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[Toybasher]

As I was playing I noticed A dwarf can survive without most organs but the brain, heart, lungs and guts. I was thinking perhaps wounds to the liver can cause a dwarf to stick to water for a while untill the liver fully heals up. "But Urist Mctoybasher!" you ask, "the dwarf will just rest and drink water anyways!" Now here is where I think the dwarf should still drink water AFTER his liver is healed untill a couple months later, where the liver is able to filter all the booze out, then Urist Mcboozeguzzler will stick to booze once again.

Edit: Perhaps only severe liver damage effects them? (yellow or worse liver injury)

[Safe-Keeper]

A buddy of mine has only one working kidney, and if she drinks as much as a couple glasses of beer, she'll spend the following day throwing up horribly.

Something to think of for DF -- kidneys take damage in battle or in an accident, no more booze for that dwarf.

[Kagus]

This is, of course, only if we assume that dwarves have the same metabolic system as humans.  Which, as they've proven more than a few times, is simply not the case.

[Leotto]

I figured dwarves were walking livers/kidneys and even their muscles filtered alcohol.

[Hyndis]

Dwarves do not have a bloodstream, they have an alcoholstream.

They are alcohol powered beards.

[Toybasher]

If they were walking livers, then why do they have livers in the first place! We need these organs to be important, Its lame how they live with about all those organs missing completly unaffected.

[Toybasher]

By the way is it possible for a organ to be "lopped off"? If so can you pick it up and throw it at people?

[Safe-Keeper]

Or eat it !

Urist McStarving cancels eat grass -- found own kidney.

[praguepride]

Humans need livers because alcohol is a poison to them, it binds with other chemicals into a nasty poison. I'm no biologist but I think what happens is that our liver contains enzymes that break the alcohol down into a less harmful state.

If that enzyme was present naturally within a dwarf's body/bloodstream and/or they had multiple enzymes, the liver would not need to "process" alcohol at all. For example, corn plants have something like 4x the alcohol dehydrongenase (alcohol neutralizing enzyme) then people. So even though it doesn't have a liver, alcohol does nothing to a corn plant.

Cat's don't have any alcohol neutralizing enzymes, so even though they have a liver, alcohol is a deadly poison to them. Something like a thimble of whisky can kill an adult house cat, and an alcohol amount that would just make an average person drunk would kill even a lion, despite the lion's massively larger size.

As said above, dwarve's aren't just little humans with beards. A very simple alteration to their genetics would mean that alcohol is processed completely differently. Now, water for healing makes sense as every living thing needs water and alcohol does tend to dehyrdate the body, so perhaps it has nothing to do with liver/kidneys but just simple hydration levels as to why dwarves can only drink water when injured.