I startted a new fortress, with immigration turned off (still ended up with 3 immigrants
) one of my starting immigrants was given the skill of axedwarf for dealing with thieves and babysnatchers before my airlock and traps are up. I set him to hunt to start to develope his axe skills (bugger kept bringing me partial goats) once I had enough leather gathered I made him his initial set of armor, each piece decorated with a leather image
I then set him to wear it so the goats dont hurt him too bad (havent found the water yet
). with the lack of labor I had with no immigrants, I made him a mechanic as well. so while he was setting up a batch of cage traps he gets ambushesd (had to turn off hunting to make him do the task at hand, meaning he was stuck without armor) he only had 1/3 the traps set up roughly 6 or so, all of them on the wrong side so none of the gob's were caged when he got attacked. he managed to kill none of them. bastard. I had to use my miners to dispatch the few that made it past my internal flood gates. so I hastily crafted a coffin (once the threat was eliminated) and encrusted it with a couple gems I had laying around. later whenI looked at the coffin after another disaster (and 4 more coffins) I looked at his coffin and saw:
"this is a superior quality chert coffin. this object menaces with spikes of morion.
on the item is a finely-designed image of a dwarf and a leather armor in green zircon by Bembul Duradlikot. The dwarf is admiring the leather armor."
I thought it was a nice touch. having his coffin engraved with what i assume is him and his armor. wont really know unless I got back in adv. mode and look at it.
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yeah my typing is bad. often my spacebar misses whenI use it.
and sometimes I forget to check.