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[Yoink]

This is dwarven alcohol we're talking about here... I imagine it would be highly toxic!

[Naryar]

this is the greatest anti-catsplosion feature yet

[Puzzlemaker]

This is absolutely hilarious!

The only thing that makes this a "bug" is the high level of occurrence.  Maybe some tweaks to make it so splashed syndromes aren't as "strong"?

[wobbly]

I'd say it's working as intended.  Cats are vulnerable to such things in general - they warn that a cat stepping in a puddle of antifreeze once is enough to kill it if you don't wash its paw off manually.

Except cats in an old fashion pub or inn is a normally thing. I mean presumably they do end up ingesting alcohol in just this kind of manner & it's not really healthy for them, but they don't constantly drop dead. I'd say keep it but tone it down a bit.

[PDF urist master]

Since Cats use their tongues to clean themselves, another solution to this is to remove their tongues.

[Yoink]

Since Cats use their tongues to clean themselves, another solution to this is to remove their tongues.

Might as well do it when you geld 'em.

[steel jackal]

you could stop the issue entirely by quarantining cats to pastures so they don't get splashed with alcohol. Also Larger cat populations means more adoptions means more cat deaths means greater stress levels and tantrum spirals.

why not just set cats to "pet not available" in the animals section of the Z menu? if that is how that works anyway

or you can just cull ALL the animals that arnt pets and gelid all the ones that are

in my fort i kill every animal but a breeding pair of the largest species i have for their meat and other products

[martinuzz]

Wow, just wow. I'd say working as intended, I suppose people really caring aout their felines could always remove the cleaning tag from the cat raws.

I wonder what will happen if you were to add the tag to dwarves.

[zeves]

hahaha Dwarf fortress never disappoints.i suppose a temporary fix would be to have car wash mists outside the taverns.

[suburbanplankton]

hahaha Dwarf fortress never disappoints.i suppose a temporary fix would be to have car wash mists outside the taverns.

I saw mention in another thread of 'banisters' being something that we can build now...if that's the case, then we should be able to place multiple waterfalls at strategic locations within the taverns, so that the mist keeps the floors clean (or at least dilutes the spilled alcohol), with the banisters keeping drunken revelers from falling in.

[miauw62]

emergent gameplay :V

I'd say it's working as intended.  Cats are vulnerable to such things in general - they warn that a cat stepping in a puddle of antifreeze once is enough to kill it if you don't wash its paw off manually.

Except cats in an old fashion pub or inn is a normally thing. I mean presumably they do end up ingesting alcohol in just this kind of manner & it's not really healthy for them, but they don't constantly drop dead. I'd say keep it but tone it down a bit.

yeah but people in pubs dont generally pour their drinks on cats, which our taverngoers appear to be doing.

[PDF urist master]

banning pets from the tavern or removing tongues from cats would still be the optimal solution, but that's a very dwarven idea and I could see it improving the reputation of the tavern

[Broseph Stalin]

why not just set cats to "pet not available" in the animals section of the Z menu? if that is how that works anyway

or you can just cull ALL the animals that arnt pets and gelid all the ones that are

in my fort i kill every animal but a breeding pair of the largest species i have for their meat and other products

The source of Catsplosions is that cats unlike other animals choose their owners instead of the other way around. Before gelding this meant keeping the population low and quickly culling the young before they found someone to follow around.

In any case keeping the cats out of the tavern is a limited solution, I've taken to penning them up in the food stockpiles because the above ground section of the fortress is coated with alcohol thanks to the duplicating smears and pools deal.

[therahedwig]

I'd say it's working as intended.  Cats are vulnerable to such things in general - they warn that a cat stepping in a puddle of antifreeze once is enough to kill it if you don't wash its paw off manually.

Except cats in an old fashion pub or inn is a normally thing. I mean presumably they do end up ingesting alcohol in just this kind of manner & it's not really healthy for them, but they don't constantly drop dead. I'd say keep it but tone it down a bit.

I suspect it might be that alcohol in real life evaporates pretty quickly, if not gets stale. If you have alcohol thrown over yourself, you'll end up as a sticky mess because of the left-over sugars inside the drink, but you won't be able to get buzzed of your sweater in a few hours time.

So real life cats that would get splashed just wouldn't ingest so much alchohol due to there not being enough on them by the time they start cleaning.(Also, I imagine real life cats are much better at avoiding drunk tavern goers splashing drinks everywhere.)

[Deon]

You can also mod in dwarven cats and make them immune to alcohol poisoning.

P.S. This is why I love this game