DWARF-FORTRESS(6)

🌈 DWARF-FORTRESS 💎 (section 6 of the Games manual, bestie)

okay so like. imagine a whole fantasy world that's just yours. that's this. welcome to dwarf-fortress — full government name Slaves to Armok: God of Blood Chapter II: Dwarf Fortress 👑 (yes that's the whole name, it ate and left no crumbs).

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

dwarf-fortress [-X] [-gen id_number seed worldgen_parameter...]

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🫶 DESCRIPTION 🫶

dwarf-fortress is a single-player fantasy game, no cap. you can control a dwarven outpost or an adventurer in a randomly generated, persistent world 🌍✨

like. it generates a world. the world stays. you live in it. iconic behaviour fr fr 💅

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• -gen id_number seed worldgen_parameter... — skips straight to the world generation, starting it directly with the parameters you hand it. no waiting, we're generating immediately 🦋

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💖 NOTES 💖

okay this part is important so listen up bestie 👂

the Dwarf Fortress as published on http://bay12games.com/dwarves/ does not support installing data and library files to different locations. that's just how it is. 🙈

this version of Dwarf Fortress works around that by creating a temporary directory in /tmp and symlinking all relevant game data and binaries there. slay, problem solved ✨

which means it's possible to supply additional data files in:

• /usr/local/share/dwarf-fortress/
• $XDG_DATA_HOME/dwarf-fortress/

and any modifications made by Dwarf Fortress will be retained in that latter directory 🫶 (the $XDG_DATA_HOME/dwarf-fortress/ one, iykyk)

not me having to symlink everything into /tmp because upstream won't let us split the data from the binaries 😭 it's giving resourceful. it's giving workaround. periodt.

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👑 AUTHORS 👑

Sven Bartscher. that's the icon, that's the moment, that's the whole credit 💜

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this page lives in section 6 of the Games manual, it's the dwarf-fortress one, and it was dated 2017-11-24 🌸 thanks for coming to my ted talk, go dig a hole, bye bestie 💖✨