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[luppolo]

after setting up a passable non bolt wasting archery range i have this situation where i get tons of 1 bolt stacks, of course marksdwarves equip them, fire, then abandon position to grab another one :<

any solution besides destroying/selling single bolts? does melting single bolts return any metal?

[LordSlowpoke]

If nothing's changed since DF2010, one bolt melts down for 0.3 a bar of the metal it's made of. Quite exploitable.

[Couchmonster]

after setting up a passable non bolt wasting archery range i have this situation where i get tons of 1 bolt stacks, of course marksdwarves equip them, fire, then abandon position to grab another one :<

any solution besides destroying/selling single bolts? does melting single bolts return any metal?

What is a non bolt wasting archery range?

[Himmelblau]

If nothing's changed since DF2010, one bolt melts down for 0.3 a bar of the metal it's made of. Quite exploitable.

According to the wiki, a stack of # bolts or arrows melts down to #/100 bars of metal, rounded up to nearest 1/10th. A stack of 25 would produce 0.3 bars.

That also read on the DF2010 section, so I don't know if it's somehow inaccurate.

[schismatise]

I think one of the main points of a non bolt wasting archery range is to then melt down individual bolts, resulting in an overall gain in metal.

A while ago, dwarves would only hold a single stack of bolts in their quiver, even if it was a stack of 1 (yes i realise that's not technically a stack), but this is now fixed, and dwarves can and will collect more bolts to add to their quiver. So having single bolts in there isn't a huge deal, though still possibly not ideal, considering how long it takes to collect a full quiver of single bolts... for me the bigger problem is when they run around a dangerous battlefield collecting single bolts, instead of training safely back at home.