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Maul_Junior

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What would it take to turn Dwarves into Cannibals?
« on: May 05, 2014, 06:15:18 pm »
Basically this is inspired by playing Masterwork and the Butchering/devouring of enemies, and turning their bones into weapons to be turned against even more invaders.

I'm curious what it would take to make Dwarves themselves able to be butchered after death. This would actually give Migrants a good use, and a potentially seasonal source of food, bones, and leather (Decently skilled metalworkers, etc would be exempt). Of course you'd have to engrave slabs instead of burying Dorfs.....

I'm just envisioning a fort that uses nothing but bone armor with Dwarf Leather armor on top, firing bolts of Dwarf bone at Goblins, while gnawing on their former roommate when they get hungry.

Not sure if I would actually play this, just curious how it would work, and which raws I would need to work on.

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« Last Edit: May 05, 2014, 06:18:16 pm by Maul_Junior »
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Re: What would it take to turn Dwarves into Cannibals?
« Reply #1 on: May 05, 2014, 08:49:23 pm »
unfortunately dwarf corpses are treated differently from other corpses and cant be butchered
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Re: What would it take to turn Dwarves into Cannibals?
« Reply #2 on: May 05, 2014, 08:54:08 pm »
Well your question wasn't purely about turning Dwarves into cannibals when i read it fully, however a workaround is that pets tend to be butcher-able. So if some castes of Dwarves are pets, you can butcher them (don't know about if they die on their own however) and embark with extra ones if you pay for them as pets.
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Re: What would it take to turn Dwarves into Cannibals?
« Reply #3 on: May 06, 2014, 04:27:15 am »
Its possible with IndigoFenix machines. They autobutcher anything thrown into them, even your own corpses. Ask him if you really want to try. But it needs dfhack.
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Re: What would it take to turn Dwarves into Cannibals?
« Reply #4 on: May 06, 2014, 02:12:14 pm »
A soap that is easy to make and that carries a blood syndrome that removes sentient?
You can have them forbidden most of the time and if someone sustains serious injuries, you unforbid a bar and forbid any stocks of normal soap.
Also that means eating less infected meat and gives some kind of ritual to be able to be eaten. :)

Edit: you actually don't need forbidding it as is a blood syndrome, as long as the dwarves don't get it in wounds they will maintain their intelligence.

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Re: What would it take to turn Dwarves into Cannibals?
« Reply #5 on: May 08, 2014, 09:48:17 am »
Quote from: sackhead on May 05, 2014, 08:49:23 pm
unfortunately

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