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[AbuDhabi]

I'm looking for sponges to train my weapon skills on. But despite looking in seas and rivers, I can't seem to find any. Only once have I seen a sponge in a river in Fortress Mode, and never since anywhere.

Where are fleshy masses hiding?

[Ravendarksky]

You can't train weapon skills on sponges. You can only train wrestling. Saying that, they can be found in any ocean, river or lake apparently so good luck finding one!

[AbuDhabi]

Why can't I train weapon skills on sponges? Aren't they immune to normal combat?

[Zammer990]

You only gain weapon skills if the target is concious, and sponges feel pain, so they fall unconscious quite quickly. If you modded them you could though.

[AbuDhabi]

I see! Thank you.

I've actually found that horseshoe crabs are good for new characters, and once skills are a bit up, they can move on to becoming a necromancer (maybe via vampire) and start wailing on animated corpses via macros.

[DarkArtemisFowl]

A good way I found was to gear up in complete clothing and go to the sewers of towns. They make great combat experience since there's a lot of useless blowgunners who will train your dodging, shields, and armor usage, and the weapon skills.

[razor871]

I see! Thank you.

I've actually found that horseshoe crabs are good for new characters, and once skills are a bit up, they can move on to becoming a necromancer (maybe via vampire) and start wailing on animated corpses via macros.

Yeah I find that horseshoe crabs are a bit like training dummies to me, I also assume that they're at the bottom of the Dwarf Fortress food chain (am I right?). They're sorta like the Pokemon Bidoof. 

[Mesa]

I see! Thank you.

I've actually found that horseshoe crabs are good for new characters, and once skills are a bit up, they can move on to becoming a necromancer (maybe via vampire) and start wailing on animated corpses via macros.

Yeah I find that horseshoe crabs are a bit like training dummies to me, I also assume that they're at the bottom of the Dwarf Fortress food chain (am I right?). They're sorta like the Pokemon Bidoof. 

They also make great food in a pinch.

[Enemy post]

They live in a pineapple under the sea.

[mastahcheese]

PTW, I see where this is heading.

[Urist McRandomplayer]

Sewer anthros are also fantastic to train against because they drop wooden shields. Shields don't care what material they are made from in regards to blocking, and since wooden shields are incredibly light, they are the ideal shield. (Note: STRIKING with shields, however, cares about the material; do not shield-bash with a wooden shield.)