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[Stratah]

Maybe it's simple.

If a bee swarm outbreaks, some dwarves should be allergic to their stings and die instantly.  Of course, those dwarves wouldn't be suitable to working with them.

Making this industry more... Delicate.

[Owlbread]

Of course, one would dread the inevitable attack of the bee man.

[Stratah]

"The mythological BEEMAN has arrived.  Protect your allergic dwarves!!!".

He can smell it. MUAHAHAHAHA.

[AWellTrainedFerret]

So long as trolls and goblins can also be allergic, I'd be happy.

[Vic Romano]

bee-based defenses?
i like

[irmo]

Maybe it's simple.

If a bee swarm outbreaks, some dwarves should be allergic to their stings and die instantly.  Of course, those dwarves wouldn't be suitable to working with them.

"Random chance to die from a bee sting" is lame.

[Icee77]

Urist McBeekeeper interrupted: bee's unleashed!
Urist McAllergy has been struck down!

Bee McBee: Mehehehehe!!!! That's what you get for stomping on those pretty daisies!!!

[Max White]

I guess with syndromes I could do this for you. A syndrome that would, 1% of the time, cause instant and terminal brain rot.

[sockless]

Maybe it's simple.

If a bee swarm outbreaks, some dwarves should be allergic to their stings and die instantly.  Of course, those dwarves wouldn't be suitable to working with them.

"Random chance to die from a bee sting" is lame.

But that's what DF is all about. For example: your dorf gets 1 hit killed by a sucker punch from a greenskin.
It would be brilliant to have allergies in adventure mode, so that you'd start your game, take 5 steps, get stung by a bee and die. That's one of the great things about DF, it's realistic in that way.

[Demonsul]

As long as not all allergies are instantly lethal depending on the dwarf, there could be more than just bee-sting allergies...

[Max White]

Oh I know how I could do this through modding! Why didn't I think of that before!
If I have four castes of dwarf, two normal, and two with a extra poisen class, and then have been stings only affect that poisen class, then I can make those castes of dwarfs instantly killable by bee sting. I can 100% do this just how you want!

[NW_Kohaku]

Yeah, I was about to point that out.  There was a lot of talk when .31.01 came out about how castes could make birth defects and the like, as well, basically by just weighting the standard dwarf to be a thousand times more likely, and then dwarves with deformed limbs or something being rarer.

The only thing is that eventually, your dwarf raws start to become 50 pages long and utterly illegible with all the castes you throw in.

[Max White]

Yeah, I was about to point that out.  There was a lot of talk when .31.01 came out about how castes could make birth defects and the like, as well, basically by just weighting the standard dwarf to be a thousand times more likely, and then dwarves with deformed limbs or something being rarer.

The only thing is that eventually, your dwarf raws start to become 50 pages long and utterly illegible with all the castes you throw in.

That's because people don't know about the select caste tool. I could do this adding only 6 lines to the dwarf raws.

[NW_Kohaku]

Well, that depends on how many castes you make, and how drastic the changes are.

When I made some custom castes, I wound up making critters that interbred, but had different sizes, body parts, attributes, colors, personality trait probabilities, pretty much everything, just to try to make each caste as different from the others as I could make them.

[Max White]

Ah, well if your going to have what are almost new species in seperate castes, things will of corse be illedgable.