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[nordak]

Bolts, just kidding, full suites of armor.  Your breastplate is worthless if you get hit in the leg and loose consciousness.  Do not make both breastplates and mail shirts if you plan for your dwarves to wear clothes underneath.  Remember to use custom uniforms.  Beware moods, no one wants an addy warhammer.  Forbid it if it happens.

While I'm thinking about it, an addy warhammer could be used to tickle prisoners to raise bludgeoning skill.

[Jachim]

Adamantine war hammers are perfect for your captain of the guard. :] twice now hes beat up people and merely caused wounds even though he is a legendary hammerdorf.

[Xenos]

Basically, just make metal armor out of adamantine as the cloth versions will degrade over time wasting your adamantine.  Use all that cloth the elves bring to make your gratuitous hoods and capes and mittens and socks.  Leave adamantine to make axes and spears and swords.  Also armor.

[Shootandrun]

I think that the best use of adamantine is a full set of armor on a legendary soldier.

[malimbar04]

Adamantine war hammers are perfect for your captain of the guard. :] twice now hes beat up people and merely caused wounds even though he is a legendary hammerdorf.

Look at this gigantic beautiful unearthly and expensive hammer! *WHACK*

what was that? a wet noodle?

[Quietust]

Adamantine cloth isn't that effective, the only part you can cover you can't with rigid armor is the throat, and it'll still take 5 pieces of adamantine cloth (that's 5 raw adamantine). Those 5 parts could be made into 5 wafers and provide you with a set of helm mail shirt gauntlets boots greaves.

False. Everything are made with a single material object in vanilla. With 5 adamantines, I can make 5 dresses, stack them on top of each other and still have enough space to slap a steel set of helm mail shirt gauntlets boots greaves.

Adamantine clothes are supposed to require multiple units of cloth. Oddly, dresses, robes, cloaks, and trousers appear to be bugged and only require 1 unit of adamantine cloth. By comparison, shoes/socks/mittens/gloves require 10000 units of cloth, hoods//backpacks/quivers require 20000 units (2 pieces), and shirts require 30000 units (3 pieces).

Also, adamantine armor is supposed to require multiple wafers, except that smithing in general is bugged in that it fails to multiply the metal requirement by 150; this is why you can forge a metal barrel from only 1 bar (really only 3/150ths of a bar, but it rounds up) instead of 3 bars.

[Zaerosz]

Bwah?

*checkcheckcheck*

Alright, I'll give you that one, but cloth-metal clothes still take more than one piece of cloth-metal.

Maybe, I havent got any saves to check. How about some screenes to make me to see the light? My hands are kinda tied right now.

Spoiler: The Worker (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: The Material (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: The Product (click to show/hide)

By the way, this is the first proof I've had of working strandsilver. I feel kinda awesome now.

[Maklak]

This is cheating, but the best use of Adamatine is...

crossbow BOLTS that you use for training newbs in marksdwarf. Just make an archery target that is channeled all around, and periodically mark used bolts for melting. Bolts dont break when they fall down a z-level. One wafer of adamantine makes 25 bolts. Smelting ten bolts make 1 waffer   

[Xenos]

This is cheating, but the best use of Adamatine is...

crossbow BOLTS that you use for training newbs in marksdwarf. Just make an archery target that is channeled all around, and periodically mark used bolts for melting. Bolts dont break when they fall down a z-level. One wafer of adamantine makes 25 bolts. Smelting ten bolts make 1 waffer 

The problem is that bolts hit the target.  Those bolts will be destroyed instantly.

[Maklak]

This is cheating, but the best use of Adamatine is...

crossbow BOLTS that you use for training newbs in marksdwarf. Just make an archery target that is channeled all around, and periodically mark used bolts for melting. Bolts dont break when they fall down a z-level. One wafer of adamantine makes 25 bolts. Smelting ten bolts make 1 waffer 

The problem is that bolts hit the target.  Those bolts will be destroyed instantly.

Some people got it to work using newb crossbowdwarves and lots of fortifications to make bolts miss often, but other than that it is a lot of trouble to keep regular military from using them. I'd also throw in a danger room where the shhoting dwarf is standing.