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Urist Sonuvagimli

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Monarch Butterfly
« on: June 19, 2014, 08:35:01 pm »
Dwarves of the Pale Spears have quite an exquisite cuisine:



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How in the world did they manage to extract butterfly brain? Let alone 5 of it!? This gives me Boatmurdered flashbacks...

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Re: Monarch Butterfly
« Reply #1 on: June 19, 2014, 10:09:44 pm »
I hadn't played dwarf fortress for more than a year, and picked it up again.

First game, the dwarven caravan comes.

Barrel of Sparrow Blood

Barrel of Sparrow Blood!

That was when I knew I was playing Dwarf Fortress again.

The problem with sparrow blood, as opposed to monarch butterfly brains, is it's just about plausible.
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Re: Monarch Butterfly
« Reply #2 on: June 19, 2014, 11:07:10 pm »
You can get bumblebee brains too.
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Re: Monarch Butterfly
« Reply #3 on: June 19, 2014, 11:34:31 pm »
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Urist Sonuvagimli

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Re: Monarch Butterfly
« Reply #4 on: June 20, 2014, 12:23:06 am »
But what makes such ridicilous food items appear?
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Re: Monarch Butterfly
« Reply #5 on: June 20, 2014, 02:27:14 am »
I believe it is because those creatures have to have brains to work, and the caravan just brings meat items from any creature they have access to.

Thus, bee brains.
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Re: Monarch Butterfly
« Reply #6 on: June 20, 2014, 03:04:22 am »
Maybe it is just the name of a kind of food for dwarves, instead of actual brain. Sweetbread is not bread.
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Re: Monarch Butterfly
« Reply #7 on: June 20, 2014, 11:26:06 am »
Well, what part of the body do you think dwarves consider to be the brain if not THE brain? I would say liver, but those are already defined.
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Re: Monarch Butterfly
« Reply #8 on: June 20, 2014, 11:47:56 am »
Quote from: §k on June 20, 2014, 03:04:22 am
Maybe it is just the name of a kind of food for dwarves, instead of actual brain. Sweetbread is not bread.

Sweetbreads are indeed not bread, but this is not just a Dwarven thing.  It was a Human thing first.
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Re: Monarch Butterfly
« Reply #9 on: June 20, 2014, 05:32:08 pm »
Chunky Monkey ice cream has almost no monkey in it.
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Re: Monarch Butterfly
« Reply #10 on: June 20, 2014, 07:47:16 pm »
Was it Boatmurdered where the monarch butterfly flew in and blocked the entrance?
I think it was, but I'm too lazy to check.
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Re: Monarch Butterfly
« Reply #11 on: June 21, 2014, 09:32:33 am »
Quote from: Dampe on June 20, 2014, 07:47:16 pm
Was it Boatmurdered where the monarch butterfly flew in and blocked the entrance?
I think it was, but I'm too lazy to check.

Yes, it was Boatmurdered. A butterfly jammed the door that have stopped a horde of elephants beforehand. I guess it explains how dwarves got the brains - the butterfly must be pretty big...
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Re: Monarch Butterfly
« Reply #12 on: June 21, 2014, 10:00:05 am »
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Re: Monarch Butterfly
« Reply #13 on: June 25, 2014, 07:22:06 pm »
Quote from: Urist Sonuvagimli on June 19, 2014, 08:35:01 pm
Dwarves of the Pale Spears have quite an exquisite cuisine:



"Chopped Giant Cocka"
Goddamnit.
Just...Goddamnit.
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Re: Monarch Butterfly
« Reply #14 on: June 26, 2014, 07:16:16 pm »
it's been a while, but from what i remember:

you cant make them in game, because creatures of a low enough size (or any vermin creature) does not drop all the organs that larger creatures do.  Small enough creatures dont even drop bones.

World gen, and by extension the imports you get from other civs, they abstract some of this away.  they dont bother to check if something can drop organs or components, they just take any tissue it might have and then process it into a potential footstuff.

I think in the next release blood barrels and bug brains will no longer be available.  Unless you are from a culture that will process blood into food?  I'm not sure, I remember reading something about this but I cant remember the details.  Not sure why you wouldnt have black pudding.
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