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[RaptorJedi]

I traded with the humans for two empty barrels when they came, and they were not removed from my trade depot. I tore the depot down in hopes that the dwarves would gather up the barrels and move them to storage. That didn't work, neither did dumping them, forbidding and unforbidding or placing a storage where they are. I checked inside the barrels, and both of them are full of unadvertised frozen animal blood(the barrels themselves say <ashen barrel> and <birchen barrel> and said that in the trade depot as well when I bought them, they say nothing about blood being in them). I can't get my dwarves to interact with these barrels in any way, not even to dump out the frozen blood. The blood being frozen is to be expected, since I live in a place that freezes.


Edit: I was able to move the barrels BACK to the depot when dwarf traders came, and the dwarves happily accepted the barrels of frozen blood in exchange for raw glass.

[Demetrious]

In my humble opinion, barrels of blood is a feature.

[Chronas]

indeed, you never know when you may suddenly need 30 pints of raccoon blood -somebody try burning such a barrel to see the effect on its contents.
if it spills the blood everywhere then we may have a cheaper alternative to goblins for painting.

[Spectre]

I got an caravane from the mountainhomes and they brought at least one barrel of rat blood.
It says rat blood barrel in the trainding screen and the content is rat blood [10].
I am not sure why i should buy this, but it seems like a feature to me.
Than the bug would be, that it is not correctly discribed in the traiding screen, if it becomes frozen.

[Gothmog]

Yeah, the bug seems to be about the freezing. I can buy/sell/transport regular unfrozen blood just fine, I think it goes to a food stockpile with "animal extracts" enabled.

And if blood in barrels is a feature that's all fine with me, but I recently got a barrel of "fly ichor" and "beetle ichor". I don't think that's supposed to be possible. It's blood and stuff but... you know.

[Spectre]

A barrel full of fly ichor seems like an aweful lot of work. 
But it also seems like it would be incredibly valuable.. to... collectors?

[Duuvian]

I think dwarves should eat fly ichor as a spread, like peanut butter. After all, they eat purring maggot milk. Maybe there should be maggot butter.

Also, maybe the rat blood could be used to make Dwarven Rat Gravy in a combine with Cave Wheat Flour?

[Ichythus]

Ahh you guys are making me hungry!!! Rat blood sausages!

[InsanityPrelude]

Black pudding, anyone?

[Fist_Of_Armok]

So, the question is-can you bleed your animals for drinkable/cookable blood?

Because that would make things in my fortress a lot easier.

[Aquillion]

Not yet.  Blood isn't cookable yet, either.  Both of those are logical suggestions, though.

The real reason blood is sold by merchants at the moment is because poisonous blood is meant to be a commodity...  but they're not yet aware of what sort of blood is a useful poison and what isn't.  So they just sell everything.