Most patch notes are boring. Fixed a bug that stopped a menu from opening properly. D.Va's Defense Matrix doesn't last as long. Wukong's attack speed is 10 percent slower. That's the usual stuff, chronicling important but dull balance changes across years of a game's life. And then there are patch notes like this: "Added cat butchery." "Made all undead respectful of one another." "Tigerman does not have ears."
That's the good stuff.
Those are the kinds of wonderfully crazy patch notes Dwarf Fortress has given us over the years. Determined to top the absurdity of Dwarf Fortress's bizarre changelogs, I put on my deerstalker, grabbed my magnifying glass, and set out to find the strangest patch notes in the history of PC gaming. These absurdities are the result.
Rimworld
Alpha 12
- Colonists will visit graves of dead colonists for a joy activity.
Alpha 16
- New alert: Unhappy nudity
Alpha 17
- Raiders will no longer compulsively attack doors.
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Conan Exiles
Patch 15.2.2017
- Rhinos should no longer try to walk through players
Patch 15.2.2017
- Emus now give less XP
Patch 23.02.2017
- Players can no longer use chairs to travel great distances
Update 24
- Imps, ostriches and other non-humanoids no longer go bonkers if you hit them with a truncheon
Update 25
- Seeing dead people can now lead to great rewards
Update 28
- Fixed a small issue where a player in some instances could walk underwater.
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Rust
Update 149
- Bucket no longer hostile to peacekeepers
Update 152
- Pumpkins only have 1 season (instead of 7)
August 28, 2014
- Bald inmate digging grows hair bug fixed
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Terraria
1.2.0.2
- The game will no longer look for the square root of zero.
1.2.1
- Mice can no longer spawn in hell
1.2.3
- Red Stucco no longer spreads corruption.
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The Sims 4
02/04/2016
- Sims carving pumpkins or working at a woodworking table will no longer ignore Sims who die near them.
02/04/2016
- Babies will no longer send text messages congratulating your Sims on their marriage, engagement, or pregnancy.
01/12/2017
- Confident children will no longer get a whim to practice pick-up lines.
05/25/2017
- Babies will no longer change skin tone when they are picked up.
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Don't Starve
January 29th 2013
- Darts and poop won't magically accumulate at the world origin.
October 1st 2013
- You can no longer trade with sleeping pigs.
November 19th 2013
- You can properly deploy or murder captured butterflies
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Ark: Survival Evolved
254.9
- Beers can no longer be eaten by Dinos
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The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
1.2
- Taking items from dead owned creatures is no longer a crime
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World of Warcraft
1.3.0
- The quest NPC Khan Jehn no longer becomes confused and unresponsive
1.4.0
- Roast Raptor now has an more appropriate inventory sound
2.1.0
- Fixed an error where some characters appeared to be drinking while standing up
2.4.0
- Zapetta will no longer become confused about whether the zeppelin in Orgrimmar is arriving or leaving
3.1.0
- Yaaarrrr! now has a detailed tooltip
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Uplink
1.314
- Fixed : Dead or jailed people don't answer their phones
1.35
- Fixed : LAN Spoof progress graphic overflow
- Fixed : Time freezing and unclickable buttons on computers running for several weeks
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Everquest
July 10, 2001
- Reevaluated the values of the various fish fillets
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August 15, 2001
- The Giant Tree Flayer is now Large instead of Tiny
December 6, 2001
- Fixed a bug that was preventing characters from being bald
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Two Worlds 2
1.4
- Horse behaviour - improved
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Battlefield 1942
1.2
- Bots do not jump in and out of vehicles anymore
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Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
1.02
- Dead party members will no longer show up later in the game. What with thembeing dead and all
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Black and White
1.1
- The word "Death" no longer said when villagers die of old age
- Creature doesn't become constipated if you punish him for pooing
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No One Lives Forever 2
1.3
- Fixed problems with camera rotation after slipping on a banana
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Hitman: Codename 47
Patch 1
- Dancer in "Gunrunner's Paradise" is no longer confused by dead bodies
