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Keep drinking the cranberry juice. It helps to prevent and treat that kind of infection because it makes the bacteria "slippery". The bacteria has a hard time sticking to anything and causing problems.

I WISH we could get pure cranberry juice here though   , i developed a taste for it a long time ago but all i can get is that crappy cocktail stuff that has been cut with cheap grape and apple juice.

Get well soon!

[ August 23, 2007: Message edited by: Tamren ]

How come I was never able to bite opponents in adventure mode?

Too close to the sun: Have a dwarf get killed by a giant eagle on the highest Z level your fortress allows.

Word of mouth is the best  

Now if only Toady would get around to the interface. Then I could bring in a few more converts.

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Originally posted by SwiftSpear:
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Ugg, no.  Such a creature would be impossibly to sensibly design the fort against.  It would make players incredibly paranoid to have to deal with them in addition to all the other forms of attacks.  FFS, stuff jumps out of your wells.</STRONG>

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Not if we get magic to deal with such creatures.

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Originally posted by TakiJap:
<STRONG>I'm not an expert, but I'm pretty certain that even if you could live and breath in magma, there still wouldn't be anything to breath. So logically Fire Imps shouldn't need to breath, that is, if they live in magma.</STRONG>

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There are fish, REAL fish, that can live in pools of sulfuric acid, not only that but in deep caves with no sunlight. There are also these tiny arctic fish that use so little oxygen that the blood in thier bodies has no red colouration.

Obviously both found a way to survive in those places. Magma is a bit of a stretch, but i would think the major problem is to stop yourself from getting sucked under and swept away ala quicksand.

Ah i guess i missed that. Thats great though, huge improvement  

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Originally posted by Vengeful Donut:
<STRONG>I have a question. If it was implemented, why would I use scaffolding instead of a stack of staircases?</STRONG>

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Not sure what you mean, the stairway box or a set of actual permanent stairs? If you wanted something permanent scaffolding would not work. But if you just needed to get to an out of reach spot scaffolding would work much better.

If you compare the two, the scaffolding would be much easier to put up and take down.  The advantage the scaffolding has is that the frame, stairs, and bridges all use the same material. You would tell your carpenter to build you a set of "scaffolding poles". One set of poles can be used to make one cube of scaffolding. If you wanted to convert that cube into a staircase, you would add another set of scaffolding poles to that same cube.

If you wanted to make stairs out of stone, you would have to designate each as a seperate job and pick the materials used.

Additionally, once you are done with the scaffold you can tell dwarves to dissasemble the whole thing with ONE order, no matter how big or oddly shaped the scaffold is. When they are finished you are left with a large pile of scaffolding poles which are light and can be stored untill you need them again.