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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.

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?

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.

…has anybody experienced something like this?

I just had three casualties by a kobold raid consisting of one spearman an about 4 archers... my military wasn't realy up yet and my defenses are only cagetraps and drawbridges yet. Since kobolds avoid traps they snuck in and started firing down the main stairwell...

There was no warning the way it is when a goblin ambush is uncovered, so I was lucky to find the the dead an wounded dwarves by chance to take measures until the invaders were fended off.

Has anybody experienced something like this???

PS
They arrived at the same time as a human caravan.