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[Mel_Vixen]

They have a monopole under the Lable Microcolth and you have to pay a license which states that you can only use the clothes on your body.

[Qmarx]

You can also bury a fish underground, and then plant corn on top of it. That's what the Native Americans did, back when fish were a lot more easy to get than corn.

Ironically enough, they learned that from the Spanish.

[G-Flex]

Yeah, then the Europeans decided to make corn a staple in many parts, not realizing how to actually make that diet work, resulting in severe malnutrition epidemics.

[SirHoneyBadger]

Yeah, then the Europeans decided to make corn a staple in many parts, not realizing how to actually make that diet work, resulting in severe malnutrition epidemics.

Which could, and I think should, be a risk in DF eventually, if you don't have enough of a variety of foods.

As far as elves go, I'd really like to see them have knowledge itself, under their thumb. Not skills, really, but a trade in books and information. That'd fit into their immortality status. They also might do a brisk trade in pharmaceuticals and poisons, wine, plants, fine cloth (including silk, dyed and otherwise) and genetically engineered animals (sounds sci-fi? Well your chihuahua's ancestors looked just like wolves.).

[Mel_Vixen]

And from somewhere the animal-man have to come. Joke aside i wonder why elves trade anyway animals. In threetoes storys it looks like animals and elves form a symbiotic society. Are these traded animals the unintelligent ones? Did they comit any crimes?

Another thing with which elves could trade could be peat as form of fuel for heating - i would guess too that peat is the main elven fuel.

I am not sure if "books" is the right thing for elves. I think they would more tend to woven scrolls which are embroidered. edit: Fine Embroydery could also part of the trade between elves and humans since a elve has more time to spare and i would guess from his long life much more experience in such things.

[Qmarx]

And from somewhere the animal-man have to come. Joke aside i wonder why elves trade anyway animals. In threetoes storys it looks like animals and elves form a symbiotic society. Are these traded animals the unintelligent ones? Did they comit any crimes?

Given what I've done with dust booths and cage traps...

They're elven nobles.

[LegoLord]

and genetically engineered animals (sounds sci-fi? Well your chihuahua's ancestors looked just like wolves.).

That's a result of selective breeding, or unnatural selection.  It works much faster than natural selection.  Genetic engineering is actually editing the genes in something yet to be born.  There is an important distinction there.

[white_darkness]

What about adding in wood waste as a burnable source for ash and charcoal?  Does it really take a whole tree to make a chair or a stack of bolts?

There should be all sorts of sawdust and little bits of extra wood that can't be used lying around.

[Mel_Vixen]

The problem is that the current trees are just a placeholder. Multitiletrees would have much more wood so you get less problems from wood shortage.

[Spey]

The problem is that the current trees are just a placeholder. Multitiletrees would have much more wood so you get less problems from wood shortage.

yeah currently its kinda unrealistic, it seems any job requiring wood, actually requires an entire trees worth of wood all in one go.

currently crafting a steel short sword means using anything up to 4 trees to smelt the ores and craft the finished product

hopefully somewhere down the line, cutting down a single tree should yeild a hell of a lot of 'wood logs' that can be used in a multitude of different ways and possibly even splitting said logs for fuel burning or ash/charcoal creation.

edit, i had a few more ideas while posting in another thread.

im kinda envisioning trees yielding multiple usable prodcuts kinda like how butchery does now.

you would have bark, trunks, branches and smaller twig like branches, all with their varied uses. maybe a sawmill and miller job to create usable blocks and planks, and woodcrafters fashioning hafts, handles, poles and arrow/bolt shafts out of smaller limbs. making cordage from bark, all that sort of good stuff.

[LegoLord]

And of course, bark, logs, limbs, and twigs could all be used for fuel and ash.

[SolarShado]

!!YES!! !!BURN!!

This is planned, right?

[alpha]

And of course, bark, logs, limbs, and twigs could all be used for fuel and ash.

And goblins and elves.

[G-Flex]

No, they couldn't, but I'm not going to explain basic chemistry for the eight hundredth time.

[white_darkness]

An elf might be usable, since they love trees so much, and you've got to wonder where little elves come from...

Goblins can't burn though, it's where you get iron.