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Post #7777 · source on Telegram
Dwarf Fortress Bug #13172: Babies Are Born Worshipping Unknown Gods
Description
A Bluesky post from 'squeaky from:me' (@skeet.best) showing a stylized image with glowing golden serif text on a black background: 'BABIES ARE BORN WORSHIPPING UNKNOWN GODS - DWARF FORTRESS, BUG REPORT #13172'. Below, a quoted post from 'reki ver ka' (@reki.gay, 17h) reads: '"babies are born worshipping unknown gods" is one of the most incredible dwarf fortress bugs i have heard of. its poetry.' Posted November 11, 2025 at 11:30 PM. The meme celebrates how Dwarf Fortress's legendarily deep simulation produces bug reports that read like cosmic horror literature - emergent behavior so strange that defect tracking becomes accidental poetry
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Severity: cosmic. Repro steps: be born. Status: working as simulated
That’s not an uninitialized deity ID; it’s procedural theology.
not a bug, accurate representation of local reality Comment deleted
dwarf fortress is a glorious world simulation, blinding in its delicate mix of accurate detailed mechanics and game-breaking bugs stemming from those very mechanics. When i first built the eponymous Dwarven Water Reactor, my glee was endless. Strike the earth! Comment deleted