{"id":12714,"date":"2023-01-09T01:14:57","date_gmt":"2023-01-09T01:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/09\/the-best-dwarf-fortress-mod-is-nearly-ready-for-the-steam-version\/"},"modified":"2023-01-09T01:14:57","modified_gmt":"2023-01-09T01:14:57","slug":"the-best-dwarf-fortress-mod-is-nearly-ready-for-the-steam-version","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/09\/the-best-dwarf-fortress-mod-is-nearly-ready-for-the-steam-version\/","title":{"rendered":"The best Dwarf Fortress mod is nearly ready for the Steam version"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Praise Armok, a beloved mod for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/dwarf-fortress\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dwarf Fortress<\/a> is advancing to the Steam release as Dwarf Therapist has released a pre-release version that works with Dwarf Fortress&#8217; biggest update ever. Dwarf Therapist is well known among the community as one of the cornerstone mods for surfacing information from within the game&#8217;s formerly labyrinthine, now simply mazelike, user interface.<\/p>\n<p>The basic use of Dwarf Therapist is that it&#8217;s a dedicated second window to help you find, sort, and manage huge piles of information from inside Dwarf Fortress. Its old primary purpose, to help you assign labors, isn&#8217;t quite working yet, but it&#8217;ll still do a big thing: Let you sort through, understand, and manage your dwarves&#8217; status far faster than in the core game. Its sortable views include stuff like attributes, personalities, happiness, how long the dwarves have lived in the fort, and more.<\/p>\n<p>While some of the things Dwarf Therapist did in the past aren&#8217;t needed anymore due to updates that came with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/dwarf-fortress-review\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">expansive Steam version<\/a>&#8216;s new user interface, the UI still can&#8217;t quite filter, sort, and seamlessly gather all the information you might possibly want in a straightforward way.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Again, this is a test, and it&#8217;s going to need more tweaking before it&#8217;s up and running, but the go-to mod for all hardcore Dwarf Fortress players for over a decade now is still in the game. Most notably, the automatic labor assignation system isn&#8217;t working. For some, that&#8217;s fine, because the new labor system does its job, but if you&#8217;re jonesing for that spreadsheet-box-ticking classic Dwarf Fortress labor experience then Dwarf Therapist is what you&#8217;re waiting for.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to help test it, you can find <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/Dwarf-Therapist\/Dwarf-Therapist\/releases\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dwarf Therapist 0.50 Test1 on Github.<\/a> If you don&#8217;t even vaguely know what a Github is, probably just&#8230; stand back and wait excitedly, for now.<\/p>\n<p>In other news related to Dwarf Fortress, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/we-win-and-its-your-faultdwarf-fortress-hits-almost-half-a-million-sold-in-under-a-month\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">it&#8217;s a big success and it&#8217;s all your fault.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[#item_image]The best Dwarf Fortress mod is nearly ready for the Steam version<!-- wp:html --><\/p>\n<p>Praise Armok, a beloved mod for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/dwarf-fortress\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dwarf Fortress<\/a> is advancing to the Steam release as Dwarf Therapist has released a pre-release version that works with Dwarf Fortress&#8217; biggest update ever. Dwarf Therapist is well known among the community as one of the cornerstone mods for surfacing information from within the game&#8217;s formerly labyrinthine, now simply mazelike, user interface.<\/p>\n<p>The basic use of Dwarf Therapist is that it&#8217;s a dedicated second window to help you find, sort, and manage huge piles of information from inside Dwarf Fortress. Its old primary purpose, to help you assign labors, isn&#8217;t quite working yet, but it&#8217;ll still do a big thing: Let you sort through, understand, and manage your dwarves&#8217; status far faster than in the core game. Its sortable views include stuff like attributes, personalities, happiness, how long the dwarves have lived in the fort, and more.<\/p>\n<p>While some of the things Dwarf Therapist did in the past aren&#8217;t needed anymore due to updates that came with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/dwarf-fortress-review\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">expansive Steam version<\/a>&#8216;s new user interface, the UI still can&#8217;t quite filter, sort, and seamlessly gather all the information you might possibly want in a straightforward way.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Again, this is a test, and it&#8217;s going to need more tweaking before it&#8217;s up and running, but the go-to mod for all hardcore Dwarf Fortress players for over a decade now is still in the game. Most notably, the automatic labor assignation system isn&#8217;t working. For some, that&#8217;s fine, because the new labor system does its job, but if you&#8217;re jonesing for that spreadsheet-box-ticking classic Dwarf Fortress labor experience then Dwarf Therapist is what you&#8217;re waiting for.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to help test it, you can find <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/Dwarf-Therapist\/Dwarf-Therapist\/releases\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dwarf Therapist 0.50 Test1 on Github.<\/a> If you don&#8217;t even vaguely know what a Github is, probably just&#8230; stand back and wait excitedly, for now.<\/p>\n<p>In other news related to Dwarf Fortress, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/we-win-and-its-your-faultdwarf-fortress-hits-almost-half-a-million-sold-in-under-a-month\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">it&#8217;s a big success and it&#8217;s all your fault.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:html --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":12715,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12714"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}