Lesson Six - Dwarf Therapist

Lesson Six - Dwarf Therapist

One of the first applications you want to learn about is most defiantly Dwarf Therapist!

This handy little application hooks into your game and will list your dwarves showing their allocated tasks. You can use this app to look up quite a bit of info about your game but this is going to be focussed on its core ability which is managing your dwarves.

• The first thing to do is ensure you have your Dwarf Fortress game running and a copy of Dwarf Therapist open. 
• In Dwarf Therapist click the 'Connect to DF' button. 
• This will load up a list of your dwarves. 
• using the table you can see which skills are assigned to each of your dwarves. 
• A purple box indicates the dwarf is assigned to complete the listed task. 
• Dwarves that are not assigned to a task will not complete that task. 
• The white spots indicate the skill level in a specific task. The bigger the white spot the better the skill level!

• The goal here is to manage your Dwarves and ensure all of the required tasks are allocated to workers!
• To change an allocate simply click on a box related to the dwarf / task. The box will change colour to purple. 
• Make as many changes as you like. 
• To Commit the changes press the Commit button. 

• In the example above I assigned the Dwarf Imush Matulbomrek to complete the following tasks:
• Small Animal Disection
• Trapping
• Hunting
• Animal Care
• Animal Training

Dwarf management is quite easy in the early days when you have a very small population. Later in the game you can have alot more dwarves and as such this program really shines to help assist with the micro management of your troops!

A really handy feature in the ability to group the dwarves by their current jobs. This allows you to easily identify who is doing what in your fortress. Or more importantly who is doing nothing. 

• To do this use the drop down menu next to the Group By option. 
• Select Current Job
• Your dwarves will now be grouped by Job!
• If you have alot of dwarves in the No Job category consider allocating some more tasks to those dwarves to ensure you have maximum productivity!

Another cool feature with this tool is the tool tip that displays when you hold your mouse over one of the dwarves. This really helps you to get to know your dwarves better! 

You can also browse through the various other tabs to check out all sorts of information. 

For example the military tab displays all of the military skills for your dwarves. 

You can do all of these actions in-game however you will quickly realise its much easier to use Dwarf Therapist.