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Is amphibious, though quite slow on the ground. Given its size (and the density of its flesh), the ball's diameter is about half a meter.
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:''A large ball of skin found moving around the debris near underground ponds. It is there that it absorbs dead matter for food.''
  
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Flesh balls are featureless, but still easily killable. A novice swordswarf with a steel short sword will take about 10 seconds to kill a single flesh ball, and kills it by repeatedly tearing and slashing the Ball's body until it bleeds to death, and the dwarf remains completely unharmed.
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Is amphibious, though quite slow on the ground.
  
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Confronted with a blunt force attacker, a flesh ball laughs. In an arena test, a novice hammerdwarf with a silver war hammer, no other skills and no armor, attacked the Ball for about 20 minutes, at which point he was a Legendary Hammerdwarf, Wrestler, Fighter, and Striker. The flesh ball sustained bruises but was still alive and attacking the hammerdwarf in vain. After about 40 minutes of pelting, the hammerdwarf got a lucky hit and tore the skin of the ball, which caused it to bleed out and die.
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Flesh balls are on par with a {{l|Bronze colossus}} in toughness because of their lack of features. This gives your dwarves nothing to sever or break to kill it. If you encounter them it is advised you either {{L|Trap|cage them}} or {{L|wall|block them}} from entering your fort, hammers and maces seem to work wellish against them, slashing and piercing weapons less so.
  
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A smart dwarf can cage one of these animals, and use it as a beanbag to train novice hammerdwarves extremely safely. Flesh balls are almost completely safe to train with, except for the occasional bruise the ball is able to inflict.
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A flesh ball can be killed with a lucky attack from a sharp weapon, if an artery is opened by the strike.
  
 
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