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[Faces of Mu]

I did a search and there's no mention of the introduction of sewerage and it's consequential management as a suggestion. Something I think tends to be ignored in many fantasy/fictional stories is this problem: it seems most fictional places (in any age) have some magical way of disposing of poos and wees. I'd like to have us need to deal with both the quality ablutions demands of the populace as well as healthy and safe disposal of such solids and liquids (of course, I vote being able to dispose it on invaders, particularly since so many dwarves detest going outside and sick from the sun anyways).

It would also be interesting to have to keep the sanitary workers happy.

[Slime]

Just dump it in the chasm. Or the river or something.

[Gaulgath]

This would just be another way for our dwarves to drop what they are doing and go be unproductive. I really don't want to have a goblin siege destroy my fort because my squad leader decided to take a crap instead of fght.

[Faces of Mu]

I imagine that problem would be sorted once we could make dwarves prioritise attack and defence.

I also picture:

You throw your soiled leather throng at the giant's head!
It hits!
The giant's head is bruised!
The giant is embarrassed!

[Bricktop]

If we have to provide a safe way of disposing it... does that mean that unsafe ways could lead to desease? For example, having a channel full of the stuff going down the middle of your main hallway would probably be... unhealthy.

[Faces of Mu]

Would probably depend on yr dwarves once disease comes in. That channel you talk about could be healthier than them (a collective million years of dwarves hiding their "refuse" in rotten clothes in their cabinets and chests has got to have SOME effect on them once disease & ill health catches up to them!).

[Bricktop]

Yes, it would be healthier than having no sanitation at all...but it would still be far healthier to have a sewer system completely out of the way ofwhere your dwarfves live.

[Albert the Absentminded]

Unless you install flush toilets, every, uh, purgatory event should cause miasma.

The sewage can be useful, of course.

-Albert

[Capntastic]

It's mentioned in the dev notes and I know Toady's said a few times on the forum, that he's not sure if he wants to make things ultra realistic in that respect.  I can't say I blame him.

[The Hidden]

Oh I can imagine the possiblities of a "sewerage" system and the ability to pee and poo.  This is an example right here...

code:

Giant punches you in the upper body with left hand!
It collapses into a lump of gore!
You have soiled your «☼leather trousers☼»!
You have been struck down!

[Faces of Mu]

quote:Originally posted by Capntastic:
<STRONG>It's mentioned in the dev notes and I know Toady's said a few times on the forum, that he's not sure if he wants to make things ultra realistic in that respect.  I can't say I blame him.</STRONG>

:eek:
He'll let the dwarves leave seeds on the ground but not turds in the whey?

Ah well, won't look a gift horse in the shooter.

[Funkadelic Jive Turkey]

quote:Originally posted by Gaulgath:
<STRONG>This would just be another way for our dwarves to drop what they are doing and go be unproductive. I really don't want to have a goblin siege destroy my fort because my squad leader decided to take a crap instead of fght.</STRONG>

Have an option in military menu similar to sleep options:

Crap at home, Crap in barracks, Crap where standing?

Not sure if that'd really fix anything though. Military dwarves tend to be god-awful dumb at the worst times and I imagine that'll be fleshed at at some point.

[Draco18s]

Dwarf cancels clean waste: disgusted

[I3erent]

Maybe we could light our forts by burning the waste?!!!!!! yeah i like it!!!!!

[Asehujiko]

Legendary Shitburner? I could think of a few slightly more pleasant jobs...