After watching my umpteenth novice axedwarf lop off yet another limb in a spar I thought to myself "There's got to be a better way!"
Then I watched the first episode of The Legend of Neil, where Neil gets his sword, a sword so dull he beats people to death with the handle whilst holding the blade.
Then I thought, "Where be all the training weapons?".
In theory, all one need do is create wooden "practice" Weapons (Bone in a pinch I suppose, as crossbows can be made in wood metal and bone), that sets the damage extremely low so that only the Ultra-Mighty can do any serious damage with it (though they don't need much more than gravel to do that). Of course, you'd still have to do the song and dance routine to swap the weapons to their shiny sharp steel equivalents (Here's hoping the Army Arc fixes that!), but having dwarves with... y'know...
limbs kinda outweighs that (or spleens, if your dwarves are playing with spears).
But I don't think I can make the game accept wooden weapons. So I decided to make additions to the regular weapons, made deliberately bad, that do only one tenth their normal damage.
Thus, I made a bitless axe.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6b/An_axe_labelled-2edit.svg/213px-An_axe_labelled-2edit.svg.pngHere be bitless axes, doily padded hammers, dull practice swords, pointy sticks, and kitten-headed maces.
Much thanks to those who Helped me!
[ITEM_WEAPON:ITEM_WEAPON_AXE_BITLESS]
[NAME:bitless axe:bitless axes]
[DAMAGE:10:SLASH]
[WEIGHT:80]
[SKILL:AXE]
[TWO_HANDED:5]
[MINIMUM_SIZE:5]
[MATERIAL_SIZE:4]
[ITEM_WEAPON:ITEM_WEAPON_HAMMER_DOILY]
[NAME:doily padded hammer:doily padded hammers]
[DAMAGE:12:BLUDGEON]
[WEIGHT:40]
[SKILL:HAMMER]
[TWO_HANDED:4]
[MINIMUM_SIZE:4]
[MATERIAL_SIZE:3]
[ITEM_WEAPON:ITEM_WEAPON_SWORD_DULL]
[NAME:dull practice sword:dull practice swords]
[DAMAGE:10:SLASH]
[WEIGHT:30]
[SKILL:SWORD]
[CRIT_BOOST:1]
[TWO_HANDED:4]
[MINIMUM_SIZE:4]
[CAN_STONE]
[MATERIAL_SIZE:3]
[ITEM_WEAPON:ITEM_WEAPON_POINTY]
[NAME:pointy stick:pointy sticks]
[DAMAGE:10:PIERCE]
[WEIGHT:40]
[SKILL:SPEAR]
[CRIT_BOOST:2]
[TWO_HANDED:5]
[MINIMUM_SIZE:5]
[MATERIAL_SIZE:3]
[ITEM_WEAPON:ITEM_WEAPON_KHMACE]
[NAME:kitten-headed mace:kitten-headed maces]
[DAMAGE:12:BLUDGEON]
[WEIGHT:40]
[SKILL:MACE]
[TWO_HANDED:4]
[MINIMUM_SIZE:4]
[MATERIAL_SIZE:3]