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[Tyius]

In my newest fort i have found tons of iron ore, does this mean I should use iron to train up my weapon and armor smiths?  And what's the best use for iron weapon wise?  Serrated disks, spears for spike traps, spikes for spike traps, or weapons for troops?

[Dantrithor]

Whatever you want, as you can later smelt it into bars again to recover some of your investment and avoid waste.

Otherwise, if you're into traps, serrated iron disks would be your best option. You can train your weaponsmiths while producing useful things to rip the guts of stuff.

[Girlinhat]

Iron is the main resource of every successful fort.  This is because goblins are prone to carrying iron, and dwarves are probe to killing goblins.

[Necro910]

Iron is the main resource of every successful fort.  This is because goblins are prone to carrying iron, and dwarves are probe to killing goblins.

This is a fine engraving of a dwarf and a goblin. The dwarf is commiting a depraved act against the goblin.

[Jeoshua]

This is a fine engraving of a dwarf and a goblin. The dwarf is commiting a depraved act against the goblin.

The Dwarf is laughing.  The Goblin is screaming.  The engraving menaces with spikes of truthiness.

[Tyius]

Okay i hooked up like 10 iron disks to a masterwork mechanism and put 6 steel disks and 3 iron spears on another masterwork mechanism right behind that...  Now im waiting for the first gobs to test them out for me.

[Girlinhat]

Protip: Disks will jam, a lot.  10x jammed disks takes out a whole trap.  If each trap has 1x disk, then when it jams, you still have 9 more behind it.  So, don't put all your eggs in one basket, as it were...

[Daetrin]

I usually put 3x disks per trap, seems to work for me.  10x is just overkill.  Because of the way armor and hardnesses work, if iron will kill something, the 3x will generally do a decent job, and allows you to put out far more traps.  If 3x doesn't affect whatever is attacking, 10x is not likely to.

[Passive Fist]

I like 10x, it gives the bronze colossi more chances to dodge into the magma.

[Tyius]

Those are at the bottle neck entrance to the underground part of the fort...  The above ground is where the spam of smaller weapon traps is....  No chances for them to get into my living area.

[Tyius]

Just had a possessed weaponsmith make a artifact steel mace with a picture of an artifact hatch from the same fortress on it lmao...

[Tyius]

First gobbo confrontation...  Most of the ambush has been maimed by single iron serrated disk traps...  No one has made it to the steel or masterwork iron, my food supplies are running out and im hoping everyone dies soon so that my four lucky locked away immigrants can begin to rebuild

[lanceleoghauni]

is glass still absurdly awesome in Blade traps?

[Tyius]

Abandoned it, time to go there in adventurer and see all the berzerk tantrumers!!!

[Poindexterity]

Whatever you want, as you can later smelt it into bars again to recover some of your investment and avoid waste.

Otherwise, if you're into traps, serrated iron disks would be your best option. You can train your weaponsmiths while producing useful things to rip the guts of stuff.

so long as you're careful what you melt backdown.
melt anything masterwork and the smith will get a bad thought.
do 20-30 in a row and he goes utterly batshit.