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[baslisks]

sooo if I made picks of the fun stuff, would I be able to mine quicker or does it not matter?

[Flying Dice]

I believe not. Not that it matters anyhow, Legendaries tend to go through stone like a corpse through a wood chipper.

[Oliolli]

They wouldn't mine faster, but would make awesome weapons for your squad of pick-armed soldiers.

[martinuzz]

They will not mine faster. They might move a bit faster though, since addy picks are lightweight

[psychologicalshock]

I usually upgrade my miners to steel picks for self-defense purposes, I once had a squad of gobbos descend on a miner and get horribly crippled in the chase - the first goblin lost his hand trying to grab the miner, the next one lost his middle spine and choked to death and the last one was killed outright by a pick through the skull, the rest ran off.

[kaijyuu]

I believe not. Not that it matters anyhow, Legendaries tend to go through stone like a corpse through a wood chipper.

It's actually not that fast. It takes time to grind up, like anything.


Not that I know anything about this. I just saw it in a movie once.




On topic, when I recruited my entire civilian force to combat HFS, I made some adamantine picks for my miners to wield. They got a few kills, iirc.

[Oliolli]

I believe not. Not that it matters anyhow, Legendaries tend to go through stone like a corpse through a wood chipper.

It's actually not that fast. It takes time to grind up, like anything.

Those bones are a pain to go through...

[Tharwen]

I believe not. Not that it matters anyhow, Legendaries tend to go through stone like a corpse through a wood chipper.

Don't you mean like a wood chipper through a corpse...?

[Masta Crouton]

well, considering the force you'd need to put a woodchipper through somebody's body.....no.

[Oliolli]

What if you first sharpened the woodchipper?

I have no idea how that's work...

[Naryar]

I think adamantine picks are a waste of adamantine, mostly because adamantine is better used as axes or swords.

A steel pick with legendary mining should be able to kill all enemies in the game anyways.

[Mitchewawa]

They technically would mine faster, but only because the miners will be able to walk to the next square a tiny bit faster (adamantine won't weigh them down so much).

It won't make any real difference though, might take an extra few secs off if you mine a whole z-level.

[FritzPL]

They wouldn't mine faster, but would make awesome weapons for your squad of pick-armed soldiers.

I disagree. As far as adamantine is awesome and all, it is the worst possible material for maces and any other blunt weapons, this includes picks, because they dont have a slashing/stabbing attack.


native platinum picks ftw

[malimbar04]

They wouldn't mine faster, but would make awesome weapons for your squad of pick-armed soldiers.

I disagree. As far as adamantine is awesome and all, it is the worst possible material for maces and any other blunt weapons, this includes picks, because they dont have a slashing/stabbing attack.


native platinum picks ftw

It's not a stab, but it is an edge attack type (Strike, to be specific). judging by the stats, It's not quite ideal for a piercing weapon, but it is pretty good, and it doesn't even have a blunt-type attack like all other weapons have. So yeah, Cotton Candy picks should be more deadly than platinum ones.
http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/Weapon#Dwarf-manufactured_weapons

[Stoup]

well, considering the force you'd need to put a woodchipper through somebody's body.....no.

He means that, the way you worded the phrase, the comparison of the legendary miner was to the corpse rather than to the woodchipper.

I once had a Legendary miner chop off the foot of a goblin who caught him in ambush. Sent the entire goblin squad running