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Can't you buy them from Gnome traders?

Lamellar has no metal in it. Its just this: Little leather plates with thread to tie it together.

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Real lamellar armour is just a style of armour I believe, it can be made from any material. You can make it with metal or leather plates, perhaps even a combination.



By the way, is rabies supposed to be linked to the disease-button? Because I still got rabid dogs/dwarves when I turned diseases off (4d), but I didn't notice any other diseases.

4d:

A dwarf in a mood claimed a mason's workshop and made a throne, but he became a legendary miner rather than mason.


http://i.imgur.com/LQYzlJp.png

Ok, I guess it's just a vanilla oddity rather than a bug.

I did come across something else which surely must be a bug though. I have diseases disabled, but my dogs are still getting rabies.

http://i.imgur.com/1ZtZQ1a.png

What am I supposed to do with mutilated corpses? I had hundreds of the things, so I tossed them in lava to get rid of them, but they aren't burning up.

After four gremlin invasions and two automaton invasions in the same year, my military was looking a bit ragged (and quite a bit smaller). One of my sworddwarves had a wounded leg, so he was hopping around on a crutch and apparently couldn't carry his sword. That didn't stop him from being the first to get to the scene when a handful of reptile people appeared however, nor did it prevent him from kicking ass.



Omitted are several pages of the dwarf hitting reptile people with his crutch and dodging whenever they tried to hit him back.

How can I persuade my "lifemancer" to resurrect my soldiers? I put him in a squad and stationed him near the corpses, but he isn't doing anything (though the corpses might be too old).

He once resurrected a fallen caravan guard all on his own, which was nice as the guard became part of my fort, but I'd like to be able to take advantage of his skills properly.

Quote from: RandomName on November 12, 2013, 06:05:40 am

How am I supposed to use the Blast Furnace for melting weapons/armor? When I tried it, the dwarves started filling it up with my masterwork steel weapons instead of the goblinite I had designated for melting...

The blast furnace doesn't look at the Melt flag, that's only used by regular smelters. To process goblinite in your blast furnace, you'll want to create a stockpile for it, and then use stockpile links to designate that to give to the blast furnace. Unless you've got a magma furnace, make sure you also have a linked stockpile that provides fuel.

Likewise, you can use a stockpile link to *take* from your weaponsmith, making sure that your masterwork weapons don't end up in the recycling pile by accident.

Stockpile links are pretty much the best thing ever.

~ T

Ok, thanks.


Is there any particular way arbalests should be set up? I'm particularly worried about "friendly fire", like with ballistas. Also, do they benefit from higher quality parts?

Yes, my intention is to make fire-mages a lot rare (pop-ratio:1) to avoid this thing. They are already rare enough, but big fortresses usually get one as a migrant now and then.

If you want them to be extremely rare, perhaps it would be just as well to not include magic in the mix of random castes? In other words, make the only way to get a fire-mage to make one yourself.