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[Arx]

They memorise the layout from years of drudging around in it. You only see it for hours.

How is it that a dwarf capable of lifting a barrel to drink from it and hauling cinnabar (if slowly) cannot deck a goblin in one punch?

[origamiscienceguy]

The dwarves have strong lifting muscles, but weak punching muscles.

why is everything inevitable?

[UnicodingUnicorn]

If something is not inevitable it will not have happened.

Why is this question so popular?

[Dwarf4Explosives]

It was inevitable.

Why are so many of the questions here answered in a recursive/meta way?

[Button]

Why are so many of the questions here answered in a recursive/meta way?

Why are so many of the questions here asked in a recursive/meta way?

Why don't dwarves differentiate between kangaroo milk, kangaroo woman milk and giant kangaroo milk?

[origamiscienceguy]

Because none of them have alcohol in them (at least, I hope they don't)

How can a giant sperm whale fit through a fortification?

[Button]

How can a giant sperm whale fit through a fortification?

Someone slipped an abstinence-only "education" pamphlet into Toady's research.

(For those of you who live in sane places, sex ed in the U.S. often contains outright lies. A common one is that condoms regularly have holes in them big enough to let sperm through. When I was in school we got a handout about it, with an image of a sperm cell, and a circle 3 times its size representing the standard size of holes in condom latex.)

Why don't constructed fortifications have floors on top?

[Aslandus]

How are dwarves supposed to walk on something that crossbow bolts can fly through? Next you'll be suggesting they start walking on air!

Why can't I poison my crossbow bolts?

[Quartz_Mace]

How are dwarves supposed to walk on something that crossbow bolts can fly through? Next you'll be suggesting they start walking on air!

Why can't I poison my crossbow bolts?

You can, but it's difficult and requires a FB with deadly dust, careful containment, and cleaning stations.

Why did my attempt to poison bolts fail spectacularly?

[Baffler]

All the scientists involved in the experiment were contaminated with deadly dust and killed, and were therefore unable to record their results in a way comprehensible to others.

Why don't dwarves clean the interiors of surface buildings?

[Button]

Why don't dwarves clean the interiors of surface buildings?

All dwarven buildings are open on top, because they're designed for use underground. Therefore, time spent cleaning surface buildings is time spent in the dreaded sun.

What do dimple cup spawn taste like?

[pisskop]

Blue, of course.

  Why can't plump helmets be mashed into purple dye?

[origamiscienceguy]

Because they are not purple, they are actually a combination of red and blue at the same time. That is why their seeds are red and when dwarves eat them, they turn blue.

How can ghosts be murdered by a fell dwarf?

[Arx]

A dwarf in a fell mood is not a force of nature. They are a channel for the chthonic darkness beyond the stars and the universe, calling on the Black Thing with Seventeen Names that lives in the void at the heart of the multiverse. Bringing the power of the unknowable into the plane of Dwarf Fortress, they wreak works of despair and horror the likes of which this world can never know; so great and terrible they drive the viewer to insanity so deeply that they believe the creation has value. This power reaches beyond the mortal coil into the realms of the damned, allowing the crazed dwarf to harvest the soul of their chosen sacrifice. This is how such horrors as leather thongs menacing with spikes of ectoplasm come to be.

Why do dwarf children take so long to grow up? Survival of the fittest should ensure that the faster they grow, the longer they live.

[Magistrum]

Because that's a misconception, actually when a creature takes little time to mature it rarely gets big, muscular,  intelligent or anything useful, because it matures so fast. That's also the explanation to the thriving of homo sapiens over homo neanderthalis even though the later matured at 16 and grew stronger while the sapiens matured at 19/20 and were weaker and smaller, the sapiens took their time and developed skills, becoming better at fighter, spear user, dodger and shield user.



Why did I responded this seriously?