If you’ve been following our Nate’s makes an attempt to construct a Dwarf Fortress zoo in the Basement of Curiosity, you may suppose it couldn’t get a lot worse between the paved-over Bird Hole and the monstrous bristleworm. Oh it will possibly. Two phrases: petting zoo. A future replace will add the power for folk to pet animals, y’see.
“Oh god,” Basement of Curiosity head keeper Nate Crowley responded.
“You can pet animals now,” builders Bay 12 Games stated in a development update post final week. We can see the video games business continues to reverberate with aftershocks from the impact of the ‘Can You Pet The Dog?’ Twitter account. But this wouldn’t be Dwarf Fortress if petting have been that easy.
“Necromancers can pet their zombie animals too, and the living can try too if they are foolish,” the put up continues. “Hmm, I think a necromancer might also be able to pet their zombie humanoids, due to how it does the detection.”
Oh good. Great. Lovely.
The put up additionally received into different progress on pets and mounts, and sure after all necromancer adventurers can journey beasties they elevate.
Given how the complexities of Dwarf Fortress can work together in shocking methods (a traditional instance being cats vomiting and dying all over pubs after walking across boozy floors then licking their paws clean), I’m positive horrible issues can occur merely when stroking a great boy. And I daren’t even think about the horrors ready ought to Nate attempt to make a petting zoo.
Petting ought to arrive in Dwarf Fortress sssssooonnnish? The game’s nonetheless free to download from its site. A premium model is coming to Steam with a price ticket to cowl new music, an official graphics tileset, and extra of Bay 12’s medical prices.
