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[NTJedi]

I don't know why these are available in the game, but I'd like to see even with todays technology someone prepare ant brains as a meal or micro_scape together enough fat from flies for it to be visible to the human eye.

[Blizzlord]

It is a known bug, but still as hilarious as the first time.

[nightwhips]

Let's just say that the mountainhomes have some legendary "small animal dissectors" with not a lot to do. Or, maybe a lot to do, depending on your perspective.

[smeeprocket]

I always buy insect brains, etc because I love the idea of how exotic and impossible it is. I definitely which you could prepare them yourself.

[NonconsensualSurgery]

I'm at about competent in small animal dissection. Gimme a Maine lobster and common implements of lobster disassembly and I'll get you the brain (esophogeal ganglions) on a toothpick along with a whole spoonful of fat. Yummy.

Now, flies are the stuff of legends...

[olopi]

Looks like this Animal disectors are Legendary+5 with mood...

[rtg593]

Hey, check out the history of the world (meaning, earth). Fossils of dragonfly's with 6 foot wingspans. I'd say a brain from a bug that size might just made a tasty and filling snack (ya, I just puked a little in my mouth typing that last part, lol). With the worlds we gen being so incredibly young, who's to say there aren't rather massive bugs out there to be eaten? :-D

[simonthedwarf]

I'm at about competent in small animal dissection. Gimme a Maine lobster and common implements of lobster disassembly and I'll get you the brain (esophogeal ganglions) on a toothpick along with a whole spoonful of fat. Yummy.

Now, flies are the stuff of legends...

Can you please post a picture of you eating said lobster brain

[Excedion]

Everytime I see it in the trading menu I think of this

http://youtu.be/Uj9CysSSsps

[janglur]

And this is what I think of when I have a beekeeping industry.

http://youtu.be/h03wzwBiJbE


Dwarves don't care 'bout stings!

[wierd]

Fly fat..... I have an idea how you could harvest it cheaply, but not with the level of tech available to dwarves.

(Collect freshly dead flies, slightly smash the exoskeletons, load them into an in-line filter canister, then slowly pass supercritical co2 through them.  Supercritical co2 is just ordinary co2 compressed above 200psi, and held above 70f. The combination creates a "fluid like gas" that flows, and has special solvent properties for nonpolar molecules, like fats and oils. Release the pressure in the collection tank slowly, and the fat will fall out of "solution" for collection.)

[Sting_Auer]

Fly fat..... I have an idea how you could harvest it cheaply, but not with the level of tech available to dwarves.

(Collect freshly dead flies, slightly smash the exoskeletons, load them into an in-line filter canister, then slowly pass supercritical co2 through them.  Supercritical co2 is just ordinary co2 compressed above 200psi, and held above 70f. The combination creates a "fluid like gas" that flows, and has special solvent properties for nonpolar molecules, like fats and oils. Release the pressure in the collection tank slowly, and the fat will fall out of "solution" for collection.)

>Implying dwarves can't do this.

[Sadrice]

Unfortunately, it is a right pain to do, mainly because the CO2 needs to be pumped, and if temperature, or more usually, pressure falls below the required levels, it turns into dry ice, jamming the pump, which then explodes as the dry ice sublimes.
There are much more convenient defatting solvents, like ether, which can then be evaporated from the product and collected for reuse.

[saltmummy626]

its like little tiny caviar. im surprised it doesn't cost more to buy and make.

[Sting_Auer]

Guys, I figured it out!


The dwarves just dip a few thousand insects into lava, then let it cool and mine the stone away!