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Ottofar

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Bone carving?
« on: January 03, 2009, 10:15:52 am »
How do I carve bones? Like where? Does it require a workshop at all?  :-[
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Il Palazzo

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Re: Bone carving?
« Reply #1 on: January 03, 2009, 10:17:27 am »
At craftsdwarf's workshop.
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Re: Bone carving?
« Reply #2 on: January 03, 2009, 10:19:03 am »
Thanks.
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Re: Bone carving?
« Reply #3 on: January 03, 2009, 10:02:01 pm »
decorate with bone and decorate with shell is one of the few things that works on metal stuff like armor and weapons. so dice up those nice steel swords with some goblin bone spikes and images of carnage in dragon bone. lock up a craftsdwarf with bones and items you want decorated to ensure this.
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Re: Bone carving?
« Reply #4 on: January 04, 2009, 12:54:35 am »
Or just spam 'decorate with bone' and keep a supply of livestock handy to provide raw materials. Eventually EVERYTHING will have spikes, bands, or rings of bone on it. Often multiple types!
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A tendon in the skull has been torn!
The Raven has been knocked unconcious!

Elves do it in trees. Humans do it in wooden structures. Dwarves? Dwarves do it underground. With magma.

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Re: Bone carving?
« Reply #5 on: January 04, 2009, 12:35:18 pm »
Quote from: Skorpion on January 04, 2009, 12:54:35 am
Often multiple types!
On many occasions, I've ended up with every item in my entire fort with 30 different types of bone on them.
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Re: Bone carving?
« Reply #6 on: January 04, 2009, 06:12:30 pm »
yeah. most things in my fort end up covered in bone as well. but for when you want that specific dragon or demon bone on your very best weapons or armor, locking up your legendary craftsdwarves to make sure is the way to go to make sure the bones you want gets on the items you want, and when a legendary bonecrafter does it sometimes you get images that tell your fort history as well.

i like to do this because an adamantium sword with images of dwarves shooting elves in dragon bone is a really nice thing to have in adventure mode when im tired of my forts.
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