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What's going on over at dwarf fortress? (lemmy.world)
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[-] makeshiftreaper@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago

Dwarf Fortress bug reports are incredible. Since this is lemmy I'm sure people have heard of the alcoholic cats but it's a fun reread

I just can’t beat the drunken cat bug... That was the one where the cats were showing up dead all over the tavern floor, and it turned out they were ingesting spilled alcohol when they cleaned their paws.

I think that bug explains very well just how deeply complex Dwarf Fortress really is. Drinks can be spilled. Some drinks have alcohol. If cats step in something it sticks to their paws. Cats clean their paws, causing them to ingest what's on them. Enough alcohol will kill a cat. Put together: dead drunken cats.

I vaguely remember that part of the problem was the game didn't differentiate between licking a small amount of ale and drinking a whole glass. So the cats were basically chugging a beer each time they cleaned their paws

[-] DupaCycki@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

This might be the best advertising I've seen for this game, and now I want to try it.

[-] piranhaconda@mander.xyz 1 points 1 week ago

It's on sale on steam right now. I said screw it and am diving in mostly blind, only watched one video on steam after reading this post. Wish me luck

[-] GianBarGian@feddit.it 1 points 1 week ago

Good luck bit you won't be able to dive in blind, it's far to complex to do it without tutorials and so on. It's a bit hard to get into it initially as the learning curve is steep and the UI clunky. (I played several years ago though so hopefully it improved) Also just for people to know the game is open source and free (like in free beers) if you don't want to buy it on steam. On Steam you support the developers though

[-] msage@programming.dev 4 points 1 week ago

Or how carp was overpowered, and could take down entire squad of dwarves that wandered too close to water.

The carp stands up.

I need more DF bugs, that game is such a gem. Bought it 3x on Steam, just to support devs even more. Apart from Patreon I mean.

[-] pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 week ago

Tarn mentioned a couple of his favorite bugs in this interview:

My favorites are the one where the farmer walked over to the furniture stockpile, grabbed a bed, walked over to his farm and planted it, and the one with the injured hammerer. The hammerer is the dwarven executioner. When both of his arms were broken and he was unable to hold his hammer to administer Dwarven Justice, he still went ahead with the punishment, but he bit his victims. This included shaking his head vigorously and tearing their arms off, which he then held in his mouth for years.

[-] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

What the fuck is this game I am not capable of evening

[-] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Work enthusiasim companies expect for minimum-wage be like.

[-] Dojan@pawb.social 2 points 1 week ago

When I read "injured hammerer" I initially read hammer, which made me think of an ARK Survival Evolved bug from years back. This was more unhinged though.

Regardless; vehicles, I believe, are basically just dinosaurs without a lot of the dinosaur-ish abilities, as far as the code is concerned. At least that used to be the case. When rafts were initially implemented, they'd forgotten to disable the hunger functionality on them, because over time your raft would starve to death.

[-] cecilkorik@piefed.ca 1 points 1 week ago

One of the few games so special that even bugs improve the experience.

[-] vortexsurfer@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

My favorite bug ever.

Tarn once explained it in more detail: the game's code is object oriented, and the small amount of beer on a cat's paw inherited all the variables of a full mug of beer. And the game uses a creature's body size + amount of alcohol ingested to calculate/simulate drunkenness (all the way to alcohol poisoning and death).

[-] piyuv@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Oh my god, I didn’t know how complex Dwarf Fortress is (I’ve played rimworld so I’m familiar)

[-] Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 week ago

I’ve seen and picked up describing Rimworld as Dwarf Fortress for babies (positive). Sometimes I want a baby game! Like, 1000+ hours of a baby game. Don’t judge me.

[-] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 1 points 1 week ago

Yeah Rimworld is definitely my go to if I want to play DF but don't have the energy to deal with the complexity of DF. Both are great.

[-] cecilkorik@piefed.ca 1 points 1 week ago

Yeah, no, it's ridiculously, nonsensically complex. In the most delightful and unexpected ways. Like, it's not necessarily complex in the ways that you think it is or should be complex. It's complex in ways that you never even would've imagined. For no real reason. Just because.

[-] flandish@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

I’m digging rimworld and have df owned but odd sometimes the names of things are “fuzzy” to my eyes. maybe font, coloring, whatever … I just can’t find myself connecting to the names. I’ll keep trying though.

[-] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Check your resolution and scaling settings if it's literally blurry. If you're not using an integer multiple of your monitor's native resolution, fonts can become hard to read because they don't scale evenly into the pixels available. Sometimes games launch for the first time with weird defaults for resolution, so worth having a look if you haven't already.

[-] C8r9VwDUTeY3ZufQRYvq@sopuli.xyz 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

IIRC, the devs re-used code for dwarves blinking, which resulted in cats licking their beer-soaked paws at the same rate as blinking. Even a small amount ingested per lick at that rate led to alcohol poisoning.

[-] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Why was the game tracking when dwarves blink wtf??

[-] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

so it knows for how long dwarves are affected by spilled beer in their eyes, duh

[-] Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 4 points 1 week ago

Thats metal as fuck

[-] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago

For anyone anyone who wants a good idea of how fucky Dwarf Fortress is go listen to the Jabroni Mike stream on Boatmurdered. I will spoil nothing.

Remember E stands for Elephant.

[-] TootSweet@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

I haven't seen the one by Jabroni Mike, but Fredrik Knudsen has a good breakdown too.

[-] ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

The real gold were the bugs we met along the way.

Eg. 4th November release notes:

  • Hospital patients and babies don't shut off the brains of people carrying them, again.

Classic babies

[-] Bahnd@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

My favorite was

"Cats randomly dieing... Alcohol poisioning ?"

Turns out fur had the same liquid container code as mugs, and the minimum size was a pint...

[-] cecilkorik@piefed.ca 2 points 1 week ago

I feel like that has vastly deeper meaning than it was ever intended to. A philosopher or sociologist could probably write their masterwork with that title someday.

[-] saltnotsugar@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

This sounds like a lyric in the most epic metal song of all time.

[-] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

It’s even better because it’s kind of true. Kids believe the weirdest shit and most of the time when they realize they were wrong, they just correct their misconceptions without explaining them to anyone. The next time a kid asks you how something works, ask them how they think it works; it’s like listening to Calvin’s dad’s explanations of the world.

[-] Redacted@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago

Ah the fish wrestling game

[-] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Some bugs are so good, you leave them in.

[-] mlg@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

[-] W3dd1e@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago

If you’re interested, No Clip, a YouTube channel, made a 4pt documentary about Dwarf Fortress. He’s not my favorite documentarian, but I still thought it was interesting.

https://youtu.be/MxV24so-dw8

[-] W3dd1e@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago

I just love this game. I don’t have the time to play but I love reading the weird shit that happens in it.

[-] wjrii@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

I don't seem to hear as much anymore, but for a long time this was me with EVE Online.

[-] W3dd1e@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago

I never really played that one or followed the stories on it, but I always thought it might be a good fit for me because I remember there were a lot of excited players when Excel integration was announced.

A user base excited about data and spreadsheets? Hell yeah.

[-] tburkhol@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

I kept reading r/Eve for years after winning. Seemed to slow down after the casino war, then the Mittani left. Just today I see that Pandemic Horde is disbanding.

[-] scintilla@crust.piefed.social 1 points 1 week ago

I think eve might be winding down honestly. New player experience is still fucking awful and the people that had time and money in the past to dedicate to eve seem to be moving on.

Not saying it's going to die soon probably just a gradual slow down.

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Lyrics that would fit neatly into a thrash metal band song.

[-] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Better than the one where werewolves dected hell below and thus climbed scared on trees?

[-] radiouser@crazypeople.online 1 points 1 week ago

That sounds like a pretty standard event from my memory of playing DF lol

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