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I meant more like a Dwarf vital to the fortress getting killed when he or she would otherwise be injured. Obviously the hammerer is supposed to kill criminals, but sometimes you need the criminals alive.Considering that's sort of the point of hammerers... But really it's more because if we do for whatever reason need to carry out an execution, I don't want to have to deactivate a squad for the sentence.Nil's a regular (or as regular as a hardened head squishes like him can be anyway,) footslogger. Been meaning to assign a hammerer from outside the militia just for completeness' sake though.I'd understand if you don't. If any good Dwarves get sentenced to hammer strikes, you know they'll die.
Nil's a regular (or as regular as a hardened head squishes like him can be anyway,) footslogger. Been meaning to assign a hammerer from outside the militia just for completeness' sake though.I'd understand if you don't. If any good Dwarves get sentenced to hammer strikes, you know they'll die.
Quartz Mace cancels living: demons embedded in everything.I'm sigging this.
Last I checked wild animals don't need to eat and even domesticated ones in cage don't. I guess war you could pasture and breed them( a giant one).Shove them in a cage near the fort's entrance. Link to a lever, wait until next siege and pull.
Wouldn't they starve in a cage? Besides, it would be overkill since there are no sieges in Searingmines. There have been a few minotaurs and cyclops but those things are so wimpy that children could handle them.
I agree, in the long run, bismuth bronze is better. In the beginning, when you may be low on fuel and dwarf power, it's much easier to just smelt two ores into eight weapon and armor grade bars and work from there. Also, I say don't bother with the bismuth bronze because neither are the final product as planned. You'll want steel-clad Dwarves in the end, not bronze-clad, so you won't need 450+ bars of bronze.Don't bring any wheelbarrows, crutches, or splints on an embark with trees. Instead, use the points to buy ore. I'd bring iron ore (limonite, hematite, or magnetite, whichever is cheapest), if it's available. If not, bring tin ore (cassiterite) and copper ore (malachite or tetrahedite which also contains silver and is more expensive). Bring plenty of lignite or bituminous coal if you're bringing iron to alloy for steel, which also requires flux stone (lignite=5 bars of coke, bituminous coal=9 bars). If you plan I grow your own cloth and such, leave behind thread as well. Early on, stick to regular bronze because it's easiest to make. Bismuth bronze requires bismuth and more effort, but bronze can be made directly from ore.My continued argument in favor of Bismuth Bronze
Cassiterite and Malachite cost 6 each. Each makes 4 bars. You get 8 bars for 12 points, which is 1.5 points per bar.
Cassiterite, 2x Malachite, and 1 Bismunthenite costs 21 points, because Bismunthenite only costs 3 points. This produces 16 bars for 21 points, ~1.3 points per bar.
In an embark of 1,274 points, if you invest lightly in other things, you can get away with 600+ points. That's 400 bronze or 450+ bismuth bronze. Either way that's a lot of metal, but 12 ingots makes one suit of regular armor for me. I can easily get an extra 5 full suits of armor using Bismuth, and heaven knows there's always 5 more migrants. And there are so many migrants and a whole YEAR to prepare for attack, that I can afford to put labor on metalworking. Those migrant cheesemakers can actually do something useful on the first year.
