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[Graknorke]

What the fuck is 'slaughtering' in this context as a separate thing to butchery?
Killing the animal is in the exact same process as butchering it.

[Arx]

Not in DF. In DF, butchering refers to pre-killed things like hunted wild animals, but slaughtering refers to tamed animals. Butchery is time-consuming and slaughter is instant. Both produce edible/cookable parts.

[Graknorke]

Not in DF. In DF, butchering refers to pre-killed things like hunted wild animals, but slaughtering refers to tamed animals. Butchery is time-consuming and slaughter is instant. Both produce edible/cookable parts.

But it's the same thing that happens. Same workshop, same skill used, same output (given same input), and in general is the same thing.
The slaughtering tame animals being instant isn't something I'd thought about, but given that the time is dependant on body size it could well be abstracted as having to position a corpse in a butchering position, as opposed to being able to lead a live animal over to where it needs to be under its own power.

I'm not seeing why it would need a separate skill. At all.

[Arx]

The issue at stake is that slaughter is instant, I believe. I agree that it doesn't need a new skill, but it does need to meaningfully use the associated one.

[Sergarr]

Not in DF. In DF, butchering refers to pre-killed things like hunted wild animals, but slaughtering refers to tamed animals. Butchery is time-consuming and slaughter is instant. Both produce edible/cookable parts.

But it's the same thing that happens. Same workshop, same skill used, same output (given same input), and in general is the same thing.
The slaughtering tame animals being instant isn't something I'd thought about, but given that the time is dependant on body size it could well be abstracted as having to position a corpse in a butchering position, as opposed to being able to lead a live animal over to where it needs to be under its own power.

I'm not seeing why it would need a separate skill. At all.

I could say the same about gelding. Or potash making.

A lot of skills in general should probably get cobbled together, to prevent further clutter.

[BlackFlyme]

What kind of emoticon is this?

¿/¿

A friend just sent me it, but I have no idea what it is supposed to be.

[Arx]

This is a poorly-crafted engraving of a nose and two eyes. The eyes are protruding.

I have no idea. Something about looking?

[Dutchling]

Nobody knows D:

[Arx]

That was my first thought as well.

Ask your friend! Also if my phone can do those upside-down question marks, that's my new go-to emoticon for confusing people.

[Graknorke]

I could say the same about gelding. Or potash making.

A lot of skills in general should probably get cobbled together, to prevent further clutter.

That is indeed true.

[Putnam]

Plus, it's a different job. Saying they're the same is about the same as saying that shearing, web collection and strand extraction are the same because they all give you string.

[Sergarr]

But see each skill in DF is simultaneously a profession, and there's no such thing as a "professional gelder" in the world. All people who do that also usually do something else. Like gelding could get lumped with other animal caretaking skills to form an Animal Caretaker profession.

[Putnam]

Slaughtering, I meant.

[Sergarr]

Well, it was hard to infer what post you were referring to, since you didn't quote.

quotes r usefl f th r descr yeah

[Xantalos]

But see each skill in DF is simultaneously a profession, and there's no such thing as a "professional gelder" in the world. All people who do that also usually do something else. Like gelding could get lumped with other animal caretaking skills to form an Animal Caretaker profession.

I dunno, I've talked to some gelder's unions.
They were pretty snippy.