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Dungeon Settlers Wiki & Survival Guide
Dungeon Settlers wiki for Early Access: 4 races, where to get clay, leveling and mana stones, bosses, the Abyss, room quality, mood and every patch.
Official Trailer Dispatches from camp
Latest Updates
- SITE This wiki goes live with the four races, backgrounds, skill trees, inscriptions, equipment, a bestiary by region and a resource finder.
- MINOR Patch v0.4.19: default difficulty drops from Hard to Normal, Gloth summons capped at three, lighter clay, stone and ore, 200-arrow stacks.
- MINOR Patch v0.4.17: Portrait Lock when recruiting, Explosion reworked to apply 5 Burning stacks with a faster 1.88-second cast.
- CanOpener runs two Discord events until 14 September: best settlement screenshot and best guide. Ten winners get a portrait added to the game.
- MAJOR Dungeon Settlers enters Steam Early Access at $24.99 with Regions 1 and 2, the Abyss and four races. Patch v0.4.12 lands the same day.
The expedition
What is Dungeon Settlers?
Dungeon Settlers is a colony sim dungeon crawler by CanOpener, available on PC and Mac (Steam). It entered Steam Early Access on 4 September 2026 after passing 300,000 wishlists. You lead a Guild expedition that settles on corrupted land, builds rooms, farms and workshops, and sends a party of up to four settlers into randomised dungeon floors. Combat is real time with pause, and a settler who dies stays dead.
Early Access has two regions (the Veil of Silence and the Festering Burrow), the 20-floor Abyss, four races and a level cap of 5. This wiki covers the races, backgrounds and traits, skill trees, inscriptions, equipment, the bestiary, regions and where to find every resource, starting with the one everyone runs short of: clay.
Dungeon Settlers Screenshots
Official screenshots from the Steam store page.
Your first days
Surviving the First Week in 5 Steps
- Pick your difficulty. Combat and management difficulty are set separately; Normal is the default since patch v0.4.19. See difficulty.
- Harvest the wagon and research. The starting wagon holds the cogwheel for your research table, and Basic Wood Processing unlocks the Goddess Statue. See research.
- Recruit a fourth settler. Check background, talents and diet before you pay. See races and backgrounds.
- Sleep, then dive. Enter the dungeon rested and fed, and pause the moment a fight turns. The Red Monster Rat waits on Floor 2.
- Fix clay and mood early. Farm Acid Slogels for clay and build private rooms before your settlers reach level 4. See mood and stress.
Guild archive
Data Pages
Races
Human, Lizardman, Elf and Lycan: bonuses, aptitudes and diets.
ROSTERBackgrounds
Every backstory with its perk, drawback and weapon proficiencies.
SKILLSSkill Trees
Weapon and magic trees, sub trees and the skills documented so far.
LEVEL UPInscriptions
All four inscription tiers from the Goddess Statue, with patch changes.
ARMORYEquipment
Weapon and shield stats from wood and bone to copper and Arcron.
DUNGEONBestiary
Monsters and bosses by region, with their drops.
DUNGEONRegions & Abyss
Veil of Silence, Festering Burrow, the Abyss and the four regions still to come.
SUPPLYResources
Where to get clay, stone, copper, mana stones and cogwheels.
SPECSPlatforms & Steam Deck
PC, Mac, Deck, consoles, controller and multiplayer status.
DATARoadmap & Patches
Updates 4 to 6, the 1.0 target and every patch since launch.
Field notes
Full Guide Index
Guides
- Dungeon Settlers Abyss: How to Unlock It and What's Inside — Unlocking it, 20 floors, chests and Mana Saturation
- Dungeon Settlers Beginner Guide: Your First Week — Difficulty, research, recruits, first dive and key controls
- Dungeon Settlers Party Builds: Tank, Healer and DPS — Tank-DPS-healer, four fire mages, nature, archers
- Dungeon Settlers Bosses: How to Beat Every Boss — Red Monster Rat, Alpha Acid Slogel, Giant Stone Golem and more
- Dungeon Settlers Demo: Is It Still Available? — The demo timeline and why it was pulled
- Dungeon Settlers Camping Kit: Can You Pack It Up? — Single use, dismantling, and resting without one
- Dungeon Settlers Combat Tips: Pause, Auto Skills, Stuns — Pausing, auto skills, energy, stuns and focus fire
- Dungeon Settlers Difficulty: Combat vs Management — Two settings, five levels and the v0.4.19 default change
- Dungeon Settlers Depletion and Dungeon Stay Explained — Floor depletion, Dungeon Stay and how to rotate
- Expand Your Base in Dungeon Settlers: Goddess's Tears — Goddess's Tears, purification research and hidden islands
More guides
- Dungeon Settlers Food Guide: Diets, Farming and Spoilage — Diets, Consume Policy, farming and spoilage
- How to Level Up in Dungeon Settlers: Mana Stones and Cap — Goddess Statue, offerings, talents and the level 4 wall
- How to Get Clay in Dungeon Settlers (Early and Late) — Acid Slogels, Predatory Frogs, Region 2 and merchants
- Dungeon Settlers Near Death, First Aid and Surgery — Near Death, first aid kits, surgery and permadeath
- Dungeon Settlers Merchants, Gold and the Merchant Table — Guild Merchant, the 500-gold scale and early gold
- Dungeon Settlers Mods: Toolkit, Save Editing and Plans — Tic's Settler Toolkit, save editing and Update 5
- Dungeon Settlers Mood, Stress and Treatment Expectation — Stress, mental breaks, Treatment Expectation and fixes
- Dungeon Settlers Research: Table, Books and Early Nodes — Cogwheel, indoor table, books and the first nodes
- Dungeon Settlers Room Quality: Private Rooms and Temples — Room types, Poor to Decent quality, workshops and temples
FAQ
What is Dungeon Settlers?
Dungeon Settlers is a dark fantasy strategy game by the small studio CanOpener, published with WhisperGames. You build a settlement on corrupted land, then send a party of up to four settlers into randomised dungeon floors with real-time-with-pause combat. Dead settlers stay dead. It entered Steam Early Access on 4 September 2026.
Is it Dungeon Settlers or Dungeon Settler?
The title is Dungeon Settlers, plural. Searches for Dungeon Settler, dungeon-settlers or Dungeon Settleers all mean the same game. It is sold as 地城拓荒 in Chinese, ダンジョンセトラーズ in Japanese and 던전 세틀러즈 in Korean. It is not related to The Settlers series.
Is Dungeon Settlers multiplayer or co-op?
No. It is single-player only. Steam lists Single-player, Steam Cloud and Family Sharing, and there is no online mode, co-op or PvP in the Early Access build.
How This Wiki Is Kept
Dungeon Settlers Wiki is an independent, unofficial fan resource for Dungeon Settlers players — not affiliated with CanOpener.
- How we verify: numbers come from CanOpener's Steam patch notes and roadmap, developer replies on the Steam forum, the Steam store data, or a named video with its date. Stats that were published for the demo are labelled as demo values, and anything only one player has reported says so.
- Update cadence: every CanOpener patch note is read on the day it goes up and checked against the races, inscriptions, bestiary and resource tables; Steam review counts and the roadmap are re-read weekly.
- What we don't do: no tier list and no score of our own. We cannot play-test every build, so we do not rank races or classes, invent drop rates, or fill in a boss name that nobody has published.