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[zooeyglass]

hi y'all,

while since i've posted, figured i'd wrap my head around the new releases and explore that before posting anything.

crundle scale is raising a few queries. a preliminary search here, and then on the wiki, provides the same answer: scale is treated exactly like any other skin and will be tanned at a tannery. however, i am not seeing that happen in my fortress (03.12). So... am I misreading something? Am I missing an obvious notification about how scale is bugging out? Please let me know.

Thank you kindly,
F

EDIT: on reflection, the wiki says: "except that scale cannot be used for leather goods" - does this mean non-tanning? ie dump the scale before it overloads one's refuse heap?

[Valkyrie]

As far as I know, scale doesn't have any use (in vanilla), and so it a waste product from butchering, like hair and cartilage.  So aye, disposing of it (smash, magma, etc) would be the way to go.

[zooeyglass]

Cool, thank you, twas as I expected. I got excited it might have use after two creatures of the deep showed up and left me a whole bucket of scale (and 20 hearts between them! yay!)... but oh well. Ta all the same.

[Sphalerite]

If you edit the material_template_default file in your raws folder and add the [SHELL] tag to the [MATERIAL_TEMPLATE:SCALE_TEMPLATE] entry, you can use scale as shell for decoration, armor, and strange moods.