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I'm fine with having boulders around. What I'm concerned about is having boulders as an endless cheap material for furniture and buildings, like dwarves do. To counter that, other than having undiggable stone of course, you may give them a veeery slow masonry learning rate (may I ask, why Kobolds seem to have a such slow learning rate for carpentry, when wood should be to them what stone is to dwarves?).
As for the knapping submod, the only real obstacle would be how to get rock. Make them pop out in a reaction? Making stones gatherable and knap boulders directly?

Not even obsidian boulders? Rock boulders surely are out of place, but obsidian is technically volcanic glass, not a rock. Wouldn't Kobolds be able to work that? Your idea about improving with obsidian sounds good, also. I hope they'll be painful.

I'd like to be dorfed as an archeologist or a cheesemaker, better if I both.

For cheap mass building material, what about Adobe blocks? Maybe you wouldn't be able to make twenty at once, but you could make them without fuel.
I must say it feels pretty dwarven to mine metals with a shovel.
Anyway, I wondered about two things: are obsidian weapons any good (I read on the wiki short swords really aren't), and would you add a reaction to assemble shards into boulders to the chemist? Gypsum shards plus bucket or Obsidian shards plus fuel and flux maybe? So that you could make some use of all the shards late-game. Obsidian furniture sounds Kobold enough.

Too bad my pottery submod surely isn't there.

Thanks. What about my question on obsidian? Is it unbreakable for balancement or realism? Because I think it could be shattered by shovels. I wonder if Aztecs had picks.

I am going on holyday tomorrow. If you're not posting the save today, you'll have to ask someone else to take Stonesense screenshots or wait for me to return.

That seems a good number. Yes, I'd say to add that, since obsidian shards have no other purpose also. What about obsidian shards ammo/traps maybe? Anyway, why isn't obsidian diggable?
Also, the Dirt Digger can recover weapons (short swords and spears) unfit to kobolds, is that on purpose?