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[NonconsensualSurgery]

Well A big part of this game is making do with what you have. If you really need ore, re-embark or make a new world with much higher minerals.
Other wise, you should Make lot of crossbows, and bolts out of wood. Armour should be bone which (i think) is slightly better then leather. Plus you need to save leather for quivers and backpacks. Otherwise, request metal from dwarven outpost liason.

Where would I get bone from? my refuse pile? I have a trapper dwarf, which counts as my ranger (according to the 'z' menu anyway). But I can't seem to get him to hunt anything

Useable bone comes from two main sources:

Any animal you butcher whether from hunting or your pastures, and the decayed severed limbs of goblins and other sentients.

Butchery requires a butcher shop and a dwarf with butchery enabled. Hunting requires a quiver, a crossbow, bolts, and a dwarf with hunting as one of their enabled labors and access to the great outdoors.

Building a limb-separating system is simpler than it sounds. Simply drop captured creatures from a great height onto a firm surface and all the limbs will be blown off by the impact.

[Monkeyfacedprickleback]

Another good way to get metal without ore is goblinite. If you have flux you can refine goblinite into steel. Also make the trade depot into a drowing trap. That way you won't have to pay for all those tast bars and *large iron breastplate*

[flieroflight]

yeah, i always go for multiple of shallow and deep metals when i embark nd so usually have something i can make weapons out of.

also, Imiknorris and whispers, im onto you now.
I KNOW YOUR SECRETS
ALL OF THEM

[Loud Whispers]

also, Imiknorris and whispers, im onto you now.
I KNOW YOUR SECRETS
ALL OF THEM

o_O

...

Well then they're not very secret

[Garath]

goblins bring lots of iron over time and are great for target practice

[Azure]

Poultry can be a decent source of bones meat etc. due to eggs hatching. Geese are a good choice. 3-8 eggs per clutch, 1 year to maturity, and 6 bones. Although turkeys do have a larger egg clutch and smaller egg size(hatch faster). Toss babies and extras in a cage n butcher when needed.

Btw, Alligators and cave crocs are absolutely amazing to have popping out tons of eggs n baby gators.

[Rude]

galena is awesome.
first off, you can make GREAT blunt weapons with silver, and OK edged weapons.
armor is gonna kinda suck, but as long as your military practices with shields alot, the armor will be less of an issue as they'll block most attacks.
i dont even armor my dwarves, just give em a good shield and a good weapon.

Also, being unarmored means you don't have to lug it around everywhere --> super fast soldiers
Shields are very useful, but if weapon skill and fighting is high enough they will still get plenty of dodges/parries
and ya, extremely high skills trumps good equipment. so if you focus on training your soldiers they will will be deadly even with crap.

I just got an idea to start a fort, train some wrestlers and then equip them solely with the goblinite they liberate.

[Azure]

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galena is awesome.
first off, you can make GREAT blunt weapons with silver, and OK edged weapons.
armor is gonna kinda suck, but as long as your military practices with shields alot, the armor will be less of an issue as they'll block most attacks.
i dont even armor my dwarves, just give em a good shield and a good weapon.

Also, being unarmored means you don't have to lug it around everywhere --> super fast soldiers
Shields are very useful, but if weapon skill and fighting is high enough they will still get plenty of dodges/parries
and ya, extremely high skills trumps good equipment. so if you focus on training your soldiers they will will be deadly even with crap.

I just got an idea to start a fort, train some wrestlers and then equip them solely with the goblinite they liberate.

I'll save you some time:

Urist McWrestler has released jointlock on ____x4000
Urist McWrestler is struck in the head through the masterwok steel helm from behind by Gobbo -Morning star-. The skull is pushed through the brain
Urist McWrestler has been struck down.

Urist McWrestler is strangling gobbo #1
Gobbo #5-15 thrust with spears.
Urist McWrestler has been struck down.

Urist McWrestler punches gobbo #1 in the upper body. The blow glances offx20

It's a pretty fun thing to do but it results in a thriving coffin industry. :<

[Farmerbob]

thanks for the advice, I found a large cavern filled with Galena among other gems, which I can use to make lead. Unfortunately what I really need is armor, weapons and picks, which cannot be made with lead. The cavern also has 4 Draltha in it, hopefully they'll stay at their end of the cave.

Galena, when smelted has a chance to produce silver, silver is a great metal for blunt weapons, but not really worth making sharp weapons out of.

An ore of lead, a good metal right there ;P

Not really good for anything, but making your fort out of the stuff is just awesome.

Lead bins and barrels   Thats what I typically use it for.  Also, if you have Galena handy, make sure whoever turns into your mayor likes lead or silver, and keep a stock of whatever they like if you can.

Goblinite is also good.  Humans typically bring lots of iron stuff, and elves lots of wood if you make huge empty wood stockpiles and don't trade them wood things.  Use wood from elves and iron from humans to make steel for dwarves 

[Azure]

Just remembered another useful thing to do. If you properly set up your stockpiles(Material, quality etc.), you can have a storeroom right by the magma smelters to take all the shoddy weapons, armor, toys, instruments, cages, shields, crafts, etc. without having them enter the useful stockpiles. If you disable bins on it you can just do d-m every one and awhile to melt down goodies. With quality roasts you can buy out whole caravans worth of things to melt down. 100k or more!