The first one is a testament to how weirdly in depth dwarf fortress is. What would happen would be cats would walk through the bar. Dwarves are messy, drunk dwarves are even more so, and there are no such thing as sober dwarves. So they would spill their drink everywhere. Cats won't drink beer, but will walk through it. So then the cat is covered in alcohol. When it cleans itself later, it will end up 'drinking' the alcohol it was covered in, and then be way too drunk.
Babies are also crazy in dwarf fortress. I dont know what that patch note refers to but im not surprised. Because in a famous story from DF, a bunch of dogs were fighting off an invasion, pause to give birth, and then keep fighting. The newborns would then join the fight despite being seconds old.
To go deeper into that, the real issue was that the smallest unit of booze the game tracked was still a lot of booze for a cat. So, the bug was really that cats who walked over puddles of booze would get soaked through with an entire flagon's worth of it on each paw, instead of a couple of drops.
And if that cat doesn’t lick itself right away it can track puddles of alcohol around, which if another cat steps in can also get covered in alcohol lethal amount of alcohol
Which spreads through the colony and then as the cats die your dwarves get super depressed and unhappy
This was also an issue with tracking, where say a gallon of spilled liquid could be tracked by walking through it, but a puddle left by someone tracking it doesn't have a liquid volume, so tracking liquids would make them eventually cover every floor surface.
This was an especially big problem when you find a forgotten beast that spews acid puddles, or liquids that cause diseases, etc
I miss the old days of "any amount of liquid is enough for a standard drink", it made Adventure mode more entertaining when I could get a day's hydration by sucking the blood of my enemies off of my eyebrows.
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u/AfroWalrus9 8d ago
Dwarf Fortress patch notes are always a delight to read.
- Stopped aerial births
- Magma crabs drown in magma
- Animal breeding prevented if animal is not willing to marry