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[Lagslayer]

I recently came onto a bunch of worthless bows. I could melt them down, I suppose, but theya re all made of copper, which I have a ton of already. So i was wondering if I could make use of them in weapon traps without using arrows. Normally a dwarf would reload bows, crossbows, and blowguns with appropriote ammo if they run out, but if there is no ammo, would they use their melee attack instead?

[BackgroundGuy]

Probably not and you'd get a ton of annoying "Urist cancels load weapon trap: Needs ammo".

[Urist Imiknorris]

Yeah, even if they did anything, the message spam would not be worth it.

Unless you bought arrows from the elves and humans, but that's a waste of money.

[sharpie]

I recently came onto a bunch of worthless bows.

Did you at least clean up after...?

[Lagslayer]

I'm in the process of cleaning up, but most of the stuff is forbidden until I can get the important stuff inside first, namely a hydra corpse that showed up shortly before the siege. The hydra was slaughtered by the way. 13 some military dwarves swarmed it when it walked up like an idiot. I count 5 severed heads, 3 of which were 2 z-levels up and an additional 30 tiles away, and on top of a tower I was building.

[Urist Imiknorris]

--- THE REALLY BAD JOKE -->


LAGSLAYER'S HEAD

In all seriousness, that shouldn't take too long. Once your dwarves start the hydra-hauling tasks, you can go ahead and unforbid everything. Also, I'm assuming you got these bows from goblin or kobold invaders, in which case I recommend you check their quivers (if they have them) for leftover arrows.

Also, you can never have too much copper.

[slothen]

I recently came onto a bunch of worthless bows.

Did you at least clean up after...?

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO   

[Namfuak]

There is a pretty easy way to use these in weapon traps without having to have arrows.  Melt them down into copper bars and make them into axes.

[TolyK]

Improvised throwing stuff for adventure mode.
*better idea*
sell them off.

[Ivan Issaccs]

I normally atomsmash that stuff.

[Jake]

Weapon traps loaded with ranged weapons only fire bolts, arrows etc rather than using their melee attack, but you shouldn't have that big an issue with job-cancellation spam; so far as I can make out, they can only accept ammunition in stacks -I think they have the same upper limit as a quiver- and they're not going to be fired all that often. If you can't or won't buy a few bundles of arrows from a caravan, trade them for something you actually need.