Dwarf Fortress has a bit of a visceral problem: Right now, we are not doing a good job of discerning whether Dwarfs have their organs inside or outside their bodies. Dwarves have some physiological differences from humans (they live over 150 years, have perfect night vision, and vomit after being in the sun for a while), but they are similar in this respect. one of the changes in the graphical version of Dwarf Fortress makes diagnosing this dire situation a little more difficult, but developer developer Tarn Adams says this is on the list of things to address.

In his review of Dwarf Fortress, he said that the new mouse-based controls in the graphic version are a "much needed and welcome change," but that "the new UI struggles to accommodate all aspects of this bottomless game." While some of the changes to the graphic version make the game far more approachable, there are a few features that are currently less visible to players The complexity of Dwarf Fortress has not been compromised. Dwarf Health is one example.

"People miss the old health interface," Adams said, referring to the menu in Dwarf Fortress, where individual dwarf statuses were organized into seven entire columns. He added, "We'd have to draw 100 more icons; we'd have to draw more than 100 icons; we'd have to draw more than 100 icons. There were many icons: stitches, overlapping fractures, intestines inside or outside the body, sensory nerve damage, motor nerve damage, impaired ability to stand ...... Then the level of bleeding, arterial bleeding, whether the lungs are functioning properly. It all adds up."

The health screen is one of the two or three big parts of Dwarf Fortress that Adams plans to tackle in future updates to the new graphical version, resurfacing information that is currently obfuscated. He said he has "a list of 20 or 30 things that have been highlighted (by players), including reports, announcements, being able to dig stairs in the middle of a room, military things with boots still being an issue, not being able to nickname stray animals, etc." (Dwarves wearing socks and shoes are apparently stubborn about wearing boots.) [In this mode, players who purchased Dwarf Fortress on Steam will be able to play with the original ASCII art instead of the graphics (and switch between them); Classic will also be available as a free download. Later, a fairly simple Arena mode and a more complex Adventure mode will be available, allowing players to play through the world of Dwarf Fortress in a roguelike RPG-like fashion.

"This is all background radiation of the quality-of-life work being done on the patch, and the Adventure mode update is a big project.

We look forward to seeing all of this in the Steam release so that DwarfFortress can resume simulating more of its existence. But honestly, right now I'm more interested in how the sprite artists will render the slight fever, overlapping fractures, and spilled intestines in 32x32 pixel icon format. Nothing compares to the Dwarf Fortress.