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[Komra]

The gobbos are hanging around away from the edge of your viewable area, and hear the dwarves coming out to play.

Where does the rest of the bridge go when it is raised (creating only 1 z-level of wall)?

[Necro910]

The gobbos are hanging around away from the edge of your viewable area, and hear the dwarves coming out to play.

Where does the rest of the bridge go when it is raised (creating only 1 z-level of wall)?

The bridge folds like an accordion, which is also why it instantly crushes anything where the wall forms.

Why do frozen lakes form on volcanoes?

[Spaghetti]

Because heat travels sideways

What kills the animals meant to be butchered?

[Kromgar]

Because heat travels sideways

What kills the animals meant to be butchered?

A cleaver i picked one up from a fort i abandoned once.

[Komra]

Also, sharpened beards.

Which came first- the night creature or the transformative process?

[DrKillPatient]

Neither. The first night creature was caused by a goblin being hammered so hard that he flew backward into several other goblins, merging them all into one creature by the sheer force.

How do creatures hold multigrasp weapons without grasping them with multiple hands?

[Tersr]

They hold it in many spots with a single hand.

Why don't dwarfs have any form of schooling?

[jaxy15]

Dwarves are too dumb to even teach anything. Except combat.

Why doesn't fruit grow on trees in the world of Dwarf Fortress?

[Tevish Szat]

Why doesn't fruit grow on trees in the world of Dwarf Fortress?

Because they reproduce via spore, like (almost) everything else, thus removing the need to fruit.

Why don't megabeasts step on low-pop outposts?  You'd think they'd be easy prey...

[i2amroy]

Why don't megabeasts step on low-pop outposts?  You'd think they'd be easy prey...

Because the forests haven't been cut back enough to reveal the hidden armies of elves that killed the earlier ones.

Why do dwarves insist on wearing the one thing that is on !!fire!!?

[Broseph Stalin]

Clothing menacing with spikes of fire is super fashionable.

Why do dwarves think an active burrow alert is just a suggestion?

[Theifofdreams]

Because it takes awhile for the importance of it to filter through the beard, just like with any other suggestion the player makes.

Why does the Circus always attack when you open the Clown Car? Why don't they just wander in and check out the horrors you commit?
I'm sure we could create a mutually beneficial relationship based on us Exporting/Importing pain/cotton candy

[Tevish Szat]

If you're not bad enough for the clowns, you're prey.  If you're bad enough for the clowns, you're competition.  Either way, they're going to try to stomp you flat.

Why don't dwarves consider z-levels in deciding the "closest item"?

[BackgroundGuy]

All dwarves have ancestral dreams of the time someone gave them the [IS_FLIER] tag.

Why do dwarves like alcohol?

[Theifofdreams]

You try working in what amounts to a giant tomb, knowing that you'll eventually be over-run by abominations, waves of goblins, hellish beasts, tantrums, nobles, and worst of all, elves, without going to drink.
Alternatively: Because the beard needs the alcohol to function.

What would Dwarf Fortress be like without the [Alcohol_dependent] tag?