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title: Install Dwarf Fortress Classic on Linux | Snap Store
description: Get the latest version of Dwarf Fortress Classic for Linux - Dwarf Fortress
  world simulator.
url: https://snapcraft.io/dwarffortress
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# Dwarf Fortress Classic (dwarffortress)

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latest/stable 0.47.05

Install latest/stable of Dwarf Fortress Classic

This channel hasn't been updated in a while. It might be unmaintained and have stability or security issues.

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**Install using the command line**

```
sudo snap install dwarffortress
```

Don't have snapd? [Get set up for snaps](https://snapcraft.io/docs/installing-snapd).

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### Package name

* dwarffortress

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### License

* Proprietary

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### Last updated

* 13 December 2023 - latest/stable
* 11 June 2025 - latest/edge

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### Websites

* [www.bay12games.com](http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/ "http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/")

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##### Report a Snap Store violation

* [Report this Snap](https://snapcraft.io/dwarffortress#report-snap-modal)

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* [Description](https://snapcraft.io/dwarffortress#tab-description)
* [Security](https://snapcraft.io/dwarffortress#tab-security)

#### Dwarf Fortress world simulator.

**WARNING** (10th June 2025): This Snap is no longer maintained and I cannot guarantee that it will continue to work from this point. Apologies for the inconvenience.

Dwarf Fortress Classic is an ASCII-based single-player fantasy game by Bay 12 Games. You can control a dwarven outpost or an adventurer in a randomly generated, persistent world.

This is an unofficial snap, which redistributes the original binaries without modification.

Copyright (c) 2002-2022. All rights are retained by Tarn Adams, save the following: you may distribute modified text files from the data and raw folders (see the readme.txt in those folders for more information). We'd appreciate it if you credit yourself or an alias somewhere for any modifications to prevent confusion with vanilla DF (it helps with bug reports).

This software is still in development, and this means that there are going to be problems, including serious problems that, however unlikely, might damage your system or the information stored on it. Please be aware of this before playing.

**Forked from:** <https://github.com/mikix/df>

**Fork URL:** <https://github.com/ultraviolet-1986/df>

**Game Authors:** Zach and Tarn Adams

**Upstream:** <http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/>

**Major Updates:**

* **04/02/2020 (v0.47.01)** Updated the launcher to allow opening the game in either '2D Mode' or 'Text Mode'. In the event that [PRINT MODE:2D] has been set in **'~/snap/dwarffortress/current/data/init/init.txt'**, the game will launch as normal except also launching a companion terminal (this may be safely ignored and will close with the game). If [PRINT MODE:TEXT] has been set in the above file, the game will play directly within the terminal instead of opening a separate window. This is in response to <https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/dwarf-fortress-snap-cannot-handle-text-mode-if-started-from-application-menu>.

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## Install Dwarf Fortress Classic on your Linux distribution

Choose your Linux distribution to get detailed installation instructions. If yours is not shown, get more details on the [installing snapd documentation](https://snapcraft.io/docs/installing-snapd).

[### Arch Linux](https://snapcraft.io/install/dwarffortress/arch)

[### CentOS](https://snapcraft.io/install/dwarffortress/centos)

[### Debian](https://snapcraft.io/install/dwarffortress/debian)

[### elementary OS](https://snapcraft.io/install/dwarffortress/elementary)

[### Fedora](https://snapcraft.io/install/dwarffortress/fedora)

[### KDE Neon](https://snapcraft.io/install/dwarffortress/kde-neon)

[### Kubuntu](https://snapcraft.io/install/dwarffortress/kubuntu)

[### Manjaro](https://snapcraft.io/install/dwarffortress/manjaro)

[### Pop!\_OS](https://snapcraft.io/install/dwarffortress/pop)

[### openSUSE](https://snapcraft.io/install/dwarffortress/opensuse)

[### Red Hat Enterprise Linux](https://snapcraft.io/install/dwarffortress/rhel)

[### Ubuntu](https://snapcraft.io/install/dwarffortress/ubuntu)