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[Grand Sage]

elephant men then? also, thats a lot of usefull insight you have there! do you know if the amount a vampire drinks is somehow related to the vampire's size? so, would a human vampire drink more blood than a dwarven one?

[Saiko Kila]

elephant men then? also, thats a lot of usefull insight you have there! do you know if the amount a vampire drinks is somehow related to the vampire's size? so, would a human vampire drink more blood than a dwarven one?

I don't think it is related to vampire's size, because it is partly random. The same vampire can drink different amounts when save-scummin, even from the same victim, and the difference can be bigger than the difference between humans and dwarves. However, I was testing only dwarven vampires, and also dwarven victims (not intentionally, most of my people are dwarves).

As a side note, if the victim is still alive, it never wakes up, because vampires prevent their victims from waking as long as they are drinking, and at least 6 hours after they've stopped.

[Grand Sage]

thx for the insight i will probably play around with vamps more when the big wait starts. since they are immortal, i imagine that i might end up with a rather old world

[Bumber]

What about a vampire elephant man?

And do vampire mosquito man combat bites count for satisfying thirst? I recall that they can become vampires by biting vampires.

[Eric Blank]

They do indeed contract vampirism by biting vampires because the syndrome/interaction is passed on through the blood they just drank, but they do not satisfy their thirst through their attack iirc. Still have to "feed" on an unconscious victim.

[Saiko Kila]

Yes, mosquito attacks draw blood but do not reset the vampirism counter. But even if they were able, that wouldn't amount to much - single attack from mosquito guy draws less blood than one tick of vampire drinking (so about one minute, and vampires drink at least ~2 hours). I've seen such attacks able to bleed people only in modded creatures. Even vampiric Forgotten Beasts in vanilla suck more.

As for big animal men, I know them only from adventurer mode. The biggest vampire I had was grizzly bear man, and he was sucking the same amount as a dwarf. But fortress mode is handled differently, so it would require testing.

[Loud Whispers]

They do indeed contract vampirism by biting vampires because the syndrome/interaction is passed on through the blood they just drank, but they do not satisfy their thirst through their attack iirc. Still have to "feed" on an unconscious victim.

Getting serious crimson court ideas from this information