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[King Zultan]

I remember someone on here talking about a dwarf making a pickaxe out of her own baby.

[Magmacube_tr]

I remember someone on here talking about a dwarf making a pickaxe out of her own baby.

...
Coolio.

[Thisfox]

I remember someone on here talking about a dwarf making a pickaxe out of her own baby.

...Coolio.

When a dwarf turns maudlin, and has a "macabre mood", they kill another dwarf (usually, but not always, the first one to walk past after they've claimed a workshop) and I guess baby was closest. I've had a macabre mood once or twice, turns out other dorfs make great tables. I have always meant to make a dwarf table into a traction bench..... I've not had anything made out of baby dwarf, from memory, but could be wrong. Closest I've come is a dwarf child mooding after a siege that killed his pet dog. We got a piece of dog bone armour out of it, I think a boot? I cannot say if it was HIS dog that got turned into armour.

Some things in this game are unsettling.

[Paaaad]

I remember someone on here talking about a dwarf making a pickaxe out of her own baby.

...Coolio.

When a dwarf turns maudlin, and has a "macabre mood", they kill another dwarf (usually, but not always, the first one to walk past after they've claimed a workshop) and I guess baby was closest. I've had a macabre mood once or twice, turns out other dorfs make great tables. I have always meant to make a dwarf table into a traction bench..... I've not had anything made out of baby dwarf, from memory, but could be wrong. Closest I've come is a dwarf child mooding after a siege that killed his pet dog. We got a piece of dog bone armour out of it, I think a boot? I cannot say if it was HIS dog that got turned into armour.

Some things in this game are unsettling.

That's a Fell Mood, not Macabre. A Macabre one has the dwarf going into the refuse stockpile.

[Thisfox]

I remember someone on here talking about a dwarf making a pickaxe out of her own baby.

...Coolio.

When a dwarf turns maudlin, and has a "macabre mood", they kill another dwarf (usually, but not always, the first one to walk past after they've claimed a workshop) and I guess baby was closest. I've had a macabre mood once or twice, turns out other dorfs make great tables. I have always meant to make a dwarf table into a traction bench..... I've not had anything made out of baby dwarf, from memory, but could be wrong. Closest I've come is a dwarf child mooding after a siege that killed his pet dog. We got a piece of dog bone armour out of it, I think a boot? I cannot say if it was HIS dog that got turned into armour.
Some things in this game are unsettling.

That's a Fell Mood, not Macabre. A Macabre one has the dwarf going into the refuse stockpile.

You're quite right, my mistake. The kid was in Macabre, thus his dog bones.

[Tachytaenius]

I got a tea wood machine gun from my gun mod. It was truly a sophisticated tea-sipping beautiful wooden crafts rambo carnage moment.

[Laterigrade]

I got a cat leather sock with some worthless rocks on it. Yay.

At least it has Microcline on it.

What, the best metal in the game?

[klefenz]

I've heard of a dwarf on a fell mood murdering a ghost and making a bone craft out of it

[Magmacube_tr]

I got a cat leather sock with some worthless rocks on it. Yay.

At least it has Microcline on it.

What, the best metal in the game?

Fools Candy is more like it.

[Thunderforge]

One of my dwarfs decided to take his frustrations out on a compatriot, and then used the bones to create a dwarf-bone chest. It was a decidedly eerie object and I didn’t know what to do with it. Put it on display in the tavern? In the tombs? Sell it to an unsuspecting elf?!
I can’t remember what became of it, but it still sticks in my memory.

[Magmacube_tr]

Some idiot went into a mood, took one kimberlite, and made a stone ring. Just, a stone ring. No frills, no images, nothing.

I hate this.

[Thunderforge]

Gandalf pulled the ring from the fire and peered grimly at the smooth surface.
“No, Frodo, it is not magical in the least. It was forged by Urist in the fires of a pecanwood furnace in the distant realm of Morningpuddles. Craftsdwarfship is of mediocre quality.”

“What do I do Gandalf?” asked the stunned hobbit.

“Keep it secret! Keep it safe!” snapped the wizard. “People will laugh at you for wearing such a crappy ring!”

[Schmaven]

Just got Shasadazin "Musicalwatches", a rose gold kite shield:
This is a rose gold kite shield.  All craftsdwarfship is of the highest quality.  It is encrusted with round schist cabochons and encircled with bands of rectangular schist cabochons and rose cut moonstones.  This object is adorned with hanging rings of eagle leather and menaces with spikes of rose gold, reindeer bone and clear glass.  On the item is an image of a horseshoe crab in amethyst. 
Weight: 24 Urists
Value: 1,66,920 Urists

Due to the judicial use of shield bashes, this has been assigned to replace the Commander's 10 Urist steel kite shield valued at only 1,400 Urists despite being Lelarkeskal Låldodók, "Patternedshoots the Blanketed Clasp".  It is encrusted with finely-crafted oval magnetite cabochons.  This object is adorned with hanging rings of finely-crafted donkey bone.  On the item is an image of sponges in onyx.  I think it's a decent upgrade in every way. 

[HMD Majesty]

Hallshake, a green glass Figurine whose only claim to Distinction is that it celebrates the Creation of a previous Artifact.

Let Us hope that one Day, a Dwarf will create an Artifact to celebrate it.

[DrCyano]

I'm playing a fortress embark that has no metals whatsoever, so I need to make every bar of metal I acquire count. Imagine my delight when I see a dwarf enter a strange mood and claim the metalsmith's forge.

What will it be? A legendary weapon? An unbreakable piece of armor? No, its....



...an iron splint?! I'm trying to outfit 50 soldiers with only 25 bars of metal and Urist McFarmer decides to raid the steel production pipeline to make a splint?!

I don't care that you've claimed this as a family heirloom, Urist McFarmer, I'm trading it to the elves when their caravan arrives next spring!

Also, I have no idea who Nish Inkedsword is. There's nobody at my fortress with that name, nor are there any historical figures with that name when I check Legends Mode on my back-up save.