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Hmm that would do just fine, if there is also a way to reduce parrying independently of weapon skill it would be perfect.

Adding 'muck around with DFhack scripts until they make sense' to the list of things to do!

Sure you may! If you need any help with adding new items and such, feel free to ask. Metals and weapons do need some modifications compared to the vanilla ones, else balance can get severely wonky.

Included the new body_default file as a compatibility patch, thanks!

For the cuir bouilli armor: I somehow didnt even notice the silly metal versions. That was not supposed to happen... Boiled leather is not at all suited to thinks like brigandines and coats of plates either as its a fairly hard and brittle material. Its odd that it happened too as it does not actually have a [METAL] tag in there.

I at some point considered calling 'cuir boilli' 'boiled leather' instead, but it made it sound a bit like the armor was the thing that got boiled, rather than the leather.

Getting rid of the creature-specific names entirely would probably be best but I haven't found any way to get entities to use a specific material for a specific item. I could also make 'boiled' an adjective, meaning it would become 'boiled donkey leather armor'... As long as you look past that sounding a bit like 'armor made from boiled donkeys', it sounds kind of alright.

As an aside, arbitrarily using foreign words to describe a specific thing is fairly common practice. Take 'hatchet, mallet or katana' for instance. Translated back to their original language they just mean 'axe, hammer, sword'.

Show us on the doll which one... touched you.

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Hahah nice one 

But in the internet spirit of answering a joke sincerely (and since they are so nicely chronologically lined up), id say its around 4 and 5.

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Small I'm-not-dead update: Bloomeries give good use for all that wood we get since .42, I cannot seem to make bog iron actually appear in bogs only (sad face) and shoe layering does not want to work with me, at all. This might explain various issues I and other have with dwarf mode soldiers only wearing a single boot.

I've put the skill modifications on ice for now, the metallurgy parts will be fairly easy to keep as a separate module.

One things to keep in mind though, is that this mod already modifies the stock metals, and relies on any other weapon/armor materials (including cloth) to be modified in the same way (a substantially increased impact elasticity and yield point for all of them and substantially reduced shear strengths on cloth), so keep in mind that with mods that introduce new materials/modify existing ones, some manual fitting needs to be done.

Next up will be some rearranging of armor layering to work out a few bugs/oddities and some extra armor items. (an ocular kettle helm, because they look way too cool to omit, and possibly cuir bouilli arm/leg/head armor. As soon as figure out whether the scant evidence for their existence is compelling enough. It should be noted that knowledge on cuit bouilli is pretty spotty in general, as it has a nasty habit of completely decomposing and was used in an era where surcoats were still in use, making it quite hard to see what they are wearing underneath).

I also noticed a particularly vicious looking polearm that I want to include in a number of medieval paintings, supposedly from different times and artists. It look like the bastard child of a longsword, spear and a cleaver. Just got to find out what it could be called and be sure it was not just some artists getting creative.

Oh and, your welcome, glad you like it ^^

Spend it and the next few days on having a single drink.

WWUD if he was the hammerer, and found himself ordered to hammer the hammerer?

i keep having this terrible dream, where my alarm clock goes off

then, later, i wake up for real, but then i'm too groggy and confused to tell whether i dreamed the alarm clock or if it really went off and i fell asleep again after

inevitably, it never really went off, and i only get back to sleep about 10 minutes before the alarm clock really does go off

Argh, hate it when that happens. And it happens to me about every time I have a particularly unappealing day ahead. The only way to break that cycle for me is to drag myself out of bed and have a drink or something.

Tissue volume calculation is actually already in the game and implemented on things like meat and bones. Why this was not extended to leather I don't know but I think there is a mod that basically changes the skin butchery to yield a varying amounts.