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Meat, quarry bush leaves, and booze. Everything a growning dwarf needs.

I take a billy and a few nannies on every embark (except the really scary ones). Everything else that shows up gets slaughtered as it comes through the gates.

Important note: All "Giant" creatures are way tougher than their normal counterparts...way tougher.

As the above quote suggests, obsidian swords are fairly useless if you have even copper, plus they use resources that might be better applied to making charcoal and beds.

On the other hand, non-economic stone has a base value of 1, the flux stones have a base value of 2, and obsidian has a base value of 3, which means any of those nifty stone crafts or furniture pieces made from obsidian will be worth three times as much as those made from any normal stone. Since base values act as multipliers, obsidian is quite a valuable material for all things other than swords.

You've seriously never seen the dreaded tetrahedrite?

Minor Derail: Dreaded tetrahedrite? I love the stuff. Cheap bolts for training, easy access to billon for bins/statues/furniture/etc, and the occasional silver to keep my hammerdwarves and chain makers happy. What's to dread about such a versatile mineral?

And I've made sure they have more than enough quivers.

I haven't gotten a chance to test it out since my new embark has pretty much no weapons-grade metal, but I'm banking on the problem being the difference between the Feb 14th release and the Feb 18th release.

I've run into a strange hang-up. Since the new update, I can't get my archers to train. They're in a squad and are assigned crossbows along with 250 bolts for both combat and training. I have a row or archery targets assigned as a location for the squad to train, and there's a pile of extra bolts within easy reach. And I've made sure they have more than enough quivers. Just can't figure out what I'm missing.

I never had any trouble with this in the past, so am rather flummoxed. Any help?

Quote from: Tintoko on January 22, 2012, 11:28:34 am

Quote from: i2amroy on January 21, 2012, 05:07:08 pm

I think that

Spoiler: this image (click to show/hide)

puts it fairly well.

The image looks fun, but nothing of that can happen in Dwarf Fortress, or can it?
If it can, please show me a screenshot and you will convince me to play.

Yeah, that's all stuff from DF.  You've got a Giant Desert Scorpion, a Bronze Colossus, a goblin war party, and that last thing I'm guessing is one of the circus clowns, or possibly a Forgotten Beast.  The very last panel is what happens after a thrilling game of Dwarf Checkers.

I always thought the second panel was what happens when Urist McCrankypants throws a fit and smashes something (a table, perhaps) that his casual aquaintance, Urist McIKEA, has lovingly crafted.

Tantrum spiral ensues and, when the dust settles, nothing is left but the vacant stares of the many statues that depict the tragic history of the now dead community.

But then, that just illustrates how easily the imagination can be applied to all things DF.