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[WealthyRadish]

...seems normal.

[misko27]

Just a tooth in the mouth. It was believed in medieval times that it was connected to the eye. The theory is gone, but the name stuck. I see this all the time. Stil, why is it always dogs?

[WealthyRadish]

That explains so much.

I had this insane image in my head of a dog shooting teeth out of its eyes at the minotaur who was wailing on it...

[Garath]

a simple wikipedia search would have given the same info

[King DZA]

We get this question a lot here, and, contrary to popular belief, a dog's eye tooth does not actually reside in its mouth at all. You see, dogs in Dwarf Fortress have a row of sharp little teeth above their eyes in place of eyelashes. These are used as a defensive weapon against eye gouging, a common method of attack in the realm of Dwarf Fortress. A "Dog left eye tooth" is simply one of these teeth from above the dog's left eye.

The more you know.

[Garath]

We get this question a lot here. And, contrary to popular belief, a dog's eye tooth does not actually reside in its mouth at all. You see, dogs in Dwarf Fortress have a row of sharp little teeth above their eyes in place of eyelashes. These are used as a defensive weapon against eye gouging, a common method of attack in the realm of Dwarf Fortress. A "Dog left eye tooth" is simply one of these teeth from the dog's left eye.

The more you know.

marked D for Dwarfy

[WealthyRadish]

That explanation actually makes more sense, since the dog in question did indeed get gouged in the left eye 7 times, before blinking the dust.

[Corai]

We get this question a lot here. And, contrary to popular belief, a dog's eye tooth does not actually reside in its mouth at all. You see, dogs in Dwarf Fortress have a row of sharp little teeth above their eyes in place of eyelashes. These are used as a defensive weapon against eye gouging, a common method of attack in the realm of Dwarf Fortress. A "Dog left eye tooth" is simply one of these teeth from the dog's left eye.

The more you know.

marked D for Dwarfy

Someone add this to the dog article on dwarfipedia.

[buckets]

We get this question a lot here. And, contrary to popular belief, a dog's eye tooth does not actually reside in its mouth at all. You see, dogs in Dwarf Fortress have a row of sharp little teeth above their eyes in place of eyelashes. These are used as a defensive weapon against eye gouging, a common method of attack in the realm of Dwarf Fortress. A "Dog left eye tooth" is simply one of these teeth from the dog's left eye.

The more you know.

marked D for Dwarfy

Someone add this to the dog article on dwarfipedia.

Please don't.

[miauw62]

We get this question a lot here. And, contrary to popular belief, a dog's eye tooth does not actually reside in its mouth at all. You see, dogs in Dwarf Fortress have a row of sharp little teeth above their eyes in place of eyelashes. These are used as a defensive weapon against eye gouging, a common method of attack in the realm of Dwarf Fortress. A "Dog left eye tooth" is simply one of these teeth from the dog's left eye.

The more you know.

marked D for Dwarfy

Someone add this to the dog article on dwarfipedia.

Please do.

FTFY

[Saiko Kila]

That explanation actually makes more sense, since the dog in question did indeed get gouged in the left eye 7 times, before blinking the dust.

The name isn't scientific (very rarely used in papers, if at all), it's popular, I've changed my "eye tooth" to "(left/right) upper canine", you can do it in body_default.txt. Or leave it as it is.

[Mimodo]

I'm more worried about my dwarf who grabbed the goblin maceman's lower right back tooth with his upper left arm

[Headhanger]

Calling it a "dogs canine tooth" would also sound pretty confusing. It's a dog - surely they're all canine teeth!

[GhostDwemer]

Yes, a bit confusing, but "The pointy toof what they bite you wif" sounds even sillier.

[Loud Whispers]

I was hoping these threads wouldn't stop appearing >:]