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@cganyaAt the risk of belaboring the point, a modern nailing hammer doesn't weigh more than a kilogram either. Based on extensive research, I'd say one pound (16 oz) was more typical in real life. That's just the head, but the total weight still comes out under 2lb or 1kg.
You are right for the most part, but real life medieval war hammer only weight about 1kg - Lighter than most sword, mace and axe(obviously) of the same age. Definitely lighter than modern nailing hammer.
Er, what about articles that aren't good, but aren't small enough to be stubs? There's no place for them on the scale.I half a agree. A long confusing article is not a stub, but a concise informative one isn't either. In other words, "stub" implies both short length and a need for improvement.
"Stub" has nothing to do with the quality of an article anyway, just its size. A good article can still be a stub.
Do they? I've only seen them using bronze. Maybe it's just something weird about the world I generated.Come to think of it, at present, isn't it "impossible" for humans to make metal weapons? Or are we to assume they have to buy all their anvils from the dwarves?
How so? They have access to all natural metals (except adamantine, of course).
But worse than that, based on the raws, it appears their bones are no longer unusually valuable.So the listed tactics still apply for 31.x? I mean, is it still possible to get mermens' bones through butchering?It does not seem to be possible in 31.03. When animals rot in 31.03, they leave skeletons behind, which then need to be butchered to be made into useable bones. Mermaid skeletons can't be butchered. This is probably a bug, possibly related to how remains never rot away completely, so it may be fixed in the future.
Personally, I'd like to see more things require machine power, but also be able to use "dwarf power" as a substitute. Drawbridges, for instance. They shouldn't require power to lower (pull a lever, maybe give the bridge a good kick if it sticks), but raising them should be a more difficult process, involving either a hand crank that multiple dwarves can operate (requires a certain amount of power to begin raising the bridge, and extra dwarves beyond that threshold raises it faster), an adjacent powered gear assembly, or maybe a counterweight assembly that can be charged with power when there are no threats about, and then have its power channeled into raising the bridge immediately with the flip of a lever (but this discharges the potential energy stored, and it must be rewound with dwarf or machine power before the bridge can be raised again).Actually I believe drawbridges often had counterweights. They don't need to be "charged", except by lowering the bridge. It's simpler than you're probably imagining. You just put something heavy on the other side of the pivot to offset the weight of the bridge.
Entirely true and will be a bit of an issue with the name change in the raws (duplicated data), but I think this particular problem is that as far as 0.31, the embark and trader screens don't show genders at all, not even as bags and the like. I'd assume that's just oversite in Toady's part and will be rectified in one of the bug fix releases.Umm, yes it does. It clearly says "dog, ♀", "mule, ♂" etc, on the embark screen at least. I can't check a trader as easily.
Haha, nice find. I suppose that's one way of funding a Play Now! character...Exactly. It beats selling dirt, and it's only slightly more ridiculous. The best part, which was a new discovery for me, is that you can (I)nteract with a backpack to fill it, just like a waterskin. Only it hold with 100 units. (Note, it must not be inside another container). Of course it's still slower that robbing towns looting abandoned fortresses, but looting towns is too easy, and this was a new world.
Yep, I've done this before. They also buy blood, so you can burn yourself slightly, pick up your own blood, and sell gallons of your blood to the shop keeper.Wow... That would have made the story much creepier.
