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[Magistrum]

Yes. Yes it is.

I remember when homosexuality came out that the rate was ridiculous high, maybe because toady wanted to be sure to see some instances while testing, so it was hard to get a breeding pair with you on embark, much less trough trading.

[Kagus]

Quite possible that he just forgot to tweak the numbers back after testing, yeah. But really, the game just wouldn't be the same without fun times like the Gibbon Era or Dwarven Weightloss Saunas.

[lethosor]

It wasn't a high rate of homosexuality - it was a high rate of animals being "unwilling to commit", leading to them not breeding, even though they were heterosexual.

[Rafatio]

We're hiding from the siege, so the humans are very bored there at the map edge, throwing tantrums to pass the time. Looks like tantrums never result in punches if something throwable is at hand. Most get dodged or reflected of course, but one ressourceful guy found a really effective weapon, forget heavy armor pieces, weaponize vermin:



Main source of death there is actually thirst, once insanity hits they remember that food and drink are things humans supposedly need. Its still a slow process to take out a whole siege, but construction of our trap tunnel is equally slow.

In completely unrelated news, Oja Lunchesstill became Lady of The Society of Cake, ruling a nearby village. I think I like her.

[Magistrum]

But really, the game just wouldn't be the same without fun times like the Gibbon Era or Dwarven Weightloss Saunas.

Not gonna lie, lost way more dwarves from trying stupid tricks than sieges.
Lava waterfall!

[scourge728]

Quite possible that he just forgot to tweak the numbers back after testing, yeah. But really, the game just wouldn't be the same without fun times like the Gibbon Era or Dwarven Weightloss Saunas.

May I have links to both of those?

[Kagus]

Uhh, they weren't specifically isolated events, just certain updates that had unexpected features, which resulted in a lot of people discovering said unexpected features, for better or worse. And I'm having a hard time finding the exact updates that featured these oddballs, since they weren't exactly listed on the roadmap.

The "Gibbon Era" was when Toady was fleshing out jungle mobs a bit more, and did some research to make sure everything was nice and realistic. This was when he discovered just how god damn many kinds of gibbon there are. In a heroic attempt to maintain his legendary standard of detail and realism, Tarn set about adding as many of them to the game as possible.

This resulted in a flooded animal pool for jungles, meaning that almost every single animal encountered in a semi-jungle environment was a gibbon in one way or another. And there were just so, so many gibbons...


The "Dwarven Weightloss Sauna" update was right around when flesh layers (skin, muscle, fat, hair) were first implemented. Temperatures were also being tweaked, and there were special provisions allowing creatures to treat air around lava as being much cooler than it actually would be, in order to allow for things like magma forges to exist and be used.

However, water conducts heat very well, and what people found was that dwarves (and other creatures) that were standing in water or that had a water covering from swimming or waterfalls were getting much hotter than those dwarves who stayed dry.

The reason these saunas were of the "weightloss" variety was because although not directly harmful/fatal (for the most part), the temperature these wet dwarves reached was higher than the melting point of bodyfat. This resulted in the fat layers inside living dwarves melting into a liquid state and then falling out of their bodies onto the ground, leaving the skin and other layers intact.

[scourge728]

Yeah I knew about the whole water melting fat thing, I just thought it was like Dwarven Child Care in that it was an organized attempt to exploit things..

[Kagus]

Oh, that happened too. People would remove all the fat from dwarves so that there'd be fewer "vulnerabilities" on dwarves, since fat could bleed or be otherwise injured. The weightloss saunas were honestly what eventually evolved into Child Care after a couple supersoldier programs.

[ReynTheLord]

Not much is going on inside my fort, honestly, but there is this... one... minor detail about the fort name


LANCEFONDLED? LANCEFONDLED! GOD DAMN.... OF ALL THE NAMES....

LANCEFONDLED! BRILLIANT ****ING NAME! WHAT'S NEXT, SCEPTERMOLESTED?

[Culise]

Oh, that happened too. People would remove all the fat from dwarves so that there'd be fewer "vulnerabilities" on dwarves, since fat could bleed or be otherwise injured. The weightloss saunas were honestly what eventually evolved into Child Care after a couple supersoldier programs.

Ah, fond memories.  As I recall, weren't hot embarks downright lethal because the rain would boil the fat right off dwarves? 

[Dorsidwarf]

Year 1, first caravan just left. 20 pop. They all arrived within a week of me opening the tavern. AAaaugh!!

[Fleeting Frames]

Must be some story. At least you have some weapons from them

[ReynTheLord]

I barely have anything set up, forts brand new, not even a whole year in... and, mid winter.



Welp. Good game

[pikachu17]

I barely have anything set up, forts brand new, not even a whole year in... and, mid winter.



Welp. Good game

Just lock the door, wall it up, and hope whoever who is stuck outside can deal with it.