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[Monkeyfacedprickleback]

I don't think blood rain (or barreled blood for that matter) would be clean enough. I mean I always figured vampire drank blood i the same manner as recieving a blood transfusion. A hospitol needs to go through pretty strict measures to make sure blood donations are useable. Putting the blood in a barrel or exposing it to airborne germs is a big no-no. SO I think it makes sense that vampires need Fresh blood.

[Askot Bokbondeler]

vampires are magical creatures, the blood drinking is a ritual, and it is the ritual that satiates the vampire's thirst, not the ingestion of blood itself

[Aqizzar]

A Breakfast Club reference in Dwarf Fortress.  I laughed out loud at that one, damn.

[zwei]

dandruff snow!

rodent man blood rain!

oh my...

[Drevlin]

One of the best devlogs I ever read! Raining blood...
But what's the logic behind blood raining? There isn't a blood counterpart of the water cycle. The only reason I can think is that armok wants to have fun.

[MagmaMcFry]

There isn't a blood counterpart of the water cycle.

Let's do something about it.

[GreatWyrmGold]

Hm...if it rains blood from actual creatures...would it rain potentially toxic blood from procedurally generated/modded-in/etc critters? That could be Fun really fast...

One of the best devlogs I ever read! Raining blood...
But what's the logic behind blood raining? There isn't a blood counterpart of the water cycle. The only reason I can think is that armok wants to have fun.

It's in an evil area. Blood rain and the like makes it Evil due to the ambiance.

[Areyar]

The devlog states it draws from the civilizations that rule that region, dwarves, humans, the occasional animalpeople in uncultured regions.

The vitric humors of gods rain down or well up from the lands under their influence...
water for the gods of life,
blood for the gods of war,
vomit and pus for the gods of desease,
magma rain for Armok.
etc


Does it still rain normal water in Evil lands? I can see a small problem with contaminants. Or does the 'blood of the land' evaporate like the water from rain?

[Neonivek]

Hmm interesting dev notes

Though I have nothing wrong with "Generic" blood when the blood in question may not have actually come from a specific source.

Especially since by all means how do you know whos blood it is?

[slink]

I imagine that you know whose blood it is by looking at the description of what is coating your skin after it rains down on you.

[Neonivek]

I imagine that you know whose blood it is by looking at the description of what is coating your skin after it rains down on you.

Well you need to "enhance" your vision a few times before you can see the shape of blood cells on your own skin.

At least that is what I learned on CSI: Dwarfami

[Areyar]

I imagine that you know whose blood it is by looking at the description of what is coating your skin after it rains down on you.

Well you need to "enhance" your vision a few times before you can see the shape of blood cells on your own skin.

Even then at most you could determine visually is the probable group of species
(mammalian, lizard, fish, undead).
To determine species you'd need specific antibodies and to determine the specific individual as DF provides a PCR test and a sample from such individual organism. (or eye-witness account of the blood being spilled.)

[thvaz]

Indeed. Even if the game have to know from whom the blood is, the player shouldn't, when playing as a adventurer. For a adventurer, it would be just blood from something.

[Neonivek]

Well we arn't even talking about genuin human blood anyhow. We are talking about artificial blood given off by a raincloud.

I think at some point here we are allowed to call it just "blood"

[darkflagrance]

Well we arn't even talking about genuin human blood anyhow. We are talking about artificial blood given off by a raincloud.

I think at some point here we are allowed to call it just "blood"

Dwarf Fortress is a procedural world; the blood was not just spontaneously generated by the rain cloud...rather, thousands of rodent men were eviscerated and their body fluids evaporated into the sky, while later rained down on the dwarves.

It must have been rodent blood FOR A REASON