DwarfCorp

Released: Feb 1, 2019
Platforms: WindowsmacOSLinux
Last updated: 05 Sep 2026, 06:17 GMT

Updates & announcements

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22 Sep 2025Developer post
If steam says it can't find DwarfCorp.exe...
...Open your steam library folder (for me that's C:/program files (x86)/Steam/Steamapps/common/ ) and find the DwarfCorp folder. Inside it, you want DCMono.exe I have changed the settings in steam but - yeah, I have no idea how long it takes for them to kick in! This is NOT a gam
05 Jun 2021Developer post
May/June Update
Been a while, hasn't it? Well, after months of work, the game finally runs on Monogame. And it's only kinda broken. Porting to Monogame has been mostly seamless except where it turns out we were using XNA wrong. Porting to Monogame also allowed me to (finally!) switch to 64 bit.
03 Apr 2021Developer post
April Update
Small bug fix got pushed today. Special thanks to the fellow that provided the save with broken trade envoys. There is a bug where trade envoys sometimes do not serialize properly. I was able to stop this from breaking your save, but haven't found the original issue yet.
Small bug fix got pushed today. Special thanks to the fellow that provided the save with broken trade envoys.

There is a bug where trade envoys sometimes do not serialize properly. I was able to stop this from breaking your save, but haven't found the original issue yet.
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26 Jan 2021Developer post
January Update
Small patch on stable that does not break your saves. Fixed the cancel task tool. Fixed the wrangle popup. Proper icon for the pathing tool. Fixed a couple of minor crash bugs that came through the error reporting system.
Small patch on stable that does not break your saves.

Fixed the cancel task tool.
Fixed the wrangle popup.
Proper icon for the pathing tool.
Fixed a couple of minor crash bugs that came through the error reporting system.
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28 Dec 2020Developer post
Stable Update
The stable, default branch is now in line with unstable. This will break your saves. The previous stable is available as legacy_august_2020 in the beta builds if you want to keep an existing save.
09 Dec 2020Developer post
December update
Unstable release has been updated again. The sole thing you'll notice here is an addition to the 'advanced' options during world generation - a world height scale value. This will determine how high your hills are. By default it will be set to high. You can turn it all the way fr
22 Nov 2020Developer post
November Update
Unstable branch has been updated to what I am calling the first RC for the next stable update. In this update: Restructured the world generation on the front end to give you more control over your generated world. Most of the little popups in the menu are now windows that you can
Unstable branch has been updated to what I am calling the first RC for the next stable update. In this update:

Restructured the world generation on the front end to give you more control over your generated world.
Most of the little popups in the menu are now windows that you can drag around wherever you want.
While making this change I accidentally screwed up the scale of the overworld during generation - but, I'm keeping it. So the world is now far more hilly.
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31 Oct 2020Developer post
Couple quick bug fixes on Unstable
Pushed a couple of bug fixes.
29 Oct 2020Developer post
October Update & Unstable Release
October time. And it actually still is October. I've just pushed an Unstable Update. In this one, we've got - That new command bar. It's much nicer. Less clicking I hope. A lot more control over world generation. I did away with that whole 'tiled' thing, now you're just creating
October time. And it actually still is October. I've just pushed an Unstable Update. In this one, we've got -

That new command bar. It's much nicer. Less clicking I hope.
A lot more control over world generation. I did away with that whole 'tiled' thing, now you're just creating the chunk of land you'll load into. Plus, your balloon port will drop right where you set the balloon on the map.
During generation, you can pick which biomes you want. Which allows for some nice single-biome worlds.
You might also find some new ruined structures in the game.
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03 Oct 2020Developer post
September Update
Wait it's October. Lame. Here's what's on deck - obviously the stuff currently in the unstable release, which I've learned doesn't work on Mac or Linux - Crossed a threshold finally and was able to break out some of the entity updating in threads. Only been working toward that fo
Wait it's October. Lame. Here's what's on deck - obviously the stuff currently in the unstable release, which I've learned doesn't work on Mac or Linux -

Crossed a threshold finally and was able to break out some of the entity updating in threads. Only been working toward that for almost two years...
Working now on the reworked menu. The current one will continue to exist but you also get a 'favorites' bar where you can stick whatever commands you want.
This is in the unstable - there's a tool to lay down pathing hints. It essentially marks voxels that dwarves should not cross.
Way back in the kickstarter (long before my time here) the colony would apparently be on an island. I'm thinking about bringing that back. I don't know that anyone actually likes or understands the 'overworld' I tried to implement, or the 'corporate' stuff.
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12 Sep 2020Developer post
Unstable Release
Pushed an unstable release today. This is very unstable; lots of random things broken. However this is mostly because of a big change to the way dwarves are rendered and to how AI is processed. Together, these two things mean Performance was greatly improved. Shit broke. This upd
Pushed an unstable release today. This is very unstable; lots of random things broken. However this is mostly because of a big change to the way dwarves are rendered and to how AI is processed. Together, these two things mean

Performance was greatly improved.
Shit broke.
This update also has the new dwarf leveling system and a bunch of other things I've been talking about.
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25 Aug 2020Developer post
Patch
Pushed an update that fixes an issue that could corrupt save files.
15 Aug 2020Developer post
August Update
Here comes the August update - and soon it will be September - and oh god, I'm getting old. So lately I've been working on how dwarves level. Certain stats already make them better at certain things, but the only thing controlling their stats is their class (Wizards get smarter,
26 Jul 2020Developer post
July Update
Here's the monthly update for July. There's no unstable release at the moment but it should be ready soon. Here's what I'm working on: A Dwarf's attacks are determined by the weapon they have in their hand, not their class. This means musketeers holding an axe won't mysteriously
Here's the monthly update for July. There's no unstable release at the moment but it should be ready soon. Here's what I'm working on:

A Dwarf's attacks are determined by the weapon they have in their hand, not their class. This means musketeers holding an axe won't mysteriously shoot things. It also means you shouldn't expect dwarves with no tools to be effective in combat. This is really opening the door to a pretty big change -
I'm working on getting rid of classes entirely. Instead, you'll level up individual stats, and any dwarf will be able to fill any role. Haven't quite figured out how this will work with managers and some other highly specialized dwarves.
This change also lets me introduce some more craftable items... like the firestaff. A wizard weapon that drops fireballs.
How much dwarves have to pay for food can now be adjusted - from half price (which will make them happy) to 10x (which will really piss them off, but might help you grow your coffers). Also working on adjusting pay rate similarly.
Dwarves will get mad if they have to go into debt to buy food. Oh well, maybe they shouldn't gamble so much?
Added the ability to mark voxels as off limits. It won't stop dwarves from walking on them entirely - but it will count them as unpassable when pathfinding.
Working on a better command bar thingy - will let you search possible commands and create a custom bar with your most used commands on it.
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30 Jun 2020Developer post
Pushed a performance fix
Not much I can say about this one except that I'm dumb, and grab it ASAP.
24 Jun 2020Developer post
Bug Fixes
Pushed an update with a couple of bug fixes. Special thanks to the two users that flooded me with exception reports - it really helped track it down. It turns out if you cancelled an object placement task it would sometimes create a resource on the map that was null. And then you
20 Jun 2020Developer post
Stable Update
Minor patch pushed today. So, it turns out that I forgot to update the version number for the last one - which means if you had been playing on unstable it might have allowed you to try loading incompatible saves. Now I can't change it without making it reject any saves you might
14 Jun 2020Developer post
June 2020 Stable Release
Wow, it's here. Finally. This update will break saves. As before, the current stable release has been made available as legacy_june_2020 . If you have a save you want to keep you can find it using the debug build options in the steam launcher. What's new? Everything in the unstab
Wow, it's here. Finally. This update will break saves. As before, the current stable release has been made available as legacy_june_2020. If you have a save you want to keep you can find it using the debug build options in the steam launcher. What's new? Everything in the unstable updates since the last stable of course.

May 2020: https://store.steampowered.com/newshub/app/252390/view/2199389555894005756
February 2020: https://store.steampowered.com/newshub/app/252390/view/1692728892278153903
January 2020: https://store.steampowered.com/newshub/app/252390/view/1685967148905592333
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01 May 2020Developer post
April Update
How is April gone already? A new unstable update is out. There's only a few critical issues that need fixed before this one goes to stable. In this update: - New block types. Bricks for the various kinds of stone - you'll find them in the god menu. - Fixed all the resources that
30 Mar 2020Developer post
March Update
Evening all, I don't know how hard it's hit where you live, but I hope you're all doing well and avoiding this virus. For me, it's really shook things up. I've not been sick but my day job has taken over every bit of free time I had. Time that previously had been devoted to Dwarf