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(Yeah, most people don't realise ^^; I'm just a nerd like that, I guess.)

As for that claw weapon, you'd probably want it to use something like sword skill, because you can't make new skill classes.

And yes, if you had [TWO_HANDED:4] then a dwarf would easily be able to lift it with one hand.

Short swords can be made of any weapon-metal (Copper, bronze, bismuth bronze, iron, steel and 'FunMetal') and they also have the [CAN_STONE] tag which allows them to be made from one chunk of obsidian and one wooden log. That claw there could be made from any of the weapon metals.

1. Yes, this is true. If it doesn't appear in the raws, it can't be changed short of memory hacking.

2. It has semi-decent explanations, but not good if you want specifics.

As for the sword thing...

DAMAGE:120 --> how much damage it does, of course. 100 is an iron short sword, while a long sword does more damage.

WEIGHT:70 --> this number multiplies how heavy a long sword will be depending on it's material density.

CRIT_BOOST:1 --> This has a higher chance to critically hit for bonus damage!

TWO_HANDED:6 --> If you are size 6 (dwarves are size 6) or below, you need two hands to carry this (though most often some creatures will ignore this)

MINIMUM_SIZE:6 --> The minimum size you can be to properly wield this weapon. Creatures of size 6 and above can pick it up and use it, but any smaller and it's hopeless. Not that the game cares half the time...

MATERIAL_SIZE:4 --> how many materials are needed. 3 is one metal bar, one wooden log, one stone, etc.

Any new items you mod in can most certainly be pulled out by an artifact maker. In fact, artifact makers can make stuff that their race can't even USE.

Any more questions are more than welcome, darling ^^

EDIT: I'd also appreciate if you PMed me if you have more questions. I'm a busy girl, and goodness knows I'll end up forgetting this thread if it gets swamped by more stuff! ^^;;

.. okay i'm just forgetful.

I don't get it.

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Oh baby!

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Heh, I was expecting worse of that spoiler. As is, it just reminded me of MGS2...

I think we got a lil off topic here, I think the topic we are sposed to be talking about is pubic hair

This is what I get for frequenting you, FotF thread. Discussions about pubic hair. If there's anything I'd rather see less discussed than body hair is pubic hair.

Hot damn, you guys.

I remember having a dream a few days ago where I talked with my captain of the guard. The captain is my favourite dwarf in the whole fortress, and I'd probably give anything to actually meet him. Of course, the dream ended with him having to run off and fight off a horde of goblins.

I had a legendary stonecrafter in the early life of my biggest fortress. I decided, "What the hey." and told him to make a ton of obsidian short swords. Naturally, I got spammed with "has created a masterpiece!" announcements.

After a short while of forgetting about this, I had a migrant wave of useless people. I decided that my small squad of four champions was JUST NOT BIG ENOUGH. I drafted ~20 jobless dwarves into service, handed them whatever scraps of armour we had lying around and sent them to spar with some swords. They all ran off for the exceptional and masterful quality swords and started working! Needless to say, there were injuries. But, there was one particularly ... sadistic swords dwarf. She was a strange woman, to say the least.

Zan Girdergrooves was her name, and she had quite recently just slit the throat of her two fellow recruits, both in the same year. There was a goblin in between those kills, but that's unimportant. Zan was the first of her squad to become a sword master. And, do you know what it said after each dwarven kill? "Zan Girdergrooves has been ecstatic lately. She took joy in slaughter lately. She had a satisfying sparring session recently."

She is now my military second-in-command with a title (she killed two more goblins the next year) of The Clutches of Iron.

So, what you're saying is, a true, real life fractal would be grounds for a /0?