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[Poliphorum]

So, playing my DF 31.18 with dwarf and elf civs modded in to have towns, I came upon a startling discovery while adventuring: a kobold village.

Now, the odd thing about this is that I didn't mod in kobolds to have towns. I've even slaughtered a few kobold camps on my current adventurer already. They're an anomaly, and it seems this is the only village they have in their entire civ.

But, even weirder, upon looking at the kobolds, most of them, instead of the normal bronze/iron/steel/other metal knives that you find on other races, all of these kobolds had knives made of gems and flux stones. I'm talking rose quartz carving knives, limestone boning knives, chrysocolla slicing knives, and even a few materials I've never encountered before like morion.

So, anyone know how to explain this? Feel free to post other weird stories like this.

Edit: They're also friendly. I'm going to take a few of them adventuring with me, see how they perform.

Edit2: Nevermind, it looks like they're friendly, but I can't talk to them and if I try to force a conversation by sleeping in their houses it saids 'You don't feel safe enough to rest.'

[[5th]Lupin]

Check your raws for any duplicate files or entries. This sounds like a mild case of "wizard fortress", which is caused when duplicate entries conflict with each other and cause DF to do all sorts of crazy things.

[Vorthon]

This happened to me, without duplicate raws.

[Faustin1]

Weird story? I starting a world a 2, I made the world so every region had at least one savagery. There was only a human village and a elven village. Most interesting part: No weapons or armor. Nothing, nil. The best thing you can have for weapons is sharp rocks. Not exactly a effective weapon against a few giant lions.
So yeah, metal-less world. I like to call it "The Prehistoric World". Especially since landmarks are much more interesting (a lot more volcanoes, and a nothing but thick, endless forest) and everything is bigger and badder. It's actually pretty fun to play adventurer in. I think it was some of the most fun I had adventuring, before version  0.31.18)

[Deon]

Do you have anything in errorlog.txt?

[Naryar]

OBSIDIAN SACRIFICIAL DAGGER

HELL YES

[GuudeSpelur]

I've found two such caves with the weird-material tools as well, and I've also seen night creatures have these tools as well.  I've also the same tools made of "normal" materials (copper, iron, etc.) in human villages.  One theory I have is that it's the result of something in the civilization tag making them have tools, but of an unrestricted material, so that they get rock or gem tools.

Either that, or it's the result of thieving and the chance of gem cutting producing random gem crafts that kobolds are attracted to, which includes tools.  Of course, this can only be true if crafting and thieving happens in worldgen, and the objects are tracked.

[Vorthon]

OBSIDIAN SACRIFICIAL DAGGER

HELL YES

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