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Single Giant library workroom. Takes a bit of set-up but once done is done.

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Specific Library sections. Books are in the library and the menu is managable.

111 (49.3%)

Generic library sections with free floating books. Messy, but flexible.

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Other: Describe (keep in mind the limits of modding)

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[Mephansteras]

Spent my lunch break working on various beetles. I now have Spike Beetles (kind of hostile, about the size of cats), Sugar Beetles, Giant Beetles, and just did Giant Ants.

They all work in the arena pretty well, now I just need to test them in fortress mode. I should probably also take an adventurer around, see if I see them wandering around forests and such.

Oh, and Giant Ants now try to steel food. And you can get Queens, so if you get a queen and a drone you can breed an army of the little bastards. They're exotic pets, but trainable.

[Lord Shonus]

Are you going to use blood for anything?

[Mephansteras]

Well, we keep getting barrels of it. If that's not a bug, I might use it for Blood Crystal.

Does anyone know if we can purposefully get barrels of blood? Extract from a creature, maybe?

[Ampoliros]

if it's not a bug, i'd probably set it to edible_cooked to make awesome dwarven blood sausages. I don't know about obtaining it from butchering animals, though.

[kilakan]

well you create a 1/7 pool of blood whenever you butcher an animal, and I set my shop up to collect those so I now have a blood well... and a dwarf just got a drink out of it, so maybe it's a better then water, worse then beer type drink?

[Mephansteras]

Did you change something in the raws to collect it? Or did you do something else?

[kilakan]

made a grate with a pit underit in the doorway of my butcher's shop, then slaughtered every animal in the fort!

[Mephansteras]

I think you've just discovered how to make actual blood rivers! I'm impressed!

I'll have to test this out.

[Org]

made a grate with a pit underit in the doorway of my butcher's shop, then slaughtered every animal in the fort!

Win!

[kilakan]

humm seems to be a glitch, or very hard to reproduce, because in my other fort, it's just not collecting... though it should since they are liquids now.

[Mephansteras]

Maybe something to do with the size creature you're butchering?

[Ampoliros]

I've had problems with blood being tracked everywhere by dwarves, the blood in question may not be butcher-related

[kilakan]

well once I get some more animals... due to them all being dead, I'm gonna try it again, with just cows, then dogs, and see if there's a difference.

[Mephansteras]

EDIT: Hmmm, just did a test fort that only brought cows/horses/mules and some butchers (and one miner to get stone to dig a pit and get stone)

Slaughtered four animals, no blood present anywhere.

Perhaps using the military Kill order on animals standing on grates might do it? Needs more tests.

[Org]

You can buy blood at the embark screen.