Dwarf Fortress Bug Tracker - Issues

0013151: Dwarf's Mood items overfilled. Wont gather new materials.

Thu, 03 Sep 2026 18:42:34 -0700

V51.10. The option isnt in the dropdown.

A dwarf has a strange mood at a clother's workshop. There were already materials he needed in the workship to complete the artifact. However he wont move to gather any more items after he met the first requirement. DF hack said he got 10 out of the 3 of cloth needed. I imagine this is a bug that stops progression in the mood.

0013125: Symbols Assigned to Officials and Nobles become bugged when Reassigned (In Steam release)

Wed, 02 Sep 2026 20:11:55 -0700

If you assign an item or artifact to be the symbol of an office or noble position, and then you reassign that item to another official or noble the item will become bugged. Currently, to avoid the bug you must carefully remove the assignment of an item and then assign it to a new official. If you do not remove the current assignment of an office then when you make the new assignment as a symbol to a different office the item will become permanently bugged. You will be unable to ever remove the initial assignment to the first office. You will be unable to assign the item to any other office.

0013281: Water is not visible on top of glass bridges

Tue, 01 Sep 2026 05:50:16 -0700

Using a green glass bridge in an obsidian farm, it quickly became apparent that water is not visible on top of glass bridges, in either normal or show-depth setting. Mousing over the tiles themselves does show the water level in the tooltip that appears.

0013547: Water is not recognized as reagent in reaction

Mon, 31 Aug 2026 08:50:20 -0700

Hello, I have created a reaction for adventurer mode that demands water as a reagent. The reaction is the following:

reaction_adventurer_MAC

[OBJECT:REACTION]

[REACTION:WATER_TEST_MAC]
[NAME:water test]
[ADVENTURE_MODE_ENABLED]
[REAGENT:water:1:LIQUID_MISC:NONE:NONE:NONE]
[REAGENT:C:1:NONE:NONE:NONE:NONE]
[CONTAINS:water]
[PRESERVE_REAGENT]

I'm testing it in the arena, I have a waterskin full of water in my hands, or equipped, but it doesn't recognize it.

0010080: Architectural buildings (like roads, wells, etc) do not display quality when viewed directly

Sun, 30 Aug 2026 13:46:01 -0700

I built a road (no quality level) out of microline blocks (no quality levels) and received the notice "Urist McDwarf has constructed a masterpiece!"

The road has no indication of being a masterpiece, or of any quality for that matter.

The dwarf in question is a legendary mason, so I suspect this was the skill used.

0010706: Completed Paved Roads caused dwarves/units to blink/flash

Sun, 30 Aug 2026 13:28:04 -0700

When dwarves or livestock walk over paved roads constructed in Fortress mode (adv. mode untested), they will flash transparent as if the tile is cycling between an item and the dwarf. However, there is no item, only the paved road below the unit.

I feel this is a bug because regular constructed floors and ground tiles to not do this, and it makes using paved roads obnoxious. I've used paved roads in past versions and do not remember this being an issue - but I can't confirm if and when this bug arose.

0013546: alder cones and peanut pods have no stockpile

Sat, 29 Aug 2026 17:12:20 -0700

alder catkins (fruit/leaves) and peanuts (seeds) are available, as well as whole peanut plants, but these are not. fruit/leaves seems most appropriate for them? (onion bulbs go there)

0013544: Artifacts created by dwarves during world generation are incorrectly attributed to work by humans.

Thu, 27 Aug 2026 21:11:02 -0700

Several (if not all) artifacts created by dwarves during world generation are stated to have "craftsmanship of the highest quality" instead of "craftsdwarfship of the highest quality". This doesn't apply to artifacts created in the fortress.

0013545: (Adventure) Unknown crash in busy market outside castle

Tue, 25 Aug 2026 18:11:17 -0700

In the linked save, taking a step in any direction reliably causes the game to hard crash. The adventurer is currently located in a busy market space, just outside a castle.

0013527: Caravan stuck off map

Tue, 18 Aug 2026 16:15:16 -0700

No caravan from parent civilization for 6 years, so no migrants either.
Caravans from other dwarf and non-dwarf civilizations still appeared.
Tried DF Hack, caravan command shows a caravan stuck off map with "leaving - 0 days"

Savegame will follow shortly

0013308: Setting werebeast number too high results in wereblobs

Tue, 18 Aug 2026 14:56:33 -0700

The "random_object_parameters" key "werebeast_blacklist" is used to ensure werebeasts are each of a unique species. However, there are a limited number of valid species.

0013522: old save syndrome index mismatch after 53.15

Thu, 13 Aug 2026 18:49:01 -0700

An old fortress save behaves differently depending on the Dwarf Fortress version used to open it.

In the older version, several citizens have a demon sickness syndrome caused by a demon/underworld encounter. The affected units are not werebeasts and were not reported by cursecheck as werebeasts. The syndrome executes as demon sickness in that version.

When the exact same save is opened in DF 53.15, without advancing from a 53.15-saved copy, the same affected units are executed by the game as werebeasts. On the next full moon, the game itself causes them to transform as werebeasts.

0009004: "Store item in container" jobs block access to all items already in the container

Thu, 13 Aug 2026 11:18:58 -0700

"Store item in container" jobs block access to all the other items in that container until the job is complete. This leads to job cancellations, confusion (where did all my _ go?), and general inefficiency. Since the container is no longer being hauled across the fortress, there's little reason for the supplies inside to be unavailable during the job.

0013543: Sculpted ice floors do not indicate engraving quality level

Thu, 13 Aug 2026 10:46:14 -0700

When an ice floor is smoothed and engraved, inspecting the tile simply describes it as "Sculpted Ice Floor" without any indication as to the engraving's quality level. By comparison, engravings on stone floors display their quality correctly (e.g. "+Detailed+ limestone Floor").

0013535: Game crash a minute after unpause

Wed, 12 Aug 2026 18:29:48 -0700

I do use DFHack when playing the game and I do have some mods installed. I uninstalled DFHack and tried running the game vanilla but the crash happens anyways. I also tried setting all my military to No Orders just in case it was a military thing.

Link to save:

https://dffd.bay12games.com/file.php?id=17884

0013541: Miners in military remove equipment even if set to equip/always

Tue, 11 Aug 2026 19:55:25 -0700

Miners assigned to a military squad will remove their assigned uniform even if their current orders are set to equip/always when they do not have an active order (station, defend, patrol, attack).

0013540: Game crashes to desktop upon a specific alert

Tue, 11 Aug 2026 09:45:26 -0700

So, at a certain point the game will issue a louder audible alert (probably from the mod) and it seems every time it hits that alert, the game crashes to desktop.

My squads are pretty bugged so I'm not sure my toying with DFHack had anything to do with the crash or not. I was trying to use the fix/stuck-squad and fix/retrieve-squad commands, also exterminating the Manera hiding in the caverns, the typical way to attempt to debug stuck squads from what I've read, or the fact that at one point I spawned in 5000 Adamantine Wafers to try and take down the goblins and vaults of the world after hitting a certain point with the fort. I know I should just retire her... hehe, I just can't resist after seeing that guy on reddit with a 63 year old fort!

This is literally the lowest priority, but hey, maybe it'll help expose something that can be fixed in the game logic :)

0013542: Catapults no longer have the correct range

Tue, 11 Aug 2026 08:39:04 -0700

Catapults in the latest version have a maximum range of about 15 tiles and no minimum range, as opposed to the expected minimum range and very long maximum range.

0013539: Attempts to view the control screen for three of my stockpiles crashes the game

Tue, 11 Aug 2026 05:36:02 -0700

I hope to include my saved game, but I don't currently see a place to upload it. There are three stockpiles in the save with the following names:

- Quantum 51
- Quantum 52
- Quantum Ore 4Mag

As the names suggest, these are all 1x1 stockpiles, fed by a dumping minecart. At least two were created with the DFHack Quantum Stockpile tool, but this issue persists after DFHack has been uninstalled.

In normal mode, attempting to click on the full stockpiles will not recognize the stockpile at all. Attempting to click on the empty one will crash the game.
Clicking on them when in stockpile editing mode will crash the game.
Clicking on the magnifying glass icon in the Places->Stockpiles view will crash the game.

As a further oddity, Clicking on the stockpile icon to go into stock pile editing mode will act as if you clicked the "Add Stockpile" icon, asking you where you want to put it.

0013538: Random crash, unknown reason

Sun, 09 Aug 2026 05:46:30 -0700

Stack trace of thread 7228:
#0 0x0000000000be45e8 n/a (dwarfort + 0x7e45e8)
0000001 0x0000000000be6f55 n/a (dwarfort + 0x7e6f55)
0000002 0x00000000019b2641 n/a (dwarfort + 0x15b2641)
0000003 0x000000000078e3a7 n/a (dwarfort + 0x38e3a7)
0000004 0x0000000001d7b994 n/a (dwarfort + 0x197b994)
0000005 0x0000000001d8a18b n/a (dwarfort + 0x198a18b)
0000006 0x00000000013997e6 n/a (dwarfort + 0xf997e6)
0000007 0x00007f7b66cfae05 _ZN11interfacest4loopEv (libg_src_lib.so + 0xfae05)
0000008 0x0000000001282824 _Z8mainloopv (dwarfort + 0xe82824)
0000009 0x00007f7b66cb91c8 _ZN9enablerst10async_loopEv (libg_src_lib.so + 0xb91c8)
0000010 0x00007f7b66cb9a14 _Z9call_loopPv (libg_src_lib.so + 0xb9a14)
0000011 0x00007f7b668f58d5 n/a (/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/sdl2-classic/libSDL2-2.0.so.0.3200.10 + 0x9d8d5)
0000012 0x0000000000000000 n/a (n/a + 0x0)
ELF object binary architecture: AMD x86-64

0013537: Kitchen can't take fish out of barrel for work order

Sat, 08 Aug 2026 13:57:35 -0700

If you have a kitchen linked to a stockpile with prepared fish in a barrel, and give it a work order to make any meal multiple times, a dwarf will grab the ingredients correctly for the first task When the second task is generated, the dwarf is unable to find the fish despite being in the same linked stockpile, and cancel the job. This repeats whenever the task refreshes.

If you unlink the stockpile, the dwarves will just start nicking the fish straight from the fishery. They still won't take from the barrel for any task past the first, so linking the stockpile exacerbates the problem, but it doesn't create it. Setting the stockpile to have no barrels also fixes the issue, at the cost of space.

Best I can tell, there aren't any active haul jobs to the barrel when this happens, so I don't think this is a duplicate of 009004.

0013536: Typo in the stocks screen

Sat, 08 Aug 2026 07:55:35 -0700

In the stocks screen, when you hover your mouse cursor over the button to recenter the view on a given item, the tooltip is misspelled. It says "Leave menu and recenter the view on the time." The last word should be "item", not "time".

0013534: Intelligent-undead mayor crashes game on unpause

Fri, 07 Aug 2026 05:09:45 -0700

Loading my fortress that I had last saved in 53.15 (https://dffd.bay12games.com/file.php?id=17882) in 53.16, my intelligent-undead mayor suddenly has a purple skin tone instead of the standard cyan one. On unpausing the game, she loses both her job title and her intelligent-undead name ("risen one" or somesuch), and almost immediately the game freezes then exits to desktop. The crashlog (https://pastebin.com/nfezwXRV) references this unit.

I was able to render the save playable by using the DFHack "exterminate" command to kill my mayor before unpausing. I've continued playing for several hours further, and no other issues have appeared in regards to this.

0013533: v53.13+ UI Freeze: Recover Artifact from item sheet locks modal window ("Remove" greyed out, cannot assign squads)

Wed, 05 Aug 2026 14:27:36 -0700

When attempting to initiate an artifact recovery mission directly from an artifact's item detail sheet, the mission overlay opens in a broken, non-interactive modal state. The left panel shows the destination and "Assign squads" prompt, while the right panel lists the target artifact and a greyed-out "Remove" button.

In this state, clicking on any available squad does not assign them, the UI remains unresponsive to mouse inputs on interactive elements, and clicking the "Remove" button has no effect. The modal cannot be completed or canceled through normal UI interaction.

0013532: Velociraptor man gait

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 16:44:41 -0700

The raws for velociraptor men have a typo that means their walking gait is 10 times slower than it ought to be.
Here's an image:
https://i.imgur.com/I7VEtuL.png

The offending raw is
[APPLY_CREATURE_VARIATION:STANDARD_BIPED_GAITS:9900:375:250:125:1900:2900] 70 kph
the "9900" should be a "900"