Guides

High-traffic guides for tantrums, steel, embark, food, military, FPS and engineering.

Tantrum spirals are fortress-wide failures of stress, justice, death and bad timing.

The best layout reduces hauling, isolates danger and lets industries expand.

First winter is a stockpile check disguised as a calendar event.

A good embark gives you resources, safety and interesting problems in the right order.

Steelmaking is the industry chain that teaches Dwarf Fortress logistics properly.

A reliable military is trained early, equipped clearly and protected from pathing nonsense.

Performance collapses when pathing, creatures, items and temperature get out of hand.

Food stability is farms, kitchens, stockpiles, seeds and drink working as one system.

Water is life, drowning, wells, power and disaster with one tile of difference.

Lava solves fuel and creates new ways to regret geometry.

Forgotten beasts demand identification before heroics.