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I've been having some difficulties in producing enough leather to equip my military dwarves with the recommended items, so I've been wondering if I could replace that with cloth without losing any noticeable advantage. Recommended being 6 leather cloaks and hoods, 2 mittens and 2 trousers. (the difficulty is that civilians grab all that leather when there's tons of perfectly fine clothing available, and leather is not easy to produce for 100 dwarves)

So I ran a few matches in arena mode. Steel vs steel+leather, steel+cloth vs steel+leather, copper+cloth vs copper+leather, steel battle axes. Frankly, I'm not sure if there's a difference...

What should I be testing here?

Holy crap he scratched the lion to death in 2 secs! Is that even possible?

Dwarves don't do manicure (that's for elves). After 100 years of growing nails, they can outscratch any lion with some training.

What is an @ if I may ask?

Okay, in my last fort I dug into a volcano straight in, and a good dwarf went missing that day.

Don't use a good dwarf for it. Problem solved 

Well some of the pets died, so I'm not sure if it's a viable strategy. Still, they don't die very fast, and it's much better than pasturing them outside.

I'm not sure if they died of hunger though, might have been old age.

I caught a dwarf red-handed. It was a Planter!

Fortunately he wasn't feeding them seeds, just regular plants (bloated tubers in this case).

Only if the dwarf is standing on a tile not right next to a fortification.

Yes, that's why it's inconvenient. It's affordable in a training room, not so much in live siege environment.

Does mason get exp for creating rock blocks? He makes 4 from one stone, so he should get 2.5 times the experience from blocks rather than from table.

No, that gives 30 exp. It's not really a crafting job though, blocks are not regular items.