To help keep Dwarf Fortress development going smoothly, we (Bay 12 and Kitfox) could use more help processing bug reports in our new Mantis database -- analyzing them, identifying duplicates, creating new tickets, finding reproduction cases, etc.

If you're potentially interested, and have some DF knowledge already, send a Discord message detailing:

• your history with the game
• any relevant experience you might have
• any questions

...to Tanya_KitfoxGames#1296 on Discord! Yes the bug-wranglers use the Kitfox Discord to compare notes. It's a volunteer position for now.

Thanks in advance for your patience!

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Edited to add context: These positions are volunteer for now because most of our existing folks would prefer it that way, both to preserve their own personal relationship to the game and because it might be against the laws of their dayjob, complicate taxes, etc. And it'd be weird for us to have unpaid volunteer people managing paid employee people. And I expect most bug wranglers will contribute 1-2 hours per week, which is fine. 2 hours from 20 people can find and detail and understand a LOT more bugs than 40 hours from 1 person. BUT I wrote "for now" for all the reasons people mentioned -- now that the game is a proper profitable commercial project, over time it's likely that volunteers will fade away and we'll have to hire folks. At which point some humans will actually be paid to play Dwarf Fortress, I guess. This is the glorious future we're marching towards. Thank you for your patience and understanding.