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A general question! Has there already been weapon testing for effectiveness in the warlock mod?

I'm too lazy and to busy right now to check the raws myself for the raw numbers, but I wondered about the effectiveness of whip weapons in the mod after noticing the time it took 5 ghouls with bone whips to take down an emu. I scanned the forum and couldn't find anything on the topic.

In your experience:

-What weapons are best for hunting wildlife in your experience?
-What weapons have the best performance in skeleton squads? - I was thinking of exploiting their inherited miner skill by giving them picks as standard issue.
-How do the ranged warlock weapons perform?

I discovered that if one adds a dagger to a repeating crossbow the resulting bladed, repeatingcrossbow is treated as if it is entirely made from the dagger material. I discovered this oddity while producing high grade crossbows for my military. I usually use bone crossbows, because bone is usually an easily available resource and not heavy. By mass-producing I quickly train a dedicated bowmaker to become legendary (the resulting masses of low quality crossbows can be traded). The same is being done with rock mechanisms. Once you have high grade, bone crossbows and rock mechanisms one can merge the two into repeating, bone crossbows, which by themselves are not worth more than the simple crossbows. Then merge you merge the masterful bone, repeating crossbows with metal daggers.  While I could only add fairly low quality daggers (my weapon smith wasn’t trained yet), the result was usually an at least exceptional FULL metal, bladed, repeatingcrossbow! The whole crossbow morphed into the material of the dagger while keeping a overall high quality of at least exceptional. This way you produce a high value metal weapon relatively early even if you lack a high-level weapon smith. Also production of high quality, welded mithril, bladed repeatingcrossbows by the dozens is possible to give to your military without using to up too many precious resources.

PS: A masterwork, welded mithril, bladed, repeatingcrossbow is worth 9000 urists. Compared to a high quality battleaxe of the same material, this may be less but one only needs a low quality dagger which only consumes 1 bar compared to the 3 bars of the battleaxe.

Thx - I looked up the mod and there it is - elder vampires can have the ability to transform into wolves, cougars or rattlesnakes...
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=103747.0


pretty cool - I had this dwarf under suspicion anyways even though he had bad thoughts about not having a proper room he has a ton of relatives of which I can't find any proof they exist, and he was the only witness of the murder, accusing another dwarf. He is walled in right now I will see what to do with him.

The Manual still refers to the timberyard  for many things concerning stealoak. So I was going crazy trying to build one, before I learned from the changelogs, that it is no longer existent.

My question is, is there a reaction remaining to make steel bars out of steeloak? What is the best remaining use of stealoak beside training steelgrade weapons?

I just had a Dwarf transform into a cougar and back when he stumbled upon a kobold thief. Is he a blood-beast -or some kind of druid (he appears to be no were-creature)

Is he a potential danger to the rest of Population, or should I use his abilities for the military? He has no special skills so far, so an unfortunate accident is quite possible...

Yea thst is the same as in vanilla - I will try t above ground farming in my next fort. From what the raws say javelins seem to be badass I will try them aswell

cant wait to get home

Hey Folks,
I am used to play Vanilla DF and just started Masterwork recently. It is a lot of fun but different in some important ways. Here are some Questions:
-So far I learned that crossbows aren't that strong in Masterwork and one should rather go with javelins for ranged combat and hunting. What are good of ammo materials in Masterwork compared to vanilla - how good is rock ammo for example?

-What about shield material does it still not matter what Material they are made of except for bashing (wood still blocks fire)?

-Is it true that one can use stone anvils like metal anvil without restrictions?

-Also can anyone please give me an overview on the how to setup a fine working booze industry? While I enjoy the challenge compared to vanilla, some hints and insights on which and how many plants to bring and what is the size and style of a viable farm plot setup, would be nice.