Hmm i have a question to the surgeons and Docs.
How can we train them? Would it be possible to get corpses (Animals, Siegers, dead tantrumers) on the table for training them? Could you entwine that with with a taxidermist like profession.
It would be cool to have stuffed Animals/enemies (even rouge ones like Griffons (Griphon?) etc.) as some kind of statue/decoration and to get some experience on the doctors without killing x dwarves.
To the tree talk: I would like to see Multitiled trees which are detailed with bark etc. Since they dont move around they should be fairly (easy is realtive XD ) easy. It would also meet some things like which ones armok (and me too) wants to see like overgrowed constructions. -> where are wonderfull pictures of Anchor (india) which show this.
XD it would be nice if a tree could have individual leaves/needles - which are procedural generated with a seed number and remain in quantum state until observed.
Exploding plants: Trees struck by lightning can be very expolsive, Cacti and eucalipti go of like bombs and iirc theres even a plant that relies on miniature explosions to spread there seed thought i am not sure if the last one is true.
OH another question: Will we get parasits like tapeworms?Creatures that can live inside of other (dead) creatures? Combined with poisons and deseases and mind altering effects they could be very exiting
BTW: Hephaestos (from which i borrowed my nick) since it came up in the talk has created Talos a bronce-Angel which defended kreta for europa. Faced in close combat he has heated up till he glowed red. He died by the hands of Medea who had removed a bronce bolt from his food which forced talos to bleed to death.
Hephaestos also has created 2 womans from gold as his servants, the body of Pandora and the two firebreathing bulls Aietes. Not to forget a good number of weapons, jewelry, and the chain of prometheus.
The Golem of Prague (in one version of the myth) by the way was animated by a spell written on paper under his tongue and could be stoped by removing that spell.
In a similiar vein you could maybe implement a bolt or something that keeps the Statue alive until its removed ...... and maybe reanimated then the bolt is replaced.