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It's also something I already suggested n_n

Goodness, I didn't expect 3d done by hand.

Well anyway I think the only part I don't have a good image of is the stinger bit. Do you mean it has tentacles sprouting out of the top of it or just that the top surface stings things that touch it?

A good question though is how do the bulbosaur replicate the new mouth bits? Do they survive well enough outside of a host that a young one just happens to get one in it's mouth? What happens if one takes in more of them than it has room for?

I won't argue against scary because being scared doesn't have to make sense so if you say you're scared of clowns I can't say you're not.
Clowns are not FUN though.

Why not call it deep FUN? Or the final FUN?

Quote from: Skelodwarf on September 22, 2010, 06:13:31 pm

And Liquids don't do Diagonal Z travel? I could have sworn I emptied my Magma moat like that.

They travel diagonally, on the same level, but they won't travel diagonally up or down z-levels.

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But if you look at that same diagram as if it were from the side, water will not traverse diagonal.

Still seems maybe not-clear.
Water goes North East South West NE NW SE SW up and down but not directions like down-west.

Now, water pressure only goes N E S W up and down. The water will trickle out through, say, a south west opening in a pool but no matter how much water is sitting higher in the pool it's not going to flood upward through that diagonal opening.

With the dfhack tool you can actually erase whole blocks (16x16 or something) of water with a few keystrokes and drop magma on the edges to seal them up for good. Or like not quite the edges if you'd like to let the flood back in without just spawning blocks of water to drop into it.

I don't get it. Demonic &s poor out of HFS but I've never seen clown themed ones.

It seems like inhaling a lot of water multiple times to get a prey item would take a lot of energy. If they are close enough to stationary then they might as well be picked up manually and if they move- well, you had better be able to overpower them from the get go. Obviously at the start a cavity that can be filled or emptied is probably not going to have a lot of suction.

The filtering things through smaller holes holds some promise but the free floating bacteria that could be sucked in right from the start are tiny so actually sending the water back out through some kind of pinhole setup would be too troublesome. Instead I think they could suffer losing some portion of what they suck in and having some structures on the walls of the cavity that were like a net or otherwise sticky to the prey, and then little arm structures on the cells could grab and engulf them.

Since the free floaters became less numerous circulating the water to get at them may or may not make sense in terms of how much effort it takes.
The problem though is working this into the gut it already has. Lining all of the gut cavity like this seems like kind of a waste because a whole lot of water will need to come in to put basically any out-pressure near any particular exit, or in other words you'd run the risk of getting a pile up of indigestible crap some place in the middle when there's still enough in current from the mouth but no longer enough out current to whichever exit.

There's an obvious solution in having just one tube that exits out the top but evolution needs gradual change and it would take something dumb like having them all migrate to the top until they merged but somehow not interrupting the gas sack and it would lose the whole benefit of always having nutrients freshly absorbed near every part of the body.

And finally on a technical note it is already a predator. It's been eating tons of the free floating ones and tearing off chunks of the others if it could get close enough and bite/tear them off. With some up/down control and a way of sensing any of the bottom crawlers around it it could easily float down with Jaws music playing before really ruining the day of it's prey. If they can be quickly exhausted by using those jets of theirs (and given the form they should) it could just latch onto some part without severing it and freak them out until they could no longer move away.