Dwarf Fortress is a management game about running, well, an underground fortress full of dwarves. You might think that the best way to earn money in a game like this is by digging for gems and metal and forging high-quality weapons and jewelry, but no - the real money is in food production. The devs have just issued a nerf to meal value, and are already (quite jokingly) apologizing for wrecking everybody's food-based economy.
Version 51.06 went live this week, and among other things, it "decreased prepared food item value." In other words, the meals created by dwarven chefs no longer fetch quite as much money as they used to. "We also apologize for destroying your food-based economies in this update," publisher Kitfox Games, which helped bring the graphical version of Dwarf Fortress to Steam, says on Bluesky. "Didn't realize so many of you were living that way."
