Dwarfs in Exile

Settlement Level

Your settlement level determines how many dwarfs your settlement can accomodate. Make sure that your settlement is never full as no new dwarfs will join your settlement otherwise, even when you complete quests that reward you with new dwarfs.

The settlement level also unlocks new crafting recipes and occupations. You can see the next unlocks in the settlement overview.

Settlement Upgrade

Gather the required resources to upgrade your settlement. Upgrading your settlement will increase your settlement level.

Occupations

Dwarfs can have different occupations. Each occupation allows you to gather different resources. The dwarfs can be better or worse at their occupation depending on their stats as well as the stats of their equipment. For example, a dwarf with a high perception stat will be better at mining than a dwarf with a low perception stat. The perception stat of a dwarf can further be increased by giving them a lantern.

Having high perception alone is not enough for your dwarf to be a good miner. The dwarf also needs items with usefulness for mining, for example a pickaxe.

To summarize, the effectiveness of a dwarf at their occupation is determined by the effective stats of the dwarf combined with the usefulness of their equipment.

Inherent and Effective Stats

Dwarfs have inherent stats that determine how good they are at their occupation. The inherent stats of a dwarf will improve over time as they do their jobs. Dwarfs also have effective stats which are the inherent stats combined with the stats that their equipment provides.

Getting new Dwarfs

There are different ways to get new dwarfs. You can get new dwarfs by completing quests. You can also hire dwarfs by paying them with coins. There is also a possibility that a new dwarf wanders into your settlement. Finally, you can get new dwarf children by having dwarfs of the opposite gender idling in your settlement. After a while, a new child dwarf will be born.

Child Dwarfs

Child dwarfs are not able to work as they need to grow up first. Child dwarfs will grow up after a certain amount of time, you can observe their age in the dwarfs overview. Child dwarfs become adult after when they reach 20 years of age.

Mentoring

Child dwarfs can be assigned a mentor with whom they will do an apprenticeship. They will learn from the mentor and improve their stats on the mentors occupation. Children will improve their stats much faster than adult dwarfs, so be sure to assign them a mentor. They also help a little bit with the mentors resource production and questing, however much less than an adult dwarf would. Still, apprentices may give you a needed edge in questing if you compete against players with dwarfs that have the same stats as yours.

Deaths

Dwarfs can die if they are not fed. Make sure to have enough food in your settlement to keep your dwarfs alive. Dwarfs need to idle to eat food.

Dwarfs can also have a constant chance to die of old age if they reach 200 years of age. In any case, if a dwarf dies, their equipment will be added back to your inventory.

Automatic Idling for Dwarfs

You can enable automatic idling for your dwarfs. This means that your dwarfs will automatically idle when they are low on health. This feature is especially useful when you are not able to check the game regularly.

Item Stats

Certain items can have effects on your dwarfs effective stats. A lantern for example will increase the effective perception stat of a dwarf.

Item Usefulness

Certain items are useful for certain occupations. A pickaxe for example is useful for mining. The usefulness of an item is visible in the inventory.

Food

Certain items can be used as food. Food is required to keep your dwarfs alive. However, the food items first need to be transfered to your settlements food storage.

Crafting Items

You can craft items in the inventory. By default, the inventory will only show you the items that you own or that are directly craftable. Disable the "owned" and "craftable" filters to see all items that you can craft.

Dismantling Items

You can dismantle items in the inventory. Dismantling items will give you back half of the resources that were used to craft the item.

Item Rarities

Items can have different rarities. The rarity of an item determines is computed from the drop probablility, or the combined drop probabilities of it's required items for crafting respectively. There are the following rarities: Common (white), Uncommon (green), Rare (blue), Epic (purple), Legendary (orange).

Buying Items

You can buy items from the market. The market will show you all items that are currently available for purchase. Each offer has a certain time limit. If a bid is placed in the last minute, the time limit will be extended by one minute such that other players have a chance to react. If the time limit runs out, the item will be sold to the highest bidder.

Selling Items

Similarly, you can also sell items on the market. You can acceept a certain price for an offer. If someone accepts a lower price, the item will be sold to that lower price instead.

Competition

Quests are inherently competitive as all players are competing for the same rewards. There are different reward modes that determine how the rewards are distributed. Some quests only reward the best players, in other quests, each player has a chance to win depending on the amount of XP they have collected. Make sure to carefully read the quest description to understand how the rewards are distributed.

In the progress bar of a quest, you not only see your own progress but also the progress of all the players that are participating in this quest.

Participation

Different quests allow for a different number of dwarfs to participate. Make sure to send the right dwarfs to the right quests to maximize your chances of winning. The quest description will tell you the required skills that your dwarfs need to have a better chance at winning the quest.

Rewards

Quests can reward you with dwarfs, items or coins. The rewards are distributed according to the reward mode of the quest. There are also special quests that are required to move to a new settlement or to become the king.

Reward Types

There are different reward types for quests. Shared rewards (green) are shared fairly beween all participants, proportional to their xp contribution. In reward by chance quests (yellow), the participants have a chance to win the reward with an increasing chance depending on their xp contribution. Finally, there are quests that only reward the best players (red).

Becoming the King

It is possible to become the king of the whole dwarfen world by winning the special quest "For the King". The automatically receives one tenth of the gold that players collect in quests, even if the player is is not participating in the quests. This means that the king has a huge advantage over the other players by passively earning coins.

Winning the Game

Two conditions need to be met to win the game. First, you need to become the king. Second, your settlement needs to have reached the maximum settlement level. The winner of a game will be rewarded with a free premium account.

Start and End

Events can appear and disappear randomly at any time. They are global and affect all players.

Effects

Events can have positive or negative effects on your dwarfs. Most of the events affect your dwarfs performance in certain occupations. Some events can also affect other things like the frequency of new dwarfs joining your settlement, or the probablility of new children being born when dwarfs are idling. Be aware of the event and adapt your strategy accordingly.

Unlock Additional Features

The premium account gives you access to additional in-game features. Note that all of these features are purely for convenience and do not give you an advantage over other players.

Automatic Food Management

With a premium account, you can enable automatic food management. This means that your food items can be stored in your settlement automatically. Together with the automatic idling feature, this ensures that your dwarfs will never die, even if you can't check on them regularly.

Automatic Crafting

With a premium account, you can enable automatic crafting. This means that items that you can craft will be crafted automatically as soon as you have the required resources.

Automatic Dismantling

With a premium account, you can enable automatic item dismantling. Items that you don't need will be dismantled automatically. This is especially useful when you have a lot of items in your inventory that you don't need and want its raw resources instead.

Dwarfen Manager

With a premium account, you can use the dwarfen manager. The dwarfen manager will automatically assign your dwarfs to the occupations that are best suited for them. The dwarfen manager will also automatically equip your dwarfs with the best items that you have in your inventory for this occupation. This feature is especially useful when you have a lot of dwarfs that you can't manage manually, or when you want to make sure that you have optimally assigned your dwarfs and equipment.