How Dwarf Fortress is built

Re:How Dwarf Fortress is built by bombcar on Thursday July 29, 2021 @06:36PM (#28002312)

Verily, the dwarf would pick up a cat to take it to the slaughterhouse, the cat would adopt the nearest dwarf (the one carrying it) and then the dwarf would slaughter the cat.

And get sad because his pet died. And then eventually start tantruming and a tantrum spiral would begin.

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Re:How Dwarf Fortress is built by alpaca128 on Friday July 30, 2021 @05:43AM (#28006212)

> And then eventually start tantruming

It's so crazy when you try to make dwarves feel great all the time and then the simulation comes up with some completely insane causal chain that messes up everything.

I once tried to isolate a miasma problem with a wall. Which works fine, unless the dwarf tasked with building the wall decides he needs a break, sleeps on the floor and then gets grumpy because he just slept on a hard surface in a smelly area.

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Re:How Dwarf Fortress is built by bombcar on Friday July 30, 2021 @09:27AM (#28007715)

This is why I always spent an inordinate amount of effort on my dining hall - get that thing fancy enough and the dwarves could endure quite a bit before they flipped.

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