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my understanding: just turn off every other type of stone, you can't turn off clay no matter what you do in any stone stockpile currently.

Quote from: SharkForce on April 24, 2012, 12:44:46 pm

or, you can trade in your annoying grazers for animals that don't graze. most poultry are a good option for that. some people like dogs last i heard, but i suspect that was decided *before* you could train anything and everything.

They're still a great choice for butchery, they just don't hold a monopoly on best food for Dwarves anymore.

i'm not sure they have for a long time.

most poultry are ridiculously good. turkeys, in particular, are rather ridiculous. i don't think people liked dogs because they were the best source of food, i think people liked dogs because they were a great source of food *plus* they could be trained as cannon fodder.

Dropping them 2z-levels should stun them at the very least

and if it doesn't work the first time, you can just try again

you can even make the vampire do all the hauling...

just a thought: spider's eyes are valuable gems in necromunda, iirc (or rather, *some* spider's eyes are valuable gems). just saying ^^

(you can all thank me later that instead of getting gems by digging in dirt that won't try to kill and eat you, instead you have to go hunting for giant spiders floating on rafts in the ooze).

as far as various "farming" industries... hmmm... let me go dig up the old hive ken article...

hmmm... let's see... wildsnake hunters (which use a "wildsnake catchpole") can get wildsnake skins and of course wildsnake.

spider hunters (which get a great big spear gun to hunt gigantic spiders). dangerous job (about half the time you use it, you get injured in some way), but can get meat, venom, eyes from a gigantic raft spider (up to 8, count as gems i suppose), a tank spider chitin which is armor save 5+, a chameleon spider which makes you harder to hit at long ranges, stiletto spiders which can yield 2 venom daggers, or a really large spider that has some random equipment in it's gut. an even bigger one that he can pluck an eye from and gains fear immunity. and a super-gigantic one, called a gigantic albino mare raft spider, with super-expensive eyes (if you actually manage to kill this thing, i presume you wouldn't be too eager to let it's eyes get used to skill up something unless you really value that thing). note that tank spiders and everything after that are quite rare (roll a 6 to get a chance at *one* of those types of spiders, and the very last 2 only ever happen once for any given spider hunter).

stinger mould harvester (these allow extreme levels of healing).

orb spider handler (can get web to make web grenades, and blade venom).

rumor monger (not sure how you'd handle this one).

scavenger (actually scavenges corpses and such. can find bionics).

explorer (not sure how you'd implement)

giant rat herder (could give you attack animal options?).

carrion bat handler (gives you bats that you can send messages with and which also fight. the bats also have the plague, so...). can cause your bat handler to become immune to the plague as well, which is nice.

none of these are, to my knowledge, canon for the setting. but it was definitely one of the articles i found really interesting (although frankly, i think it was also quite a ridiculously *powerful* set of skills for gangers to choose from compared to almost anything... getting a bunch of scaly spear guns or 3 extra bats to take bullets for you and such can all really add up fast).

Quote from: jonsnow on April 18, 2012, 10:48:47 pm

I tried this and it didn't work.  The goblin ripped out their eyes   Now they're blind

Blind Justice for Armok!

Seriously now that they're blind, it should take a lot less goblins to get them up to legendary.

or make them into siege operators instead. that works too.

Also, Are waxroots edible? because my uncultivated ones keep disappearing when I need clothes for those hivers who arrived without.

iirc yes, but they're mildly toxic. if you see a lot of people running around with ! over their head and it isn't because they're hungry or thirsty, it's probably because they ate waxroot.

Where is the optometry?

Your Dwarfs need less eyes. Two less to be exact. Also, swapping the danger room for ballista bolts is preferable.

that's only for siege operators, i thought.

they both win. the second dwarf will come back as a ghost, occupy a workshop, and craft an artifact from the first dwarf's carcass

(unless of course he gets turned into a dwarf ghost leather sock before then, of course).