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[phoenixuk]

I have a lot of silver... and i mean a LOT.
I don't want to waste my precious iron on trap components, and am wondering if making spiked balls out of silver would be effective, or should i just make loads of silver war hammers and fill weapon traps with them instead?

Suggestions?

[Necro910]

I have a lot of silver... and i mean a LOT.
I don't want to waste my precious iron on trap components, and am wondering if making spiked balls out of silver would be effective, or should i just make loads of silver war hammers and fill weapon traps with them instead?

Suggestions?

It's a really dull point x3.

If it's armored it'll be blunt, most likely.

If it's not, it'll be a little sharp.

[SirAaronIII]

Like hammers, they suck against unarmored soft targets, but when it comes to full-armored enemies, watch out!
Plus, since silver isn't exactly the greatest sharp weapon material, it shouldn't really pierce through much, so mostly, they'll end up blunt attacks.

[wuphonsreach]

Spiked balls are good softeners, but they won't kill.  Use them to knock enemies off the path or to bruise/break limbs.

Make a few serrated silver discs, sell to the caravan, buy steel/iron/bronze to make real serrated discs.  Those will then slice-n-dice anything that lives past the spiked balls.

[Passive Fist]

I have big goblin sieges with nothing but copper spiked balls in a 3-wide hallway.  Nothing survives past about 7 tiles of that.

[Necro910]

I have big goblin sieges with nothing but copper spiked balls in a 3-wide hallway.  Nothing survives past about 7 tiles of that.

I use serrated disks, and then goblinite weapons left around after an ambush/siege 

[Qc Storm]

I made a 3 tiles wide and 15 tiles long bridge with a 10z deep drop on the side filled with weapon traps containing glass serrated discs and silver balls.

I fired my militia and had them haul refuse instead.

[xcrissxcrossx]

I made a 3 tiles wide and 15 tiles long bridge with a 10z deep drop on the side filled with weapon traps containing glass serrated discs and silver balls.

I fired my militia and had them haul refuse instead.

How do you make a hole more than a few z levels deep? I have a problem with making canals, and then blocking myself from the rest of the hole and just messing the whole hole up.

[Agent_86]

I made a 3 tiles wide and 15 tiles long bridge with a 10z deep drop on the side filled with weapon traps containing glass serrated discs and silver balls.

I fired my militia and had them haul refuse instead.

How do you make a hole more than a few z levels deep? I have a problem with making canals, and then blocking myself from the rest of the hole and just messing the whole hole up.

Lots and lots of channeling...

[Wyrms]

Spiked balls are considered to be sharp. So, if you're going to use silver, the warhammers will work better.

[Oliolli]

Planning on making the (almost) most overkill trap in dwarven history: through long training for my mechanics and metalsmiths, I shall make a trap with nothing but masterful large, serrated adamantine discs in it, powered by a masterful mechanism.

The only way to make it more overkill is to fill it with artifacts.

[Angel Of Death]

Create warhammers and put them in a trap. About 10 per trap will turn almost any unwanted guest into a fine, red paste.

[Oliolli]

Create warhammers and put them in a trap. About 10 per trap will turn almost any unwanted guest into a fine, red paste.

Preferrably silver.
Preferrably not adamantine.

[phoenixuk]

Well the good news is that after making mad amounts of copper crossbow bolts I have my first legendary weapon smith... here come the legendary trap components 

[Alastar]

All trap components are edged, spiked silver balls may be usable regardless. Scourges and morningstars (which share spiked balls' tiny contact area but rely on velocity instead of mass) don't depend as much on the material's shear strength as larger blades - in some of my tests, steel outperformed adamantine and silver outperformed iron.

Spikes and balls have proven to remain somewhat effective regardless of the material. Since Spiked Balls cause wounds that aren't wide enough to cause much bleeding/severing and not deep enough to impale anything important, they're more geared towards reliably injuring than killing anyway. With silver as my only expendable metal, I'd probably craft a lot of hammers and use the lesser ones in traps together with the odd spike.