Forget what you thought you knew about the infamous complexity of Dwarf Fortress. We haven't seen anything yet. Dwarf Fortress hasn't been updated for a year, because developers Tarn and Zach Adams have been preparing it for the most ambitious magic system ever implemented in a videogame. And before magic will come myth generation—simulating the beginning of the world, gods and demons and planes of existence like heaven and hell or Olympus and the underworld. And to prepare for that, they've been rebuilding the game to support sending your dwarves off to the world map for the first time, placing your fortress in the context of a larger, explorable world.
I'm a hardcore DF fan but I haven't touched it in months. I haven't actually played much in video games at all recently. I'm pretty excited about this update though.