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Author Topic: Forcing dwarfs to tear out their bones/skin  (Read 9840 times)

ikkonoishi

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Re: Forcing dwarfs to tear out their bones/skin
« Reply #30 on: February 21, 2011, 11:08:55 am »
Hmm perhaps we should make the giant cave spiders have strands hanging from their spinnerets. Be less fiddly then the current methods, but less productive.
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Re: Forcing dwarfs to tear out their bones/skin
« Reply #31 on: February 21, 2011, 05:43:30 pm »
I don't see anything objectionable about dwarves shearing their bones from their bodies and making stuff out of them. It's like recycling, dammit.

If you can shear corpses, shearing tokens will quickly become more interesting to me.
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Re: Forcing dwarfs to tear out their bones/skin
« Reply #32 on: February 21, 2011, 06:06:13 pm »
Quote from: Girlinhat on February 21, 2011, 03:58:44 am
*GASP* You're not... shaving BEARDS, are you?!

Coincidentally, beard-shaving was one form of justice that was thought about.

That's a gloriously wonderful idea.
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Re: Forcing dwarfs to tear out their bones/skin
« Reply #33 on: February 21, 2011, 06:12:03 pm »
this thread is crazy awesome WRONG!  :P ;)
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« Reply #34 on: February 21, 2011, 06:24:40 pm »
Posting to watch for future !!SCIENCE!!
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Re: Forcing dwarfs to tear out their bones/skin
« Reply #35 on: February 21, 2011, 06:36:02 pm »
This thread was the second most horrifying thing I'd ever read, but now it's showing a little promise.
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Re: Forcing dwarfs to tear out their bones/skin
« Reply #36 on: February 21, 2011, 06:39:42 pm »
If you made shaving a beard yield 1-3 threads of adamantine, what a horrible choice you would have to make.
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Re: Forcing dwarfs to tear out their bones/skin
« Reply #37 on: February 21, 2011, 06:42:01 pm »
Quote from: Flaede on February 21, 2011, 06:39:42 pm
If you made shaving a beard yield 1-3 threads of adamantine, what a horrible choice you would have to make.
you realize game keeps track of adamantine strands in 1000s (maybe 10000s cant remember) right?
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Re: Forcing dwarfs to tear out their bones/skin
« Reply #38 on: February 21, 2011, 06:43:35 pm »
Quote from: Flaede on February 21, 2011, 06:39:42 pm
If you made shaving a beard yield 1-3 threads of adamantine, what a horrible choice you would have to make.

You do know that some players make "babyfalls" by making female dwarves spit out even more babies, just to watch a cascade of dwarven babies fall 20z-levels to their deaths for fun, right?  Hell, this thread started with demanding that dwarves rip out their own body parts and use them as crafting resources.

If you put a profit motive behind causing pain and suffering on other creatures, even other dwarves, most players wouldn't even blink.
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Re: Forcing dwarfs to tear out their bones/skin
« Reply #39 on: February 21, 2011, 06:44:50 pm »
Quote from: NW_Kohaku on February 21, 2011, 06:43:35 pm
Quote from: Flaede on February 21, 2011, 06:39:42 pm
If you made shaving a beard yield 1-3 threads of adamantine, what a horrible choice you would have to make.

You do know that some players make "babyfalls" by making female dwarves spit out even more babies, just to watch a cascade of dwarven babies fall 20z-levels to their deaths for fun, right?  Hell, this thread started with demanding that dwarves rip out their own body parts and use them as crafting resources.

If you put a profit motive behind causing pain and suffering on other creatures, even other dwarves, most players wouldn't even blink.

A beard is a body part, and I am indeed suggesting dwarves rip it out to use as a crafting resource. Mua. Ha. Ha. Ha.
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Quote from: Rockphed on May 02, 2012, 02:01:16 am
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Re: Forcing dwarfs to tear out their bones/skin
« Reply #40 on: February 21, 2011, 06:54:43 pm »
I'm all for shearing skin and all, but, beards?  Then you'd just be short elves.
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Re: Forcing dwarfs to tear out their bones/skin
« Reply #41 on: February 21, 2011, 06:56:39 pm »
I hope this gets added in as vanilla when magic gets added into the game.

Ripping bones out of arms and then carving them into bolts to kill your enemy seems the ultimate dwarfy action to me.
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Re: Forcing dwarfs to tear out their bones/skin
« Reply #42 on: February 21, 2011, 07:03:49 pm »
Seeing this thread makes me wanna invent a mod.

Super Meat Boy Fortress.

No skin.

Blood everywhere.

All traps disabled except the enormous saws.

Watch the FPS plummet.
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Re: Forcing dwarfs to tear out their bones/skin
« Reply #43 on: February 21, 2011, 07:14:30 pm »
We also REALLY need a way to build constructions out of bones.
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Re: Forcing dwarfs to tear out their bones/skin
« Reply #44 on: February 21, 2011, 07:21:02 pm »
I think this can be done by adding [ITEM_HARD] to the bone material template.
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