Dwarf Fortress — Update 51.09: Forbidden Coffins now unusable

Hey Urists!

We are back from GDC with an update for Fortress and Adventure Mode. Next we'll be starting work on sieges, while also keeping a pace of regular fixes and improvements.

Tarn Time Spring 2025 Edition

In case you missed it, we also have a seasonal update video from Tarn. He goes over the last few months of updates as well as lua, the upcoming siege and site building updates. Watch on Youtube:

Patch Notes for 51.09

Fortress Mode

•  Stopped dwarves from using forbidden and uncompleted coffins for burial
  

•  Stopped greyed out "everybody does this" for mining/hunting/chopping labors from being pressable
  

•  Stopped Mining, Woodcutting, Hunting from being able to be assigned to the same dwarf
  

•  Stopped reclaimed/unretired forts with magma features from having magma overflows
  

•  Stopped unretired forts from being marked as capitals
  

•  Reordering manager work orders no longer causes display issues in workshop view sheet
  

•  Can now set pressure plates to include zero depth for water/magma
  

•  Made squad scrollbar responsive to clicks
  

•  Fixed custom difficulty settings for irritation in the embark screen
  

•  Random improvements are no longer applied instantly to fort-made crafts
  

•  Fixed typo on squad equipment assignment screen
  

Adventure Mode

• Made adventure mode respect manual disabling of sound in init file

General Updates

• Fixed pathing overflow errors in very large and/or twisty forts

-Alexandra