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[Man In Zero G]

They don't need to eat or drink, but they should be able to if they want to. And they're the sort who should not have any aversion to getting blind drunk (not that anybody gets drunk really - yet) and gorging themselves on fine dwarven cuisine for the sheer pleasure of it, as their personalities skew toward immoderation.

But they don't strictly need to. They won't die or anything if they don't.

However, they're probably not going to because of coding. But they should have the option to.

[LordBaal]

I for one, consider them being well, beings of flesh and bone they should sustain themselves not unlike dwarves and humans. And drink and sleep to.

I didn't knew they can't eat. I always remove the no-eat/drink/sleep from their raws, so far the thrive just as fine but didn't know they where incapable of it.

[Witty]

Goblins are minor demons (IIRC), so it'd make sense that they don't need to eat or drink. However, they are demons. Like Man said, it'd make sense sense if they had the option to (and they probably will if you remove the appropriate tags). I mean, they can vomit, so it'd make sense that they ate for some reason every once in a while. Even if it isn't for sustenance.

[vjmdhzgr]

I'm quite sure if you enable playing as goblins in adventurer mode you can definitely still eat. You just don't need to.

[Dirst]

Obviously goblins' desire to eat and drink will be inversely proportional to how well-fed your mortal citizens are.  Because they're evil little buggers by nature.

[Max™]

Probing with a pickaxe is a totally legitimate surgical technique, how else would we find out what is inside demon skulls?

[Spish]

I can see food being to goblins as booze is to dwarves. In so far as they don't really need it, but can become rather violent without it.

[Knight Otu]

So, what Toady means to say is - the scholars of the world would trepan the miner's idea and say it wouldn't trepan out?

[MrWiggles]

I can see food being to goblins as booze is to dwarves. In so far as they don't really need it, but can become rather violent without it.

Except that dorfs need booze. They become physically and mentally unhappy without it. Whereas gobos never need to eat.

[Putnam]

In that case, I can see booze being to goblins what it is to dwarves as long as dwarves are around. Remember, goblins are cruel!

[Amperzand]

Incidentally, is there any intention to expand the adventure mode medical system?

Because I think it'd be more interesting to need to treat your wounds properly and wait a reasonable time for them to heal fully, rather than sleep being like Wolverine.

[Ariachus]

This is a question for Toady and the design team but I was wondering if it would make sense for observer skill to factor into target priority. I recently mentioned this on a post to the DF reddit because a poster was complaining about a dwarf repeatedly going for a head attack that was being deflected by a goblin wearing an iron helm. Would it be logical for the dwarves to be able to tell how likely an attack might be parried or blocked ie factoring into target as target priority-(chance of deflect or block)*(current observer skill)/(max observer skill). I only mention this because dwarves occasionaly get stuck going for the head of a helmed enemy as opposed to the unarmored leg/hand/whatever else. I just thought this would be a reasonable way to implement a little common sense, which dwarves are not known for admittedly, in the attack priority. Admittedly I'm not familliar enough with the system to try and create a mod for this, and i'm pretty sure this is hard coded, but with my moderate degree of programming knowledge I thought this might be an easy and logical addition.

[Putnam]

That's more a suggestion.

[Max™]

Plus it's just part of the programming that unconscious foe = headshot for the AI.

[PFunk]

I had a thought with respect to text engraving. Could it be a feature one day that noble mandates could be directed by the nobles or the manager to be engraved on slabs and placed in communal areas as was often done with ancient laws? These could then be removed as they deprecate and placed in the garbage, or preserved in the library, or taken into annals by scholars, found by adventurers visiting ruins, as well as vandalized by dwarves who don't like the 'laws' and thus could be punished for it?