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varkarrus

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Make weapons from bones
« on: April 21, 2009, 02:27:09 pm »
I made a race, and I want them to seige you with weapons made from bone. Is this possible? Also, they are playable, so they should also be able to make weapons from bone in fortress mode.
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Re: Make weapons from bones
« Reply #1 on: April 21, 2009, 03:11:14 pm »
I think that the closests you can get to this is by modding in a new type of metal and calling it bone and giving it the various tags for weapon use.

The only problem with this is that other civs may try using this new bone metal. Try putting the [MINOR_METAL] tag on the entity and see what happens.
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Re: Make weapons from bones
« Reply #2 on: April 22, 2009, 08:25:54 am »
I seem to remember that if you add the [RANGED:CROSSBOW:?] tag to something then it can be made out of bone at the bowyers shop. Just make sure to set the ammo type to blowgun or make a new type so that you don't have dwarves running around firing bolts from their swords. The one side effect of this is that creatures wielding those weapons will never spar.
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Re: Make weapons from bones
« Reply #3 on: April 22, 2009, 08:34:44 am »
Quote from: i2amroy on April 22, 2009, 08:25:54 am
I seem to remember that if you add the [RANGED:CROSSBOW:?] tag to something then it can be made out of bone at the bowyers shop. Just make sure to set the ammo type to blowgun or make a new type so that you don't have dwarves running around firing bolts from their swords. The one side effect of this is that creatures wielding those weapons will never spar.

They will also only pick them up when you assign them as crossbowdwarves.

Much easier to use smelter reactions. The seigers will not use them, but in fortress mode you can make them.

Bone weapons will only do 50% damage, btw.
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Re: Make weapons from bones
« Reply #4 on: April 22, 2009, 08:36:26 am »
Quote from: i2amroy on April 22, 2009, 08:25:54 am
I seem to remember that if you add the [RANGED:CROSSBOW:?] tag to something then it can be made out of bone at the bowyers shop. Just make sure to set the ammo type to blowgun or make a new type so that you don't have dwarves running around firing bolts from their swords. The one side effect of this is that creatures wielding those weapons will never spar.

You can remove the RANGED tag again once the weapons have been made, though, and then they'll function as normal melee weapons.

But yeah, this will probably be easier to achieve with the next version's material system.
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Re: Make weapons from bones
« Reply #5 on: April 22, 2009, 02:05:54 pm »
[RANGED:SWORD:...] also works.  CROSSBOW only tells it to use the crossbow skill.  SWORD would tell it to use the sword skill.
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