Bay 12 Games Forum

Please login or register.

Login with username, password and session length
Advanced search  

Author Topic: Blood generated when dwarves freeze to death  (Read 949 times)

Nate879

  • Bay Watcher
    • View Profile
Blood generated when dwarves freeze to death
« on: February 04, 2008, 12:45:00 am »

When a dwarf freezes to death, a pool of blood is generated.
Logged
There are 10 types of people in the world: those who understand binary and those who don''t.<P>The ultimate fate of the universe.

ilnar

  • Bay Watcher
    • View Profile
Re: Blood generated when dwarves freeze to death
« Reply #1 on: February 04, 2008, 11:18:00 am »

quote:
Originally posted by Nate879:
<STRONG>When a dwarf freezes to death, a pool of blood is generated.</STRONG>

freezing, in most substances, causes the object to contract, however, water (and therefore alcohol, containing water) expands, breaking things i.e. dwarves open and releaing the pool of blood,



 :D
not quite ture but close enough

Logged
 laugh in the face of danger,
then i run away.

nunix

  • Bay Watcher
    • View Profile
Re: Blood generated when dwarves freeze to death
« Reply #2 on: February 04, 2008, 11:59:00 am »

Er, things contract a little. On the other hand, when water freezes, its bulk expands significantly (try it; put a can of Coke or similar in the freezer for a couple of hours). It's the frozen water expanding and trying to occupy space that doesn't exist that would cause the rupture.

..but that's not really what freezing to death is anyway.

..which would leave no blood at all, which was the OP's point. =p

Logged

Sofaspud

  • Bay Watcher
    • View Profile
Re: Blood generated when dwarves freeze to death
« Reply #3 on: February 04, 2008, 12:43:00 pm »

Yeah, to cause a pool of blood, they'd need to freeze to death, then THAW.

Hmm... an open-air pit in a freezing biome, with a floodgate-controlled lava chamber underneath.  Mwah hah hah!

Logged
Can't... stop... laughing...:<BR>"... but at least in DF if Elves chained themselves to trees it would just mean an extra ax stroke or two." --Forumsdwarf<BR>"Would the owner of the red GCS silk socks, please pick them the f*** up, you left your FPS void on." --MadJax

numerobis

  • Bay Watcher
    • View Profile
Re: Blood generated when dwarves freeze to death
« Reply #4 on: February 05, 2008, 09:14:00 pm »

quote:
Originally posted by Sofaspud:
<STRONG>Yeah, to cause a pool of blood, they'd need to freeze to death, then THAW</STRONG>

Oooh, I want to build my next trade depot out of frozen dwarf blood!

Logged

Sofaspud

  • Bay Watcher
    • View Profile
Re: Blood generated when dwarves freeze to death
« Reply #5 on: February 06, 2008, 01:01:00 pm »

That would indeed be awesome, if you were running a gobbo fort, maybe.

What you REALLY need to do is trap a few of the pointy-eared freaks, turn THEM in to Elven Blood Blocks, and build your depot out of that.  As a warning to the rest of the elves, of course.

Be even better if it menaced with spikes of elven ear.

Logged
Can't... stop... laughing...:<BR>"... but at least in DF if Elves chained themselves to trees it would just mean an extra ax stroke or two." --Forumsdwarf<BR>"Would the owner of the red GCS silk socks, please pick them the f*** up, you left your FPS void on." --MadJax