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Kogan 'Spadger' Vaboklerteth, Broker -16th Timber, 251

I was approached in my mechanics workshop by the liasion as the others were loading the goods onto the depot. He had some concerns about the "fine" crafts we wanted to sell them.

Asmel: Greetings from the mountainhomes, blah blah blah. What the hell are you guys loading onto the depot?
Me: Fine rock crafts made out of equally fine dolomite, of course.
Asmel: Fine? Rock crafts? Are you kidding me? Do you think what the mountainhomes need right now are mugs and figurines? Made out of a flux stone as well? Did you fail forge class or don't you know what a flux stone is?
Me: Now, now. There's no need for namecalling. You can use the crafts for both decoration and steel making. Don't you think that's a wonderful deal?

We argued for about 3 days straight about whether I was a greedy bastard or not and whether he's getting a good deal or not (Answers: Yes and no. But I argued the opposite of course) The entire fort population and the traders were trying to see the spectacle as Asmel and I yelled and hurled rock mechanisms at eachother. We eventually reached an agreement (The agreement was that the elfs were stupid and would gladly trade for those crafts, which the mountainhomes could make a horrid amount of dwarfbucks from) and I ordered booze, bags of sand, pitchblende and other useful goods for next years caravan.

It's good to be a dwarf.

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Kogan 'Spadger' Vaboklerteth, Broker -13th Timber, 251

Not much is happening here. The new job designations were well received and I took some jobs myself to show that I didn't do it to get out of working. I noticed that Mart didn't forbid dolomite from being used for stone crafting purposes so I forbid it and some other useful stones. I then dumped all the dolomite in a stockpile near the forges so that we could have all of it in one place.

I'm not going to complain about how the fort was mined out (Especially not now that I've lived here for a while) but I get the feeling that Mart dug it out at random and didn't think ahead much. I need to tell the guy about the shift-arrow designation combo trick. It made for a really nice fort layout back in Metalweak. I could navigate the fort with closed eyes and I did, until poor Bomrek fell into the magma trench in the dining room.

Yeah, they can still destroy that grate. Only (C)onstructions are invulnerable.

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Kogan 'Spadger' Vaboklerteth, Broker -3rd Granite, 251

I CAN'T BELIEVE THOSE CHUCKLENUTS DIDN'T PICK ME AS EXPEDITION LEADER. HOW THE FUN IS FATH QUALIFIED?

Gremlins and Gnomes.

Oh, and mechanisms.

Delicious mechanisms.

Megabeasts.

Firstly, letting them be made out of other materials than stone, like glass, wood and metal. To make a mechanism out of glass, the mechanic would require a glass block, a metal bar for a metal mechanism and a log for a wooden mechanism.

Secondly, leveling up the appropiate skill somewhat in addition to the mechanic skill. If you were to make a ton of glass mechanisms, you wouldn't just have a legendary mechanic but also a fairly proficient glassmaker. (Or mason/carpenter/blacksmith)

Thirdly, allowing mechanisms to be used as a weapon in traps. They'd spin and do blunt damage to anything caught between the cogwheels, breaking bones in the process.