Dwarf Fortress/Trivia

• Doing It for the Art: Tarn "Toady One" Adams has described it as being his "life's work", reportedly turned down six- or seven-figure deals to license just the name because he doesn't want it to be associated with anything but his life-long creation, and the idea of working for the next twenty years to release v1.0 doesn't bother him.
• Fan Nickname:
  • "Dorfs" for dwarves, "Dorf Fortress", "Urist McX" for any given dwarf, "Cutebolds" for kobolds, "Hidden Fun Stuff" for gateways to hell.
  • "Cotton Candy" for adamantine, "Clowns" for demons, and "The circus" for hell .
  • "Party People" for ghosts, due to a rather infamous incident.
  • "Goblinite" or "Goblin Christmas" for the vast bounty of meltable iron weapons and armors a Goblin Siege would bring, once your forces had killed them. No longer the case as of DF2010, however, as they now use mostly leather, and frequently use lesser metals for their weapons and helmets.
  • "Zombie Spirals" for a common occurrence when the player embarks in an evil biome that raises everything as undead. The more that get killed, the more undead there are to fight, until your dwarves are completely overwhelmed.
• Throw It In: When Toady One was testing out the code for adventurer mode necromancers, he discovered he could raise a butchered animal's skin as a separate entity. He kept it because "it makes about as much sense as a walking skeleton."
• The Wiki Rule: The Dwarf Fortress Wiki

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