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[Kathemenos]

EDIT: It turns out this is counted as a bug already.  Mea culpa.  The report lives at http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/mantisbt/view.php?id=1346

I just had a major facepalm when reviewing the medical records of three miners - my idiot doctors were wandering over to the loom, grabbing the first thing they saw in the stockpile - adamantine strands - and then heading back to the hospital and using it to suture up the dwarves.  I'm guessing they used all of the yarn and plant fiber when I wasn't looking, but still, I think adamantine either needs to be moved to another item category or we need a menu like the one for economic stone. 

[Corai]

It should atleast make them auto-ecstatic


"Has been sutured with a holy thread."

[Kathemenos]

Or we could get a new category in the z-screen wealth display: "Medical Experiments"

[Neonivek]

My issue is that Adamantine is basically useless for that job.

[NW_Kohaku]

This is basically already a bug report.

Candy sutures should actually slice straight through the body of a dwarf sutured, as strands have nigh-infinite inflexibility and sharpness.

Of course, people probably wouldn't be sad to see candy clothing of all kinds go.

Also, this whole thread is spoilers, and the title should be edited and marked as such by the original poster.

[vicwarrior]

Also even if you forbid the strands before they sew them they go back and grab another strand and etc this is  realluy pissing me off that they have to sew 1800 dwarfbucks worth of crap each time they need to be sutured

[Neonivek]

The way Candy Clothing works Kohaku is basically "Monkies in a barrel"

Or rather a series of hooks lined up together.

That is how they remain flexible inspite the strands being inflexible.

Though Toady has yet to REALLY explain how they forge Candy. To the extent that my theory is they can SOMEHOW link together.

[Corai]

The adamanite, in the rush of enthusiasm, is smashed into tiny tiny pieces by the miner in his joy, after being brought to the strand-extractor he takes all the pieces and hooks them to form a flexible string. It is then smelted which hardens them together.


Thats my guess.

[NW_Kohaku]

You can't smelt candy, it's melting point is way above even aluminum, which dwarves can't smelt due to its high melting point.  Candy has a melting point best described as requiring a decent-sized star for a furnace to smelt it.

The only thing even remotely reasonable would be if it were somehow chemically reactive, and you could dissolve it into an acid or deplete raw candy with electrolysis or something before chemically reducing it back to more pure candy.