History GoodBadBugs / SimulationGame

** Toady's other favorite bug involved a farmer walking to a furniture stockpile, picking up a bed, then walking to a farm plot and '''planting the bed''' as if it were a seed.

*** The "on fire" bug becomes particularly dangerous/hilarious when combined with a fortress's highly-flammable booze stockpile. Which dwarves regularly visit for a drink... moreso if extreme heat (from, say, ''fire'') is making them thirsty...
** You can also site your fortress overlapping with a human town... then proceed to undermine their buildings, causing them to collapse, and raid the rubble for fortress materials. Where this enters Good Bad Bug territory is the fact that the humans ''don't care'', and you can massacre their population, destroy their city, and steal the shattered remnants of their belongings without their losing the "Friendly" status.

*** While the carp have stepped down, [[http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=101243.0 giant sponges have taken up their mantle.]] Since the engine can't handle an unmoving animal properly and has some issues with determining the death of creatures without body parts or blood, they'll push your dwarves to death and are immune to normal weaponry. Even more ridiculously, examination of their code indicates that they can be ''ridden on as war beasts'', though nobody has reported any invaders using spongy mounts. The hilarious nature of the threat, along with its nigh-invulnerability, have made them nearly as famous as the carp of old.

** A typical fort in the 31.10 version is less than 200 Z-levels tall. The ultimate metal, adamantine, is only found deep underground. An erratic bug in world generation resulted in a location having a 2200+ Z-level tower of adamantine shooting into the sky. [[http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=61507 Forum Thread]]

** Things get ''really'' hilarious if there are duplicate creature entries after modding. You can end up with mysterious, typeless "meat", the extinction of the turtle, and even a fortress where instead of dwarves, you start out with extremely dwarfy elves.

** Heat doesn't kill you by burning, it does it by melting your fat. This has lead to a bug where if all the fat is melted off of a character without them dying (surprisingly actually easier done than it sounds) they become effectively immune to fire long term.

** ''HM DS'''s 1 Billion Gold glitch: Hiring the Fishing Sprites during Winter, then shipping junk items (items that ship for 1G each) during a day when they're working for you will set your money level to 1 Billion.

* ''DwarfFortress'', [[PerpetualBeta due to its nature]], has numerous, numerous GoodBadBugs in its current release and has had many more in previous versions. Special mention goes to the following:

** The absurdly overpowered throwing. A character can mangle a body part and brutalize enemies' internal organs with a pebble, a coin, or even vomit. Throwing was nerfed in the new version, but now you can pinch people's heads off.

** The [[FanNickname affectionately named]] "[[ChunkySalsaRule Dwarven Atom Smasher]]" exploit. It is caused when anything is left underneath a drawbridge and gets smashed. This has become something of an AscendedGlitch, to the point where the developer has added ContractualBossImmunity to this on some of the more powerful monsters.

** [[LegendaryCarp The carp.]] [[OhMyGods Dear Armok,]] [[KillerRabbit the carp]]. The glitch was caused by a quirk of earlier versions -- any physical activity buffed all physical stats, so carp, which were always swimming, were ridiculously powerful. [[ToServeMan They would end up eating the dwarves like piranhas.]]
*** The carp, though its [[MemeticMutation legacy lives on]], has been {{Nerf}}ed. However, its mantle has been taken up by an even bigger and more hilarious KillerRabbit: the giant sponge. Due to not having a nervous system or blood, they cannot be killed through attacks. Giant sponges also, ''somehow'', have the ability to [[FingerpokeOfDoom push dwarves to death]]. They can only be killed through air drowning or being encased in obsidian. Even more ridiculously, examination of their code indicates that they can be ''ridden on as war beasts'', though nobody has reported any invaders using spongy mounts. The hilarious nature of the threat, along with its nigh-invulnerability, have made them nearly as famous as the carp of old. DF players, being the inventive sorts they are, have found uses for them as buffer zones and training dummies. Oh, one more thing. Evidently, yes, ''[[NonHumanUndead they can be zombified]]''.
--> Without a nervous system, the only thing they can feel is ANGER.

** Numerous balance issues, to the point where there is one recorded incident of [[CharlesAtlasSuperpower beheading a]] [[LivingStatue Bronze Colossus]] using a thrown [[RidiculouslyCuteCritter Fluffy Wambler]].
** The "quantum stockpile" glitches, allowing a sort of HyperspaceArsenal. There are numerous ways to achieve this, but one of the simplest ways is to just have a minecart dump all of its contents onto a single tile.

** Vampires don't need any sleep food or water to survive but they count as members of a fortress still, it only took a short ammount of time for players to figure out that if you set vampires to a burrow then wall them in they make your fortress effectively immortal as long as the vampire doesn't go insane.

*** The carp, though its [[MemeticMutation legacy lives on]], has been {{Nerf}}ed. However, its mantle has been taken up by an even bigger and more hilarious KillerRabbit: the giant sponge. Due to not having a nervous system, they cannot be killed through attacks. Giant sponges also, ''somehow'', have the ability to [[FingerpokeOfDoom push dwarves to death]]. They can only be killed through air drowning or being encased in obsidian. Even more ridiculously, examination of their code indicates that they can be ''ridden on as war beasts'', though nobody has reported any invaders using spongy mounts. The hilarious nature of the threat, along with its nigh-invulnerability, have made them nearly as famous as the carp of old. DF players, being the inventive sorts they are, have found uses for them as buffer zones and training dummies. Oh, one more thing. Evidently, yes, ''[[NonHumanUndead they can be zombified]]''.

* ''TheSims'' can be quite amusing when it bugs.
** ''[[TheSims The Sims 2]]'' has a great bug where the aspiration reward that temporarily boosts toddlers' intelligence got "stuck" once in a while and left the player with a supersmart kid that learned skills at triple the speed. It was fixed in a recent expansion pack.

** TheSimsMedieval had a minor but fairly helpful one just after the release of the expansion. One quest makes you create a food item called Boiled Goo, but if your kingdom wasn't involved in the War a Sim could actually make it any time without the ingredient from the quest. Since it gave a small positive buff it could be an alternative to eating Gruel, which gave a negative one. This has been fixed; Boiled Goo can now only be made in the quest.

** ''A Wonderful Life'': Cook with Ruby Spice as the only ingredient, and it will create a duplicate Ruby Spice, which can be sold for a tidy sum.

** The [[FanNickname affectionately named]] "[[CrunchySalsaRule Dwarven Atom Smasher]]" exploit. It is caused when anything is left underneath a drawbridge and gets smashed. This has become something of an AscendedGlitch, to the point where the developer has added ContractualBossImmunity to this on some of the more powerful monsters.

* Before being patched, in some games of the ''SilentHunter'' franchise (the ''3'' and ''4'', this troper thinks) when one destroyer rammed your submarine to sink it (a tactic used in RealLife, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Dreadnought_%281906%29#Career even by a battleship]]) ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhREnipM8XY the destroyer, not you submarine, went to meet Davy Jones]]''
** This troper also remembers an interesting AI bug while playing the mission that had you in the middle of the main Japanese fleet during the battle of Leyte Gulf. While getting in position to torpedo the heavy battleship ''Yamato'', a destroyer located on the other side of ''Yamato'' started an attack run against the submarine, ramming right into ''Yamato''. Nasty metallic noises started to sound, and ultimately the Yamato ''sank the destroyer without even stopping or attempting to change course''.

** In the original you could make a floating house, and do it without console commands. Place a bunch of pillars down, and then build your house on top of them. You can then delete the pillars, and the house will remain standing. You've wasted a floor of your house, but you can always use that space for one giant swimming pool.

*** Other flying objects too, like the coconut Crab COB.

** This troper also remembers playing the single mission that had you in the middle of the main Japanese fleet during the battle of Leyte Gulf and how while posing to torpedo the heavy battleship Yamato a destroyer located behind her started an attack run against his boat. Both the Yamato and the destroyer collide, nasty metallic noises started to sound, and the Yamato ''sank the destroyer without even stopping or attempting to change course''

* ''SimCity 2000'' had a bug involving the use of a joke cheat code. In the first ''SimCity'' game, typing "FUND" gave you some money, but ''Sim City 2000'' instead offers you a loan at 25% interest (very, very bad idea). However, the game also dynamically adjusts what interest rate you get on regular loans by examining your current loans. Get a few of these joke loans, and the dynamic interest overflows and goes negative. A loan with negative interest? It means you get paid every year for having debts!

** And broken and fixed and broken... depending on your expansion pack setup, it either is rare/fixed, happens fairly often, or happens ''every time you use the item''.

** The Nannies were ''quite'' glitchy in the sims...they would do shit like light the house on fire, feed babies that were full, ignore the babies, stick around the house indefinitely, etc.

* Before being patched, in some games of the ''SilentHunter'' franchise (the ''3'' and ''4'', this troper thinks) when one destroyer rammed your submarine to sink it (a tactic used in RealLife, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Dreadnought_%281906%29#Career even by a battleship]]) ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhREnipM8XY the destroyer, not you submarine, went to meet Davy Jones]]''

** Also, limbs (but not hands or feet) turn invisible if the starting joint isn't connected to the torso. Somebody made a whole range of [[RaymanianLimbs Rayman-based]] creatures this way!

** In a similar vein, cash-on-hand can also overflow, suddenly shifting from 2 billion on hand to 2 billion in debt. The AI companies are not smart enough to begin wasting money once it approaches this number.

* ''TheSims'' can actually be ''quite'' amusing when it bugs, actually.

** You can even delete a sim with that code. Or make people swim in the air. Or walk on water, sleep in midair, delete homework and bills (place them on a table, then delete the table with moveobjects on), or have them eat nonexistant food/ use nonexistant items. You can delete the PlumBob, have them use a toilet/bathtub/etc that isn't there, have them walk in midair, kidnap a school bus or fire truck or police car (place it in a closed room and voila, instant permanent decor), you can kidnap passerby or move around your own Sims, layer objects on one space... it's endless. You can delete all your Sims if you want to, although then you just have a lot sitting there... You can kidnap any of the people who come to the house (That Social Bunny thing, the psychlogist, whatever) and... well, basically you can move around or delete ''anything''.
** You can reportedly delete the little censor-pixel thingy, too. [[{{Squick}} If you like that sort of thing...]]
** The Sims is pretty much glitch central if you think about it. [[{{Nightmare Fuel}} Like when you put the stretch skeleton cheat on the dog and its tongue explodes through the back of its skull.]]

** In the third installment of the clubs and night expansion, Late Night, children of Vampire Sims, learn [[{{pun}} inhumanly]] fast. This can make the game dull quick since the child can complete his lifetime wish before even aging.

** ''HM 64'''s Dog Glitch: You can raise Karen's Heart Level to red in a single day by continuously showing her your dog. ([[IfYouKnowWhatIMean Not like that]], [[FreudWasRight you pervert!]])

* Most ''HarvestMoon'' games tend to have at least two or three bugs each. These are usually among the annoying kind, but a few fit in this category. Among them:

** In the third installment of the clubs and night expansion, Late Night, children of Vampire Sims, learn [[{{pun}} inhumanely]] fast. This can make the game dull quick since the child can complete his lifetime wish before even aging.