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[Toady One]

I've been slowed again, but this time it's good.  I found a very obscure spot in the code where I somehow forgot to put in a "+=".  This caused the physical size of creatures to be evaluated to zero instead of their actual size.  Among other things, this changes how blood loss works.  This vampiric bug actually sucked all of the blood out of the creatures instead of making them slowly regain blood over time.  That's why blood loss has seemed so unreasonable -- lose one drop and you lose it all.  Creature weights were also calculated "dry" (without counting blood), so every critter will gain some weight.  In particular, humans will all be overweight until I balance things again (they are around 90kg now).

I've also finished first aid -- I found this bug when I noticed applying pressure didn't help at all

I might still make the deadline, but most likely I'll release tomorrow.

Back to work (corpse processing!)...

[Toady One]

Oh well, I guess the day is over PST.  I'm still going to try and finish "today"...  maybe around 4AM my time  I'm loaded on coffee, so there's no sleep in sight anyway.

[Toady One]

I just broke a hand axe off in a leaf-tailed gecko, walked over to the body, picked up the thing's broad sword that was dirty with my blood, and gutted its upper body.

I've programmed dismemberment and gutting.  I still have skinning and butchering to go

Right now things work part by part, so you can't make a full one-piece skin from the entire body for instance.  That will have to wait.  I just put in the variables I need to code that, so it won't be too hard later.

Back to the grindstone...

[Toady One]

More gruesome updates:  Now I (as a titan) went over to an Ice Dragon and broke my long sword off on it, then beat it to death.  Retrieving a shard of my blade, I proceeded to use it to scrape off the Ice Dragon's face.  I then wielded the face and tried to kill another dragon with it (it didn't work out well for me).

Indeed.

Butchering is all I have left now...