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That's definitely not the only way. Even before you could retire fortresses you could get adventurers in them, and now that dwarves actually have sites it should be even easier. Just make a dwarf adventurer from the civ you want to embark as, then retire them and make a fortress. You'll get that dwarf as a migrant eventually.

I make a hero normally human adventurer with one point in strength, agility, toughness, endurance, willpower, spatial sense, and kinesthetic sense. Then put five points into whatever weapon skill I want, two in fighter, observer, shield user, armor user, and dodger, and one in reader. That does of course change if I want to be a wrestler, or an archer, or maybe want to try and commit to stealth, or whatever.

My steel artifact two hand sword cut an elephant's head off in two hits.

Well a base quality iron short sword could do that if the dwarf was good enough. Also, how? Dwarves can't use two handed swords.

Maces are better for undead killing.

What makes maces better for killing undead though? Is there some magical thing about undead that makes them weak to maces? I really can't imagine anything that could be done in game that would make maces better against undead than hammers aside from Toady putting something into the code to specifically make them weaker. I'm completely open to the idea if it's true, I just don't see how it could be. Also as a reply to the person who posted right before the person who posted right before this (people are just posting constantly wow), whips are mainly good at piercing armor of a better material and better quality than them somehow. This is mostly useless for adventurer mode because unless you're going to try and fight the military of a fortress you made, armor is only very rarely worn and when it is it's just a breastplate and a helmet. Also yeah, misc objext user is the same skill for all nonweapons.

Quote from: Pencil_Art on December 15, 2014, 04:31:00 pm

Let's just calm down and not eat any head, okay guys?

Except for a one-head.

Eat no head except for a one-head.

That's a great idea! Eat more one-head heads to absorb their ability to read and speak.

I think that if there's a skill that's going to be under use constantly it should not be merged with another skill. An example I think trapping shouldn't be combined with hunting because if one wants a trapper, but not a hunter that becomes impossible since hunter is a constant job that you don't designate it just happens. Farming also shouldn't be merged because first, the skills you're suggesting to be merged into it are completely different from farming crop fields and second if you have a farm dwarves are going to be farming it and you can't tell them to not farm it without ruining that season's harvest so you'd end up with situations where you have a strange mood or a food shortage and you need yarn or cheese, but the dwarves just won't stop farming plants. I do think fish cleaning and dissecting could be merged, but not into butcher because again, if you have fisherdwarves your fish cleaner will be cleaning fish constantly and will just ignore the 50 animals you need to butcher before they have even more children and the population goes out of control, and your FPS plummets. Spinning going into weaving might be okay, but again weaving goes on basically constantly once you open the caverns so maybe not. I don't like Crossbow-making into weaponsmith either because I've heard that they're very different skills, and also it would be pretty much free training for your weaponsmiths which I think would be too good since weaponsmithing is one of the most important skills and getting legendary weaponsmiths with the only cost being the most common resource and that being outweighed by spare crossbows being a good trade good.

Yeah your problem can probably just be solved by setting clothing to be replaced. Boots can't be worn with shoes, helms can't be worn with caps, gauntlets can't be worn with mittens so for all those items there's an item of regular civilian clothing that stops the dwarf from wearing the armor. Not sure about shields though, are you using any weapons of non-dwarven origin or are modded that might require the use of two hands? As for ammo I don't have any experience creating working archer squads (though I have made some before just never sent one into combat), but I've heard of problems with it I just can't remember. I'm pretty sure you can't have an archer in a squad with dwarves that aren't archers at least which might be the problem.