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What's throwing me off is that room is taken up for the Baron, Count, AND duke's room. I find this silly. Just make your baron's room Duke-sized when he first arrives and he'll never want for anything. (Unless I'm misunderstanding something here)Indeed. Your Baron will become a Count and ultimately a Duke; you won't have more than one of these positions at a time.
Because of higher contact area, a mace is more likely to pulp instead of break bones. Pulping is what puts zombies down fast. Hammers will kill them, just roughly two thirds as fast.Maces are also twice the size, and hence twice the weight, of hammers.
On an unrelated note, if gobs are present will they be able to attack me even if they don't show in the faction list.I asked this recently in this thread. Apparently the answer is no.
...what I'm trying to get is steel helm, chain mail, gauntlets, and high boots as the basic full body protection...Oh yeah, I should have mentioned, you should add some sort of lower body wear to that, eg cloth pants, or the dorfs might get unhappy thoughts (or current equivalent) from other dwarves seeing their butts. Apparently Dwarven chainmail has the cheeks cut out or something.
...They would have, because this leaves the feet, hands, and lower arms unprotected. Chainmail, helm, high boots and gauntlets is a much better set as it covers the entire body. Greaves and breastplates add additional protection but I'm not sure whether the extra weight is worth it on dwarves without high strength and/or armor user.
I tried steel once, only a chainmail, breatplate, helm and greaves, the dorfs died.
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individual choice melee weapon with the wooden Material modifierSince no-one else has responded, I'll offer my guess that ^there is your problem. Try assigning wooden training weapons individually.
MEGABEASTSWhoah... Make sure I'm understanding this right... You pitted one dragon against 10 speardwarves five times, and in all those five times, every single speardwarf was slaughtered? Whereas axedwarves and swordsdwarves consistently slew the dragons? That annihilates the conventional wisdom that spears are the ideal weapon against megabeasts as they're able to penetrate layers of fat and muscle to damage vital organs. How skilled were your dwarves? Perhaps there's some minimum skill required to deliver a deeply-penetrating spear jab?
5(1Mb vs 10D)
Dragon
-Axe 80% Survival
--40/50
-Spear 0% Survival
--0/50
-Sword 90% Survival
--45/50
-Steel Hammer 62% SUrvival
--31/50
-Silver Hammer 0% Survival
--0/50
-Steel Mace 96%
--48/50
Lots of good suggestions here. I've had the same go-to armor set forever which combines leather layering without going to the full stacking extremes of multiple mails/cloaks.Does that actually still work though? I thought some time in 0.34 caps were given the "shaped" tag which made them incompatible with helmets.
Melee:
Metal Helm, Leather Cap...
Ive seen some pretty convincing !science! which also suggests (well pretty much stamps on the notion) shield quality has no impact on blocking also.Ah, the outstanding work by Zivilin, here. Surprising indeed. Only blocking of arrows was tested, though, so I guess there's still a chance, albeit slim, that shield quality has some influence in blocking melee attacks. Also very surprising that bow quality had no influence on block %, at least in that experimental setup.
I just did a quick search for the thread and I didnt find it. If I recall correctly though the thread has been created in the last 6 months. The author did not expect to discover quality has no effect on block chance.
So pretty much material and quality only has an effect for shield bashing. Low quality wooden shields for marksdwarves are therefore likely the way forward (and that was new to me also, I tended to accumulate masterwork sheilds for everyone).
