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SirHoneyBadger

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Mulled Cider
« on: June 11, 2009, 01:14:08 am »

Just a quick little suggestion that there be hot drinks in the game, like hot cider, tea, cocoa, coffee, milled wine, etc. Dwarfs could fill their mugs with them (whenever that happens), causing the mugs to go hot--at different rates, dependent on the material they were made out of--warming cold dwarfs' hands.

A dwarf on a break might get a hot drink just because her hands were cold. The drink itself would be secondary.

Dwarfs might have a favorite mug, not unlike a pet, but inanimate.

Some dwarfs might prefer the same beverage to be hot, while others like it cold (iced coffee), depending on their personality.

Hot dwarfs might press a cold beverage to their foreheads.

Wisps of steam might come off the hot mugs, while cold mugs might percipitate, moistening the hands holding them.

Dwarfs might become addicted to caffeinated products, needing them to get through their working day (I know I do!).

An overanxious dwarf could burn his mouth slightly, swallowing a hot drink, while a more patient one has learned to wait, and sip.

Cooking alchohol long enough and hot enough would render all the alchohol out of it.

Throwing a hot drink could cause mild burns.

A moody dwarf might throw a cold drink at a dwarf she dislikes, choosing not to harm physically, but causing humiliation in a more socially accepted way. Getting splashed by a cold drink could cause an unhappy thought.


I know it's not a huge suggestion, but I think everything here could eventually be done in DF (probably some of it is already planned), and it would be remarkable to see something this small, yet this complex, going on in the game.
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Re: Mulled Cider
« Reply #1 on: June 11, 2009, 01:35:10 am »

Hot dwarfs might press a cold beverage to their foreheads.

APPLY DIRECTLY TO THE FOREHEAD!

No but seriously a good idea, we need more individualism.
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Re: Mulled Cider
« Reply #2 on: June 11, 2009, 01:36:41 am »

Hot dwarfs might smash a cold beverage against their foreheads.

Fixed (Myself).
« Last Edit: June 11, 2009, 01:41:23 am by SirHoneyBadger »
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Re: Mulled Cider
« Reply #3 on: June 11, 2009, 02:27:23 am »

Urist Mcdwarf goes to the magma-powered kitchen to mull his Dwarven Wine.
Urist Mcdwarf has died in the heat!

Urist Mcdwarf has lost a treasured mug to tragedy lately.
Urist Mcdwarf has gone stark raving mad!
A dwarf with low ethics stole it or one with high broke it since Mcdwarf left it unwashed in the sparring area.
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Re: Mulled Cider
« Reply #4 on: June 11, 2009, 02:30:58 am »

Perhaps not quite like a pet... :-\


Also, I really think the chance of a dwarf cooking himself, or setting himself on fire, should be reduced in a kitchen--compared to a forge, or the heart of a volcano.
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Re: Mulled Cider
« Reply #5 on: June 11, 2009, 02:45:03 am »

magma-powered kitchen
They're dwarves. And drunk.
I imagine tapwater but magma.
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Re: Mulled Cider
« Reply #6 on: June 11, 2009, 02:32:25 pm »

items should certainly be used and get broke. :P

Hmm, mulled wine with spices.  :-*
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Re: Mulled Cider
« Reply #7 on: June 11, 2009, 02:49:11 pm »

Good idea. Your examples sound exactly like the kinds of things Toady mentions after one of ThreeToe's stories.
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Re: Mulled Cider
« Reply #8 on: June 11, 2009, 11:43:30 pm »

Why not?
Im all for mulled alcohol.
The more booze the better.
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Re: Mulled Cider
« Reply #9 on: June 12, 2009, 07:59:19 am »

Sounds neat.  It would go well with smaller heating devices, such as stoves or fireplaces (which would also allow for more interesting homes).
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Re: Mulled Cider
« Reply #10 on: June 12, 2009, 12:04:46 pm »

Thanks!

By the way, if anyone wants to write up little ideas similar to this one (or maybe not so similar?) feel free to make use of this thread, ok?
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Re: Mulled Cider
« Reply #11 on: June 12, 2009, 12:59:55 pm »

Sterno heaters?
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Re: Mulled Cider
« Reply #12 on: June 13, 2009, 12:56:05 am »

...Heated and Chilled prepared foods in addition to booze, perhaps?
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Re: Mulled Cider
« Reply #13 on: June 13, 2009, 12:58:33 am »

If you can figure out how to make an ice production chain for an icehouse, more power to.
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Re: Mulled Cider
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