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Nightwind

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Inspired from nethack
« on: May 11, 2009, 11:23:14 pm »
Lets give the ice living people a small advantage...

IF you have a block of ice and make it the floor of a stockpile, food spoil speed reduced.

IF you have a block of ice and you include it in an existing stockpile, food spoil speed reduced slightly.
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Re: Inspired from nethack
« Reply #1 on: May 12, 2009, 12:06:44 am »
But ice blocks don't melt indoors... so on any map with a freezing winter, you can harvest ice blocks and then use them as permanent refrigerators...
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Re: Inspired from nethack
« Reply #2 on: May 12, 2009, 12:07:12 am »
Maybe in the future when temperature flow and related stuffs are fully implemented, Toady will implement this feature (namely food receive less damage the colder it gets).
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Re: Inspired from nethack
« Reply #3 on: May 12, 2009, 06:15:42 am »
That's why I was just pushing at reduced damage.

Right now it's a slightly interesting challenge to use it if it went in because there is no way to MOVE the chunks of ice, other then to dump them.

Though if you made a 1x1 dump, designated one block as a dump item, waited for the move job, canceled the forbid, removed the dump, and repeated...
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Re: Inspired from nethack
« Reply #4 on: May 12, 2009, 06:53:14 am »
Quote from: kcwong on May 12, 2009, 12:06:44 am
But ice blocks don't melt indoors... so on any map with a freezing winter, you can harvest ice blocks and then use them as permanent refrigerators...
That's how it was done historically, for those who could afford to employ ice cutters and build an ice cellar.
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Re: Inspired from nethack
« Reply #5 on: May 12, 2009, 09:45:57 am »
My father told me stories about people selling regular iceblocks during summer.

And Ice blocks melt indoors in my Df.
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Re: Inspired from nethack
« Reply #6 on: May 12, 2009, 05:26:59 pm »
I thought food already spoiled slower in cooler areas?  I might be mistaken. 
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Re: Inspired from nethack
« Reply #7 on: May 13, 2009, 01:19:32 pm »
I am under the impression that food which is placed on a stockpile never spoils, even if it is not something that stockpile accepts.

I saw this with fish and a rubbish pile.  I wanted to rot some purchased fish all the way to bones instead of having them eaten, as I wanted a few stacks of 25 bolts instead of many stacks of 5.

After dumping the fish on the rubbish pile, they lasted at least two seasons without rotting.  I dumped them again to a different zone by the edge of the pile, and they rotted quickly.  The next year, I purchased more fish and dumped them in the second zone.  Again they rotted quickly.

This is not proof, but it's what I believe happens.
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