df-storyteller 0.7.0

Dwarf Fortress storytelling assistant — turns game events into narrative stories

df-storyteller

A companion journal and legends browser for Dwarf Fortress. Track your fortress, explore world history, chart relationships, map your world, and document the stories that emerge from your gameplay. Optionally use AI to help write narratives — or write everything yourself.

Full Documentation on the Wiki

Features

Legends Browser

Explore your world's complete history through an interactive legends viewer — every figure, civilization, site, artifact, war, and event, all cross-linked and searchable.

• Detail Pages — Dedicated pages for historical figures (with family trees, intrigue plots, emotional bonds, skills, kill lists), civilizations (festivals, honors, wars, population), sites (structures, properties, events), artifacts (contents, creator), and wars/battles (factions, casualties, combatants)
• World Map — Terrain map generated from region data with Leaflet.js. Site markers by type and owner race. Roads and tunnels as toggleable polylines
• Festival Calendar — Named festivals with full schedules (processions, ceremonies, competitions, dances, poetry, wrestling). Dwarven calendar grid (Granite–Obsidian). Competition winners with event types
• Intrigue & Schemes — 7,900+ figures with active plots: assassinations, corruption networks, undead world conquest, infiltration. Actor roles, strategies, promised immortality
• Emotional Bonds — Love, respect, trust, loyalty, and fear scores between figures, visualized as centered bar charts
• Family Trees — Interactive hierarchical graphs showing parents, children, spouses, and siblings across generations
• Charts & Statistics — Race distribution, event timeline, per-entity activity charts, warfare networks
• 97 Event Types — Every DF historical event rendered with human-readable descriptions and clickable entity names
• Cultural Forms — Full descriptions of poetic, musical, and dance forms with meter, rhythm, instruments, and scales

Fortress Journal

Track what's happening in your fortress with character sheets, event feeds, and seasonal chronicles.

• Character Sheets — Every dwarf with personality traits, beliefs, skills (with level badges), relationships, combat record, equipment, wounds, and pets
• Fortress Chronicles — Seasonal entries tracking migrations, conflicts, deaths, and changes. Write your own or generate with AI
• Dwarf Biographies & Diaries — Dated entries that build over time. Write in your own voice or let AI draft from personality data
• Relationship Web — Interactive force-directed graph of fortress connections, plus a family tree view from legends data
• Live Event Feed — Real-time game events with color-coded cards by type (combat, death, mood, migration)
• Fortress Dashboard — Population over time, migration waves, milestone timeline
• Fortress Gazette — A dwarven newspaper with five sections. Newspaper-style two-column layout

Cross-Referencing

Connect your fortress stories to the wider world history.

• Lore Pins — Bookmark any legends entity (figures, wars, artifacts, festivals, cultural forms) and access them from a global sidebar on every page. Press P to toggle
• [[Hotlinks]] — Type [[name]] in any chronicle, biography, or diary entry to create a clickable link to the corresponding legends page. Works for figures, sites, civilizations, artifacts, wars, written works, festivals, and cultural forms
• View in Legends — Jump from any fortress dwarf to their historical figure page with full legends data

Player Agency

Shape the narrative yourself — AI is optional, not required.

• Manual Writing Everywhere — Write chronicles, biographies, diary entries, sagas, gazette editions, and quest resolutions without any AI
• Dwarf Highlights — Mark dwarves as Protagonist, Antagonist, or Watchlist
• Player Notes — 8 tag types (Suspicion, Fact, Theory, Rumor, Secret, Foreshadow, Mood, What If)
• Quest System — Create quests with category and difficulty, resolve with comments
• Inline Editing — Edit chronicles, quests, and gazette editions after creation

AI Narrative Generation (Optional)

If you want AI assistance, connect an LLM provider. All generation is grounded in actual game data.

• Fortress chronicles, dwarf biographies, diary entries, death eulogies, battle reports, epic sagas, gazette editions, quest narratives
• True streaming — text appears token-by-token as the AI generates, not after a long wait
• Supports Ollama (free, local), Anthropic Claude, and OpenAI
• Fine-tuning controls — temperature, top P, repetition penalty sliders. Custom author instructions to guide tone and style (e.g. "Write like a drunken tavern bard")
• VRAM-tiered model recommendations for Ollama (4GB to 24GB+)
• AI narratives reference real dwarf personalities, events, relationships, and world history
• No AI required — every feature works in manual mode

Screenshots

Legends Mode

Tabbed world history browser with dedicated detail pages for figures, civilizations, sites, artifacts, and wars. Interactive world map, festival calendar, intrigue plots, emotional bonds, family trees, warfare graphs.

Dwarves

Character sheets with personality, skills with level badges, relationships, combat record, equipment. Tabbed Notes, Biography, and Diary sections. Link to full legends data via "View in Legends".

Chronicle

Seasonal fortress narratives — write your own or generate with AI. Use [[name]] to hotlink any legends entity. Player notes influence AI generation.

World Map

Terrain generated from region data. Site markers by type (fortresses, towns, caves, towers) and owner race. Roads and tunnels as toggleable polylines.

Relationship Web

Interactive force-directed graph of fortress connections with a family tree view from legends data. Click nodes to navigate to dwarf pages.

Events

Live event feed, collapsible combat log with blow-by-blow details, battle reports, and dwarf chat log.

Gazette

A dwarven newspaper with five sections. Newspaper-style two-column layout with personality-driven writing.

Quick Start

Prerequisites: Python 3.11+ — during install, check "Add Python to PATH".

Install and run:

pip install df-storyteller
python -m df_storyteller init
python -m df_storyteller serve

In DFHack console (first time per fortress):

storyteller-begin

Or install from source:

git clone https://github.com/Been012/df-storyteller.git
cd df-storyteller
pip install -e .
python -m df_storyteller init
python -m df_storyteller serve

Requirements

• Dwarf Fortress v50.x (Steam / DF Premium) — tested with v50.14
• DFHack v50.14-r1+ (Steam Workshop or dfhack.org)
• Python 3.11+
• An LLM provider (optional — not needed for journal/legends features):
  • Ollama — free, runs locally, no API key needed
  • Anthropic Claude — API key required
  • OpenAI — API key required

Note: This tool uses DF Premium (Steam) APIs. Classic DF (pre-Steam) is not supported.

Tech Stack

• Backend: Python 3.11+, FastAPI, Pydantic v2
• Frontend: Jinja2 templates, vanilla CSS/JS (no build step), Chart.js, Leaflet.js, vis-network (CDN)
• Legends: Pillow (terrain map generation), dwarven calendar mapping, 97 event type renderer
• Game integration: DFHack Lua scripts (event monitoring, snapshots, legends export)
• LLM (optional): Anthropic SDK, OpenAI SDK, Ollama REST API

Documentation

See the Wiki for:

• Installation & Setup
• Architecture
• Configuration
• LLM Integration
• Feature guides for every tab

Notes

• Designed to run locally on your machine (localhost). Not intended for public servers.
• Developed and tested on Windows with DF Premium (Steam). Should work on Mac and Linux — all code uses cross-platform libraries — but these platforms are untested. Report issues here.
• Config and stories stored at ~/.df-storyteller/.

License

MIT