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[Dame de la Licorne]

I've been thinking about crossbow use in melee combat, among other things, and came up with an idea.  Currently there is no use for daggers other than as a metal or trade source, depending on personal preference.  So what if daggers were implemented as a civilian/secondary weapon?  So marksdwarves could carry them in case of melee combat, and untrained civilians could carry them either as a matter of course, or in times of danger.  I.e. for fisherdwarves insisting on going to carp-infested waters, or dwarves who absolutely MUST get that ONE piece of heaven-knows-what lying in the direct path of the oncoming siege/megabeast/what-have-you, etc.  Thoughts?

[Wooty]

I've always wanted something like this so that all my haulers and such could take on the thieves and babysnatchers that they run into.

Unless you can already give your civilians weapons...I haven't tried that.

[Strangething]

Unless you can already give your civilians weapons...I haven't tried that.

If make your dwarves miners or woodcutters, they'll carry picks or axes everywhere. This means they get distracted when you mark out digging or tree-cutting tasks. And you'll end up with tons of Dabbling Miners and Woodcutters.

[Draco18s]

However, only the pick uses the mining skill in combat.

[Capntastic]

This is suggested constantly and is in the devnotes.    It's a good idea that'll be worked in eventually.