40d Talk:Soaper

I once saw soap as a building material for a workshop. Not sure if it works like wood or stone. I guess dwarfs like good-smelling workshops.
Still, any rain ( if the building is outside ) would wash it away.
Maybe make that a new game goal: Clean City, made of soap as much as possible.
--Karp 04:06, 10 June 2008 (EDT)

Heck, I make massive impregnable ballista-deflecting fortresses out of glass! Don't you go telling me what will and what will not wash away!

In other words, "DF =! terran common sense" --Savok 09:08, 10 June 2008 (EDT)

Yep, a wall of soap can stop a flood, just like a wall of ice can block magma. Also, I believe a soap fortress is already in the Challenges page. --Smartmo 15:07, 13 January 2009 (EST)

Alternate use for a soaper

somehow, my soaper immigrant managed to go into a fell mood before I could draft him. He took over a kitchen where he created a felsite bracelet, becoming a legendary stonecrafter.

So not all soapers should be drafted apparently! he is now turning out masterful+ obsidian short swords. GarrieIrons 05:48, 10 May 2009 (UTC)

He likely was more skilled at something other than soapmaking that resulted in him making this artifact. Shardok 02:10, 9 August 2009 (UTC)

Flow of page

I'm not sure that the page flows very well. The argument runs: a) soap is very hard to make and has no quality modifier; b) it can be very valuable and is a good use of megabeast fat; c) therefore soapers often move into the military. Surely b) argues against a) and c) - that is to say, despite it having no quality modifier and requiring a lot of effort to produce, and despite many soapers going straight into the military, it is still worth having one for fast production of megabeast soap. Thoughts please? --Zooeyglass 13:54, 20 August 2009 (UTC)