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As someone who enjoys making/dressing up in armor, and recreating Medieval combat (Active SCA member)  let me offer some insight on Armor construction.

Woven Silk/Adamantium would probably be able to protect from being skewered or cut in half. You will still end up with your head caved in, from a solid blow to the head.  Even if your attacker is using a sword a good blow to your abdomen, can break a rib, rupture your kidneys, and all other sorts of fun stuff. Solution? 

First off you'll need some good rigid steel in over your sensitive bits. (artifact steel cod pieces anyone?)
In addition to protecting with stiffness, being very heavy is important to absorbing shocks (in the SCA, helms need to be steel, as titanium, although stronger isn't heavy enough to protect against concussions).

You also need padding, layering closed and opencell materials, helps cut down on energy transfers through the materials. The energy of a significant hit can still bruise(or worse) internal organs, even if you have plenty of steel between your fleshy bits and your foes great maul.

According to the dev logs, Dwarves will shortly start grooming themselves and cleaning... So modding in legenday digestive prowess may infact become possible to those who wish

# 3 was a posession induced copper cage that menaces with spikes of...cloth.  Ooh, poky!  Worth about 3k. i have it on display in the statue garden.

I wonder if any one has ever gotten a artifact olivine statue of a frog, that menaces with spikes of olivine.

That would be awesome. It would look like Kermit.

    

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speaking of weird cat breeds anyone heard of a polydactyl?  Apparently Hemmingway liked to release them into the wild.  My mom had one that had six toes on one paw and five on it's others... it has some freaky feather like growths in it fur

So once I had a fort with a nifty cave exposed to the world a short distance from my fortress entrance.  The was a cyclops and other fun somethings in it, I hadn't ventured into it yet, and everything was well.

Then I was sieged.  Without an army yet...(don't ask I'm not sure how that happened it was a few forts ago)

By chance, the goblins decided to invade the cave prior to destroying my fort.  This turned out to be a mistake as the cyclops decimated the entire Siege.

Great right?

Wrong.

Every dwarf not allready occupied dashed into the cave to recover the fallen bodies.
The Cyclops was okay with this.  The 10-20 odd trolls were not. It took only a few minutes for the dwarf bodies to outnumber the goblin bodies. The rest is pretty predictable.

You guys all cook your tallow? I find it a pretty scarce resource for soap...

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Since, at the moment, soap is useless(unless making a 10z level high castle out of kitten tallow soap), I'm more than happy to make tallow biscuits.

Dude!!!

If you remove babysnatcher, and give the gobbos [CAN_CIV] and [CAN_LEARN] instead of [INTELLIGENT], they should only siege. However, they will siege you as early as when they would start babysnatching. This will require a world regen.

Does this mean if we mod in Babysnatching our Civilizations could have kidnapped Goblins migrate in?  Could there be kidnapped cannabil Elven Wrestlers to skare the crap out of humans?