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Absolutely useless.

Still useless.

COMPLETELY USELESS.

Best thing since sliced bread.

>I heard you liek elves<

[Naryar]

Why is Giant Cave Spider not in here is beyond me.

feel free to write up a description

Fair enough.

Spoiler: Giant Cave Spider (click to show/hide)

1. A bear-sized greyish underground spider, found in caves.
2. The main reason why you don't let your unarmored legendary armorsmith into the caverns too much.
3. A fearsome beast from Armok's blood-forges, it knows no pain, no fear, will not stop fighting and WILL kill your unarmored dwarves.
4. VALUABLE SILK, MUST GO AND FETCH ! *Urist McWeaver cancels Harvest Web : interrupted by Giant Cave Spider*

[Mrhappyface]

Child:
1. The pre-adult form of a creature. 2. Noble 2.0

[Garath]

meh, The GCS desription is a bit unsuitable to a dictionary

edit:

necromancer:
1: A sentient creature that through the study of secrets of the universe has attained mastery over death. They become immortal and can imbue corpses, or indeed pieces of corpses, with a mocking semblance of life that attempts to destroy all true life it sees. Raisable body parts when severed from a body include heads, hands, including the arms if they are still attached, the whole skin of a butchered animal, hair, mussel and turtle shells. When a necromancer does not have a large army yet they camp in the wilderness, but occasionally will attack nearby forts for fresh corpses. When a necromancer has 50 zombies, he will make them build a tower. Even then, they attack forts. This can be in several forms; ambush, stealth necromancer, siege with necromancer, siege without necromancer. They often write books about themself and are considered self-centered and narcisists.
2: A DF forumite who has a habit of finding very old threads and posting in them, bringing them back out of the catacombs of long forgotten threads and into the bright light of the other forumite attention again

[towerdude]

Where is Tholtig Cryptbrain the Waning Diamonds and her 2341 NAMED kills?

[vadia]

Blood: delicious magic liquid

[Loud Whispers]

Where is Tholtig Cryptbrain the Waning Diamonds and her 2341 NAMED kills?

I had neglected updating the dictionary for a while now in favour of other things. I suppose it's never too late to resume.

[GoombaGeek]

You guys, why is there only iron and copper here. No steel, even. Or gold. Gosh.

Spoiler: Aluminum (click to show/hide)

1. A mythical metal that is only found in vanishingly small quantities in its native form, if ever. Too valuable to waste on trifles like aluminum swords and useful see Hammerer aluminum hammers. 2. Platinum's sister metal, the two most valuable metals that aren't see Adamantine. 3. As soon as electrochemistry is discovered by dwarven mechanics, the most abundant and useless metal in the world. Explosive when powdered.

Spoiler: Tin (click to show/hide)

1. A boring metal obtained from Cassiterite. Has a low melting temperature. Easily incorporated into low-grade alloys and see Bronze.

Spoiler: Bronze (click to show/hide)

1. An alloy made from see Copper and see Tin, marginally better than copper for making bladed weapons but still worse than iron. 2. In certain iron-poor environments, dwarves with bronze-enriched blood have been reported, but the veracity of these tales is unknown. 3. The only metal good enough to make gigantic angry statues out of.

Spoiler: Zinc (click to show/hide)

1. Another metal useless by itself, obtained from Sphalerite. Unlike see Tin, it cannot form any useful alloys, but can be used to trick see Humans into thinking they're getting shiny gold when they're really getting brass. Woe betide the fortress prospected to have "Deep Metals" that uncovers only sphalerite and cassiterite.

Spoiler: Steel (click to show/hide)

1. The most dwarvenly of metals, cast into weapons and used to mine see Goblinite. 2. A carbon-enriched form of iron worth its weight in see Gold. 3. The best metal that won't earn you a free ticket to the see Circus.

Spoiler: Gold (click to show/hide)

1. A shiny, yellow, soft metal favored by non-military dwarves. 2. A valuable product that all dwarves dream of obtaining. 3. A sissy non-reactive version of Cæsium.

[Zivilin]

Bronze:
1. An alloy made from see Copper and see Tin, marginally better than copper for making bladed weapons but still worse than iron. 2. In certain iron-poor environments, dwarves with bronze-enriched blood have been reported, but the veracity of these tales is unknown. 3. The only metal good enough to make gigantic angry statues out of.

The claim that bronze is worse than iron for bladed weapons is questionable. I can't say I have a full understanding of the mechanics involved, but bronze has a higher [SHEAR_YIELD] value than iron, which should imply that bronze is better at cutting than iron. Tests on the efficacy of ranged weapons [1] ascertained that bronze and iron are virtually identical in terms of performance, both when used for bolts and armor: iron/bronze bolts cannot penetrate iron/bronze armor, which converts all damage to BLUNT (Bruises). Steel bolts penetrate iron/bronze armor, causing EDGE damage (Tears). I do not know whether this is the same for for bladed melee weapons, but the ranged results themselves make a strong case for bronze.

[Voyd211]

Bronze Colossus: An attempt at making a gigantic, controllable suit of armor out of metal and magic. They left out the "controllable" part.

(trying to describe a mecha in as medieval terminology as I can)

[Aseaheru]

i... LOVE THIS!


and, i sort of have one... for crossbow... sort of... and horseshoe crabs... shall i say it?

[Jase]

We need a entry for only true immortal existence in dwarf fortress: the undead giant sponge. maybe that's what dwarven gods are.... undead giant sponges