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[ein]

Okay, so I started minting coins.
On the coins for the first year of minting, I had some really cool things. It was a goblin (symbol of the civ) on one side and an artifact adamantine battle axe on the other. The next year, the coins are weak. One side has a picture of pixies and the other is a rendition of an image of cheese.

Share your coin descriptions here.

[Yanlin]

You actually made coins?

Do you HATE your fortress?!

[ParkEX]

Is there any point in minting coins? My Dwarves did just fine without them and I heard the scattering of those coins only make the game even more lag.

[alway]

Ya, coins just result in dwarves hauling them around all day.

[Dareon Clearwater]

Coins are good for an adventurer fortress.  I think the dwarves will only recognize copper, silver, and gold as actual currency, so you can mint some platinum or aluminum coins and have nice, light stacks of throwing weapons.  Which rapidly becomes large untidy pages full of single coins as you go throwing them.

[Jackrabbit]

Coins are only good for two things in Dwarf Fortress. Impromptu throwing weapons and impromptu bludgeoning weapons. Although one could argue that to an average adventurer, that's all anything is good for.

[The Orange Mage]

Coins would be nice if they (a) had a benefit over running coinless economies and (b) were handled in a decent way by the dwarves, such that they have a wallet, they only move coins from wallet to coffer(s) when they happen to visit their room for sleep/break/idle, and then maybe there could be a vault room-designation made from a container, and have the fort bookkeeper and haulers handle the accounts.

[Fikes]

Coins ARE nice because A) everyone says the game is too easy and B) they add story telling value to your fortress.

[Fault]

Man I minted coins just to see what crazy shit would be engraved on them. I keep them locked in a stockpile only accessable from the tax collector's room so they don't clutter my fortress.

[Ampersand]

Theoretically, dwarfs should recombine bolts and coins into stacks when the opportunity arises now. I'm not sure if this is working in practice yet.

[PencilinHand]

Theoretically, dwarfs should recombine bolts and coins into stacks when the opportunity arises now. I'm not sure if this is working in practice yet.

Is that for the upcoming release or is it already an implemented feature?

[Muz]

I love coins. They don't seem to lag my computer all that much and they certainly look better scattered around everywhere, unlike rocks. I sort of like seeing my dwarves hoard a bunch of coins in their rooms.

[Jackrabbit]

I really like having an Indiana jones treasure vault.

[Lonewolf]

There's a thing called "payday" when you open your locked coin vault only once in a long while.

[Warlord255]

I love coins. They don't seem to lag my computer all that much and they certainly look better scattered around everywhere, unlike rocks. I sort of like seeing my dwarves hoard a bunch of coins in their rooms.

I have to agree, though I have yet to reach the coined economy.