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I dunno, its already pretty easy to generate alot of fortress wealth without encrusting massive lots of granite mugs with polished granite spikes.

I dunno, dwarves usually don't spend much time in their bedrooms, especially if there is a meeting zone. They just use bedrooms for sleeping which they almost never do, and resting injuries. They idle in the meeting zone or drink at the booze stockpile.

It would probably be more efficient to just have relevant stockpiles around your workshops rather then rooms dwarves hardly ever hang out in.

Generally leather armor is better for marksdwarves and recruits. Chain and especially plate are very heavy and it will slow them down unless they have a good armor skill or are exceptionally strong. Try putting on plate, or even just starting out with chain armor without any skill in armor with an adventurer and you'll see what I mean.


Since marksdwarves should'nt be doing too much melee and they don't spar or need protection from sparring injuries, they don't really need good armor, they just need to stay unencumbered so they can shoot faster.

Champions are generally skilled enough to wear plate without concequence so that'd be the only type of soldier I'd give plate to. Lesser melee soldiers should get chain (layered over leather) so they are protected but not slowed down too much.

Leather armor is still good stuff to keep in the fortress because its so cheap to make, chain-wearing soldiers will wear it under their chain armor and if you need to mass- conscript your civilian population to do battle with HFS or a particularly nasty seige then they have at least some protection without the weight penalty a peasant conscript would get with chain armor.

Wooden sheilds are also good for this purpose since they seem to block with the sheild skill just as well as steel, but they are significantly lighter and cheaper to construct.

Yeah, Volcanic-type regions have gabbro in the bottom layer, though.

Mac users are too tready and hip to play DF anyways.

Well a slave revolt would be an interesting hook playing Human Town or Goblin Tower, but dwarves are already half insane and work harder then any abused slave ever could. Dwarven dissent comes strictly from its own citizens and for the most frivious of reasons already.

Also, to me, Dwarves seem like the type that would rather turn a snakeman into finely crafted boots and a solid base for a stew then let them live to haul barrels around or whatever.

Slavery was common within certain cultures and civilizations in ancient times but many nations never directly took slaves, they usually just sold them back for ransom or released them. Or executed them.

I think it would be swell once all of the races are playable. You could have your 7 goblins and embark with a dozen human slaves you can purchase off the animals/pets menu.

Of course teachers and nuns. It'd be a sad state of the world, liberal or conservative when you have male nuns, after all.

Not to mention most C+ types would suspect a male teacher to be a pedophile at best.