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[Maldevious]

Try to make an advance in agriculture, as Maku Maku was unable to do so in his life (after big fat party).

[Dragor23]

The big, fat party is very important.

[Flying Dice]

The Chieftan is dead! Long live the Chieftan!

1. Party to celebrate an honorable death.
2. Work towards agriculture.
3. Find better weapons-grade metals.

[Dragor23]

We don't need weapons... 

We need tools!

[Flying Dice]

Bronze and iron are equally useful for weapons and tools.

[Gotdamnmiracle]

The Chieftan is dead! Long live the Chieftan!

1. Party to celebrate an honorable death.
2. Work towards agriculture.
3. Find better weapons-grade metals.

Yes! Research lead, chrome, nickel, and platinum.

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And in all reality bronze would work better for stuff than iron. It is harder than raw iron and unless we can jump straight from iron to steel it would be kind of a bitch. I suggest we start surveying for tin deposits as well as any other metals. Have your alchemists/sages/court scientists/serfs determine what ores are in the present area.

[obolisk0430]

I was unaware we had found tin.  But yeah, make sure everyone is working with the highest quality tools possible.

[Gotdamnmiracle]

To my knowledge we haven't. So I suppose start surveying for any metal. Tin though, would be the most helpful at this point.

[Flying Dice]

Ah, yeah, to clarify: Bronze or iron (strong metals) would be useful for making both tools and weapons.

[King_of_the_weasels]

Ah, yeah, to clarify: Bronze or iron (strong metals) would be useful for making both tools and weapons.

This is a dwarf fortress forum, you shouldn't have to clarify that at all, or really even discuss it, hell you shouldn't have to discuss that ANYWHERE.

[Gotdamnmiracle]

What I was trying to say was to have a surveyer keep on the lookout for tin ores and other but mostly tin, but that really doesn't make sense if the islanders have never seen tin before  . Slipped my mind.

[Flying Dice]

Ah, yeah, to clarify: Bronze or iron (strong metals) would be useful for making both tools and weapons.

This is a dwarf fortress forum, you shouldn't have to clarify that at all, or really even discuss it, hell you shouldn't have to discuss that ANYWHERE.

I was clarifying an earlier post that could have been misread as saying that bronze and iron are equally useful (for tools and weapons), which is not true.

[obolisk0430]

We have copper, we can upgrade now.

[Gotdamnmiracle]

Ah, yeah, to clarify: Bronze or iron (strong metals) would be useful for making both tools and weapons.

This is a dwarf fortress forum, you shouldn't have to clarify that at all, or really even discuss it, hell you shouldn't have to discuss that ANYWHERE.

I was clarifying an earlier post that could have been misread as saying that bronze and iron are equally useful (for tools and weapons), which is not true.

You are right. Bronze is better. Doesn't rot and is uniformly stronger. Makes better arms and armor. Makes amgnifacent tools for mucking about in, like hoes, rakes, junk like that.

[Koronii]

I think you mean rusts, but other than that your right. But the major advantage of iron is that you don't need expensive tin to make it.