Dwarf Fortress Adventure Mode - Release Date Teaser Trailer

Create a party, explore your world! Dwarf Fortress Adventure Mode releases January 23rd, 2025 on Steam and itch.io. Buy now on Steam: bit.ly/2PY0P0w
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Song: Strike it Again - Dabu and Simon Swerwer

[@dohertyaaron]

Now I can focus on being completely incapable with ONE dwarf instead of an entire colony!

[@unkindled_dreg]

haha!! this struck hard!

[@ElderonAnalas]

I'll stick to my fox man ranger. Or wolf woman necromancer bard. Tho, he has issues, my beta run is kinda bored since he can't go I to towns for things because the zombie corpse of the giant that had the book before me kind of murders everyone I try to talk to or play music for.

[@vanbrucke]

Strike the earth!

[@Isvoor]

The earth strikes back!

[@espio87]

@@Isvoor Turn the beat back! No, wait, wrong game.

[@viridianze1225]

Thank you for your influence you have had on gaming for the past eternity gaming couldnt be at the place it is now for anything simulating and generating if it wasnt for you guys!

[@nicofromtheweb4891]

The morning after my birthday. Absolute bliss.

[@Azertylolz]

comfy

[@Elmhurst2121]

hyped!!

[@GoodCharless]

I love DF so much !! Strike the earth!

[@RisaxTheImp]

Man, I still suck at Fortress mode even after all this time. But I'm curious to try Adventure mode!

[@Grrreeeeeeeeeeeew]

This is a fun mode. Adventure mode is a fun mode. It just takes long for anything to happen in the mode.

[@GeoffreyBronson]

just like how I imagine medieval life

[@Rogue_Rat]

LETS GOOOO!

[@vincemincevince]

you gonna be doing videos on adventure mode

[@Rogue_Rat]

@@vincemincevince Definitely!

[@idolmike6779]

Can't wait!

[@lewisdeall6629]

beautiful work!!! cant wait for building to be added in adventure mode!!!!!!!!!

[@yo_who_asked]

Let's GO

[@GeoffreyBronson]

I like this trailer! The skeletons on the road and the music when the downward staircase is revealed - nice storytelling. The vibe is grim and foreboding and that's pretty accurate to the gameplay.

[@thejesterofwoe7778]

Heck yeah!!

[@gloryjaw4327]

I hope they add more variety of quests in adventure mode

[@gabrielcastlebary2836]

Lez Go kids! Good job Tarn and team!

[@DonChups]

¡Adventure!

[@espio87]

Here I am, in the endgame of my most recent fortress. Almost completely fed up with olm men invasions because their continuing existence has dropped my framerate to a single digit. I'm almost on the verge of quitting and you guys go and announce that Adventure Mode is close to release? ... STRIKE THE EARTH!

[@RobertMerki]

Okay, this is epic

[@ZentosPlay]

FINALMENTE!!! VAMO! Strike the earth!

[@ink_inks]

It begins

[@Muzzlepaint]

Eirgarthium shall once again Strike the Earth!

[@captainswing4040]

oh i am so excited i personally love the adventure mode

[@WARGORELORD]

Awesome

[@brandonpollastri5757]

Well hello Adventure mode, here I come.

[@FabioBittar]

Strike the Earth!

[@bogovich]

It's time to freeze while learning to swim...

[@carltongannett]

Sweet

[@Hurtwolf]

HYPE

[@Yamata_orochi]

lessgo!

[@peripheralarbor]

Hype! It's all coming together! So if "Strike the earth" is the tagline for Fortress mode, what is it for Adventure mode?

[@metallsnubben]

...stride the earth?

[@JohnDrummondVA]

Roam if you want to.

[@sloanekuria3249]

In adventure mode, earth strike you!

[@m__y-t-s]

@@JohnDrummondVALeave your clan behind.

[@IceTheBlackCat]

i have waited patiently for this. I know it will be worth it :3

[@NickReymond]

Very interesting, I liked it, I was here remembering that Boyfriend Dungeons has one of the best soundtracks for independent games. The game is wonderful and when I played it, it captivated me a lot and I always remember it.

[@eduardopitt1331]

One more time... LOSING IS FUN!

[@BlindiRL]

nice.

[@SnoweyViking]

Well done 🎉

[@muratozsoy7116]

gem

[@antondingir884]

👍finnaly, i was waiting for this after first time learned about plans for df steam version

[@jacobblomquist5288]

Praise the miners!

[@D4ofusc]

o man im sooo excited i cant wait and it comes on my sons birthday nice

[@arex3632]

yesssss!!!!

[@thewiesel]

Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees!!!!!! Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees! Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees!

[@markmuller7962]

Please improve the elves' villages immersion and the taverns! Also make the marching armies bigger!!

[@markmuller7962]

Guys remember to visit your ruined forts with your RPG character :D (and maybe loot some great gear you crafted 😉)

[@LuisCares42]

Wooooooooooooooohooooooooooooooo!

[@sahok1LP]

In fact, adventure mode is nothing more than a necessity at the moment. This is the link between the fortress mode, the player, and the mechanics that make the game world live by its own rules. However, these rules are either too complicated and the adventure mode doesn't cover them, or too empty that it doesn't make much sense to play them. Completing (or rather, bringing the adventure mode to the state it would have been before the steam release) will allow Tarn and his team to continue developing game mechanics so that they interact with each other correctly and that the opportunity to play a character in an RPG world does not disappear, as it would be very sad if such an opportunity would have been lost. It is worth considering the release of adventure mode not as something that can really be played, but as something that will help the game continue to evolve. It's sad that it took so long. The developers have done a great job to make the adventure mode at least a little playable. Great graphics, training, quests from the deity, newly acquired rare items with unique properties. But all this is overlaid by terrible performance, an almost complete lack of meaningful interaction with the world, and still numerous bugs in the display of graphics or the absence of these very graphics. At the same time, there is still no economy and the crafts that are currently available do not make sense. What's the point of writing a book if it doesn't affect anything at all and the player can't even benefit from it, and seeing this fragment in the subsequent game in fortress mode is a dubious and useless pleasure, since the topic of science and culture is still not disclosed. In general, at the moment, the adventure mode for playing it is extremely questionable, but it is simply necessary for Dwarf Fortress as a whole.

[@bcalriss8906]

True. It isn't ready to really be called complete, but it's fun to poke around in and get a different perspective on our forts. I look forward to seeing how the two modes evolve in tandem! Hopefully the team had a good holiday too :D

[@boatoflol]

Yes it's just so almost everything is in line with the steam interface etc. When Adv. Mode is out of beta they can actually continue developing the game instead of making interfaces for it. Also I think it's absolutely not sad how long it took. I think for an almost solo dev, tarn is working insanely fast. Got to see that Tarn pretty much built his entire life around developing DF, gotta respect that.

[@stevereddragon4542]

Is that new music I also hear?

[@iamHriP]

Add the possibility of adequate translation into other languages.

[@MrAdBounty]

2 days before is my birthday, just saying 🙂

[@dablooguy]

Yippee

[@suntzu6122]

Damn nice art

[@HeartGrenade097]

January 23rd is my bday!

[@radiofish5649]

OH MAMA

[@deedoubs]

Adventure Mode is awesome, but holy crap that trailer is lousy. 7 Steps on the field screen and a little shifting around on the large map? I don't think that's going to sell this to anyone who doesn't already own it.

[@vaterXE]

Agreed, this was a terrible trailer and won’t sell anyone on the game who is on the fence.

[@deedoubs]

@@vaterXE Really makes me think they just need to outsource the making of trailers. I can think of good ideas for how to show off adventure mode... like journey into a cave, get into a fight with a forgotten beast in the middle of said cave while bringing 5 hirelings with you, have it kill all but your main dude, main dude finishes it off by wrestling, blood all over the walls, main dude is missing an arm and has a broken foot and has to hobble off back to town... that kind of thing.

[@boatoflol]

@@deedoubs Have you ever fought with anything in adventure mode? Not really something you can show in a trailer. But I really get your point, they could have shown some awesome creatures (And well a quick view over maybe all the options we have for attacking and wrestling). Also just looked at the CoQ release date trailer. Mainly consists of fights and well they had a narrator say some mysterious stuff at the end. DF just does not have all these fancy fighting animations or magic powers, nor does it's interface look as polished as CoQ's does right now. Like I think a paperdoll for equipped stuff etc. would be really cool and having a proper conversation window with the Portraits of the two who are in convo and what not. Got to stay on the fences for that, you never know. Tarn has a very precise roadmap and he sticks to his own plans very well but he also listens to his community a lot. Like answering questions every month, reading forum entries, having regular interviews etc. Go the future of the fortress thread and ask Tarn about if he thinks about adding this or that feature and he will probably respond.

[@KitfoxGames]

Sorry you're disappointed, but this is just a simple release date teaser. We have a bigger "out now" trailer we are working on.

[@deedoubs]

@@boatoflol Of course it's mostly textual, but you can still show characters getting flung around, arrows flying, and blood covering the ground and walls where the violence took place because of the way blood just recolors whole tiles. It's pretty obvious where lots of violence happens in this game even if it has historically been represented with your choice of ASCII or small tile sets. Totally agree on the paper dolls. It's hard to really tell what equipment can be used together in DF without checking the tags in the files.

[@snowycamel1]

bruarf florbis

[@Jayy997]

Should have shown just a tad more for newcomers who have been curious. That was a real nothing trailer.

[@Rasdanda]

It's only a Release Date Trailer. I'm Sure there will be a more extensive one for the actual Release.

[@Jayy997]

@@Rasdanda The Caves of Qud release date trailer was shorter and managed to pack in plenty of intrigue and flavour.

[@vaterXE]

@@RasdandaI’m pretty sure trailers are created to sell products. This ain’t it boss. Anyone on the fence isn’t going to be buying the product based on this trailer which amounts to viewing the map and walking up to a settlements gates. It told us NOTHING.

[@Rasdanda]

Actually the Qud trailer is 6 seconds longer, but yeah i agree the Qud trailer is by far better. My train of thought was that since adventure mode is part of Dwarf fortress and not a standalone game there might be a longer trailer encompassing both, Fortress and Adventure mode.

[@Rasdanda]

@@vaterXE yes agree, thats why i never stated that this is a good trailer.

[@davidavidavidavidavi]

Please fix the UI scaling!

[@baneblackguard584]

so in adventure mode, are you still able to build a settlement and use it as a base of operations, or is it purely wandering around adventuring?

[@qqq3230]

you can create an adventure mod character on your already existing maps with settlements

[@baneblackguard584]

@@qqq3230 so there is no reason to give an adventure mode character any skills other than adventuring skills. seems odd they would exist in adventure mode if they are never used.

[@boatoflol]

@@baneblackguard584 The game is still in development bro, it will all come together. Sooner or later. And yeah no reason to invest skillpoints there yet. You will be able to build something like a log cabin, probably in a few months.

[@skkipy3013]

@@baneblackguard584 The devs have commented on this fact and that they think its strange/funny. They intend on adding functions for these things in the future, but its on the LOOOONG list of things theyre trying to do...Dwarf Fortress' is Scope Creep: The Game

[@AdesyThe]

:O

[@Mounthuapleb5890]

We need a lord of the rings mod.

[@wanaa66]

LEGOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[@LittleMushroomGuy]

Betasisters... we won

[@fuwaneko]

It's been 2 years and there's still no macOS version.

[@rottenapple_]

Does anyone actually play Adventure Mode?

[@AnaPsy-f2g]

The award for the slowest development goes to...

[@MilkPlus]

Star Citizen? Summertime Saga? Duke Nukem Forever?

[@AnaPsy-f2g]

@@MilkPlus ​ @MilkPlus They have millions of dollars, but even with millions they refuse to hire more devs, and release a bug filled Early access game for the price of a finished product on steam.

[@MrPetllama]

Needs controller support. Should be standard now for handhelds

[@wowsnav]

Finally, now please tell me you can go get divine metals and bring them back to your fortress so I can build Armok's Throne again