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Anvilsmith

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Candyland
« on: February 14, 2008, 05:10:00 am »

As I was musing randomly the other day, it occoured to me that nothing would be more horrific and emotionally disfiguring to the dwarves than plopping them into a world made out of candy. Spoondwarves instead of macedwarves! Giant Squirrels instead of horses! And, of course, marauding Giant Teacups and plush-laden Teddybears.

The idea is to make the universe as girly as possible. Obsessive use of magenta and pink, along with replacing wildlife and trees with obscenely cuddly and cute critters such as doves, winged piggies, cherubs, sweet-tooth tigers, lim-lims and pookums, is a must. Most of these creatures are extremely vulnerable, and could be diced into pink fluffy bits with ridiculous ease. The exceptions, such as Boogiemen, Devourers and Candymen, are ruthlessly carnivorous. Deities pertain to such spheres as Candy, Sweetness, Fuzz and Presents, but also Spoiling, Gluttony and Bitterness.

Instead of humans, there are hobbits, and instead of kobolds, poppets. Yes, poppets. Stitched-together, ugly poppets that want nothing more than to steal all your candy. This will probably be fun in Adventure Mode, especially the part about clubbing sugar plum faeries to death with your lollipop.

I've searched around this forum, and it seems someone tried (way back) to design some candy-based tiles. I want to go further than that, though.

What I need right now is a place to get information about candy melting points and boiling points, in order to realistically portray them, and in order to figure out whether any organic, edible substance could realistically stay solid above 180 degrees celsius (or even above the temperature of magma in DF).

Hey, if I'm crazy enough to start work on a candy mod, I'm at least crazy enough to give it realistic physics, too.

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Re: Candyland
« Reply #1 on: February 14, 2008, 05:58:00 am »

Alright, I have to ask...


What will the giant cave spiders become?  Also, I highly recommend giant chocolate rabbits that drop an item of chocolate when hacked to bits.

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Re: Candyland
« Reply #2 on: February 14, 2008, 06:41:00 am »

Gummy caries spiders?

[ February 14, 2008: Message edited by: Sean Mirrsen ]

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Re: Candyland
« Reply #3 on: February 14, 2008, 08:46:00 am »

I don't know why but when I read the topic title I thought MJ as a megabeast.
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Re: Candyland
« Reply #4 on: February 14, 2008, 11:06:00 am »

....  :eek: and also ....  :eek: ...

Gumdrop castles, swords made out of candy canes. sounds fun.  everything is still going to bleed right?

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Re: Candyland
« Reply #5 on: February 14, 2008, 02:00:00 pm »

quote:
Originally posted by sorbius:
<STRONG>....   :eek: and also ....   :eek: ...

Gumdrop castles, swords made out of candy canes. sounds fun.  everything is still going to bleed right?</STRONG>


You bleed strawberry syrup!
Or, depending on color, blueberry syrup, or lime taffy, or lemon drops, or whatever.

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Re: Candyland
« Reply #6 on: February 14, 2008, 02:22:00 pm »

And dwarfs vomit rainbows in front of the human merchants  :)
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Re: Candyland
« Reply #7 on: February 14, 2008, 03:40:00 pm »

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Re: Candyland
« Reply #8 on: February 14, 2008, 03:46:00 pm »

They'll bleed soda of various fruit flavors.

"You hit Friendly Huggles, the Sugary Gummy Bear of Snacking in the Gum Balls with your *<licorice>*. They are pierced through!"
"Friendly Huggles, the Sugary Gummy Bear of Snacking, has been struck down."

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Re: Candyland
« Reply #9 on: February 14, 2008, 04:19:00 pm »

THIS TOPIC IS HIGHLY RELEVANT TO MY INTERESTS.
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Re: Candyland
« Reply #10 on: February 15, 2008, 04:12:00 pm »

Peppermints can get seriously sharp if you suck on them long enough. They could substitute for obsidian in +minty short sword+s.
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Re: Candyland
« Reply #11 on: February 15, 2008, 04:35:00 pm »

quote:
What will the giant cave spiders become?

Lilac gossamer princesses, silly!
Elephant fairies are also on the to do list. They wear pink tutus and trample dwarves to death.

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everything is still going to bleed right?

Most creatures will still bleed. Magenta blood will be quite common.

What I'm having trouble with thus far is finding a good variety of candies, and trying to establish rules by which I assign them properties (e.g. [AQUIFER]) and layers. I've settled for the principle that every candy capable of soaking up water is an aquifer, and those made with syrup are flux.

But I still haven't decided what gets used as metal or fuel. I'm trying to avoid incorporating sweets that aren't particularly popular in western countries, and have used other types of dessert, such as cheese, sparingly. I'll test whether I can use non-mineral objects (such as gossamer cloth) as fuel.

Here's the current list of minerals, soil types and stones:

Sedimentary: halva, gingerbread, cake, marzipan
Igneous extrusive: toffee, waffle, nougat
Igneous intrusive: caramel, marshmellow, kalakand
Metamorphic: bubblegum, jelly, fudge
Sand: gobstoppers, jelly beans, glitterdust
Earth: Baclava, brie (moldy cheese), emmentaler (swiss cheese), custard
Gems: praline, rock candy, muffins, strawberry jam, prune jam, molasses, gumdrops

Metals: Chocolate? Milk Chocolate?
Fuel: Butter? Faerie crystal?

And here's matgloss_stone_layer:

code:

v[OBJECT:MATGLOSS]

[MATGLOSS_STONE:HALVA]
[NAME:Halva][COLOR:7:6:0][TILE:247]
[SEDIMENTARY][SEDIMENTARY_OCEAN_DEEP]

[MATGLOSS_STONE:MARZIPAN]
[NAME:Halva][COLOR:6:6:1][TILE:034]
[SEDIMENTARY][AQUIFER][SEDIMENTARY_OCEAN_SHALLOW]

[MATGLOSS_STONE: GINGERBREAD]
[NAME:Halva][COLOR:7:6:1][TILE:034]
[SEDIMENTARY][SEDIMENTARY_OCEAN_SHALLOW]

[MATGLOSS_STONE: CAKE]
[NAME:Cake][COLOR:6:0:0][TILE:229][REACTION_CLASS:FLUX]
[SEDIMENTARY][AQUIFER]
[VALUE:2]

[MATGLOSS_STONE:CARAMEL]
[NAME:caramel][COLOR:6:4:0][TILE:239]
[IGNEOUS_INTRUSIVE]

[MATGLOSS_STONE:MARSHMELLOW]
[NAME:marshmellow][COLOR:7:7:1][TILE:236]
[IGNEOUS_INTRUSIVE]

[MATGLOSS_STONE:KALAKAND]
[NAME:marshmellow][COLOR:7:3:1][TILE:236]
[IGNEOUS_INTRUSIVE]


[MATGLOSS_STONE:TOFFEE]
[NAME:toffee][COLOR:6:6:1][TILE:249][LAVA]
[IGNEOUS_EXTRUSIVE]

[MATGLOSS_STONE:WAFFLE]
[NAME:waffle][COLOR:4:6:0][TILE:35]
[IGNEOUS_EXTRUSIVE]

[MATGLOSS_STONE:NOUGAT]
[NAME:nougat][COLOR:7:6:1][TILE:35]
[IGNEOUS_EXTRUSIVE]

[MATGLOSS_STONE:BUBBLEGUM]
[NAME:bubblegum][color:5:5:1][TILE:248]
[METAMORPHIC]

[MATGLOSS_STONE:JELLY]
[NAME:jelly][COLOR:5:3:1][TILE:236][REACTION_CLASS:FLUX]
[METAMORPHIC]
[VALUE:2]

[MATGLOSS_STONE:FUDGE]
[NAME:fudge][COLOR:5:3:1][TILE:34]
[METAMORPHIC]


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Re: Candyland
« Reply #12 on: February 15, 2008, 04:42:00 pm »

Goblins could be those orange- and black-wrappered peanut butter candies everybody throws away at halloween.  And you could make chocolate syrup shoggoths.
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Re: Candyland
« Reply #13 on: February 15, 2008, 04:59:00 pm »

This is a finely crafted milk chocolate table.  It is engraved with the image of dwarfs and poppets, the poppet is burning, the dwarf is laughing.  it is decorated with pieces of muffin and candie cane.

F'ing awesome if that ever happened.

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Re: Candyland
« Reply #14 on: February 15, 2008, 05:03:00 pm »

Just a few problems with realistic melting/boiling points:

It is now summer.
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Urist Lokumac, chocolatecrafter has gone berzerk!

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