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Inefficient? Prone to missing? Deadly to clumsy workers? What was your point again?

So far I don't think anyone has tried this. I personally cannot help with the non-farmable clay, but I can lend a theory for beach clusters

[ENVIRONMENT:SEDIMENTARY_OCEAN_SHALLOW:[type of cluster/vein]:100]

that should make it appear in shale and limestone and others that appear as a layer around oceans.
Only a theory, it could have unintended effects.

Hm. Ideally it would be a layer "stone". Is there some way to make them appear in layers in ocean biomes?

Pretty sure it's impossible to have them be collectable without them being farmable

Oh, that's sad.

What about [COMMON_DOMESTIC]? Doesn't that allow every civ to have access to the critter? Slap on [INTELLIGENT] and could you have a servant race?

I want to add a type of layer...mineral...thing that can be collected like clay but not farmed on (without mud, that is), and that only (or at least mainly) appears on/near the surface at beaches/in ocean biomes if beaches only is not possible.

1. Is it possible to have a collectable and non-farmable type of mineral? (I know that making a rock have a FIRED_MAT doesn't let me collect it, so that's sadly out. Maybe farming on it isn't so bad...?)
2. How can I make minerals appear in certain biomes (i.e. on beaches). I don't think [SOIL_OCEAN] is what I'm looking for.

Thanks in advance for help.

EDIT: Changed the title.

Has anyone tried to design a device that weaponises cave-in dust?
An idea might be a spot, "supported" only by bridges, that you build a clay (or other) floor on, where it collapses and "fires" the clay (or other) dust out at the enemies. Thoughts on how to turn this into a more effective weapon? Aside from the mandatory dozen-level drop, of course.

If anyone succeeds, we need to mod in power armor and stuff to create the dwarven MI. We also need to mod in bugs, but meh.

I like this idea, but maybe instead of (or in addition to?) this idea, we could have "skill synergy"--that is, a skilled metalsmith would make better goblets than a peasant, a proficient stonecrafter would make better rock tables or mechanisms than a milker or soldier without any stonework-ey skills, a potter would make better glass than a clothier (maybe, I don't know much about how RL-pottery or glass industry works), and so forth.
Depending on how far you wanted to go, skill in carpentry might slightly improve one's ability to make stone items that can be made out of wood, and so forth.
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As to the original idea, I really would like it if the farming labors weren't so fine-grained and if the fish cleaning/dissection labors weren't separate (which one un-raws fish again?), and so forth, but wood/bone/stone crafting should probably be kept at least at arm's length, so to speak, although making bolts/arrows/etc should probably be moved to bowyery.