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[Cotes]

The fact that aztec sacrifices could be shown their own hearts and still last long enough to be kicked down the stairs contradicts this fairly well. Those silly aztec priest.

If this is true it is because the heart was still connected to the body, not because you can stay conscious without any blood pressure.

After cutting a victims heart out atleast once a day they got very fast, and quite clearly blood pressure doesn't bottom out instantly, but by the part where they throw the victim down the stairs they were semiconscious or dead.

Hmm... I doubt there's much reliable evidence of those sacrifices, really. I mean, even if they had been documented to that detail either by the Aztecs themselves or the Spanish invaders, both definitely had motives for exaggeration.

But either way, when you outright destroy the heart or major arteries around it, yes, blood pressure does go down so fast it's near instant lights-out. Perhaps there is a possibility of staying conscious for couple seconds, but generally the combination of suddenly having no functioning heart and your largest arteries starting to gush blood outside your veins does take you out quite fast.

[Aspgren]

I really don't see why this would be implemented.

As it is now; heart wounds are always fatal. I've yet to have a single dwarf survive being struck in the heart it has simply never happened! They take a short while to die but what does that matter?

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

 I think it'd be better if it WASN'T fatal. Because imagine how awesome it would feel if your legendary miner was fleeing from a goblin into the hospital - and an arrow struck him in the heart.

 The goblin is slain within a second and thankfully the doctor was in! Urist McPatient is immediately evaluated, washed and ... well that takes so long time that he'd die anyway. There should be an "emergency" job that cancells everything else; "Urist McDoctor cancells sleep: responds to emergency" ... which should be an option, of course, since it's tiresome to have him run into goblin fire.

 I trailed off for a bit there. so I slapped a spoiler on it and there ya go.

[Toybasher]

I really don't see why this would be implemented.

As it is now; heart wounds are always fatal. I've yet to have a single dwarf survive being struck in the heart it has simply never happened! They take a short while to die but what does that matter?

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

 I think it'd be better if it WASN'T fatal. Because imagine how awesome it would feel if your legendary miner was fleeing from a goblin into the hospital - and an arrow struck him in the heart.

 The goblin is slain within a second and thankfully the doctor was in! Urist McPatient is immediately evaluated, washed and ... well that takes so long time that he'd die anyway. There should be an "emergency" job that cancells everything else; "Urist McDoctor cancells sleep: responds to emergency" ... which should be an option, of course, since it's tiresome to have him run into goblin fire.

 I trailed off for a bit there. so I slapped a spoiler on it and there ya go.

What about blue and yellow heart wounds? They are not fatal.

[Funk]

blue and yellow heart wounds are not the same as red.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Shown default* colors:

    NONE: No recorded active wounds on the part.
    MINOR: Any damage that doesn't have functional/structural consequences (might be heavy bleeding though).
    INHIBITED: Any muscular, structural or functional damage without total loss.
    FUNCTION LOSS: An important function of the part is completely lost, but the part is structurally sound (or at least partially intact).
    BROKEN: The part has lost all structural integrity or muscular ability.
    MISSING: The part is completely gone.


Source: http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/Wound#ixzz0vmE4yHxH

as you can see blue is for brusing.

[Toybasher]

blue and yellow heart wounds are not the same as red.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Shown default* colors:

    NONE: No recorded active wounds on the part.
    MINOR: Any damage that doesn't have functional/structural consequences (might be heavy bleeding though).
    INHIBITED: Any muscular, structural or functional damage without total loss.
    FUNCTION LOSS: An important function of the part is completely lost, but the part is structurally sound (or at least partially intact).
    BROKEN: The part has lost all structural integrity or muscular ability.
    MISSING: The part is completely gone.


Source: http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/Wound#ixzz0vmE4yHxH

as you can see blue is for brusing.

Heart function comepletely lost? Its obious! It needs to be made so stopped hearts are actually fatal or something.

[Medicine Man]

blue and yellow heart wounds are not the same as red.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Shown default* colors:

    NONE: No recorded active wounds on the part.
    MINOR: Any damage that doesn't have functional/structural consequences (might be heavy bleeding though).
    INHIBITED: Any muscular, structural or functional damage without total loss.
    FUNCTION LOSS: An important function of the part is completely lost, but the part is structurally sound (or at least partially intact).
    BROKEN: The part has lost all structural integrity or muscular ability.
    MISSING: The part is completely gone.


Source: http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/Wound#ixzz0vmE4yHxH

as you can see blue is for brusing.

Heart function comepletely lost? Its obious! It needs to be made so stopped hearts are actually fatal or something.

They also need to make it harder to stop organs.