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On a side note, will my fort be crawling with undead once the necrodorf pays me a visit?Possibly, it depends on how fast it reaches the crypts or refuse piles.
You can't raise any of those, only hands, heads, and things connected to them. You can't even raise a headless cat.Okay, how about finger or toe or tongue zombies?...No, those only happen by butchery. And if so, what's the problem?Create an undead horde, sic them on a town, raise the dead of both sides, repeat until the town runs out of people you can find. Raise all corpses you find as you leave town. Fast-travel between a few towns and other places as your undead army grows.Ehh, awesome idea, but wouldn't that generate unlimited hair zombies and things like that?
I'm not saying that a year of mining should grant legendary skill, I'm just saying that a dwarf should have other options open to him.Being a Legend implies there are few others with your skills, but Dwarf Fort as it exists now churns out Legends at ridiculous quanitities.
And gaining Legendary skill should not be as easy as [make rock crafts R].
I stand by my idea of Legends only being created through moods and making Grand Master the experience cap.
Because Grand Masters already make lots of masterwork goods.
Legends should be special, not mooks.
...Craftsmen, the most iconic of dwarven professions and one that Jake cited literacy as most vital for. Plus, what would the point of signs printed with writing be if their customers were mostly illiterate? Pictures would work much better, no?...Let me think about that. How were literacy rates in the 1300s or 1400s?Higher than you might think, particularly in cities. Your average farmhand or labourer could muddle through without, but skilled tradesmen, merchants and anyone else who owned property or needed to keep even the most rudimentary financial or inventory records would need at least to be able to read and write a little.
Most dwarves count as skilled tradesmen, and almost all own some kind of property. Unless it's just on loan from the fort leader or something, but it's dependant on dwarven politics.
Besides, the written signs in towns testify to high literacy rates.
But I don't think a very skilled woodcrafter, jeweller, mason or even an engraver would ever really need to read. Maybe they could have a rudimentary knowledge and be able to recognise things on signs, but broadly speaking they may not be able to read much beyond that. The majority of dwarves are either craftsmen or manual labourers, and neither really need to read.
Something witch a volcano and a riverLongland grass is DF!wheat...
(And that Longgrass is not for food... It's weed, hrhrh)
