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Author Topic: Merchants brought me barrels of crow blood.  (Read 1754 times)

random_odd_guy

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Merchants brought me barrels of crow blood.
« on: August 09, 2014, 07:45:20 am »

The human caravan arrived. I unloaded on them several dozen thousand worth of gold craft, and found they had...barrels of crow blood...um...why would they sell this to me?
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Re: Merchants brought me barrels of crow blood.
« Reply #1 on: August 09, 2014, 07:52:40 am »

Because that's what they've done since version 0.31.
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Re: Merchants brought me barrels of crow blood.
« Reply #2 on: August 09, 2014, 07:58:03 am »

Crow blood, bulls blood, you name it, you'll probably see a merchant selling it. Don't ask me why, or what you're meant to use it for, but you can buy it
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Re: Merchants brought me barrels of crow blood.
« Reply #3 on: August 09, 2014, 09:08:55 am »

Mod in a use for it.  Anything balanced that you see fit.

The masterwork mod uses it in its religious building chain, sacrifice blood to Armok for random rewards.  It's also used in making bloodsteel, and bloodwine in that mod.

Lots of possibilities.  Even greater possibilities once dfhack is updated for the new version.
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Re: Merchants brought me barrels of crow blood.
« Reply #4 on: August 09, 2014, 09:18:00 am »

Mod in a use for it.  Anything balanced that you see fit.

Hmm... Perhaps a fertilizer for farms? Or a dye? Maybe a new workshop that lets you paint finished goods with blood.
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Re: Merchants brought me barrels of crow blood.
« Reply #5 on: August 09, 2014, 09:22:19 am »

I always assumed it was used in the kitchen for meal preparation and bought some every year. Good to know it's useless.
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Re: Merchants brought me barrels of crow blood.
« Reply #6 on: August 09, 2014, 09:24:30 am »

Crow Blood? That could be useful, at least in a real life context. Occasionally you can get barrels of gremlin tears.

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Re: Merchants brought me barrels of crow blood.
« Reply #7 on: August 09, 2014, 09:48:11 am »

Blood - pfft.
My mountainhome offered me gremlin tears.

Gremlin tears.

Who would even consider collecting those, and under what conditions? DF has just gone bay12 on us.
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Re: Merchants brought me barrels of crow blood.
« Reply #8 on: August 09, 2014, 09:50:13 am »

Blood - pfft.
My mountainhome offered me gremlin tears.

Gremlin tears.

Who would even consider collecting those, and under what conditions? DF has just gone bay12 on us.

I got Gremlin sweat. You can even request the sweat/blood/tears from the liaison!

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Re: Merchants brought me barrels of crow blood.
« Reply #9 on: August 09, 2014, 10:00:33 am »

I imagine human nobles have certain bathing requirements.  Hence, all the blood.

Like how dwarves insist on alcohol instead of water.
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Re: Merchants brought me barrels of crow blood.
« Reply #10 on: August 09, 2014, 10:19:30 am »

I would buy a few barrels of elf tears.

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Re: Merchants brought me barrels of crow blood.
« Reply #11 on: August 09, 2014, 11:55:33 am »

Just a question: Can we actually "produce" our own blood? Because I'd love to try to sell a wooden barrel full of elvish blood to an elven caravan.
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Re: Merchants brought me barrels of crow blood.
« Reply #12 on: August 09, 2014, 12:03:40 pm »

Just a question: Can we actually "produce" our own blood? Because I'd love to try to sell a wooden barrel full of elvish blood to an elven caravan.
And then they would be offended that you sold them a wooden barrel.
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Re: Merchants brought me barrels of crow blood.
« Reply #13 on: August 09, 2014, 12:17:51 pm »

It would be neat if blood barrels could be used to sate vampires and delay them draining your legendary armorsmiths for a while, but alas, such use has not been implemented yet.
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Re: Merchants brought me barrels of crow blood.
« Reply #14 on: August 10, 2014, 11:36:40 am »

Get a band together and use the blood as part of the stage show. It'll be metal as fuck when you also have your army in there rocking out. Hell, use the remains of your prisoners while at it to really add to the atmosphere.
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