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[Da Spadger]

Firstly, letting them be made out of other materials than stone, like glass, wood and metal. To make a mechanism out of glass, the mechanic would require a glass block, a metal bar for a metal mechanism and a log for a wooden mechanism.

Secondly, leveling up the appropiate skill somewhat in addition to the mechanic skill. If you were to make a ton of glass mechanisms, you wouldn't just have a legendary mechanic but also a fairly proficient glassmaker. (Or mason/carpenter/blacksmith)

Thirdly, allowing mechanisms to be used as a weapon in traps. They'd spin and do blunt damage to anything caught between the cogwheels, breaking bones in the process.

[ungulateman]

We can already make metal mechanisms at the metalsmith's forge.

Skill interconnection may or may not happen already. It's been suggested before.

Mechanisms as trap weapons could be modded to some point.

[Da Spadger]

We can already make metal mechanisms at the metalsmith's forge.

Woah, awesome. I didn't know that. :D

[Virex]

I don't think you can transfer much power using a glass mechanism (well, technically a glass piston could work, but glass cogs and glass shafts are right out. Any lateral or twisting movement would shatter the glass)

[Arkenstone]

Everything you have asked here can be done by modding -except you'd need a seperate "spinning gear" trap componant, you can't mod mechanisms as far as I know. (Although you should be able to find the proper term in the string dump that will let you mod in new reactions to make them out of other materials.)

[Lord Shonus]

I don't think you can transfer much power using a glass mechanism (well, technically a glass piston could work, but glass cogs and glass shafts are right out. Any lateral or twisting movement would shatter the glass)

Wood would be nearly as bad with any kind of torque on it. I've done that experiment.

[thijser]

And yet wood is the only usable material for axels.

[Lord Shonus]

Wood works fine for AXLES, but trying to put teeth on it doesn't work well. It deforms too much under the pressure.

[Arkenstone]

Remember: this is DF.  In DF, wood can be used to make magma reservoirs, I'm sure it can handle breaking a few more laws of physics...

[Sunken]

Wood works fine for AXLES, but trying to put teeth on it doesn't work well. It deforms too much under the pressure.

Not without exceptions, apparently. Also, instead of cutting teeth into a solid wheel, you can insert plugs instead; that seems more robust:

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Edit: this isn't quite fair, perhaps, but do a Google Image search for "wooden gears" and "stone gears" and compare them ;-)

[Lord Shonus]

True. Most of what we were working with were much smaller gears.