Adventure Mode for Dwarf Fortress arrives April 2024

I remember once (probably a decade or more on now) realizing that the deadliest force in Dwarf Fortress is not your adventurer, or any of the various randomly-generated Forgotten Beasts, demons, night horrors, or anything else: it's gravity. A fall of one or two Z-levels is generally survivable, but anything falling off a 10+ high cliff instantly* plummets to the bottom and generally does not survive the encounter with the ground. In fights, sometimes enemies will bull-rush your adventurer, and one of the options you can set for when that happens is "dodge", which causes the enemy to rush past you as you jump out of the way. Putting two and two together, I made a high-agility adventurer and went around picking fights in populated areas, then played high-stakes bull-fighting at the top of nearby cliffs as the entire population turned aggressive and came after me. I don't remember all the details, but I think I managed to rack up a body count of a few dozen entirely through successful dodging.

I'm excited about this news, is what I'm trying to say.

*Literally, in a single tick of combat.

I'm really looking forward to the Adventure Mode release. I started playing DF with 47.05 and just never gave Adventure mode a proper try - I'm still absolutely hooked on Fortress Mode.

The Premium version of the game has been incredible since the native Linux build dropped. The game runs as good on an old little laptop that I can play in bed, as it does on my high-end gaming rigs!