<story><title>How Dwarf Fortress is built</title><url>https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/07/28/700000-lines-of-code-20-years-and-one-developer-how-dwarf-fortress-is-built/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mabbo</author><text>&amp;gt; What’s your favorite bug and what caused it?&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; A: It’s probably boring for me to say, but 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.&lt;p&gt;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&amp;#x27;s on them. Enough alcohol will kill a cat. Put together: dead drunken cats.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>devenvdev</author><text>Other amusing DF bugs:&lt;p&gt;Dwarfs trying to clean their inner organs (dwarf wounded, doctor closes the wound, dirt stay inside)&lt;p&gt;Undying children in the moat water (for years... just swimming there...)&lt;p&gt;Killer carps (there was a long time during which carps were really overpowered because constant swimming was buffing them up really good, dwarfs getting close to water sources were eaten by carps)&lt;p&gt;Catplosions (Tarn loves cats, cats reproduce, too many cats kills DF performance)</text></comment>
<story><title>How Dwarf Fortress is built</title><url>https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/07/28/700000-lines-of-code-20-years-and-one-developer-how-dwarf-fortress-is-built/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mabbo</author><text>&amp;gt; What’s your favorite bug and what caused it?&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; A: It’s probably boring for me to say, but 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.&lt;p&gt;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&amp;#x27;s on them. Enough alcohol will kill a cat. Put together: dead drunken cats.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pavel_lishin</author><text>Reminds me a little bit of something strange I saw in Rimworld - all of my dogs were developing liver cirrhosis!&lt;p&gt;It turns out that my dogs weren&amp;#x27;t alcoholics - it just happened to be that beer was the only food source they had zoned access to, so they were drinking it out of hungry desperation, and while it gave them enough calories to live on, it also gave them cirrhosis.</text></comment>