On the surface, Dwarf Fortress doesn't look like much, but under the hood of the game, in which you have to build up and keep alive a colony of dwarves, there is infinite complexity – the engine ...

In Dwarf Fortress, aquifers are a scourge. They're layers of subterranean, water-bearing rock that continually, endlessly leak when breached by dwarven miners. They can be managed and even exploited ...