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Slappy Moose

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Food utensils/cutlery and dishes
« on: April 29, 2009, 08:11:15 pm »

Well, currently dwarves eat food with their hands straight from barrels and off of tables.

What if you could make forks, knives, plates and glasses/mugs (we already have goblets) out of wood, metal, and in the case of plates etc, rock?

It wouldn't be required to eat, but it would greatly increase the happy thoughts given to dwarves (Zaneg Thazor enjoyed drinking rum from a finely crafted marble mug, and eating a cat tallow biscuit off of a masterpiece iron plate.).

Tables could either be assigned utensils etc (for nobles) or there could just be a new type of cabinet, for the kitchen, where utensils etc are stored for everyone. After eating, perhaps someone with the cleaning job enabled comes by and collects the utensils, then washes them off in a well with soap (new use for soap and wells), or miasma has a smalc chance of appearing in a small cloud around the utensil.
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Re: Food utensils/cutlery and dishes
« Reply #1 on: April 30, 2009, 12:55:03 am »

We also already have mugs, goblets made out of rock are called mugs. But other then that I think all stuff you said are good ides.
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Re: Food utensils/cutlery and dishes
« Reply #2 on: April 30, 2009, 01:07:08 am »

This will be addressed in the bustling towns arc, I think.
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Re: Food utensils/cutlery and dishes
« Reply #3 on: April 30, 2009, 01:50:09 am »

thing is, i can't really see DF dwarves using any form of silverware. but those wussy elves and humans? suuuure.

A REAL Dwarf eats using his BEARD as a plate!

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Silverionmox

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Re: Food utensils/cutlery and dishes
« Reply #4 on: April 30, 2009, 04:01:30 am »

then washes them off in a well with soap

Remind me not to drink water in your house ;). They should do the dishes in a bucket or something. And until there is dirty water, the water should just be used up. Otherwise, nice. If it's implemented we'll also need cabinets in the dining hall to store all the tableware in.
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Re: Food utensils/cutlery and dishes
« Reply #5 on: April 30, 2009, 10:33:21 pm »

thing is, i can't really see DF dwarves using any form of silverware. but those wussy elves and humans? suuuure.

A REAL Dwarf eats using his BEARD as a plate!

Love, jakkarra
Well of course it wouldn't be silver; the forks would be like small steel pitchforks and the knifes would be little steel axes, both encrusted with undead elephant tusk spikes and stuff.
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