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The game uses text symbols for graphics (unless modified). This prompted the community motto: 'Losing is Fun!'

As there are no win conditions, every fortress or adventurer that isn't 'retired', no matter how successful, is usually destroyed or defeated somehow. The game has a cult following and an active online community. Adams calls it his life's work and said in 2011 that version 1.0 will not be ready for at least another 20 years, and even after that he would continue to work on it. By 2004, Adams decided to shift from the original Armok to Dwarf Fortress after the former became difficult to maintain. Prior to Dwarf Fortress, Tarn Adams was working on a project called Slaves to Armok: God of Blood which was a role-playing game. Creatures have no hit points, and instead death occurs as a result of the impairment or disruption of vital functions. The combat system in both modes is anatomically detailed with combat logs describing events like organs getting pierced, fat getting bruised and limbs getting severed.

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The second main game mode, Adventurer mode, is a turn-based, open-ended roguelike mode where the player starts off as a player made adventurer in the world and is free to explore, complete quests, or visit old abandoned fortresses. Entities have a discrete mind and individual personality, including likes and dislikes, and possesses specific trainable or innate skills in various labors and abilities, as well as short and long term memories to facilitate all this as well as influencing its current emotional state. Each entity, from animals to dwarves, is modeled down to its body parts, bodily fluids, organs, and tissues, which can be more unusual materials such as metal or stone, each of which can be injured or lost. The main game mode, Dwarf Fortress, consists of selecting a suitable site from the generated world, establishing a successful colony or fortress, combating threats like goblin invasions, generating wealth and taking care of the dwarves. Before playing, the player has to set in motion a process which generates a fantasy world with continents, oceans, and islands, produced via generative geology and hydrogeology, meteorology, and biogeography, and then fully simulates the evolution of all civilizations down to the lives of their inhabitants in order to yield a coherent world with internally consistent lore and history. The game has text-based graphics (using the CP437 character set) and is open-ended with no main objectives. The game influenced Minecraft, Rimworld, and others, and was selected among other games to be featured in the Museum of Modern Art to show the history of video gaming in 2012. Critics praised its complex and emergent gameplay but had mixed reactions to its difficulty. The primary game mode is set in a procedurally generated fantasy world in which the player indirectly controls a group of dwarves, and attempts to construct a successful and wealthy fortress.

Available as freeware and in development since 2002, its first alpha version was released in 2006 and it received attention for being a two-member project surviving solely on donations. Construction and management simulation, roguelike, survivalДwarf Fortress (officially called Slaves to Armok: God of Blood Chapter II: Dwarf Fortress) is a construction and management simulation and roguelike indie video game created by Bay 12 Games.