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Stall of the mountain king

For a while, Tarn and Zach Adams couldn’t figure out a peculiar bug: why the poets, bards and other entertainers in the new release of Dwarf Fortress would saunter into a tavern, completely naked. “It turns out that they had left their civilisation for some reason – and if you don’t have a civilisation, you don’t have clothing, you don’t have anything,” Zach explains. “And so when [the game] tried to load them and say, ‘OK, what kind of clothes are you gonna wear?’, it [decided] they’re all naked.” A rather important detail – but one that, as the Adams brothers point out, wouldn’t be

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