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[smjjames]

It's very obvious now that this is going to be the best release since... the last release. Seriously. It's not even surprising any more. DF has been in the "beyond the impossible" spectrum for well over a year. I eagerly await playing with materials and making bizarre things.

LEGO FORTRESS!

Which is actually going to be great with this release...
You could make a dragon be out of 5 green blocks, and 2 flame-thingies, and specify how they all connect :p

Oh no, does that mean dragons are made from people!?! RIOT! lol j/k. Seriously, I love legos

100 dwarfbucks to whoever gets the reference.

[shadow_archmagi]

It's very obvious now that this is going to be the best release since... the last release. Seriously. It's not even surprising any more. DF has been in the "beyond the impossible" spectrum for well over a year. I eagerly await playing with materials and making bizarre things.

LEGO FORTRESS!

Which is actually going to be great with this release...
You could make a dragon be out of 5 green blocks, and 2 flame-thingies, and specify how they all connect :p

Oh no, does that mean dragons are made from people!?! RIOT! lol j/k. Seriously, I love legos

100 dwarfbucks to whoever gets the reference.

I think I know the answer, but I don't want to speak up, so I'll just stay soylent

[DJ]

I don't understand why people are so squeamish about offal. I've had pig liver and brains for lunch yesterday, and it was better than steak.

Also, whoever wrote that guide for butchering humans has obviously never done any real butchery. Throwing away blood? Even dabbling butchers know you need that for blood pudding. And sawing bone instead of separating at joints? Who the hell does that?

[Kidiri]

I sincerely hope that's from multiple elephants. Because 2 hearts (Time Lord elephant anyone?), 2 pancreases, 2 spleens, 4 kidneys, 5 livers, 5 stomachs, 5 brains and 10 lungs seems a bit too much for just one elephant...

Which is actually going to be great with this release...
You could make a dragon be out of 5 green blocks, and 2 flame-thingies, and specify how they all connect :p

Oh no, does that mean dragons are made from people!?! RIOT! lol j/k. Seriously, I love legos
100 dwarfbucks to whoever gets the reference.

I think I know the answer, but I don't want to speak up, so I'll just stay soylent

How punny of you..

[sweitx]

I sincerely hope that's from multiple elephants. Because 2 hearts (Time Lord elephant anyone?), 2 pancreases, 2 spleens, 4 kidneys, 5 livers, 5 stomachs, 5 brains and 10 lungs seems a bit too much for just one elephant...

Which is actually going to be great with this release...
You could make a dragon be out of 5 green blocks, and 2 flame-thingies, and specify how they all connect :p

Oh no, does that mean dragons are made from people!?! RIOT! lol j/k. Seriously, I love legos
100 dwarfbucks to whoever gets the reference.

I think I know the answer, but I don't want to speak up, so I'll just stay soylent

How punny of you..

I think the two heart means that the elephant heart is big enough to produce 2 chunks of heart meat.
Else how do you explain the 10 lungs but 2 hearts?

[Rowanas]

Indeed. 10 arbitrary units of meat, although 10 arbitrary units of meat from 2 elephant lungs does seem a bit excessive. I dunno though, lungs are pretty large.

[Rainseeker]

I asked Toady about this here's a copy of the correspondence:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 2:37 PM, Rainseeker wrote:
> You know, you could make consequences for buthery roles, and that way you
> can balance the meat reward by having a max allowable body part count,
> gotten every time by a legendary butcher, but having a chance of losing some
> parts... or worse yet giving people food poisoning!

Yeah, that's probably what should up happening, instead of doing it
randomly -- I guess I need a butcher skill level associated to each
tissue.

Tarn

[decius]

Lego Dwarf Fortress seems needlessly complex appropriately dwarven.

Fix'd

What I want to see is skill quality implementations, combined with poisonous tissues, combined with pufferfish.

Annoying NobleBeard demands Pufferfish Meat!
Urist Metalsmith has botched a food preperation task!
Annoying NobleBeard has died of poison!

[LegoLord]

Complex?  Goodness no, minifigures need no sleep, food, or drink.  Although if at all possible I might make them eat plastic.  Even if I can't do the latter, the next release will allow me to vastly improve the LEGO mod.

[Criptfeind]

Maybe with all this extra meat dwarfs will start to eat more. Of course than they would waste all their time going to the food stock pile, maybe they could carry a season or two worth of food with them?

[CaptainNitpick]

Indeed. 10 arbitrary units of meat, although 10 arbitrary units of meat from 2 elephant lungs does seem a bit excessive. I dunno though, lungs are pretty large.

I think you are underestimating the size of the beast here. In the real world, butchering an elephant is going to provide roughly a thousand times the food as one gets from butchering a cat.

I couldn't find a good number for lung weight, but an elephant's brain weighs in the neighborhood of 11 pounds. That's around 2 pounds/unit for those prepared elephant brains [5].

[CobaltKobold]

Indeed. 10 arbitrary units of meat, although 10 arbitrary units of meat from 2 elephant lungs does seem a bit excessive. I dunno though, lungs are pretty large.

I think you are underestimating the size of the beast here. In the real world, butchering an elephant is going to provide roughly a thousand times the food as one gets from butchering a cat.

I couldn't find a good number for lung weight, but an elephant's brain weighs in the neighborhood of 11 pounds. That's around 2 pounds/unit for those prepared elephant brains [5].

...IT'S 2.2! Have we stumbled on the conversion factor? Is a unit of meat a kilogram?

[Draco18s]

Indeed. 10 arbitrary units of meat, although 10 arbitrary units of meat from 2 elephant lungs does seem a bit excessive. I dunno though, lungs are pretty large.

I think you are underestimating the size of the beast here. In the real world, butchering an elephant is going to provide roughly a thousand times the food as one gets from butchering a cat.

I couldn't find a good number for lung weight, but an elephant's brain weighs in the neighborhood of 11 pounds. That's around 2 pounds/unit for those prepared elephant brains [5].

...IT'S 2.2! Have we stumbled on the conversion factor? Is a unit of meat a kilogram?

Elephants have a kilogram of nervous tissue?

[Footkerchief]

Elephants have a kilogram of nervous tissue?

In their spinal cord?  That sounds about right.  For a rough estimate -- the human spinal cord weighs 35 g; an african elephant weighs about 5000 kg, making it about 60 times as heavy as a human; the expected weight of its spinal cord is about 2 kg.

[Draco18s]

Elephants have a kilogram of nervous tissue?

In their spinal cord?  That sounds about right.  For a rough estimate -- the human spinal cord weighs 35 g; an african elephant weighs about 5000 kg, making it about 60 times as heavy as a human; the expected weight of its spinal cord is about 2 kg.

If we're looking at the spinal cord, then that's pretty reasonable (and that you could get it out in butchering).