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[Triaxx2]

Strange Mood?

[Quietust]

On the other hand, shield bash is a blunt attack, meaning it would be more effective with a heavier shield than a lighter buckler.

That's the only reason you'd want a silver shield of a wooden one. Apart from the huge weight increase (which probably won't matter much in the next version anyway) they'll do the most damage possible on a bash.

How exactly would you make a silver shield?
Strange Mood?

Strange moods don't count, since you'd need several completely random choices to come out just right - it'd need to select an Armorer to enter a mood (or a dwarf you've otherwise trained in armorsmithing), it'd have to choose silver bars as the primary material (either by material preference or by you interfering and forbidding all non-silver bars), and it'd have to randomly choose to make a shield (either a 1/10 chance to produce a SHIELD item and a further 50% chance to make a Shield instead of a Buckler, or said dwarf happening to have a preference for Shields).

My point is that you cannot deliberately make a silver shield, and even if you could, you wouldn't want to - platinum is better for blunt objects.

[GreatWyrmGold]

Wait, dwarves can only use one thing per hand now? How long has this been the case?

[Slayerhero90]

Bladed weapons and bladed projectiles should get lodged in wooden shields and bucklers.

[GreatWyrmGold]

They don't. Not right now, at least.

[lcy03406]

Wooden shields are immortal. Even dragon fire cannot burn them.

[jaxler]

Wooden shields are immortal. Even dragon fire cannot burn them.

yeah, but dwarves sure as hell aren't