All production is done in kind, and dwarves take from common resources at will even if that means you want to wear so many crowns that you can barely walk. The only non-communist part is the nobles, but their titles are fake, and if you don't give them a dungeon or police all they can do is be sad (and be involved in tragic accidents). I tend to kill them off until all I'm left with is a mayor again, and they're democratically elected.
Ngl, if they ever add back in the capitalism mechanics, I'd mod it out immediately. It's my little bronze age drunken communism simulator.
Yeah, I don't think it'll ever be added back in. Capitalism leads to alot of logistical issues
in dwarf fortress
I would like to point out that Toady previously made the very funny Liberal Crime Squad.
don't forget to yeet your nobles using a drawbridge, it's fun for the whole fortress
Dwarf Fortress devs themselves effectively defied capitalism and the game was simply donationware for the first 20 years of game development. Always respect when devs are able to do that and commit to it.
The official graphical versions now actually cost money on Steam, but they still release the underlying game for free (and plenty of free graphic mods out there if ASCII isn't modern-graphics enough for you).
I have a feeling they'll make the game open source when they die. Dwarf Fortress is their life's work, and they just want it to grow. If I recall they made the map generator open source.
i think they've mentioned in the past that the code will be donated and go open source after they've died. although i guess it would be torture to work on a 700,000 line 20 years old non-standard c/c++ codebase with almost no documentation with so many intricacies that touching one part will almost certainly introduce a bug in an unrelated place. i hope they get people onboard before they pass it on to the community.
Oh, the map generator is open source? I've always thought it would be rad to use as a jumping off point for building a D&D setting to play in, but using the game for that is impractical.
I think so, but I've never looked into it personally. I remember hearing someone mention it before but I could be wrong.
I found a YouTube link in your post. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
Wow the dev started from creating a fun game about dwarves to simulating the inevitability of the failure of capitalism and the liberation of the workers.
Full support to the dwarven proletariat
