# Bodily Functions - Never?
**URL:** https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/bodily-functions-never/10105
**Category:** The Drawing Board
**Created:** [July 19, 2015, 4:25am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/bodily-functions-never/10105 "2015-07-19T04:25:11Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Musaab](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Musaab)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2015, 4:25am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/bodily-functions-never/10105/1 "2015-07-19T04:25:11Z")
I understand not wanting it as part if the core game, but why not even in a mod? Is it so reprehensible?
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### Author:  [@kevin.granade](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/kevin.granade)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2015, 4:28am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/bodily-functions-never/10105/2 "2015-07-19T04:28:38Z")
It’s not reprehensible, it’s pointless, and for clarification, when I say “not even in a mod”, I mean “I’m not going to merge it into the main codebase”, not “you aren’t allowed to code and distribute itself if you want”.
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### Author:  [@Musaab](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Musaab)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2015, 5:02am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/bodily-functions-never/10105/3 "2015-07-19T05:02:12Z")
Thanks for the reply 🙂
Keep up the great work!
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### Author:  [@voskhod](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/voskhod)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2015, 7:33am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/bodily-functions-never/10105/4 "2015-07-19T07:33:43Z")
Really though Kevin the least that can be done is add a field effect for vomit that causes the player nausea whenever they’re near it, it makes no sense how a player can vomit and nothing happens beyond the food in your stomach being cancelled out. There should maybe be a more visual indication of the player emptying the contents of their stomach?
Lets just NOT take the Dwarf Fortress route and make the player an infinite fire hose of vomit though.
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### Author:  [@StopSignal](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/StopSignal)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2015, 8:14am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/bodily-functions-never/10105/5 "2015-07-19T08:14:05Z")
“Press P to poop”
As stated before, it would be just too much micromanagement, especially with how the time flows in the game. I know that being killed by a jabby when going to pee outside the truck sounds hilarious and pretty cool, but player comfortability is better!
Not like it’d be a bad idea for modification.
Seeing vomit does not give me nausea though? But also I don’t have good olfactory senses, that must be why.
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### Author:  [@WIndburns](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/WIndburns)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2015, 8:26am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/bodily-functions-never/10105/6 "2015-07-19T08:26:47Z")
The toilets are doing their job pretty well in Cataclysm as long as we don’t have to think about their cleanliness.
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### Author:  [@StopSignal](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/StopSignal)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2015, 8:27am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/bodily-functions-never/10105/7 "2015-07-19T08:27:55Z")
You drink the brown water.
☹
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### Author:  [@Coolthulhu](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Coolthulhu)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2015, 8:59am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/bodily-functions-never/10105/8 "2015-07-19T08:59:53Z")
> [@voskhod](#):
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> Lets just NOT take the Dwarf Fortress route and make the player an infinite fire hose of vomit though.
DF actually limits the amount of vomit in each creature - after vomiting, further nausea will only cause retching.
DDA is a bit more strict: survivor will only vomit food and water, never just plain stomach acid.
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### Author:  [@ShinQuickMan](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/ShinQuickMan)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2015, 3:54pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/bodily-functions-never/10105/9 "2015-07-19T15:54:40Z")
[quote=“voskhod, post:4, topic:10105”]Really though Kevin the least that can be done is add a field effect for vomit that causes the player nausea whenever they’re near it, it makes no sense how a player can vomit and nothing happens beyond the food in your stomach being cancelled out. There should maybe be a more visual indication of the player emptying the contents of their stomach?
Lets just NOT take the Dwarf Fortress route and make the player an infinite fire hose of vomit though.[/quote]
I don’t know. The PC doesn’t react similarly at the sight of rotten food or corpses, either. Would be really annoying if you can’t reliably eat something between bashing some zombie skulls, or getting sick cause you found weeks old milk while raiding a fridge.
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### Author:  [@Random\_dragon](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Random_dragon)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2015, 4:02pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/bodily-functions-never/10105/10 "2015-07-19T16:02:23Z")
Would make a sewage cannon even more Fun though. But yeah, is otherwise a bit pointless.
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### Author:  [@Pthalocy](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Pthalocy)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2015, 4:24pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/bodily-functions-never/10105/11 "2015-07-19T16:24:17Z")
I’d like a visual indicator to go with the “you throw up heavily!” mesage, but that’s about it. It’d amount to needing a mop to remove the ~ from the tile, or just going outside your shelter if you’re lazy but still like a clean fort at worst. As handy as the text log is, I still tend to miss some messages like this when spammed by a multitude of other similarly coloured messages XD
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### Author:  [@Random\_dragon](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Random_dragon)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2015, 4:35pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/bodily-functions-never/10105/12 "2015-07-19T16:35:36Z")
Ah right. Giving puke a field effect would be funny as well.
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### Author:  [@BeerBeer](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/BeerBeer)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2015, 9:49pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/bodily-functions-never/10105/13 "2015-07-19T21:49:53Z")
What if toilet needs were special cases only? Like, you’d get afflicted with diarrhea. And only THEN would you be required to relieve yourself quickly or face the consequences, such as:
- Smelly pants (hefty negative morale, increased scentprint for scent-tracking creatures)
- Dirty legwear and footwear (require washing, skin layer only)
- Further increased chance of additional infections if the poo problem (pooblem?) isn’t dealt with.
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### Author:  [@Pthalocy](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Pthalocy)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2015, 2:10am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/bodily-functions-never/10105/14 "2015-07-20T02:10:40Z")
You mean add dysentery as a disease?
…I mostly wanted to post because “pooblem” sent me into a giggle fit. I am truly a five year old.
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### Author:  [@kevin.granade](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/kevin.granade)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2015, 2:22am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/bodily-functions-never/10105/15 "2015-07-20T02:22:05Z")
Vomit != "Poop and related bodily functions"
Obviously, vomiting is already in the game, if someone feels like coding up an item or field to represent it, feel free.
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### Author:  [@Random\_dragon](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Random_dragon)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2015, 3:24am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/bodily-functions-never/10105/16 "2015-07-20T03:24:37Z")
Don’t tempt me. \>w\>
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### Author:  [@i2amroy](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/i2amroy)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2015, 3:31am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/bodily-functions-never/10105/17 "2015-07-20T03:31:02Z")
[quote=“BeerBeer, post:13, topic:10105”]What if toilet needs were special cases only? Like, you’d get afflicted with diarrhea. And only THEN would you be required to relieve yourself quickly or face the consequences, such as:
- Smelly pants (hefty negative morale, increased scentprint for scent-tracking creatures)
- Dirty legwear and footwear (require washing, skin layer only)
- Further increased chance of additional infections if the poo problem (pooblem?) isn’t dealt with.[/quote]
Yeaaaaaaahhhh… no.
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### Author:  [@BeerBeer](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/BeerBeer)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2015, 9:10pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/bodily-functions-never/10105/18 "2015-07-20T21:10:42Z")
[quote=“i2amroy, post:17, topic:10105”][/quote]
Yeaaaaaaahhhh… no.
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…And then on the other end of the spectrum, one would have constipation, for not eating enough fibers… Oh… wait… you said ‘no’. ☹
W… Would you at least agree to introducing bladder stones? The character would have the occasional need to pee, but it’d be painful as hell, so he’d have to take Tramadol before peeing…
Why are you looking at me like that? ☹
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### Author:  [@Random\_dragon](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Random_dragon)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2015, 9:14pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/bodily-functions-never/10105/19 "2015-07-20T21:14:10Z")
I’d say keep it at DF levels. XP
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### Author:  [@StopSignal](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/StopSignal)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2015, 10:11pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/bodily-functions-never/10105/20 "2015-07-20T22:11:02Z")
Hahaha this is the best d:
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