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[Panando]

I had always assumed that flasks were one of those 'weigh-nothing' items, so was somewhat surprised on checking to discover a bronze flask weighs 12 units, a gold around 19 units. That's as heavy as a mail shirt, and many times heavier than the contained drink. Flasks are in fact, about as heavy as large stone pots or wooden barrels. Not that it's not dwarfy to carry around a pot of booze, but I guess it's leatherskins for my dorfs from now on.

[Dampe]

Would you happen to know the lightest type of flask?
(My guess would be aluminum, but there is much !!SCIENCE!! to be done, and I am not the man to do it.)

[KingBacon]

Leatherskins might be better then? I usually would make silver flasks, so this explains some slow movement...

[gtaguy]

Actually candy flasks are the lightest. However waterskins are always better than flasks.

[Boltgun]

I have never seen them admire their own flasks anyway. So I guess the cheapest and lightest, the better.

[Larix]

Adamantine flasks are not only the lightest, they're also a decent way of maximising value per wafer - you get the full three flasks per job, from a single wafer.

Dwarfs choose the most valuable flask they can find (which is why they love to carry around the vials i use to extract golden salve - that's a 2500☼ extra value! and for some reason they can still pour their booze into it without getting the two liquids mixed up). Since it's military equipment, they _probably_ don't get any mood benefit from it, though: as i understand it, dwarfs get a mood benefit from owned items, so while they don't produce messages about admiring their clothes, they apparently appreciate having nice socks nonetheless, as long as those are their personal property and not government-issued army socks.

[Quietust]

as i understand it, dwarfs get a mood benefit from owned items, so while they don't produce messages about admiring their clothes, they apparently appreciate having nice socks nonetheless, as long as those are their personal property and not government-issued army socks.

As far as I know, this is correct - a dwarf's base Happiness is affected by the number of owned items, though there is a limit on the bonus.