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[Dyret]

Just how good are they now? My dwarves seem to favor them over even high tier stuff like bronze, and I'm not sure if it's a good thing or I need to chuck them down the volcano.

[Romegypt]

the only thing better than obsidian (sharpness, not durability) is adamantine/steel

[pisskop]

http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2014:Obsidian

My experience with obsidian matches this page.  Its inferior to metal weapons.  Ahh, in the new version it seems they are better than they were, but are they better than iron?

[Fat Friar]

   (*) Fixed material values for obsidian (UristDaVinci)

Grab some and kill some wildlife, tell us how it goes?

[Dyret]

   (*) Fixed material values for obsidian (UristDaVinci)

Grab some and kill some wildlife, tell us how it goes?

All my current wildlife is bugged out birds, so it's not really an option, but from my experiences with early werecreatures and berserk dwarfs, they are at least on par with iron and bronze against flesh, but I can't imagine they'll be as good against armoured enemies and non-organics, which is why them being chosen over bronze gear by default is a tad troubling.

[Fat Friar]

Are they a higher manufacture quality than your metal swords? That may be why they're choosing them.
I always assign specific items to my squads rather than uniforms, you might want to try that. It's a bit tedious but they always equip what I want them to.

[greycat]

Given a free choice, squad positions choose weapons and armor based on trade value, not battle effectiveness.  (There's no clear metric for the latter.)

[Urist Da Vinci]

Obsidian swords are better than wood/bone, just slightly better than glass (almost the same), and worse than any vanilla combat metal. Excellent against flesh, leather, clothing. Sucks hard against all vanilla armor metals (just like glass!)

Use them as starter weapons, traps, trade goods. At least they work now, as opposed to just bruising people.

EDIT:

the only thing better than obsidian (sharpness, not durability) is adamantine/steel

FYI the SHEAR values matter more than the MAX_EDGE

Given a free choice, squad positions choose weapons and armor based on trade value, not battle effectiveness.  (There's no clear metric for the latter.)

Obsidian's high value for a layer stone is problematic here. Perhaps people should assign weapons made of a specific metal to their soldiers?

[klefenz]

Or we could go full aztec on those gobbos, they often dont wear full armor, so chippity-choppity on their limbs.

[Girubev]

Or we could go full aztec on those gobbos, they often dont wear full armor, so chippity-choppity on their limbs.

I second this notion.
Urist McJaguar Warrior has gone into a martial trance!

Besides, even if it fails, you can always fall back to magma.
In all seriousness, I feel that obsidian swords would make a decent weapon for civilian dwarves if when it hits the fan and you need emergency troops. Obsidian can be mass produced, so equipping a fort with masterwork obsidian swords shouldn't be too difficult.

[Duuvian]

Can someone watch this and tell me if the obsidian goes through steel?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjV7lYP6hRw

Spoiler: rant (click to show/hide)

Apparently someone over at youtube decided to make youtube videos not recognize my flash player even with the entire page allowed by request policy and no script. Oh well, it was a small loss for me and hell no I'm not going to give up these addons that help avoid some malware and give me greater control over my browser just to watch youtube videos.

[Bumber]

Can someone watch this and tell me if the obsidian goes through steel?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjV7lYP6hRw

Nope. Just a few dents.

[Duuvian]

Thanks Bumber

[killerx243]

But then they prove the point on gobbos not wearing full armor... By hitting the dummy in the face

[martinuzz]

All my current wildlife is bugged out birds

You can fix that by editing the save raws. remove all [FLIER] tags from non-vermin type creatures.