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[Hyndis]

Maybe you need to overwork them a little more? Let them go at their jobs until they are starving, and are forced to stop to take a bite?

This.

All of my dwarves are continually hungry, thirsty, and drowsy all the time.

Why?


MY PYRAMID ISN'T GOING TO BUILD ITSELF, WORK FASTER SLAVES!!   

[Lytha]

I do that with them all the time. And the miner, who suffers most of them all, was the first to be "morbidly obese".

Your pyramid building peons don't grow fat, Hyndis?


Maybe the 536 pieces of whale meat ( & assorted other whale chunks) are really the thing to blame here.

[Hitori]

I remember a true story of a man who accidentally swung an operating chainsaw into his own belly.  It dug in, but in the end he didn't die because he was morbidly obese and it never got to his organs. His fat saved his life.

[Erk]

I would guess that "calories" of food is represented by the food's value. If your dwarves are eating lots of dwarven sugar roasts, they are gonna put on weight. That's just a guess, I haven't had a fort last long enough to get obese yet (I'm having way too much fun tunneling through the HFS)

[Hyndis]

I do that with them all the time. And the miner, who suffers most of them all, was the first to be "morbidly obese".

Your pyramid building peons don't grow fat, Hyndis?


Maybe the 536 pieces of whale meat ( & assorted other whale chunks) are really the thing to blame here.

I haven't actually checked if they're getting fat, but they are always hungry and thirsty.

[Raoul Duke]

I remember a true story of a man who accidentally swung an operating chainsaw into his own belly.  It dug in, but in the end he didn't die because he was morbidly obese and it never got to his organs. His fat saved his life.

But I have to wonder, would he have been cut by the chainsaw at all if his enormous belly hadn't been out there in the way?

[moki]

It's probably something genetic... being fat is a dwarven beauty ideal, so only the fattest dwarves get married and can have children. It's working micro-evolution

[UberNube]

May I suggest setting up a weight-loss clinic with a few bins of burning fuel in it and enforce the Dwarven Fire Diet

[PrimusRibbus]

And I really can't see the "high BMI = very tough" connection. Just ask your doctor/physician.

I know this is outrageously off-topic, but one of the reasons BMI is such a poor indicator of health is because it's simply the formula of dividing weight by height; to be specific, ([your weight in lbs]*703)/([your height in inches]²).

Because muscle weighs much more than fat, many lean athletes are considered overweight or obese by the BMI. Personally, I can attest to the fact that when I was bodybuilding in college, I had the highest BMI of my life (despite being in the best shape of my life).

So maybe these Dwarves are actually hella ripped.

[Hyndis]

I just checked. So its been only about 4-5 years in my fort, and a lot of the old time dwarves who have been there the longest seem normal.

There are a few incredibly fat dwarves, but some of them are also thin or normal. Seems like a regular mix.

[G-Flex]

I would guess that "calories" of food is represented by the food's value.

I doubt this. Food is probably the same across-the-board just as much as it always was.


Regarding fat in combat, it does help dwarves withstand damage, but it also makes them slower.

[Raphite1]

I once started with a dwarf that was "belarded by great hanging sacks of fat." If this is the destiny of all dwarves over long periods of time, maybe I need to start panning more short-term fortresses.

[Tiphareth]

Maybe we'll have to expand all of those 1 tile corridors. And widen all those 1 tile doors. I wonder how far the glorious creator will go with this, Urist McFat had a heartattack! Get him to the doctor! Leeches for all!

[ZeroGravitas]

So maybe these Dwarves are actually hella ripped.

So maybe you should read the part where it actually says "IS MORBIDLY OBESE" versus when it actually says "is incredibly mighty" - or both. They're independent variables.

[dennislp3]

You mean that a line like the following:

"He has what was once a thin frame, now bearing enormous, thick layers of fat"

"Advantage in combat", as in: they can roll onto the goblin and suffocate him with their thick layers of belly fat? Ewwwk.

And I really can't see the "high BMI = very tough" connection. Just ask your doctor/physician.

btw...random lil fact to prove an invalid point...the idea of combat fat is very real....Roman gladiators actually ate a certain diet (of oats and stuff if I remember) that made them develop a thick and tough layer of fat to help prevent fatal cuts in the arena