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DF Suggestions / Defecation (meaning taking a leak or a dump)
« on: January 07, 2008, 10:20:00 pm »
It’s as natural as sleeping and eating: without it, we would die. In some games you don’t have to eat, in some you do. But still there are only few games that involve this part of everyday life.

I don’t know how difficult it is to implement something like that in the game, but probably the easiest way would be to use some designated buckets as toilets. Dwarf could do his/her fudgecake in it, and then empty the bucket into the refuse pile.

Cesspools/pits, outhouses and even waterclosets were used trough the history of mankind. Also the history of dealing with the cleaning of one's butt is actually quite colourful.

I just don’t see why not involve the last part of digestion of sustenance. It could increase the realism and the level of detail of the game. We already have vomiting    :p

(this time I did a search, and there was not a single thread about this)


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DF Suggestions / Writings and their mediums
« on: January 07, 2008, 09:25:00 pm »
The records that are kept about everything that happens in a fort have no medium. There are number of things that could be used as something to write down the records.

Example:
In the ancient world, they used clay tablets to write down the important things of their civilizations. Then there was papyrus, scrolls made out of plant leaves glued together. After the scrolls came the codex, books as we know them today. The pages were made of leather, called vellum. Vellum could be made at the Tanners shop, but then we would probably need a bookbinding shop too. The paper as we know it was invented by the Chinese, when they tired of writing on bamboo, and is made out of pulp wood.

The whole point of having books and scrolls is of course to educate, entertain and keep records of historical events. You WILL need a library if you are going to start having magicwielding dwarves. And then you WILL need books and scrolls.

The educational purpose of literature could also spawn a new way of learning the ways of art, war, architecture and so on and so forth.

(I’ve read a lot of the future plans about Dwarf Fortress, some of the threads that are here at the forum, but it would be ignorant to think this hasn’t already been suggested, but I hope this is a new and fresh point of view    :D )

[ January 07, 2008: Message edited by: Crafty ]


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