[User:Markavian/DF_Map_Archive|DF Map Archive]] on Markavian's User page.

==Launchers==

Historically, [[Starter pack|starter pack]]s were used to easily configure settings, keep the game up to date, and integrate third-party mods and bugfixes. With the release of [[Release information/50.01|v50]] on Steam, much of this can be done in-game and through the Steam workshop, making starter packs no longer necessary.

=== PyLNP ===
A cross-platform port of the [[Utility:Lazy Newb Pack|Lazy Newb Pack]], written in Python and providing some support for v50. See [[Utility:Lazy_Newb_Pack#PyLNP:_The_modern_cross_platform_launcher|PyLNP: The modern cross platform launcher]] for more information.
* Links: {{F|140808|Bay12 Forum Thread}}, [https://github.com/Pidgeot/python-lnp/releases Releases] (for pack maintainers), [https://github.com/Pidgeot/python-lnp GitHub Repository], [http://pylnp.birdiesoft.dk/docs/dev/content.html Documentation]

== Other/miscellaneous ==
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=== [http://shadowlord13.googlepages.com/dfmap-index.html DF Map Compressor] ===
[[File:dfmapcomp.png|thumb|200px|none|Main program window.]]
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.

=== [http://www.mindwerks.net/projects/exita/ Exita] ===
Exita is a Python program that takes your DF world map exports and dump them into several different text outputs.

===[http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=132153.0 DwarfFamily]===
A tool that lets you import your legends XML file and converts all dwarf entries to a .GED file, which you can use in Family Tree programs like MyHeritage to display a family tree for the dwarves.

===[https://www.dropbox.com/s/dea50wrs557w283/kobold.py Kobold name generator]===
A Python script that generates random names in the way of kobold utterances

===[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=dae.dfnews Dwarf Fortress News - Android App]===
Watches the ''Dwarf Fortress'' devblog. Receives Push Notifications on new updates.

===[https://github.com/eniteris/df2html DF2HTML]===
Converts DF screenshots into formatted HTML.

==Calculators==

===[https://jose96xd.github.io/DF_Tools/index.html DFTools]===
A set of web-based utilities for mods, including calculators for temperature, time, and weapon damage.

===[https://smart-calculators.net/en-US/tools/dwarf-fortress-food-calculator Dwarf Fortress Food and Booze Calculator]===
Web-based calculator for planning farm tiles, brewers, stills, and barrels needed to sustain a fortress by food type and population. Computes yields for all crops, brewing rates, and multi-year production scales.

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Main Page/Quote/list

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{{D for Dwarf}}

This is the list of quotes which appear at the top of the wiki's [[Main Page]]. Many of them are musings from the developer notes, while others are forum posts made by ''DF'' players or simply anonymous game-related statements. Feel free to add any quotes you find particularly amusing or interesting.

To add a quote to this list, place it on its own line above the last line.
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"Didn't you read the manual? He he he he... the manual... ..." — [[Toady One]]
"[B]oats are the enemy of [[tile]]s. And [[tile]]s are the enemy of boats." — [[Toady One]]
"I went through and fixed a few places where forbidden/on fire weren't being respected for next time. Burning milkable creatures were still a problem for example." — [[Toady One]]
The cyclops I was quested to kill had a thousand year history of badassery, and all of that without the leg it lost in the Year 3 (a dwarf bit it off... I should probably deal with that). — [[Toady One]]
"Stopped people from giving quests to kill themselves." — [[Toady One]]
"Got rid of world gen crash during succession after [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdQ3JDLlmPI death of prolific long-standing position holders with inbred descendants]" — [[Toady One]]
"Sieging humans brought some war [[polar bear]]s, and one of them started a camp fire. [[Animal trainer|Highly trained]]!" — [[Toady One]]
"There was a typo in the siegers' campfire code. When the fires went out, so did the game." — [[Toady One]]
"Dwarven children kidnapped and incorporated into goblin society might [[Entity token#TISSUE_STYLE|sh... shave]]." — [[Toady One]]
"You can't yet strangle people with the exposed guts, though I suppose that's now within reach." — [[Toady One]]
"I had to leave just before I tested the dwarf with the boiling gold [[Creature token#BLOOD|blood]]." — [[Toady One|Toady the Great One]]
There was kind of a violent explosion of boiling human blood when I was testing a human vs a magma man in the arena... it was a little weird, but I guess that's okay. — [[Toady One]]
The zombies in a necromancer's tower became suspicious after the necromancer failed to age — [[Toady One]]
I'd have to look back to see if it wants the physical or metaphysical id on the corpse. — [[Toady One]]
I also got started on [[Jump|jumping]]. My first jump was off by a factor of 100, so I flew against a cliff and blew apart. I'm still working on it. — [[Toady One]]
The king of my dwarves appointed a visiting merchant's yak as the general of the army while I was trading. — [[Toady One]]
Most of yesterday I spent trying to be robbed by bandits, but they kept looking away from me and forgetting I was there. — [[Toady One]]
Today's success was to have a crying mother spit on me and call me a murderer. — [[Toady One]]
Stopped dwarves from trying to clean their own missing or internal body parts. — [[Toady One]]
Stopped zombies from interrupting your sleep to ask if they can help you with something. — [[Toady One]]
"Stopped aerial births." — [[Toady One]]
I had a dwarven hero try to kill a bronze colossus seven times, and each time he lost.... After the third duel, he began worshipping his enemy. — [[Toady One]]
I also grabbed somebody's exposed guts and did the only thing you can do with them currently, which is pinch them. — [[Toady One]]
The dabbling surgeon moved between repairing the compound fracture and trying to stop bleeding from malpractice. — [[Toady One]]
The poor thing died with the message "[[Temperature|<name> has condensed.]]" — [[Toady One]]
In addition, Atheli devoured three cows, four horses, five mules, a donkey, six dogs, two cats, and a rhesus macaque and fox while tormenting the elves. — [[Toady One]]
The [[titan]] was given a position in their pantheon, though it would still show up every few years to kick down somebody's house. — [[Toady One]]
Large animals can put an unskilled [[gelder]] in the hospital. — [[Toady One]]
I have my little invisible [[Labor|help-wanted ads]] for [the dwarves] to look through now, followed by a little invisible pick-best-applicants procedure. — [[Toady One]]
It seems I've just delivered you into the arms of crashing and despair. — [[Toady One]]
[[Scamps]] added two lines of code today. They didn't compile. — [[Toady One]]
The crash happened when the night creature tried to come up with things to say to potential shoppers. — [[Toady One]]
Stopped cats from dying of alcohol poisoning [https://dwarffortressbugtracker.com/view.php?id=9195 after walking over damp tavern floors and cleaning themselves.] — [[Toady One]]
I filled my fortress's [[temple]] with [[statue]]s and tantruming dwarves to test out the desecration code. — [[Toady One]]
These [[Agent|secret agents]] are overdoing it... "What can you tell me about yourself?" "Me? Who's that? I don't know myself." — [[Toady One]]
There's a cost to this [[Magic|movement]], and the cost is, 'how much do I value my blood? — [[Toady One]]
It's still a shock. People are playing a [[Tileset|text game]]. That's weird. — [[Toady One]]
An impressionable child, she inherited the goblin ethics of [[personality value|valuing]] power over others and her personal dream is to take over the world. I'm sure it'll be fine. — [[Toady One]]
I've got a fort that has an export industry centered entirely around little commemorative [[dacite]] figurines of the starting seven dwarves in different poses. Eventually we'll have to make the merchants more discerning — [[Toady One]]
"If a sieging army wants to talk, there's an initial petition to arrange a parley, which is not delivered physically — they hang back outside in relative safety, since you people have a [[Stupid dwarf trick|tendency]] to drop [[magma]] on things." — [[Toady One]]
My imprisoned expedition leader just walked home while still considered a prisoner due to some erroneous travel code exclusive to position holders. — [[Toady One]]
If your vision of dwarves is less about crafting in the mountains, and more about a lone dwarf descending from the hills to attack a village with a pack of a dozen hounds, your vision is now a reality. That's how I tested it, anyway. Five of the dogs were struck down, but the humans will now think twice about whatever it was they were thinking about, that's for sure. — [[Toady One]]
Uzol had orders, though, and he followed them to the letter. He broke into the temple and brought me back the relic... now I guess I have a save if I want to test being invaded by angry humans. — [[Toady One]]
"...go to reclaim artifacts that were either stolen by kobolds or something, or maybe weren't yours to begin with, and you can be bad dwarves. Start some shit." — [[Toady One]]
Some uncommon situations have become hard to debug with a test adventurer, so world debug mode can now manifest the cursor as an adventurer. Lots of "Hello. My name is Manifestation. Why are you traveling?" today. They don't notice the cursor human is clothing-free yet. — [[Toady One]]
I used my debug power to manifest as the Manifestation, holding the quest crossbow, which I immediately handed over. When I asked the quester about it, he said "An unknown creature has given an unknown creature <correct artifact name>. I don't care one way or another." — [[Toady One]]
Animals no longer become distracted from being unable to drink if they've experienced trauma, or from being unable to worship gods they shouldn't have been worshiping in the first place... — [[Toady One]]
Dropping a boulder on somebody and then leaving my dwarves unattended outside with nothing to do for a year resulted in tantrums, depression and oblivious wandering, so it seems to be working (...) I wasn't aware of their relationship status when the boulder fell; that's just how it turned out, sadly. — [[Toady One]]
Goblins are [[Immortality|meant to die]] violent deaths. — [[Toady One]][http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=1104.msg14899#msg14899]
I have some good saves I can look at and so forth, so hopefully I can pick some decent numbers if they are a problem, and if the numbers are fine, focus just on the ridiculous "scary teeth" part of it. Although I guess teeth are scary sometimes, but it takes like a whole horror movie to build up to why, and these are just random troll teeth. — [[Toady One]]
Insurrections were such a problem in sites that I had to turn them off for your fortress's holdings; we'll get back to that later. It wasn't even the insurrections, really; the dwarves were bailing on the occupation immediately because they were afraid of insurrections. — [[Toady One]]
After producing three notable poems, Zicab was murdered by a goblin armorer in the pits (who was later devoured by a giant lion, so that has a happy ending.) — [[Toady One]]
Artuk soon gave up on fighting, and became a poet like her father and grandmother, moving again to the goblin pits, where apparently all poetry in this world is written. — [[Toady One]]
For instance, a human trading company called the Present Hall was wildly successful trading various leathers and bones for crafting, and eventually had enough clout to open a branch warehouse inside a dwarf fortress for the first time. Can't resist that [[draltha]] leather. — [[Toady One]]
This turned out to be a strategic error, as two short years later, a forgotten beast obliterated the fortress, the warehouse, and killed everyone inside. So, what's the correct response? Close the destroyed branch? No, no, you stimulate the (non-existent) economy by hiring local. Forgotten beast, you're the new (ruined) warehouse administrator, congratulations! — [[Toady One]]
I've mainly been 'consolidating gains' this week (that is, finding horrible bugs and wondering how anything worked in the first place.) — [[Toady One]]
He was imprisoned in a dwarf fortress for 20 years. He might have escaped, but a hydra came and ate him and everybody else. — [[Toady One]]
I did have to fix a bug where the human and dwarven allies also ate the dead if the elves led the attack. — [[Toady One]]
I'm not actually sure why he didn't try to start a zombie horde of his own instead, but this is okay. — [[Toady One]]
Necromancers can pet their zombie animals too, and the living can try too if they are foolish. Hmm, I think a necromancer might also be able to pet their zombie humanoids, due to how it does the detection. — [[Toady One]]
I went to a shrine, rolled a tin icosahedral die and it was a bad roll and I was cursed to be a snowy owl for a week. So I flew up to a nearby rooftop and pondered tangents. — [[Toady One]]
I intentionally accepted a petition to establish a temple for the ten worshippers from the Cult of Cats, and then ignored it for an entire year. The game announced that the agreement had been abandoned, and one of my fisherdwarves that belonged to the religion cancelled their job in dismay. — [[Toady One]]
Now-corrected highlights include the game getting confused about who owned the tomb after a mummy came back from the dead, leading to the mummy's zombies sieging themselves, and two dwarven spies diligently maintaining their enemy cover identities even when they came to live in the player's fort, confusing the local soldiers and starting civil wars. — [[Toady One]]
Fixed crash involving stressed out wilderness creatures wanting to complain to priests. — [[Toady One]]
Ha ha, {{token|MAJOR_CURSE|interaction}} occurs 13 times in the code, and was the first usage hint added. MAJOR_BLESSING does not occur. Poor dwarves. — [[Toady One]]
There was a [[23a:Magic#Remnants|brief moment]] in DF history where armor had hair, swords whistled and elf arrows exploded wooden spikes inside of people. Someday we'll get back [[Magic|there]]. It's scheduled! — [[Toady One]]
[[Giant rat]]s are classic beings, of course. We also have [[large rat]]s since it felt like there needed to be extra size gradations for ratdom. — [[Toady One]]
The [[platypus]] has poisonous spurs, as in real life, which can cause painful swelling. Perhaps your fortress would benefit by allowing a [[Platypus man|platypus person]] adventurer to become a resident [[monster slayer]]? — [[Toady One]]
Generally, the large monsters should be able to do larger things. Just squishing entire bodies, or even groups of dwarves all at once. Squish. — [[Toady One]]
”He he he. Yeah, it almost looks done... alas... those who are in your teens, hold on until your twenties... those in your twenties, your thirties... others, cling to life as you are able... It should be pretty fun though.” — [[Tarn Adams]], [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=2525.msg40940#msg40940 2004]
The were-capybara is only one of the myriad lunatic monsters that terrorize the living. — [[ThreeToe]]
If I had to pick a bird to apply to this situation, it wouldn’t be the phoenix, because nothing exploded. — [[ThreeToe]][http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=179293]
Everything is beginning to coalesce, to congeal, to coagulate. All that's left is the detritus that is required to bring us to the starting line, waiting for the crack of the pistol. What does that mean? It means that I took a creative writing class in college. — [[ThreeToe]] [http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/#2022-07-15]
I can't put my finger on it. Something about this [[Fire|‼]]Cat tallow roast[[Fire|‼]] tastes funny.
Toady withdraws from society. Toady has begun a [[Strange mood|mysterious]] [[Dwarf Fortress|construction]]!
Let us never forget the last words of Inod the Stoker, "Aaah! Gorillas!"
[[Children|Newborn]] Zuglar Baldnessgranite prefers to consume Gorilla. A sure sign of his unparalleled strength!
[http://www.somethingawful.com/d/video-game-article/duke-nukem-image.php In an unrelated article] — I had no idea elephants could bounce that high!
[[Toady]] looses a roaring laughter, [[Fey|fell]] and terrible! Toady has butchered a spammer!
The critical question is this: do elf bones yield more crossbow bolts than the average number of bolts necessary to kill an elf?
"''Dwarf Fortress''" ... "Like chess, only with short people that can catch on [[fire]] like [[clothing|rags]] soaked in tar, and lots of [[booze]]." ... "Like chess."
''Dwarf Fortress'' has taught me that all the world's problems would be substantially reduced had our parent civilizations never minted more than four stacks of [[coins]].
[[Booze]] does all the work in forts. Dwarves are just booze exoskeletons.
My unconscious and bleeding [[mayor]] just [[Mandate|mandated]] the construction of some goods.
I can just imagine a [[wagon]] throwing a tantrum and tossing all its contents at people.
Döbesh Udosdeb has been ecstatic lately. He was forced to eat a friend to survive. He enjoyed a truly decadent meal.
Iron [[screw pump]] exercise equipment. Pump iron and get superdwarvenly strong!
The violence, aggression, pain, madness, sadness of the ASCII characters never ceases to amaze me...
Wait, you're MAKING animals? —''Torak'' At this moment, yes, I am smelting cows. —''Spiders Everywhere''
(Compared to real-world years) Dwarven years are shorter. — Sowelu Very fitting to dwarves, I must add. — Sean Mirrsen
[[Magma]] is not a [[water]] source. Dwarves can't drink it or supply it to their wounded. — AlienChickenPie
"You have been processed! Go forth, now, and edit!" — [[User:Savok|Savok]]
"What happened in 1048?" "Jreengus occurred."
Making rock instruments isn't nearly as awesome as it sounds — Shandrunn
{{token|FIREIMMUNE|c}} makes them think that [[magma]] is safe but doesn't actually make them [[Fire-safe|fireproof]]. This can lead to some rather interesting results.
Endok Cerolneth has [[Strange mood|begun a mysterious construction]]! Endok Cerolneth, Planter has given birth to a girl.
"Incendia sunt socia vestra, [[Armok|armaque]] vestra, fortesque Montis Domi." "Magma is your ally, your [[Armok|weapon]], the strength of the Mountain-Home." — Eita
"...And I simply doubt we have a need for 7 fishery workers. On top of that, a second soap maker. The hell IS soap?!" — Zero
"This is a terrible pun. All craftsdwarfship is of the poorest quality." — [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=21449.msg239558#msg239558 Soup_alex]
"The default [[Thought|mental state]] of a dwarf is madness. Sanity is a temporary condition — a PRIVILEGE you have to EARN!" — [[User:Fedor|Fedor]]
"Why get normal cats? I buy lolcats in the embark screen. Much more fun to engrave about them." — Yanlin
"''Dwarf Fortress'' taught me it was okay to make a suit out of my neighbour's skin, as long as I gave it a name."
"Hey, what does that flashing red and orange text mean? What? Why is there smoke everywhere? Oh god, are those BABIES on fire?" — [[User:StrawberryBunny|StrawberryBunny]]
"It's never 'just a game' when you're [[Fun|losing]]." — George Carlin (if he played ''Dwarf Fortress'')
Not that building a bridge out of soap makes much sense to begin with anyway.
Note that while you cannot milk larger animals yourself, civilizations can still milk animals "off screen" for your benefit.
Tosid Idenarzes likes [[40d:tentacle demon]]s for their corrupt intentions. "There! Now we've covered all of the seven deadly sins."
"Litast Idenudesh, baby, is throwing a tantrum! Inod Litastrilem, Mayor, has lost consciousness. Inod Litastrilem, Mayor, has bled to death."
{{bugl|416|cat=nocat}}: Rain kills everything it lands on
Bug 000780 [adventure mode][crime] — town guard becomes a criminal after getting an adventurer's stolen weapon stuck in his body
"Udib Toblumaid, Axedwarf, cancels sparring in Barracks: too insane." Ben jamm1n
Kosoth Cilobonol, Bone Carver cancels Drink: Unconscious.
Sizir the Snail of Bait is a [[deity]] of The Fresh Towers. Sizir most often takes the form of a female dwarf and is associated with jealousy.
Sibrek Tanbim likes Limestone, Tin, Smoky Quartz, the color crimson, bolts, scepters, anvils, and rock blocks for their [[Stonecutter|lack of quality levels]].
There are 5 articles in category Lore: [[Armok]], [[Cave adaptation]], [[Elephant]], [[Philosopher]], and [[Vomit]].
There is nothing to catch in the magma pipe.
Bug 000563 [dwarf mode][justice] — mayor ordered himself beaten for failing to make crystal glass objects
If cow [[cheese]] is made from [[cow]]'s [[milk]], what is dwarven cheese made of?
[[Known bugs and issues|Bugs]] are opportunities to cause unprecedented amounts of destruction. — Zorgn
"You know, Urist, you've got a mind like an +Ash Trap+." — [[User:Destor|Destor]]
'''Zander J:''' "Is there a way to stop immigration without setting the population cap?" '''Yanlin:''' "Magma."
An animal trainer just suddenly stopped working and hid himself in a workshop. He's probably going to make a wardog out of rock and goblin skulls.
Bug 000597 [creatures] — flying creatures give birth in midair, leading to tragedy.
'''Urdim Kutamèrith, Pump Operator, has created Rakusttenshed, a [[glumprong]] blowgun!''' Urdim, you are a freaking idiot.
<Forkez> I don't get the game, but I do get that tunnels flooded with water is a bad thing.
"If you give a dwarf a fire, he will be warm for a night. If you set a dwarf on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life."
"Since the Elves said they won't let me cut down any trees, I bought 50 of their logs instead."
Do not make a trading race that breathes fire. I REPEAT, DON'T!! EVER!!
''Dwarf Fortress'': Because burning elves are [[fun]]ny.
The carp has drowned.
There's one thing a dwarf needs, and that's stones. And alcohol... and magma... but mainly stones.
"I swear to God once I saw a dwarf who was labeled as being [[Attribute|Strong, Very Agile, Very Tough]]... and [[Cleaning|Clean]]. But it was probably just a bad dream."
Bug 000871 [projectiles] — babies fall to death when born on stairs
Bug 001031 [adventure mode][inventory] — a merchant pack animal caught at an old dwarf site during adv mode was wearing a full set of clothes
"[[Magma]] solves everything. [[Fire]] just ruins the [[booze]]." — sonerohi
Look, there are roving clumps of sentient lava outside, ... This isn't going to get better. — PTTG??
...and the only surviving dwarf is a noble who has [[Mandate|mandated]] the construction of crowns and clear glass items to the empty halls. — PTTG??
Adil Idenlocun is conflicted: "When possible he prefers to consume [[purring maggot]], [[Pig tail|Dwarven ale]] and [[Dwarven syrup]]. He absolutely [[Hateable|detests]] purring maggots."
Urdim Zatinod has been quite content lately. She has lost [[Grudge|an annoying friend]] to tragedy lately.
I added two levers. One opens the magma. The other sets free all the cats. — Someone in Headshoots
"As Manbaspecut, Human Merchant is stricken by melancholy!" "Muskox has gone stark raving mad!" I think something is wrong with the human caravan...
"Somebody needs to build an active volcano inside a fortress inside an active volcano." — Boksi
It has [[Creature#Reading the Table|stats]]. It can be killed.
Bug 000432 [dwarf mode][items] — Bones pop out of coffins.
Thanks. I wish I had known that about three forts ago.
If I ''remembered'' what the damn lever did, I'd ''pull'' it! <...pulls lever anyway...>
Sarvesh Ralrubal likes olivine, olivine and olivine.
"So let me get this straight. We managed to destroy a dwarven civilization while only managing a single town??"
Kara Mase, the Glory of Amusing: Engraved on the wall is an image of a dwarf and an elf. The dwarf is committing a depraved act on the elf.
Once saw a water skin with [[red beryl]] spikes. I still wonder how you would drink from that.
Watching a kobold thief be chased by [[Bat man|batman]] is very satisfying.
Kol Tölunimush has been ecstatic lately. He killed somebody by accident while sparring recently. He took joy in slaughter lately. He has lost a lover to tragedy lately. He has witnessed death. He had a satisfying sparring session recently.
Mew? Chop!
"If ''Dwarf Fortress'' geology is to be believed, then the Earth's core is made of [[microcline]] and [[demon]]s."
'They're firing arrows at us! Quickly! Raise the babies!!' — Urdim McSquadLeader, mother of 8
It started raining, then all my dwarves outside started bleeding to death. On inspection their upper bodies were missing.
It seems that a fresh recruit given a crossbow and a quiver with ammo in it will opt to run up to the enemy and bash them with the crossbow.
Bug introduced in the latest version: [[Fire men]] can have their flames severed. These flames then just lie around the place.
You stab [[Iron Man]] in the right leg from behind with your adamantine short sword, breaking away a piece of the gas and shattering the iron! The Beak Dog is caught in a burst of Iron Man gas! Beak Dog vomits into the Iron Man gas.
Urist McDairy, Milker cancels store item in stockpile: handling dangerous creature
Ildomushat, Fish Cleaner, cancels Clean Self: Could not find [[path]].
Losing is [[Fun]]!!! — The motto of ''Dwarf Fortress''
I hate walking under dwarven archways. You never know how many [[Trap#Weapon trap|mechanized crossbows]] they have hidden underneath those damn things.
"Bibo ergo sum. I drink, therefore I am." — Dwarven Philosopher
This is a menacing iron spike. This object menaces with spikes of iron.
Kogsak is a deity of The Helpful Diamond. Kogsak most often takes the form of a dwarf and is associated with fortresses.
The Forgotten Beast pushes The Wrestler in the head, bruising the muscle, driving the skull through the brain, and tearing apart the brain! The Wrestler has been struck down!
Goblin Chops at the Diagnostician in the right leg, damaging the muscle! Urist McHouse is Unconscious!
Limul Itebdesis, trader has been Possessed. Limul Itebdesis, trader has created Stodir Isethlolor, a Mortgage-Backed Security!
The heart wound ended up being a guy getting shot in the arm, dropping his crossbow, running over to the opposing line, and jabbing his stack of bolts into somebody's chest.
Giant mole has stolen a preserved prepared giant mole lung! ''"Hey, I want my grandfather back!"''
"You must construct additional barrels!" — [[User:Speed112]]
All I want is a major river next to a volcano with [[flux]], [[sand]] and [[bituminous coal]].
Do not taunt magma.
I bury my pets in gold coffins and my nobles in wood coffins. Pets before people, I say. — KingAuggie
[the cavern] is basically like the surface, except underground
The fortress' [[Language|randomly generated name]] was "Greatest[[Fun|failure]]".
"You stab the Human Thresher in the mouth with your large copper dagger, tearing the left cheek!" "The large copper dagger has lodged firmly in the wound!"
"The best way to determine how dangerous a fortress is, is to make only one dwarf with the burial job, and nothing else: the lower his social skills, the more dangerous the fortress is — [[User:Rhenaya|Rhenaya]]"
"Before retiring in the evening, heed my words and give yourself to volcanos" — Ted Usmokatra, law-giver
Upon coming of age, about 8, Urist McYoung made an [[artifact]], became mayor and promptly [[Mandate|mandated]] the construction of [[slade]] goods.
''Dwarf Fortress'': You've already lost.
A sober fortress makes even a mental hospital seem like a pleasant place to live.
A typical Dwarven nightmare consists of running out of booze or getting a beard lopped off in an accident.
There are two ways of dealing with goblins in a tree. One is by marksdwarves. The other is by flooding the world with magma.
Portal and ''Dwarf Fortress'' share a mystical trend. It is !!Science!!.
The only time I ever saw the stupid thing fly, was to cross the aqueduct, to the beer hall. — Fredd
(On artifacts) I got a flint door, called The Noiseless Odors. — Nyxalinth
So apparently she became queen before becoming a twilight freak wife. Fascinating. — Samuel
Got a few barrels of beetle ichor and duck blood, gave some pig cheese in exchange. Made a present of three coffins to the queen.
The Sasquatch corpse has lodged firmly in the wound! The goblin has been struck down!
[22:57:46] <Dik_> How do I wash myself up from blood? [23:06:20] <Dik_> How the fuck do I get out of the river?
No, you're not getting that leg back. In fact, that creature over there is going to pick your leg up and beat you to death with it. You won't respawn.
My refuse pile just woke up and ate my dwarves, who in turn got up themselves and started eating the other dwarves.
{{bugl|2264|cat=nocat}} — Adv. Mode travel (near oceans) teleports player underground and turns them into an underground creature
{{bugl|5921|cat=nocat}} — Biting dwarves in minecarts infinitely increases combat range
Fort flooded. So that's what an aquifer is. — Exelixi
Axedwarf looks surprised by the ferocity of Spearmasters onslaught. Spearmaster charges at Axedwarf. Spearmaster stabs axedwarf in the left eye with his +Adamantine spear+, lightly tapping the target.
In 4, the Castle of Fortune of the Tombs of Gold constructed the Hell of Taxing in Entrancedcrafts.
Mukca: Seek this place and kill Cenäth Certaindrives the giant. Knowing no mercy, Cenäth stole Fisher berry wine!
We shall build a tower so tall, we will mine the very stars themselves!
Ingish Såkzulbomrek, Miner cancels Report Crime: Dangerous terrain.
You have struck limonite! Oddom Nishdanman, Furnace Operator cancels Smelt Limonite Ore: needs limonite.
{{bugl|4753|cat=nocat}} [Creatures]: Rodent men have no skin
{{bugl|0040|cat=nocat}} [Dwarf Mode — Jobs, Items]: "Dwarf cancels Make Cloth Item: Needs 10000 plant cloth"
{{bugl|5531|cat=nocat}} [Creatures]: Legless animal men can kick
{{bugl|1588|cat=nocat}} [Creatures]: Creature with 1 eye and 2 eyelids
"This is my reward for not letting us all die. I have to deal with the Nobility." — Captain Ironblood, the mayor of Nist Akath
I'd like to think they bonded over their sinister ancestors (or the strange childhood coincidence of having younger siblings gobbled up by different werebuffalo in the same year).
They just walk around without a head until they realize that they should suffocate. — Urist Da Vinci
You monster! Killing too many children at once will make everyone sad. You need to kill them slowly so nobody notices.
Dwarven... "Child Care": It's like regular childcare, except with more dogs, and [[Fun|less care]].
You: How have things been? Tulon Tunlikot, Mayor: Well, let's see... we've got the army on the march, beasts, bandits and bone-chilling horror.
{{bugl|6722|cat=nocat}}: Manager climbs a tree instead of going to office when management jobs are assigned
{{bugl|5971|cat=nocat}}: Fat dwarves eating causes lag
{{bugl|6817|cat=nocat}}: "Behold, mortal. I am a diving being."
It was inevitable.
Weresquirrel Ceru Uzushimdo has come! A large Squirrel twisted into humanoid form. It is crazed for blood and flesh. Its eyes glow orange. Its sandy taupe hair is very curly. Now you will know why you fear the night.
I don't think the Elves in my DF game are too happy... I've [[Modding|modded]] them so that their [[Creature token#FIXED_TEMP|body temperature]] causes nearby trees to burst into [[Fire|flames]]. — Evil One
''Dwarf Fortress'': Teaching [[Drowning chamber|methods]] of genocide against [[Merperson|merpeople]] because their bones are worth [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=25967.0 6000{{db}}].
No one has gone missing or died. The year is still young.
From release notes 0.40.11: Stopped overuse of plant structure tag causing people to say they preferred to eat trees
The game actually has a first-person message about being scuttled, just in case you should happen to be playing as a [[wagon]]. — Halfling
Engraved on the wall is a well-designed image of a dwarf and hamsters. The dwarf is surrounded by the hamsters. The dwarf looks terrified.
Spring is coming, oh no, prepare the coffins! — Garath
Welcome to ''Dwarf Fortress''. Where peaceful death of old age is something nobody sees coming. — Sirbug
"I died." "The Weather looks to be fine today." "I heard that I died."
Large mobs of groundhogs can still kill things they wouldn't normally kill.
You punch Human 2 in the right eye from behind with your left hand and the injured part explodes into gore! Human 2: Greetings. My name is Human 2.
Chopping down the tree [is] effective, insofar as you do not care whether the dwarves live or die.
Knowing no mercy, [http://imgur.com/hoGQZoX Nikot] stole a cherry! This vile fiend even murdered Mafi Fanggorge!
Obok Kelzokum is interested near his own fine [[Bed]]. "I was near to my own Bed. How incredibly interesting!"
Wait, wait, wait. Why the hell do you have a raven stockpile? — [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=108371.msg3235825#msg3235825 peskyninja]
You can [[Modding|modify]] chickens so that, instead of laying eggs, [[Creature token#LAYS_UNUSUAL_EGGS|they lay ''live bees'']]. ''Dwarf Fortress'': crimes against nature simulator. — [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/DwarfFortress TVTropes]
Ah well. Who knew the first Dwarf to go to space was a useless [[fisherdwarf]].
I launched 4 dwarves into the air with a bridge and only 3 came down.
If you are working with [[magma|central heating]], make sure the "hot" pipe and the "cold" pipe don't mix, or your heating system will likely not work as intended.
It's no longer called magma when it reaches the surface... and melts a hundred goblins.
Dwarves are like squirrels, but instead of acorns it's booze.
Carp are to be feared, worshipped, and roasted with magma.
It's easier to buy out a caravan than it is to take the time to shop.
I had a fortress where roughly 90% of the engravings were of buckets, buckets surrounded by dwarves, and buckets surrounded by screaming dwarves. — [http://dfstories.com/buckets/ taran]
Led Zanzustash dove into the rapids, and climbed out a day later. He had several injuries, some broken bones, and a missing finger, but he had done it: he saved a barrel of booze that was nearly destroyed (the baby died).
"In a time before time, I killed me." — Human with nothing else to [[Adventurer_mode#Talking|gossip]] about
There is currently a minor problem in that the veteran demons fighting in the corpse factory have failed to die in the 2 year battle and have become legendary unkillable gods of war. I may have misjudged this possible outcome. — Loud Whispers
Added the Giant Adder to dwarven menu. — TheCrazyHamsteR
"What's the purpose of adding [[feather tree]]s to the game? To make good pillows", I think. — TheCrazyHamsteR
In a time before time, somebody attacked somebody.
''Dwarf Fortress'': [[Undead|Respawning after death]] is even more [[fun]].
"I tried to carve 'god hates this place' into the mountain. Unfortunately, Athlete's footnote got stuck in the 'a' of 'place' and starved to death"
The resulting party killed 20 dwarves, crippled 2 more and the remaining 9 managed to get along and have a nice party.
If your dwarves start melting or slugmen explode whenever it rains, then it's a good indication it's too hot. — UberNube
What you see as an increase in population, the surrounding beasts simply see as a more stable food supply. — Taupe, [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=144852.0/ DoomForests]
That's right, the undead ravens killed the entirety of the hidden fun stuff. — Loud Whispers
"Astesh Savotsazir, Stray Kitten (Tame) has adopted Ingish Rimtaruzol, Siege Engineer."
''Dwarf Fortress'', flinging dwarves into space using a drawbridge since 2006.
Sometimes the best trophy is your own head.
I like to think that the other pole [of the world] was destroyed by a dwarven experiment gone right. — GMDev
Unfortunately for Urist McDeadman, the budget no longer allowed for personal mausoleums for every dwarf, as had previously been standard.
Nil Aliscatten cancels make Charcoal: dangerous terrain.
A Kobold Thief has made off with +Kobold Cage+!
OH GOD I'M BEING EATEN BY A SNAIL, WHAT AN UNEXPECTED AND SORT OF IRONIC TWIST! — Max, [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=144852.0/ DoomForests]
"In the early spring of 500, the rain monster was struck down by the banshee of drought Scrapedrent in The Hellish Marshes."
Deler Kulinkeskal, Weaver is exhilarated after being attacked. "I was attacked. How exhilarating!"
I wonder how the elves can eat these... *licks a leaf*
Well, someone already managed to drink their sword.
How is my dining room possibly this full of badgers? — Skid
I just drafted a Llama into my army and it already killed a [[roc]] by itself. — Ashameron
{{bugl|8977|cat=nocat}} [Diplomacy] — Merchant caravans get stuck in tree.
Each time a pile of wool becomes alive and attacks my dwarves I think it doesn't want to end as worn clothes. — TheCrazyHamsteR
Erith also gets kudos for killing a demon by eating it to death. — Loud Whispers
I (somehow) wield a marble coffin that I fill with the corpses of all I have slain (to make an already heavy object even heavier) in one hand, and the other holds a book made out of fucking platinum. The book can crush skulls, and the coffin grows ever stronger and now that it has a few dead dragons in it, it sends people flying a mile backwards to explode in a pile of gore. Gore which I then place into the coffin. — Wwolin
Jump into a deep pit and let your body experience overwhelming kinetic energy. — TheCrazyHamsteR
The Herbalist has become enraged! Kadol Imushothil, Herbalist: "I got into an argument with Kol Kissrazors. I am so angry!"
Stozu Ägusnodub, Goblin Woodcutter (to Dang Kutsmobnozam, Goblin Diagnoser): "Not a half hour ago I attacked me."
Some [[migrant]]s have arrived, despite the danger.
"Mestthos Savotsazir, baby, has been missing for weeks!" And the babysitter still got paid.
My miner gets scared by a ghost, climbs a tree, the ghost cuts off his arm, he's stuck in the tree, my woodcutter cuts down the tree, and then my miner is crippled for the rest of his life.
Guys seriously, no food in the library! I'm mainly talking to you Urist McDonothingbutdrinkmyboozeandeatmyfood!
Losing is fun they said, it's the whole point they said.
[http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=15096.msg6724410#msg6724410 martinuzz] (on the election of his sole elven-citizen to the position of mayor): 'I think I just lost the game. EDIT: wow, just wow. Her only social skill is "Master Intimidator" all other social skills are dabbling. "ELECT ME OR I EAT YOU AND EXCRETE YOUR DIGESTED REMAINS ON MY ANCESTRAL TREE AS FERTILIZER"'
Zebna ámbekat Rashedezif Ethba, Werecoyote: *kills a dwarf* "Death... This is truly horrifying..." *kills another dwarf*
Spearman: Greetings. My name is Kakpoth. This servant of [[Speech file#TRANS_NAME|TRANS_NAME]]] greets you.
"ERMAHGAWD IM SO DRUNK" — Some sober human in my tavern
Human Farmer: Is that a weapon? What's going on?! Human Animal Caretaker (to Human Farmer): Just now Dur Leaderevens was slain by Olum Senserampaged the Fords of Passing.
Where did all of these chinchilla corpses come from?
Are bar brawls typically lethal? 15 dead already. — flabort
The mechanics and logistics of [[Milk|milking]] a [[kangaroo]] sound excruciatingly painful for everyone involved.
The Carpenter 'Jesus Christ' Thikutdesis and The Farmer 'Moses' Ezumethab have married!
In the early summer of 129, Ducim Stafftender married a hen.
OH GOD! THE BABIES ARE DEHYDRATING!
'David' Vabokkubuk felt euphoric due to inebriation.
I visited a town to kill a vampire with 98 kills. Every time I attempted to kill him he would run away and return after about 5 minutes. Every attempt caused locals to attack me and I ended up killing 12 people before getting my head impaled by a sword and died. The vampire was unharmed.
The mayor has made 9 [[mandate]]s in a row requesting the construction of catapult parts. Now he is prohibiting the export of all catapult parts.
One of the children in my fortress became a legendary wood crafter due to a fey mood. He is also only 2 years old.
"[[Necromancer|Necromancy]] is sort of like Jaywalking. It's not [[Justice#Crimes|illegal]], just frowned upon." — [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=136384.1785 Dwarfy]
Urist McWimp, Hunter cancels Return Kill: Interrupted by a chinchilla.
Dear Urist McEngineer, If you become drowsy, please wait to finish constructing your hallway of large serrated disc death BEFORE you take a nap. Your bloody, gibbed corpse will be stowed away in the [[refuse]] [[stockpile]]. — bigjaredmonkey, in the "[http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=63417.msg6961519#msg6961519 Note to Urist]" topic.
I once got sieged by an army of toads lead by a [[Interaction token|pyromancer]]. Not [[Toad man|toadmen]], not [[giant toad]]s, but [[toad]]s. The kind [[cat]]s murder. — [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=34430.msg6961973#msg6961973 Splint]
[[Giant cave toad]]s may appear as mounts during a goblin attack, where they will happily swim their way into your fortress via any unprotected waterways. If the underwater path is short enough sometimes their goblin riders even survive the trip.
Is that npc humping a table?
Spill the intestines of your enemy, cut them off and keep as a stinking trophy. The smell makes you feel nausea? You are not even a half as nauseous as your victim is now.
a migrant with skills in surgery, butchery and bonecarving. i can see how thos skills suppliment each other. synergies — Scruffy, [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=116045.msg6027592;topicseen#msg6027592 !!DRUNK FORTRESS!!]
A Goblin Siege? Good, we were starting to run out of clothes.
Prepared food! What do you mean prepared food?! You mean you aren't content with squatting in a dank cavern gnawing on a cold uncooked mushroom?
A book called ''Into the Elf,'' sounds like a rip off of ''Fifty Shades of Gabbro.''
As a necromancer, I realize not many people try cocaine, most of those people reincarnate for that very reason.
{{bugl|9371|cat=nocat}} [Adventure Mode — Eating/Drinking] The Human Pikeman Necromancer drinks the «≡steel toy hammer≡».
{{bugl|2484|cat=nocat}}: Eight-legged quadruped
{{bugl|9832|cat=nocat}}: Overuse of casesura and reversal in poetic forms
[Bug fix] Made gorlaks able to open doors, stopped desizing of their heads.
{{bugl|4681|cat=nocat}}: A dwarf with a [[Strange mood|fell mood]] grabbed a ghost. It didn't get the required materials, so it grabbed another one.
"You read Misconceptions About Reproduction." The written portion consists of a 69 page manual entitled Misconceptions About Reproduction, authored by Lali Mobblazes. It concerns the reproductive behavior of creatures. The writing is quite self-indulgent. Overall, the prose is not awful, but not very good either.
My adventurer found a horse. I knew you couldn't ride horses so I decided to attack it for its meat. {The horse hoof strikes Ehil Casketfrgrance in the head, and the severed part sails off in arc!}
Acik Citudubmith, Werewarthog: I have improved my wrestling. That was very satisfying! (...) The speardwarf stabs the werewarthog in the neck with her ({bismuth bronze spear}) and the severed part sails off in an arc! ~instant karma
Pre-alpha in-dev release. "Nobody on the [[DFHack]] team accepts any responsibility for anything that this program causes. It is liable to be very unstable." — japa
It is terrifying.
"Can you tell me where I can find me?" "I don't know, and I don't know anybody that could tell you."
While getting ground and pounded by a ranger, I seize him by the throat and place a chokehold, his response being to frantically punch and scratch me. Then, as we sit in a pool of our own blood frantically trying to kill one another, my opponent then looks me in the eyes and says: "Greetings. My name is Kamven Trustsystem. Let's not hurt anybody."
A horse just grabbed me by the nose with it's front leg and threw me. I wish I knew horse Judo...
Throwing a coat at an enemy tears their leg apart, bruising ligaments and tendons and forcing him to the ground, effectively doing more damage then if I had hacked him with an axe. Eh, seems legit.
Human 2 (to Human 1): I died. It was inevitable.
''Dwarf Fortress'' isn't ''Dwarf Fortress'' unless your Trade Depot is inexplicably covered in [[vomit]]
[[Tantrum]]: If you can't stand your life anymore, come for treatment to the elephants. [[Unfortunate accident|They'll gladly understand.]]
Gelu Blossomedstenches the Ripe Sucker of Sacks is a marsh [[titan]]. It is the only one of its kind. A great one-eyed six-legged ankylosaurid, it has an austere look about it. Its periwinkle scales are round and close-set. Beware its fire! Gelu is associated with water, plants, nature, muck and animals.
{{bugl|3299|cat=nocat}}: [Animal Populations] Blind cave bears have front toes on both front and rear feet
{{bugl|2790|cat=nocat}}: [Creatures] Alligators needlessly use specific toes
{{bugl|6498|cat=nocat}}: [Adventure Mode — Conversation] Zombies start conversation with necromancer adventurer who tries to sleep in their house
[http://i.imgur.com/1A5Au.jpg You get used to it. I, I don't even see the ASCII. All I see is dwarf, *floodgate*, plump helmet spawn...]
{{bugl|9763|cat=nocat}} — [Dwarf Mode — Immigration] Dwarf missing upper body, but still alive.
"I plan on breeding an entire race of subservient animal people, who will comprise the main workforce of my fortress (not to mention the military)." — [http://www.reddit.com/r/dwarffortress/comments/416gqb/eugenics_a_proposal_for_breeding_a_slave_race/ High_king_of_Numenor]
"Whenever I torture someone [in Adventure Mode], I like to 'slug' them. I remove their ears, nose, teeth, and tongue, and break both of their legs. I call it "slugging" because all they can do is crawl around on the floor and cry. Then I like to follow them around and talk to them about the weather." — [http://www.reddit.com/r/dwarffortress/comments/2zilxr/the_treefondling_hippie_certainly_deserves_it/cpjoxa9/?context=1 paroonshark]
"My dorfs leave this world the way they came into it: naked, screaming, and on fire." — [http://www.reddit.com/r/dwarffortress/comments/4ci1l8/ive_been_playing_the_best_game_in_the_world_for/d1iqlbg/?context=4 speedster217]
PROTIP: Make sure to melt all the fat off your body so fire-spewing enemies can't hurt you.
"I see no downside towards making your own child execution chamber." — [http://www.reddit.com/r/dwarffortress/comments/43180m/roomcarnage_the_consequences_of_mourning_spoilers/czesj2t/?context=2 aidantheman18]
"I feel like in DF that beating an elf to death with his own infant is considered polite discussion." — [http://www.reddit.com/r/dwarffortress/comments/4rlr6y/my_mayor_became_king_of_a_different_civilization/d52qn1s/ loercase]
"My mayor just punched 20 zombies to death" — [http://www.reddit.com/r/dwarffortress/comments/61zadj/my_mayor_just_punched_20_zombies_to_death_he/ Madrawn]
"What's the easiest way to murder children?" — [http://www.reddit.com/r/dwarffortress/comments/pveuj/whats_the_easiest_way_to_murder_children/ Russki]
"I like to play with my food, starting with the fingers, toes, lips, ears, teeth, eyes, nose, then just randomly stabbing them until they bleed out" — [http://www.reddit.com/r/dwarffortress/comments/4b5lw8/bandits_controlling_hillocks/d16qkym/?context=10000 DwarfTower]
Death... I am not upset by this.
"I made a giant statue of a dog entirely out of dog [[soap]]. It took nearly 10 years." — [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=163866.msg7431473#msg7431473 Ironfang]
"A mix between Children of Men, City of Ember, and, uh, magma."
"Spearmaster stabs the Troglodyte in the left eyelid from behind with his — bronze spear-, tearing the skin!"
This is a stack of 20 masterfully prepared plump helmet roast. The ingredients are masterfully minced plump helmet, masterfully minced plump helmet, masterfully minced plump helmet and masterfully minced plump helmet.
Once you have entire squads of legendary axedwarves, the game changes. When a forgotten beast attacks your fortress, your first thought is: 'Ooh, we're gonna get some NICE bone bracelets outta this!'
"So I embark. Immediately upon unpausing, the wagon bursts into flames and kills one of my miners." — _Naptune_
{{bugl|9267|cat=nocat}}: Traders bring magma in bags
{{bugl|1701|cat=nocat}}: HFS Critters attempting to clean self
"Those rivers are out to get you. Why do you think you can't fast travel across them? Because it's an ambush!" — [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=164558.msg7555694#msg7555694 Uzu Bash]
"Ok, so one of the merchants who does nothing in this fortress whatsoever is hunting, that's the one who's hunting, not the 50 hunters I have in the fortress but the useless merchant, of course." — [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaifrB5IrvGNPJmPeVOcqBA Kruggsmash].
"If a site with outcasts hiding in it is conquered, the outcasts are treated like members of the defending site. This can lead to expected things like sewer werebeasts getting crucified. However, it can also make a giant alligator flee the attacking army, wandering the wilderness for a few years before deciding to become a dancer and moving to the city. The giant alligator later remembered itself and went back to attacking villages."[http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=145317.msg7472982#msg7472982 — TheFlame52]
"Now, Throw it in the pile and get back to work." [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaifrB5IrvGNPJmPeVOcqBA Kruggsmash]
"Horse is hopping up and down on your mutilated body. you are deceased."
"I went to a human town one day that had one of those open markets, and every one of the merchants there was a dingo man, and they are were all saying "In a time before time I attacked me." to every one around them." — [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=164791.msg7554631#msg7554631 King Zultan]
“Still, I'm curious about just what exactly drives the cohesion and otherwise lack of dickery. Is a hatred of elves and love of mushrooms really enough? Could this be the foundation for world peace?” — [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=167881.msg7595536#msg7595536 Immortal-D]
apparently some of my children like to play inside the barracks, upon inspection they were all skilled axedwarves.
"And there they go to the capital, with their wagons full of Delersholid's balls" [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaifrB5IrvGNPJmPeVOcqBA — Kruggsmash]
I wish there were [[Material token|tags]] to follow certain materials so I can [[Modding|mod]] in that thing from Stranger Things
{{bugl|10350|cat=nocat}}: Horses have objects of worship
Meanwhile, bugs used as melee weapons sustain no wear at all, having tested this by using a live slug to punch a dwarf in the stomach long enough to make him explode. [https://dwarffortressbugtracker.com/view.php?id=9920 — Bug Report #0009920]
{{bugl|8779|cat=nocat}}: Adventurer encounters naked, mute, hostile dwarven expedition leader
{{bugl|10485|cat=nocat}}: Dwarf recruit insane for 33 years standing around in the wilderness, formed friendship after insanity
"STEALTH WEREMAMMOTHS??!!" — [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=141173.0 Dunamisdeos]
High-cheekbones kobold wrestler (to the high-voiced kobold spearman): Identify yourself! High-voiced kobold spearman (to the high-cheekbones kobold wrestler): Identify yourself! High-cheekbones kobold wrestler (to the high-voiced kobold spearman): Identify yourself!
You drink the lye. You feel really full. You drink the lye. It's too much, you might not be able to keep it down! You vomit. You drink the lye.
I have a fort that is now a mountainhome. The king "doesn't really care about the law".
Currently I am being attacked by a giant 3-eyed stick insect and a scaly, winged, blue snail. What an awesome game!
In a siege I stationed my marksdwarves at the top of my wall to fire out of the fortifications. Everything was going great until they decided it would be a good idea to jump OVER the fortifications, off the wall, and into the enemy axedwarves.
In the middle of a fight with a forgotten beast my axelord walked off to "Store Item in Stockpile".
I may or may not have entirely filled the cavern with water. . .
Hey! Why can't I trade right now? Where is my trader? Oh. Unconscious with last thought being "Euphoric after drinking". Hangover?
The dwarven baby has long clean-shaven sideburns and a very long mustache and prefers [[Cave wheat|dwarven beer]] or [[Pig tail|ale]].
The plum wood logs strikes the woodcutter in the left upper leg and the injured part is smashed into the body, an unrecognizable mess! An artery has been opened in the attack! The woodcutter slams into an obstacle!
No, that's disgusting.
There is a new [[King of Beasts]], and its name is [[Badger]]. Tremble before it. — Unintelligent
An ambush! Curse all [[Elf|friends of nature]]!
The last fortress I started under conditions this horrible ended with the last survivor going mad after a skeletal mandrill ate his pet kitten and going on a suicide charge into zombie elefants while naked and on fire.
"I got into an argument with a cat. That was very exhilarating!"
It is a blessing as much as it is depressing that you can drink your own tears.
"One time, a horde of Monkeys doomed my Dwarves by stealing their supplies in mass. They died that night."
"So I had my brewer go out to pick some fruits from the nearby trees to use for some quick booze production to kick start my newest fortress, but while he was standing on his stepladder he suddenly became thirsty. / I did whatever I could to try and save him, but he inevitably died of dehydration and then fell face-first into the ground off his stepladder." — Urist commenting on "Ladderbound".
"Dude, anything's possible with enough work, time, and lots of alcohol." — Dummy rambling about multiplayer.
"The saddest part about this game is that it was always inevitable." — Some Nerd
You attack the Obese Dwarven Child in the lower body with your *Iron War Hammer* but the attack glances away! Obese Dwarven Child: I feel so good!
Reg Abiriton enjoys carving buckets. He has carved an image of a bucket in hematite, an image of two buckets in obsidian, and an image of three buckets in sulphur.
Segfaults in under 1min. Extermination of Gencesh Anurlem the law-giver prevents it. The mad lad is wearing gabbro blocks x3, sweet pods [4], rotten creepy crawler remains, dimple cups [7] and an exceptional iron pipe section (may vary). [https://dwarffortressbugtracker.com/view.php?id=10499 — Bug Report #0010499]
The [[Werebeast|Wereass]] Lara Rifayivu Enefilece has come! A Large [[Donkey|ass]] twisted into humanoid form. It is crazed for blood and flesh. Its eyes glow mahogany. Its brown hair is unkempt. Now you will know why you fear the night.
"[…] The dwarf 'Pasal' Hatchedbody led the attack, and the defenders were led by a troll. […] The dwarf 'Pasal' Hatchedbody outmatched a troll with a cunning plan."
"Fucking SLAVES! Get your Beards Back here!" ''-[[Armok]] Upon being Chained and having his Adamantine stolen by dwarves.''
Playing a brown recluse spider man, boogeyman don't attack them. Decided to dance and they danced with me. They [http://imgur.com/a/yP9pdH4 think im a shit story teller]. — [http://www.reddit.com/r/dwarffortress/comments/bgz7hd/i_found_out_why_there_called_boogeymen/ Sabata11792]
{{bugl|11106|cat=nocat}} [adventure mode][General] Adventurer suddenly turned into a chinchilla
{{bugl|11074|cat=nocat}} Infinitely dripping pets?
{{bugl|11095|cat=nocat}} Statue of Pet Sheep Shows Sheep Owning Dwarf
Related Historical Figures: Rope, object of worship
"We need more fatal beatings!" — Doxazo
"I've been wounded. No, that's not annoying." — Rakust Beradil
"I'm flooding my fortress because I've decided enough is enough. On the plus side, my mist generator is working now." — Doxazo
""I had a bath. I'm very content" (The dwarf who plugged an aquifer (11x11 plug) — which event displaced so much water so suddenly, that it threw him into the air, had him briefly unconscious and left him stunned and with an injured leg.)"
There is nothing to catch in the volcano.
{{DFtext|A section of the cavern has collapsed!|4:1}} {{DFtext|The miner slams into an obstacle!|6:1}} {{DFtext|The two-legged rhino lizard Remains strikes the miner in the neck and the injured part is smashed into the body, an unrecognizable mass!|4:1}}
{{DFtext|Zasit Dastotamud, Diagnoser cancels Clean: Dangerous terrain|4:1}}
[https://www.reddit.com/r/dwarffortress/comments/f2ivul/new_training_regime/ {{DFtext|The Cat is sparring.|3:1}}]
{{bugl|11333|cat=nocat}}: Cats can be interrogated.
This is a Silver [[Slab]]. All craftsmanship is of the highest quality. The slab reads: "I am Urist, once of the underworld. By Busla, I bind myself to this place."
"This is a dwarf. The dwarf is dead. The dwarf is also laughing." — Kruggsmash
{{bugl|11470|cat=nocat}}: Slow white stork woman causing mayor to be stuck in office
{{bugl|11481|cat=nocat}}: Dwarf eats [[mud]] left from [[mud man]]
{{bugl|10519|cat=nocat}}: (Almost) unkillable zombie made when raising corpse of curling hedgehog man
{{bugl|11490|cat=nocat}}: Visitors giving birth during visit leave their baby behind
'Beatitudo est [[Fun|perdere]]'
"I think bridges are a good murder weapon. Over 20 dead and also not a bad way to dispose of babbling lunatics."
Losing is [[fun]], but frustration is not.
{{bugl|9486|cat=nocat}}: Building Destroyer visitors destroy the tavern
”'''Filth''' is one of the more obscure materials present within the game code. It comes in two varieties: solid brown and liquid yellow filth.” — this wiki on [[filth]], 2020-10-28.
"One thing right off the bat, we discovered immortality and literal reincarnation. Not sure how but cool."
"ya dun stole ma battly axe!"
"In the early spring of 38, The Fondled Demon accepted an offer of peace from the Chaste Skirts."
"This is one of those games that you have to get better at losing before you can get better at winning." [[User:Uzu Bash|Uzu Bash]] ([[User talk:Uzu Bash|talk]])
I had a number of long-term residents, but then a visiting poet turned into a werepanther and ate everybody. Such is life.
Embark with 3000 units of meat. ― {{bugl|4592}}
Dwarf Fortress: Where creatures of the night are nice enough to politely greet you before kicking you in the head and exploding it into gore.
Oh breachnig the volcano msfired completely. HOpe I idnt kill too many there.,... Still don't knww where my miners went. ''[sic]'' — Drunk Siquo
In the year 12, Afe Lizardsun slew the desert titan Oslo with a peach wood branch.
I think I might have broken something, because my dwarves are wearing gauntlets on their mouths.
The siege is broken! We are victorious!!!!! Also, the exterior of the fortress continues to burn.
I wish you the best of luck in retaining consciousness during the next 45 minutes or so..
I ''maaayyy'' have accidentally switched some [[Creature token|tags]] and made dwarves bleed from the eyelids when they [[Creature token#SECRETION|sweat]]. Oops.
[A]fter a short jog to the nearest monastery, I became a vampire after blaspheming the gods, and ran back to the ocean. [https://www.reddit.com/r/dwarffortress/comments/ri48gu/migrur_throl_oceans_deep_the_strange_depths_the/]
I just bought out a chunk of a human caravan with wheelbarrows, and then a peasant gave birth in the mountain spring to a girl.
They may appear as mounts during a siege, though it's difficult to take an invader seriously when mounted upon a giant slug. — this wiki on [[Giant slug]]s
HIT YOU ELF TO PIECES WITH FIST. — ''Pokémon Vietnamese Crystal''
[http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=15096.msg6725059#msg6725059 Hellzon] Visitors happily came to the glacier/tundra fort surrounded by howling yetis, and my current evil hills fort where it rains blood every week. But an idyllic beach fortress with waves lapping lazily against the hill fort? Sounds horrible, let's not go there.
{{bugl|0011905}}: Writing a book in Arena Mode leads to teleportation to another dimension
{{dftext|Attention, you have disrespected the trees in this area, but this is what we have come to expect from your stunted kind. Further abuse cannot be tolerated. Let this be a warning to you. This warning to you will not repeat.|2:1}}
You want a dwarf? There's your f*cking [[dwarf]]. You want some better [[graphics]]? [[Tileset repository|'''F*ck you.''']] Dwarves can do [[Labor|lots of stuff]]. Like [[Miner|digging]]. Can you dig? '''Hell no.''' Play ''Dwarf Fortress''. — [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/DwarfFortress TVTropes]
He personally is affronted by the whole notion of maintaining decorum and finds so-called dignified people disgusting <after being caught in the rain in 250> He never feels discouraged, after being caught in the rain in 250 — Kogsak Sedillolor, Doctor, and a "horrible accident" waiting to happen
(Tame Slug)... Not a [[Giant slug|''GIANT'' slug]]. Just a [[slug]].
"Oh fuck me. I just remembered why you don't do massive groups of pure up/down stairs... my legendary weaponsmith tripped and fell 30 z-levels and crushed his skull at the base of our stair shaft."
"Engraved on the wall is an image of a cubic cube[...]"
PSA: Expel all dwarves hospitalised by werebeasts. That's how you get weregiraffe Hammer Lords to suddenly pop up in your fort.
Name is Urist. I dig, because God told me to. And I'm damn good at it.
{{DFtext|You roll, divining the will of Momuz Fatalcrypt the Fated Funeral according to the practice of The Fatal Faith.|6:1}} {{DFtext|The «sylvite eight-sided long die» lands on the word "burial".|7:1}} {{DFtext|The situation cannot get worse.|3:1}}
Tales of stupidity and frantically trying random things, digging yourself deeper into the chaotic hellscape of your own creation.
Fixed world gen crash from the appointing of chefs by demon rulers that had been influenced by outside reading materials on decorum and leisure time — [https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/975370?emclan=103582791464215078&emgid=4186734162842117873 v50.13 changelog]
"so what you're saying is that if goblins come across a book extolling the values of merriment, politeness, and leisure, the world ends" — rome of oxtrot, [https://discord.com/channels/329272032778780672/1049402643342168114/1227859199682412544 #bug-discussion]
"I tried to do it fair at first, but I had a ton of trouble finding a [[Hippo man|hippo person]] at all and eventually resorted to a horrifying transformation of a [[human]] warrior [[Tavern|bar]] patron." — [[Toady One]]
"Naturally, we'd like to make [[Health care|life]] [[Fun|miserable]] for everybody, randomly, but that'll take some doing." — [[Toady One]]
"Can't wait for your spouse to be like 'it was inevitable.' Or some pure half-authored half-proc cringe. It'll be great." — [[Toady One]]
"We are approaching the [[Magic|oh yes indeed]] era." — [[Toady One]]
"If it turns out like most roguelikes, [[deity|they]] will be very [[cursed|upsettable]]." — [[Toady One]]
"During testing, a far more reliable and quick method to turn around stressed-out dwarves was found, using military training, in the form of a special "Therapy" military squad which was assigned to train all year round."
{{DFtext|Cave Crocodile has ended a mandate.|1:1}}
Ah, the famous caverns of Deathdeath the Death-Death of Death! Looks like everything's in order... [https://www.reddit.com/r/dwarffortress/comments/1ky0n29/my_caverns_dont_belong_to_me_anymore Source]
{{DFtext|She didn't feel anything due to inebriation.|7:1}} Oh come on, Urist. It's been five minutes on a fresh world and you're ALREADY numb!?
"Hospital patients and babies don't shut off the brains of people carrying them, again." — [[Toady One]]
"Mothers no longer seek ghostly babies." — [[Toady One]]
Your cat kills a [[vermin]] and brings it to you. You respond "Thank you, now go get rid of that thing right now". The cat then complains "I can't do that, I don't have any hands". You respond "You don't have any hands?! WHAT THE F*CK???!!!"

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Main Page/gallery

2026-05-03T00:22:20Z

DPhKraken:

This is a gallery of images that will be randomly displayed on the [[Main Page]].
<gallery><onlyinclude>
File:meditate_n.png|The mental talent some dwarves have...
File:13 Gobby4.jpg|Preparing a catapult.
File:Belal Example.png|Belal's 16×16 tileset
File:Cathedral.jpg|Use utilities like 3Dwarf to render your fortresses
File:Communal.gif|Communal living: who needs walls?
File:Goblin_slaying_Mayor.png|This is how we handle diplomatic relations with goblins.
File:RingfissuresYear4-26.jpg|A baby crawling through the aftermath of a human siege at Ringfissures
File:Oceanside-202-05.jpg|The dwarves have found a way to paint their walls. It's a shame they ran out of paint when they were half-way done.
File:Focusgroup 16.PNG|With friends like these...
File:Zombiecod.png|Some fish are better left alone.
File:Attend party.png|No matter what your orders may be, your dwarves know the real matters of importance.
File:GiantSpiderAttack.png|Maybe Little Miss Muffet was a dwarf?
File:Shootcommon 1063 main.png|All the comforts of home.
File:Girdertan7.gif|Remember, only you can prevent forest fires!
File:Doom.png|GODS DANGIT MELBUL AND YOUR WATERFALLS!
File:Outdoor_Scuplture_Garden-Vomitorium.png|Ah... the great outdoors.
File:Colossus in Arena.png|A colossus makes short work of captured goblins in an arena.
File:Palace of Seducing.PNG|Is that a euphemism?
File:Damaged baby.jpg|Pain and hardship start at a young age in dwarven culture.
File:DF Cheese.jpg|The vanity of dwarven engravers is not to be underestimated.
File:Champions.png|Goblins have a very fickle relationship with their body parts - a skilled Axedwarf can quickly have them calling for a divorce.
File:Regicide.PNG|The King is dead. Long live the King!
File:Addition.PNG|A mechanical binary addition engine.
File:One-legged-Wolf.png|I can make it on my own!
File:Heads.png|Hydras probably have severe psychological issues regarding decapitation.
File:Vomit_Trail.png|Dwarves are a lot like ants, except that, instead of using pheromones to mark their trails, they use vomit and useless crap.
File:Artifact_Storage.png|This bin is worshiped by three different kobold civilisations. Kobold children everywhere dream of stealing it.
File:Thirsty_Dwarves.gif|A booze stockpile is a meeting zone in its own right.
File:Doors!.png|Ianuamania; madness relating to the obsessive placement of doors.
File:Harbor.png|Wharf Fortress.
File:Heads-on-statues.PNG|Who needs pikes to put heads on when you have statues?
File:Aspirations.png|What every child one day wishes to be!
File:olonbekorn_003.jpg|Fifteen seconds after the player founds a "Cold" fortress, the File:World Gen algorithm discovers climate change.
File:Df2010isfabulous.PNG|Oh, the names humans give themselves...
File:Cacamefight.gif|Cacame gives a human sieger and his horse the power of flight. The human politely lets his horse go first.
File:7x191.PNG|The Almighty Dwarven Calculator solves only the most prestigious equations.
File:Historical Finger.png|It was the most crucial point of that battle. Really. Every educated dwarf should know that.
File:Snowball_fight.png|Tragic snowball fight is... oh wait, it was an elf
File:Herbs.png|Most dwarven soldiers are kept awake by the things they had done in battle, others make sure their deeds rob the goblins of sleep.
File:MagmaTomb.png|Dwarves live so that they may die a gruesome and pointless death. But once their bodies are interred in their magma-tomb it was all worth it.
File:Crundles.png|Crundles, the wolves of the underground.
File:Catacombs.png|Accommodating dwarves in the afterlife is central to what managing a fortress is about.
File:Dwarven_Housing.png|A true dwarf does not care for pretty designs or "privacy". For a dwarf, a bedroom is a hole where he dumps his body for rest and his useless crap for storage, to never touch again.
File:CityState.gif|I am sure the constitutionalists haven't finished the debate on the desirability of the king running for democratic office.
File:Dwarves Sparring.PNG|Wooden training axes are for elves! Real dwarves use masterwork steel when sparring!
File:Evil microcline.png|Oh no! The microcline's possessing my dwarves! Or maybe the ghost, I guess.
File:Nutsdangeled.png|The world of ''Dwarf Fortress'' is full of interesting places; some are dangerous, some are peaceful, and some are... well...
File:Struck_cancels_smelt.png|Urist McLazyFurnaceOperator cancels Smelt Available Ore: needs ore
File:High_sucker.jpg|Cheese making and divine service will make you feel successful.
File:Leg-shot.png|An excellent weapon choice
File:FlareChannel.png|The legendary dwarven fortress [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=43679.0 FlareChannel]
File:Useless bridges.png|It's a good thing that those bridges are there, otherwise it would be really hard to cross those rivers.
File:Construct5.png|The [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=38264.msg904145#msg904145 Constructtargets Gem], a 39 Z-level [[megaproject]] made of 4460 clear glass blocks.
File:Deadly sock.png|That's one impressive sock.
File:Praise disease.png|Praise disease.
File:Cat singularity.png|Approaching cat singularity
File:Unfillable Dam.jpeg|[http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=39541.msg677616#msg677616 Unfillable Dam] [[megaproject]] created by Baboonanza
File:Roadtruss.jpg|[http://bbs.stardestroyer.net/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=154510 Roadtruss], a [[tower]] [[megaproject]] by Crossroads Inc.
File:Lurebolt-1.jpg|[https://www.reddit.com/r/dwarffortress/comments/3dogvh/five_oclock_and_all_is_well/ Lurebolt], a [[tower]] created by Keupo
File:Armoc_Invaders_intro.png|[[User:BaronW#Armok_Invaders|Armok Invaders]], a playable "[[wikipedia:Space Invaders|Space Invaders]]" style game built with [[computing|dwarven computing]] by [[User:BaronW|BaronW]]
File:Burned_beast.png|The [[fire]] does not discriminate.
File:MechanicVolcanoBirdsEyeComposite.jpg|[[User:Vattic/Mechanical_Volcano_Explained|Mechanical Volcano]] [[megaproject]] by Vattic.
File:Carp escape.jpg|Never forget the [[40d:Carp|carp of old]].
File:Crutch Self Defense.png|Crippled does not mean defenseless as far as dwarves are concerned.
File:Figurine Combat.png|Dwarven action figures: also usable in action sequences!
File:Drowning_chamber.png|[[Drowning chamber|Taste the water, you filthy goblins!]]
File:horse law.png|Never underestimate [[horse]]s.
File:14177z5.jpg|Fisherdwarves have it [[Sea lamprey|rough]].
File:23a_warthog_hunting.png|Why do you need hunters, when you have swords?
File:Gamer Kobold.png|Don't forget to subscribe to his ''Slaves to Armok: God of Blood'' streams.
File:Flickering ground.gif|[http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=173393.msg7938207#msg7938207 "All is nasty," said Atir. "World is nasty. Earth is tainted. Grass is dying. Anthills are ''glowing''."]
File:finger.png|I know where ''I'm'' embarking!
File:rakust_badname.png|School must've been terrible for her.
File:tantrum_.png|Even during a tantrum, you gotta be professional.
File:Llama Statue.png|Some dwarves have a morbid taste for art.
File:FB at work.png|Even the monsters are busy nowadays.
File:underwhelming-demon.png|An unrecognized hero.
File:Wreckingball.PNG|I came in like a wrecking ball...
File:Wambler_god.png|The dwarves like a fluffy god, [[fluffy wambler|who can protect them from]] [[bronze colossus|bronze colossuses]].
File:Gimli_smokes.png|Typical dwarven attitude to the prospect of [[Embark|embarking]] to establish a new [[Fortress|fortress]], or towards [[Adventure|adventure]] as a whole.
File:df_book_hardness.png|Known as "one of the most interesting books ever written", especially to female dwarves.
File:Traveling armies adventure.png|Explore uncharted dungeons - as long as you can get past your [[Reputation|adoring]] [[Army|fans]].
File:Unusual volcanic wall preview.png|The most classic way a [[fortress]] can ever fall.
File:Night creature priest holy hell.png|"Swearing is forbidden in the [[temple]]." "[[Priest|Holy hell]], I'm sorry."
File:1442011-free-dwarf-fortress-wallpapers-1920x1080-lockscreen.jpg|Why there is an old man looking inside the hole? Is his pickaxe inside there?
File:1442032-dwarf-fortress-wallpapers-2418x1284-samsung-galaxy.jpg|Look closely! There are many interesting things inside.
File:beasts.png|Forgotten beasts.
File:left.gif|Some of the [[Catsplosion|many]] ways a fortress can [[Fun|fall]]. [https://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/dev_2004.html]
File:back.png|Part of the continent.
File:advmap.png|This is a reasonably large town image that has been exported from Legends mode.
File:dfwm_3d.png|[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bkr4tXU__m4 Dwarf Fortress world map warrped in 3D.]
File:何意味.webp|Just… learning curves.
File:classic quote.jpg|You want a dwarf? There's your f*cking [[dwarf]]. You want some better [[graphics]]? [[Tileset repository|'''F*ck you.''']] Dwarves can do [[Labor|lots of stuff]]. Like [[Miner|digging]]. Can you dig? '''Hell no.''' Play ''Dwarf Fortress''. — [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/DwarfFortress TVTropes]
File:Old0c3822.png|Leaves under the tree.
File:Yayo ducimemal 54 catacomb proj.png|3d project for the catacombs, DF outpost Ducimemal succession game, year 1054, yayo
File:Penis.png|Seventy-eight is the number of the Richard.
File:Mincho.png|The first DF custom [[tileset]]——Mincho(明朝)
File:DEATHDORF.png|Wanted, dead or alive? $32,463
File:Nemppu brewer.gif|Prepare.
File:Bedrooms.png|Bedroom design by GnomeChomsky
File:s_s.jpg|These are exported images of worlds of various sizes.
</onlyinclude></gallery>

Main Page/gallery

2026-05-03T00:14:55Z

DPhKraken: Removed distorted logo from gallery due to low quality, lack of relevance to community or gameplay

This is a gallery of images that will be randomly displayed on the [[Main Page]].
<gallery><onlyinclude>
File:meditate_n.png|The mental talent some dwarves have...
File:13 Gobby4.jpg|Preparing a catapult.
File:Belal Example.png|Belal's 16×16 tileset
File:Cathedral.jpg|Use utilities like 3Dwarf to render your fortresses
File:Communal.gif|Communal living: who needs walls?
File:Goblin_slaying_Mayor.png|This is how we handle diplomatic relations with goblins.
File:RingfissuresYear4-26.jpg|A baby crawling through the aftermath of a human siege at Ringfissures
File:Oceanside-202-05.jpg|The dwarves have found a way to paint their walls. It's a shame they ran out of paint when they were half-way done.
File:Focusgroup 16.PNG|With friends like these...
File:Zombiecod.png|Some fish are better left alone.
File:Attend party.png|No matter what your orders may be, your dwarves know the real matters of importance.
File:GiantSpiderAttack.png|Maybe Little Miss Muffet was a dwarf?
File:Shootcommon 1063 main.png|All the comforts of home.
File:Girdertan7.gif|Remember, only you can prevent forest fires!
File:Doom.png|GODS DANGIT MELBUL AND YOUR WATERFALLS!
File:Outdoor_Scuplture_Garden-Vomitorium.png|Ah... the great outdoors.
File:Colossus in Arena.png|A colossus makes short work of captured goblins in an arena.
File:Palace of Seducing.PNG|Is that a euphemism?
File:Damaged baby.jpg|Pain and hardship start at a young age in dwarven culture.
File:DF Cheese.jpg|The vanity of dwarven engravers is not to be underestimated.
File:Champions.png|Goblins have a very fickle relationship with their body parts - a skilled Axedwarf can quickly have them calling for a divorce.
File:Regicide.PNG|The King is dead. Long live the King!
File:Addition.PNG|A mechanical binary addition engine.
File:One-legged-Wolf.png|I can make it on my own!
File:Heads.png|Hydras probably have severe psychological issues regarding decapitation.
File:Vomit_Trail.png|Dwarves are a lot like ants, except that, instead of using pheromones to mark their trails, they use vomit and useless crap.
File:Artifact_Storage.png|This bin is worshiped by three different kobold civilisations. Kobold children everywhere dream of stealing it.
File:Thirsty_Dwarves.gif|A booze stockpile is a meeting zone in its own right.
File:Doors!.png|Ianuamania; madness relating to the obsessive placement of doors.
File:Harbor.png|Wharf Fortress.
File:Heads-on-statues.PNG|Who needs pikes to put heads on when you have statues?
File:Aspirations.png|What every child one day wishes to be!
File:olonbekorn_003.jpg|Fifteen seconds after the player founds a "Cold" fortress, the File:World Gen algorithm discovers climate change.
File:Df2010isfabulous.PNG|Oh, the names humans give themselves...
File:Cacamefight.gif|Cacame gives a human sieger and his horse the power of flight. The human politely lets his horse go first.
File:7x191.PNG|The Almighty Dwarven Calculator solves only the most prestigious equations.
File:Historical Finger.png|It was the most crucial point of that battle. Really. Every educated dwarf should know that.
File:Snowball_fight.png|Tragic snowball fight is... oh wait, it was an elf
File:Herbs.png|Most dwarven soldiers are kept awake by the things they had done in battle, others make sure their deeds rob the goblins of sleep.
File:MagmaTomb.png|Dwarves live so that they may die a gruesome and pointless death. But once their bodies are interred in their magma-tomb it was all worth it.
File:Crundles.png|Crundles, the wolves of the underground.
File:Catacombs.png|Accommodating dwarves in the afterlife is central to what managing a fortress is about.
File:Dwarven_Housing.png|A true dwarf does not care for pretty designs or "privacy". For a dwarf, a bedroom is a hole where he dumps his body for rest and his useless crap for storage, to never touch again.
File:CityState.gif|I am sure the constitutionalists haven't finished the debate on the desirability of the king running for democratic office.
File:Dwarves Sparring.PNG|Wooden training axes are for elves! Real dwarves use masterwork steel when sparring!
File:Evil microcline.png|Oh no! The microcline's possessing my dwarves! Or maybe the ghost, I guess.
File:Nutsdangeled.png|The world of ''Dwarf Fortress'' is full of interesting places; some are dangerous, some are peaceful, and some are... well...
File:Struck_cancels_smelt.png|Urist McLazyFurnaceOperator cancels Smelt Available Ore: needs ore
File:High_sucker.jpg|Cheese making and divine service will make you feel successful.
File:Leg-shot.png|An excellent weapon choice
File:FlareChannel.png|The legendary dwarven fortress [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=43679.0 FlareChannel]
File:Useless bridges.png|It's a good thing that those bridges are there, otherwise it would be really hard to cross those rivers.
File:Construct5.png|The [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=38264.msg904145#msg904145 Constructtargets Gem], a 39 Z-level [[megaproject]] made of 4460 clear glass blocks.
File:Deadly sock.png|That's one impressive sock.
File:Praise disease.png|Praise disease.
File:Cat singularity.png|Approaching cat singularity
File:Unfillable Dam.jpeg|[http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=39541.msg677616#msg677616 Unfillable Dam] [[megaproject]] created by Baboonanza
File:Roadtruss.jpg|[http://bbs.stardestroyer.net/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=154510 Roadtruss], a [[tower]] [[megaproject]] by Crossroads Inc.
File:Lurebolt-1.jpg|[https://www.reddit.com/r/dwarffortress/comments/3dogvh/five_oclock_and_all_is_well/ Lurebolt], a [[tower]] created by Keupo
File:Armoc_Invaders_intro.png|[[User:BaronW#Armok_Invaders|Armok Invaders]], a playable "[[wikipedia:Space Invaders|Space Invaders]]" style game built with [[computing|dwarven computing]] by [[User:BaronW|BaronW]]
File:Burned_beast.png|The [[fire]] does not discriminate.
File:MechanicVolcanoBirdsEyeComposite.jpg|[[User:Vattic/Mechanical_Volcano_Explained|Mechanical Volcano]] [[megaproject]] by Vattic.
File:Carp escape.jpg|Never forget the [[40d:Carp|carp of old]].
File:Crutch Self Defense.png|Crippled does not mean defenseless as far as dwarves are concerned.
File:Figurine Combat.png|Dwarven action figures: also usable in action sequences!
File:Drowning_chamber.png|[[Drowning chamber|Taste the water, you filthy goblins!]]
File:horse law.png|Never underestimate [[horse]]s.
File:14177z5.jpg|Fisherdwarves have it [[Sea lamprey|rough]].
File:23a_warthog_hunting.png|Why do you need hunters, when you have swords?
File:Gamer Kobold.png|Don't forget to subscribe to his ''Slaves to Armok: God of Blood'' streams.
File:Flickering ground.gif|[http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=173393.msg7938207#msg7938207 "All is nasty," said Atir. "World is nasty. Earth is tainted. Grass is dying. Anthills are ''glowing''."]
File:finger.png|I know where ''I'm'' embarking!
File:rakust_badname.png|School must've been terrible for her.
File:tantrum_.png|Even during a tantrum, you gotta be professional.
File:Llama Statue.png|Some dwarves have a morbid taste for art.
File:FB at work.png|Even the monsters are busy nowadays.
File:underwhelming-demon.png|An unrecognized hero.
File:Wreckingball.PNG|I came in like a wrecking ball...
File:Wambler_god.png|The dwarves like a fluffy god, [[fluffy wambler|who can protect them from]] [[bronze colossus|bronze colossuses]].
File:Gimli_smokes.png|Typical dwarven attitude to the prospect of [[Embark|embarking]] to establish a new [[Fortress|fortress]], or towards [[Adventure|adventure]] as a whole.
File:df_book_hardness.png|Known as "one of the most interesting books ever written", especially to female dwarves.
File:Traveling armies adventure.png|Explore uncharted dungeons - as long as you can get past your [[Reputation|adoring]] [[Army|fans]].
File:Unusual volcanic wall preview.png|The most classic way a [[fortress]] can ever fall.
File:Night creature priest holy hell.png|"Swearing is forbidden in the [[temple]]." "[[Priest|Holy hell]], I'm sorry."
File:1442011-free-dwarf-fortress-wallpapers-1920x1080-lockscreen.jpg|Why there is an old man looking inside the hole? Is his pickaxe inside there?
File:1442032-dwarf-fortress-wallpapers-2418x1284-samsung-galaxy.jpg|Look closely! There are many interesting things inside.
File:beasts.png|Forgotten beasts.
File:left.gif|Source: https://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/dev_2004.html
File:back.png|Part of the continent.
File:advmap.png|This is a reasonably large town image that has been exported from Legends mode.
File:dfwm_3d.png|[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bkr4tXU__m4 Dwarf Fortress world map warrped in 3D.]
File:何意味.webp|Just… learning curves.
File:classic quote.jpg|You want a dwarf? There's your f*cking [[dwarf]]. You want some better [[graphics]]? [[Tileset repository|'''F*ck you.''']] Dwarves can do [[Labor|lots of stuff]]. Like [[Miner|digging]]. Can you dig? '''Hell no.''' Play ''Dwarf Fortress''. — [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/DwarfFortress TVTropes]
File:Old0c3822.png|Leaves under the tree.
File:Yayo ducimemal 54 catacomb proj.png|3d project for the catacombs, DF outpost Ducimemal succession game, year 1054, yayo
File:Penis.png|Seventy-eight is the number of the Richard.
File:Mincho.png|World first DF custom tileset——Mincho(明朝)
File:DEATHDORF.png|Wanted, dead or alive? $32,463
File:Nemppu brewer.gif|Prepare.
File:Bedrooms.png|Bedroom design by GnomeChomsky
File:s_s.jpg|These are exported images of worlds of various sizes.
</onlyinclude></gallery>

Bronze colossus

2026-05-03T00:08:01Z

DPhKraken: /* Statue */ Mentioning the iconic old behavior in D for Dwarf, but linking to where it changed

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[[Image:Bronze_Colossus.png|frame|Estimated size comparison between a bronze colossus, and a dwarf.]]

A '''bronze colossus''' (plural: '''bronze colossuses''' from the raws) is a [[megabeast]] taking the form of a gigantic humanoid construct, made of [[bronze]]. When one takes up residence near a fortress, it's up to those within to make an end of it, or it will make an end of them. Upon its death by means other than melting, a bronze colossus becomes a [[item value|masterwork]] bronze [[statue]] of itself (worth 280☼), a decent decoration for a grand entrance hall.

[http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=64341.msg1501902#msg1501902 Rough calculations] have placed the colossus somewhere between thirty-five and forty feet tall (11.53 meters), or about 1/4th the height of the Statue of Liberty. This, of course, assumes it is sculpted in the form of a nude male – a clothed or female figure might be shorter or taller.

Some dwarves [[Preferences|like]] bronze colossuses for their ''height''.

==Fortress Mode==
Unless you are using [[whip]]s or [[Crossbowman|marksdwarves]] (but you will need a '''lot''' of [[bolt]]s to kill a bronze colossus), a bronze colossus takes no serious damage from any material inferior to [[steel]] {{verify}}, but can still be defeated with cumulative damage. Attacks that cause cumulative damage will be reported as ''chipping'' or ''denting'' the colossus in the combat log [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=59642.msg1362817#msg1362817]. [[Adamantine]] [[short sword]]s and [[battle axe]]s can also lop off entire limbs and heads if you have access to them.

Similarly to other construct-like creatures such as the [[amethyst man]] and the [[gabbro man]], bronze colossuses feel no emotion or [[No Exert|exertion]], are [[No Pain|immune to pain]], and [[No Stun|cannot be stunned]] or nauseated. Like other large creatures, a bronze colossus cannot be [[Dwarven atom smasher|atom smashed]]. Raising and retractable [[bridge]]s do not operate while underneath a colossus either. However, the great weight of a colossus can be exploited by sending it into a multi-floor fall with a controlled [[cave-in]]. While the colossus may not die from the fall, it will likely lose all its limbs and any combat effectiveness, which turns it into a [[Live training|great training dummy]].

[[Magma]], the solution to all dwarven problems, is also effective against a bronze colossus. It may take an extremely long time to melt one unless large amounts of magma are used, however. A tamed [[dragon]] can also be quite effective, since a colossus can be melted with [[dragonfire]], which is also much faster than small amounts of magma. Freezing in [[water]], solidifying in [[obsidian]], and cave-ins are also effective tactics.

On the other hand, why kill a 165-tonne colossus when you can trap it in a wooden [[cage]] and use it as a centerpiece for a [[zoo]]? Or, since a colossus takes no damage from [[wood]] and [[bone]] bolts, with a little engineering and lots of ammo it can become an easy source of limitless marksdwarf experience.

==Adventure Mode==
Bronze colossuses inhabit [[shrine (megabeast)|shrine]]s. You may find the location of a nearby shrine by asking locals about "beasts".

Even a relatively weak and unskilled adventurer can easily cripple a bronze colossus with a [[whip]]. Other weapons with small contact areas retain some effectiveness too, and cumulative damage will eventually bring down a colossus. Stronger and more skillful adventurers can opt for swords and axes, as they can occasionally lop off limbs and heads. Since bronze colossuses are incapable of learning and have no skills, they have a hard time detecting adventurers that are hidden in ambush, even in close proximity. One can take advantage of this by attacking the colossus' feet and legs early in the battle from hiding, as this will bring it to the ground, greatly lowering its speed and preventing it from charging you. Bronze colossuses also have a unique weakness to water, due to having {{token|SWIMS_LEARNED|c}} but ''not'' {{token|CAN_LEARN|c}} - a bronze colossus will not drown in water, but will flounder around helplessly, making it an easy target for adventurers with a good swimming skill (or if the adventurer stands on a land tile next to the water tile the colossus is in).

Even with just a [[copper]] [[spear]], most adventurers can apply their vulnerability to cumulative damage if they have [[vampire|some method]] of increasing their strength beyond the norm. This is effectively the only instance where attacks with the shaft will prove more effective than stabbing.

Great tip for early adventurers: throwing a gold coin can prove to be effective, you can easily grab one from the stockpile where the colossus has hoarded its loot.

[[File:Utost-sarasti.jpg|thumb|center|400px|Artist rendering of a bronze colossus by Mechlin ([http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=169691.msg7701761#msg7701761 post])]]

== Statue ==
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A bronze colossus leaves a masterwork bronze statue of itself after death, but said statue weighs only 495Γ, a tiny fraction of the 165,000Γ the colossus weighed in life. Because of these factors, it is theorized that fighting a colossus entails slowly carving it into a puny dwarf-sized version of itself with whatever tools are available, at which point it ashamedly admits defeat and agrees to stand immobile forever as a decoration in your fortress.

Veteran [[Soldier#Heroes|hammer lords]] and [[Engraver|chisel lords]] boast of laying low a bronze colossus and returning with a trophy depicting a wholly different species. [[Release information/53.09#General updates|Contemporary]] adventurers dismiss these tales as fabrications by the [[blacksmith]]'s [[guild]] to fetch a higher price at the [[trade depot]].

==Trivia==
*In previous versions of the game, bronze colossuses were nigh-invincible in combat, save via decapitation. Only one such feat has been [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=56935.0 documented] in an epic battle. Because the bronze colossus is a creature with the current highest {{token|DIFFICULTY}} in the game of 15 points, it does (according to the game) surpass [[demon|Hidden Fun Stuff]] in terms of challenge, and also causes them not to be assigned for quests.
*The plural "colossuses" was reported as a bug{{bug|1953|cat=nocat}}, but it was deemed an acceptable alternate and remains the official term. "Colossi" is however also widely used, not that you'd be likely to ever encounter several of them, if any.

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Short sword

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:''For a comparison of different weapons, see [[Weapon]].''

[[File:short_sword_sprite_preview.png|right]]
A '''short sword''' is an [[attack types|edged]] [[weapon]] larger than a knife, with a blade long enough to make slashing effective, but shorter than [[long sword|other swords]]. Short swords have the same basic attacks as other swords, but suffer slightly because of their reduced size. As with all edged weapons, metals with good edge properties are most effective.

==Properties==
Short swords use and train the [[swordsman]] skill (called "Swordsdwarf" in dwarf mode). They have stabbing and slashing attacks, along with a blunt pommel strike. Swords can be useful for dealing with all kinds of foes, although they're not as good at any of these attacks as more specialized weapons.

==Fortress mode==
Dwarves can [[forge]] short swords out of any weapon-grade [[metal]], but those with [[material science|superior edge properties]] are more effective. All dwarves can equip short swords, but [[Weapon#Size|a tiny fraction must use two hands]].

"Rock short swords" are a special type of short sword that are constructed out of [[obsidian]] (with [[wood]]en handles) by a [[stonecrafter]] at a [[craftsdwarf's workshop]]. Rock short swords are graphically depicted as the Aztec [[wikipedia:Macuahuitl|macuahuitl]], a club with rows of sharp stone edges affixed to the sides.

=== Production ===
* Metal short swords cost '''one''' [[metal]] bar to [[forge]], or '''three''' [[adamantine]] wafers.
* Rock short swords cost '''one''' [[stone]] and '''one''' [[log]].
* When a non-adamantine metal short sword is [[melt|melted down]], it will return '''0.9''' metal bars, for an '''efficiency of 90%'''.
* When an adamantine short sword is melted down, it will produce '''0.9''' wafers, for an '''efficiency of 30%'''

==Adventurer mode==
As an adventurer, it is possible to play as a swordsman. If you're an elf or a dwarf, a short sword is a good all-round weapon. which can be used successfully on a wide variety of foes, but is most effective against lightly armoured creatures. Generally, it's best to ''slash'' when fighting relatively small unarmoured foes (goblins, kobolds, and humans for example), and to ''stab'' larger unarmoured foes, such as megabeasts. Short swords are a fine choice against heavily-armoured foes, too; stabbing is strictly better than pommel striking due to the low contact area, so it should be ignored.

<gallery>
File:Macuahuitl.png|A drawing of an obsidian shortsword.
</gallery>

{{Translation| dwarven = idrom dastot | elvish = coci ocade | goblin = ôbang oxox | human = pasub thil}}

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Stone

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:''This article is about DF geology and the distribution of stones, and does not contain the specific locations of [[ore]]s or [[gem]]s. For that, as well as a general introduction to the new player, see [[The Non-Dwarf's Guide to Rock]]''
:{{For/see|a list of stone sorted by tile|[[Tilesets#Stones|Tilesets § Stones]]}}

'''A quick note on terminology''': 
[[File:stone_v50_preview.png|right]]The term "'''stone'''" can refer to two different but related concepts, depending on if you're talking about "stone" or "a stone". When referring to stone as general material, it encompasses all non-organic material that is not specifically [[soil]], [[metal]] or [[gem]]s, as in ''"The stone layer was mostly granite"'' or ''"The stone was dug out to make room for workshops"''. When referring to a stone, the round item left over from [[mining]], it refers to the specific object of raw material that is carried to a workshop of some type, or can be used as-is for [[construction]], and that round item can be either stone (in the first sense) or a [[gem]] or an [[ore]] of some [[metal]], as in ''"The stones left over were mostly granite with some gold"'' or ''"The stones dug out had to be removed to make room for the workshops"''. It's usually obvious from the context, but either 1) the non-ore/non-gem stuff in general, or 2) a single unit of stone/ore/gem that can be carried away - just to be clear.

An unmined '''rock''' or '''stone''' tile is a naturally occurring solid aggregate of minerals. [[Mining]] a rock tile leaves behind a loose '''stone''' item (see infobox) roughly 25% of the time. Other types of minable tiles include [[soil]], [[sand]], and [[clay]]; these tiles do not produce loose stones when mined.
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|tile=•
|materials=
* [[:Category:Stone|Stone]]
* [[Clay]]
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* [[Mine]]
* [[Zone#Clay collection|Clay zone]]
|labors=
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* [[Hauling]]
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* [[Building]]
* [[Stone industry]]
* [[Ceramic]]s (clay)
* [[Economic stone]]
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Stones are divided into a few key categories:
* [[Ore]]: stones that produce [[metal|metal bars]] when [[Smelter|smelted]].
* Rough [[gem]]s: rough gems can be [[gem cutting|cut]], then used to [[encrust]] objects and create [[window]]s.
* Other stone: all other stones, few of which have a specific ("economic") use outside of items and structures. The strength of a rock determines how long it takes to [[Mining|mine]] it — most stone materials have the properties of [[marble]] (brittle, with fracture strength 120 MPa impact and 1.5 MPa shear), with [[obsidian]] being a notable exception.

[[Economic stone]]s are types of stone that can be reserved for a special purpose: for [[ore]]s, this is smelting, and for [[flux|fluxes]], this is steel production. [[Bituminous coal]] and [[lignite]] can be reserved for making [[coke]].

{{catbox|Stone}}Having created loose stone, most of the time you'll want to get rid of it, or at least move it someplace else. See [[stone management]] for advice.

If you are having the opposite problem, and find yourself running out of stone, try making [[block|stone blocks]].

== Main layer types ==
{{main|Stone layers}}

There are four types of stone [[stone layers|layer]]s (plus [[soil]], which is not stone). The type of layer is the primary indicator of what kind of [[ore]]s you are likely to find on the map, as well as a sign of [[volcano|volcanic]] activity.

The types are [[sedimentary layer]]s, [[igneous intrusive layer]]s, [[igneous extrusive layer]]s, and [[metamorphic layer]]s.

The primary types of rock only occur in their own layers (e.g. you won't find [[limestone]] in a [[marble]] layer).

== Stones forming entire layers ==
These types of stone occur as entire layers, containing some [[vein|veins and pockets]] of other minerals (see below).

{| class="wikitable sortable" cellspacing="0" border="1" cellpadding="5"
|-
! Icon
! [[Color]]
! Sample
! Name
! [[Fire-safe]]
! [[Magma-safe]]
! [[Economic stone|Economic uses]]
|-
| colspan="7"|<center>'''[[Sedimentary]]'''</center>
|-
|[[File:chalk_sprite.png]] / {{Raw Tile|░|7:7:1}} {{Raw Tile|•|7:1}} || beige || [[File:ChalkSwatch.png|64px|center]] || [[Chalk]] || Yes || || [[Calcium carbonate]] [[Flux]]
|-
|[[File:chert_sprite.png]] / {{Raw Tile|<nowiki>=</nowiki>|6:7:0}} {{Raw Tile|•|6:0}} || pale taupe || [[File:ChertSwatch.png|64px|center]] || [[Chert]] || Yes || Yes ||
|-
|[[File:claystone_sprite.png]] / {{Raw Tile|,|0:7:1}} {{Raw Tile|•|0:1}} || chocolate || [[File:ClaystoneSwatch.png|64px|center]] || [[Claystone]] || Yes || ||
|-
|[[File:conglomerate_sprite.png]] / {{Raw Tile|∞|6:7:0}} {{Raw Tile|•|6:0}} || rose taupe || [[File:ConglomerateSwatch.png|64px|center]] || [[Conglomerate]] || Yes || ||
|-
|[[File:dolomite_sprite.png]] / {{Raw Tile|<nowiki>`</nowiki>|7:7:1}} {{Raw Tile|•|7:1}} || pale pink || [[File:DolomiteSwatch.png|64px|center]] || [[Dolomite]] || Yes || Yes || [[Flux]]
|-
|[[File:limestone_sprite.png]] / {{Raw Tile|▓|7:7:1}} {{Raw Tile|•|7:1}} || silver || [[File:LimestoneSwatch.png|64px|center]] || [[Limestone]] || Yes || || [[Calcium carbonate]] [[Flux]]
|-
|[[File:mudstone_sprite.png]] / {{Raw Tile|≈|6:7:0}} {{Raw Tile|•|6:0}} || gray ||[[File:MudstoneSwatch.png|64px|center]] || [[Mudstone]] || Yes || ||
|-
|[[File:rock_salt_sprite.png]] / {{Raw Tile|#|7:7:1}} {{Raw Tile|•|7:1}} || pink ||[[File:Rock_saltSwatch.png|64px|center]] || [[Rock salt]] || Yes || ||
|-
|[[File:sandstone_sprite.png]] / {{Raw Tile|#|6:7:0}} {{Raw Tile|•|6:0}} || saffron ||[[File:SandstoneSwatch.png|64px|center]] ||| [[Sandstone]] || Yes || Yes ||
|-
|[[File:shale_sprite.png]] / {{Raw Tile|.|0:7:1}} {{Raw Tile|•|0:1}} || medium taupe ||[[File:ShaleSwatch.png|64px|center]] || [[Shale]] || Yes || ||
|-
|[[File:siltstone_sprite.png]] / {{Raw Tile|%|6:7:0}} {{Raw Tile|•|6:0}} || ecru ||[[File:SiltstoneSwatch.png|64px|center]] || [[Siltstone]] || Yes || ||
|-
| colspan="7"|<center>'''[[Igneous intrusive layer|Igneous intrusive]]'''</center>
|-
|[[File:diorite_sprite.png]] / {{Raw Tile|░|0:7:1}} {{Raw Tile|•|0:1}} || silver ||[[File:DioriteSwatch.png|64px|center]] || [[Diorite]] || Yes || ||
|-
|[[File:gabbro_sprite.png]] / {{Raw Tile|▒|0:7:1}} {{Raw Tile|•|0:1}} || gray ||[[File:GabbroSwatch.png|64px|center]] || [[Gabbro]] || Yes || Yes ||
|-
|[[File:granite_sprite.png]] / {{Raw Tile|▓|7:0:0}} {{Raw Tile|•|7:0}} || clear ||[[File:GraniteSwatch.png|64px|center]] || [[Granite]] || Yes || ||
|-
| colspan="7"|<center>'''[[Igneous extrusive layer|Igneous extrusive]]'''</center>
|-
|[[File:andesite_sprite.png]] / {{Raw Tile|∞|0:7:1}} {{Raw Tile|•|0:1}} || gray ||[[File:AndesiteSwatch.png|64px|center]] || [[Andesite]] || Yes || ||
|-
|[[File:basalt_sprite.png]] / {{Raw Tile|#|0:7:1}} {{Raw Tile|•|0:1}} || taupe gray ||[[File:BasaltSwatch.png|64px|center]] || [[Basalt]] || Yes || Yes ||
|-
|[[File:dacite_sprite.png]] / {{Raw Tile|.|0:7:1}} {{Raw Tile|•|7:0}} || silver ||[[File:DaciteSwatch.png|64px|center]] || [[Dacite]] || Yes || ||
|-
|[[File:obsidian_sprite.png]] / {{Raw Tile|▒|0:7:1}} {{Raw Tile|•|0:1}} || black ||[[File:ObsidianSwatch.png|64px|center]] || [[Obsidian]] || Yes || Yes || [[Short sword|Sharp blades]]
|-
|[[File:rhyolite_sprite.png]] / {{Raw Tile|,|0:7:1}} {{Raw Tile|•|0:1}} || buff ||[[File:RhyoliteSwatch.png|64px|center]] || [[Rhyolite]] || Yes || ||
|-
| colspan="7"|<center>'''[[Metamorphic layer|Metamorphic]]'''</center>
|-
|[[File:gneiss_sprite.png]] / {{Raw Tile|=|7:7:1}} {{Raw Tile|•|7:0}} || flax ||[[File:GneissSwatch.png|64px|center]] || [[Gneiss]] || Yes || ||
|-
|[[File:marble_sprite.png]] / {{Raw Tile|▓|7:7:1}} {{Raw Tile|•|7:1}} || white ||[[File:MarbleSwatch.png|64px|center]] || [[Marble]] || Yes || || [[Calcium carbonate]] [[Flux]]
|-
|[[File:phyllite_sprite.png]] / {{Raw Tile|-|0:7:1}} {{Raw Tile|•|7:0}} || gray ||[[File:PhylliteSwatch.png|64px|center]] || [[Phyllite]] || Yes || ||
|-
|[[File:quartzite_sprite.png]] / {{Raw Tile|-|7:7:1}} {{Raw Tile|•|7:1}} || lavender blush ||[[File:QuartziteSwatch.png|64px|center]] || [[Quartzite]] || Yes || Yes ||
|-
|[[File:schist_sprite.png]] / {{Raw Tile|<nowiki>`</nowiki>|6:7:0}} {{Raw Tile|•|6:0}} || dark chestnut ||[[File:SchistSwatch.png|64px|center]] || [[Schist]] || Yes || ||
|-
|[[File:slate_sprite.png]] / {{Raw Tile|%|0:7:1}} {{Raw Tile|•|0:1}} || russet ||[[File:SlateSwatch.png|64px|center]] || [[Slate]] || Yes || ||
|}

== Other stone ==
Stones found on this table will occur as [[vein|pockets and veins]] inside their respective stone layers (see above). When your miners newly encounter one of them; you will receive an announcement, even for the ones that have no current use other than to build constructions of unusual colors. Note that the veins or clusters can spread into other layers, and may cause some layers to contain stones they usually wouldn't. A few of these stones, such as [[olivine]], have other, more interesting minerals appear inside them.

Non-layer stone formations occur in one of three shapes: large clusters, veins, and small clusters. ''(See [[Vein|Veins & Clusters]] for full info.)''

''The following table does not contain [[ore]]s and [[gem]]s.''

{| class="wikitable sortable" cellspacing="0" border="1" cellpadding="5"
|-
! Icon
! Color
! Sample
! Name
! Found in
! [[Fire-safe]]
! [[Magma-safe]]
! [[Economic stone|Economic uses]]

|-
|[[File:alabaster_sprite.png]] / {{Raw Tile|^|7:7:1}} {{Raw Tile|•|7:1}} || ivory ||[[File:AlabasterSwatch.png|64px|center]]||[[Alabaster]]||[[Gypsum]]'''(S)'''|| || || [[Plaster]]
|-
|[[File:alunite_sprite.png]] / {{Raw Tile|<nowiki>`</nowiki>|7:7:1}} {{Raw Tile|•|7:1}} || purple ||[[File:AluniteSwatch.png|64px|center]]||[[Alunite]]||All [[Igneous extrusive]]'''(L)''', [[Kaolinite]]'''(L)'''|| Yes || Yes ||
|-
|[[File:anhydrite_sprite.png]] / {{Raw Tile|v|7:7:1}} {{Raw Tile|•|7:0}} || periwinkle ||[[File:AnhydriteSwatch.png|64px|center]]||[[Anhydrite]]||[[Gypsum]]'''(S)''', [[Satinspar]]'''(1)''', [[Alabaster]]'''(1)''', [[Selenite]]'''(1)'''|| Yes || Yes ||
|-
|[[File:bauxite_sprite.png]] / {{Raw Tile|+|4:7:0}} {{Raw Tile|•|4:0}} || vermilion ||[[File:BauxiteSwatch.png|64px|center]]||[[Bauxite]]||All [[Sedimentary]]'''(L)'''|| Yes || Yes ||
|-
|[[File:bituminous_coal_sprite.png]] / {{Raw Tile|☼|0:7:1}} {{Raw Tile|☼|0:1}} || charcoal ||[[File:Bituminous coalSwatch.png|64px|center]]||[[Bituminous coal]]||All [[Sedimentary layer|Sedimentary]]'''(V)'''|| || || [[Coal]] (x9)
|-
|[[File:borax_sprite.png]] / {{Raw Tile|<nowiki>`</nowiki>|7:7:1}} {{Raw Tile|•|7:1}} || silver ||[[File:BoraxSwatch.png|64px|center]]||[[Borax]]||[[Gypsum]]'''(S)''', [[Rock salt]]'''(L)'''|| Yes || ||
|-
|[[File:brimstone_sprite.png]] / {{Raw Tile|%|6:7:1}} {{Raw Tile|•|6:1}} || yellow ||[[File:BrimstoneSwatch.png|64px|center]]||[[Brimstone]]||All [[Igneous extrusive]]'''(S)''', [[Gypsum]]'''(S)'''|| || ||
|-
|[[File:calcite_sprite.png]] / {{Raw Tile|"|7:7:1}} {{Raw Tile|•|7:1}} || flax ||[[File:CalciteSwatch.png|64px|center]]||[[Calcite]]||[[Limestone]]'''(S)''', [[Marble]]'''(S)'''|| Yes || Yes || [[Calcium carbonate]] [[Flux]]
|-
|[[File:chromite_sprite.png]] / {{Raw Tile|=|0:7:1}} {{Raw Tile|•|0:1}} || dark indigo ||[[File:ChromiteSwatch.png|64px|center]]||[[Chromite]]||[[Olivine]]'''(V)'''|| Yes || Yes ||
|-
|[[File:cinnabar_sprite.png]] / {{Raw Tile|£|4:7:1}} {{Raw Tile|*|4:1}} || red ||[[File:CinnabarSwatch.png|64px|center]]||[[Cinnabar]]||All [[Igneous extrusive]]'''(V)''', [[Shale]]'''(V)''', [[Quartzite]]'''(V)'''|| || ||
|-
|[[File:cobaltite_sprite.png]] / {{Raw Tile|£|1:7:1}} {{Raw Tile|*|1:1}} || charcoal ||[[File:CobaltiteSwatch.png|64px|center]]||[[Cobaltite]]||All [[Igneous]]'''(V)''', All [[Metamorphic]]'''(V)'''|| Yes || ||
|-
|[[File:cryolite_sprite.png]] / {{Raw Tile|-|7:7:1}} {{Raw Tile|•|7:1}} || buff ||[[File:CryoliteSwatch.png|64px|center]]||[[Cryolite]]||[[Granite]]'''(S)'''|| Yes || ||
|-
|[[File:graphite_sprite.png]] / {{Raw Tile|o|0:7:1}} {{Raw Tile|•|0:1}} || charcoal ||[[File:GraphiteSwatch.png|64px|center]]||[[Graphite]]||[[Gneiss]]'''(S)''', [[Quartzite]]'''(S)''', [[Marble]]'''(S)''', [[Schist]]'''(S)'''|| || ||
|-
|[[File:gypsum_sprite.png]] / {{Raw Tile|#|6:7:1}} {{Raw Tile|•|6:1}} || buff ||[[File:GypsumSwatch.png|64px|center]]||[[Gypsum]]||All [[Sedimentary]]'''(L)'''|| || || [[Plaster]]
|-
|[[File:hornblende_sprite.png]] / {{Raw Tile|"|0:7:1}} {{Raw Tile|•|0:1}} || gray ||[[File:HornblendeSwatch.png|64px|center]]||[[Hornblende]]||All [[Igneous]]'''(S)''', All [[Metamorphic]]'''(S)'''|| Yes || ||
|-
|[[File:ilmenite_sprite.png]] / {{Raw Tile|.|0:7:1}} {{Raw Tile|•|0:1}} || dark tan ||[[File:IlmeniteSwatch.png|64px|center]]||[[Ilmenite]]||[[Gabbro]]'''(S)'''|| Yes || Yes ||
|-
|[[File:jet_sprite.png]] / {{Raw Tile|░|0:7:1}} {{Raw Tile|•|0:1}} || midnight blue ||[[File:JetSwatch.png|64px|center]]||[[Jet]]||All [[Sedimentary]]'''(L)'''|| Yes || ||
|-
|[[File:kaolinite_sprite.png]] / {{Raw Tile|=|4:7:0}} {{Raw Tile|•|4:0}} || pearl ||[[File:KaoliniteSwatch.png|64px|center]]||[[Kaolinite]]||All [[Sedimentary]]'''(L)'''|| Yes || Yes || [[Porcelain]]
|-
|[[File:kimberlite_sprite.png]] / {{Raw Tile|%|1:7:0}} {{Raw Tile|•|1:0}} || cerulean ||[[File:KimberliteSwatch.png|64px|center]]||[[Kimberlite]]||[[Gabbro]]'''(V)'''|| Yes || ||
|-
|[[File:lignite_sprite.png]] / {{Raw Tile|*|0:7:1}} {{Raw Tile|•|0:1}} || slate gray ||[[File:LigniteSwatch.png|64px|center]]||[[Lignite]]||All [[Sedimentary]]'''(V)'''|| || || [[Coal]] (x5)
|-
|[[File:marcasite_sprite.png]] / {{Raw Tile|%|7:7:1}} {{Raw Tile|•|7:1}} || green-yellow ||[[File:MarcasiteSwatch.png|64px|center]]||[[Marcasite]]||[[Kaolinite]]'''(S)'''|| || ||
|-
|[[File:mica_sprite.png]] / {{Raw Tile|v|0:7:1}} {{Raw Tile|•|0:1}} || saffron ||[[File:MicaSwatch.png|64px|center]]||[[Mica]]||All [[Metamorphic]]'''(L)''', [[Granite]]'''(L)'''|| Yes || Yes ||
|-
|[[File:microcline_sprite.png]] / {{Raw Tile|%|3:7:1}} {{Raw Tile|•|3:1}} || aqua ||[[File:MicroclineSwatch.png|64px|center]]||[[Microcline]]||All Stone'''(L)'''|| Yes || ||
|-
|[[File:olivine_sprite.png]] / {{Raw Tile|%|2:7:0}} {{Raw Tile|•|2:0}} || yellow-green ||[[File:OlivineSwatch.png|64px|center]]||[[Olivine]]||[[Gabbro]]'''(L)'''|| Yes || Yes ||
|-
|[[File:orpiment_sprite.png]] / {{Raw Tile|-|6:7:1}} {{Raw Tile|•|6:1}} || amber ||[[File:OrpimentSwatch.png|64px|center]]||[[Orpiment]]||All [[Igneous extrusive]]'''(S)'''|| || ||
|-
|[[File:orthoclase_sprite.png]] / {{Raw Tile|%|6:7:1}} {{Raw Tile|•|6:1}} || chestnut ||[[File:OrthoclaseSwatch.png|64px|center]]||[[Orthoclase]]||All [[Igneous intrusive]]'''(L)''', All [[Metamorphic]]'''(L)'''|| Yes || Yes ||
|-
|[[File:periclase_sprite.png]] / {{Raw Tile|,|7:7:1}} {{Raw Tile|•|7:1}} || chartreuse ||[[File:PericlaseSwatch.png|64px|center]]||[[Periclase]]||[[Marble]]'''(S)'''|| Yes || Yes ||
|-
|[[File:petrified_wood_sprite.png]] / {{Raw Tile|%|4:7:1}} {{Raw Tile|•|4:1}} || goldenrod ||[[File:Petrified woodSwatch.png|64px|center]]||[[Petrified wood]]||All [[Sedimentary]]'''(S)'''|| Yes || Yes ||
|-
|[[File:pitchblende_sprite.png]] / {{Raw Tile|*|5:7:0}} {{Raw Tile|•|5:0}} || olive ||[[File:PitchblendeSwatch.png|64px|center]]||[[Pitchblende]]||[[Granite]]'''(S)'''|| Yes || Yes ||
|-
|[[File:puddingstone_sprite.png]] / {{Raw Tile|Θ|6:7:0}} {{Raw Tile|•|6:0}} || saffron ||[[File:PuddingstoneSwatch.png|64px|center]]||[[Puddingstone]]||[[Conglomerate]]'''(L)'''|| Yes || ||
|-
|[[File:pyrolusite_sprite.png]] / {{Raw Tile|%|0:7:1}} {{Raw Tile|•|0:1}} || charcoal ||[[File:PyrolusiteSwatch.png|64px|center]]||[[Pyrolusite]]||All [[Igneous]]'''(S)'''|| || ||
|-
|[[File:realgar_sprite.png]] / {{Raw Tile|%|4:7:1}} {{Raw Tile|•|4:1}} || red ||[[File:RealgarSwatch.png|64px|center]]||[[Realgar]]||All [[Igneous extrusive]]'''(S)'''|| || ||
|-
|[[File:rutile_sprite.png]] / {{Raw Tile|<nowiki>`</nowiki>|5:7:0}} {{Raw Tile|•|5:0}} || flax ||[[File:RutileSwatch.png|64px|center]]||[[Rutile]]||All [[Metamorphic]]'''(S)''', [[Granite]]'''(S)'''|| Yes || Yes ||
|-
|[[File:saltpeter_sprite.png]] / {{Raw Tile|x|6:7:1}} {{Raw Tile|•|6:1}} || ivory ||[[File:SaltpeterSwatch.png|64px|center]]||[[Saltpeter]]||All [[Sedimentary]]'''(S)'''|| || ||
|-
|[[File:satinspar_sprite.png]] / {{Raw Tile|-|7:7:1}} {{Raw Tile|•|7:1}} || ivory ||[[File:SatinsparSwatch.png|64px|center]]||[[Satinspar]]||[[Gypsum]]'''(S)'''|| || || [[Plaster]]
|-
|[[File:selenite_sprite.png]] / {{Raw Tile|;|7:7:1}} {{Raw Tile|•|7:1}} || ivory ||[[File:SeleniteSwatch.png|64px|center]]||[[Selenite]]||[[Gypsum]]'''(S)'''|| || || [[Plaster]]
|-
|[[File:serpentine_sprite.png]] / {{Raw Tile|≈|2:7:0}} {{Raw Tile|•|2:0}} || chartreuse ||[[File:SerpentineSwatch.png|64px|center]]||[[Serpentine]]||[[Olivine]]'''(S)'''|| || ||
|-
|[[File:stibnite_sprite.png]] / {{Raw Tile|%|7:7:1}} {{Raw Tile|•|7:0}} || cerulean ||[[File:StibniteSwatch.png|64px|center]]||[[Stibnite]]||All [[Igneous extrusive]]'''(S)'''|| || ||
|-
|[[File:sylvite_sprite.png]] / {{Raw Tile|=|6:7:1}} {{Raw Tile|•|6:1}} || vermilion ||[[File:SylviteSwatch.png|64px|center]]||[[Sylvite]]||[[Rock salt]]'''(L)'''|| Yes || ||
|-
|[[File:talc_sprite.png]] / {{Raw Tile|||7:7:1}} {{Raw Tile|•|7:1}} || beige ||[[File:TalcSwatch.png|64px|center]]||[[Talc]]||[[Dolomite]]'''(L)'''|| Yes || Yes ||
|}
:'''(L)''' - occurs in large clusters
:'''(V)''' - occurs in veins
:'''(S)''' - occurs in small clusters
:'''(1)''' - occurs in individual tiles

== By color in Classic ASCII Dwarf Fortress ==
For those concerned with aesthetics and wanting to know which stones are available in each color.

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
!width="90"| Color
!width="45%"| Non-economic stones
!width="25%"| Economic stones
! Ore
|-valign="top"
|{{Raw Tile|•|7:1}} White
|[[Alunite]], [[Borax]], [[Cryolite]], [[Marcasite]], [[Periclase]], [[Quartzite]] (L), [[Rock salt]] (L), [[Talc]]
|[[Alabaster]], [[Calcite]], [[Chalk]] (L), [[Dolomite]] (L), [[Limestone]] (L), [[Marble]] (L), [[Satinspar]], [[Selenite]]
|[[Galena]], [[Horn silver]], [[Native aluminum]], [[Native platinum]], [[Native silver]]
|-valign="top"
|{{Raw Tile|•|7:0}} Light Gray
|[[Anhydrite]], [[Dacite]] (L), [[Gneiss]] (L), [[Granite]] (L), [[Phyllite]] (L), [[Stibnite]]
|
|[[Bismuthinite]]
|-valign="top"
|{{Raw Tile|•|0:1}} Dark Gray
|[[Andesite]] (L), [[Basalt]] (L), [[Chromite]], [[Claystone]] (L), [[Diorite]] (L), [[Gabbro]] (L), [[Graphite]], [[Hornblende]], [[Ilmenite]], [[Jet]], [[Mica]], [[Pyrolusite]], [[Rhyolite]] (L), [[Shale]] (L), [[Slate]]
|[[Bituminous coal]], [[Lignite]], [[Obsidian]] (L)
|[[Magnetite]], [[Sphalerite]], [[Tetrahedrite]]
|-valign="top"
|{{Raw Tile|•|6:0}} Brown
|[[Chert]] (L), [[Conglomerate]] (L), [[Mudstone]] (L), [[Puddingstone]], [[Sandstone]] (L), [[Schist]] (L), [[Siltstone]] (L)
|
|[[Cassiterite]], [[Native copper]]
|-valign="top"
|{{Raw Tile|•|6:1}} Yellow
|[[Brimstone]], [[Orpiment]], [[Orthoclase]], [[Saltpeter]], [[Sylvite]]
|[[Gypsum]]
|[[Limonite]], [[Native gold]]
|-valign="top"
|{{Raw Tile|•|4:0}} Dark Red
|[[Bauxite]]
|[[Kaolinite]]
|[[Hematite]]
|-valign="top"
|{{Raw Tile|•|4:1}} Red
|[[Cinnabar]], [[Petrified wood]], [[Realgar]]
|
|
|-valign="top"
|{{Raw Tile|•|2:0}} Green
|[[Olivine]], [[Serpentine]]
|
|[[Malachite]]
|-valign="top"
|{{Raw Tile|•|2:1}} Bright Green
|
|
|[[Garnierite]]
|-valign="top"
|{{Raw Tile|•|3:0}} Teal
|colspan="3"| None
|-valign="top"
|{{Raw Tile|•|3:1}} Cyan
|[[Microcline]]
|
|[[Raw adamantine]]
|-valign="top"
|{{Raw Tile|•|1:1}} Blue
|[[Cobaltite]]
|
|
|-valign="top"
|{{Raw Tile|•|1:0}} Dark Blue
|[[Kimberlite]]
|
|
|-valign="top"
|{{Raw Tile|•|5:0}} Purple
|[[Pitchblende]], [[Rutile]]
|
|
|-valign="top"
|{{Raw Tile|•|5:1}} Magenta
|colspan="3"| None
|}

== DF geology and geology in real life ==

The geology and stones of ''Dwarf Fortress'' are based (to some extent) on real-world geology and mineralogy. To understand the terms used here, you may want to crack open a geology textbook (a high school one should suffice). If you don't happen to have one close by, the Wikipedia articles for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geology geology], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mineralogy mineralogy], or the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_layers terms in question] might help. Below is a very brief introduction tailored for DF gamers, with links to the relevant game-specific pages.

In geological terminology, a rock or stone is basically a composite of minerals. Minerals, the building blocks of rock, are hard inorganic materials with a definite chemical formula and a certain atomic structure. For example, the mineral quartz is composed of silicon dioxide (SiO₂) arranged in a pyramid structure. Quartz is a component mineral of rocks (stones) such as [[quartzite]] (almost entirely made of quartz) or [[granite]] (some 20~60% quartz, a bunch more of the mineral "feldspar", plus [[mica]] and some others). The distinction between minerals like [[mica]] (simple) and rocks like [[granite]] (composite) does not matter for ''Dwarf Fortress''; just like in everyday language, they're all just "stones". Besides minerals, some rocks may include organic material; such rocks include [[bituminous coal]] (made of dead bog things) or [[limestone]] (made of the skeletons of ocean animals).

<gallery>
Museo de La Plata - Cuarcita.jpg|Quartzite stone, made mostly of quartz mineral.
Dark Mica from Eastern Ontario.jpg|Mica, a mineral.
GRANIT KANTSTEIN.jpg|Granite stone. The whitest grains are [[rock crystal|quartz crystals]], while the dark ones are [[mica]].
Coal bituminous.jpg|Bituminous coal.
Xenocrinus baeri fossil crinoids in fossiliferous limestone (Whitewater Formation, Upper Ordovician; northeastern Warren County, southwestern Ohio, USA) 2 (15115228788).jpg|Limestone, this one still with skeletons.
</gallery>

The three minerals seen in [[granite]] are also among the most common:

* '''Feldspar''', meaning something like "field-stone", is actually a general name for an entire family of minerals, all of them based on aluminum and silicon. Their appearance varies, but they tends toward light greyish colors, and make up a lot of your typical light stone. Feldspar doesn't exist independently in the DF world; but, among the in-game stones, [[microcline]] and [[orthoclase]] are flavors of feldspar, and countless other DF stones would include feldspar in real life. A stone with a lot of feldspars and silicon is said to be '''felsic'''; granite and [[rhyolite]] are in-game examples.
* '''Quartz''', meaning "hard", easily makes big showy crystals; it's transparent if [[Rock crystal|pure]], but if the SiO₂ is combined with trace amounts of other elements (often metals like iron and manganese), it can get colored [[Rose quartz|pink]], purple ([[amethyst]]), yellow ([[citrine]]), and so on. If bubbly with air, quartz may become [[Milk quartz|milky]]; if irradiated, it may get [[Smoky quartz|smoky]].
* '''Micas''', like quartz, have silicon atoms crystalline structures. The difference is that they're organized in sheet-like, gleaming surfaces, held together by weaker bonds of other elements; this makes micas soft and flaky (the word means "grainy"). The color varies. The in-game stone [[mica]] is stated to be muscovite, which is a light variety (but the game color is dark gray, like coal; this may be a mistake). Other micas can be dark.

Other minerals that exist independently in DF include green [[olivine]] (yes, it's named after olives) and black [[hornblende]], which is similar to dark mica but forms needlelike crystals. Dark minerals like these often include magnesium and iron (Fe); stones rich in them are then termed '''mafic''' (in contrast with "felsic"). In-game mafic stones include [[basalt]] and [[gabbro]].

On the white side, [[calcite]] is a mineral based on calcium, the same stuff as bones. It forms crystals, and occurs in DF as an unremarkable white stone. Calcite is a main component of [[limestone]] and [[chalk]]—which in turn can become [[marble]]; it's often formed from the accumulated remains of ancient marine animals (for a memorable use of chalk stone layers in high fantasy, check out Terry Pratchett's novel ''The Wee Free Men'' and its sequels). The most well-known marine mineral is surely table salt, present in DF as [[rock salt]]. It's formed when saltwater evaporates; another evaporative mineral, or "evaporite", is [[gypsum]], which, in DF as in real life, can be used to make [[Gypsum plaster|plaster casts]]

<gallery>
Perthitic feldspar Dan Patch SD.jpg|Feldspars, the most common minerals, are often light-colored and "stony".
File:Muscovite-121758.jpg|[[Mica]] is a flaky, crumbly and sheet-like mineral. This is the lighter flavor "muscovite", present in DF.
File:Columnar basalt at Sheepeater Cliff in Yellowstone-closeup-750px.jpg|[[Basalt]] is a mafic rock; that is, it includes magnesium (ma-) and iron (-fic), giving it a dark color. It's made from cooled [[Magma|lava]], and makes the larger part of the ocean floor in real life.
File:Mineral Olivino GDFL046.jpg|The dark green mafic mineral [[olivine]] is a component of many basalts.
File:Cristales cueva de Naica.JPG|A large cluster of [[gypsum]] crystals (human for scale).
</gallery>

Rocks can be classified by their creation processes, which makes them settle down in distinct [[stone layers]], and possibly in [[vein|veins and clusters]]. DF models this too, so that it's quite relevant information for players; see the links for details.

An [[ore]] is a rock with a metal content high enough for it to be a viable source of that metal. Most metals do not occur by themselves in nature, but readily bind with minerals to form stones; e.g. [[zinc]] binds with sulfur minerals to form the rock [[sphalerite]]. To extract the metal from it, [[Furnace operator|someone]] has to [[Smelter|smelt]] the stone. A few metals may be found in pure form, like [[native gold]] and [[native silver|silver]] (but in DF, they still require smelting to be shaped into useable [[bars]]).

<gallery widths="200">
Sphalerite-43245.jpg|Sphalerite, an ore of zinc.
Zinc fragment sublimed and 1cm3 cube.jpg|Zinc metal.
Zlato 2.jpg|Native gold in rock.
</gallery>

A [[gem]] is a mineral (or rock, or rock-like material) with intrinsic economic value for a culture, often because they're beautiful, durable, and/or rare. This depends not just on what the mineral is made of, but also on the internal layout of its atomic structure, which can dramatically alter its appearance and properties; see the article on gems for more.

<gallery widths="200">
Uncut Rose Quartz.jpg|[[Rose quartz]] is made of the same basic quartz as quartzite (above), but its atoms are ordered into neatly arranged pyramid shapes, resulting in a shiny, transparent, faceted material.
Rose quartz drops.jpg|After being [[Gem cutting|cut]] by an [[Gem cutter|expert craftsdwarf]], the hidden beauty of the rough gem is revealed.
</gallery>

{{Translation
| dwarven = lam
| elvish = queca
| goblin = ngomstu
| human = ado
}}

{{D for Dwarf}}

Some small, specialized teams of Dwarves are known for their fierce battle-cry: "Rock and Stone!," or some variation thereof. Said dwarves are notoriously belligerent towards [[giant cave spider]]s.

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|title=Material template raws
|{{raw|v50:material_template_default.txt|MATERIAL_TEMPLATE|STONE_TEMPLATE}}
}}
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[[ru:Stone]]

Demon

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[[File:demon_preview.png|right]]'''Demons''' {{Tile|&|7:0}} are procedurally-generated [[creature]]s who inhabit the [[Underworld]]. These immense, malicious and formidably powerful beasts are among the most powerful enemies in the game in both [[fortress mode]] and [[adventurer mode]]. They are not available to be spawned in the [[object testing arena]].

Graphically, the sprites that demons use will be of randomly-generated creatures with random colors that resemble the generated appearance they've been given. This same setup is used for other procedurally-generated creatures, such as [[megabeast]]s, [[angel]]s, and some [[experiment]]s.

== Overview ==
{{imagefix|[[File:demon_icon.png|left]]|8}}[[File:Assdemon.png|thumb|right|300px|"Etar Patternedtombs was a mint green demon. It was the only one of its kind. A gigantic feathered ass twisted into humanoid form. It undulates rhythmically. Its mint green feathers are patchy. Beware its deadly gas!" ([http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=76346.msg2667300#msg2667300 post]).]]Demons inhabit the Underworld. They are randomly generated at worldgen, creating unique [[fun]] for every player. Examples of possible demons include giant centipedes made of ash that hunger for blood, eyeless mosquitoes that spit toxins, and emaciated fruitbats with giant clicking mandibles. The number of different types of demon created during world generation is closely related to world size, and it can be directly controlled with [[advanced world generation]] – a world generated with "{{tt|Number of Demon Types}}" set to {{tt|0}} in advanced world generation will not have any demons in it.

[[File:demon_desc_v50_preview.png|thumb|300px|right|Description of a demon.]]All demons share certain traits. They are [[Creature token#SUPERNATURAL|supernatural]], [[fanciful]], evil-aligned creatures represented by an ampersand with a randomized [[color]]. They are all able to swim in and [[Amphibious|breathe]] water and magma, and [[Building destroyer|destroy buildings]]. Furthermore, they are [[Trapavoid|immune to traps]], [[No Pain|pain]], fear, nausea, [[No Stun|stunning]], [[No Exert|exertion]], dizziness, fevers, fire, any sort of poison, and have fixed body temperature, thus are unaffected by extremes of heat and cold (even if made of materials that would suggest otherwise). Roughly half possess [[Creature_token#EXTRAVISION|extravision]]. They are very large (size 10,000,000, smaller than a [[megabeast]], but larger than a [[giant]] and 167 times the size of a [[dwarf]]). They don't require sleep, food, or drink. All non-unique demons start out at Accomplished [[skill]] level in the following combat skills: wrestling, biting, striking, kicking, fighting, archery, dodging, and observing. Unique demons start out at Grand Master in the same skills. All unique demons, and roughly a half of non-unique ones, possess intelligence ([[Creature token#CAN_LEARN|<code>[CAN_LEARN]</code>]] + [[Creature token#CAN_SPEAK|<code>[CAN_SPEAK]</code>]]), so demons you face may well have developed their skills to a higher level than they began with; however, their skills cannot rust to a lower level. The initial wave spawns exactly one frame after you open the Underworld; the amount spawned can range from 10 to over 100. Demons inhabiting the Underworld spawn in groups of 1-5 individuals. The size of their population, specified as 5-10 in the raws, appears to be irrelevant, as the game makes all inhabitants of the Underworld spawn in limitless numbers. As long as the Underworld is unsealed, demons will continue to wander in from the edges of the map indefinitely, due to having populations that are (functionally) infinite.

Demons receive large bonuses to every physical [[attribute]] except agility, and to the mental attributes of focus and willpower (also analytical ability, memory, linguistic ability, and social awareness, but those are less relevant). Many, but not all, are capable of flight. They may possess a wide variety of special attacks, including webbing, firebreath, poisonous appendages, toxic spittle or poison breath. Inorganic or zombie demons are especially difficult to kill; they can be killed by bisection, decapitation, or pulping via blunt weapons (inorganic blobs can only be killed in this manner), but this is far beyond the capabilities of an ordinary dwarf.

Demons of each species can be all genderless, all male, or all female, or have both male and female castes. The latter can breed if given enough time. All demons are born adults, and immediately reach their full size after being born. They have a [[pet|pet value]] of 2000☼, but cannot be tamed, and you are rather unlikely to capture one. If you have deactivated compressed saves, the raws for a given world's demons (as well as [[forgotten beast]]s, [[titan]]s, [[werebeast]]s, etc.) can be found in the [[Saved game folder|world.dat]] of its save folder. Blob/inorganic demons tend to be genderless and non-sapient, but more research is required on this.

Due to their somewhat spoilery nature – new players are unlikely to know they exist, creating [[Fun|much surprise]] when they inevitably dig too deep – veteran ''Dwarf Fortress'' players tend to hide the existence of demons by giving them nicknames, the most famous being '''Hidden Fun Stuff''' and '''clowns''', with the Underworld being their "circus". Unique demons (see below), by extension, are usually referred to as the '''ringleaders'''.

Dwarves may [[Preferences|like]] a species of demon for their ''horrifying features'', their ''rhythmic undulations'' or their ''bloated appearance''.

== Their interaction with the world ==
Certain types of demons, those described as "being twisted into humanoid form" and marked with {{token|UNIQUE_DEMON|c}} instead of {{token|DEMON|c}} in world.dat, will occasionally escape the underworld. This happens by the aid of a [[deity]] through a ritual conducted with an [[artifact]] [[slab]]. It is most common that the demon and deity share a sphere, though it is not a requirement. Once they are in the mortal world, they will gain rule over a [[goblin]] [[civilization]] – each goblin faction in the world will be led by a unique demon, and attempting to create a world without demons in it through [[advanced world generation]] will lead to goblins being locked away in the underworld until a dwarf civilization digs too deep. As noted in [[Legends|legends mode]], these demons will occasionally make journeys to the [[Cavern|depths of the world]] and tame the creatures that dwell in them – most specifically, species with the {{token|PET_EXOTIC}} token – going from [[giant rat]]s to [[voracious cave crawler]]s and [[cave dragon]]s. Presumably, this is how goblin civilizations gain access to these creatures to use them in [[siege]]s.

Demons may also arise when a dwarven civilization digs too deep in [[world generation|worldgen]] – the dwarves have a chance to fight them off, but, most of the time, the fortress will be taken over by goblins under a demonic ruler.

Found within the goblins' [[dark fortress]]es are demonic [[Underworld spire|spires]] made of [[slade]], whose lowermost levels lead directly into the Underworld. They will also create slade [[vault]]s, whose treasure is guarded by incredibly powerful and dangerous [[angel]]s. If you can manage to fight off those freakishly strong beings ([[Fun|don't expect to by the way]]), you can find in the vault's centre the slab that contains the demon's true name. Learning this name allows your adventurer to either banish it back to the Underworld or bind it to your servitude. Although you will have a next to unkillable super soldier on your side if you opt for the latter, it's more of a bragging-rights reward, if anything – getting past the angels already requires pretty much being a god among men.

<gallery class="center" widths="400px" heights="184px">
File:Demon banish.png|Banishing a demon back to the Underworld
File:Demon compel service.png|Compelling service from demon
</gallery>

In [[fortress mode]], goblin law-giver demons may arrive as part of a goblin siege and are most of the time very dangerous.{{verify}}

Demons can (and, in most cases, will) spread sphere-aligned evil from sites they control. Nightmare or darkness demons will spread regions filled with [[bogeymen]], death demons will spread reanimating evil regions, and so on. The evil-spreading can be reversed if the demon is slain or their site conquered or razed (e.g. through a [[raid]].)

Depending on their spheres, demons may also be granted abilities similar to those of [[necromancer]]s. Death demons are able to create [[experiment]]s and raise corpses and [[intelligent undead]], though they do not raise corpses in world gen because they would be hostile to the goblins they rule. Nightmare demons may be able to summon [[nightmare]]s and [[bogeymen]].

== Demon generation ==
When generating a demon, the game begins by generating a table of demon subtypes (beast, flying spirit, humanoid beast, unique) and their difficulties. The subtype determines which [[random creature profile]]s are available, with humanoid demons requiring a humanoidable shape (the same as [[werebeast]]s) and flying spirits being made of an intangible material like snow or flame. The {{token|DIFFICULTY}} of a demon is used during generation to set its size.

A demon receives [[sphere]]s, one chosen from the list of evil spheres (such as misery, death, or torture) and one to two additional non-good spheres that don't conflict. Like other procedural creatures, they are tweaked from their creature profile. It will be granted a few "extra" features, like a tail, a trunk, or a shell, and a flavorful descriptor (such as "it knows and intones the names of all it encounters"). A tweak common to evil creatures has some feature (such as its eyes, nose or skin) be removed. Unless their creature profile already possesses a special attack, demons receive a strong attack tweak such as a poisonous sting, toxic breath, or fire breath.

Demons have a varied name generation scheme, comprised of a base noun (demon, devil, etc) and an adjective derived from their features, like their color, material, or species profile. Corporeal demons will be named either demon, devil, fiend, brute, or monster. Intangible demons instead pick from spirit, ghost, banshee, haunt, phantom, specter, or wraith.

== Strategy ==
[[File:Demon_Size.png|thumb|right|200px|Estimated size comparison between a typical demon and a dwarf.]]

Of all of the challenges facing a player, defeating a demon horde is probably the most difficult, unless you are using certain [[trap]] schemes – and even then, you will need to take special precautions.

=== Containment ===
Containment is the simplest strategy for dealing with demons. A simple constructed wall will block any demon. Because of their building destroyer status, demons cannot be contained via locked doors. However, indestructible artifact-quality portals can stop them, as can some bridges. As building destroyers can only destroy objects on the same z-level, a [[floor grate]] or forbidden [[hatch cover]] on a staircase/channel will also block movement. It may be difficult to lure demons away from artifact furniture, should the area need to be accessed to reset a trap. If using [[bridge]]s, be aware that any raising bridge that lands on a demon will deconstruct, and that demons can easily have internal temperatures greatly exceeding the melting points of [[steel]] or [[iron]], leading to deconstruction as they pass over them. Because of their vast numbers, containment is an important part of any attempt to defeat them – fighting two groups of 25 demons is much easier than fighting one group of 50.

One particular gentleman, AussieGuy on the Bay12 forums, has found an ingenious method for disposing of an entire demonic invasion at once: a [[Megaprojects|stupid dwarven trick]] known as "the dwarven checkerboard".([http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=94140.0 Source])

When using forbidden hatches to control flow of demons, note that some demons may be spawned with CANOPENDOORS to be not set, so once you unforbid the hatch, only the demons that can open doors will go through the door. The ones that can't open doors will remain behind the hatch, even if it is passable.

=== Traps ===
Because all demons avoid traps, trapping demons can be very difficult – but not impossible. Demons become vulnerable to traps when they are webbed, so if you can find a way to get web onto your traps, the demons will be affected as any other creature (including your own dwarves!) would be.

Alternatively, advanced triggered traps may be used. Demons do not set off [[pressure plate]]s, but if you can contain them, retracting upright spikes, casting them into [[obsidian]], or caving a portion of mountain onto them are all effective. Any plan involving these kind of traps must involve both a way to bait the demons to where you want them and a way to keep the demons where you want them. Tame animals appear to work well as bait, but need to be replaced as they're killed. Bridges can be used to contain the demons, but be wary of the risks of deconstruction as described above.

Many traps need to be designed with the potential for extreme temperatures in mind. Obsidian trappers may find water used in the casting process boiling into steam before it contacts magma. Frequently, demons made of fire or steam explode on death, broiling nearby creatures and furniture. This effect can destroy upright spikes, leaving you with a trap chamber full of demons that you have no way to deal with. Demons do not destroy supports directly, but a hot enough demon may cause the destruction of nearby supports, just through heat damage. A clever dwarf might find a way to turn that to their advantage, if only such a thing as a clever dwarf existed.

=== Ranged combat ===
Ranged combat sounds appealing, especially in the face of demons that explode with unimaginable heat upon death, but should be considered carefully. Most demons have vastly more powerful ranged attacks than marksdwarves have. Demons made of weak materials can be easily killed or dismembered by bolts, but inorganic demons composed of stronger stuff will only suffer chipped "bones".

[[Fortification]]s are appealing, as they can be dug directly into [[adamantine]] without ever exposing your fortress to a path to the demons. Even demons made out of steam cannot pass through a fortification unless it is submerged in 7/7 water or magma. Demons with syndrome attacks may attack through fortifications even without a path, although they appear to do so less frequently than if they have a path.

Still, should you contain a group of demons composed of weaker materials, marksdwarves can be very effective.

=== Melee combat ===
Demons can be very frightening melee opponents, as each one alone is nearly the size of a [[megabeast]], extremely fast, and has tremendous natural combat skills. That would be bad enough, but there tend to be pages of them rather than individuals. However, demons can still be defeated in melee combat.

Despite their powerful attacks, many demons are made up of very flimsy materials, such as salt, snow, steam, or filth. A strong punch can decapitate creatures like this. Some demons, however, can be made of much harder materials, and it can be very difficult to bring down a demon composed of minerals or armor-quality metal. Blunt weapons can be reasonably effective against weaker-material demons by severing limbs and body parts despite blunt status, but are not nearly as effective against demons as they are against earthly foes that suffer from pain and blood loss; without internal organs or blood loss, piercing weapons are relatively ineffective. Good slashing weapons can reliably take down demons of any material type.

The challenge of melee combat is how to deal with an enormous number of strong combatants while protecting against area-of-effect syndrome attacks and death explosions. Restraining visibility via a labyrinthine battleground is a good start. The area effects suggest meeting them with successive small waves of melee dwarves, but if the dwarves are too few, they'll be butchered by hundreds of angry demons before making a dent.

In all cases, your demon-fighting melee dwarves should be very well armed and armored (steel and adamantine) and Legendary in some, if not all, of the relevant combat skills.

=== Clean-up ===
Unfortunately, once the wave of demons has been dealt with, it's not yet over. [[Syndrome]]-bearing dust and blood may litter the battlefield and your survivors, and can be very difficult to isolate and contain. Some dwarves may carry burning items back from their encounters with very hot demons. Survivors should all pass through a shallow pool of water to wash them and their equipment of anything dangerous and to douse any flames. Any path used for the fight is best abandoned and walled up. Demons will continue to enter the Underworld from its map edges, as wildlife do on the surface, but path differently from the initial wave, content to wander through the Underworld even should a simple unobstructed path exist into your fortress.

== Killed demons ==
Only unintelligent demons can be butchered, and butchering them yields products similar to those from [[forgotten beast]]s, including copious amounts of [[meat]] and [[bone]]s, vividly-colored [[hair]], [[feather]]s, [[scale]]s or [[chitin]], and [[shell]]s, if the demon had one. All materials obtained from demons have a value multiplier of 1, and aren't appreciably better than their mundane counterparts.

Inorganic demons cannot be butchered, and after killing them you obtain only a massive demonic corpse to use in your [[stupid dwarf trick]].

{{D for Dwarf}}

Little do demons know that though their claws and fire cannot pierce the [[adamantine]] sealing them away, a simple [[copper]] [[pick]] (or any other kind of pick, for that matter) can dig right through it with enough time and effort. Armok forbid these unholy creatures ever get their hands on one.

{{gamedata|title=Example raws (as extracted from world.sav)|[OBJECT:CREATURE]

[CREATURE:DEMON_1]
[NAME:brine brute:brine brutes:brine brute]
[CASTE_NAME:brine brute:brine brutes:brine brute]
[GENERATED]
[DEMON]
[NATURAL_SKILL:WRESTLING:10]
[NATURAL_SKILL:BITE:10]
[NATURAL_SKILL:GRASP_STRIKE:10]
[NATURAL_SKILL:STANCE_STRIKE:10]
[NATURAL_SKILL:MELEE_COMBAT:10]
[NATURAL_SKILL:RANGED_COMBAT:10]
[NATURAL_SKILL:DODGING:10]
[NATURAL_SKILL:SITUATIONAL_AWARENESS:10]
[LARGE_ROAMING]
[LARGE_PREDATOR]
[DIFFICULTY:10]
[BIOME:SUBTERRANEAN_CHASM]
[UNDERGROUND_DEPTH:5:5]
[POPULATION_NUMBER:5:10]
[CLUSTER_NUMBER:1:5]
[FEMALE]
[PHYS_ATT_RANGE:STRENGTH:450:1050:1150:1250:1350:1550:2250]
[PHYS_ATT_RANGE:TOUGHNESS:450:1050:1150:1250:1350:1550:2250]
[PHYS_ATT_RANGE:ENDURANCE:450:1050:1150:1250:1350:1550:2250]
[PHYS_ATT_RANGE:RECUPERATION:450:1050:1150:1250:1350:1550:2250]
[PHYS_ATT_RANGE:DISEASE_RESISTANCE:700:1300:1400:1500:1600:1800:2500]
[MENT_ATT_RANGE:ANALYTICAL_ABILITY:1250:1500:1750:2000:2500:3000:5000]
[MENT_ATT_RANGE:FOCUS:1250:1500:1750:2000:2500:3000:5000]
[MENT_ATT_RANGE:WILLPOWER:1250:1500:1750:2000:2500:3000:5000]
[MENT_ATT_RANGE:PATIENCE:0:333:666:1000:2333:3666:5000]
[MENT_ATT_RANGE:MEMORY:1250:1500:1750:2000:2500:3000:5000]
[MENT_ATT_RANGE:LINGUISTIC_ABILITY:450:1050:1150:1250:1350:1550:2250]
[MENT_ATT_RANGE:MUSICALITY:0:333:666:1000:2333:3666:5000]
[MENT_ATT_RANGE:SOCIAL_AWARENESS:700:1300:1400:1500:1600:1800:2500]
[PERSONALITY:ANXIETY_PROPENSITY:0:0:0]
[PERSONALITY:DEPRESSION_PROPENSITY:0:0:0]
[PERSONALITY:BASHFUL:0:0:0]
[PERSONALITY:STRESS_VULNERABILITY:0:0:0]
[PERSONALITY:FRIENDLINESS:0:0:0]
[PERSONALITY:ASSERTIVENESS:100:100:100]
[PERSONALITY:DISDAIN_ADVICE:100:100:100]
[PERSONALITY:CHEER_PROPENSITY:0:0:0]
[PERSONALITY:GRATITUDE:0:0:0]
[PERSONALITY:TRUST:0:0:0]
[PERSONALITY:ALTRUISM:0:0:0]
[PERSONALITY:SWAYED_BY_EMOTIONS:0:0:0]
[PERSONALITY:CRUELTY:100:100:100]
[PERSONALITY:PRIDE:100:100:100]
[PERSONALITY:GREED:100:100:100]
[NO_DRINK]
[NO_EAT]
[NO_SLEEP]
[BODY_APPEARANCE_MODIFIER:HEIGHT:90:95:98:100:102:105:110]
[BODY_APPEARANCE_MODIFIER:BROADNESS:90:95:98:100:102:105:110]
[MAGMA_VISION]
[EVIL]
[FANCIFUL]
[SUPERNATURAL]
[AMPHIBIOUS]
[PETVALUE:2000]
[GRASSTRAMPLE:20]
[BUILDINGDESTROYER:2]
[ALL_ACTIVE]
[SWIMS_INNATE]
[TRAPAVOID]
[NOPAIN]
[NOSTUN]
[NONAUSEA]
[NOFEAR]
[NOEXERT]
[NO_DIZZINESS]
[NO_FEVERS]
[LARGE_PREDATOR]
[SPHERE:FISHING]
[SPHERE:HUNTING]
[SPHERE:MISERY]
[SPHERE:TORTURE]
[BODY_SIZE:0:0:10000000]
[CREATURE_TILE:'&']
[NO_THOUGHT_CENTER_FOR_MOVEMENT]
[BODY:RCP_BASIC_BODY_STANCE_WITH_HEAD_FLAG:RCP_TWO_FLIGHTLESS_WINGS]
[TISSUE:UNIFORM_TIS]
[TISSUE_NAME:tissue:NP]
[TISSUE_MATERIAL:SALT]
[TISSUE_MAT_STATE:SOLID_POWDER]
[MUSCULAR]
[FUNCTIONAL]
[STRUCTURAL]
[RELATIVE_THICKNESS:1]
[CONNECTS]
[TISSUE_SHAPE:LAYER]
[TISSUE_LAYER:BY_CATEGORY:ALL:UNIFORM_TIS]
[BODY_DETAIL_PLAN:STANDARD_HEAD_POSITIONS]
[BODY_DETAIL_PLAN:HUMANOID_HEAD_POSITIONS]
[BODY_DETAIL_PLAN:HUMANOID_RELSIZES]
[NOT_LIVING]
[NOT_BUTCHERABLE]
[COLOR:7:0:1]
[NOBREATHE]
[EXTRAVISION]
[FLIER]
[FIXED_TEMP:10040]
[FIREIMMUNE]
[GAIT:SWIM:Maximum Swim Speed:725:10:3:2175:50:LAYERS_SLOW:STRENGTH:AGILITY:STEALTH_SLOWS:50]
[GAIT:SWIM:Faster Swim:1450:5:3:2175:10:LAYERS_SLOW:STRENGTH:AGILITY:STEALTH_SLOWS:20]
[GAIT:SWIM:Fast Swim:2175:NO_BUILD_UP:5:LAYERS_SLOW:STRENGTH:AGILITY:STEALTH_SLOWS:10]
[GAIT:SWIM:Swim:2900:NO_BUILD_UP:0]( [GAIT:SWIM:Slow Swim:3900:NO_BUILD_UP:0]
[GAIT:SWIM:Creeping Swim:5900:NO_BUILD_UP:0]
[GAIT:FLY:Maximum Flight Speed:225:10:3:675:50:LAYERS_SLOW:STRENGTH:AGILITY:STEALTH_SLOWS:50]
[GAIT:FLY:Faster Flight:450:5:3:675:10:LAYERS_SLOW:STRENGTH:AGILITY:STEALTH_SLOWS:20]
[GAIT:FLY:Fast Flight:675:NO_BUILD_UP:5:LAYERS_SLOW:STRENGTH:AGILITY:STEALTH_SLOWS:10]
[GAIT:FLY:Fly:900:NO_BUILD_UP:0]) [GAIT:FLY:Slow Flight:1900:NO_BUILD_UP:0]
[GAIT:FLY:Hover:2900:NO_BUILD_UP:0]
[GAIT:WALK:Scramble:725:10:3:2175:50:LAYERS_SLOW:STRENGTH:AGILITY:STEALTH_SLOWS:50]
[GAIT:WALK:Faster Crawl:1450:5:3:2175:10:LAYERS_SLOW:STRENGTH:AGILITY:STEALTH_SLOWS:20]
[GAIT:WALK:Fast Crawl:2175:NO_BUILD_UP:5:LAYERS_SLOW:STRENGTH:AGILITY:STEALTH_SLOWS:10]
[GAIT:WALK:Crawl:2900:NO_BUILD_UP:0]
[GAIT:WALK:Slow Crawl:5900:NO_BUILD_UP:0]
[GAIT:WALK:Creep:8900:NO_BUILD_UP:0]
[GAIT:CRAWL:Scramble:225:10:3:675:50:LAYERS_SLOW:STRENGTH:AGILITY:STEALTH_SLOWS:50]
[GAIT:CRAWL:Faster Crawl:450:5:3:675:10:LAYERS_SLOW:STRENGTH:AGILITY:STEALTH_SLOWS:20]
[GAIT:CRAWL:Fast Crawl:675:NO_BUILD_UP:5:LAYERS_SLOW:STRENGTH:AGILITY:STEALTH_SLOWS:10]
[GAIT:CRAWL:Crawl:900:NO_BUILD_UP:0]
[GAIT:CRAWL:Slow Crawl:1900:NO_BUILD_UP:0]
[GAIT:CRAWL:Creep:2900:NO_BUILD_UP:0]
[DESCRIPTION:A towering slug composed of salt. It has wings and it has a gaunt appearance.]
[PREFSTRING:horrifying features]
}}

{{gamedata|title=Example [UNIQUE_DEMON] raws (as extracted from world.sav)|[OBJECT:CREATURE]

[CREATURE:DEMON_3]
[NAME:clear devil:clear devils:clear devilish]
[CASTE_NAME:clear devil:clear devils:clear devilish]
[GENERATED]
[UNIQUE_DEMON]
[SPREAD_EVIL_SPHERES_IF_RULER]
[NATURAL_SKILL:WRESTLING:14]
[NATURAL_SKILL:BITE:14]
[NATURAL_SKILL:GRASP_STRIKE:14]
[NATURAL_SKILL:STANCE_STRIKE:14]
[NATURAL_SKILL:MELEE_COMBAT:14]
[NATURAL_SKILL:RANGED_COMBAT:14]
[NATURAL_SKILL:DODGING:14]
[NATURAL_SKILL:SITUATIONAL_AWARENESS:14]
[CAN_LEARN]
[CAN_SPEAK]
[DIFFICULTY:10]
[NO_GENDER]
[PHYS_ATT_RANGE:STRENGTH:450:1050:1150:1250:1350:1550:2250]
[PHYS_ATT_RANGE:TOUGHNESS:450:1050:1150:1250:1350:1550:2250]
[PHYS_ATT_RANGE:ENDURANCE:450:1050:1150:1250:1350:1550:2250]
[PHYS_ATT_RANGE:RECUPERATION:450:1050:1150:1250:1350:1550:2250]
[PHYS_ATT_RANGE:DISEASE_RESISTANCE:700:1300:1400:1500:1600:1800:2500]
[MENT_ATT_RANGE:ANALYTICAL_ABILITY:1250:1500:1750:2000:2500:3000:5000]
[MENT_ATT_RANGE:FOCUS:1250:1500:1750:2000:2500:3000:5000]
[MENT_ATT_RANGE:WILLPOWER:1250:1500:1750:2000:2500:3000:5000]
[MENT_ATT_RANGE:PATIENCE:0:333:666:1000:2333:3666:5000]
[MENT_ATT_RANGE:MEMORY:1250:1500:1750:2000:2500:3000:5000]
[MENT_ATT_RANGE:LINGUISTIC_ABILITY:450:1050:1150:1250:1350:1550:2250]
[MENT_ATT_RANGE:MUSICALITY:0:333:666:1000:2333:3666:5000]
[MENT_ATT_RANGE:SOCIAL_AWARENESS:700:1300:1400:1500:1600:1800:2500]
[PERSONALITY:ANXIETY_PROPENSITY:0:0:0]
[PERSONALITY:DEPRESSION_PROPENSITY:0:0:0]
[PERSONALITY:BASHFUL:0:0:0]
[PERSONALITY:STRESS_VULNERABILITY:0:0:0]
[PERSONALITY:FRIENDLINESS:0:0:0]
[PERSONALITY:ASSERTIVENESS:100:100:100]
[PERSONALITY:DISDAIN_ADVICE:100:100:100]
[PERSONALITY:CHEER_PROPENSITY:0:0:0]
[PERSONALITY:GRATITUDE:0:0:0]
[PERSONALITY:TRUST:0:0:0]
[PERSONALITY:ALTRUISM:0:0:0]
[PERSONALITY:SWAYED_BY_EMOTIONS:0:0:0]
[PERSONALITY:CRUELTY:100:100:100]
[PERSONALITY:PRIDE:100:100:100]
[PERSONALITY:GREED:100:100:100]
[NO_DRINK]
[NO_EAT]
[NO_SLEEP]
[BODY_APPEARANCE_MODIFIER:HEIGHT:90:95:98:100:102:105:110]
[BODY_APPEARANCE_MODIFIER:BROADNESS:90:95:98:100:102:105:110]
[MAGMA_VISION]
[EVIL]
[FANCIFUL]
[SUPERNATURAL]
[AMPHIBIOUS]
[PETVALUE:2000]
[GRASSTRAMPLE:20]
[BUILDINGDESTROYER:2]
[ALL_ACTIVE]
[SWIMS_INNATE]
[TRAPAVOID]
[NOPAIN]
[NOSTUN]
[NONAUSEA]
[NOFEAR]
[NOEXERT]
[NO_DIZZINESS]
[NO_FEVERS]
[LARGE_PREDATOR]
[SPHERE:BLIGHT]
[SPHERE:DEATH]
[SPHERE:MURDER]
[SPHERE:TWILIGHT]
[BODY_SIZE:0:0:10000000]
[CREATURE_TILE:'&']
[BODY:RCP_UPPER_BODY:RCP_LOWER_BODY:RCP_NECK:RCP_HEAD:RCP_TWO_PART_ARMS:RCP_TWO_PART_LEGS:RCP_TAIL:RCP_4_FINGERS:RCP_4_TOES:RCP_LUNGS:RCP_HEART:RCP_GUTS:RCP_THROAT:RCP_SPINE:RCP_UPPER_SPINE:RCP_BRAIN:RCP_SKULL:RCP_MOUTH:RCP_TONGUE:RCP_TEETH:RCP_RIBS]
[CANOPENDOORS]
[EQUIPS]
[BODY_DETAIL_PLAN:STANDARD_MATERIALS]
[REMOVE_MATERIAL:SKIN]
[REMOVE_MATERIAL:HAIR]
[USE_MATERIAL_TEMPLATE:SCALE:SCALE_TEMPLATE]
[BODY_DETAIL_PLAN:STANDARD_TISSUES]
[REMOVE_TISSUE:SKIN]
[REMOVE_TISSUE:HAIR]
[USE_TISSUE_TEMPLATE:SCALE:SCALE_TEMPLATE]
[BODY_DETAIL_PLAN:VERTEBRATE_TISSUE_LAYERS:SCALE:FAT:MUSCLE:BONE:CARTILAGE]
[BODY_DETAIL_PLAN:STANDARD_HEAD_POSITIONS]
[BODY_DETAIL_PLAN:HUMANOID_HEAD_POSITIONS]
[BODY_DETAIL_PLAN:HUMANOID_RIBCAGE_POSITIONS]
[BODY_DETAIL_PLAN:HUMANOID_RELSIZES]
[USE_MATERIAL_TEMPLATE:SINEW:SINEW_TEMPLATE]
[TENDONS:LOCAL_CREATURE_MAT:SINEW:200]
[LIGAMENTS:LOCAL_CREATURE_MAT:SINEW:200]
[HAS_NERVES]
[NOBREATHE]
[EXTRAVISION]
[FIXED_TEMP:10040]
[SELECT_MATERIAL:SCALE]
[STATE_COLOR:ALL_SOLID:CLEAR]
[COLOR:0:0:1]
[SELECT_TISSUE_LAYER:HEART:BY_CATEGORY:HEART]
[PLUS_TISSUE_LAYER:SCALE:BY_CATEGORY:THROAT]
[TL_MAJOR_ARTERIES]
[USE_MATERIAL_TEMPLATE:GOO:GOO_TEMPLATE]
[BLOOD:LOCAL_CREATURE_MAT:GOO:LIQUID]
[USE_MATERIAL_TEMPLATE:CLAW:NAIL_TEMPLATE]
[USE_TISSUE_TEMPLATE:CLAW:CLAW_TEMPLATE]
[TISSUE_LAYER:BY_CATEGORY:FINGER:CLAW:FRONT]
[TISSUE_LAYER:BY_CATEGORY:TOE:CLAW:FRONT]
[USE_MATERIAL_TEMPLATE:POISON:CREATURE_EXTRACT_TEMPLATE]
[ENTERS_BLOOD]
[SYNDROME]
[SYN_NAME:demon sickness]
[SYN_AFFECTED_CLASS:GENERAL_POISON]
[SYN_IMMUNE_CREATURE:DEMON_3:ALL]
[SYN_INJECTED]
[SYN_CONTACT]
[SYN_INHALED]
[SYN_INGESTED]
[CE_DROWSINESS:SEV:100:PROB:100:START:565:PEAK:1649:END:4938:RESISTABLE:SIZE_DELAYS:SIZE_DILUTES]
[SECRETION:LOCAL_CREATURE_MAT:POISON:LIQUID:BY_CATEGORY:ALL:SCALE]
[FIREIMMUNE]
[ATTACK:PUNCH:BODYPART:BY_TYPE:GRASP]
[ATTACK_SKILL:GRASP_STRIKE]
[ATTACK_VERB:punch:punches]
[ATTACK_CONTACT_PERC:100]
[ATTACK_PREPARE_AND_RECOVER:2:2]
[ATTACK_FLAG_WITH]
[ATTACK_PRIORITY:MAIN]
[ATTACK:KICK:BODYPART:BY_TYPE:STANCE]
[ATTACK_SKILL:STANCE_STRIKE]
[ATTACK_VERB:kick:kicks]
[ATTACK_CONTACT_PERC:100]
[ATTACK_PREPARE_AND_RECOVER:2:2]
[ATTACK_FLAG_WITH]
[ATTACK_PRIORITY:MAIN]
[ATTACK_FLAG_BAD_MULTIATTACK]
[ATTACK:BITE:CHILD_BODYPART_GROUP:BY_CATEGORY:HEAD:BY_CATEGORY:TOOTH]
[ATTACK_SKILL:BITE]
[ATTACK_VERB:bite:bites]
[ATTACK_CONTACT_PERC:100]
[ATTACK_PENETRATION_PERC:100]
[ATTACK_PREPARE_AND_RECOVER:2:2]
[ATTACK_FLAG_EDGE]
[ATTACK_PRIORITY:MAIN]
[ATTACK_FLAG_CANLATCH]
[ATTACK:FSCRATCH:CHILD_TISSUE_LAYER_GROUP:BY_TYPE:GRASP:BY_CATEGORY:ALL:CLAW]
[ATTACK_SKILL:GRASP_STRIKE]
[ATTACK_VERB:scratch:scratches]
[ATTACK_CONTACT_PERC:100]
[ATTACK_PENETRATION_PERC:100]
[ATTACK_PREPARE_AND_RECOVER:2:2]
[ATTACK_FLAG_EDGE]
[ATTACK_PRIORITY:MAIN]
[ATTACK:TSCRATCH:CHILD_TISSUE_LAYER_GROUP:BY_TYPE:STANCE:BY_CATEGORY:ALL:CLAW]
[ATTACK_SKILL:STANCE_STRIKE]
[ATTACK_VERB:scratch:scratches]
[ATTACK_CONTACT_PERC:100]
[ATTACK_PENETRATION_PERC:100]
[ATTACK_PREPARE_AND_RECOVER:2:2]
[ATTACK_FLAG_EDGE]
[ATTACK_PRIORITY:MAIN]
[ATTACK_FLAG_BAD_MULTIATTACK]
[SELECT_MATERIAL:ALL]
[MAT_FIXED_TEMP:10040]
[HEATDAM_POINT:NONE]
[COLDDAM_POINT:NONE]
[IGNITE_POINT:NONE]
[GAIT:SWIM:Maximum Swim Speed:725:10:3:2175:50:LAYERS_SLOW:STRENGTH:AGILITY:STEALTH_SLOWS:50]
[GAIT:SWIM:Faster Swim:1450:5:3:2175:10:LAYERS_SLOW:STRENGTH:AGILITY:STEALTH_SLOWS:20]
[GAIT:SWIM:Fast Swim:2175:NO_BUILD_UP:5:LAYERS_SLOW:STRENGTH:AGILITY:STEALTH_SLOWS:10]
[GAIT:SWIM:Swim:2900:NO_BUILD_UP:0]
[GAIT:SWIM:Slow Swim:3900:NO_BUILD_UP:0]
[GAIT:SWIM:Creeping Swim:5900:NO_BUILD_UP:0]
[GAIT:WALK:Sprint:225:10:3:675:50:LAYERS_SLOW:STRENGTH:AGILITY:STEALTH_SLOWS:50]
[GAIT:WALK:Run:450:5:3:675:10:LAYERS_SLOW:STRENGTH:AGILITY:STEALTH_SLOWS:20]
[GAIT:WALK:Jog:675:NO_BUILD_UP:5:LAYERS_SLOW:STRENGTH:AGILITY:STEALTH_SLOWS:10]
[GAIT:WALK:Walk:900:NO_BUILD_UP:0]
[GAIT:WALK:Stroll:1900:NO_BUILD_UP:0]
[GAIT:WALK:Creep:2900:NO_BUILD_UP:0]
[GAIT:CRAWL:Scramble:225:10:3:675:50:LAYERS_SLOW:STRENGTH:AGILITY:STEALTH_SLOWS:50]
[GAIT:CRAWL:Faster Crawl:450:5:3:675:10:LAYERS_SLOW:STRENGTH:AGILITY:STEALTH_SLOWS:20]
[GAIT:CRAWL:Fast Crawl:675:NO_BUILD_UP:5:LAYERS_SLOW:STRENGTH:AGILITY:STEALTH_SLOWS:10]
[GAIT:CRAWL:Crawl:900:NO_BUILD_UP:0]
[GAIT:CRAWL:Slow Crawl:1900:NO_BUILD_UP:0]
[GAIT:CRAWL:Creep:2900:NO_BUILD_UP:0]
[GAIT:CLIMB:Scramble:225:10:3:675:50:LAYERS_SLOW:STRENGTH:AGILITY:STEALTH_SLOWS:50]
[GAIT:CLIMB:Faster Climb:450:5:3:675:10:LAYERS_SLOW:STRENGTH:AGILITY:STEALTH_SLOWS:20]
[GAIT:CLIMB:Fast Climb:675:NO_BUILD_UP:5:LAYERS_SLOW:STRENGTH:AGILITY:STEALTH_SLOWS:10]
[GAIT:CLIMB:Climb:900:NO_BUILD_UP:0]
[GAIT:CLIMB:Slow Climb:1900:NO_BUILD_UP:0]
[GAIT:CLIMB:Creep:2900:NO_BUILD_UP:0]
[DESCRIPTION:A gigantic eyeless chameleon twisted into humanoid form. It squirms and fidgets. Its clear scales are large and set far apart. Beware its noxious secretions!]
}}

{{Creatures}}
{{Category|Amphibious}}
{{Category|Building destroyer}}
{{Category|HFS}}
{{Category|Fanciful}}
{{Category|Fire immune}}
{{Category|Learns}}
{{Category|No Exert}}
{{Category|No Pain}}
{{Category|No Stun}}
[[ru:Demon]]

{{Translation
| dwarven = uthgúr
| elvish = slevina
| goblin = arstruk
| human = rohir
}}

Elf

2026-03-26T02:33:45Z

DPhKraken: /* Ethics */

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{{Creaturelookup/0
|image=Elf_sprite.png
|portrait=elf_portrait_anim.gif
|wiki=yes}}
{{av}}
{{creaturedesc}}

{{D for Dwarf}}

'''Elves''' (singular, '''Elf''') are <s>smelly, stuck-up, arrogant [[tree]]-fondling hippies</s> intelligent [[Creature|humanoids]] dedicated to the protection of ''their'' concept of nature (centered around trees, and the worship of certain natural [[force]]s that permeate the forests, as opposed to the [[deities]] worshipped by other races). They are one of the main [[civilization]]s of the game, featured in [[fortress mode]] and playable in [[adventurer mode]].

By default, they are often allies of [[dwarves]] and [[humans]], however, elves' conflicting view on nature compared to other races can create tension between them and their erstwhile allies. Elves often prefer using grown wood (and sometimes glass) for their weapons and armor, which do very little damage and offers little protection respectively compared to metal. If you go to war with them, you'll find that their primary danger comes from their numbers, archers, and dangerous tamed animals that may [[Mount|accompany]] them.

In fortress mode, <s>hippie wagons</s> elven caravans arrive in late spring, bringing only [[plant]]s and their own "grown" [[wood]]-related items, [[cage]]d tame animals, or various types of [[clay]] and [[sand]]. When trading with elves, unless the player seeks to intentionally antagonize them, they must be very careful to not offer any wooden objects/animal-derived goods - [[#Trading|see here for specifics]]. You may also steal from them, or even kill them, without fear of immediate repercussion, as elven caravans are unguarded, and merchants will not resist if you seize their goods, or competently fight back if attacked.

Offending elves by attempting to trade wooden items normally causes them to angrily refuse further trade that year and leave early. ''Repeatedly'' offending elves by attempting to trade wooden items may cause them to attack your fortress with an [[ambush]], which may later evolve into a full [[siege]].

Elves appear as usually thin and/or frail humanoids similar to humans, but with pointy ears and modest facial hair. Like [[goblin]]s, they are biologically [[immortal]] and will only die to violence and disease, and also similarly to goblins, this tends to result in high populations. Their life of harmony with the land and its wild beauty and creatures (due to elven civs possessing the {{token|AT_PEACE_WITH_WILDLIFE|e}} token) leads to them often settling in [[savage|high-savagery]] regions. Elves speak the [[Main:Elven language|elven language]].

Some <s>stupid, useless, tree-fondling traitors</s> ''highly misguided'' dwarves [[Preferences|like]] elves for their ''grace''.

[[File:Lafo-sarasti.jpg|thumb|Artist rendering of an elf by Mechlin ([http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=169691.msg7701761#msg7701761 post])]]

==Fortress mode==
===Diplomats===
Once your fort has a [[baron]], elven civilizations in diplomatic contact send a [[Diplomat#Elven diplomats|diplomat]] to [[Meeting|meet]] with them approximately halfway through the first month in [[Calendar|spring]].

If this is their first visit to your fort and you aren't at war with their civilization, the diplomat will either congratulate you for your respect for the trees, or, in the more-likely event that you've cut even one down, chastise you for your disrespect. At some point, the diplomat may revisit your fortress to establish a treecutting quota, requesting that the dwarves keep the amount of trees cut down to a variable quota. It is possible to negotiate for a higher number, and the quota seems to be affected by your noble's [[Zone#Quality_and_value|office quality]], [[stress]], and [[social skill]]s. If the player agrees to a treecutting quota, it will be visible after selecting the elves in [[Civilization and World Info|the Civilizations screen]], {{menu icon|Y}}. This quota lasts until the next year's meeting, and keeping to it will improve [[Diplomacy|diplomatic relations]], while violating it will worsen them and can lead to all-out [[war]], as will rejecting a quota entirely. '''However, agreeing and sticking to a quota in one year, and then denying any agreement in the next, will keep the relationship in a state of "alliance", allowing your dwarves to raze entire forests every second year without the elves getting unhappy about it.'''

Note that the quota is measured in trees, not logs, so be sure to fell only the largest trees on your map to get the most out of your agreement. The elves also do not care if you damage saplings that haven't yet properly developed a trunk. Elves do, however, (''misguidedly enough?'')care about [[Tree#Underground trees|tree-like subterranean fungus]] like [[tower-cap]]s and [[tunnel tube]]s; cutting fungus "trees" down does count toward your quota. How many trees they will allow can be adjusted in the [[Difficulty#Tree_quota|difficulty]] [[settings]].

In addition to haggling over tree-cutting quotas, these meetings work like any other diplomatic [[meeting]]. Your [[Civilization and World Info|civilization screen]] will be updated with new info from the world, and depending on relations the diplomat may come to declare [[war]] or sue for peace.

=== Elven caravans ===
Friendly elven civilizations send a [[caravan]] in late spring bringing a mix of natural trade goods, such as tamed animals, plant clothes, and various [[Wood#Grown_wood|grown wood]] objects.

==== Trading ====
{{main|Trading#Unacceptable items|l1=Unacceptable items}}
Elven traders are very picky about what items they will accept, and consider most items made from wood or animal byproducts to be unethical, often rejecting items merely for requiring wood or ash in their preparation. Offering them even one of these items, either in a trade or as a gift, will cause their trader to insult you and leave in a huff, ending trading for that year and damaging your diplomatic relationship with their [[civilization]]. In general, items made from [[stone]], [[metal]], [[Gem|gemstone]], non-woody [[plant]]s, or [[silk]] are acceptable, as are live animals or "grown" wooden items (generally only available from elves), but even these items can be rendered taboo with inappropriate «[[decoration]]s» or by containing or being contained in an inappropriate item.

The [[Trading]] article has specific info on [[Trading#Unacceptable items|taboo]] and [[Trading#Acceptable items|accepted]] items.

==== Stock====
[[File:grown_weapon_sprites_preview.png|thumb|142px|right|Some sprites of naturally grown elven weapons, although some standard wooden weapons will also use these sprites.]]Elven caravans will never have stone, metal, or animal products. Aside from those, you can expect an average elven caravan to have:

* [[Wood]]en [[log]]s: Always useful, unless you are in a forest [[biome]] and ''already'' drowning in wooden logs. The quantity depends on how many logs you have already: lower means more. However, caravans with grown logs tend to be rare.
* [[Plant]]-based [[food]], both from [[crop]]s and picked from [[tree]]s. These can be handy for avoiding negative [[thought]]s from eating or drinking the same old thing, or satisfying a dwarf's unusual [[preference]]. They can also be a source of [[seed]]s for your own [[Tile attributes|above-ground]] [[Farming|farm]]s, if you live in a compatible [[biome]].
* Wooden containers: [[chest]]s, [[cage]]s, [[bucket]]s, and [[barrel]]s. These are usually cheap if not decorated and useful in bulk, but even if you don't have access to wood and don't want to waste metal, there are stone, clay, and glass alternatives that you can easily make on your own.
* Soil types: [[sand]] in bags, various types of [[clay]]. Unfortunately, they don't bring enough of either for large-scale production of either [[ceramic]] or [[glass]], and neither of these are very important to have in small quantities. A bit of sand can be used to make raw glass, which is occasionally demanded by dwarves in a [[strange mood]], but other races can sell you that cheaply without needing an intervening step.
* [[Bag]]s and [[rope]]s made from plant cloth. A few extra bags never hurt, but plant cloth bags are a bit expensive.
* A few above-ground tame animals in wooden cages. It may be [[opossum|a]] [[stoat|disappointingly]] [[fox|useless]] [[hoary marmot|animal]] or [[Giant badger|an]] [[Giant tiger|incredibly]] [[Giant elephant|awesome]] [[Giant eagle|one]]. Elves bring animals from the environment surrounding their settlements, so you may be able to guess what they will bring next. Elves who live in [[Surroundings|savage]] [[Biome|tropical]] lands bring the best ones. Exotic animals are considered fully tame and will never require [[Animal trainer|training]].
* Caged tame [[vermin]]. These are only even slightly useful for pleasing dwarves with a [[preference]] for that specific type of vermin, and they may even [[Hateable|annoy other dwarves]]. The vermin itself is probably worthless, but the possibly-useful cage comes included.
* [[Plant fiber]] [[thread]], [[cloth]], and [[clothing]]. These are mainly useful for jumpstarting or replacing a [[textile industry]]. Elves wear and sell the same-sized clothing as dwarves, and may sell cosmetically-different "foreign" clothes items like turbans, skirts, or sandals.
* Plant cloth [[quiver]]s. Dwarves can't make quivers out of plant cloth, but they can easily make them out of [[leather]].
* Wooden [[crutch]]es and [[Health care#Splints|splint]]s. Easy to make, but just as easy to forget, and they're fairly cheap.
* Wooden [[armor]] and [[weapon]]s. This includes weapons and armor dwarves can't normally make out of wood, but wood melee weapons and armor are [[Material science#Material and item properties|basically useless in combat]]. You can use elven melee weapons to [[Training|train]] with before making proper weapons, but that's probably not worth bothering with.
* [[Bow]]s and [[arrow]]s, both made of wood. While dwarves can't make bows, it's very easy to make your own superior [[crossbow]]s and [[bolt]]s from wood, [[bone]], or [[metal]]. Bows are less dependent on material or quality than melee weapons, which makes them a bit more useful than most weapons bought from traders. Unfortunately, bows use a separate [[combat skill]] from crossbows, can't be used for [[hunting]], and leave you reliant on trade with or [[Goblinite|scavenging from]] non-dwarven civilizations for [[arrow]] ammunition.
* Miscellaneous other [[finished goods]] made from wood or plant fiber. These might include [[instrument]]s that dwarves cannot make or copies of new [[book]]s, but other items are only marginally useful at best. Note that instrument ''parts'' are useless, since your dwarves do not know how to assemble them into a completed instrument unless they already knew how to make that instrument in the first place.

Unless you have a shortage of something, the main unique goods elves can bring are foreign plants (especially ones you can then grow yourself), foreign tame animals (especially large war-trainable carnivores), or possibly foreign instruments or new books. Everything else is relatively easy to produce on your own, and as with all traders, any dwarf with any amount of relevant crafting [[skill]] at all will make as-good- or better-[[quality]] items.

All wooden products made by elves are called "grown". Unlike regular wood, these may be traded back to the elves without repercussions; otherwise, they are identical to the wood items that you can produce.

==Ethics==
[[File:Stasost-sarasti.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Artist rendering of an elf by Mechlin ([http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=169691.msg7701761#msg7701761 post])]]

Elven [[civilization]]s' [[ethics]] often differ from those of other races. Their position on moral philosophy will likely put them at odds with [[human]]s, [[goblin]]s, [[dwarf|dwarves]], and sometimes [[kobold]]s and [[animal people]], although they favor war with goblins over other races. Their settlement of [[savage]] lands likewise leads to animal people often joining their ranks. At any given point in time, elves and dwarves are likely to be at peace, but it is certainly possible for an elven civilization to be at war with a dwarven one at the end of worldgen. Use the tab button when selecting an [[embark]] site to view whether elves are at war with the currently selected dwarven culture, and cycle dwarven cultures to find out.

Elves are the only race which wholeheartedly accepts the devouring of enemy combatants. Looking in legends mode shows that an elven combatant will sometimes devour the other person they were fighting when they win. In spite of this, elves refuse to butcher and consume intelligent beings under other conditions. Elves find torture as an example acceptable, but condemn other forms of torture and consider torturing for information misguided. To elves, keeping any trophy of any kind is an unthinkable act. In world generation, their position on cannibalism is particularly notable for driving conflicts with other civilizations.

Elves begrudgingly allow for killing animals when done in self-defense, and the killing of fellow elves is justified if there is an extremely good reason for doing so. For elves, the killing of plants, ''especially'' trees, is unthinkable, on the other hand, the killing of neutral beings and enemies is acceptable. Elven society seems to be regulated by shame from the community, rather than by threat of punishment; as such, elves never offer serious or capital punishment to criminals; instead, elves found to have committed vandalism, trespassing or theft are reprimanded, while those convicted of treason, lying, oath-breaking, assault or participating in slavery are forced into exile.

Elves [[Personality value|value]] nature above all, and they also place a degree of value on family, eloquence, cunning, artwork, fairness, merriment, competition, and romance, but they do not especially respect commerce and have a dislike for self-control. However, even an elf can be "annoyed caught in the rain", as inconsistent as that may be with their respect for nature.

(Note that these are merely the ethics of elven ''civilizations''. Elves may adopt the cultures of other races via wandering individuals joining civilizations, or when conquest absorbs elves into another civilization. Sentient creatures adopt the values and ethics of their culture, subject to personal variation. Elves born among, [[Main:Cacame Awemedinade|or even leading]], dwarves may adopt dwarven ethics and values, and vice versa.)

As ghastly as the concept may be, elven cultures have become more powerful since the days of [[Main:Tholtig|Tholtig Cryptbrain]], and it is entirely possible for one or more dwarven civilizations to be extinct due to elven aggression. What elves lack in engineering, crafting, or [[Soaper|hygiene]], they make up for in raw, unwashed numbers, and once-mighty dwarven civilizations may crumble to hordes of soldiers and great beasts alike. Immortality also allows elven [[historical figure]]s to continually develop their skills throughout history. Even more troubling is their employment of [[Mercenary|mercenaries]], often much better equipped than the elves themselves. Embarking with (possibly homeless wandering survivor) dwarves claiming to be from that civilization is possible, but always starts at war with the elves that claimed the lives of those tragically unfortunate dwarves' friends, and you may not get migrants.

==In combat==
Elves by themselves are rarely considered a threat due to their insistence in using equipment purely made out of wood in battle, which is only marginally better than fighting unarmed and generally stands no chance against a half-competent, metal-clad dwarven militia [see [[Material_science|Material science]] for more info]. However, elves will also employ [[Mercenary|mercenaries]], often much better equipped than the elves themselves.
During [[Siege#Elven_sieges|sieges]] their archers and potential numbers (like goblins, their ageless immortality means very high populations) can still be dangerous, and perhaps the greatest threat they pose is if they bring tamed animals along with them, which may range from easily dispatched creatures to [[Giant elephant|huge]][[Tiger| sources]][[unicorn| of]][[Grizzly bear| fun]] depending upon what animals their civ has access to, which in theory can include any exotic land animal including giant variants.

==Community outlook==
Due to ''Dwarf Fortress'' making ample use of the ''wood-elven'', or "elves as stuck-up jerks who live in trees" stereotype (which is especially noticeable when talking to their diplomats), the race as a whole tends to be widely [[Unfortunate accident|disliked]] by players, who aren't too happy about said stuck-up jerks trying to tell their dwarves how to live their lives and who will gladly ambush <s>and likely eat</s> dwarven children while they play in the woods.
However, due to their wooden weaponry only being ''really'' effective on said children and unarmed dwarves, elves have a reputation among the community of being all-''bark''-and-no-bite wimps who serve as the perfect punching bags to be on the receiving end of whatever [[stupid dwarf trick]] the fortress is currently conducting, especially if it's a particularly [[Fun|violent]] one - many gruesome stories involve at least one elf as the victim. The elves' nigh-religious devotion to trees is also a point of note; many players will go as far as to raze their map clean of trees, for no reason but to spite the elves and provoke them into attacking, just for the chance to slaughter them all.

Unlike many other fantasy settings, ''Dwarf Fortress'' elves have very few redeeming characteristics (they aren't any more attractive than a dwarf, human or goblin, [http://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Celebrimbor aren't good smiths], and don't have any superhuman abilities beyond biological [[immortality]], a peculiar ability to walk through grass and other ground covering plants without disturbing them, and a (currently) off-screen ability to "shape" wood via magic - one of their few other saving graces is their potential to provide fully-tamed exotic animals for trade), though most long-time players play their antics for laughs, resulting in them essentially being the community's collective chew-toys. Many players will take on a Tolkien (''or, more likely, Warhammer Fantasy'')-esque dwarven spirit of hatred towards elves, slaughtering them for their actions against dwarven kind; or perhaps, compelled by some god of murder for the simple glee of the resulting elven blood rain. Being compared to an elf is particularly insulting, as it implies you're an unwashed, tree-loving, cannibalistic hippie (''or, as [[Dwarf#Community_outlook|some have said]], the kind of being that's prone to sitting around and living '''in''' the world, rather than acting upon it''). That's not to say that elves are universally disliked, however: some have earned the liking of the player base, typically due to them being part of a dwarven civilization (and as such, not acting like elves), with [[Main:Cacame Awemedinade|Cacame Awemedinade]] being one of the community's most well-known and beloved characters.

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'''Elves''' (singular, '''Elf''') are <s>smelly, stuck-up, arrogant [[tree]]-fondling hippies</s> intelligent [[Creature|humanoids]] dedicated to the protection of ''their'' concept of nature (centered around trees, and the worship of certain natural [[force]]s that permeate the forests, as opposed to the [[deities]] worshipped by other races). They are one of the main [[civilization]]s of the game, featured in [[fortress mode]] and playable in [[adventurer mode]].

By default, they are often allies of [[dwarves]] and [[humans]], however, elves' conflicting view on nature compared to other races can create tension between them and their erstwhile allies. Elves often prefer using grown wood (and sometimes glass) for their weapons and armor, which do very little damage and offers little protection respectively compared to metal. If you go to war with them, you'll find that their primary danger comes from their numbers, archers, and dangerous tamed animals that may [[Mount|accompany]] them.

In fortress mode, <s>hippie wagons</s> elven caravans arrive in late spring, bringing only [[plant]]s and their own "grown" [[wood]]-related items, [[cage]]d tame animals, or various types of [[clay]] and [[sand]]. When trading with elves, unless the player seeks to intentionally antagonize them, they must be very careful to not offer any wooden objects/animal-derived goods - [[#Trading|see here for specifics]]. You may also steal from them, or even kill them, without fear of immediate repercussion, as elven caravans are unguarded, and merchants will not resist if you seize their goods, or competently fight back if attacked.

Offending elves by attempting to trade wooden items normally causes them to angrily refuse further trade that year and leave early. ''Repeatedly'' offending elves by attempting to trade wooden items may cause them to attack your fortress with an [[ambush]], which may later evolve into a full [[siege]].

Elves appear as usually thin and/or frail humanoids similar to humans, but with pointy ears and modest facial hair. Like [[goblin]]s, they are biologically [[immortal]] and will only die to violence and disease, and also similarly to goblins, this tends to result in high populations. Their life of harmony with the land and its wild beauty and creatures (due to elven civs possessing the {{token|AT_PEACE_WITH_WILDLIFE|e}} token) leads to them often settling in [[savage|high-savagery]] regions. Elves speak the [[Main:Elven language|elven language]].

Some <s>stupid, useless, tree-fondling traitors</s> ''highly misguided'' dwarves [[Preferences|like]] elves for their ''grace''.

[[File:Lafo-sarasti.jpg|thumb|Artist rendering of an elf by Mechlin ([http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=169691.msg7701761#msg7701761 post])]]

==Fortress mode==
===Diplomats===
Once your fort has a [[baron]], elven civilizations in diplomatic contact send a [[Diplomat#Elven diplomats|diplomat]] to [[Meeting|meet]] with them approximately halfway through the first month in [[Calendar|spring]].

If this is their first visit to your fort and you aren't at war with their civilization, the diplomat will either congratulate you for your respect for the trees, or, in the more-likely event that you've cut even one down, chastise you for your disrespect. At some point, the diplomat may revisit your fortress to establish a treecutting quota, requesting that the dwarves keep the amount of trees cut down to a variable quota. It is possible to negotiate for a higher number, and the quota seems to be affected by your noble's [[Zone#Quality_and_value|office quality]], [[stress]], and [[social skill]]s. If the player agrees to a treecutting quota, it will be visible after selecting the elves in [[Civilization and World Info|the Civilizations screen]], {{menu icon|Y}}. This quota lasts until the next year's meeting, and keeping to it will improve [[Diplomacy|diplomatic relations]], while violating it will worsen them and can lead to all-out [[war]], as will rejecting a quota entirely. '''However, agreeing and sticking to a quota in one year, and then denying any agreement in the next, will keep the relationship in a state of "alliance", allowing your dwarves to raze entire forests every second year without the elves getting unhappy about it.'''

Note that the quota is measured in trees, not logs, so be sure to fell only the largest trees on your map to get the most out of your agreement. The elves also do not care if you damage saplings that haven't yet properly developed a trunk. Elves do, however, (''misguidedly enough?'')care about [[Tree#Underground trees|tree-like subterranean fungus]] like [[tower-cap]]s and [[tunnel tube]]s; cutting fungus "trees" down does count toward your quota. How many trees they will allow can be adjusted in the [[Difficulty#Tree_quota|difficulty]] [[settings]].

In addition to haggling over tree-cutting quotas, these meetings work like any other diplomatic [[meeting]]. Your [[Civilization and World Info|civilization screen]] will be updated with new info from the world, and depending on relations the diplomat may come to declare [[war]] or sue for peace.

=== Elven caravans ===
Friendly elven civilizations send a [[caravan]] in late spring bringing a mix of natural trade goods, such as tamed animals, plant clothes, and various [[Wood#Grown_wood|grown wood]] objects.

==== Trading ====
{{main|Trading#Unacceptable items|l1=Unacceptable items}}
Elven traders are very picky about what items they will accept, and consider most items made from wood or animal byproducts to be unethical, often rejecting items merely for requiring wood or ash in their preparation. Offering them even one of these items, either in a trade or as a gift, will cause their trader to insult you and leave in a huff, ending trading for that year and damaging your diplomatic relationship with their [[civilization]]. In general, items made from [[stone]], [[metal]], [[Gem|gemstone]], non-woody [[plant]]s, or [[silk]] are acceptable, as are live animals or "grown" wooden items (generally only available from elves), but even these items can be rendered taboo with inappropriate «[[decoration]]s» or by containing or being contained in an inappropriate item.

The [[Trading]] article has specific info on [[Trading#Unacceptable items|taboo]] and [[Trading#Acceptable items|accepted]] items.

==== Stock====
[[File:grown_weapon_sprites_preview.png|thumb|142px|right|Some sprites of naturally grown elven weapons, although some standard wooden weapons will also use these sprites.]]Elven caravans will never have stone, metal, or animal products. Aside from those, you can expect an average elven caravan to have:

* [[Wood]]en [[log]]s: Always useful, unless you are in a forest [[biome]] and ''already'' drowning in wooden logs. The quantity depends on how many logs you have already: lower means more. However, caravans with grown logs tend to be rare.
* [[Plant]]-based [[food]], both from [[crop]]s and picked from [[tree]]s. These can be handy for avoiding negative [[thought]]s from eating or drinking the same old thing, or satisfying a dwarf's unusual [[preference]]. They can also be a source of [[seed]]s for your own [[Tile attributes|above-ground]] [[Farming|farm]]s, if you live in a compatible [[biome]].
* Wooden containers: [[chest]]s, [[cage]]s, [[bucket]]s, and [[barrel]]s. These are usually cheap if not decorated and useful in bulk, but even if you don't have access to wood and don't want to waste metal, there are stone, clay, and glass alternatives that you can easily make on your own.
* Soil types: [[sand]] in bags, various types of [[clay]]. Unfortunately, they don't bring enough of either for large-scale production of either [[ceramic]] or [[glass]], and neither of these are very important to have in small quantities. A bit of sand can be used to make raw glass, which is occasionally demanded by dwarves in a [[strange mood]], but other races can sell you that cheaply without needing an intervening step.
* [[Bag]]s and [[rope]]s made from plant cloth. A few extra bags never hurt, but plant cloth bags are a bit expensive.
* A few above-ground tame animals in wooden cages. It may be [[opossum|a]] [[stoat|disappointingly]] [[fox|useless]] [[hoary marmot|animal]] or [[Giant badger|an]] [[Giant tiger|incredibly]] [[Giant elephant|awesome]] [[Giant eagle|one]]. Elves bring animals from the environment surrounding their settlements, so you may be able to guess what they will bring next. Elves who live in [[Surroundings|savage]] [[Biome|tropical]] lands bring the best ones. Exotic animals are considered fully tame and will never require [[Animal trainer|training]].
* Caged tame [[vermin]]. These are only even slightly useful for pleasing dwarves with a [[preference]] for that specific type of vermin, and they may even [[Hateable|annoy other dwarves]]. The vermin itself is probably worthless, but the possibly-useful cage comes included.
* [[Plant fiber]] [[thread]], [[cloth]], and [[clothing]]. These are mainly useful for jumpstarting or replacing a [[textile industry]]. Elves wear and sell the same-sized clothing as dwarves, and may sell cosmetically-different "foreign" clothes items like turbans, skirts, or sandals.
* Plant cloth [[quiver]]s. Dwarves can't make quivers out of plant cloth, but they can easily make them out of [[leather]].
* Wooden [[crutch]]es and [[Health care#Splints|splint]]s. Easy to make, but just as easy to forget, and they're fairly cheap.
* Wooden [[armor]] and [[weapon]]s. This includes weapons and armor dwarves can't normally make out of wood, but wood melee weapons and armor are [[Material science#Material and item properties|basically useless in combat]]. You can use elven melee weapons to [[Training|train]] with before making proper weapons, but that's probably not worth bothering with.
* [[Bow]]s and [[arrow]]s, both made of wood. While dwarves can't make bows, it's very easy to make your own superior [[crossbow]]s and [[bolt]]s from wood, [[bone]], or [[metal]]. Bows are less dependent on material or quality than melee weapons, which makes them a bit more useful than most weapons bought from traders. Unfortunately, bows use a separate [[combat skill]] from crossbows, can't be used for [[hunting]], and leave you reliant on trade with or [[Goblinite|scavenging from]] non-dwarven civilizations for [[arrow]] ammunition.
* Miscellaneous other [[finished goods]] made from wood or plant fiber. These might include [[instrument]]s that dwarves cannot make or copies of new [[book]]s, but other items are only marginally useful at best. Note that instrument ''parts'' are useless, since your dwarves do not know how to assemble them into a completed instrument unless they already knew how to make that instrument in the first place.

Unless you have a shortage of something, the main unique goods elves can bring are foreign plants (especially ones you can then grow yourself), foreign tame animals (especially large war-trainable carnivores), or possibly foreign instruments or new books. Everything else is relatively easy to produce on your own, and as with all traders, any dwarf with any amount of relevant crafting [[skill]] at all will make as-good- or better-[[quality]] items.

All wooden products made by elves are called "grown". Unlike regular wood, these may be traded back to the elves without repercussions; otherwise, they are identical to the wood items that you can produce.

==Ethics==
[[File:Stasost-sarasti.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Artist rendering of an elf by Mechlin ([http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=169691.msg7701761#msg7701761 post])]]

Elven [[civilization]]s' [[ethics]] often differ from those of other races. Their position on moral philosophy will likely put them at odds with [[human]]s, [[goblin]]s, [[dwarf|dwarves]], and sometimes [[kobold]]s and [[animal people]], although they favor war with goblins over other races. Their settlement of [[savage]] lands likewise leads to animal people often joining their ranks. At any given point in time, elves and dwarves are likely to be at peace, but it is certainly possible for an elven civilization to be at war with a dwarven one at the end of worldgen. Use the tab button when selecting an [[embark]] site to view whether elves are at war with the currently selected dwarven culture, and cycle dwarven cultures to find out.

Elves are the only race which wholeheartedly accepts the devouring of enemy combatants. Looking in legends mode shows that an elven combatant will sometimes devour the other person they were fighting when they win. In spite of this, elves refuse to butcher and consume intelligent beings under other conditions. Elves find torture as an example acceptable, but condemn other forms of torture and consider torturing for information misguided. To elves, keeping any trophy of any kind is an unthinkable act. In world generation, their position on cannibalism is particularly notable for driving conflicts with other civilizations.

Elves begrudgingly allow for killing animals when done in self-defense, and the killing of fellow elves is justified if there is an extremely good reason for doing so. For elves, the killing of plants, ''especially'' trees, is unthinkable, on the other hand, the killing of neutral beings and enemies is acceptable. Elven society seems to be regulated by shame from the community, rather than by threat of punishment; as such, elves never offer serious or capital punishment to criminals; instead, elves found to have committed vandalism, trespassing or theft are reprimanded, while those convicted of treason, lying, oath-breaking, assault or participating in slavery are forced into exile.

Elves [[Personality value|value]] nature above all, and they also place a degree of value on family, eloquence, cunning, artwork, fairness, merriment, competition, and romance, but they do not especially respect commerce and have a dislike for self-control. However, even an elf can be "annoyed caught in the rain", as inconsistent as that may be with their respect for nature.

(Note that these are merely the ethics of elven ''civilizations''. Elves may adopt the cultures of other races via wandering individuals joining civilizations, or when conquest absorbs elves into another civilization. Sentient creatures adopt the values and ethics of their culture, subject to personal variation. Elves born among, [[Main:Cacame Awemedinade|or even leading]], dwarves may adopt dwarven ethics and values, and vice versa.)

As ghastly as the concept may be, elven cultures have become more powerful since the days of [[Main:Tholtig|Tholtig Cryptbrain]], and it is entirely possible for one or more dwarven civilizations to be extinct due to elven aggression. What elves lack in engineering, crafting, or [[Soap maker|hygiene]], they make up for in raw, unwashed numbers, and once-mighty dwarven civilizations may crumble to hordes of soldiers and great beasts alike. Immortality also allows elven [[historical figure]]s to continually develop their skills throughout history. Even more troubling is their employment of [[Mercenary|mercenaries]], often much better equipped than the elves themselves. Embarking with (possibly homeless wandering survivor) dwarves claiming to be from that civilization is possible, but always starts at war with the elves that claimed the lives of those tragically unfortunate dwarves' friends, and you may not get migrants.

==In combat==
Elves by themselves are rarely considered a threat due to their insistence in using equipment purely made out of wood in battle, which is only marginally better than fighting unarmed and generally stands no chance against a half-competent, metal-clad dwarven militia [see [[Material_science|Material science]] for more info]. However, elves will also employ [[Mercenary|mercenaries]], often much better equipped than the elves themselves.
During [[Siege#Elven_sieges|sieges]] their archers and potential numbers (like goblins, their ageless immortality means very high populations) can still be dangerous, and perhaps the greatest threat they pose is if they bring tamed animals along with them, which may range from easily dispatched creatures to [[Giant elephant|huge]][[Tiger| sources]][[unicorn| of]][[Grizzly bear| fun]] depending upon what animals their civ has access to, which in theory can include any exotic land animal including giant variants.

==Community outlook==
Due to ''Dwarf Fortress'' making ample use of the ''wood-elven'', or "elves as stuck-up jerks who live in trees" stereotype (which is especially noticeable when talking to their diplomats), the race as a whole tends to be widely [[Unfortunate accident|disliked]] by players, who aren't too happy about said stuck-up jerks trying to tell their dwarves how to live their lives and who will gladly ambush <s>and likely eat</s> dwarven children while they play in the woods.
However, due to their wooden weaponry only being ''really'' effective on said children and unarmed dwarves, elves have a reputation among the community of being all-''bark''-and-no-bite wimps who serve as the perfect punching bags to be on the receiving end of whatever [[stupid dwarf trick]] the fortress is currently conducting, especially if it's a particularly [[Fun|violent]] one - many gruesome stories involve at least one elf as the victim. The elves' nigh-religious devotion to trees is also a point of note; many players will go as far as to raze their map clean of trees, for no reason but to spite the elves and provoke them into attacking, just for the chance to slaughter them all.

Unlike many other fantasy settings, ''Dwarf Fortress'' elves have very few redeeming characteristics (they aren't any more attractive than a dwarf, human or goblin, [http://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Celebrimbor aren't good smiths], and don't have any superhuman abilities beyond biological [[immortality]], a peculiar ability to walk through grass and other ground covering plants without disturbing them, and a (currently) off-screen ability to "shape" wood via magic - one of their few other saving graces is their potential to provide fully-tamed exotic animals for trade), though most long-time players play their antics for laughs, resulting in them essentially being the community's collective chew-toys. Many players will take on a Tolkien (''or, more likely, Warhammer Fantasy'')-esque dwarven spirit of hatred towards elves, slaughtering them for their actions against dwarven kind; or perhaps, compelled by some god of murder for the simple glee of the resulting elven blood rain. Being compared to an elf is particularly insulting, as it implies you're an unwashed, tree-loving, cannibalistic hippie (''or, as [[Dwarf#Community_outlook|some have said]], the kind of being that's prone to sitting around and living '''in''' the world, rather than acting upon it''). That's not to say that elves are universally disliked, however: some have earned the liking of the player base, typically due to them being part of a dwarven civilization (and as such, not acting like elves), with [[Main:Cacame Awemedinade|Cacame Awemedinade]] being one of the community's most well-known and beloved characters.

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'''Elves''' (singular, '''Elf''') are <s>smelly, stuck-up, arrogant [[tree]]-fondling hippies</s> intelligent [[Creature|humanoids]] dedicated to the protection of ''their'' concept of nature (centered around trees, and the worship of certain natural [[force]]s that permeate the forests, as opposed to the [[deities]] worshipped by other races). They are one of the main [[civilization]]s of the game, featured in [[fortress mode]] and playable in [[adventurer mode]].

By default, they are often allies of [[dwarves]] and [[humans]], however, elves' conflicting view on nature compared to other races can create tension between them and their erstwhile allies. Elves often prefer using grown wood (and sometimes glass) for their weapons and armor, which do very little damage and offers little protection respectively compared to metal. If you go to war with them, you'll find that their primary danger comes from their numbers, archers, and dangerous tamed animals that may [[Mount|accompany]] them.

In fortress mode, <s>hippie wagons</s> elven caravans arrive in late spring, bringing only [[plant]]s and their own "grown" [[wood]]-related items, [[cage]]d tame animals, or various types of [[clay]] and [[sand]]. When trading with elves, unless the player seeks to intentionally antagonize them, they must be very careful to not offer any wooden objects/animal-derived goods - [[#Trading|see here for specifics]]. You may also steal from them, or even kill them, without fear of immediate repercussion, as elven caravans are unguarded, and merchants will not resist if you seize their goods, or competently fight back if attacked.

Offending elves by attempting to trade wooden items normally causes them to angrily refuse further trade that year and leave early. ''Repeatedly'' offending elves by attempting to trade wooden items may cause them to attack your fortress with an [[ambush]], which may later evolve into a full [[siege]].

Elves appear as usually thin and/or frail humanoids similar to humans, but with pointy ears and modest facial hair. Like [[goblin]]s, they are biologically [[immortal]] and will only die to violence and disease, and also similarly to goblins, this tends to result in high populations. Their life of harmony with the land and its wild beauty and creatures (due to elven civs possessing the {{token|AT_PEACE_WITH_WILDLIFE|e}} token) leads to them often settling in [[savage|high-savagery]] regions. Elves speak the [[Main:Elven language|elven language]].

Some <s>stupid, useless, tree-fondling traitors</s> ''highly misguided'' dwarves [[Preferences|like]] elves for their ''grace''.

[[File:Lafo-sarasti.jpg|thumb|Artist rendering of an elf by Mechlin ([http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=169691.msg7701761#msg7701761 post])]]

==Fortress mode==
===Diplomats===
Once your fort has a [[baron]], elven civilizations in diplomatic contact send a [[Diplomat#Elven diplomats|diplomat]] to [[Meeting|meet]] with them approximately halfway through the first month in [[Calendar|spring]].

If this is their first visit to your fort and you aren't at war with their civilization, the diplomat will either congratulate you for your respect for the trees, or, in the more-likely event that you've cut even one down, chastise you for your disrespect. At some point, the diplomat may revisit your fortress to establish a treecutting quota, requesting that the dwarves keep the amount of trees cut down to a variable quota. It is possible to negotiate for a higher number, and the quota seems to be affected by your noble's [[Zone#Quality_and_value|office quality]], [[stress]], and [[social skill]]s. If the player agrees to a treecutting quota, it will be visible after selecting the elves in [[Civilization and World Info|the Civilizations screen]], {{menu icon|Y}}. This quota lasts until the next year's meeting, and keeping to it will improve [[Diplomacy|diplomatic relations]], while violating it will worsen them and can lead to all-out [[war]], as will rejecting a quota entirely. '''However, agreeing and sticking to a quota in one year, and then denying any agreement in the next, will keep the relationship in a state of "alliance", allowing your dwarves to raze entire forests every second year without the elves getting unhappy about it.'''

Note that the quota is measured in trees, not logs, so be sure to fell only the largest trees on your map to get the most out of your agreement. The elves also do not care if you damage saplings that haven't yet properly developed a trunk. Elves do, however, (''misguidedly enough?'')care about [[Tree#Underground trees|tree-like subterranean fungus]] like [[tower-cap]]s and [[tunnel tube]]s; cutting fungus "trees" down does count toward your quota. How many trees they will allow can be adjusted in the [[Difficulty#Tree_quota|difficulty]] [[settings]].

In addition to haggling over tree-cutting quotas, these meetings work like any other diplomatic [[meeting]]. Your [[Civilization and World Info|civilization screen]] will be updated with new info from the world, and depending on relations the diplomat may come to declare [[war]] or sue for peace.

=== Elven caravans ===
Friendly elven civilizations send a [[caravan]] in late spring bringing a mix of natural trade goods, such as tamed animals, plant clothes, and various [[Wood#Grown_wood|grown wood]] objects.

==== Trading ====
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Elven traders are very picky about what items they will accept, and consider most items made from wood or animal byproducts to be unethical, often rejecting items merely for requiring wood or ash in their preparation. Offering them even one of these items, either in a trade or as a gift, will cause their trader to insult you and leave in a huff, ending trading for that year and damaging your diplomatic relationship with their [[civilization]]. In general, items made from [[stone]], [[metal]], [[Gem|gemstone]], non-woody [[plant]]s, or [[silk]] are acceptable, as are live animals or "grown" wooden items (generally only available from elves), but even these items can be rendered taboo with inappropriate «[[decoration]]s» or by containing or being contained in an inappropriate item.

The [[Trading]] article has specific info on [[Trading#Unacceptable items|taboo]] and [[Trading#Acceptable items|accepted]] items.

==== Stock====
[[File:grown_weapon_sprites_preview.png|thumb|142px|right|Some sprites of naturally grown elven weapons, although some standard wooden weapons will also use these sprites.]]Elven caravans will never have stone, metal, or animal products. Aside from those, you can expect an average elven caravan to have:

* [[Wood]]en [[log]]s: Always useful, unless you are in a forest [[biome]] and ''already'' drowning in wooden logs. The quantity depends on how many logs you have already: lower means more. However, caravans with grown logs tend to be rare.
* [[Plant]]-based [[food]], both from [[crop]]s and picked from [[tree]]s. These can be handy for avoiding negative [[thought]]s from eating or drinking the same old thing, or satisfying a dwarf's unusual [[preference]]. They can also be a source of [[seed]]s for your own [[Tile attributes|above-ground]] [[Farming|farm]]s, if you live in a compatible [[biome]].
* Wooden containers: [[chest]]s, [[cage]]s, [[bucket]]s, and [[barrel]]s. These are usually cheap if not decorated and useful in bulk, but even if you don't have access to wood and don't want to waste metal, there are stone, clay, and glass alternatives that you can easily make on your own.
* Soil types: [[sand]] in bags, various types of [[clay]]. Unfortunately, they don't bring enough of either for large-scale production of either [[ceramic]] or [[glass]], and neither of these are very important to have in small quantities. A bit of sand can be used to make raw glass, which is occasionally demanded by dwarves in a [[strange mood]], but other races can sell you that cheaply without needing an intervening step.
* [[Bag]]s and [[rope]]s made from plant cloth. A few extra bags never hurt, but plant cloth bags are a bit expensive.
* A few above-ground tame animals in wooden cages. It may be [[opossum|a]] [[stoat|disappointingly]] [[fox|useless]] [[hoary marmot|animal]] or [[Giant badger|an]] [[Giant tiger|incredibly]] [[Giant elephant|awesome]] [[Giant eagle|one]]. Elves bring animals from the environment surrounding their settlements, so you may be able to guess what they will bring next. Elves who live in [[Surroundings|savage]] [[Biome|tropical]] lands bring the best ones. Exotic animals are considered fully tame and will never require [[Animal trainer|training]].
* Caged tame [[vermin]]. These are only even slightly useful for pleasing dwarves with a [[preference]] for that specific type of vermin, and they may even [[Hateable|annoy other dwarves]]. The vermin itself is probably worthless, but the possibly-useful cage comes included.
* [[Plant fiber]] [[thread]], [[cloth]], and [[clothing]]. These are mainly useful for jumpstarting or replacing a [[textile industry]]. Elves wear and sell the same-sized clothing as dwarves, and may sell cosmetically-different "foreign" clothes items like turbans, skirts, or sandals.
* Plant cloth [[quiver]]s. Dwarves can't make quivers out of plant cloth, but they can easily make them out of [[leather]].
* Wooden [[crutch]]es and [[Health care#Splints|splint]]s. Easy to make, but just as easy to forget, and they're fairly cheap.
* Wooden [[armor]] and [[weapon]]s. This includes weapons and armor dwarves can't normally make out of wood, but wood melee weapons and armor are [[Material science#Material and item properties|basically useless in combat]]. You can use elven melee weapons to [[Training|train]] with before making proper weapons, but that's probably not worth bothering with.
* [[Bow]]s and [[arrow]]s, both made of wood. While dwarves can't make bows, it's very easy to make your own superior [[crossbow]]s and [[bolt]]s from wood, [[bone]], or [[metal]]. Bows are less dependent on material or quality than melee weapons, which makes them a bit more useful than most weapons bought from traders. Unfortunately, bows use a separate [[combat skill]] from crossbows, can't be used for [[hunting]], and leave you reliant on trade with or [[Goblinite|scavenging from]] non-dwarven civilizations for [[arrow]] ammunition.
* Miscellaneous other [[finished goods]] made from wood or plant fiber. These might include [[instrument]]s that dwarves cannot make or copies of new [[book]]s, but other items are only marginally useful at best. Note that instrument ''parts'' are useless, since your dwarves do not know how to assemble them into a completed instrument unless they already knew how to make that instrument in the first place.

Unless you have a shortage of something, the main unique goods elves can bring are foreign plants (especially ones you can then grow yourself), foreign tame animals (especially large war-trainable carnivores), or possibly foreign instruments or new books. Everything else is relatively easy to produce on your own, and as with all traders, any dwarf with any amount of relevant crafting [[skill]] at all will make as-good- or better-[[quality]] items.

All wooden products made by elves are called "grown". Unlike regular wood, these may be traded back to the elves without repercussions; otherwise, they are identical to the wood items that you can produce.

==Ethics==
[[File:Stasost-sarasti.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Artist rendering of an elf by Mechlin ([http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=169691.msg7701761#msg7701761 post])]]

Elven [[civilization]]s' [[ethics]] often differ from those of other races. Their position on moral philosophy will likely put them at odds with [[human]]s, [[goblin]]s, [[dwarf|dwarves]], and sometimes [[kobold]]s and [[animal people]], although they favor war with goblins over other races. At any given point in time, elves and dwarves are likely to be at peace, but it is certainly possible for an elven civilization to be at war with a dwarven one at the end of worldgen. Use the tab button when selecting an [[embark]] site to view whether elves are at war with the currently selected dwarven culture, and cycle dwarven cultures to find out.

Elves are the only race which wholeheartedly accepts the devouring of enemy combatants. Looking in legends mode shows that an elven combatant will sometimes devour the other person they were fighting when they win. In spite of this, elves refuse to butcher and consume intelligent beings under other conditions. Elves find torture as an example acceptable, but condemn other forms of torture and consider torturing for information misguided. To elves, keeping any trophy of any kind is an unthinkable act. Elves begrudgingly allow for killing animals when done in self-defense, and the killing of other elves by an elf is justified if there is an extremely good reason for doing so. For elves, the killing of plants, ''especially'' trees, is unthinkable, on the other hand, the killing of neutral beings and enemies is acceptable. Elven society seems to be regulated by shame from the community, rather than by threat of punishment; as such, elves never offer serious or capital punishment to criminals; instead, elves found to have committed vandalism, trespassing or theft are reprimanded, while those convicted of treason, lying, oath-breaking, assault or participating in slavery are forced into exile.

Elves [[Personality value|value]] nature incredibly highly, and they also place a degree of value on family, eloquence, cunning, artwork, fairness, merriment, competition, and romance, but they do not especially respect commerce and have a dislike for self-control. However, even an elf will be "annoyed caught in the rain", as inconsistent as that may be.

(Note that these are merely the ethics of elven ''civilizations''. Elves may adopt the cultures of other races via wandering individuals joining civilizations, or when conquest absorbs elves into another civilization. Sentient creatures adopt the values and ethics of their culture, regardless of race. Elves living among, [[Main:Cacame Awemedinade|or even leading]], dwarves will have dwarven ethics and values, and vice versa.)

As ghastly as the concept may be, elven cultures have become more powerful since the days of [[Main:Tholtig|Tholtig Cryptbrain]], and it is entirely possible for one or more dwarven civilizations to be extinct due to elven aggression. What elves lack in engineering, crafting, intelligence, bravery, skill, or hygiene, they make up for in raw, unwashed numbers, and once-mighty dwarven civilizations may crumble to the hordes. Even more troubling is their employment of [[Mercenary|mercenaries]], often much better equipped than the elves themselves. Embarking with (possibly homeless wandering survivor) dwarves claiming to be from that civilization is possible, but always starts at war with the elves that claimed the lives of those tragically unfortunate dwarves' friends, and you may not get migrants.

==In combat==
Elves by themselves are rarely considered a threat due to their insistence in using equipment purely made out of wood in battle, which is only marginally better than fighting unarmed and generally stands no chance against a half-competent, metal-clad dwarven militia [see [[Material_science|Material science]] for more info]. However, elves will also employ [[Mercenary|mercenaries]], often much better equipped than the elves themselves.
During [[Siege#Elven_sieges|sieges]] their archers and potential numbers (like goblins, their ageless immortality means very high populations) can still be dangerous, and perhaps the greatest threat they pose is if they bring tamed animals along with them, which may range from easily dispatched creatures to [[Giant elephant|huge]][[Tiger| sources]][[unicorn| of]][[Grizzly bear| fun]] depending upon what animals their civ has access to, which in theory can include any exotic land animal including giant variants.

==Community outlook==
Due to ''Dwarf Fortress'' making ample use of the ''wood-elven'', or "elves as stuck-up jerks who live in trees" stereotype (which is especially noticeable when talking to their diplomats), the race as a whole tends to be widely [[Unfortunate accident|disliked]] by players, who aren't too happy about said stuck-up jerks trying to tell their dwarves how to live their lives and who will gladly ambush <s>and likely eat</s> dwarven children while they play in the woods.
However, due to their wooden weaponry only being ''really'' effective on said children and unarmed dwarves, elves have a reputation among the community of being all-''bark''-and-no-bite wimps who serve as the perfect punching bags to be on the receiving end of whatever [[stupid dwarf trick]] the fortress is currently conducting, especially if it's a particularly [[Fun|violent]] one - many gruesome stories involve at least one elf as the victim. The elves' nigh-religious devotion to trees is also a point of note; many players will go as far as to raze their map clean of trees, for no reason but to spite the elves and provoke them into attacking, just for the chance to slaughter them all.

Unlike many other fantasy settings, ''Dwarf Fortress'' elves have very few redeeming characteristics (they aren't any more attractive than a dwarf, human or goblin, [http://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Celebrimbor aren't good smiths], and don't have any superhuman abilities beyond biological [[immortality]], a peculiar ability to walk through grass and other ground covering plants without disturbing them, and a (currently) off-screen ability to "shape" wood via magic - one of their few other saving graces is their potential to provide fully-tamed exotic animals for trade), though most long-time players play their antics for laughs, resulting in them essentially being the community's collective chew-toys. Many players will take on a Tolkien (''or, more likely, Warhammer Fantasy'')-esque dwarven spirit of hatred towards elves, slaughtering them for their actions against dwarven kind; or perhaps, compelled by some god of murder for the simple glee of the resulting elven blood rain. Being compared to an elf is particularly insulting, as it implies you're an unwashed, tree-loving, cannibalistic hippie (''or, as [[Dwarf#Community_outlook|some have said]], the kind of being that's prone to sitting around and living '''in''' the world, rather than acting upon it''). That's not to say that elves are universally disliked, however: some have earned the liking of the player base, typically due to them being part of a dwarven civilization (and as such, not acting like elves), with [[Main:Cacame Awemedinade|Cacame Awemedinade]] being one of the community's most well-known and beloved characters.

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'''Elves''' (singular, '''Elf''') are <s>smelly, stuck-up, arrogant [[tree]]-fondling hippies</s> intelligent [[Creature|humanoids]] dedicated to the protection of ''their'' concept of nature (centered around trees, and the worship of certain natural [[force]]s that permeate the forests, as opposed to the [[deities]] worshipped by other races). They are one of the main [[civilization]]s of the game, featured in [[fortress mode]] and playable in [[adventurer mode]].

By default, they are often allies of [[dwarves]] and [[humans]], however, elves' conflicting view on nature compared to other races, can create tension between them and their erstwhile allies. Elves often prefer using grown wood (and sometimes glass) for their weapons and armor, which do very little damage and offers little protection respectively compared to metal. If you go to war with them, you'll find that their primary danger comes from their numbers, archers, and dangerous tamed animals that may [[Mount|accompany]] them.

In fortress mode, <s>hippie wagons</s> elven caravans arrive in late spring, bringing only [[plant]]s and their own "grown" [[wood]]-related items, [[cage]]d tame animals, or various types of [[clay]] and [[sand]]. When trading with elves, unless the player seeks to intentionally antagonize them, they must be very careful to not offer any wooden objects/animal-derived goods - [[#Trading|see here for specifics]]. You may also steal from them, or even kill them, without fear of immediate repercussion, as elven caravans are unguarded, and merchants will not resist if you seize their goods, or competently fight back if attacked.

Offending elves by attempting to trade wooden items normally causes them to angrily refuse further trade that year and leave early. ''Repeatedly'' offending elves by attempting to trade wooden items may cause them to attack your fortress with an [[ambush]], which may later evolve into a full [[siege]].

Elves appear as usually thin and/or frail humanoids similar to humans, but with pointy ears and modest facial hair. Like [[goblin]]s, they are biologically [[immortal]] and will only die to violence and disease, and also similarly to goblins, this tends to result in high populations. Their life of harmony with the land and its wild beauty and creatures (due to elven civs possessing the {{token|AT_PEACE_WITH_WILDLIFE|e}} token) leads to them often settling in [[savage|high-savagery]] regions. Elves speak the [[Main:Elven language|elven language]].

Some <s>stupid, useless, tree-fondling traitors</s> ''highly misguided'' dwarves [[Preferences|like]] elves for their ''grace''.

[[File:Lafo-sarasti.jpg|thumb|Artist rendering of an elf by Mechlin ([http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=169691.msg7701761#msg7701761 post])]]

==Fortress mode==
===Diplomats===
Once your fort has a [[baron]], elven civilizations in diplomatic contact send a [[Diplomat#Elven diplomats|diplomat]] to [[Meeting|meet]] with them approximately halfway through the first month in [[Calendar|spring]].

If this is their first visit to your fort and you aren't at war with their civilization, the diplomat will either congratulate you for your respect for the trees, or, in the more-likely event that you've cut even one down, chastise you for your disrespect. At some point, the diplomat may revisit your fortress to establish a treecutting quota, requesting that the dwarves keep the amount of trees cut down to a variable quota. It is possible to negotiate for a higher number, and the quota seems to be affected by your noble's [[Zone#Quality_and_value|office quality]], [[stress]], and [[social skill]]s. If the player agrees to a treecutting quota, it will be visible after selecting the elves in [[Civilization and World Info|the Civilizations screen]], {{menu icon|Y}}. This quota lasts until the next year's meeting, and keeping to it will improve [[Diplomacy|diplomatic relations]], while violating it will worsen them and can lead to all-out [[war]], as will rejecting a quota entirely. '''However, agreeing and sticking to a quota in one year, and then denying any agreement in the next, will keep the relationship in a state of "alliance", allowing your dwarves to raze entire forests every second year without the elves getting unhappy about it.'''

Note that the quota is measured in trees, not logs, so be sure to fell only the largest trees on your map to get the most out of your agreement. The elves also do not care if you damage saplings that haven't yet properly developed a trunk. Elves do, however, (''misguidedly enough?'')care about [[Tree#Underground trees|tree-like subterranean fungus]] like [[tower-cap]]s and [[tunnel tube]]s; cutting fungus "trees" down does count toward your quota. How many trees they will allow can be adjusted in the [[Difficulty#Tree_quota|difficulty]] [[settings]].

In addition to haggling over tree-cutting quotas, these meetings work like any other diplomatic [[meeting]]. Your [[Civilization and World Info|civilization screen]] will be updated with new info from the world, and depending on relations the diplomat may come to declare [[war]] or sue for peace.

=== Elven caravans ===
Friendly elven civilizations send a [[caravan]] in late spring bringing a mix of natural trade goods, such as tamed animals, plant clothes, and various [[Wood#Grown_wood|grown wood]] objects.

==== Trading ====
{{main|Trading#Unacceptable items|l1=Unacceptable items}}
Elven traders are very picky about what items they will accept, and consider most items made from wood or animal byproducts to be unethical, often rejecting items merely for requiring wood or ash in their preparation. Offering them even one of these items, either in a trade or as a gift, will cause their trader to insult you and leave in a huff, ending trading for that year and damaging your diplomatic relationship with their [[civilization]]. In general, items made from [[stone]], [[metal]], [[Gem|gemstone]], non-woody [[plant]]s, or [[silk]] are acceptable, as are live animals or "grown" wooden items (generally only available from elves), but even these items can be rendered taboo with inappropriate «[[decoration]]s» or by containing or being contained in an inappropriate item.

The [[Trading]] article has specific info on [[Trading#Unacceptable items|taboo]] and [[Trading#Acceptable items|accepted]] items.

==== Stock====
[[File:grown_weapon_sprites_preview.png|thumb|142px|right|Some sprites of naturally grown elven weapons, although some standard wooden weapons will also use these sprites.]]Elven caravans will never have stone, metal, or animal products. Aside from those, you can expect an average elven caravan to have:

* [[Wood]]en [[log]]s: Always useful, unless you are in a forest [[biome]] and ''already'' drowning in wooden logs. The quantity depends on how many logs you have already: lower means more. However, caravans with grown logs tend to be rare.
* [[Plant]]-based [[food]], both from [[crop]]s and picked from [[tree]]s. These can be handy for avoiding negative [[thought]]s from eating or drinking the same old thing, or satisfying a dwarf's unusual [[preference]]. They can also be a source of [[seed]]s for your own [[Tile attributes|above-ground]] [[Farming|farm]]s, if you live in a compatible [[biome]].
* Wooden containers: [[chest]]s, [[cage]]s, [[bucket]]s, and [[barrel]]s. These are usually cheap if not decorated and useful in bulk, but even if you don't have access to wood and don't want to waste metal, there are stone, clay, and glass alternatives that you can easily make on your own.
* Soil types: [[sand]] in bags, various types of [[clay]]. Unfortunately, they don't bring enough of either for large-scale production of either [[ceramic]] or [[glass]], and neither of these are very important to have in small quantities. A bit of sand can be used to make raw glass, which is occasionally demanded by dwarves in a [[strange mood]], but other races can sell you that cheaply without needing an intervening step.
* [[Bag]]s and [[rope]]s made from plant cloth. A few extra bags never hurt, but plant cloth bags are a bit expensive.
* A few above-ground tame animals in wooden cages. It may be [[opossum|a]] [[stoat|disappointingly]] [[fox|useless]] [[hoary marmot|animal]] or [[Giant badger|an]] [[Giant tiger|incredibly]] [[Giant elephant|awesome]] [[Giant eagle|one]]. Elves bring animals from the environment surrounding their settlements, so you may be able to guess what they will bring next. Elves who live in [[Surroundings|savage]] [[Biome|tropical]] lands bring the best ones. Exotic animals are considered fully tame and will never require [[Animal trainer|training]].
* Caged tame [[vermin]]. These are only even slightly useful for pleasing dwarves with a [[preference]] for that specific type of vermin, and they may even [[Hateable|annoy other dwarves]]. The vermin itself is probably worthless, but the possibly-useful cage comes included.
* [[Plant fiber]] [[thread]], [[cloth]], and [[clothing]]. These are mainly useful for jumpstarting or replacing a [[textile industry]]. Elves wear and sell the same-sized clothing as dwarves, and may sell cosmetically-different "foreign" clothes items like turbans, skirts, or sandals.
* Plant cloth [[quiver]]s. Dwarves can't make quivers out of plant cloth, but they can easily make them out of [[leather]].
* Wooden [[crutch]]es and [[Health care#Splints|splint]]s. Easy to make, but just as easy to forget, and they're fairly cheap.
* Wooden [[armor]] and [[weapon]]s. This includes weapons and armor dwarves can't normally make out of wood, but wood melee weapons and armor are [[Material science#Material and item properties|basically useless in combat]]. You can use elven melee weapons to [[Training|train]] with before making proper weapons, but that's probably not worth bothering with.
* [[Bow]]s and [[arrow]]s, both made of wood. While dwarves can't make bows, it's very easy to make your own superior [[crossbow]]s and [[bolt]]s from wood, [[bone]], or [[metal]]. Bows are less dependent on material or quality than melee weapons, which makes them a bit more useful than most weapons bought from traders. Unfortunately, bows use a separate [[combat skill]] from crossbows, can't be used for [[hunting]], and leave you reliant on trade with or [[Goblinite|scavenging from]] non-dwarven civilizations for [[arrow]] ammunition.
* Miscellaneous other [[finished goods]] made from wood or plant fiber. These might include [[instrument]]s that dwarves cannot make or copies of new [[book]]s, but other items are only marginally useful at best. Note that instrument ''parts'' are useless, since your dwarves do not know how to assemble them into a completed instrument unless they already knew how to make that instrument in the first place.

Unless you have a shortage of something, the main unique goods elves can bring are foreign plants (especially ones you can then grow yourself), foreign tame animals (especially large war-trainable carnivores), or possibly foreign instruments or new books. Everything else is relatively easy to produce on your own, and as with all traders, any dwarf with any amount of relevant crafting [[skill]] at all will make as-good- or better-[[quality]] items.

All wooden products made by elves are called "grown". Unlike regular wood, these may be traded back to the elves without repercussions; otherwise, they are identical to the wood items that you can produce.

==Ethics==
[[File:Stasost-sarasti.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Artist rendering of an elf by Mechlin ([http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=169691.msg7701761#msg7701761 post])]]

Elven [[civilization]]s' [[ethics]] often differ from those of other races. Their position on moral philosophy will likely put them at odds with [[human]]s, [[goblin]]s, [[dwarf|dwarves]], and sometimes [[kobold]]s and [[animal people]], although they favor war with goblins over other races. At any given point in time, elves and dwarves are likely to be at peace, but it is certainly possible for an elven civilization to be at war with a dwarven one at the end of worldgen. Use the tab button when selecting an [[embark]] site to view whether elves are at war with the currently selected dwarven culture, and cycle dwarven cultures to find out.

Elves are the only race which wholeheartedly accepts the devouring of enemy combatants. Looking in legends mode shows that an elven combatant will sometimes devour the other person they were fighting when they win. In spite of this, elves refuse to butcher and consume intelligent beings under other conditions. Elves find torture as an example acceptable, but condemn other forms of torture and consider torturing for information misguided. To elves, keeping any trophy of any kind is an unthinkable act. Elves begrudgingly allow for killing animals when done in self-defense, and the killing of other elves by an elf is justified if there is an extremely good reason for doing so. For elves, the killing of plants, ''especially'' trees, is unthinkable, on the other hand, the killing of neutral beings and enemies is acceptable. Elven society seems to be regulated by shame from the community, rather than by threat of punishment; as such, elves never offer serious or capital punishment to criminals; instead, elves found to have committed vandalism, trespassing or theft are reprimanded, while those convicted of treason, lying, oath-breaking, assault or participating in slavery are forced into exile.

Elves [[Personality value|value]] nature incredibly highly, and they also place a degree of value on family, eloquence, cunning, artwork, fairness, merriment, competition, and romance, but they do not especially respect commerce and have a dislike for self-control. However, even an elf will be "annoyed caught in the rain", as inconsistent as that may be.

(Note that these are merely the ethics of elven ''civilizations''. Elves may adopt the cultures of other races via wandering individuals joining civilizations, or when conquest absorbs elves into another civilization. Sentient creatures adopt the values and ethics of their culture, regardless of race. Elves living among, [[Main:Cacame Awemedinade|or even leading]], dwarves will have dwarven ethics and values, and vice versa.)

As ghastly as the concept may be, elven cultures have become more powerful since the days of [[Main:Tholtig|Tholtig Cryptbrain]], and it is entirely possible for one or more dwarven civilizations to be extinct due to elven aggression. What elves lack in engineering, crafting, intelligence, bravery, skill, or hygiene, they make up for in raw, unwashed numbers, and once-mighty dwarven civilizations may crumble to the hordes. Even more troubling is their employment of [[Mercenary|mercenaries]], often much better equipped than the elves themselves. Embarking with (possibly homeless wandering survivor) dwarves claiming to be from that civilization is possible, but always starts at war with the elves that claimed the lives of those tragically unfortunate dwarves' friends, and you may not get migrants.

==In combat==
Elves by themselves are rarely considered a threat due to their insistence in using equipment purely made out of wood in battle, which is only marginally better than fighting unarmed and generally stands no chance against a half-competent, metal-clad dwarven militia [see [[Material_science|Material science]] for more info]. However, elves will also employ [[Mercenary|mercenaries]], often much better equipped than the elves themselves.
During [[Siege#Elven_sieges|sieges]] their archers and potential numbers (like goblins, their ageless immortality means very high populations) can still be dangerous, and perhaps the greatest threat they pose is if they bring tamed animals along with them, which may range from easily dispatched creatures to [[Giant elephant|huge]][[Tiger| sources]][[unicorn| of]][[Grizzly bear| fun]] depending upon what animals their civ has access to, which in theory can include any exotic land animal including giant variants.

==Community outlook==
Due to ''Dwarf Fortress'' making ample use of the ''wood-elven'', or "elves as stuck-up jerks who live in trees" stereotype (which is especially noticeable when talking to their diplomats), the race as a whole tends to be widely [[Unfortunate accident|disliked]] by players, who aren't too happy about said stuck-up jerks trying to tell their dwarves how to live their lives and who will gladly ambush <s>and likely eat</s> dwarven children while they play in the woods.
However, due to their wooden weaponry only being ''really'' effective on said children and unarmed dwarves, elves have a reputation among the community of being all-''bark''-and-no-bite wimps who serve as the perfect punching bags to be on the receiving end of whatever [[stupid dwarf trick]] the fortress is currently conducting, especially if it's a particularly [[Fun|violent]] one - many gruesome stories involve at least one elf as the victim. The elves' nigh-religious devotion to trees is also a point of note; many players will go as far as to raze their map clean of trees, for no reason but to spite the elves and provoke them into attacking, just for the chance to slaughter them all.

Unlike many other fantasy settings, ''Dwarf Fortress'' elves have very few redeeming characteristics (they aren't any more attractive than a dwarf, human or goblin, [http://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Celebrimbor aren't good smiths], and don't have any superhuman abilities beyond biological [[immortality]], a peculiar ability to walk through grass and other ground covering plants without disturbing them, and a (currently) off-screen ability to "shape" wood via magic - one of their few other saving graces is their potential to provide fully-tamed exotic animals for trade), though most long-time players play their antics for laughs, resulting in them essentially being the community's collective chew-toys. Many players will take on a Tolkien (''or, more likely, Warhammer Fantasy'')-esque dwarven spirit of hatred towards elves, slaughtering them for their actions against dwarven kind; or perhaps, compelled by some god of murder for the simple glee of the resulting elven blood rain. Being compared to an elf is particularly insulting, as it implies you're an unwashed, tree-loving, cannibalistic hippie (''or, as [[Dwarf#Community_outlook|some have said]], the kind of being that's prone to sitting around and living '''in''' the world, rather than acting upon it''). That's not to say that elves are universally disliked, however: some have earned the liking of the player base, typically due to them being part of a dwarven civilization (and as such, not acting like elves), with [[Main:Cacame Awemedinade|Cacame Awemedinade]] being one of the community's most well-known and beloved characters.

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