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ooh. I hadn't been thinking of future advances, but yeah, that would be cool, and having it handled by the guild system would be awesome. That means this would kind of have to wait until the guild system comes in for it to be handled best. I think craftsmanship should be handled just like artifacts, with commissioned goods being of "commissioned" quality, or being of automatically masterwork quality.

Nope. He's using a crossbow, has bolts left, kills lots of things, isn't hungry, thirsty, tired or sad. He has a strange thought that I thought you only got with heavily injured people: doesn't really care about anything anymore"

I build all of my forts partially outside. The outside is where all my stockpiles are, most of my industries etc, and rooms or sensitive military gear is built slightly into the rock on the same z-level. I then build shafts into the earth for extra accommodation/loot.

A way to make nobles NOT a waste of time? EGAD!

I personally prefer the idea that the noble commissions an item and picks a dwarf randomly or out of his friends/loose acquaintances (with the weighting going towards close friends and partners). This dwarf then drops all other tasks, much like a fey mood, and proceeds from shop to shop crafting this mini artifact, taking over one shop at a time until it is all done. At the end they receive about 100-500 xp in each of the applicable skills (making them probably novice in a wide variety of skills) and deliver it to the noble in question.

A successful commission would boost happiness of both dwarves and transfer cash from noble to crafter.

An unsuccessful commission gives both of them an unhappy thought with additional punishment to the crafter.

What do you guys think?

...ok. sorry. I haven't played DF today and I'm feeling a little tetchy, sorry. Subs for the win.

Fired from catapults? That would have to be one hell of a shot. Given everything else that's possible I think if you were firing large cut soulgems from a catapult they would have an almost infinite range and only stop when they had hit 2 or 3 consecutive walls (basically only mountains could stop them). When all else fails, NUKE IT.

But for a brief moment those elves get to wield flaming swords o' doom!

indeed. I look forward to mass producing crafts until the market for them belongs to me, and then cutting off supply for a season or two and making vast profits when the market is better.