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[Nuclearjohnny]

I believe that if your remove all [BREATHE] parts, they will not need to breathe at all. That may cause your demon fish to walk on land though.

Still wouldn't be as terrifying as the carp. Unless you mod the carp to secrete blood and walk on land, then Armok save us all...

[Spectre]

I believe that if your remove all [BREATHE] parts, they will not need to breathe at all. That may cause your demon fish to walk on land though.

Still wouldn't be as terrifying as the carp. Unless you mod the carp to secrete blood and walk on land, then Armok save us all...

Now that's a sight I would like to see.

[CrimsonEon]

Wonder if you could somehow get Good Biome fish to secrete booze, and effectively have Booze rivers in Good Biomes.

A Dwarf can Dream...

[Quatch]

Wonder if you could somehow get Good Biome fish to secrete booze, and effectively have Booze rivers in Good Biomes.

A Dwarf can Dream...

and the aptly named goldfish. Maybe in magma pools?

[tfaal]

You could make them secret booze, but it wouldn't mix with the water, since booze isn't tracked as a water contamination type. If you had them swim in lava, you might be able to get plumes of boiling booze, but I'm not sure on that. If you managed to kill one of these guys in adventurer mode, you could lick their bodies. It wouldn't get you drunk unless you modded booze to be a confusion causing poison though. That is something I plan on doing, by the way.

[Leotto]

You could make them secret booze, but it wouldn't mix with the water, since booze isn't tracked as a water contamination type. If you had them swim in lava, you might be able to get plumes of boiling booze, but I'm not sure on that. If you managed to kill one of these guys in adventurer mode, you could lick their bodies. It wouldn't get you drunk unless you modded booze to be a confusion causing poison though. That is something I plan on doing, by the way.

It is literally poison after all…

[AbacusWizard]

You could make a fish that secretes blood, then give it the [SAVAGE] and [EVIL] tags. Then terrifying biomes will have rivers full of bloody water. Only problem would be that immediately after embarking, the river wouldn't be bloody because the fish will only start secreting once you embark. Adventurer mode would also have this problem.

It would be a minor issue really. May become a bigger problem with oceans unless they are chock full of fish (as lakes usually are) since it could become patchy. Then there's the seasonal cleanup.

That actually sounds perfect for a horror setting. The seven brave colonists arrive at the new site and begin digging, building, farming, etc., but then a few days later the Urist McFisherdwarf comes running back to the main camp screaming that the river is slowly turning to blood!

Then, at dawn on the summer solstice, all the blood in the river vanishes, as mysteriously as it appeared. The river is pure again... for a day or two.

I believe that if your remove all [BREATHE] parts, they will not need to breathe at all. That may cause your demon fish to walk on land though.

Still wouldn't be as terrifying as the carp. Unless you mod the carp to secrete blood and walk on land, then Armok save us all...

Now that's a sight I would like to see.

...from a safe distance.

Wonder if you could somehow get Good Biome fish to secrete booze, and effectively have Booze rivers in Good Biomes.

A Dwarf can Dream...

Would that be the River Brandywine?

[Lancensis]

If you managed to kill one of these guys in adventurer mode, you could lick their bodies. It wouldn't get you drunk unless you modded booze to be a confusion causing poison though. That is something I plan on doing, by the way.

No dice. Ingested poisons are not supported in the next version. Contact Poisons will work, but I doubt it'll do anything in fortress mode.

[NewoTigra]

and added parameters and parameter sets to make worlds that are surrounded by water on all sides for people that like that look.

Yay! 

I can finally make islands without endless footering and futtering with the parameters!

[Spiders Everywhere]

It would be a minor issue really. May become a bigger problem with oceans unless they are chock full of fish (as lakes usually are) since it could become patchy. Then there's the seasonal cleanup.

Didn't Toady say the cleaning on season change was gone for now? Or am I hallucinating more than usual?

[Flaede]

That notion is false, I believe. You could make a custom workshop to create metal mechanisms, and even have it use the mechanics skill. They would be quality-less, but that doesn't matter unless you're using weapon traps, in which case, why are you using weapon traps? Wimp. 

In the current version you can have metal mechanisms, made in the forge, with qualitiy modifiers, so I'm not so sure I believe you. The only metal mechanism in vanilla is bright blue and rather valuable, but modders have allowed for others.

I thought the "bright blue" mechanisms were made from raw adamantine rock, and so were "rock" not metal. Just like making one out of Native Gold doesn't make it metal. It's still rock.

Have a look at the raws. Adamantine will have the tag [ANY_USE] this will allow it to be used for, well, anything.

Not quite true. It needs both [WEAPON] AND [ANY_USE] to work for trap parts (ie. mechanisms). [ANY_USE] by itself covers a grab-bag of uses, but not actually ANY use. Those tags are also what allows for metal siege engine parts.

I think the reason vanilla doesn't have metal mechanisms currently is only because no metal should work for the whole grab-bag, and siege engine parts to boot.

[abculatter_2]

I think the reason vanilla doesn't have metal mechanisms currently is only because no metal should work for the whole grab-bag, and siege engine parts to boot.

Except Adamantine.

[greenwatering]

I think the reason vanilla doesn't have metal mechanisms currently is only because no metal should work for the whole grab-bag, and siege engine parts to boot.

Except Adamantine.

again, no, raw Adamantine.

[thvaz]

Isn't Toady working at weekends anymore? For three weeks in a row he didn't update the dev_now at saturday and sunday.

Not that he don't deserve a break, but he used to work at weekends.

[Greiger]

He's probably buzy coding.

Anyway before this release looked to be dragging along for a year he did take weekends off for a side project.  Then it turned into the last week of each month.  Then when he realized this release would take much much longer than he expected he set aside the side project to work on this fully.