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[Mrhappyface]

I've always wondered how they did it. Fishing without rods, smelting ore with their bare hands, and then forging bars into shapes. Cutting diamonds without any blades. Cutting stone and engraving with no tools. Removing organs and infected limbs with only their bare hands and then sewing it shut with their clever fingers during surgery. How do they do it?
Here's one interpretation of masonry for example.
Human

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and then Dwarven

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[Gizogin]

The answer is right in your pictures.  Notice the main distinguishing feature of the dwarf.  It is this which grants its powers.

[Deimos56]

I can't help but notice the throne the dwarf made is a bit taller than the rock was...

[Xen0n]

The answer is right in your pictures.  Notice the main distinguishing feature of the dwarf.  It is this which grants its powers.

Exactly. 
Are Dwarves superpowered?  Not likely, look how easily they kill themselves.

Are Beards superpowered?  ...

[Necro910]

The power lies in their beards.

[Ubiq]

How do they do it?

They're too stupid to realize that they can't.

[Tevish Szat]

some amount of abstraction can be assumed.  Take small tools for instance: we can just assume the game can't be bothered to track things like needles, chisels, hammers smaller than a warhammer, or the like.  As far as fishing goes, well, people fish "by hand" in real life, so that's not too over the top.  In any case, all those "little things" that make tasks possible can be assumed to be part of the workshop, which is why dwarves can't just mash the stones cluttering the furniture stockpile into thrones.  Basically, all those stupid, tiny things exist, but can't be removed from the shops they're part of.

What's really going to bake your noodle later, though, is how the *workshops*, tiny tools included, are made from, generally, a lone dwarf sitting in the center with a boulder.  The answer is, as others have pointed out, beards.

[Gizogin]

Actually, dwarves fish by straining the water through their beards.

[Xen0n]

Actually, dwarves fish by straining the water through their beards.

Much like the baleen of whales or other filter-feeders.  This is also how they avoid coming down with pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis when coal-mining. 

[Necro910]

Actually, dwarves fish by straining the water through their beards.

Much like the baleen of whales or other filter-feeders.  This is also how they avoid coming down with pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis when coal-mining.

I love Bay12.

[Xen0n]

Actually, dwarves fish by straining the water through their beards.

Much like the baleen of whales or other filter-feeders.  This is also how they avoid coming down with pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis when coal-mining.

I love Bay12.

And we love you MMMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGMMMMMMMAAAAAAAA

[Necro910]

Actually, dwarves fish by straining the water through their beards.

Much like the baleen of whales or other filter-feeders.  This is also how they avoid coming down with pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis when coal-mining.

I love Bay12.

And we love you MMMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGMMMMMMMAAAAAAAA

Great, you happy now? It's his second tantrum this week! Geez.
We'll need to put Necro910 in the room of Magmatic Happiness* to "calm him down".



*the one with a lever that floods the whole fort in magma, except for the one room where it is located
hey, it involves magma and happiness

MUST... DRINK...
MAGMA

Magma has been struck down

Magma? MAGMA?
SPEAK TO ME
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO *vomit*
Ah there you are. Hey! Magma!
Magma has been struck down
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[Mrhappyface]

Here's another tidbit on medical care. Both patients suffered from intestinal failure after eating too many Forgotten Beast brains.
Here's the human practice.

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And here's the dwarf version.

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[Roraborialisforealis]

Here's another tidbit on medical care. Both patients suffered from intestinal failure after eating too many Forgotten Beast brains.
Here's the human practice.

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And here's the dwarf version.

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Thats the best

[Specter513]

Beards are superpowered? The Amish must have been on to something...