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[LegoLord]

The wall of a reservoir being worn away due to being made of rock salt would probably take a little while. 

[Arkenstone]

The wall of a reservoir being worn away due to being made of rock salt would probably take a little while. 

Actually, not as long as you'd think.  It's one of those 'runaway reaction' things: the pressure rapidly accelerates the dissolving process, and then more water rushes in, dissolving more salt etc.

[DanielLC]

This should work on soap too. Toady should add a [WATER_SOLUBLE] tag.

[Footkerchief]

This should work on soap too. Toady should add a [WATER_SOLUBLE] tag.

It's harder with soap because, due to performance concerns, water can only have a (small) fixed set of "contaminants."  Salt is already one of those, along with blood and... rot and murk, maybe?  Soap isn't one of those and there's much less incentive to make it one, since there are no huge naturally occuring soap deposits.

[Silverionmox]

This should work on soap too. Toady should add a [WATER_SOLUBLE] tag.

It's harder with soap because, due to performance concerns, water can only have a (small) fixed set of "contaminants."  Salt is already one of those, along with blood and... rot and murk, maybe?  Soap isn't one of those and there's much less incentive to make it one, since there are no huge naturally occuring soap deposits.

Is there a way to make it flexible? I can imagine someone modding in a world with sugar rocks and cacao powder deserts.

[Malsqueek]

The wall of a reservoir being worn away due to being made of rock salt would probably take a little while. 

Actually, not as long as you'd think.  It's one of those 'runaway reaction' things: the pressure rapidly accelerates the dissolving process, and then more water rushes in, dissolving more salt etc.

Technically, I think it has more to do with surface area exposed to the water...

The pressure creates mechanical strain on the rock salt, which has a relatively low pressure resistnace, so it cracks, increasing the surface area, allowing salt to become solution with the water, exposing more surface area, etc...

Slow compared to a miner, yes, but you would see a pretty significant effect over the course of even a year or two "in game".

[Footkerchief]

Is there a way to make it flexible? I can imagine someone modding in a world with sugar rocks and cacao powder deserts.

I think it's the same issue as having other flowing liquids -- the map tile format doesn't have much room for flexibility. 

[lucusLoC]

While i can understand the current limitations, i would like to see the ability to have a working water soluable tag. Seems like it could be useful. Just immagine an indiana jonse style salt pillar trap.

[Rowanas]

Yeah, Toady (armok be with him) has specifically said that he wants to get as much as possible into the raws, and this seems like a prime candidate. Having fluid raws, which allow you to set flow speed, thickness, stuff like that makes sense and (although I am no programmer yet) can't be more complex than completely reworking the physical manifestation of damage down to specific tissue layers.

[blah28722]

Yeah, Toady (armok be with him) has specifically said that he wants to get as much as possible into the raws, and this seems like a prime candidate. Having fluid raws, which allow you to set flow speed, thickness, stuff like that makes sense and (although I am no programmer yet) can't be more complex than completely reworking the physical manifestation of damage down to specific tissue layers.

The difference there is that he'd (probably, just a guess) have to dig pretty deep to get to the fluid physics, then he'd have to do partial modifications to allow for user-customization.

In the body case, he's making a brand new system from scratch, with changes to a more easily changed system (combat log).

[Rowanas]

Yeah, Toady (armok be with him) has specifically said that he wants to get as much as possible into the raws, and this seems like a prime candidate. Having fluid raws, which allow you to set flow speed, thickness, stuff like that makes sense and (although I am no programmer yet) can't be more complex than completely reworking the physical manifestation of damage down to specific tissue layers.

The difference there is that he'd (probably, just a guess) have to dig pretty deep to get to the fluid physics, then he'd have to do partial modifications to allow for user-customization.

In the body case, he's making a brand new system from scratch, with changes to a more easily changed system (combat log).

True, but when he gets to rawing everything I think this could go fairly high up on the list of inconvenient but enjoyable things for players. I'm not going to ask him to change it right now, but, y'know, sometime.

[Footkerchief]

Yeah, Toady (armok be with him) has specifically said that he wants to get as much as possible into the raws, and this seems like a prime candidate. Having fluid raws, which allow you to set flow speed, thickness, stuff like that makes sense and (although I am no programmer yet) can't be more complex than completely reworking the physical manifestation of damage down to specific tissue layers.

The issue is not one of design complexity, it's that flows are already gigantic CPU hogs, even with all the restrictions meant to keep them feasible.  But yes, he'll probably tackle something along those lines at some point.

[King_of_the_weasels]

Salt would be a good way to preserve meats, if it wasn't for the fact that barrels already do that, also smoking.

[Rowanas]

Well, computer are always getting faster, and the integration with the "40d"s means that by the time he gets to rawing it we'll all be running DF on 1000FPS if we feel like it.

[Christes]

When I first read the title, I thought it was about cooking.