The new steam version of dwarf fortress is amazing and I fucking love seeing how many people are enjoying these silly little guys and their misadventures. So here is a random collection of things I love about dwarf fortress, it's community, and it's history. (Plus some personal anecdotes)
-That one time fish became one of the games greatest threats
-That one mod that brings deadly carps back
-Training dwarven children with "danger rooms" filled with wooden spikes
-New training mechanics being added to prevent players from throwing all their children into spike pits
-When players posted their best mermaid genocide blueprints, and the creators had to patch the game AGAIN to stop their players from commiting outrageous war crimes
-bOATS and the lack there of
-The game is under halfway done according to it's creators. The game has been in development for 20 years.
-not only do you have gay, asexual, and bisexual dwarves, but animals too. Wondering why you arent getting any chicks? Sorry, your rooster likes cock.
-That one time I wasn't thinking and built a baracks next to a waterfall and my military kept throwing themselves to their deaths
-No race is actually "evil." Goblins and animal people can even join your fort and become valuable citizens.
-The game being considered notoriously hard, but actually having extremely customizable difficulty settings. You will just get bored of everything going well.
-That one mod in the steam workshop that changes all the models to have giant tits
-The way dwarves will just refuse to do what you want them too
-Forts falling to their knees because cats kept adopting dwarves and having kittens until the game won't load anymore.
-The fact there are canonically no boats, but dwarves will continue to migrate to your haunted glacier year after year.
-Guiding nobles under a bridge so you can lower it and they are literally crushed out of existence
-pangolins are invincible, and your hunters will pass out from exhaustion before killing one.
-The steam version coming out with a glitch that causes archers to not pick up crossbow bolts, but instead bash their enemies to death with their crossbows.
-Anyone's first attempt at redirecting a brook
-The game will always be available for free. The ASCII version will stay available for free download on Bay12, and will continue to be developed alongside the steam version. The premium/steam version was introduced to help the creators afford medical costs and thousands of people came out to buy a game that has been free for nearly two decades, and always will be.
-When asked what plans the creators had now that they were millionaires, they both said they had been more focused on the dwarves than the money and don't even know what they will do with all of it, beyond take care of themselves and keep working on the dwarves.