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[platypus]

Meh. I don't think DF can rightly be called a game until Toady implements ASCII phase diagrams, non-Newtonian fluids, Bose-Einstein condensates and superfluid helium, in a believable manner.

[Osmosis Jones]

To be fair, I'd say some of the fluid behaviours we have currently are pretty non-newtonian. I mean, come on, if that's a linear force/acceleration response, I'll eat my hat.

[Mr Tk]

The final test was to inject molten iron into the starting dwarves as a blood contaminant and make sure that doesn't go well for them. On the second try, everybody melted immediately and I lost, which is good. On the first try, the contaminant cooled off too quickly and they just had a lot of iron sort of abstractly sitting inside of them, at least for a while (all blood contaminants degrade over time, since they are really supposed to be venoms etc. -- iron was just faster to pull up).

It reminds me of this guy. Apparently after Crassus' death the Parthians poured molten gold into his mouth as a symbol of his thirst for riches.

Maybe I'll mod my game so they farm gold, turn it into molten booze, and then they deliciously kill themselves by drinking it.

[Qmarx]

It reminds me of this guy. Apparently after Crassus' death the Parthians poured molten gold into his mouth as a symbol of his thirst for riches.

We bring from the mountain
A tendril fresh-cut to the palace
A wonderful prey.

Stupid elves.

[Petr Ga]

17 things to go 

[bluephoenix]

17 things to go 

YES! this release is soooooooo close I can almost feel it. 

[CaptainNitpick]

Meh. I don't think DF can rightly be called a game until Toady implements ASCII phase diagrams, non-Newtonian fluids, Bose-Einstein condensates and superfluid helium, in a believable manner.

I can see the gameplay questions forum now. "What does 'triple point' mean?" "Why is every surface in my fort coated with liquid helium?" "Why can my military run across my cornstarch moat, but my haulers sink and drown?"

And the suggestions forum would be demanding that coriolis effects be modeled for projectile paths.

[Protactinium]

Meh. I don't think DF can rightly be called a game until Toady implements ASCII phase diagrams, non-Newtonian fluids, Bose-Einstein condensates and superfluid helium, in a believable manner.

I can see the gameplay questions forum now. "What does 'triple point' mean?" "Why is every surface in my fort coated with liquid helium?" "Why can my military run across my cornstarch moat, but my haulers sink and drown?"

And the suggestions forum would be demanding that coriolis effects be modeled for projectile paths.

Also, the ability to slice bread.

[Osmosis Jones]

Hell, I'd settle for being able to BAKE bread.

[Shoku]

Thanks for the info Foot, but I'm still hoping Toady answers it.  It's more a question of gameplay than whether the engine can show overlapping features.  I'm worried about "gas" clouds covering the screen all the time.

I wouldn't mind stuff like fog in the morning or at night in adventure mode.

Still, I agree with you, as things are right now, 'gases' are completely opaque.

As far as the current devlog, Toady, you DO know that Haemoglobin, the protien that carries oxygen, uses iron, right? Although that could be the reason why it was faster to pull up since its already in the body in good amounts in the blood.

That's like sodium not reacting with water as an ion but exploding in it's neutral state. Iron is held in hemoglobin by six well positioned charged parts of proteins if I recall correctly so it's got to be an ion.

[sweitx]

It should work for rotting away any undead creature to a "skeleton". I haven't tested them, but "skeletal" insects should end up being hollow exoskeletal husks with this method.

If I read this correctly, the problem you're having is that when it tries to create a skeleton-version of a creature the skull is not longer attached to the body?

How about connecting them using ligaments, would that work (I believe ligament takes a long time to, er, decay)?  So you have a skeleten that compose of just bones and ligament, both of which won't rot.

[finesse]

Hell, I'd settle for being able to BAKE bread.

Now you're just being unreasonable.. :p

[Askot Bokbondeler]

Hell, I'd settle for being able to BAKE bread.

that's how i presentlly feed my dwarves: dwarven flour bread, plump helmet broth soup and various meats roasts

mod your item_food raw and micromanage your food production...also, increase crop growth time to 3000, for Fun

[atomfullerene]

Well I want to be able to build a kitchen sink.  I mean, we need to use that soap for something, and hygiene is getting added in.

[Rainseeker]

Well I want to be able to build a kitchen sink.  I mean, we need to use that soap for something, and hygiene is getting added in.

You want all that AND the kitchen sink???