Dwarf Fortress Bug Tracker - Issues

0013516: Leather Armor (specific item) doesn't reflect dyes in creature sprites

Sun, 07 Jun 2026 11:42:58 -0700

I made all black leather outfits for my fortress guard so they would look distinctive. The helm/leggings/gauntlets/boots all work as expected and show up as black. The armor (chest armor piece) shows up as a generic color, however, even though the inventory screen shows it as black.

0013515: Unable to scroll detailed activity description in residents tab

Sat, 06 Jun 2026 10:40:42 -0700

Unable to scroll detailed activity description in residents tab when it is longer than one page

0013514: My dwarf enters a strange mood, but instead of going to a workshop he goes to the local bar

Wed, 03 Jun 2026 15:21:45 -0700

the dwarf have needs unmet like socialize and be with family, he was outside fishing when he got the strange mood. I have all workshops but he still stays on the underground bar.

I would post a print but don't know how to do it here.

0013513: Haulers stopped using wheelbarrows

Fri, 29 May 2026 22:27:18 -0700

Ran a fortress for about 10 years in game and some point, whenever a new stockpile was created, the citizens stopped using wheelbarrows. Ran the game for over 2 hours when I noticed the issue. Once I restarted the game, the citizens started using wheelbarrows again.

0013512: Legends Mode XML export is malformed with some of the newer events added, prevents use of export

Thu, 28 May 2026 12:25:22 -0700

Example bad xml in xxx-legends.xml (notice the missing > after
```

102115
119
126883
peace rejected
-1

-1
peace treaty unconditional surrender alliance make contact improve trade 3357
289
11364
295
-1
654

```

This completely breaks the export for anyone who triggers the bug, forcing users to manually edit the xml to fix it.

0012704: Ultrawide screen blocks the version's subtitle

Sun, 24 May 2026 15:09:02 -0700

Ultra Wide resolutions hides the version name

0013509: Crash to desktop shortly after loading existing fort

Tue, 19 May 2026 13:45:49 -0700

Has happened twice so far - Loaded my save, assigned a messenger and sent them off to offer peace to the human civ nearby.

After a few in-game days, the game crashes to desktop without warning. I suspect this is messenger related; the site the messenger was sent to was less than a day away, and the timing of the crash feels like approximately the time they'd return to the fort.

0013511: Crashing after awaking from sleep a lot

Mon, 18 May 2026 11:27:52 -0700

As per title, lots of crashing after a snooze. Usually happens in the populated starting town, but has also happened in the wilderness as well if I stop to camp for the night.

I'm using some basic mods, Idk if they have incompatibilities or if parts are broken, but please let me know if so.

List of mods active:
Audible Alerts 1.7
Squad & Burrow Icons 50.05
See-Through Smoothing Designations
Combat Log with Combat Sound 2.0
Bourbon's Dark Depths 1.1
Detailed Landscapes 2.1
Filled Displays 1.0
Flowing Water 1.0
Interface Tweaks 1.6
Ketaros Stones Variations 1.0
Rounded Hills 1.6

I am running the game in a lower resolution (1368x780 or something like that) on a 4k monitor, Nvidia 5080, Intel i7-11700k OC'd to 4.6GHz STABLE! 32 GB of RAM, and a case to keep things less than 70*C at ALL times. The game is installed on a 2TB NVME SSD. Windows 10, latest build.

Link to save file in Addt'l Info

0013510: Scribes don't gain experience from copying books

Sat, 16 May 2026 00:34:40 -0700

In libraries, when a scribe copies a book, there's no skill gain, and probably no chance of an attribute gain. Since Reading and Wordsmith(aka writing) are suggested skills for scribes in the library interface, I was expecting at least those two to get some gain. I also checked Record_Keeping, and the engineering category the copied book was about (fluid_engineer). And writer (aka prose, I expected it would only gain experience if the copied book was a novel, short story, etc) because if feels like writer and wordsmith are mislabled.

None of them gained any experience. For attributes, I checked the five that are used in either reading or wordsmith, none of them gained experience.
The scribe didn't gain the book as one of their known written contents, and they did not gain knowledge of the subject (siphons).

0013499: Unable to view detailed activity description in residents tab

Thu, 14 May 2026 03:10:14 -0700

The detailed description looking glass button does not respond

0010795: Messengers Do Not Go On Mission

Thu, 14 May 2026 03:09:21 -0700

Dwarven messengers assigned to a mission to bring back dwarves from an occupied site do not go on their mission, only doing in-fort jobs.

0013508: pea plants (all legumes?) have no useable produce

Sun, 10 May 2026 09:44:43 -0700

In fortress mode, wild pea plants are never gatherable by herbalists. In late summer, (27th of Galena in the site I tested), their description changes, losing "pea pods". They are not gatherable before or after that point.
also in fortress mode, a pea plant can be planted in farm plots (using seeds bought from traders), and the plant grows. When it's done growing, the contents of the farm plant change from "peas" to "pea plant", but when a harvester harvests, the pea plant vanishes from existance.
If pea plant are not processable by the farm workshop.

In adventure mode, the pea pods are pickable, but it cannot be eaten. Same for the pea leaves, but that's expected.

0013436: New hauling/minecart stops always placed at end of list

Tue, 05 May 2026 18:03:57 -0700

Creating a new minecart stop places it at the end of the hauling UI, regardless of which route it's part of. Closing and reopening the hauling UI reorganizes the stop under the correct route.

0013472: Trade goods in some shops do not appear in trade screen when talking to shopkeeper

Mon, 27 Apr 2026 06:25:44 -0700

Inside some shops in towns, trade goods will be visible and labeled with dollar signs as $available for trade$, but choosing the "Trade or settle debts" option in conversation with a shopkeeper will open a trade screen in which the shopkeeper's side is empty.

As an example, I provide the following saved game:

https://dffd.bay12games.com/file.php?id=17747

In this save, the adventurer is in an armorsmith's shop on the east side of a north-south street. There are two items for sale in the shop, but none appears in the trade screen when talking to either shopkeeper. You will also see this bug in many but not all nearby shops.

0011430: Veils and masks protect the head instead of the face

Sun, 26 Apr 2026 08:31:20 -0700

Veils and masks protect the head instead of the face. Additionally, there is no tag support for making head items that actually cover these areas.

0006685: Companions are getting robbed while the player just watches.

Fri, 24 Apr 2026 17:57:09 -0700

Companions being robbed while player is right next to them, fighting ensues while player can just watch.

0013507: Adventure mode merchants will always accept sell trades as long as you are not buying items at the same time

Wed, 22 Apr 2026 22:26:55 -0700

Shopkeepers will give you all of their money for a single piece of cheese as long as you don't try to buy any items at the same time.

It seems like the formula that checks if a merchant will accept a deal either isn't being called or has an error when selling items but not when buying or when buying and selling simultaneously.

This bug must be newish because I don't remember having this problem before the steam version.

0007013: Some Adventure Mode shops don't accept coins/currency

Wed, 22 Apr 2026 16:50:06 -0700

Some shops in Adventure Mode have currency listed in their "trade goods" window. In said shops, using the "ask for currency" option will give you a range of 0-0. You can barter for the stacks of currency. However, it seems to be valued as if it wasn't valid currency for that civilization (I traded some giant cave spider silk trousers I got off a goblin for a shop's entire stack of 200 gold coins). Using the "offer currency" option will also give you a range of 0-0, regardless of where you obtained the currency (I had some gold coins from elsewhere in the civ, and also tried using the stack of 200 gold coins I got from that particular shop; neither work as currency).

Note that this is technically a duplicate of 0001284, but that issue was marked as resolved, so I am submitting this report to reopen the issue since I have proof it is still a problem.

0013506: entities.lua missing adjective randomization for many item types

Wed, 22 Apr 2026 15:41:30 -0700

In looking at my options for what type of weapons I could designate for inclusion in one of my stockpiles, I found that "Crossbow" was listed four separate times. I brought this up in the #bug-discussion channel on the Kitfox Discord, and after a bunch of discussion, we determined that these were all most likely to be different types of crossbows that had somehow been overlooked when setting adjectives to differentiate them. After some further digging, we found that in entities.lua, some items, like the bow, had a line of code to pick a random adjective for the item — line 737:

lines[#lines+1]="[ADJECTIVE:"..pick_random(angel_item_info.weapon.BOW.adj).."]"

However, most other items in the file did not have such a line, including crossbows (lines 806-829).

I tested what would happen if I modified entities.lua to add a line for Crossbows based on the line for Bows, inserted at line 809:

lines[#lines+1]="[ADJECTIVE:"..pick_random(angel_item_info.weapon.CROSSBOW.adj).."]"

I then generated another new world, and this time found I had one "Crossbows" entry and two "Jagged Crossbows". So the fix appears to be to add a line like this to entities.lua for each type of item that doesn't currently have it.

0013505: Adv. mode : Resurected follower vanishes

Tue, 21 Apr 2026 12:05:21 -0700

Intelligent undead vanishes after leaving a location area

0013414: Linux native build leaks GPU GTT memory continuously (Windows/Proton unaffected)

Tue, 21 Apr 2026 10:16:21 -0700

The Linux native build has a GPU memory leak causing GTT to grow continuously until system becomes unresponsive.

The Windows build running via Proton does not have this issue.

Evidence:
- Tested twice
- Linux native: GTT grew from 0.4 GB to 15+ GB in 0000024:0000020 minutes (idle at menu)
- Previous session: reached 64 GB before system froze
- Windows/Proton: GTT stable at 0.24 GB after same time period

0013502: Glazing Eatherware Pots

Tue, 21 Apr 2026 06:03:01 -0700

Dwarfs will glaze a pot with a 100% bar of ash, when trying to use a 99% or less the job will not be able to be qued (says requires glaze item). I found some Cassiterite and was able to que the job, the dwarf gathers a un-glazed pot the <100% ash bar AND a cassiterite ore and completes the job. The ash bar goes down 1% and the ore is not consumed.

I have not tested with just the ore as the glaze item.

0012732: Dead dwarves not shown on the dead/missing list

Mon, 20 Apr 2026 17:31:23 -0700

DF 50.12 steam version - fresh world, not imported

2 Dwarves have died (Nish & Vucar) but don't appear on dead list
One has been buried in a coffin, the other probably will be if another coffin is designated as a tomb
F8 and F9 were locations of death

Several troglodites (who caused the deaths) are listed.

Save available: https://dffd.bay12games.com/download.php?id=17030&f=save.zip

0013501: Diplomats always leave unhappy and unable to have their meeting

Mon, 20 Apr 2026 05:50:40 -0700

It started happening like two weeks ago. Most or if not all the diplomats are leaving unhappy, didn't have that problem before. The leader/mayor is available, the office is accessible, the trade depot is accessible, I even did an office outside my base to be sure it was accessible. Just did a new game and I have the same issue.

0013504: Visitors' explanatory text overruns text box

Sun, 19 Apr 2026 13:32:07 -0700

When a visitor speaks to a citizen, they give a reason that they have come, which then appears in the bottom right corner of their overview panel where citizens' needs are shown. Sometimes this text is too long and does not appear scrollable.