Fortress HUD under siege: status bar, Stocks readout and toolbars

About this game

Developer: Bay 12 Games · Publisher: Kitfox Games · Platform: PC (Steam) · Art style: Pixel art · Screen type: HUD & Gameplay UI

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What to study

Fortress mode's whole state is compressed into the frame's edges so the map can stay centre: a single top bar carries the emergency first (a red SIEGE banner), then the fortress's name (Strikeink Hamlet), its population and need counts as a bare row of numbers, and a Stocks readout (60, 60, 30, 15, 15, 30) that answers 'how much do we have?' without opening a menu, with the season and year pinned at the far right. Orders live in two toolbars along the bottom and alerts in an icon rail down the left, while the battle itself is annotated in the world's own language, invading goblin squads wear lock icons and thought bubbles (a heart, a face) instead of health bars. Even the defences are read as furniture: a ballista, a catapult and piles of boulders wait inside the walls on the left while the fight happens at the bridge. Frame at about 0:05 in the Siege Update Launch Trailer (Steam).

Patterns

How the screen is arranged.

top-bar alert-banner icon-rail status-row

Components

Parts on screen.

Banner Toolbar Nameplate Speech bubble Resource bar Toggle

Screen inventory

• red SIEGE alert banner at the top-left of the status bar
• fortress nameplate 'Strikeink Hamlet' with population and need-icon counts (22 1 1 6 2 5 4 3)
• Stocks readout across the top bar (60, 60, 30, 15, 15, 30, None)
• season and year readout at the top-right ('Late Summer, Year 10x')
• vertical icon rail down the left edge (alerts and view toggles)
• two-part bottom toolbar: fortress order icons at left, build and designate tools at centre-right
• goblin siege squads with lock icons and thought bubbles (heart, face) fighting at the bridge
• ballista and catapult emplacements, stockpiled boulders and a river moat inside the walls

Top 3 colors

#597e6d 22%#40393b 19%#63686d 18%

Top three palette colors by share. The remaining colors make up the rest.

Source and credit

© Bay 12 Games / Kitfox Games, Dwarf Fortress screenshot: Siege Update Launch Trailer and Adventure Mode Launch Trailer (Steam), shown for design study and commentary. PlayCraft is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Kitfox Games.

Source tier 2 (publisher-released) · screenshot: Steam store page · Steam page

Source details

Fetched 2026-10-20. verified 2026-10-20: frame extracted from the official Siege Update Launch Trailer (Steam) and inspected visually at full resolution; real game UI (SIEGE banner, Strikeink Hamlet status line, Stocks readout, icon rail, bottom toolbars) confirmed visible and legible; the status bar runs along the frame's top edge as broadcast in the trailer

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