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[Cabbagetroll]

In my current fort, I am rolling in the good stuff: steel. Aside from the obvious, common uses (weapons, armor, trap weapons), what should I use it for?

[Argonnek]

Since it's as valuable as gold, you can encrust invader clothes with it to boost their value and make them a product of your fortress (and, of course, buy caravans with them). Another thing to do is fully industrialize your forges. One forge can only make one thing at a time, but if that one thing is an anvil, then you can build another forge, which can make another anvil, and so forth. You could also make insanely valuable rooms for all of your dwarves out of steel.

[pisskop]

A steel fortress?  Sounds incredibly...  not dwarfy but... humanish?  Should make the first ever dwarven skyscraper!  That's never been done, yes?

[Kamamura]

Steel coffins FTW!

[Telgin]

Steel coffins sound pretty dwarfy, so I'd definitely do that.  At least for nobles.

Otherwise, if you really can't think of much to do with it, I'd say some steel statues out front would be a way to show off your fort's wealth of steel.  "Aye, we've got enough o' th' stuff t'make statues 'o Urist nibblin' on cheese."

[kaijyuu]

Chains are good. Way better than cloth ropes for your wells/jails/etc.

Mechanisms too! Most valuable mechanisms you can make, iirc, so if you care about value, steel mechanisms are the way to go there.

[Loud Whispers]

Steel sarcophagus + Dorf goes in ---> Magma ---> Steel sarcophagus comes out

[Quietust]

Mechanisms too! Most valuable mechanisms you can make, iirc, so if you care about value, steel mechanisms are the way to go there.

Not counting Adamantine, anyways...

[Tirion]

Steel is magma-safe. Bring that magma up to the surface with a giant steel pump stack!

[Gaybarowner]

I mass steel disk/spear weapons never enough traps

[Scow2]

I mass steel disk/spear weapons never enough traps

Sounds like hiding all that steel in traps is a waste when you can make an entire fortress out of the stuff.

[Cabbagetroll]

Good ideas, all. The skyscraper is appealing, as are a multitude of steel sarcophogi. I am already pumping stell into my weapon traps, and a pump stack sounds fun.

[forsaken1111]

Yeah when I have an abundance of steel I entomb all my dorfs in steel when they die and then flood the room with magma before sealing it away. I also tend to make all of my doors out of steel, and I try to get some thematic statues (which takes a while) of various heroic dwarves to line the tombs.