Dwarf Fortress has been available to a wider audience on Steam for one month, and I've elected to mark the occasion by spending a few hours browsing Reddit for the most ridiculous stories players have had to tell. Friends, the bounty here is beyond imagining.
Many of these stories are basically one-liners, like the dwarven queen who has spent half-a-century holding - and winning - a crossbow-throwing contest. Or the nude goblin who walked into a bar with nothing except for a copy of a book called "Never Underestimate the Goblin".
Taverns seem to attract nudity, as with the case of the naked monster slayer named Fecici Nutclap, who has even generated his own fanart courtesy of user AetherealVanguard.
- Dwarf Fortress devs "apologize for destroying your food-based economies" after nerfing meal prices: "Didn't realize so many of you were living that way"
- Dwarf Fortress' Adventure Mode finally leaves beta on Steam this month, turning the notoriously complex strategy game into a brutal open-world roguelike RPG
fecici_nutclap_monster_slayer from r/dwarffortress
But there are longer stories, too, such as KyleChief's tale of attempting to torture a particular annoying dwarf child to death in a room full of 30 tragic cats. The end result? The dwarf adopted those cats and became cured of depression. Heartwarming stuff.
We've all probably watched Lord of the Rings enough to know that elves and dwarves hate each other. Friendly banter over orc kills has nothing on i_am_law's necromancer dwarf, however, who has continued resurrecting and killing the same elf over and over. This process has repeated at least 121 times.
Then there's the goose that felled a titan. Finding a titan about to attack, Jacob YNWA evacuated his dwarves to the interior of their fortress. "I completely forgot that I left my goose in the field outside and accepted that they would swiftly be eaten. However, after checking on all my dwarves to make sure they made it inside safely I panned back over to my goose to see that he had killed the titan in a 1v1 battle. It was a short fight, the titan broke both the goose's little legs and with no way to move the goose latched on to the titan's neck and ripped it apart." (Never mind the fact that the titan was likely made of leaves.)
To conclude this roundup, I'm going to share Speedwagon's Steam review. You might've already seen it. If not, it's gold. "Two giant boars wandered in and ate a bunch of children. They then also killed and ate three dwarfs who attempted to help the children. My mayor then walked up to the giant boars and killed them both with her bare hands. She has now won six straight elections in a row."
We'll see if all the new players manage to top the worst thing the Dwarf Fortress community ever did.
