Dwarf Fortress (DFHack) MCP Server

MCP server exposing a live Dwarf Fortress fort to an AI agent as curated, semantic tools

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Published as dfhack-mcp on npm. Runs locally.

Known issues

62 problems reported by people outside the maintainer team. Issues filed by the project's own owners, members and collaborators are excluded — those are release checklists and internal refactors, not things that will go wrong for you. Showing 12.

Most discussed

verify-identify.mjs crashes on launch (stale import); verify-* scripts are orphaned

scripts/verify-identify.mjs:10 imports ../src/tools/identify.ts, which no longer exists (identify was refactored into src/tools/identify/index.ts). The script throws ERR_MODULE_NOT_FOUND before the first assertion.

It rotted silently because nothing runs it: no npm script, no CI job, no doc references it — the same orphaned family as scripts/verify-wiki.mjs and scripts/verify-game-data.mjs.

Fix: repair the import, then either wire the family into an npm script (e.g. `verify:ref

Read the thread · 2026-07-19 · closed · 1 comment

Spike: quickfort/orders over RPC (dry-run + undo)

Spike — de-risk quickfort/orders over RPC before the actuators. A1 (work_order_*) and A2 (blueprint_*) assume DFHack's orders plugin and quickfort script round-trip — including dry-run/preview and undo — are drivable over the Remote RPC pipe, not just from the in-game console. If preview/undo isn't reachable our way, A2's confirm-token design changes.

Questions to answer

• Manager orders (A1): can we create/list/cancel manager work orders over RPC (via the orders plugi

Read the thread · 2026-07-16 · closed · 1 comment

Spike: terrain-read + fog-of-war substrate (RFR GetBlockList)

Spike — de-risk the terrain-read + fog-of-war substrate. Five tools (defenses L2, geology, environment, map_overview, tile_region) all sit on one foundation: reading tile designations/materials over RemoteFortressReader while honestly hiding undiscovered tiles. Build and prove that read once, here, before the dependent tools.

The core risk

RFR is a rendering interface — GetBlockList will return tiles the player has not discovered. The fog-of-war-honest AC (§0) fights

Read the thread · 2026-07-16 · closed · 1 comment

artifacts_and_engravings: resolve engraving iconography (P2)

artifacts_and_engravings reports subjects_resolvable=false because art_images_loaded is false on every fort observed — so engraving subjects come back keyed as "image #2:158" and we cannot say what the fort's art depicts. Engravings depicting past fort events are prime material for narrative work.

Phase 1 is a timeboxed determination of whether the art-image table can be populated or read another way in fortress mode. If it can, phase 2 resolves subjects to readable scenes.

**A negat

Read the thread · 2026-08-09 · open · 0 comments

skill: the chronicler - story bible + image briefs (P1)

Client-side, not a server tool — this is where judgment lives, per the facts-not-advice split.

Composes: site_history for the frame → journal for beats → citizen + unit_appearance + historical_figure for character sheets → scene for setting. Emits a structured story bible plus per-scene image briefs.

The deliverable that matters most is the handoff schema — the contract an image agent consumes. Draft it first: it constrains what #102 and #105 must return, and designing

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Most recent

id-chaining: emit hf_id across narrative tools (P0)

historical_figure(hf_id) is useless without a discoverable input. Today none of the narrative tools emit one.

• site_history.notable_deaths[] and battles[] emit slayer / general / victim names only — no ids to chain on.
• citizen relations drop unit_id exactly when the figure is dead — which is precisely the case narrative cares about (a dead father, a lost spouse).
• chronicle speakers carry a unit id but no hf id.

Add hf_id to each. Small and mechanical, but it is the hinge

Read the thread · 2026-08-09 · open · 0 comments

sensor: unit_appearance() - the portrait read (P0)

The single biggest unblock for narrative work: without it the image half is dead on arrival.

Today citizen.physical returns only body_size_cm3, size_modifier, and a three-way build string. mcp_injuriesAndHealth.lua:27 deliberately filters scar_ flags as non-actionable. mcp_military.lua reads u.inventory but only to diff against uniform slots, never to describe what is worn. An image agent handed today's output knows a dwarf's name, mood, and that they are "average build."

Re

Read the thread · 2026-08-09 · open · 0 comments

work_order_create: support order/item conditions (stock-threshold triggers)

Current state

work_order_create already has a conditions parameter in its zod schema (z.array(z.unknown()), src/tools/workOrder.ts:124-127), but it's a placeholder: mcp_workOrder.lua:156-161 unconditionally blocks any non-empty conditions array with "order prerequisite conditions are not supported in v1; specify material / item_type directly". This was a deliberate, documented v1 scope cut (the tool description says so outright).

work_order_list already reports a conditi

Read the thread · 2026-07-20 · open · 0 comments

DFHack command console: discover & execute built-in DFHack commands (seedwatch, instruments, etc.)

Gap

Today the tool surface is 33 hand-curated sensors/actuators plus a dev-only raw-Lua escape hatch (run_lua). Anything DFHack itself ships as a built-in command, plugin, or script — hundreds of them — is invisible and unreachable unless the project hand-builds a bespoke MCP wrapper for it one at a time. Two concrete, genuinely useful examples that don't need bespoke tool engineering, just a pass-through:

• seedwatch — a persistent background service that protects a plant's seed st

Read the thread · 2026-07-20 · open · 0 comments

FOG-OF-WAR LEAK: threats & fort_status expose undiscovered hostiles (X-ray)

Summary

threats and fort_status enumerate hostiles with no fog-of-war filter, so an agent learns the existence and count of enemies the player has not discovered — hostiles sealed in undiscovered caverns, cut off from every dwarf. This breaks the project's two load-bearing doctrines at once: facts-only (the tool reports something the player cannot see) and fog-of-war (spike #10). It is an information/"X-ray" leak — the AI co-pilot is effectively cheating on the player's b

Read the thread · 2026-07-19 · closed · 0 comments

blueprint library integration: list & apply DFHack's shipped quickfort blueprints (dreamfort et al.)

Gap (observed in live gameplay): the agent cannot interact with DFHack''s built-in quickfort blueprint library — dreamfort, the aquifer taps, the pump stacks, bedroom blocks, etc. blueprint_apply only accepts an inline CSV drafted by the agent (src/tools/blueprint.ts), so the entire curated library that ships with DFHack (hack/data/blueprints/library/) is invisible and unusable. Given the whole project rides on DFHack, that''s a real affordance gap — the library is exactly the high

Read the thread · 2026-07-19 · open · 0 comments

cheap sensor extensions bundle: ghosts/slabs, seeds, worn clothing, cancellation spam (P1)

Small high-value extensions to existing tools, each S-effort, flagged in the post-v1.0 gap analysis as cheaper than new tools:

• rooms_and_zones: unmemorialized dead with no corpse (histfigs dead with no burial ref — the actual ghost trigger, i.e. slab-needed) + active ghosts (unit.flags3.ghostly).
• stocks: seed totals by plant (feeds the farming() work early) + worn-clothing facts (citizens in tattered wear>=2 clothing, no-shoes count — a chronic stress source; DFHack''s tailor

Read the thread · 2026-07-19 · closed · 0 comments

See all 19 reports Pod holds for Dwarf Fortress (DFHack) — of 62 qualified upstream.

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