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Author Topic: Disrespect the dead to preserve the living?  (Read 458 times)

ColonelTEE3

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Disrespect the dead to preserve the living?
« on: March 12, 2007, 06:06:00 pm »
Can you use dwarf bones to make bone bolts, or dwarf skulls to make totems? Because i know you can chasm dwarf bones and even full dwarf corpses.
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Re: Disrespect the dead to preserve the living?
« Reply #1 on: March 12, 2007, 11:53:00 pm »
I'm pretty sure you can, if they get moved into an interior stockpile so they don't get deleted on a season update.

You'll note that dwarf bone artifacts use fresh bones, for instance. ;-)

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Re: Disrespect the dead to preserve the living?
« Reply #2 on: March 13, 2007, 04:00:00 am »
As far as I've seen, you can't make anything out of dwarf parts, no matter what.

This applies even if you set the corpse to create an item. I did some goofing off a while back (setting the dwarves to drop adamantine on death) and all I wound up with after I burnt out the caravan is a bunch of adamantine that could be put into stockpiles but couldn't be extracted.

The only exception to this is the Fell and Macabre moods that unhappy dwarves can go into.

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