Building an LLM Agent to Play Dwarf Fortress
Table of contents Open Table of contents Why Dwarf Fortress The Architecture Phase 1 Running What’s Next Why Dwarf Fortress People say Dwarf Fortress is the most complex game ever made. A small ruleset that produces near-infinite emergent complexity. Go is a 19×19 board with simple capture rules.
- ▪Table of contents Open Table of contents Why Dwarf Fortress The Architecture Phase 1 Running What’s Next Why Dwarf Fortress People say Dwarf Fortress is the most complex game ever made.
- ▪A small ruleset that produces near-infinite emergent complexity.
- ▪Go is a 19×19 board with simple capture rules.
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| Publication time | Fri, 07 Aug 2026 10:01:06 +0000 |
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Table of contents Open Table of contents Why Dwarf Fortress The Architecture Phase 1 Running What’s Next Why Dwarf Fortress People say Dwarf Fortress is the most complex game ever made. That’s not why I picked it. I picked it because it’s abstract. NetHack, DF — they’re structured like Go. A small ruleset that produces near-infinite emergent complexity. Go is a 19×19 board with simple capture rules. DF is ASCII characters on a terminal, a few dozen DFHack commands, but forgetting to wall off an underground river can end your fortress in minutes. That structure — simple rules, enormous state space — is actually ideal for AI: State is structured, not pixels. Text output and data files. An LLM can read it directly without a vision model Action space is discrete.
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