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[Blakmane]

I wonder if they'll have amputation as a health-care option.  Maybe for severely mangled limbs that are losing a lot of blood, or to stop migrating fatal poison.

Well, the health care list does have:

# Surgery to remove rotten tissue

So if the rotten tissue is a limb, I imagine the result would be more or less an amputation.

I wonder if that has lead to some rather hilarious combinations, such as amputation of the rotten brain/spinal chord/spleen

[Sean Mirrsen]

There won't be amputation of a rotten brain or spinal cord because the patient will die if these parts begin to rot. That's, of course, without inexperience and misinformation factored in. So, a surgeon might see the brain turn purple and decide to amputate it, regardless of what caused the effect.

There might be even personality patterns for that, "likes to sever bodyparts", or something to that effect.

[Alfador]

Have you the brain worms?


 

[Agdune]

There might be even personality patterns for that, "likes to sever bodyparts", or something to that effect.

That makes me think of the fetish... or 4chan at least. Dwarfy anon coming in version 0.7!

[Arkose]

There won't be amputation of a rotten brain or spinal cord because the patient will die if these parts begin to rot.

The brain can definitely degenerate without the owner of said brain dying; to yank a line off of the Wikipedia article on Necrosis:

"Liquefactive necrosis is usually associated with cellular destruction and pus formation (e.g. pneumonia). This is typical of bacterial or, sometimes, fungal infections because of their ability to stimulate an inflammatory reaction. Curiously, ischemia (restriction of blood supply) in the brain produces liquefactive, rather than coagulative, necrosis, due to the lack of any substantial supportive stroma."

I could definitely see the Dorf Doc deciding that Urist needs the excess fluids drained from his/her skull after getting choked while sparring.

[Stromko]

I could definitely see the Dorf Doc deciding that Urist needs the excess fluids drained from his/her skull after getting choked while sparring.

Healthcare would hardly be complete without trepanation (piercing of the skull to relieve swelling, infected blood, or skull fragments after a head injury), though in medieval times it was also prescribed for mental illnesses and seizures. So there's certainly a possibility of medical malpractice. Fun!

[NeedsDF2GetThruWorkingDay]

peg legs, hook hands, and eye patches! 

YES! YES! A THOUSAND TIMES YES! Hotness and love.

[Lear]

peg legs, hook hands, and eye patches! 

YES! YES! A THOUSAND TIMES YES! Hotness and love.

What about peg faces?

[sweitx]

Latest Dev:

periodic attacks and toppled equipment. Up to five varied layers are placed at the intermediate level. It'll need to handle local realizations next.

... toppled equipment?  What does that mean?

[Walliard]

I think he's talking about Scamps.

[Footkerchief]

It's official, cats now have [BUILDING_DESTROYER:2].

[Pure_W]

It's official, cats now have [BUILDING_DESTROYER:2].

Oh... God...

*Runs screaming*

[qwertyuiopas]

Wow, I just finished reading through the whole thing.

That took a while.

Reminds me of when I read the whole original, only back then it wasn't 50 posts per page.


I wonder if there will be unique creatures defined in the RAWs where only one may exist at a time.
And if so, will there be a gigantic indestructable kitten that destroys stuff?

[Neonivek]

I wonder if there will be unique creatures defined in the RAWs where only one may exist at a time

There are many interesting ways to impliment that. Though I havn't heard much.

However in the future there will be a version of this by the way of "Randomised" creatures as well as "Alligned/Spherical" creatures.

[jockmo42]

I wonder if there will be unique creatures defined in the RAWs where only one may exist at a time

There are many interesting ways to impliment that. Though I havn't heard much.

However in the future there will be a version of this by the way of "Randomised" creatures as well as "Alligned/Spherical" creatures.

Yep. This is one of the features I look forward to the most. This and the lighting arc. The day I can watch dwarves bustling through my main corridor with light spilling onto them in all different colors from numerous gem-windows... It's gonna be sick.