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# Now you have no excuse not to play Dwarf Fortress
- URL: https://www.killscreen.com/now-you-have-no-excuse-not-play-dwarf-fortress/
- Published: 2014-06-26T16:19:16.000Z
- Updated: 2015-11-17T16:53:00.000Z
- Description: Isometric graphics, you are the future.
- Author: Jason Johnson
- Tags: News, Dwarf Fortress, isometric, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-26 09:39

*Dwarf Fortress*’s byzantine level of complexity makes it ridiculously difficult to learn, which is a shame because its algorithmic story-generation on the calamities of mining with dwarfs is one of the true marvels of the medium.

But what was once extremely difficult is now merely hard, as a third-party tool called Stonesense renders the game’s inscrutable ASCII into a far more readable isometric landscape. And get this: You can also now click on things with a mouse, instead of having every key on your keyboard mapped to the duties of metallurgy. This should really help solve the riddle of manipulating a multidimensional game that is presented in dense flat characters, so demur no longer, folks.

Plus, it’s fine timing to finally give *Dwarf Fortress* a shot, because [a major update](http://killscreendaily.com/articles/first-dwarf-fortress-update-2-years/?ref=killscreen.com) to the game, which has been in development since 2002, is due to hit very soon.

You can get your feet wet with the *Dwarf Fortress* Starter Pack, [found here.](http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=7622&ref=killscreen.com)