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Fatace

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Books/Blueprints for Foreign Crafting?
« on: November 05, 2017, 01:41:48 pm »

Something I have always wanted in Dwarf fortress (without the use of mods) would be able to craft/smith Foreign weapons, ect. What about after a x amount of years in the world, the Humans/Elves make blueprints of their crafted equipment, and are randomly sold amongst the caravans to share, and then once bought/looked at by a dwarf, it unlocks the ability to make the human weapons such as long swords, whips, halberds ect. I enjoy these weapons but it sucks you wont find adamantine versions of these weapons :C
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Re: Books/Blueprints for Foreign Crafting?
« Reply #1 on: November 05, 2017, 05:51:49 pm »

Should probably depend on some "usefulness" metric to keep everyone from selling what would otherwise be a state secret for shiny rocks, but other than that the general idea of recipes/blueprints for foreign items/materials sounds cool.
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Re: Books/Blueprints for Foreign Crafting?
« Reply #2 on: November 05, 2017, 07:17:33 pm »

Should probably depend on some "usefulness" metric to keep everyone from selling what would otherwise be a state secret for shiny rocks, but other than that the general idea of recipes/blueprints for foreign items/materials sounds cool.

That or Steal it with the upcoming update lol
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Re: Books/Blueprints for Foreign Crafting?
« Reply #3 on: November 06, 2017, 01:46:15 pm »

Should probably depend on some "usefulness" metric to keep everyone from selling what would otherwise be a state secret for shiny rocks, but other than that the general idea of recipes/blueprints for foreign items/materials sounds cool.

That or Steal it with the upcoming update lol

Will secret libraries be raided by adventurers wanting to sell these rare books to foreign powers?
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