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[Nite/m4re]

Well, we have mango and cocoa trees! What about being able to collect fruit per season? Maybe we designate they just like shrubs!

[Torak]

Apparently dwarves have no fear of scurvy. Seconded, also, making Cocao processable into chocolate.

[Tahin]

Cacao sounds like something the elves might specialize in.... Hmm... I can imagine them bringing all kinds of fruit and stuff, like that.

[Kyselina]

Yay. Yes of course. Apple juice for everyone!

[Helmaroc]

I guess fruit could lead to non-alchoholic beverages (other than milk) which could be cool. Maybe unlike water (making dwarves slow) or alcohol (making them fast)  juice could just keep them at the same speed, since they at least contain sugar.

[ December 09, 2007: Message edited by: Helmaroc ]

[Alfador]

quote:Originally posted by Helmaroc:
<STRONG>I guess fruit could lead to non-alchoholic beverages (other than milk) which could be cool. Maybe unlike water (making dwarves slow) or alcohol (making them fast)  juice could just keep them at the same speed, since they at least contain sugar.

[ December 09, 2007: Message edited by: Helmaroc ]</STRONG>

And if you're not careful (or are careful) fruit juices could ferment into dwarven cider. It would be called dwarven hard cider, but the word 'dwarven' already implies alcohol content.  

[hapes]

Not that this has any relevance:

The British Navy was known to put antiscorbitants (anti-scurvy stuff) into rum so the sailors would drink it.  Maybe the dwarves do that.  Or they don't need Vitamin C.

[Karlito]

well seeing as my dwarves are eating only syrup and leaves, nutrition can't be much of a concern.

[GauHelldragon]

dwarves out in the fresh air picking fruits from trees?! this is heresy.

[Draco18s]

quote:Originally posted by GauHelldragon:
<STRONG>dwarves out in the fresh air picking fruits from trees?! this is heresy.</STRONG>

I'd like to point out that strawberries are fruits.

As are tomatoes, cucumbers, pumpkins, other squashes, and other berries (trees?  I think not).

[MaxVance]

I'm reviving this. I, too, would like to see fruit-bearing trees implemented. Aside from real-world trees, Toady's trees (feather tree and glumprong) could have their own special fruits.

[Hague]

Hrm. Might be interesting. Give a couple of tags to the wood matgloss that links to a plant matgloss with no biome tokens. Perhaps [HARVEST:<plant_matgloss>] Trees with the harvest token would bloom based on the active season of the plant matgloss and the tree would get an adjective like "ripe" or "fruitful" So you could have "fruitful mango trees" When harvested, the fruitful adjective goes away until  the plant's next fruiting season is available.

[Slappy Moose]

Omigosh, fruits would be awesome! Different trees grow different kinds and in different climates! Bananas in the hotter climates, etc.

Also, a good source of food for adventure mode.

DO IT!

[MaxVance]

quote:Originally posted by Slappy Moose:
<STRONG>Bananas in the hotter climates, etc.</STRONG>

Interestingly, banana plants are not actual trees so much as they are plants with massive stems and fruit on the end. I looked this up just today, as I had planned on suggesting banana trees. (Imagine the fruit yields off of those.) They could still make for a good collectable plant, though.

Also, tower caps could grow mushroom buds each year if not cut down.

[Neskiairti]

alot of the fruits we associate with trees are rather odd.. hell.. even coconuts..  in the trees life.. they generally only produce one bunch of coconuts.. (though there are varieties that fruit multiple times)

fruit trees would be awesome though.. mm.. roasting coco seeds... such a wonderous smell..