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Also, how do you hack a bronze golem carefully in order not to break your axe?

Looks fascinating. I think the change of focus to specific roles is a good approach. It's a sign that the gameplay is more important than the simulation itself - good to see there's no simulation for the sake of simulation, always for the sake of enhancing a specific role.

By the way... minecarts sure sound fun but I can't imagine what would they be good for  It sounds that the shear amount of workforce required to make tracks and minecarts would be larger than having dwarves haul all the rocks from a vein individually. I guess minecarts would work for large quarries or situations where there's a huge concentration of ore in one place (which would require changing the way how veins spawn now - in almost regular distances).

Please tell me that artifact weapons won't degrade, at least >_<
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I'm more worried about what would happen to dwarves who break their sword/axe/spear during a fight? Will they wrestle the enemy? (That would be terrible) Will they try to run to an armory to get a new weapon? If yes, how will that work with all the arsenal dwarf bureaucracy when they can't just pick up a weapon on a whim?

An interesting solution would be to have each dwarf carry two weapons by default (determined by default uniforms... say one weapon for the "light" leather uniform, two weapons for the "heavy" metal uniform). Better yet, have backup weapons dependent on the main weapon. Macedwarfs probably don't need backups. Swordsdwarves and speardwarves, on the other hand, should carry a backup warhammer or something that doesn't break.

EDIT: This leads to the issue of being able to tell your dwarves to use certain weapons for this fight only. "It's a colossus, throw away your spears, pick up hammers"... without needing to wait for the arsenal dwarf and preferably without much micromanagement.   Because without being able to specify weapons now, the realistic material system along with weapon damage would make fighting mineral beats too broken.

I hate the open-source zealotry.

That being said, Goblin Camp is going to be open source, apparently, so you'll eventually have what you hoped for.

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Losing is fun.

I can't recall any English saying that goes for this but we have a nice one here in Czech Republic: "If you really want to beat the dog, you'll always find a stick".

Lame move, really.  While he is being very civil on the surface, he's using anti-DF bitterness to further his cause.  The whole "I have a small pet too" thing is kinda creepy on top of that.  You have to read between the lines a bit to see how the guy is trying to position himself.  Some of you are going to be too young to "get this" but it's a powerplay.   

This is maybe the problem.