Quickfort Library Guide

This guide contains a high-level overview of the blueprints available in the quickfort blueprint library. You can list library blueprints by running quickfort list --library or by hitting Altl in the quickfort gui interactive dialog.

Each file is hyperlinked to its online version so you can see exactly what the blueprints do.

Whole fort blueprint sets

These files contain the plans for entire fortresses. Each file has one or more help sections that walk you through how to build the fort, step by step.

Dreamfort

Dreamfort is a fully functional, self-sustaining fortress with defenses, farming, a complete set of workshops, self-managing quantum stockpiles, a grand dining hall, hospital, jail, fresh water well system, guildhalls, and bedrooms for hundreds of dwarves. It also comes with manager work orders to automate basic fort needs, such as food and booze production. It can function by itself or as the core of a larger, more ambitious fortress. Read the high-level walkthrough by running quickfort run library/dreamfort.csv and list the walkthroughs for the individual levels by running quickfort list dreamfort -l -m notes or by opening the quickfort gui dialog, enabling the library with Altl, and setting the filter to dreamfort notes.

Dreamfort blueprints are also available for easy viewing and copying online.

The Quick Fortresses

The Quick Fortress is an updated version of the example fortress that came with Python Quickfort 2.0 (the program DFHack quickfort was inspired by). While it is not a complete fortress by itself, it is much simpler than Dreamfort and is good for a first introduction to quickfort blueprints. Read its walkthrough with quickfort run library/quickfortress.csv.

Layout helpers

These files simply draw diagonal marker-mode lines starting from the cursor. They are especially useful for finding the center of the map when you are planning your fortress. Once you are done using them for alignment, use quickfort undo at the same cursor position to make them disappear. Since these #dig blueprints can only mark undug wall tiles for mining, they are best used underground. They won’t do much on the surface, where there aren’t many walls.

Bedrooms

These are popular bedroom layouts from the Bedroom design page on the wiki. Each file has #dig, #build, and #query blueprints to dig the rooms, build the furniture, and configure the beds as bedrooms, respectively.

Tombs

These blueprints have burial plot layouts for fortress that expect a lot of casualties.

Exploratory mining

Several mining patterns to choose from when searching for gems or ores. The patterns can be repeated up or down z-levels for exploring through the depths.

Miscellaneous

Extra blueprints that are useful in specific situations.

The embark blueprints are useful directly after embark. It contains a #build blueprint that builds important starting workshops (mason, carpenter, mechanic, and craftsdwarf) and a #place blueprint that lays down a pattern of useful starting stockpiles.