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The '''flesh ball''' is an amphibious [[creature]], made entirely out of [[meat|muscle]] and blood, that is quite slow on the ground. In [[fortress mode]], they appear in clusters of 2–5 in the third layer of the [[cavern]]s. Given its size (and the density of its flesh), the ball's diameter is about half a metre. When [[butcher]]ed, it produces no organs and only meat, but is edible. Some [[dwarf|dwarves]] may enjoy flesh balls for their calming roundness or warmth.
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The '''flesh ball''' is an amphibious [[creature]], made entirely out of [[meat|muscle]] and [[blood]], that is quite slow on the ground. They appear in clusters of 2–5 in the third layer of the [[caverns]] and are as heavy as a [[human]], but they are harmless to [[dwarf|dwarves]], possessing no means of attacking but a weak [[push]] which will glance away from just about anything.
  
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Flesh balls are featureless. As simple balls of muscle, they do not need to breathe or sleep, have no thought, cannot vomit, become dizzy, or be stunned, but are still easily killable via slashing weapons. A novice swordsdwarf with a steel short sword takes about twelve [[Time|minutes]] in fortress mode or ten seconds in adventure mode to kill a single flesh ball, and kills it by repeatedly tearing and slashing the ball's body until it bleeds to death, while the dwarf remains completely unharmed.
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Flesh balls are featureless, skinless and boneless. As simple balls of muscle, they do not need to breathe or sleep, have no thought, cannot vomit, become dizzy, or be stunned, but are still easily killable anyway. They produce two pieces of meat when [[butcher]]ed. Flesh balls possess a [[pet]] value of 10, but lack the necessary tokens to be [[Animal trainer|trainable]]. They can't be spawned in the [[object testing arena]].
  
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Confronted with a blunt force attacker, a flesh ball laughs by slowly undulating in a rhythmic manner. In an arena test, a novice hammerdwarf with a silver war hammer, no other skills and no armor, attacked a ball for one day, at which point he was a [[experience|legendary]] hammerdwarf, wrestler, fighter, and striker. The flesh ball sustained bruises but was still alive and attacking the hammerdwarf in vain. After about two days of pelting, the hammerdwarf got a lucky hit and tore the skin of the ball, which caused it to bleed out and die.
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Some dwarves [[Preferences|like]] flesh balls for their ''warmth'' and their ''calming roundness''.
  
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Even though they are simple, flesh balls can live up to age 200, much older than even [[dwarf|dwarves]].
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Flesh balls are not available in the [[object testing arena]] by default, since they possess the {{token|ARENA_RESTRICTED|c}} token.
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*A !!Flesh Ball!! is a famous delicacy in the fabled dwarven barbecue!
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*Not to be confused with [https://doomwiki.org/wiki/Cacodemon Cacodemons].
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*Also a famous topping on pizzas with a certain absence of bones.
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Flesh balls, due to their extreme resistance to blunt [[weapon]]s, are excellent training dummies. You would do better to catch the flesh balls in [[cage trap]]s first &mdash; it simplifies things. Catch several if possible.
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*Have been found living with a talking [[bin|bin]] of [[potato|thinly cut potatoes]] and a [[goblet|goblet]] of [[temperature|freezing]] mixed [[milk|milk]] and [[sugar|sugar]], the latter of which was referred to as a [[master|master]].
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{{Translation| dwarven = ar biban | elvish = leci èle | goblin = etkûk enu | human = ammen ohe}}
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Put your flesh balls in a closed room and add cage traps to the exit so they won't escape and interrupt your civilian dwarves. Arm your edge damage dwarves with [[training weapon]]s (and do '''not''' use [[elf|elven]] wooden swords and spears, as they are cutting weapons, and will kill flesh balls), arm your blunt damage dwarves with their normal weapons, outfit them in metal armor (because flesh balls ''are'' able to wound your dwarves, as harmless as they may seem), and send them to [[attack]] a flesh ball. You may want to retire your dwarves every two [[time|weeks]] to prevent overexertion and allow drinking, eating and sleeping. Or, [[scheduling|schedule]] your dwarves so only one goes to the flesh ball training room at a time. An advantage of one dwarf vs. one flesh ball is that the flesh ball will attack as well, which should help give the dwarf a few levels in armor user. Three or four weeks of flesh ball bashing should be sufficient to raise a dwarf's primary weapon skill to legendary.
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While flesh balls are invulnerable to blunt weaponry, dwarves will quite frequently bite or scratch, and this makes the flesh balls bleed. You may want to check the flesh ball's state quite often so they do not die (flesh balls do not reproduce, and you will probably not get more than 15&ndash;20 flesh balls in a fortress, so you may want to keep them alive longer). Either babysit the flesh balls and deactivate your military so they don't bleed to death, which is a bother, or find [[undead|a way to remove the blood]].
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Notebook_10_FleshBall.jpg|"Slowly-moving flesh ball that absorbs debris near water."<br>''Concept art by Bay 12 Games.''
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You can train all military weapon [[skill]]s except for [[marksdwarf]] (use [[bronze colossus]]es or [[giant sponge]]s for these) on a flesh ball, including the unarmed attack skills and, of course, [[fighter]]. [[Armor user]] and [[shield user]] may earn a few levels, but [[dodger]] will generally not, so you will need to complete your dwarves' training program with more dangerous fights.
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Flesh ball
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Urist likes flesh balls for their warmth.
Portrait

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Biome

  • Underground Depth: 3
Attributes

· Genderless · No Stun

Cannot be tamed 
Size
Max: 70,000 cm3

Age
Adult at: Birth
Max age: 100-200
Butchering returns

Food items

Meat 2

Raw materials

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A large ball of skin found moving around the debris near underground ponds. It is there that it absorbs dead matter for food.

The flesh ball is an amphibious creature, made entirely out of muscle and blood, that is quite slow on the ground. They appear in clusters of 2–5 in the third layer of the caverns and are as heavy as a human, but they are harmless to dwarves, possessing no means of attacking but a weak push which will glance away from just about anything.

Flesh balls are featureless, skinless and boneless. As simple balls of muscle, they do not need to breathe or sleep, have no thought, cannot vomit, become dizzy, or be stunned, but are still easily killable anyway. They produce two pieces of meat when butchered. Flesh balls possess a pet value of 10, but lack the necessary tokens to be trainable. They can't be spawned in the object testing arena.

Some dwarves like flesh balls for their warmth and their calming roundness.

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  • A !!Flesh Ball!! is a famous delicacy in the fabled dwarven barbecue!
  • Not to be confused with Cacodemons.
  • Also a famous topping on pizzas with a certain absence of bones.
  • Known to like voodoo dolls.
  • Have been found living with a talking bin of thinly cut potatoes and a goblet of freezing mixed milk and sugar, the latter of which was referred to as a master.
"Flesh ball" in other Languages Books-aj.svg aj ashton 01.svg
Dwarven: ar biban
Elven: leci èle
Goblin: etkûk enu
Human: ammen ohe

Gallery[edit]

  • Art by Arne.

  • "Slowly-moving flesh ball that absorbs debris near water."
    Concept art by Bay 12 Games.

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