WARNING (10th June 2025): This Snap is no longer maintained and I cannot guarantee that it will continue to work from this point.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/
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On Arch Linux, snap can be installed from the Arch User Repository (AUR). The manual build process is the Arch-supported install method for AUR packages, and you’ll need the prerequisites installed before you can install any AUR package. You can then install snap with the following:
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cd snapd
makepkg -si
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To install Dwarf Fortress Classic, simply use the following command:
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