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[FreakyCheeseMan]

So, this is about as much a question as it is a suggestion, but... are there any plans to merge liquid systems (i.e., blood/booze/molten rocks and water/magma)?

Specifically, will it ever be possible to *actually* make a waterfall of blood, or let dwarves practice swimming in booze?

I read over the development stuff, and I didn't see any mention of this, but I'm holding on to hope...

[GaxkangtheUnbound]

let dwarves practice swimming in booze?

UristMcSwimmer: Hey, look, it's a waterfall of booze!
UristMcDrunk: Perfect!
*Loud slurping noises*
*UristMcDrunk has drowned.*

[Footkerchief]

This was a dev item in the old system, now taken down to be worked on:

# Bloat325, ADDITIONAL LIQUID TYPES, (Future): Candidates for new flowing "liquids" include sand, oil, mud, blood of various sorts, slime, farm products like grain and beer for the beer fountain. Only a limited number of materials from plant raws like beer would be able to be supported as a map flow at a given time.

It's also been suggested many times, although it's difficult to search for.  What it comes down to is performance -- flows are already very CPU-intensive, and if they start mixing and diluting it gets an order of magnitude worse (note that the two current flows conveniently don't mix).  Also, flows are stored as part of the map tiles, which for performance reasons has to be very rigidly structured and therefore can't easily accomodate extra data.

[FreakyCheeseMan]

This was a dev item in the old system, now taken down to be worked on:

# Bloat325, ADDITIONAL LIQUID TYPES, (Future): Candidates for new flowing "liquids" include sand, oil, mud, blood of various sorts, slime, farm products like grain and beer for the beer fountain. Only a limited number of materials from plant raws like beer would be able to be supported as a map flow at a given time.

Thanks... I guess I'll wait for better CPUs, then.

By the way, where would I find... Bloats? I read the main dev log page, but it just had a bunch of things labeled Core- I'd like to read more if I could, the programming seems fascinating.

It's also been suggested many times, although it's difficult to search for.  What it comes down to is performance -- flows are already very CPU-intensive, and if they start mixing and diluting it gets an order of magnitude worse (note that the two current flows conveniently don't mix).  Also, flows are stored as part of the map tiles, which for performance reasons has to be very rigidly structured and therefore can't easily accomodate extra data.

[Footkerchief]

Here's the Google cache of the old dev_single.

It's kind of unreadable now because of that background image, but there are of course ways to get rid of that.

[Pilsu]

Blood would rot and turn into sludge. Hate to rain on your parade but it just doesn't work as a flow.

[Ilmoran]

Blood would rot and turn into sludge. Hate to rain on your parade but it just doesn't work as a flow.

That just means you need a constant fresh supply.  I think most people looking to make bloodfalls would find this requirement enjoyable