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Crutches not working?
« on: January 15, 2014, 11:03:47 pm »
So I've found two crutches so far, and I take them out to put them in my arms to use them... But they do nothing at all. Does a broken spine influence if they effect you or not? My lower spine was broken in an attack, but I survived. If I can't get the crutch walker skill though, I may as well give up now
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Re: Crutches not working?
« Reply #1 on: January 16, 2014, 08:20:09 am »
if you can equip the crutches, they'll speed you up eventually.
iirc dabbling crutch users get almost no benefit whereas legendary crutch users can walk as well as uninjured dorfs
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Re: Crutches not working?
« Reply #2 on: January 16, 2014, 10:03:53 am »
do crutches actually help if both legs are unusable? Or only when 1 leg has been disabled?
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Re: Crutches not working?
« Reply #3 on: January 16, 2014, 04:37:00 pm »
No, As in, the crutches don't let me stand up at all, I can't stand with them
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Re: Crutches not working?
« Reply #4 on: January 16, 2014, 05:03:37 pm »
As far as i know, you need one working leg to get any use out of a crutch. This definitely holds true for fortress mode - paraplegic dwarfs never are given a crutch and can never stand again. It _probably_ works the same in adventurer mode - if you have "nervous tissue" damage in the lower spine, that means your adventurer is paralysed from the waist down and gets as much use out of a crutch as a paraplegic in the real world would, i.e. none.

There may be some glitchery to work around it with adventurers, i don't know. I played a paraplegic character once (i.e. char got paralysed and i just kept playing her) and thanks to high skills she was quite capable although she had to pick fights and moved very slowly. Being a vampire helped a lot, for the attribute benefits and since it cut out all the food/drink/sleep nuisances, but working with ~400 speed on the tactical map was quite sucky.
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