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[P-Luke]

As anyone who is in the meat/leather industry will know: slaughtering animals quickly leads to a huge pile of skulls.
Now, I know skulls can be turned into totems, and then sold, but I just don't find totems to be valuable enough to spend time to it (I want to have my bonecrafter decorate with bones and shells instead, or even make bone bolts).

I'd really like to see more uses for skulls.. using them as catapult ammo is a definite first.
Who wouldn't want to shoot a pile of elf skulls on their elf invaders? Or in my case, horse skulls (Godfather style :p)

Other potential uses: skull crafts, ceremonial skull masks, decorating with skulls, skull building blocks, etc

[Chthonic]

Chunks, too.

[Aquillion]

Already suggested not so long ago:

http://www.bay12games.com/forum/index.php?topic=33835.0

...would skulls really do that much damage?

Hmm, maybe we need the ability to craft walls out of skulls.  You could grind them into bonemeal, too (as well as other bones.)

[Duke 2.0]

 Dwarves have enough deathtraps. We need more insults!

[Tenebrais]

I like decorating with skulls. Sounds nice and evil.

[chucks]

I'm hoping that totems will have a function in the upcoming release since Toady has already checked off priests in the dev task list on the future of the fort thread.

[Vattic]

I sometimes decorate my fort walls with skull totems usually Orc skulls.

As for launching body parts in general, I think it will be in the game eventually, most likely having them launched into your fort though and creating miasma and bad feelings all round.

[SirHoneyBadger]

I don't see any problem at all with shooting skulls at our enemies, if you happen to have a big pile of skulls just sitting around your living room (who doesn't?). I just can't figure out why our dwarfs would wait for them to rot, let alone to completely mortify.

I would think the severed heads of their friends (and yeah, they should cause some damage--not as much as rocks, but not insignificant, either) would do more morale damage than anything, especially if you make it so all the heads are smiling.

[Luke_Prowler]

  Why throw those skulls when you can use them to make a -<<*skull throne*>>-

[Shaostoul]

I like the skull throne and skull walls ideas. (10 skulls per wall or something)

I could then see menacing spikes being useful!!! skulls menacing with spikes of bone!

[SirHoneyBadger]

See, what you do is you capture the goblin king, and build him a throne out of the heads of his followers, tie him down on it, and then launch *that* at the invading goblin army.

[Luke_Prowler]

See, what you do is you capture the goblin king, and build him a throne out of the heads of his followers, tie him down on it, and then launch *that* at the invading goblin army.

QFT and sig'd

[SirHoneyBadger]

Ahhh. Thank you! 

[Tradanbattlan]

We should be able to launch rotting bodies as miasmabombs

[Byakugan01]

Why throw those skulls when you can use them to make a -<<*skull throne*>>-

BLOOD FOR THE BOOD GOD! SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE! ELVES FOR THE ELF RECLINER!

On a more serious note, I think being able to laucn prisoners as bombs would be even more effective-can you imagine the damage to morale from seeing your civilization's greatest warrior ever screaming like a little girl as he is launched to his doom from a catapult?