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v0.34:Bronze

2012-06-15T12:54:12Z

TerryDactyl:

{{quality|Exceptional|01:54, 18 August 2010 (UTC)}}{{Alloy|name=Bronze|color=6:4:0|color1=7:3:0|color2=6:4:0
|uses=
* [[weapon|Melee Weapons]]
* [[Crossbow]]s
* [[Bolt]]s
* [[Pick]]s
* [[Armor]]
|recipe=
* 1 [[tin]] [[bar]]
* 1 [[copper]] [[bar]]
- or -
* 1 [[cassiterite]]
* 1 [[copper]] [[ore]]
|properties=
* [[Material value]] 5
}}{{av}}

'''Bronze''' is an alloy of tin and copper. Bronze can be forged into [[weapon]]s and [[armor]], and has [[Weapon#Material|material qualities]] very close to [[iron]]. Bronze can also be used to make [[furniture]] and ''other objects'' at a [[metalsmith's forge]].

Bronze can be made at the [[Smelter]] or [[Magma smelter]] using one of the following recipes:

*[[Tin]] bar + [[Copper]] bar
*[[Cassiterite]] + ([[Native copper]] or [[Malachite]] or [[Tetrahedrite]])

Bronze has a [[value]] of 5 and uses the same ingredients as [[fine pewter]] (which also has a value of 5). If you find yourself short of [[tin]], use this metal to make your objects of art instead of using [[fine pewter]].
If you are using ores to smelt Bronze, you can produce 8 bars of weapon-grade metal with one unit of [[fuel]], making it an extremely useful material.
{{gamedata}}
{{metals}}

v0.34 Talk:Noble

2012-05-25T15:26:06Z

TerryDactyl: Created page with "Do the aristocrats serve the same function as expedition leader, in holding meetings with upset dwarves?"

Do the aristocrats serve the same function as expedition leader, in holding meetings with upset dwarves?

v0.34:Gold

2012-05-25T15:16:52Z

TerryDactyl:

{{Metal
|name=Gold
|color=6:6:1
|uses=
* Make [[black bronze]] at [[smelter]]
* Make [[electrum]] at [[smelter]]
* Make [[rose gold]] at [[smelter]]
* [[Metalsmith's forge|Metal crafting]]
|ore=
* [[Native gold]]
|properties=
* [[Material value]] 30
}}{{av}}{{Quality|Fine}}

'''Gold''' is a high-value, relatively common [[metal]]. The only [[ore]] of gold is [[native gold]], which when mined yields '''gold nuggets'''. Gold [[bar]]s can be made at a [[smelter]] or [[magma smelter]] by a dwarf with the [[furnace operating]] labor activated. Gold is one of the three metals (with [[copper]] and [[silver]]) used to mint coins for the Dwarven [[economy]] and has the highest value of the three.

Gold may be combined with other metals at a smelter or magma smelter to form different [[alloy]]s. The following is a list of alloys involving gold:

* [[Black bronze]] = Gold + [[Silver]] + 2x [[Copper]]
* [[Electrum]] = Gold + [[Silver]]
* [[Rose gold]] = 3x Gold + [[Copper]]

None of the gold alloys have a greater material value than gold itself, but if gold nuggets (material value 30) are smelted directly with a low-value [[silver]] ore such as [[galena]] (material value 5) or [[tetrahedrite]] (material value 3), it will produce two bars of [[electrum]] (material value 20) for a net gain in value.

Refined gold, producing 4 bars, has a much higher value than native gold nuggets; However, in some cases it may be advantageous to make crafts and furniture directly from ore, since it requires no [[fuel]] and uses labors that are easily trained. It may satisfy a noble mood. To use native gold for furniture and the like, you should place a stone [[stockpile]] allowing only native gold near your [[Mason's workshop]] (native gold furniture, blocks, etc.), [[Craftsdwarf's workshop]] (native gold crafts), or [[Mechanic's workshop]] (native gold mechanisms) and enable "gold nuggets" ('''not''' "gold") using the {{K|z}} : <tt>Stone</tt> menu. To avoid wasting gold nuggets, assign your stockpile to 'give' only to one specific workshop, and reassign economic status upon completion.

Note that a dwarf who has a preference for gold metal will not be particularly impressed by items crafted from native gold nuggets, and vice-versa.

<gallery>
File:Gold.jpg|A gold bar
</gallery>

{{gamedata}}
{{metals}}

v0.34:Gold

2012-05-25T15:15:42Z

TerryDactyl:

{{Metal
|name=Gold
|color=6:6:1
|uses=
* Make [[black bronze]] at [[smelter]]
* Make [[electrum]] at [[smelter]]
* Make [[rose gold]] at [[smelter]]
* [[Metalsmith's forge|Metal crafting]]
|ore=
* [[Native gold]]
|properties=
* [[Material value]] 30
}}{{av}}{{Quality|Fine}}

'''Gold''' is a high-value, relatively common [[metal]]. The only [[ore]] of gold is [[native gold]], which when mined yields '''gold nuggets'''. Gold [[bar]]s can be made at a [[smelter]] or [[magma smelter]] by a dwarf with the [[furnace operating]] labor activated. Gold is one of the three metals (with [[copper]] and [[silver]]) used to mint coins for the Dwarven [[economy]] and has the highest value of the three.

Gold may be combined with other metals at a smelter or magma smelter to form different [[alloy]]s. The following is a list of alloys involving gold:

* [[Black bronze]] = Gold + [[Silver]] + 2x [[Copper]]
* [[Electrum]] = Gold + [[Silver]]
* [[Rose gold]] = 3x Gold + [[Copper]]

None of the gold alloys have a greater material value than gold itself, but if gold nuggets (material value 30) are smelted directly with a low-value [[silver]] ore such as [[galena]] (material value 5) or [[tetrahedrite]] (material value 3), it will produce two bars of [[electrum]] (material value 20) for a net gain in value.

Refined gold, producing 4 bars, has a much higher value than native gold nuggets; However, in some cases it may be advantageous to make crafts and furniture directly from ore, since it requires no [[fuel]] and uses labors that are easily trained. It may satisfy a noble mood. To use native gold for furniture and the like, you should place a stone [[stockpile]] allowing only native gold near your [[Mason's workshop]] (native gold furniture, blocks, etc.), [[Craftsdwarf's workshop]] (native gold crafts), or [[Mechanic's workshop]] (native gold mechanisms) and enable "gold nuggets" ('''not''' "gold") using the {{K|z}} : <tt>Stone</tt> menu. To avoid wasting gold nuggets, it may be wise to suspend all other stone-using jobs until your native gold furniture/crafts are complete, and then re-enable the restrictions.

Note that a dwarf who has a preference for gold metal will not be particularly impressed by items crafted from native gold nuggets, and vice-versa.

<gallery>
File:Gold.jpg|A gold bar
</gallery>

{{gamedata}}
{{metals}}

v0.34 Talk:Mechanical logic

2012-05-25T04:33:02Z

TerryDactyl: /* Miniaturized cart-based power-to-signal converter (overhead) */

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'''Cart-based power-to-signal converter (cross-section)'''
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Where ▲ is E/W (N/S) track ramp 
^ is a pressure plate, 
r is a roller (highest speed) 
. is E/W (N/S) track 

Power feeds in beside the roller on the lower level.
Rollers can not be powered from above.

A cart is fed into the system with a little push from the upper-level track. Ramps hold it in place over the roller. When powered, cart travels rapidly back and forth over pressure plate, maintaining 'on' state. This can then be used to power doors, bridges, etc.

--[[User:TerryDactyl|TerryDactyl]] 02:07, 21 May 2012 (UTC)

== Miniaturized cart-based power-to-signal converter (overhead) ==

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where P is power source 
a are each gear assemblies 
arrows represent rollers and direction of force 
^ represents a pressure plate.

Be careful priming this machine. I'm not entirely sure, but I doubt it should be loaded in the active state.

Delay is ~10 or 11 ticks to trigger the plate.
--[[User:TerryDactyl|TerryDactyl]] 04:16, 25 May 2012 (UTC)

v0.34 Talk:Mechanical logic

2012-05-25T04:18:35Z

TerryDactyl: /* Miniaturized cart-based power-to-signal converter (overhead) */

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'''Cart-based power-to-signal converter (cross-section)'''
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Where ▲ is E/W (N/S) track ramp 
^ is a pressure plate, 
r is a roller (highest speed) 
. is E/W (N/S) track 

Power feeds in beside the roller on the lower level.
Rollers can not be powered from above.

A cart is fed into the system with a little push from the upper-level track. Ramps hold it in place over the roller. When powered, cart travels rapidly back and forth over pressure plate, maintaining 'on' state. This can then be used to power doors, bridges, etc.

--[[User:TerryDactyl|TerryDactyl]] 02:07, 21 May 2012 (UTC)

== Miniaturized cart-based power-to-signal converter (overhead) ==

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where P is power source 
a are each gear assemblies 
arrows represent rollers and direction of force 
^ represents a pressure plate.

Be careful priming this machine. I'm not entirely sure, but I doubt it should be loaded in the active state.

--[[User:TerryDactyl|TerryDactyl]] 04:16, 25 May 2012 (UTC)

v0.34 Talk:Mechanical logic

2012-05-25T04:16:57Z

TerryDactyl: /* Miniaturized cart-based power-to-signal converter (overhead) */

<div style="position:relative; float:none;">
'''Cart-based power-to-signal converter (cross-section)'''
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Where ▲ is E/W (N/S) track ramp 
^ is a pressure plate, 
r is a roller (highest speed) 
. is E/W (N/S) track 

Power feeds in beside the roller on the lower level.
Rollers can not be powered from above.

A cart is fed into the system with a little push from the upper-level track. Ramps hold it in place over the roller. When powered, cart travels rapidly back and forth over pressure plate, maintaining 'on' state. This can then be used to power doors, bridges, etc.

--[[User:TerryDactyl|TerryDactyl]] 02:07, 21 May 2012 (UTC)

== Miniaturized cart-based power-to-signal converter (overhead) ==

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where P is power source
a are each gear assemblies
arrows represent rollers and direction of force
^ represents a pressure plate.

Be careful priming this machine. I'm not entirely sure, but I doubt it should be loaded in the active state.

--[[User:TerryDactyl|TerryDactyl]] 04:16, 25 May 2012 (UTC)

v0.34 Talk:Mechanical logic

2012-05-25T04:16:43Z

TerryDactyl: /* Miniaturized cart-based power-to-signal converter (overhead) */ new section

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Where ▲ is E/W (N/S) track ramp 
^ is a pressure plate, 
r is a roller (highest speed) 
. is E/W (N/S) track 

Power feeds in beside the roller on the lower level.
Rollers can not be powered from above.

A cart is fed into the system with a little push from the upper-level track. Ramps hold it in place over the roller. When powered, cart travels rapidly back and forth over pressure plate, maintaining 'on' state. This can then be used to power doors, bridges, etc.

--[[User:TerryDactyl|TerryDactyl]] 02:07, 21 May 2012 (UTC)

== Miniaturized cart-based power-to-signal converter (overhead) ==

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where P is power source
a are each gear assemblies
arrows represent rollers and direction of force
^ represents a pressure plate.

Be careful priming this machine. I'm not entirely sure, but I doubt it should be loaded in the active state.

v0.34:Weapon

2012-05-24T04:47:13Z

TerryDactyl: /* Weapon Material Quality */

{{quality|Exceptional|02:06, 17 May 2012 (UTC)}}{{av}}
:''This page deals entirely with manufactured weapons. For natural weapons, see [[Natural weapon]].''

A '''manufactured weapon''', also sometimes simply refered to as a '''weapon''' is a manufactured weapon used by a dwarf or other [[:Category:DF2012:Humanoids|humanoid]].

== Basics ==
=== Native vs. foreign ===
Weapons fall into two categories: those that you can produce, and those that you can't. [[Weaponsmith]]s can produce seven types of native weapons at a [[metalsmith's forge]], but there are also fourteen foreign weapons that can be bought from trading caravans. These cannot be reliably produced by your dwarves, and may use skills they are unfamiliar with. It is also impossible to buy them in bulk, and considering they are of variable quality and material and usually quite expensive, they are rarely worth it, except when they are products of [[strange mood]]s (see strange moods, below). Since they are bread-and-butter for other nations, it is important to understand their properties when you have to fight enemies wielding them.

=== Types of weapons ===
{{main|Attack types}}
One can divide weapons in dwarf fortress into three categories. The first is slashing weapons, like the shortsword and battle axe. These weapons work by concentrating their force along a blade, allowing them to make gashes in or completely sever body parts, and given the opportunity, make the quickest work of their foes. They are far less effective against armored targets, however, as armor will block most hits and convert them into weaker blunt damage.

The second is piercing weapons, like the spear and foreign pike. These weapons work by concentrating their force at a point, allowing them to punch through armor and damage internal organs, often getting stuck and giving their wielder further leverage on the target. Note that ranged weapons - [[crossbow]]s, bows, and blowguns - are effectively piercing weapons with range to them. When used in melee, these weapons function like weaker war hammers.

The third is crushing weapons, like the war hammer and mace. These weapons work by concentrating their force behind a large, blunt mass, putting dents in armor and breaking bones beneath their blows. These weapons are slow to kill their targets - dwarves have a habit of breaking every bone in their opponent's body before moving on to the next target - but are the most effective weapons against heavy and heavily armored foes which shrug off damage more easily.

There's also training weapons. Training weapons are all wooden, and all made at the [[Carpenter's workshop|carpenter's workshop]]. Training axes, spears, and short swords can be constructed in dwarf fortress mode. They used to be useful for avoiding sparring injuries, but since dwarves sparring generally do not carry that risk, they are mostly useless, except in [[danger room]]s.

=== Types of targets ===
One can divide the types of foes you will meet into three categories. The first is organic and unarmored (or poorly armored) enemies, like [[thief|thieves]], non-sentient [[creature]]s (be it local wildlife or siege mounts), [[semi-megabeast]]s and [[megabeast]]s besides the [[bronze colossus]]. Weapons that deal slashing damage work best and quickest against these types of enemies, severing whole body parts and leaving them severely incapacitated.

The second is organic and armored enemies, like [[ambush]]ers and [[siege]]rs. The way [[armor]] works, slashing blows that are countered by a piece of armor are converted into generally less effective blunt damage; the best damage against these kinds of enemies are piercing weapons, which punch through armor and damage their internal organs, incapacitating them and allowing the wielder to finish them off. Crushing weapons work as well, although they are slower.

The third and most dangerous types of enemies are inorganic enemies (or ones that [[Giant cave spider|don't feel pain]]), which are [[titan]]s, [[forgotten beast]]s, [[bronze colossus]]es, and [[HFS|hidden fun stuff]]. These enemies ''have'' no internal organs, and depending on the material they are made of, may be very difficult to slash at (although a forgotten beast made of, for instance, mud is laughably easy to kill). Against these enemies, crushing weapons are the best, because they can chip at their foes until they collapse from cumulative damage.

=== Weapon skill ===
{{main|Combat skill#Weapon skill}}
Every type of weapon has its own associated [[military]] [[skill]]. The higher a dwarf is in his skill with a weapon, the better he will be able to use it in combat, connecting hammer blows to more advantageous sweet spots and sending spears right through enemy hearts and lungs with greater accuracy. The higher the weapon skill, the better at fighting the dwarf will be.

Once a dwarf has reached "Great" skill in a certain weapon, they become weapon lords for that specific weapon. They are listed as such on the [[status]] screen, will love fighting, and will no longer complain about long patrol duties. Weapon skill is trained in fighting enemies in combat, demonstrations, and combat drills, but if you leave your dwarves shieldless, a [[danger room]] will train their skill very, very quickly. Note that this does not quite work for marksdwarves - danger rooming ranged weapons increases their melee skill, increasing their hammerdwarf skill, although [[Cross-training|this may be the point]].

=== Attachment ===
A dwarf that has has used a particular weapon for a long time will grow attached to it, and be very unhappy if you take it away. This is fine if they are wielding a ☼Steel Mace☼, but a major problem if they are wielding what is meant to be a training weapon (be it a wooden axe or a copper spear). You can avoid this pitfall by not using training weapons and not forging weapons until you have real weaponsmithing underway. These events generate [[announcement]]s.

In addition, dwarves that reach a certain number or level of kills with a weapon will name it. This prompts a major announcement, and usually happens after a dwarf manages to put down something significant — a forgotten beast for instance. Only the last shot counts for the [[kill list|kill]]. Once named, the weapon will appear in the artifact list, albeit in blue.

=== Quality and strange moods ===
The quality of a weapon has a significant (and currently poorly understood) impact on its combat performance, as well as being significantly more valuable.
{{v0.31:Item quality/Table}}

Weaponsmithing is a moodable profession, which means that you can get [[artifact]] weapons. This is a bit of a mixed bag: although a legendary [[armorsmith]], [[engraver]], or [[stonecrafter]] would be more useful, it's certainly better then a legendary [[mechanic]]. Artifact weapons have a 3x combat bonus, but do ''not'' have to be made of logical materials; ordinarily a [[rainbow trout]] [[bone]] spear is impossible, but a moody dwarf can create one with a single bone. Thus artifact weapons made of totally inappropriate materials are inferior to regular ones made of weapons-grade metal, although the exact balance is still under discussion.

Dwarves in strange moods are not held to producing native weapons, and in fact often don't, as the number of foreign weapons outnumbers the natives. In the case where they create a valuable and battle-worthy foreign weapon (like a steel two-handed sword), it's worth it to manually go through your dwarves to find someone who can best utilize it, and assign it to him. See the caveats of foreign weapons however, discussed below.

=== Weapons as tools ===
[[Hunter]]s use crossbows, [[Wood cutter]]s use battle axes, and [[miner]]s use picks. They must be in possession of these items to do their jobs, and it's as simple as that.

=== Ammunition ===
:''Main article: [[Ammunition]]''

Crossbows and other ranged weapons require [[ammunition]] (in the case of the crossbow, [[bolt]]s). This ammunition is carried in a [[quiver]] in packs of about 25, and when they run out they will switch to using their ranged weapons as crude hammers. It's often a good idea to get them to retreat once they run out of ammo — crossbows are for shooting, not bashing.

=== Secondary weapons ===
Although it sounds like a cool idea, equipping a marksdwarf with a backup shortsword just in case doesn't often work, as dwarves are just as quick to run up their foes and start bashing them with a crossbow as they are to draw their swords and do it properly.

== Weapons ==
=== Native weapons ===
{| class="wikitable" border="border"
! Type
! Size
! Attack
! [[Attack type]]
! Contact Area
! Penetration
! Velocity
! Skill Used
! Hands Used
! [[Weaponsmith|Metal]]
! [[Bowyer|Wood]]
! [[Bowyer|Bone]]
! [[Stone crafter|Obsidian]]
|- valign="top"
|rowspan="3"| Battle Axe
|rowspan="3"| 800
| Hack || Edge || 40000 || 6000 || 1.25x
|rowspan="3"| Axe
|rowspan="3"| Multigrasp?
|rowspan="3"| Yes
|rowspan="3"| No
|rowspan="3"| No
|rowspan="3"| No
|-
| Flat slap || Blunt || 40000 || (6000) || 1.25x
|-
| Pommel strike || Blunt || 100 || (1000) || 1x
|-
| Crossbow (Melee)
| 400
| Bash || Blunt || 10000 || (4000) || 1.25x
| Hammer
| Singlegrasp?
| Yes
| Yes
| Yes
| No
|-
| Mace
| 800
| Bash || Blunt || 20 || (200) || 2.0x
| Mace
| Singlegrasp
| Yes
| No
| No
| No
|-
| Pick (foreign)
| 500
| Strike || Edge || 100 || 4000 || 2.0x
| Mining
| Singlegrasp
| Yes
| No
| No
| No
|- valign="top"
|rowspan="4"| Short Sword
|rowspan="4"| 300
| Slash || Edge || 20000 || 4000 || 1.25x
|rowspan="4"| Sword
|rowspan="4"| Singlegrasp
|rowspan="4"| Yes
|rowspan="4"| No
|rowspan="4"| No
|rowspan="4"| Yes
|-
| Stab || Edge || 50 || 2000 || 1.0x
|-
| Flat slap || Blunt || 20000 || (4000) || 1.25x
|-
| Pommel strike || Blunt || 100 || (1000) || 1.0x
|- valign="top"
|rowspan="2"| Spear
|rowspan="2"| 400
| Stab || Edge || 20 || 10000 || 1.0x
|rowspan="2"| Spear
|rowspan="2"| Singlegrasp
|rowspan="2"| Yes
|rowspan="2"| No
|rowspan="2"| No
|rowspan="2"| No
|-
| Shaft bash || Blunt || 10000 || (6000) || 1.25x
|-
| War Hammer
| 400
| Bash || Blunt || 10 || (200) || 2.0x
| Hammer
| Singlegrasp
| Yes
| No
| No
| No
|}

Note that although the [[pick]] is a foreign weapon, it can be produced by dwarves and is therefore considered native.

=== Details ===
*If you find your dwarves wearing more than one weapon -- or any unwanted [[armor]], for that matter -- one way to get rid of them is to dump the weapon from their {{k|v}}-{{k|i}} inventory screen. This does not always work, as they might re-equip the item. Another option is to remove any weapons and/or shields listed on their military equip screen. This too does not always work. At least "left-handedness" seems to not pose a problem. If you cancel the work by {{k|v}}-{{k|p}} and selecting a job that needs a tool they will sometimes put it back in the pile. Example: Miners use picks, cancel their mining job and they will put the pick away AFTER you ordered it to be dumped.
* Using weapons is much more effective than unarmed combat -- an untrained swordsdwarf with an [[iron]] weapon can defeat a grand master [[wrestler]], provided neither is wearing armor.
** Larger weapons with more heft tend to do more damage. How damage is calculated is currently not fully understood, and this is an area requiring more research.
* The size for a weapon is its volume in cm3.
* Attacks of type EDGE will either slice or pierce their target, depending on the contact area and penetration depth, while BLUNT attacks tend to damage internal organs without necessarily causing significant damage to outer layers.
* The contact area represents the area of contact of the weapon, and the penetration determines how deep the attack goes (and is apparently ignored entirely for BLUNT attacks -- indicated by numbers in parentheses). Large contact areas combined with low penetration represent slashing attacks, while small contact areas with high penetration behave as piercing attacks.
* The velocity seems to adjust the amount of actual force used during the attack (otherwise based on the size of the weapon, the material from which the weapon is made, and the strength of the wielder) - for example, war hammers have a 2x velocity multiplier, presumably to model the fact that the hammer's mass is concentrated at the tip which, when combined with a long handle, permits swinging it harder than a weapon whose mass is evenly distributed (such as a sword).
* Crossbows can be made of metal, wood, and bone. Metal crossbows are made by a [[weaponsmith]] at a [[forge]], while wood and bone crossbows are made by a [[bowyer]] at a bowyer's workshop. The material of a crossbow does not affect its firing ability, only its melee damage. A dwarf's marksmanship skill is only affected by the core [[item quality|quality]] of the bow. This may be a consideration when deciding which dwarf you want outfitting your marksdwarves: a [[experience|legendary]] bowyer is a better choice than a proficient weaponsmith.

=== Training weapons ===
All training weapons must be made of [[wood]] at the [[carpenter's workshop]].

{| class="wikitable" border="border"
|-
! Type
! Size
! Attack
! [[Attack type]]
! Contact Area
! Penetration
! Velocity
! Skill Used
|- valign="top"
|rowspan="3"| Training Axe
|rowspan="3"| 800
| Hack || Blunt || 30000 || (6000) || 1.25x
|rowspan="3"| Axe
|-
| Flat slap || Blunt || 30000 || (6000) || 1.25x
|-
| Pommel strike || Blunt || 100 || (1000) || 1.0x
|- valign="top"
|rowspan="4"| Training Sword
|rowspan="4"| 300
| Slash || Blunt || 20000 || (4000) || 1.25x
|rowspan="4"| Sword
|-
| Stab || Blunt || 50 || (2000) || 1.0x
|-
| Flat slap || Blunt || 20000 || (4000) || 1.25x
|-
| Pommel strike || Blunt || 100 || (1000) || 1.0x
|- valign="top"
|rowspan="2"| Training Spear
|rowspan="2"| 400
| Stab || Blunt || 200 || (10000) || 1.0x
|rowspan="2"| Spear
|-
| Shaft bash || Blunt || 10000 || (6000) || 1.25x
|}

=== Foreign weapons ===
Using any multigrasp weapon in a single hand (ie. with a shield in the other hand) gives you a disability to hit. Do not equip two-handed swords with a shield, for instance.

{| class="wikitable" border="border"
|-
! Type
! Size
! Attack
! [[Attack type]]
! Contact Area
! Penetration
! Velocity
! Skill Used
! Used by
! Hands Used
|- valign="top"
|rowspan="4"| 2H Sword
|rowspan="4"| 900
| Slash || Edge || 100000 || 8000 || 1.25x
|rowspan="4"| Sword
|rowspan="4"| [[Goblin]], [[Human]]
|rowspan="4"| Multigrasp
|-
| Stab || Edge || 50 || 4000 || 1.0x
|-
| Flat slap || Blunt || 100000 || (8000) || 1.25x
|-
| Pommel strike || Blunt || 100 || (1000) || 1.0x
|- valign="top"
| Blowgun (Melee)
| 150
| Bash || Blunt || 10000 || (4000) || 1.25x
| Sword
| Subterranean animal peoples
| Singlegrasp?
|- valign="top"
| Bow (Melee)
| 300
| Bash || Blunt || 10000 || (4000) || 1.25x
| Sword
| [[Elf]], Goblin, Human, [[Kobold]]
| Singlegrasp?
|- valign="top"
| Flail
| 500
| Bash || Blunt || 200 || (4000) || 2.5x
| Mace
| Goblin, Human
| Singlegrasp
|- valign="top"
|rowspan="3"| Great Axe
|rowspan="3"| 1300
| Hack || Edge || 60000 || 8000 || 1.25x
|rowspan="3"| Axe
|rowspan="3"| Goblin, Human
|rowspan="3"| Multigrasp
|-
| Flat slap || Blunt || 60000 || (8000) || 1.25x
|-
| Pommel strike || Blunt || 100 || (1000) || 1.0x
|- valign="top"
|rowspan="3"| Halberd
|rowspan="3"| 1200
| Slash || Edge || 20000 || 8000 || 1.25x
|rowspan="3"| Axe
|rowspan="3"| Goblin, Human
|rowspan="3"| Multigrasp
|-
| Stab || Edge || 50 || 2000 || 1.0x
|-
| Shaft bash || Blunt || 20000 || (6000) || 1.25x
|- valign="top"
|rowspan="3"| Dagger (Large)
|rowspan="3"| 200
| Slash || Edge || 1000 || 800 || 1.25x
|rowspan="3"| Dagger
|rowspan="3"| Goblin, Kobold
|rowspan="3"| Singlegrasp
|-
| Stab || Edge || 5 || 1000 || 1.0x
|-
| Pommel strike || Blunt || 20 || (600) || 1.0x
|- valign="top"
|rowspan="4"| Long Sword
|rowspan="4"| 700
| Slash || Edge || 60000 || 6000 || 1.25x
|rowspan="4"| Sword
|rowspan="4"| Elf, Goblin, Human
|rowspan="4"| Singlegrasp
|-
| Stab || Edge || 50 || 3000 || 1.0x
|-
| Flat slap || Blunt || 60000 || (6000) || 1.25x
|-
| Pommel strike || Blunt || 100 || (1000) || 1.0x
|- valign="top"
| Maul
| 1300
| Bash || Blunt || 100 || (6000) || 2.0x
| Hammer
| Goblin, Human
| Multigrasp
|- valign="top"
|rowspan="2"| Morningstar
|rowspan="2"| 500
| Bash || Edge || 10 || 500 || 2.0x
|rowspan="2"| Mace
|rowspan="2"| Goblin, Human
|rowspan="2"| Singlegrasp
|-
| Pommel strike || Blunt || 50 || (1000) || 1.0x
|- valign="top"
|rowspan="2"| Pike
|rowspan="2"| 800
| Stab || Edge || 20 || 12000 || 1.0x
|rowspan="2"| Pike
|rowspan="2"| Goblin, Human
|rowspan="2"| Multigrasp
|-
| Shaft bash || Blunt || 10000 || (6000) || 1.25x
|- valign="top"
|rowspan="4"| Scimitar
|rowspan="4"| 300
| Slash || Edge || 20000 || 4000 || 1.25x
|rowspan="4"| Sword
|rowspan="4"| Goblin, Human
|rowspan="4"| Singlegrasp
|-
| Stab || Edge || 50 || 2000 || 1.0x
|-
| Flat slap || Blunt || 20000 || (4000) || 1.25x
|-
| Pommel strike || Blunt || 50 || (1000) || 1.0x
|- valign="top"
| Scourge
| 300
| Lash || Edge || 10 || 50 || 2.0x
| Whip
| Goblin
| Singlegrasp
|- valign="top"
| Whip
| 100
| Lash || Blunt || 1 || (10) || 5.0x
| Whip
| Goblin, Human
| Singlegrasp
|}

== Size==
Weapons have a minimum size to use at all, and a minimum size to use one-handed. Adult dwarves vary in size between 33750 and 93750 (average 60000) based on their height and broadness, so not all dwarves can use all weapons. The following table shows approximately how many dwarves can use each weapon one or two handed.
{| class="wikitable" border="border"
|-
! Type
! Min Size
(Two-Handed)
! Min Size
(One-Handed)
! Dwarves
Can't Wield
! Dwarves Wield
Two-Handed
! Dwarves Wield
One-Handed
|- valign="top"
| Battle Axe
| 42500
| 47500
| 1/49
| 10/49
| 38/49
|- valign="top"
| Crossbow (Melee)
| 15000
| 0
| -
| -
| 49/49
|- valign="top"
| Mace
| 32500
| 37500
| -
| 1/49
| 48/49
|- valign="top"
| Pick
| 42500
| 47500
| 1/49
| 10/49
| 38/49
|- valign="top"
| Short Sword
| 32500
| 37500
| -
| 1/49
| 48/49
|- valign="top"
| Spear
| 5000
| 47500
| -
| 11/49
| 38/49
|- valign="top"
| War Hammer
| 32500
| 37500
| -
| 1/49
| 48/49
|- valign="top"
| Training Axe
| 42500
| 47500
| 1/49
| 10/49
| 38/49
|- valign="top"
| Training Sword
| 32500
| 37500
| -
| 1/49
| 48/49
|- valign="top"
| Training Spear
| 42500
| 47500
| 1/49
| 10/49
| 38/49
|- valign="top"
| 2H Sword
| 62500
| 77500
| 32/49
| 14/49
| 3/49
|- valign="top"
| Blowgun (Melee)
| 15000
| 0
| -
| -
| 49/49
|- valign="top"
| Bow (Melee)
| 15000
| 0
| -
| -
| 49/49
|- valign="top"
| Flail
| 42500
| 47500
| 1/49
| 10/49
| 38/49
|- valign="top"
| Great Axe
| 62500
| 77500
| 32/49
| 14/49
| 3/49
|- valign="top"
| Halberd
| 62500
| 77500
| 32/49
| 14/49
| 3/49
|- valign="top"
| Dagger (Large)
| 5000
| 27500
| -
| -
| 49/49
|- valign="top"
| Long Sword
| 52500
| 57500
| 11/49
| 7/49
| 31/49
|- valign="top"
| Maul
| 62500
| 77500
| 32/49
| 14/49
| 3/49
|- valign="top"
| Morningstar
| 32500
| 37500
| -
| 1/49
| 48/49
|- valign="top"
| Pike
| 62500
| 77500
| 32/49
| 14/49
| 3/49
|- valign="top"
| Scimitar
| 32500
| 37500
| -
| 1/49
| 48/49
|- valign="top"
| Scourge
| 22500
| 27500
| -
| -
| 49/49
|- valign="top"
| Whip
| 22500
| 27500
| -
| -
| 49/49
|}

See [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=101379.msg3029579#msg3029579 this forum post] for details.

==Weapon Material Quality==
{{v0.31 material metal table head}}

{{v0.31 material metal table row|name=Adamantine|color={{Tile|/|3:1}}3:3:1|source=[[Raw adamantine]]|notes= |soliddensity=0.200|mp=25000|val=300|valinc=+50|impactyield=5000|impactfracture=5000|impactelasticity=0|shearyield=5000|shearfracture=5000|shearelasticity=0
}}

{{v0.31 material metal table row|name=Steel|color={{Tile|/|0:1}}0:7:1|source=[[Iron]] + [[Pig iron]] + [[flux]] stone + [[fuel]] '''!'''|notes= |soliddensity=7.85|val=30|valinc=+20|mp=12718|impactyield=1505|impactfracture=2520|impactelasticity=940|shearyield=430|shearfracture=720|shearelasticity=215
}}

{{v0.31 material metal table row|name=Bismuth bronze|color={{Tile|/|6:1}}6:6:1|source=2 [[Copper]] + 1 [[Tin]] + 1 [[Bismuth]] '''!'''|notes= |soliddensity=8.25|val=6|valinc=+4|mp=11868|impactyield=602|impactfracture=843|impactelasticity=547|shearyield=172|shearfracture=241|shearelasticity=156
}}

{{v0.31 material metal table row|name=Bronze|color={{Tile|/|6:0}}6:4:0|source=[[Tin]] + [[Copper]]|notes= |soliddensity=8.25|val=5|valinc=+3|mp=11868|impactyield=602|impactfracture=843|impactelasticity=547|shearyield=172|shearfracture=241|shearelasticity=156
}}

{{v0.31 material metal table row|name=Iron|color={{Tile|/|0:1}}0:7:1|source=[[Hematite]], [[Limonite]], [[Magnetite]]|notes= |soliddensity=7.85|mp=12768|val=10|valinc=+2|impactyield=542|impactfracture=1080|impactelasticity=319|shearyield=155|shearfracture=310|shearelasticity=189
}}

{{v0.31 material metal table row|name=Copper|color={{Tile|/|6:0}}6:4:0|source=[[Native copper]], [[Malachite]], [[Tetrahedrite]]|notes= |soliddensity=8.93|mp=11952|val=2|valinc=+0, +0, -1*|impactyield=245|impactfracture=770|impactelasticity=175|shearyield=70|shearfracture=220|shearelasticity=145
}}

{{v0.31 material metal table row|name=Silver|color={{Tile|/|7:1}}7:7:1|source=[[Native silver]], [[Horn silver]], [[Galena]] (50%), [[Tetrahedrite]] (20%) |notes= |soliddensity=10.49|mp=11731|val=10|valinc=+0, +0, +5*, +7*|impactyield=350|impactfracture=595|impactelasticity=350|shearyield=100|shearfracture=170|shearelasticity=333
}}

{{v0.31 material metal table row|name=Bone|color={{Tile|/|7:1}}7:7:1|source=Creatures|notes= |soliddensity=0.50|mp=NONE(burn at 10250)|val=1|valinc=+?, +?, +?, +?|impactyield=200|impactfracture=200|impactelasticity=100|shearyield=115|shearfracture=130|shearelasticity=100
}}

{{v0.31 material metal table row|name=Wood|color={{Tile|/|6:0}}7:7:1|source=Trees|notes= |soliddensity=0.50|mp=NONE(burn at 10250)|val=1|valinc=+?, +?, +?, +?|impactyield=10|impactfracture=10|impactelasticity=1000|shearyield=40|shearfracture=40|shearelasticity=1000
}}

{{v0.31 material metal table row|name=Shell|color={{Tile|/|2:0}}7:7:1|source=Creatures|notes= Only available as Artifact Weapons.|soliddensity=0.50|mp=NONE(burn at 10250)|val=1|valinc=+?, +?, +?, +?|impactyield=200|impactfracture=200|impactelasticity=100|shearyield=115|shearfracture=130|shearelasticity=100
}}

{{v0.31 material metal table row|name=Leather|color={{Tile|/|2:0}}7:7:1|source=Creatures|notes= Material data added for comparison.|soliddensity=0.50|mp=NONE(burn at 10250)|val=1|valinc=+?, +?, +?, +?|impactyield=10|impactfracture=10|impactelasticity=50000|shearyield=25|shearfracture=25|shearelasticity=50000
}}

{{v0.31 material metal table row|name=Obsidian|color={{Tile|/|0:1}}7:7:1|source=Lava|notes= Only available for Short Swords.|soliddensity=2.67|mp=13600|val=3|valinc=+0|impactyield=120|impactfracture=120|impactelasticity=100|shearyield=15|shearfracture=15|shearelasticity=100
}}

{{v0.31 material metal table row|name=Crystal glass|color={{Tile|/|7:1}}7:7:1|source=Sand|notes= Only available as Trap Components.|soliddensity=2.6|mp=13600|val=10|valinc=+0|impactyield=1000|impactfracture=1000|impactelasticity=2222|shearyield=33|shearfracture=33|shearelasticity=113
}}

{{v0.31 material metal table row|name=Clear glass|color={{Tile|/|3:0}}7:7:1|source=Sand|notes= Only available as Trap Components.|soliddensity=2.6|mp=13600|val=5|valinc=+0|impactyield=1000|impactfracture=1000|impactelasticity=2222|shearyield=33|shearfracture=33|shearelasticity=113
}}

{{v0.31 material metal table row|name=Green glass|color={{Tile|/|2:0}}7:7:1|source=Sand|notes= Only available as Trap Components.|soliddensity=2.6|mp=13600|val=2|valinc=+0|impactyield=1000|impactfracture=1000|impactelasticity=2222|shearyield=33|shearfracture=33|shearelasticity=113
}}

|}

*''Combat information'' is used internally by the game to determine the combat properties of weapons and armor made from this metal:
**'''Density''': Used in conjunction with other factors - heavier weapons (higher numbers) hit with more force, light weapons tend to have less penetration. Value shown here is g/cm3, which is the raw value divided by 103
**'''Impact yield''': Used for blunt-force combat; ''higher'' is better. This is the raw value divided by 103 (i.e., kPa).
**'''Impact fracture''': Used for blunt-force combat; ''higher'' is better. This is the raw value divided by 103 (i.e., kPa).
**'''Impact strain at yield''': Used for blunt-force combat; ''lower'' is better. This is the raw value.
**'''Shear yield''': Used for cutting calculations in combat; ''higher'' is better. This is the raw value divided by 103 (i.e., kPa).
**'''Shear fracture''': Used for cutting calculations in combat; ''higher'' is better. This is the raw value divided by 103 (i.e., kPa).
**'''Shear strain at yield''': Used for cutting calculations in combat; ''lower'' is better. This is the raw value.

*General Term Explanations (From Wikipedia)
**'''Yield Strength''' - The stress at which material strain changes from elastic deformation to plastic deformation, causing it to deform permanently.
**'''Fracture Strength''' - The stress coordinate on the stress-strain curve at the point of rupture.
**'''Stress''' - Force per area = F/A
**'''Strain''' - Deformation of a solid due to stress = Stress/Young's Modulus

=== Explanation ===
* '''Yield Strength''' is the amount of stress required to permanently deform (bend) a material (plastic deformation).
* '''Fracture Strength''' is the amount of stress required to permanently break (rupture) a material.
* '''Strain at yield''' is the amount of deformation (bending) that occurs at the yield point.

=== Inmplications ===
Yield strength combined with strain at yield can tell what a material will do under stress (be it from a hammer, axe, or arrow); higher yield means that it takes more stress to deform, while lower strain at yield means that it will deform less when stress is applied.

== Combat Testing & Analysis ==
[[Adamantine]] and [[steel]] take first and second place respectively, with [[iron]] the third best material in the game. Beyond which, bronze is in a close tie with copper as to being the second worst material. Silver is the worst weapon material available (and due to the existence of training weapons, not even useful in that regard) in regards to edged weaponry.

Additionally, with regards to blunt weapons almost all of the non-adamantine materials perform equally well, with a very slight edge towards steel and silver. Here is the thread with the details: [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=53571.0].

Keep in mind with how unbelievably complicated this system is nothing should be taken as word of law yet.

{| {{prettytable}}
|- bgcolor="#999999"
!
! Best
! Better
! Good
! Fair
! Poor
! Terrible
! Notes

|-
| Armor
| Adamantine
| Steel
| Iron
| Bronze, Bismuth Bronze
| Copper
|
|

|-
| Edged Weapons
| Adamantine (worst for missiles)
| Steel
| Iron
| Bronze, Bismuth Bronze
| Copper
| Silver
| For piercing iron armor, copper is better than bronze. For piercing copper or bronze armor, bronze is better than copper.
|-
| Blunt Weapons
| Steel, Silver
| Copper, Bismuth Bronze, Bronze, Iron
| ---
| ---
| ---
| Adamantine
| All six non-adamantine metals perform nearly identically. Steel has a slightly higher rate of critical wounds, while silver is slightly more likely to penetrate armor.

|}

Cross refrencing this table with the table at the top of this section seems to indicate that low densities, high impact fractures, and high shear fractures contribute to the killing power of edged weapons.

===Arena Testing===

Testing of weapons (15 dwarves vs. 15 dwarves combats) in the [[object testing arena]] shows that the best dwarven-made weapon against humanoids is the [[silver]] war hammer {{version|0.31.12}}.

Even in 15×(steel armor+silver war hammer) versus 15×(adamantine armor+adamantine battle axe) matches, hammerdwarves won with less than 50% casualties (mostly one-strike kills). However, when the dwarves in question were without armor or only wearing leather/cloth, the result was inverted — axedwarves won with less than 50% casualties. In battles against megabeasts, 6 silver hammerdwarves were barely able to scratch a [[bronze colossus]] (attacks were glancing away) due to bronze being a better "weapon" material.

This is because silver has the highest solid density of all materials that can regularly be made into weapons by dwarves. Tests show that indeed [[gold]] and [[platinum]] (increasingly dense) do increasing amounts of damage, and that war hammers remain the tool of choice, however they can only be produced by a moody dwarf (and a very lucky one at that).

More arena tests are available in the [[Main:Military testing|Military testing]] article.

==Bugs==
*Equipping weapons/armor on military is erratic{{Bug|535}}

==See also==
* [[User:Shinziril#Weapons_and_Armor|Outstanding research]] on weapons and armor by Shinziril

[[Category:Weapons]]

v0.34 Talk:Weapon

2012-05-24T04:23:34Z

TerryDactyl: /* Material densities */

== Material densities ==

<s>What is the material densities for leather armour? Is it better to use a birch breastplate or a leather?
</s>
What is 'elasticity'? This value does not exist in raws. Is it the Strain At Yeild divided by 10^3?

v0.34:Weapon

2012-05-24T04:22:22Z

TerryDactyl: /* Weapon Material Quality */

{{quality|Exceptional|02:06, 17 May 2012 (UTC)}}{{av}}
:''This page deals entirely with manufactured weapons. For natural weapons, see [[Natural weapon]].''

A '''manufactured weapon''', also sometimes simply refered to as a '''weapon''' is a manufactured weapon used by a dwarf or other [[:Category:DF2012:Humanoids|humanoid]].

== Basics ==
=== Native vs. foreign ===
Weapons fall into two categories: those that you can produce, and those that you can't. [[Weaponsmith]]s can produce seven types of native weapons at a [[metalsmith's forge]], but there are also fourteen foreign weapons that can be bought from trading caravans. These cannot be reliably produced by your dwarves, and may use skills they are unfamiliar with. It is also impossible to buy them in bulk, and considering they are of variable quality and material and usually quite expensive, they are rarely worth it, except when they are products of [[strange mood]]s (see strange moods, below). Since they are bread-and-butter for other nations, it is important to understand their properties when you have to fight enemies wielding them.

=== Types of weapons ===
{{main|Attack types}}
One can divide weapons in dwarf fortress into three categories. The first is slashing weapons, like the shortsword and battle axe. These weapons work by concentrating their force along a blade, allowing them to make gashes in or completely sever body parts, and given the opportunity, make the quickest work of their foes. They are far less effective against armored targets, however, as armor will block most hits and convert them into weaker blunt damage.

The second is piercing weapons, like the spear and foreign pike. These weapons work by concentrating their force at a point, allowing them to punch through armor and damage internal organs, often getting stuck and giving their wielder further leverage on the target. Note that ranged weapons - [[crossbow]]s, bows, and blowguns - are effectively piercing weapons with range to them. When used in melee, these weapons function like weaker war hammers.

The third is crushing weapons, like the war hammer and mace. These weapons work by concentrating their force behind a large, blunt mass, putting dents in armor and breaking bones beneath their blows. These weapons are slow to kill their targets - dwarves have a habit of breaking every bone in their opponent's body before moving on to the next target - but are the most effective weapons against heavy and heavily armored foes which shrug off damage more easily.

There's also training weapons. Training weapons are all wooden, and all made at the [[Carpenter's workshop|carpenter's workshop]]. Training axes, spears, and short swords can be constructed in dwarf fortress mode. They used to be useful for avoiding sparring injuries, but since dwarves sparring generally do not carry that risk, they are mostly useless, except in [[danger room]]s.

=== Types of targets ===
One can divide the types of foes you will meet into three categories. The first is organic and unarmored (or poorly armored) enemies, like [[thief|thieves]], non-sentient [[creature]]s (be it local wildlife or siege mounts), [[semi-megabeast]]s and [[megabeast]]s besides the [[bronze colossus]]. Weapons that deal slashing damage work best and quickest against these types of enemies, severing whole body parts and leaving them severely incapacitated.

The second is organic and armored enemies, like [[ambush]]ers and [[siege]]rs. The way [[armor]] works, slashing blows that are countered by a piece of armor are converted into generally less effective blunt damage; the best damage against these kinds of enemies are piercing weapons, which punch through armor and damage their internal organs, incapacitating them and allowing the wielder to finish them off. Crushing weapons work as well, although they are slower.

The third and most dangerous types of enemies are inorganic enemies (or ones that [[Giant cave spider|don't feel pain]]), which are [[titan]]s, [[forgotten beast]]s, [[bronze colossus]]es, and [[HFS|hidden fun stuff]]. These enemies ''have'' no internal organs, and depending on the material they are made of, may be very difficult to slash at (although a forgotten beast made of, for instance, mud is laughably easy to kill). Against these enemies, crushing weapons are the best, because they can chip at their foes until they collapse from cumulative damage.

=== Weapon skill ===
{{main|Combat skill#Weapon skill}}
Every type of weapon has its own associated [[military]] [[skill]]. The higher a dwarf is in his skill with a weapon, the better he will be able to use it in combat, connecting hammer blows to more advantageous sweet spots and sending spears right through enemy hearts and lungs with greater accuracy. The higher the weapon skill, the better at fighting the dwarf will be.

Once a dwarf has reached "Great" skill in a certain weapon, they become weapon lords for that specific weapon. They are listed as such on the [[status]] screen, will love fighting, and will no longer complain about long patrol duties. Weapon skill is trained in fighting enemies in combat, demonstrations, and combat drills, but if you leave your dwarves shieldless, a [[danger room]] will train their skill very, very quickly. Note that this does not quite work for marksdwarves - danger rooming ranged weapons increases their melee skill, increasing their hammerdwarf skill, although [[Cross-training|this may be the point]].

=== Attachment ===
A dwarf that has has used a particular weapon for a long time will grow attached to it, and be very unhappy if you take it away. This is fine if they are wielding a ☼Steel Mace☼, but a major problem if they are wielding what is meant to be a training weapon (be it a wooden axe or a copper spear). You can avoid this pitfall by not using training weapons and not forging weapons until you have real weaponsmithing underway. These events generate [[announcement]]s.

In addition, dwarves that reach a certain number or level of kills with a weapon will name it. This prompts a major announcement, and usually happens after a dwarf manages to put down something significant — a forgotten beast for instance. Only the last shot counts for the [[kill list|kill]]. Once named, the weapon will appear in the artifact list, albeit in blue.

=== Quality and strange moods ===
The quality of a weapon has a significant (and currently poorly understood) impact on its combat performance, as well as being significantly more valuable.
{{v0.31:Item quality/Table}}

Weaponsmithing is a moodable profession, which means that you can get [[artifact]] weapons. This is a bit of a mixed bag: although a legendary [[armorsmith]], [[engraver]], or [[stonecrafter]] would be more useful, it's certainly better then a legendary [[mechanic]]. Artifact weapons have a 3x combat bonus, but do ''not'' have to be made of logical materials; ordinarily a [[rainbow trout]] [[bone]] spear is impossible, but a moody dwarf can create one with a single bone. Thus artifact weapons made of totally inappropriate materials are inferior to regular ones made of weapons-grade metal, although the exact balance is still under discussion.

Dwarves in strange moods are not held to producing native weapons, and in fact often don't, as the number of foreign weapons outnumbers the natives. In the case where they create a valuable and battle-worthy foreign weapon (like a steel two-handed sword), it's worth it to manually go through your dwarves to find someone who can best utilize it, and assign it to him. See the caveats of foreign weapons however, discussed below.

=== Weapons as tools ===
[[Hunter]]s use crossbows, [[Wood cutter]]s use battle axes, and [[miner]]s use picks. They must be in possession of these items to do their jobs, and it's as simple as that.

=== Ammunition ===
:''Main article: [[Ammunition]]''

Crossbows and other ranged weapons require [[ammunition]] (in the case of the crossbow, [[bolt]]s). This ammunition is carried in a [[quiver]] in packs of about 25, and when they run out they will switch to using their ranged weapons as crude hammers. It's often a good idea to get them to retreat once they run out of ammo — crossbows are for shooting, not bashing.

=== Secondary weapons ===
Although it sounds like a cool idea, equipping a marksdwarf with a backup shortsword just in case doesn't often work, as dwarves are just as quick to run up their foes and start bashing them with a crossbow as they are to draw their swords and do it properly.

== Weapons ==
=== Native weapons ===
{| class="wikitable" border="border"
! Type
! Size
! Attack
! [[Attack type]]
! Contact Area
! Penetration
! Velocity
! Skill Used
! Hands Used
! [[Weaponsmith|Metal]]
! [[Bowyer|Wood]]
! [[Bowyer|Bone]]
! [[Stone crafter|Obsidian]]
|- valign="top"
|rowspan="3"| Battle Axe
|rowspan="3"| 800
| Hack || Edge || 40000 || 6000 || 1.25x
|rowspan="3"| Axe
|rowspan="3"| Multigrasp?
|rowspan="3"| Yes
|rowspan="3"| No
|rowspan="3"| No
|rowspan="3"| No
|-
| Flat slap || Blunt || 40000 || (6000) || 1.25x
|-
| Pommel strike || Blunt || 100 || (1000) || 1x
|-
| Crossbow (Melee)
| 400
| Bash || Blunt || 10000 || (4000) || 1.25x
| Hammer
| Singlegrasp?
| Yes
| Yes
| Yes
| No
|-
| Mace
| 800
| Bash || Blunt || 20 || (200) || 2.0x
| Mace
| Singlegrasp
| Yes
| No
| No
| No
|-
| Pick (foreign)
| 500
| Strike || Edge || 100 || 4000 || 2.0x
| Mining
| Singlegrasp
| Yes
| No
| No
| No
|- valign="top"
|rowspan="4"| Short Sword
|rowspan="4"| 300
| Slash || Edge || 20000 || 4000 || 1.25x
|rowspan="4"| Sword
|rowspan="4"| Singlegrasp
|rowspan="4"| Yes
|rowspan="4"| No
|rowspan="4"| No
|rowspan="4"| Yes
|-
| Stab || Edge || 50 || 2000 || 1.0x
|-
| Flat slap || Blunt || 20000 || (4000) || 1.25x
|-
| Pommel strike || Blunt || 100 || (1000) || 1.0x
|- valign="top"
|rowspan="2"| Spear
|rowspan="2"| 400
| Stab || Edge || 20 || 10000 || 1.0x
|rowspan="2"| Spear
|rowspan="2"| Singlegrasp
|rowspan="2"| Yes
|rowspan="2"| No
|rowspan="2"| No
|rowspan="2"| No
|-
| Shaft bash || Blunt || 10000 || (6000) || 1.25x
|-
| War Hammer
| 400
| Bash || Blunt || 10 || (200) || 2.0x
| Hammer
| Singlegrasp
| Yes
| No
| No
| No
|}

Note that although the [[pick]] is a foreign weapon, it can be produced by dwarves and is therefore considered native.

=== Details ===
*If you find your dwarves wearing more than one weapon -- or any unwanted [[armor]], for that matter -- one way to get rid of them is to dump the weapon from their {{k|v}}-{{k|i}} inventory screen. This does not always work, as they might re-equip the item. Another option is to remove any weapons and/or shields listed on their military equip screen. This too does not always work. At least "left-handedness" seems to not pose a problem. If you cancel the work by {{k|v}}-{{k|p}} and selecting a job that needs a tool they will sometimes put it back in the pile. Example: Miners use picks, cancel their mining job and they will put the pick away AFTER you ordered it to be dumped.
* Using weapons is much more effective than unarmed combat -- an untrained swordsdwarf with an [[iron]] weapon can defeat a grand master [[wrestler]], provided neither is wearing armor.
** Larger weapons with more heft tend to do more damage. How damage is calculated is currently not fully understood, and this is an area requiring more research.
* The size for a weapon is its volume in cm3.
* Attacks of type EDGE will either slice or pierce their target, depending on the contact area and penetration depth, while BLUNT attacks tend to damage internal organs without necessarily causing significant damage to outer layers.
* The contact area represents the area of contact of the weapon, and the penetration determines how deep the attack goes (and is apparently ignored entirely for BLUNT attacks -- indicated by numbers in parentheses). Large contact areas combined with low penetration represent slashing attacks, while small contact areas with high penetration behave as piercing attacks.
* The velocity seems to adjust the amount of actual force used during the attack (otherwise based on the size of the weapon, the material from which the weapon is made, and the strength of the wielder) - for example, war hammers have a 2x velocity multiplier, presumably to model the fact that the hammer's mass is concentrated at the tip which, when combined with a long handle, permits swinging it harder than a weapon whose mass is evenly distributed (such as a sword).
* Crossbows can be made of metal, wood, and bone. Metal crossbows are made by a [[weaponsmith]] at a [[forge]], while wood and bone crossbows are made by a [[bowyer]] at a bowyer's workshop. The material of a crossbow does not affect its firing ability, only its melee damage. A dwarf's marksmanship skill is only affected by the core [[item quality|quality]] of the bow. This may be a consideration when deciding which dwarf you want outfitting your marksdwarves: a [[experience|legendary]] bowyer is a better choice than a proficient weaponsmith.

=== Training weapons ===
All training weapons must be made of [[wood]] at the [[carpenter's workshop]].

{| class="wikitable" border="border"
|-
! Type
! Size
! Attack
! [[Attack type]]
! Contact Area
! Penetration
! Velocity
! Skill Used
|- valign="top"
|rowspan="3"| Training Axe
|rowspan="3"| 800
| Hack || Blunt || 30000 || (6000) || 1.25x
|rowspan="3"| Axe
|-
| Flat slap || Blunt || 30000 || (6000) || 1.25x
|-
| Pommel strike || Blunt || 100 || (1000) || 1.0x
|- valign="top"
|rowspan="4"| Training Sword
|rowspan="4"| 300
| Slash || Blunt || 20000 || (4000) || 1.25x
|rowspan="4"| Sword
|-
| Stab || Blunt || 50 || (2000) || 1.0x
|-
| Flat slap || Blunt || 20000 || (4000) || 1.25x
|-
| Pommel strike || Blunt || 100 || (1000) || 1.0x
|- valign="top"
|rowspan="2"| Training Spear
|rowspan="2"| 400
| Stab || Blunt || 200 || (10000) || 1.0x
|rowspan="2"| Spear
|-
| Shaft bash || Blunt || 10000 || (6000) || 1.25x
|}

=== Foreign weapons ===
Using any multigrasp weapon in a single hand (ie. with a shield in the other hand) gives you a disability to hit. Do not equip two-handed swords with a shield, for instance.

{| class="wikitable" border="border"
|-
! Type
! Size
! Attack
! [[Attack type]]
! Contact Area
! Penetration
! Velocity
! Skill Used
! Used by
! Hands Used
|- valign="top"
|rowspan="4"| 2H Sword
|rowspan="4"| 900
| Slash || Edge || 100000 || 8000 || 1.25x
|rowspan="4"| Sword
|rowspan="4"| [[Goblin]], [[Human]]
|rowspan="4"| Multigrasp
|-
| Stab || Edge || 50 || 4000 || 1.0x
|-
| Flat slap || Blunt || 100000 || (8000) || 1.25x
|-
| Pommel strike || Blunt || 100 || (1000) || 1.0x
|- valign="top"
| Blowgun (Melee)
| 150
| Bash || Blunt || 10000 || (4000) || 1.25x
| Sword
| Subterranean animal peoples
| Singlegrasp?
|- valign="top"
| Bow (Melee)
| 300
| Bash || Blunt || 10000 || (4000) || 1.25x
| Sword
| [[Elf]], Goblin, Human, [[Kobold]]
| Singlegrasp?
|- valign="top"
| Flail
| 500
| Bash || Blunt || 200 || (4000) || 2.5x
| Mace
| Goblin, Human
| Singlegrasp
|- valign="top"
|rowspan="3"| Great Axe
|rowspan="3"| 1300
| Hack || Edge || 60000 || 8000 || 1.25x
|rowspan="3"| Axe
|rowspan="3"| Goblin, Human
|rowspan="3"| Multigrasp
|-
| Flat slap || Blunt || 60000 || (8000) || 1.25x
|-
| Pommel strike || Blunt || 100 || (1000) || 1.0x
|- valign="top"
|rowspan="3"| Halberd
|rowspan="3"| 1200
| Slash || Edge || 20000 || 8000 || 1.25x
|rowspan="3"| Axe
|rowspan="3"| Goblin, Human
|rowspan="3"| Multigrasp
|-
| Stab || Edge || 50 || 2000 || 1.0x
|-
| Shaft bash || Blunt || 20000 || (6000) || 1.25x
|- valign="top"
|rowspan="3"| Dagger (Large)
|rowspan="3"| 200
| Slash || Edge || 1000 || 800 || 1.25x
|rowspan="3"| Dagger
|rowspan="3"| Goblin, Kobold
|rowspan="3"| Singlegrasp
|-
| Stab || Edge || 5 || 1000 || 1.0x
|-
| Pommel strike || Blunt || 20 || (600) || 1.0x
|- valign="top"
|rowspan="4"| Long Sword
|rowspan="4"| 700
| Slash || Edge || 60000 || 6000 || 1.25x
|rowspan="4"| Sword
|rowspan="4"| Elf, Goblin, Human
|rowspan="4"| Singlegrasp
|-
| Stab || Edge || 50 || 3000 || 1.0x
|-
| Flat slap || Blunt || 60000 || (6000) || 1.25x
|-
| Pommel strike || Blunt || 100 || (1000) || 1.0x
|- valign="top"
| Maul
| 1300
| Bash || Blunt || 100 || (6000) || 2.0x
| Hammer
| Goblin, Human
| Multigrasp
|- valign="top"
|rowspan="2"| Morningstar
|rowspan="2"| 500
| Bash || Edge || 10 || 500 || 2.0x
|rowspan="2"| Mace
|rowspan="2"| Goblin, Human
|rowspan="2"| Singlegrasp
|-
| Pommel strike || Blunt || 50 || (1000) || 1.0x
|- valign="top"
|rowspan="2"| Pike
|rowspan="2"| 800
| Stab || Edge || 20 || 12000 || 1.0x
|rowspan="2"| Pike
|rowspan="2"| Goblin, Human
|rowspan="2"| Multigrasp
|-
| Shaft bash || Blunt || 10000 || (6000) || 1.25x
|- valign="top"
|rowspan="4"| Scimitar
|rowspan="4"| 300
| Slash || Edge || 20000 || 4000 || 1.25x
|rowspan="4"| Sword
|rowspan="4"| Goblin, Human
|rowspan="4"| Singlegrasp
|-
| Stab || Edge || 50 || 2000 || 1.0x
|-
| Flat slap || Blunt || 20000 || (4000) || 1.25x
|-
| Pommel strike || Blunt || 50 || (1000) || 1.0x
|- valign="top"
| Scourge
| 300
| Lash || Edge || 10 || 50 || 2.0x
| Whip
| Goblin
| Singlegrasp
|- valign="top"
| Whip
| 100
| Lash || Blunt || 1 || (10) || 5.0x
| Whip
| Goblin, Human
| Singlegrasp
|}

== Size==
Weapons have a minimum size to use at all, and a minimum size to use one-handed. Adult dwarves vary in size between 33750 and 93750 (average 60000) based on their height and broadness, so not all dwarves can use all weapons. The following table shows approximately how many dwarves can use each weapon one or two handed.
{| class="wikitable" border="border"
|-
! Type
! Min Size
(Two-Handed)
! Min Size
(One-Handed)
! Dwarves
Can't Wield
! Dwarves Wield
Two-Handed
! Dwarves Wield
One-Handed
|- valign="top"
| Battle Axe
| 42500
| 47500
| 1/49
| 10/49
| 38/49
|- valign="top"
| Crossbow (Melee)
| 15000
| 0
| -
| -
| 49/49
|- valign="top"
| Mace
| 32500
| 37500
| -
| 1/49
| 48/49
|- valign="top"
| Pick
| 42500
| 47500
| 1/49
| 10/49
| 38/49
|- valign="top"
| Short Sword
| 32500
| 37500
| -
| 1/49
| 48/49
|- valign="top"
| Spear
| 5000
| 47500
| -
| 11/49
| 38/49
|- valign="top"
| War Hammer
| 32500
| 37500
| -
| 1/49
| 48/49
|- valign="top"
| Training Axe
| 42500
| 47500
| 1/49
| 10/49
| 38/49
|- valign="top"
| Training Sword
| 32500
| 37500
| -
| 1/49
| 48/49
|- valign="top"
| Training Spear
| 42500
| 47500
| 1/49
| 10/49
| 38/49
|- valign="top"
| 2H Sword
| 62500
| 77500
| 32/49
| 14/49
| 3/49
|- valign="top"
| Blowgun (Melee)
| 15000
| 0
| -
| -
| 49/49
|- valign="top"
| Bow (Melee)
| 15000
| 0
| -
| -
| 49/49
|- valign="top"
| Flail
| 42500
| 47500
| 1/49
| 10/49
| 38/49
|- valign="top"
| Great Axe
| 62500
| 77500
| 32/49
| 14/49
| 3/49
|- valign="top"
| Halberd
| 62500
| 77500
| 32/49
| 14/49
| 3/49
|- valign="top"
| Dagger (Large)
| 5000
| 27500
| -
| -
| 49/49
|- valign="top"
| Long Sword
| 52500
| 57500
| 11/49
| 7/49
| 31/49
|- valign="top"
| Maul
| 62500
| 77500
| 32/49
| 14/49
| 3/49
|- valign="top"
| Morningstar
| 32500
| 37500
| -
| 1/49
| 48/49
|- valign="top"
| Pike
| 62500
| 77500
| 32/49
| 14/49
| 3/49
|- valign="top"
| Scimitar
| 32500
| 37500
| -
| 1/49
| 48/49
|- valign="top"
| Scourge
| 22500
| 27500
| -
| -
| 49/49
|- valign="top"
| Whip
| 22500
| 27500
| -
| -
| 49/49
|}

See [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=101379.msg3029579#msg3029579 this forum post] for details.

==Weapon Material Quality==
{{v0.31 material metal table head}}

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}}

{{v0.31 material metal table row|name=Steel|color={{Tile|/|0:1}}0:7:1|source=[[Iron]] + [[Pig iron]] + [[flux]] stone + [[fuel]] '''!'''|notes= |soliddensity=7.85|val=30|valinc=+20|mp=12718|impactyield=1505|impactfracture=2520|impactelasticity=940|shearyield=430|shearfracture=720|shearelasticity=215
}}

{{v0.31 material metal table row|name=Bismuth bronze|color={{Tile|/|6:1}}6:6:1|source=2 [[Copper]] + 1 [[Tin]] + 1 [[Bismuth]] '''!'''|notes= |soliddensity=8.25|val=6|valinc=+4|mp=11868|impactyield=602|impactfracture=843|impactelasticity=547|shearyield=172|shearfracture=241|shearelasticity=156
}}

{{v0.31 material metal table row|name=Bronze|color={{Tile|/|6:0}}6:4:0|source=[[Tin]] + [[Copper]]|notes= |soliddensity=8.25|val=5|valinc=+3|mp=11868|impactyield=602|impactfracture=843|impactelasticity=547|shearyield=172|shearfracture=241|shearelasticity=156
}}

{{v0.31 material metal table row|name=Iron|color={{Tile|/|0:1}}0:7:1|source=[[Hematite]], [[Limonite]], [[Magnetite]]|notes= |soliddensity=7.85|mp=12768|val=10|valinc=+2|impactyield=542|impactfracture=1080|impactelasticity=319|shearyield=155|shearfracture=310|shearelasticity=189
}}

{{v0.31 material metal table row|name=Copper|color={{Tile|/|6:0}}6:4:0|source=[[Native copper]], [[Malachite]], [[Tetrahedrite]]|notes= |soliddensity=8.93|mp=11952|val=2|valinc=+0, +0, -1*|impactyield=245|impactfracture=770|impactelasticity=175|shearyield=70|shearfracture=220|shearelasticity=145
}}

{{v0.31 material metal table row|name=Silver|color={{Tile|/|7:1}}7:7:1|source=[[Native silver]], [[Horn silver]], [[Galena]] (50%), [[Tetrahedrite]] (20%) |notes= |soliddensity=10.49|mp=11731|val=10|valinc=+0, +0, +5*, +7*|impactyield=350|impactfracture=595|impactelasticity=350|shearyield=100|shearfracture=170|shearelasticity=333
}}

{{v0.31 material metal table row|name=Bone|color={{Tile|/|7:1}}7:7:1|source=Creatures|notes= |soliddensity=0.50|mp=NONE(burn at 10250)|val=1|valinc=+?, +?, +?, +?|impactyield=200|impactfracture=200|impactelasticity=100|shearyield=115|shearfracture=130|shearelasticity=100
}}

{{v0.31 material metal table row|name=Wood|color={{Tile|/|6:0}}7:7:1|source=Trees|notes= |soliddensity=0.50|mp=NONE(burn at 10250)|val=1|valinc=+?, +?, +?, +?|impactyield=10|impactfracture=10|impactelasticity=1000|shearyield=40|shearfracture=40|shearelasticity=1000
}}

{{v0.31 material metal table row|name=Shell|color={{Tile|/|2:0}}7:7:1|source=Creatures|notes= Only available as Artifact Weapons.|soliddensity=0.50|mp=NONE(burn at 10250)|val=1|valinc=+?, +?, +?, +?|impactyield=200|impactfracture=200|impactelasticity=100|shearyield=115|shearfracture=130|shearelasticity=100
}}

{{v0.31 material metal table row|name=Leather|color={{Tile|/|2:0}}7:7:1|source=Creatures|notes= Material data added for comparison.|soliddensity=0.50|mp=NONE(burn at 10250)|val=1|valinc=+?, +?, +?, +?|impactyield=10|impactfracture=10|impactelasticity=50|shearyield=25|shearfracture=25|shearelasticity=50
}}

{{v0.31 material metal table row|name=Obsidian|color={{Tile|/|0:1}}7:7:1|source=Lava|notes= Only available for Short Swords.|soliddensity=2.67|mp=13600|val=3|valinc=+0|impactyield=120|impactfracture=120|impactelasticity=100|shearyield=15|shearfracture=15|shearelasticity=100
}}

{{v0.31 material metal table row|name=Crystal glass|color={{Tile|/|7:1}}7:7:1|source=Sand|notes= Only available as Trap Components.|soliddensity=2.6|mp=13600|val=10|valinc=+0|impactyield=1000|impactfracture=1000|impactelasticity=2222|shearyield=33|shearfracture=33|shearelasticity=113
}}

{{v0.31 material metal table row|name=Clear glass|color={{Tile|/|3:0}}7:7:1|source=Sand|notes= Only available as Trap Components.|soliddensity=2.6|mp=13600|val=5|valinc=+0|impactyield=1000|impactfracture=1000|impactelasticity=2222|shearyield=33|shearfracture=33|shearelasticity=113
}}

{{v0.31 material metal table row|name=Green glass|color={{Tile|/|2:0}}7:7:1|source=Sand|notes= Only available as Trap Components.|soliddensity=2.6|mp=13600|val=2|valinc=+0|impactyield=1000|impactfracture=1000|impactelasticity=2222|shearyield=33|shearfracture=33|shearelasticity=113
}}

|}

*''Combat information'' is used internally by the game to determine the combat properties of weapons and armor made from this metal:
**'''Density''': Used in conjunction with other factors - heavier weapons (higher numbers) hit with more force, light weapons tend to have less penetration. Value shown here is g/cm3, which is the raw value divided by 103
**'''Impact yield''': Used for blunt-force combat; ''higher'' is better. This is the raw value divided by 103 (i.e., kPa).
**'''Impact fracture''': Used for blunt-force combat; ''higher'' is better. This is the raw value divided by 103 (i.e., kPa).
**'''Impact strain at yield''': Used for blunt-force combat; ''lower'' is better. This is the raw value.
**'''Shear yield''': Used for cutting calculations in combat; ''higher'' is better. This is the raw value divided by 103 (i.e., kPa).
**'''Shear fracture''': Used for cutting calculations in combat; ''higher'' is better. This is the raw value divided by 103 (i.e., kPa).
**'''Shear strain at yield''': Used for cutting calculations in combat; ''lower'' is better. This is the raw value.

*General Term Explanations (From Wikipedia)
**'''Yield Strength''' - The stress at which material strain changes from elastic deformation to plastic deformation, causing it to deform permanently.
**'''Fracture Strength''' - The stress coordinate on the stress-strain curve at the point of rupture.
**'''Stress''' - Force per area = F/A
**'''Strain''' - Deformation of a solid due to stress = Stress/Young's Modulus

=== Explanation ===
* '''Yield Strength''' is the amount of stress required to permanently deform (bend) a material (plastic deformation).
* '''Fracture Strength''' is the amount of stress required to permanently break (rupture) a material.
* '''Strain at yield''' is the amount of deformation (bending) that occurs at the yield point.

=== Inmplications ===
Yield strength combined with strain at yield can tell what a material will do under stress (be it from a hammer, axe, or arrow); higher yield means that it takes more stress to deform, while lower strain at yield means that it will deform less when stress is applied.

== Combat Testing & Analysis ==
[[Adamantine]] and [[steel]] take first and second place respectively, with [[iron]] the third best material in the game. Beyond which, bronze is in a close tie with copper as to being the second worst material. Silver is the worst weapon material available (and due to the existence of training weapons, not even useful in that regard) in regards to edged weaponry.

Additionally, with regards to blunt weapons almost all of the non-adamantine materials perform equally well, with a very slight edge towards steel and silver. Here is the thread with the details: [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=53571.0].

Keep in mind with how unbelievably complicated this system is nothing should be taken as word of law yet.

{| {{prettytable}}
|- bgcolor="#999999"
!
! Best
! Better
! Good
! Fair
! Poor
! Terrible
! Notes

|-
| Armor
| Adamantine
| Steel
| Iron
| Bronze, Bismuth Bronze
| Copper
|
|

|-
| Edged Weapons
| Adamantine (worst for missiles)
| Steel
| Iron
| Bronze, Bismuth Bronze
| Copper
| Silver
| For piercing iron armor, copper is better than bronze. For piercing copper or bronze armor, bronze is better than copper.
|-
| Blunt Weapons
| Steel, Silver
| Copper, Bismuth Bronze, Bronze, Iron
| ---
| ---
| ---
| Adamantine
| All six non-adamantine metals perform nearly identically. Steel has a slightly higher rate of critical wounds, while silver is slightly more likely to penetrate armor.

|}

Cross refrencing this table with the table at the top of this section seems to indicate that low densities, high impact fractures, and high shear fractures contribute to the killing power of edged weapons.

===Arena Testing===

Testing of weapons (15 dwarves vs. 15 dwarves combats) in the [[object testing arena]] shows that the best dwarven-made weapon against humanoids is the [[silver]] war hammer {{version|0.31.12}}.

Even in 15×(steel armor+silver war hammer) versus 15×(adamantine armor+adamantine battle axe) matches, hammerdwarves won with less than 50% casualties (mostly one-strike kills). However, when the dwarves in question were without armor or only wearing leather/cloth, the result was inverted — axedwarves won with less than 50% casualties. In battles against megabeasts, 6 silver hammerdwarves were barely able to scratch a [[bronze colossus]] (attacks were glancing away) due to bronze being a better "weapon" material.

This is because silver has the highest solid density of all materials that can regularly be made into weapons by dwarves. Tests show that indeed [[gold]] and [[platinum]] (increasingly dense) do increasing amounts of damage, and that war hammers remain the tool of choice, however they can only be produced by a moody dwarf (and a very lucky one at that).

More arena tests are available in the [[Main:Military testing|Military testing]] article.

==Bugs==
*Equipping weapons/armor on military is erratic{{Bug|535}}

==See also==
* [[User:Shinziril#Weapons_and_Armor|Outstanding research]] on weapons and armor by Shinziril

[[Category:Weapons]]

v0.34:Weapon

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{{quality|Exceptional|02:06, 17 May 2012 (UTC)}}{{av}}
:''This page deals entirely with manufactured weapons. For natural weapons, see [[Natural weapon]].''

A '''manufactured weapon''', also sometimes simply refered to as a '''weapon''' is a manufactured weapon used by a dwarf or other [[:Category:DF2012:Humanoids|humanoid]].

== Basics ==
=== Native vs. foreign ===
Weapons fall into two categories: those that you can produce, and those that you can't. [[Weaponsmith]]s can produce seven types of native weapons at a [[metalsmith's forge]], but there are also fourteen foreign weapons that can be bought from trading caravans. These cannot be reliably produced by your dwarves, and may use skills they are unfamiliar with. It is also impossible to buy them in bulk, and considering they are of variable quality and material and usually quite expensive, they are rarely worth it, except when they are products of [[strange mood]]s (see strange moods, below). Since they are bread-and-butter for other nations, it is important to understand their properties when you have to fight enemies wielding them.

=== Types of weapons ===
{{main|Attack types}}
One can divide weapons in dwarf fortress into three categories. The first is slashing weapons, like the shortsword and battle axe. These weapons work by concentrating their force along a blade, allowing them to make gashes in or completely sever body parts, and given the opportunity, make the quickest work of their foes. They are far less effective against armored targets, however, as armor will block most hits and convert them into weaker blunt damage.

The second is piercing weapons, like the spear and foreign pike. These weapons work by concentrating their force at a point, allowing them to punch through armor and damage internal organs, often getting stuck and giving their wielder further leverage on the target. Note that ranged weapons - [[crossbow]]s, bows, and blowguns - are effectively piercing weapons with range to them. When used in melee, these weapons function like weaker war hammers.

The third is crushing weapons, like the war hammer and mace. These weapons work by concentrating their force behind a large, blunt mass, putting dents in armor and breaking bones beneath their blows. These weapons are slow to kill their targets - dwarves have a habit of breaking every bone in their opponent's body before moving on to the next target - but are the most effective weapons against heavy and heavily armored foes which shrug off damage more easily.

There's also training weapons. Training weapons are all wooden, and all made at the [[Carpenter's workshop|carpenter's workshop]]. Training axes, spears, and short swords can be constructed in dwarf fortress mode. They used to be useful for avoiding sparring injuries, but since dwarves sparring generally do not carry that risk, they are mostly useless, except in [[danger room]]s.

=== Types of targets ===
One can divide the types of foes you will meet into three categories. The first is organic and unarmored (or poorly armored) enemies, like [[thief|thieves]], non-sentient [[creature]]s (be it local wildlife or siege mounts), [[semi-megabeast]]s and [[megabeast]]s besides the [[bronze colossus]]. Weapons that deal slashing damage work best and quickest against these types of enemies, severing whole body parts and leaving them severely incapacitated.

The second is organic and armored enemies, like [[ambush]]ers and [[siege]]rs. The way [[armor]] works, slashing blows that are countered by a piece of armor are converted into generally less effective blunt damage; the best damage against these kinds of enemies are piercing weapons, which punch through armor and damage their internal organs, incapacitating them and allowing the wielder to finish them off. Crushing weapons work as well, although they are slower.

The third and most dangerous types of enemies are inorganic enemies (or ones that [[Giant cave spider|don't feel pain]]), which are [[titan]]s, [[forgotten beast]]s, [[bronze colossus]]es, and [[HFS|hidden fun stuff]]. These enemies ''have'' no internal organs, and depending on the material they are made of, may be very difficult to slash at (although a forgotten beast made of, for instance, mud is laughably easy to kill). Against these enemies, crushing weapons are the best, because they can chip at their foes until they collapse from cumulative damage.

=== Weapon skill ===
{{main|Combat skill#Weapon skill}}
Every type of weapon has its own associated [[military]] [[skill]]. The higher a dwarf is in his skill with a weapon, the better he will be able to use it in combat, connecting hammer blows to more advantageous sweet spots and sending spears right through enemy hearts and lungs with greater accuracy. The higher the weapon skill, the better at fighting the dwarf will be.

Once a dwarf has reached "Great" skill in a certain weapon, they become weapon lords for that specific weapon. They are listed as such on the [[status]] screen, will love fighting, and will no longer complain about long patrol duties. Weapon skill is trained in fighting enemies in combat, demonstrations, and combat drills, but if you leave your dwarves shieldless, a [[danger room]] will train their skill very, very quickly. Note that this does not quite work for marksdwarves - danger rooming ranged weapons increases their melee skill, increasing their hammerdwarf skill, although [[Cross-training|this may be the point]].

=== Attachment ===
A dwarf that has has used a particular weapon for a long time will grow attached to it, and be very unhappy if you take it away. This is fine if they are wielding a ☼Steel Mace☼, but a major problem if they are wielding what is meant to be a training weapon (be it a wooden axe or a copper spear). You can avoid this pitfall by not using training weapons and not forging weapons until you have real weaponsmithing underway. These events generate [[announcement]]s.

In addition, dwarves that reach a certain number or level of kills with a weapon will name it. This prompts a major announcement, and usually happens after a dwarf manages to put down something significant — a forgotten beast for instance. Only the last shot counts for the [[kill list|kill]]. Once named, the weapon will appear in the artifact list, albeit in blue.

=== Quality and strange moods ===
The quality of a weapon has a significant (and currently poorly understood) impact on its combat performance, as well as being significantly more valuable.
{{v0.31:Item quality/Table}}

Weaponsmithing is a moodable profession, which means that you can get [[artifact]] weapons. This is a bit of a mixed bag: although a legendary [[armorsmith]], [[engraver]], or [[stonecrafter]] would be more useful, it's certainly better then a legendary [[mechanic]]. Artifact weapons have a 3x combat bonus, but do ''not'' have to be made of logical materials; ordinarily a [[rainbow trout]] [[bone]] spear is impossible, but a moody dwarf can create one with a single bone. Thus artifact weapons made of totally inappropriate materials are inferior to regular ones made of weapons-grade metal, although the exact balance is still under discussion.

Dwarves in strange moods are not held to producing native weapons, and in fact often don't, as the number of foreign weapons outnumbers the natives. In the case where they create a valuable and battle-worthy foreign weapon (like a steel two-handed sword), it's worth it to manually go through your dwarves to find someone who can best utilize it, and assign it to him. See the caveats of foreign weapons however, discussed below.

=== Weapons as tools ===
[[Hunter]]s use crossbows, [[Wood cutter]]s use battle axes, and [[miner]]s use picks. They must be in possession of these items to do their jobs, and it's as simple as that.

=== Ammunition ===
:''Main article: [[Ammunition]]''

Crossbows and other ranged weapons require [[ammunition]] (in the case of the crossbow, [[bolt]]s). This ammunition is carried in a [[quiver]] in packs of about 25, and when they run out they will switch to using their ranged weapons as crude hammers. It's often a good idea to get them to retreat once they run out of ammo — crossbows are for shooting, not bashing.

=== Secondary weapons ===
Although it sounds like a cool idea, equipping a marksdwarf with a backup shortsword just in case doesn't often work, as dwarves are just as quick to run up their foes and start bashing them with a crossbow as they are to draw their swords and do it properly.

== Weapons ==
=== Native weapons ===
{| class="wikitable" border="border"
! Type
! Size
! Attack
! [[Attack type]]
! Contact Area
! Penetration
! Velocity
! Skill Used
! Hands Used
! [[Weaponsmith|Metal]]
! [[Bowyer|Wood]]
! [[Bowyer|Bone]]
! [[Stone crafter|Obsidian]]
|- valign="top"
|rowspan="3"| Battle Axe
|rowspan="3"| 800
| Hack || Edge || 40000 || 6000 || 1.25x
|rowspan="3"| Axe
|rowspan="3"| Multigrasp?
|rowspan="3"| Yes
|rowspan="3"| No
|rowspan="3"| No
|rowspan="3"| No
|-
| Flat slap || Blunt || 40000 || (6000) || 1.25x
|-
| Pommel strike || Blunt || 100 || (1000) || 1x
|-
| Crossbow (Melee)
| 400
| Bash || Blunt || 10000 || (4000) || 1.25x
| Hammer
| Singlegrasp?
| Yes
| Yes
| Yes
| No
|-
| Mace
| 800
| Bash || Blunt || 20 || (200) || 2.0x
| Mace
| Singlegrasp
| Yes
| No
| No
| No
|-
| Pick (foreign)
| 500
| Strike || Edge || 100 || 4000 || 2.0x
| Mining
| Singlegrasp
| Yes
| No
| No
| No
|- valign="top"
|rowspan="4"| Short Sword
|rowspan="4"| 300
| Slash || Edge || 20000 || 4000 || 1.25x
|rowspan="4"| Sword
|rowspan="4"| Singlegrasp
|rowspan="4"| Yes
|rowspan="4"| No
|rowspan="4"| No
|rowspan="4"| Yes
|-
| Stab || Edge || 50 || 2000 || 1.0x
|-
| Flat slap || Blunt || 20000 || (4000) || 1.25x
|-
| Pommel strike || Blunt || 100 || (1000) || 1.0x
|- valign="top"
|rowspan="2"| Spear
|rowspan="2"| 400
| Stab || Edge || 20 || 10000 || 1.0x
|rowspan="2"| Spear
|rowspan="2"| Singlegrasp
|rowspan="2"| Yes
|rowspan="2"| No
|rowspan="2"| No
|rowspan="2"| No
|-
| Shaft bash || Blunt || 10000 || (6000) || 1.25x
|-
| War Hammer
| 400
| Bash || Blunt || 10 || (200) || 2.0x
| Hammer
| Singlegrasp
| Yes
| No
| No
| No
|}

Note that although the [[pick]] is a foreign weapon, it can be produced by dwarves and is therefore considered native.

=== Details ===
*If you find your dwarves wearing more than one weapon -- or any unwanted [[armor]], for that matter -- one way to get rid of them is to dump the weapon from their {{k|v}}-{{k|i}} inventory screen. This does not always work, as they might re-equip the item. Another option is to remove any weapons and/or shields listed on their military equip screen. This too does not always work. At least "left-handedness" seems to not pose a problem. If you cancel the work by {{k|v}}-{{k|p}} and selecting a job that needs a tool they will sometimes put it back in the pile. Example: Miners use picks, cancel their mining job and they will put the pick away AFTER you ordered it to be dumped.
* Using weapons is much more effective than unarmed combat -- an untrained swordsdwarf with an [[iron]] weapon can defeat a grand master [[wrestler]], provided neither is wearing armor.
** Larger weapons with more heft tend to do more damage. How damage is calculated is currently not fully understood, and this is an area requiring more research.
* The size for a weapon is its volume in cm3.
* Attacks of type EDGE will either slice or pierce their target, depending on the contact area and penetration depth, while BLUNT attacks tend to damage internal organs without necessarily causing significant damage to outer layers.
* The contact area represents the area of contact of the weapon, and the penetration determines how deep the attack goes (and is apparently ignored entirely for BLUNT attacks -- indicated by numbers in parentheses). Large contact areas combined with low penetration represent slashing attacks, while small contact areas with high penetration behave as piercing attacks.
* The velocity seems to adjust the amount of actual force used during the attack (otherwise based on the size of the weapon, the material from which the weapon is made, and the strength of the wielder) - for example, war hammers have a 2x velocity multiplier, presumably to model the fact that the hammer's mass is concentrated at the tip which, when combined with a long handle, permits swinging it harder than a weapon whose mass is evenly distributed (such as a sword).
* Crossbows can be made of metal, wood, and bone. Metal crossbows are made by a [[weaponsmith]] at a [[forge]], while wood and bone crossbows are made by a [[bowyer]] at a bowyer's workshop. The material of a crossbow does not affect its firing ability, only its melee damage. A dwarf's marksmanship skill is only affected by the core [[item quality|quality]] of the bow. This may be a consideration when deciding which dwarf you want outfitting your marksdwarves: a [[experience|legendary]] bowyer is a better choice than a proficient weaponsmith.

=== Training weapons ===
All training weapons must be made of [[wood]] at the [[carpenter's workshop]].

{| class="wikitable" border="border"
|-
! Type
! Size
! Attack
! [[Attack type]]
! Contact Area
! Penetration
! Velocity
! Skill Used
|- valign="top"
|rowspan="3"| Training Axe
|rowspan="3"| 800
| Hack || Blunt || 30000 || (6000) || 1.25x
|rowspan="3"| Axe
|-
| Flat slap || Blunt || 30000 || (6000) || 1.25x
|-
| Pommel strike || Blunt || 100 || (1000) || 1.0x
|- valign="top"
|rowspan="4"| Training Sword
|rowspan="4"| 300
| Slash || Blunt || 20000 || (4000) || 1.25x
|rowspan="4"| Sword
|-
| Stab || Blunt || 50 || (2000) || 1.0x
|-
| Flat slap || Blunt || 20000 || (4000) || 1.25x
|-
| Pommel strike || Blunt || 100 || (1000) || 1.0x
|- valign="top"
|rowspan="2"| Training Spear
|rowspan="2"| 400
| Stab || Blunt || 200 || (10000) || 1.0x
|rowspan="2"| Spear
|-
| Shaft bash || Blunt || 10000 || (6000) || 1.25x
|}

=== Foreign weapons ===
Using any multigrasp weapon in a single hand (ie. with a shield in the other hand) gives you a disability to hit. Do not equip two-handed swords with a shield, for instance.

{| class="wikitable" border="border"
|-
! Type
! Size
! Attack
! [[Attack type]]
! Contact Area
! Penetration
! Velocity
! Skill Used
! Used by
! Hands Used
|- valign="top"
|rowspan="4"| 2H Sword
|rowspan="4"| 900
| Slash || Edge || 100000 || 8000 || 1.25x
|rowspan="4"| Sword
|rowspan="4"| [[Goblin]], [[Human]]
|rowspan="4"| Multigrasp
|-
| Stab || Edge || 50 || 4000 || 1.0x
|-
| Flat slap || Blunt || 100000 || (8000) || 1.25x
|-
| Pommel strike || Blunt || 100 || (1000) || 1.0x
|- valign="top"
| Blowgun (Melee)
| 150
| Bash || Blunt || 10000 || (4000) || 1.25x
| Sword
| Subterranean animal peoples
| Singlegrasp?
|- valign="top"
| Bow (Melee)
| 300
| Bash || Blunt || 10000 || (4000) || 1.25x
| Sword
| [[Elf]], Goblin, Human, [[Kobold]]
| Singlegrasp?
|- valign="top"
| Flail
| 500
| Bash || Blunt || 200 || (4000) || 2.5x
| Mace
| Goblin, Human
| Singlegrasp
|- valign="top"
|rowspan="3"| Great Axe
|rowspan="3"| 1300
| Hack || Edge || 60000 || 8000 || 1.25x
|rowspan="3"| Axe
|rowspan="3"| Goblin, Human
|rowspan="3"| Multigrasp
|-
| Flat slap || Blunt || 60000 || (8000) || 1.25x
|-
| Pommel strike || Blunt || 100 || (1000) || 1.0x
|- valign="top"
|rowspan="3"| Halberd
|rowspan="3"| 1200
| Slash || Edge || 20000 || 8000 || 1.25x
|rowspan="3"| Axe
|rowspan="3"| Goblin, Human
|rowspan="3"| Multigrasp
|-
| Stab || Edge || 50 || 2000 || 1.0x
|-
| Shaft bash || Blunt || 20000 || (6000) || 1.25x
|- valign="top"
|rowspan="3"| Dagger (Large)
|rowspan="3"| 200
| Slash || Edge || 1000 || 800 || 1.25x
|rowspan="3"| Dagger
|rowspan="3"| Goblin, Kobold
|rowspan="3"| Singlegrasp
|-
| Stab || Edge || 5 || 1000 || 1.0x
|-
| Pommel strike || Blunt || 20 || (600) || 1.0x
|- valign="top"
|rowspan="4"| Long Sword
|rowspan="4"| 700
| Slash || Edge || 60000 || 6000 || 1.25x
|rowspan="4"| Sword
|rowspan="4"| Elf, Goblin, Human
|rowspan="4"| Singlegrasp
|-
| Stab || Edge || 50 || 3000 || 1.0x
|-
| Flat slap || Blunt || 60000 || (6000) || 1.25x
|-
| Pommel strike || Blunt || 100 || (1000) || 1.0x
|- valign="top"
| Maul
| 1300
| Bash || Blunt || 100 || (6000) || 2.0x
| Hammer
| Goblin, Human
| Multigrasp
|- valign="top"
|rowspan="2"| Morningstar
|rowspan="2"| 500
| Bash || Edge || 10 || 500 || 2.0x
|rowspan="2"| Mace
|rowspan="2"| Goblin, Human
|rowspan="2"| Singlegrasp
|-
| Pommel strike || Blunt || 50 || (1000) || 1.0x
|- valign="top"
|rowspan="2"| Pike
|rowspan="2"| 800
| Stab || Edge || 20 || 12000 || 1.0x
|rowspan="2"| Pike
|rowspan="2"| Goblin, Human
|rowspan="2"| Multigrasp
|-
| Shaft bash || Blunt || 10000 || (6000) || 1.25x
|- valign="top"
|rowspan="4"| Scimitar
|rowspan="4"| 300
| Slash || Edge || 20000 || 4000 || 1.25x
|rowspan="4"| Sword
|rowspan="4"| Goblin, Human
|rowspan="4"| Singlegrasp
|-
| Stab || Edge || 50 || 2000 || 1.0x
|-
| Flat slap || Blunt || 20000 || (4000) || 1.25x
|-
| Pommel strike || Blunt || 50 || (1000) || 1.0x
|- valign="top"
| Scourge
| 300
| Lash || Edge || 10 || 50 || 2.0x
| Whip
| Goblin
| Singlegrasp
|- valign="top"
| Whip
| 100
| Lash || Blunt || 1 || (10) || 5.0x
| Whip
| Goblin, Human
| Singlegrasp
|}

== Size==
Weapons have a minimum size to use at all, and a minimum size to use one-handed. Adult dwarves vary in size between 33750 and 93750 (average 60000) based on their height and broadness, so not all dwarves can use all weapons. The following table shows approximately how many dwarves can use each weapon one or two handed.
{| class="wikitable" border="border"
|-
! Type
! Min Size
(Two-Handed)
! Min Size
(One-Handed)
! Dwarves
Can't Wield
! Dwarves Wield
Two-Handed
! Dwarves Wield
One-Handed
|- valign="top"
| Battle Axe
| 42500
| 47500
| 1/49
| 10/49
| 38/49
|- valign="top"
| Crossbow (Melee)
| 15000
| 0
| -
| -
| 49/49
|- valign="top"
| Mace
| 32500
| 37500
| -
| 1/49
| 48/49
|- valign="top"
| Pick
| 42500
| 47500
| 1/49
| 10/49
| 38/49
|- valign="top"
| Short Sword
| 32500
| 37500
| -
| 1/49
| 48/49
|- valign="top"
| Spear
| 5000
| 47500
| -
| 11/49
| 38/49
|- valign="top"
| War Hammer
| 32500
| 37500
| -
| 1/49
| 48/49
|- valign="top"
| Training Axe
| 42500
| 47500
| 1/49
| 10/49
| 38/49
|- valign="top"
| Training Sword
| 32500
| 37500
| -
| 1/49
| 48/49
|- valign="top"
| Training Spear
| 42500
| 47500
| 1/49
| 10/49
| 38/49
|- valign="top"
| 2H Sword
| 62500
| 77500
| 32/49
| 14/49
| 3/49
|- valign="top"
| Blowgun (Melee)
| 15000
| 0
| -
| -
| 49/49
|- valign="top"
| Bow (Melee)
| 15000
| 0
| -
| -
| 49/49
|- valign="top"
| Flail
| 42500
| 47500
| 1/49
| 10/49
| 38/49
|- valign="top"
| Great Axe
| 62500
| 77500
| 32/49
| 14/49
| 3/49
|- valign="top"
| Halberd
| 62500
| 77500
| 32/49
| 14/49
| 3/49
|- valign="top"
| Dagger (Large)
| 5000
| 27500
| -
| -
| 49/49
|- valign="top"
| Long Sword
| 52500
| 57500
| 11/49
| 7/49
| 31/49
|- valign="top"
| Maul
| 62500
| 77500
| 32/49
| 14/49
| 3/49
|- valign="top"
| Morningstar
| 32500
| 37500
| -
| 1/49
| 48/49
|- valign="top"
| Pike
| 62500
| 77500
| 32/49
| 14/49
| 3/49
|- valign="top"
| Scimitar
| 32500
| 37500
| -
| 1/49
| 48/49
|- valign="top"
| Scourge
| 22500
| 27500
| -
| -
| 49/49
|- valign="top"
| Whip
| 22500
| 27500
| -
| -
| 49/49
|}

See [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=101379.msg3029579#msg3029579 this forum post] for details.

==Weapon Material Quality==
{{v0.31 material metal table head}}

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}}

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}}

{{v0.31 material metal table row|name=Bismuth bronze|color={{Tile|/|6:1}}6:6:1|source=2 [[Copper]] + 1 [[Tin]] + 1 [[Bismuth]] '''!'''|notes= |soliddensity=8.25|val=6|valinc=+4|mp=11868|impactyield=602|impactfracture=843|impactelasticity=547|shearyield=172|shearfracture=241|shearelasticity=156
}}

{{v0.31 material metal table row|name=Bronze|color={{Tile|/|6:0}}6:4:0|source=[[Tin]] + [[Copper]]|notes= |soliddensity=8.25|val=5|valinc=+3|mp=11868|impactyield=602|impactfracture=843|impactelasticity=547|shearyield=172|shearfracture=241|shearelasticity=156
}}

{{v0.31 material metal table row|name=Iron|color={{Tile|/|0:1}}0:7:1|source=[[Hematite]], [[Limonite]], [[Magnetite]]|notes= |soliddensity=7.85|mp=12768|val=10|valinc=+2|impactyield=542|impactfracture=1080|impactelasticity=319|shearyield=155|shearfracture=310|shearelasticity=189
}}

{{v0.31 material metal table row|name=Copper|color={{Tile|/|6:0}}6:4:0|source=[[Native copper]], [[Malachite]], [[Tetrahedrite]]|notes= |soliddensity=8.93|mp=11952|val=2|valinc=+0, +0, -1*|impactyield=245|impactfracture=770|impactelasticity=175|shearyield=70|shearfracture=220|shearelasticity=145
}}

{{v0.31 material metal table row|name=Silver|color={{Tile|/|7:1}}7:7:1|source=[[Native silver]], [[Horn silver]], [[Galena]] (50%), [[Tetrahedrite]] (20%) |notes= |soliddensity=10.49|mp=11731|val=10|valinc=+0, +0, +5*, +7*|impactyield=350|impactfracture=595|impactelasticity=350|shearyield=100|shearfracture=170|shearelasticity=333
}}

{{v0.31 material metal table row|name=Bone|color={{Tile|/|7:1}}7:7:1|source=Creatures|notes= |soliddensity=0.50|mp=NONE(burn at 10250)|val=1|valinc=+?, +?, +?, +?|impactyield=200|impactfracture=200|impactelasticity=100|shearyield=115|shearfracture=130|shearelasticity=100
}}

{{v0.31 material metal table row|name=Wood|color={{Tile|/|6:0}}7:7:1|source=Trees|notes= |soliddensity=0.50|mp=NONE(burn at 10250)|val=1|valinc=+?, +?, +?, +?|impactyield=10|impactfracture=10|impactelasticity=1000|shearyield=40|shearfracture=40|shearelasticity=1000
}}

{{v0.31 material metal table row|name=Shell|color={{Tile|/|2:0}}7:7:1|source=Creatures|notes= Only available as Artifact Weapons.|soliddensity=0.50|mp=NONE(burn at 10250)|val=1|valinc=+?, +?, +?, +?|impactyield=200|impactfracture=200|impactelasticity=100|shearyield=115|shearfracture=130|shearelasticity=100
}}

{{v0.31 material metal table row|name=Obsidian|color={{Tile|/|0:1}}7:7:1|source=Lava|notes= Only available for Short Swords.|soliddensity=2.67|mp=13600|val=3|valinc=+0|impactyield=120|impactfracture=120|impactelasticity=100|shearyield=15|shearfracture=15|shearelasticity=100
}}

{{v0.31 material metal table row|name=Crystal glass|color={{Tile|/|7:1}}7:7:1|source=Sand|notes= Only available as Trap Components.|soliddensity=2.6|mp=13600|val=10|valinc=+0|impactyield=1000|impactfracture=1000|impactelasticity=2222|shearyield=33|shearfracture=33|shearelasticity=113
}}

{{v0.31 material metal table row|name=Clear glass|color={{Tile|/|3:0}}7:7:1|source=Sand|notes= Only available as Trap Components.|soliddensity=2.6|mp=13600|val=5|valinc=+0|impactyield=1000|impactfracture=1000|impactelasticity=2222|shearyield=33|shearfracture=33|shearelasticity=113
}}

{{v0.31 material metal table row|name=Green glass|color={{Tile|/|2:0}}7:7:1|source=Sand|notes= Only available as Trap Components.|soliddensity=2.6|mp=13600|val=2|valinc=+0|impactyield=1000|impactfracture=1000|impactelasticity=2222|shearyield=33|shearfracture=33|shearelasticity=113
}}

|}

*''Combat information'' is used internally by the game to determine the combat properties of weapons and armor made from this metal:
**'''Density''': Used in conjunction with other factors - heavier weapons (higher numbers) hit with more force, light weapons tend to have less penetration. Value shown here is g/cm3, which is the raw value divided by 103
**'''Impact yield''': Used for blunt-force combat; ''higher'' is better. This is the raw value divided by 103 (i.e., kPa).
**'''Impact fracture''': Used for blunt-force combat; ''higher'' is better. This is the raw value divided by 103 (i.e., kPa).
**'''Impact strain at yield''': Used for blunt-force combat; ''lower'' is better. This is the raw value.
**'''Shear yield''': Used for cutting calculations in combat; ''higher'' is better. This is the raw value divided by 103 (i.e., kPa).
**'''Shear fracture''': Used for cutting calculations in combat; ''higher'' is better. This is the raw value divided by 103 (i.e., kPa).
**'''Shear strain at yield''': Used for cutting calculations in combat; ''lower'' is better. This is the raw value.

*General Term Explanations (From Wikipedia)
**'''Yield Strength''' - The stress at which material strain changes from elastic deformation to plastic deformation, causing it to deform permanently.
**'''Fracture Strength''' - The stress coordinate on the stress-strain curve at the point of rupture.
**'''Stress''' - Force per area = F/A
**'''Strain''' - Deformation of a solid due to stress = Stress/Young's Modulus

=== Explanation ===
* '''Yield Strength''' is the amount of stress required to permanently deform (bend) a material (plastic deformation).
* '''Fracture Strength''' is the amount of stress required to permanently break (rupture) a material.
* '''Strain at yield''' is the amount of deformation (bending) that occurs at the yield point.

=== Inmplications ===
Yield strength combined with strain at yield can tell what a material will do under stress (be it from a hammer, axe, or arrow); higher yield means that it takes more stress to deform, while lower strain at yield means that it will deform less when stress is applied.

== Combat Testing & Analysis ==
[[Adamantine]] and [[steel]] take first and second place respectively, with [[iron]] the third best material in the game. Beyond which, bronze is in a close tie with copper as to being the second worst material. Silver is the worst weapon material available (and due to the existence of training weapons, not even useful in that regard) in regards to edged weaponry.

Additionally, with regards to blunt weapons almost all of the non-adamantine materials perform equally well, with a very slight edge towards steel and silver. Here is the thread with the details: [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=53571.0].

Keep in mind with how unbelievably complicated this system is nothing should be taken as word of law yet.

{| {{prettytable}}
|- bgcolor="#999999"
!
! Best
! Better
! Good
! Fair
! Poor
! Terrible
! Notes

|-
| Armor
| Adamantine
| Steel
| Iron
| Bronze, Bismuth Bronze
| Copper
|
|

|-
| Edged Weapons
| Adamantine (worst for missiles)
| Steel
| Iron
| Bronze, Bismuth Bronze
| Copper
| Silver
| For piercing iron armor, copper is better than bronze. For piercing copper or bronze armor, bronze is better than copper.
|-
| Blunt Weapons
| Steel, Silver
| Copper, Bismuth Bronze, Bronze, Iron
| ---
| ---
| ---
| Adamantine
| All six non-adamantine metals perform nearly identically. Steel has a slightly higher rate of critical wounds, while silver is slightly more likely to penetrate armor.

|}

Cross refrencing this table with the table at the top of this section seems to indicate that low densities, high impact fractures, and high shear fractures contribute to the killing power of edged weapons.

===Arena Testing===

Testing of weapons (15 dwarves vs. 15 dwarves combats) in the [[object testing arena]] shows that the best dwarven-made weapon against humanoids is the [[silver]] war hammer {{version|0.31.12}}.

Even in 15×(steel armor+silver war hammer) versus 15×(adamantine armor+adamantine battle axe) matches, hammerdwarves won with less than 50% casualties (mostly one-strike kills). However, when the dwarves in question were without armor or only wearing leather/cloth, the result was inverted — axedwarves won with less than 50% casualties. In battles against megabeasts, 6 silver hammerdwarves were barely able to scratch a [[bronze colossus]] (attacks were glancing away) due to bronze being a better "weapon" material.

This is because silver has the highest solid density of all materials that can regularly be made into weapons by dwarves. Tests show that indeed [[gold]] and [[platinum]] (increasingly dense) do increasing amounts of damage, and that war hammers remain the tool of choice, however they can only be produced by a moody dwarf (and a very lucky one at that).

More arena tests are available in the [[Main:Military testing|Military testing]] article.

==Bugs==
*Equipping weapons/armor on military is erratic{{Bug|535}}

==See also==
* [[User:Shinziril#Weapons_and_Armor|Outstanding research]] on weapons and armor by Shinziril

[[Category:Weapons]]

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:''This page deals entirely with manufactured weapons. For natural weapons, see [[Natural weapon]].''

A '''manufactured weapon''', also sometimes simply refered to as a '''weapon''' is a manufactured weapon used by a dwarf or other [[:Category:DF2012:Humanoids|humanoid]].

== Basics ==
=== Native vs. foreign ===
Weapons fall into two categories: those that you can produce, and those that you can't. [[Weaponsmith]]s can produce seven types of native weapons at a [[metalsmith's forge]], but there are also fourteen foreign weapons that can be bought from trading caravans. These cannot be reliably produced by your dwarves, and may use skills they are unfamiliar with. It is also impossible to buy them in bulk, and considering they are of variable quality and material and usually quite expensive, they are rarely worth it, except when they are products of [[strange mood]]s (see strange moods, below). Since they are bread-and-butter for other nations, it is important to understand their properties when you have to fight enemies wielding them.

=== Types of weapons ===
{{main|Attack types}}
One can divide weapons in dwarf fortress into three categories. The first is slashing weapons, like the shortsword and battle axe. These weapons work by concentrating their force along a blade, allowing them to make gashes in or completely sever body parts, and given the opportunity, make the quickest work of their foes. They are far less effective against armored targets, however, as armor will block most hits and convert them into weaker blunt damage.

The second is piercing weapons, like the spear and foreign pike. These weapons work by concentrating their force at a point, allowing them to punch through armor and damage internal organs, often getting stuck and giving their wielder further leverage on the target. Note that ranged weapons - [[crossbow]]s, bows, and blowguns - are effectively piercing weapons with range to them. When used in melee, these weapons function like weaker war hammers.

The third is crushing weapons, like the war hammer and mace. These weapons work by concentrating their force behind a large, blunt mass, putting dents in armor and breaking bones beneath their blows. These weapons are slow to kill their targets - dwarves have a habit of breaking every bone in their opponent's body before moving on to the next target - but are the most effective weapons against heavy and heavily armored foes which shrug off damage more easily.

There's also training weapons. Training weapons are all wooden, and all made at the [[Carpenter's workshop|carpenter's workshop]]. Training axes, spears, and short swords can be constructed in dwarf fortress mode. They used to be useful for avoiding sparring injuries, but since dwarves sparring generally do not carry that risk, they are mostly useless, except in [[danger room]]s.

=== Types of targets ===
One can divide the types of foes you will meet into three categories. The first is organic and unarmored (or poorly armored) enemies, like [[thief|thieves]], non-sentient [[creature]]s (be it local wildlife or siege mounts), [[semi-megabeast]]s and [[megabeast]]s besides the [[bronze colossus]]. Weapons that deal slashing damage work best and quickest against these types of enemies, severing whole body parts and leaving them severely incapacitated.

The second is organic and armored enemies, like [[ambush]]ers and [[siege]]rs. The way [[armor]] works, slashing blows that are countered by a piece of armor are converted into generally less effective blunt damage; the best damage against these kinds of enemies are piercing weapons, which punch through armor and damage their internal organs, incapacitating them and allowing the wielder to finish them off. Crushing weapons work as well, although they are slower.

The third and most dangerous types of enemies are inorganic enemies (or ones that [[Giant cave spider|don't feel pain]]), which are [[titan]]s, [[forgotten beast]]s, [[bronze colossus]]es, and [[HFS|hidden fun stuff]]. These enemies ''have'' no internal organs, and depending on the material they are made of, may be very difficult to slash at (although a forgotten beast made of, for instance, mud is laughably easy to kill). Against these enemies, crushing weapons are the best, because they can chip at their foes until they collapse from cumulative damage.

=== Weapon skill ===
{{main|Combat skill#Weapon skill}}
Every type of weapon has its own associated [[military]] [[skill]]. The higher a dwarf is in his skill with a weapon, the better he will be able to use it in combat, connecting hammer blows to more advantageous sweet spots and sending spears right through enemy hearts and lungs with greater accuracy. The higher the weapon skill, the better at fighting the dwarf will be.

Once a dwarf has reached "Great" skill in a certain weapon, they become weapon lords for that specific weapon. They are listed as such on the [[status]] screen, will love fighting, and will no longer complain about long patrol duties. Weapon skill is trained in fighting enemies in combat, demonstrations, and combat drills, but if you leave your dwarves shieldless, a [[danger room]] will train their skill very, very quickly. Note that this does not quite work for marksdwarves - danger rooming ranged weapons increases their melee skill, increasing their hammerdwarf skill, although [[Cross-training|this may be the point]].

=== Attachment ===
A dwarf that has has used a particular weapon for a long time will grow attached to it, and be very unhappy if you take it away. This is fine if they are wielding a ☼Steel Mace☼, but a major problem if they are wielding what is meant to be a training weapon (be it a wooden axe or a copper spear). You can avoid this pitfall by not using training weapons and not forging weapons until you have real weaponsmithing underway. These events generate [[announcement]]s.

In addition, dwarves that reach a certain number or level of kills with a weapon will name it. This prompts a major announcement, and usually happens after a dwarf manages to put down something significant — a forgotten beast for instance. Only the last shot counts for the [[kill list|kill]]. Once named, the weapon will appear in the artifact list, albeit in blue.

=== Quality and strange moods ===
The quality of a weapon has a significant (and currently poorly understood) impact on its combat performance, as well as being significantly more valuable.
{{v0.31:Item quality/Table}}

Weaponsmithing is a moodable profession, which means that you can get [[artifact]] weapons. This is a bit of a mixed bag: although a legendary [[armorsmith]], [[engraver]], or [[stonecrafter]] would be more useful, it's certainly better then a legendary [[mechanic]]. Artifact weapons have a 3x combat bonus, but do ''not'' have to be made of logical materials; ordinarily a [[rainbow trout]] [[bone]] spear is impossible, but a moody dwarf can create one with a single bone. Thus artifact weapons made of totally inappropriate materials are inferior to regular ones made of weapons-grade metal, although the exact balance is still under discussion.

Dwarves in strange moods are not held to producing native weapons, and in fact often don't, as the number of foreign weapons outnumbers the natives. In the case where they create a valuable and battle-worthy foreign weapon (like a steel two-handed sword), it's worth it to manually go through your dwarves to find someone who can best utilize it, and assign it to him. See the caveats of foreign weapons however, discussed below.

=== Weapons as tools ===
[[Hunter]]s use crossbows, [[Wood cutter]]s use battle axes, and [[miner]]s use picks. They must be in possession of these items to do their jobs, and it's as simple as that.

=== Ammunition ===
:''Main article: [[Ammunition]]''

Crossbows and other ranged weapons require [[ammunition]] (in the case of the crossbow, [[bolt]]s). This ammunition is carried in a [[quiver]] in packs of about 25, and when they run out they will switch to using their ranged weapons as crude hammers. It's often a good idea to get them to retreat once they run out of ammo — crossbows are for shooting, not bashing.

=== Secondary weapons ===
Although it sounds like a cool idea, equipping a marksdwarf with a backup shortsword just in case doesn't often work, as dwarves are just as quick to run up their foes and start bashing them with a crossbow as they are to draw their swords and do it properly.

== Weapons ==
=== Native weapons ===
{| class="wikitable" border="border"
! Type
! Size
! Attack
! [[Attack type]]
! Contact Area
! Penetration
! Velocity
! Skill Used
! Hands Used
! [[Weaponsmith|Metal]]
! [[Bowyer|Wood]]
! [[Bowyer|Bone]]
! [[Stone crafter|Obsidian]]
|- valign="top"
|rowspan="3"| Battle Axe
|rowspan="3"| 800
| Hack || Edge || 40000 || 6000 || 1.25x
|rowspan="3"| Axe
|rowspan="3"| Multigrasp?
|rowspan="3"| Yes
|rowspan="3"| No
|rowspan="3"| No
|rowspan="3"| No
|-
| Flat slap || Blunt || 40000 || (6000) || 1.25x
|-
| Pommel strike || Blunt || 100 || (1000) || 1x
|-
| Crossbow (Melee)
| 400
| Bash || Blunt || 10000 || (4000) || 1.25x
| Hammer
| Singlegrasp?
| Yes
| Yes
| Yes
| No
|-
| Mace
| 800
| Bash || Blunt || 20 || (200) || 2.0x
| Mace
| Singlegrasp
| Yes
| No
| No
| No
|-
| Pick (foreign)
| 500
| Strike || Edge || 100 || 4000 || 2.0x
| Mining
| Singlegrasp
| Yes
| No
| No
| No
|- valign="top"
|rowspan="4"| Short Sword
|rowspan="4"| 300
| Slash || Edge || 20000 || 4000 || 1.25x
|rowspan="4"| Sword
|rowspan="4"| Singlegrasp
|rowspan="4"| Yes
|rowspan="4"| No
|rowspan="4"| No
|rowspan="4"| Yes
|-
| Stab || Edge || 50 || 2000 || 1.0x
|-
| Flat slap || Blunt || 20000 || (4000) || 1.25x
|-
| Pommel strike || Blunt || 100 || (1000) || 1.0x
|- valign="top"
|rowspan="2"| Spear
|rowspan="2"| 400
| Stab || Edge || 20 || 10000 || 1.0x
|rowspan="2"| Spear
|rowspan="2"| Singlegrasp
|rowspan="2"| Yes
|rowspan="2"| No
|rowspan="2"| No
|rowspan="2"| No
|-
| Shaft bash || Blunt || 10000 || (6000) || 1.25x
|-
| War Hammer
| 400
| Bash || Blunt || 10 || (200) || 2.0x
| Hammer
| Singlegrasp
| Yes
| No
| No
| No
|}

Note that although the [[pick]] is a foreign weapon, it can be produced by dwarves and is therefore considered native.

=== Details ===
*If you find your dwarves wearing more than one weapon -- or any unwanted [[armor]], for that matter -- one way to get rid of them is to dump the weapon from their {{k|v}}-{{k|i}} inventory screen. This does not always work, as they might re-equip the item. Another option is to remove any weapons and/or shields listed on their military equip screen. This too does not always work. At least "left-handedness" seems to not pose a problem. If you cancel the work by {{k|v}}-{{k|p}} and selecting a job that needs a tool they will sometimes put it back in the pile. Example: Miners use picks, cancel their mining job and they will put the pick away AFTER you ordered it to be dumped.
* Using weapons is much more effective than unarmed combat -- an untrained swordsdwarf with an [[iron]] weapon can defeat a grand master [[wrestler]], provided neither is wearing armor.
** Larger weapons with more heft tend to do more damage. How damage is calculated is currently not fully understood, and this is an area requiring more research.
* The size for a weapon is its volume in cm3.
* Attacks of type EDGE will either slice or pierce their target, depending on the contact area and penetration depth, while BLUNT attacks tend to damage internal organs without necessarily causing significant damage to outer layers.
* The contact area represents the area of contact of the weapon, and the penetration determines how deep the attack goes (and is apparently ignored entirely for BLUNT attacks -- indicated by numbers in parentheses). Large contact areas combined with low penetration represent slashing attacks, while small contact areas with high penetration behave as piercing attacks.
* The velocity seems to adjust the amount of actual force used during the attack (otherwise based on the size of the weapon, the material from which the weapon is made, and the strength of the wielder) - for example, war hammers have a 2x velocity multiplier, presumably to model the fact that the hammer's mass is concentrated at the tip which, when combined with a long handle, permits swinging it harder than a weapon whose mass is evenly distributed (such as a sword).
* Crossbows can be made of metal, wood, and bone. Metal crossbows are made by a [[weaponsmith]] at a [[forge]], while wood and bone crossbows are made by a [[bowyer]] at a bowyer's workshop. The material of a crossbow does not affect its firing ability, only its melee damage. A dwarf's marksmanship skill is only affected by the core [[item quality|quality]] of the bow. This may be a consideration when deciding which dwarf you want outfitting your marksdwarves: a [[experience|legendary]] bowyer is a better choice than a proficient weaponsmith.

=== Training weapons ===
All training weapons must be made of [[wood]] at the [[carpenter's workshop]].

{| class="wikitable" border="border"
|-
! Type
! Size
! Attack
! [[Attack type]]
! Contact Area
! Penetration
! Velocity
! Skill Used
|- valign="top"
|rowspan="3"| Training Axe
|rowspan="3"| 800
| Hack || Blunt || 30000 || (6000) || 1.25x
|rowspan="3"| Axe
|-
| Flat slap || Blunt || 30000 || (6000) || 1.25x
|-
| Pommel strike || Blunt || 100 || (1000) || 1.0x
|- valign="top"
|rowspan="4"| Training Sword
|rowspan="4"| 300
| Slash || Blunt || 20000 || (4000) || 1.25x
|rowspan="4"| Sword
|-
| Stab || Blunt || 50 || (2000) || 1.0x
|-
| Flat slap || Blunt || 20000 || (4000) || 1.25x
|-
| Pommel strike || Blunt || 100 || (1000) || 1.0x
|- valign="top"
|rowspan="2"| Training Spear
|rowspan="2"| 400
| Stab || Blunt || 200 || (10000) || 1.0x
|rowspan="2"| Spear
|-
| Shaft bash || Blunt || 10000 || (6000) || 1.25x
|}

=== Foreign weapons ===
Using any multigrasp weapon in a single hand (ie. with a shield in the other hand) gives you a disability to hit. Do not equip two-handed swords with a shield, for instance.

{| class="wikitable" border="border"
|-
! Type
! Size
! Attack
! [[Attack type]]
! Contact Area
! Penetration
! Velocity
! Skill Used
! Used by
! Hands Used
|- valign="top"
|rowspan="4"| 2H Sword
|rowspan="4"| 900
| Slash || Edge || 100000 || 8000 || 1.25x
|rowspan="4"| Sword
|rowspan="4"| [[Goblin]], [[Human]]
|rowspan="4"| Multigrasp
|-
| Stab || Edge || 50 || 4000 || 1.0x
|-
| Flat slap || Blunt || 100000 || (8000) || 1.25x
|-
| Pommel strike || Blunt || 100 || (1000) || 1.0x
|- valign="top"
| Blowgun (Melee)
| 150
| Bash || Blunt || 10000 || (4000) || 1.25x
| Sword
| Subterranean animal peoples
| Singlegrasp?
|- valign="top"
| Bow (Melee)
| 300
| Bash || Blunt || 10000 || (4000) || 1.25x
| Sword
| [[Elf]], Goblin, Human, [[Kobold]]
| Singlegrasp?
|- valign="top"
| Flail
| 500
| Bash || Blunt || 200 || (4000) || 2.5x
| Mace
| Goblin, Human
| Singlegrasp
|- valign="top"
|rowspan="3"| Great Axe
|rowspan="3"| 1300
| Hack || Edge || 60000 || 8000 || 1.25x
|rowspan="3"| Axe
|rowspan="3"| Goblin, Human
|rowspan="3"| Multigrasp
|-
| Flat slap || Blunt || 60000 || (8000) || 1.25x
|-
| Pommel strike || Blunt || 100 || (1000) || 1.0x
|- valign="top"
|rowspan="3"| Halberd
|rowspan="3"| 1200
| Slash || Edge || 20000 || 8000 || 1.25x
|rowspan="3"| Axe
|rowspan="3"| Goblin, Human
|rowspan="3"| Multigrasp
|-
| Stab || Edge || 50 || 2000 || 1.0x
|-
| Shaft bash || Blunt || 20000 || (6000) || 1.25x
|- valign="top"
|rowspan="3"| Dagger (Large)
|rowspan="3"| 200
| Slash || Edge || 1000 || 800 || 1.25x
|rowspan="3"| Dagger
|rowspan="3"| Goblin, Kobold
|rowspan="3"| Singlegrasp
|-
| Stab || Edge || 5 || 1000 || 1.0x
|-
| Pommel strike || Blunt || 20 || (600) || 1.0x
|- valign="top"
|rowspan="4"| Long Sword
|rowspan="4"| 700
| Slash || Edge || 60000 || 6000 || 1.25x
|rowspan="4"| Sword
|rowspan="4"| Elf, Goblin, Human
|rowspan="4"| Singlegrasp
|-
| Stab || Edge || 50 || 3000 || 1.0x
|-
| Flat slap || Blunt || 60000 || (6000) || 1.25x
|-
| Pommel strike || Blunt || 100 || (1000) || 1.0x
|- valign="top"
| Maul
| 1300
| Bash || Blunt || 100 || (6000) || 2.0x
| Hammer
| Goblin, Human
| Multigrasp
|- valign="top"
|rowspan="2"| Morningstar
|rowspan="2"| 500
| Bash || Edge || 10 || 500 || 2.0x
|rowspan="2"| Mace
|rowspan="2"| Goblin, Human
|rowspan="2"| Singlegrasp
|-
| Pommel strike || Blunt || 50 || (1000) || 1.0x
|- valign="top"
|rowspan="2"| Pike
|rowspan="2"| 800
| Stab || Edge || 20 || 12000 || 1.0x
|rowspan="2"| Pike
|rowspan="2"| Goblin, Human
|rowspan="2"| Multigrasp
|-
| Shaft bash || Blunt || 10000 || (6000) || 1.25x
|- valign="top"
|rowspan="4"| Scimitar
|rowspan="4"| 300
| Slash || Edge || 20000 || 4000 || 1.25x
|rowspan="4"| Sword
|rowspan="4"| Goblin, Human
|rowspan="4"| Singlegrasp
|-
| Stab || Edge || 50 || 2000 || 1.0x
|-
| Flat slap || Blunt || 20000 || (4000) || 1.25x
|-
| Pommel strike || Blunt || 50 || (1000) || 1.0x
|- valign="top"
| Scourge
| 300
| Lash || Edge || 10 || 50 || 2.0x
| Whip
| Goblin
| Singlegrasp
|- valign="top"
| Whip
| 100
| Lash || Blunt || 1 || (10) || 5.0x
| Whip
| Goblin, Human
| Singlegrasp
|}

== Size==
Weapons have a minimum size to use at all, and a minimum size to use one-handed. Adult dwarves vary in size between 33750 and 93750 (average 60000) based on their height and broadness, so not all dwarves can use all weapons. The following table shows approximately how many dwarves can use each weapon one or two handed.
{| class="wikitable" border="border"
|-
! Type
! Min Size
(Two-Handed)
! Min Size
(One-Handed)
! Dwarves
Can't Wield
! Dwarves Wield
Two-Handed
! Dwarves Wield
One-Handed
|- valign="top"
| Battle Axe
| 42500
| 47500
| 1/49
| 10/49
| 38/49
|- valign="top"
| Crossbow (Melee)
| 15000
| 0
| -
| -
| 49/49
|- valign="top"
| Mace
| 32500
| 37500
| -
| 1/49
| 48/49
|- valign="top"
| Pick
| 42500
| 47500
| 1/49
| 10/49
| 38/49
|- valign="top"
| Short Sword
| 32500
| 37500
| -
| 1/49
| 48/49
|- valign="top"
| Spear
| 5000
| 47500
| -
| 11/49
| 38/49
|- valign="top"
| War Hammer
| 32500
| 37500
| -
| 1/49
| 48/49
|- valign="top"
| Training Axe
| 42500
| 47500
| 1/49
| 10/49
| 38/49
|- valign="top"
| Training Sword
| 32500
| 37500
| -
| 1/49
| 48/49
|- valign="top"
| Training Spear
| 42500
| 47500
| 1/49
| 10/49
| 38/49
|- valign="top"
| 2H Sword
| 62500
| 77500
| 32/49
| 14/49
| 3/49
|- valign="top"
| Blowgun (Melee)
| 15000
| 0
| -
| -
| 49/49
|- valign="top"
| Bow (Melee)
| 15000
| 0
| -
| -
| 49/49
|- valign="top"
| Flail
| 42500
| 47500
| 1/49
| 10/49
| 38/49
|- valign="top"
| Great Axe
| 62500
| 77500
| 32/49
| 14/49
| 3/49
|- valign="top"
| Halberd
| 62500
| 77500
| 32/49
| 14/49
| 3/49
|- valign="top"
| Dagger (Large)
| 5000
| 27500
| -
| -
| 49/49
|- valign="top"
| Long Sword
| 52500
| 57500
| 11/49
| 7/49
| 31/49
|- valign="top"
| Maul
| 62500
| 77500
| 32/49
| 14/49
| 3/49
|- valign="top"
| Morningstar
| 32500
| 37500
| -
| 1/49
| 48/49
|- valign="top"
| Pike
| 62500
| 77500
| 32/49
| 14/49
| 3/49
|- valign="top"
| Scimitar
| 32500
| 37500
| -
| 1/49
| 48/49
|- valign="top"
| Scourge
| 22500
| 27500
| -
| -
| 49/49
|- valign="top"
| Whip
| 22500
| 27500
| -
| -
| 49/49
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See [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=101379.msg3029579#msg3029579 this forum post] for details.

==Weapon Material Quality==
{{v0.31 material metal table head}}

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{{v0.31 material metal table row|name=Steel|color={{Tile|/|0:1}}0:7:1|source=[[Iron]] + [[Pig iron]] + [[flux]] stone + [[fuel]] '''!'''|notes= |soliddensity=7.85|val=30|valinc=+20|mp=12718|impactyield=1505|impactfracture=2520|impactelasticity=940|shearyield=430|shearfracture=720|shearelasticity=215
}}

{{v0.31 material metal table row|name=Bismuth bronze|color={{Tile|/|6:1}}6:6:1|source=2 [[Copper]] + 1 [[Tin]] + 1 [[Bismuth]] '''!'''|notes= |soliddensity=8.25|val=6|valinc=+4|mp=11868|impactyield=602|impactfracture=843|impactelasticity=547|shearyield=172|shearfracture=241|shearelasticity=156
}}

{{v0.31 material metal table row|name=Bronze|color={{Tile|/|6:0}}6:4:0|source=[[Tin]] + [[Copper]]|notes= |soliddensity=8.25|val=5|valinc=+3|mp=11868|impactyield=602|impactfracture=843|impactelasticity=547|shearyield=172|shearfracture=241|shearelasticity=156
}}

{{v0.31 material metal table row|name=Iron|color={{Tile|/|0:1}}0:7:1|source=[[Hematite]], [[Limonite]], [[Magnetite]]|notes= |soliddensity=7.85|mp=12768|val=10|valinc=+2|impactyield=542|impactfracture=1080|impactelasticity=319|shearyield=155|shearfracture=310|shearelasticity=189
}}

{{v0.31 material metal table row|name=Copper|color={{Tile|/|6:0}}6:4:0|source=[[Native copper]], [[Malachite]], [[Tetrahedrite]]|notes= |soliddensity=8.93|mp=11952|val=2|valinc=+0, +0, -1*|impactyield=245|impactfracture=770|impactelasticity=175|shearyield=70|shearfracture=220|shearelasticity=145
}}

{{v0.31 material metal table row|name=Silver|color={{Tile|/|7:1}}7:7:1|source=[[Native silver]], [[Horn silver]], [[Galena]] (50%), [[Tetrahedrite]] (20%) |notes= |soliddensity=10.49|mp=11731|val=10|valinc=+0, +0, +5*, +7*|impactyield=350|impactfracture=595|impactelasticity=350|shearyield=100|shearfracture=170|shearelasticity=333
}}

{{v0.31 material metal table row|name=Bone|color={{Tile|/|7:1}}7:7:1|source=Creatures|notes= |soliddensity=0.50|mp=NONE(burn at 10250)|val=1|valinc=+?, +?, +?, +?|impactyield=200|impactfracture=200|impactelasticity=100|shearyield=115|shearfracture=130|shearelasticity=100
}}

{{v0.31 material metal table row|name=Wood|color={{Tile|/|6:0}}7:7:1|source=Trees|notes= |soliddensity=0.50|mp=NONE(burn at 10250)|val=1|valinc=+?, +?, +?, +?|impactyield=10|impactfracture=10|impactelasticity=1000|shearyield=40|shearfracture=40|shearelasticity=1000
}}

{{v0.31 material metal table row|name=Shell|color={{Tile|/|2:0}}7:7:1|source=Creatures|notes= Material data added for comparison.|soliddensity=0.50|mp=NONE(burn at 10250)|val=1|valinc=+?, +?, +?, +?|impactyield=10|impactfracture=10|impactelasticity=50|shearyield=25|shearfracture=25|shearelasticity=50
}}

{{v0.31 material metal table row|name=Leather|color={{Tile|/|2:0}}7:7:1|source=Creatures|notes= Only available as Artifact Weapons.|soliddensity=0.50|mp=NONE(burn at 10250)|val=1|valinc=+?, +?, +?, +?|impactyield=200|impactfracture=200|impactelasticity=100|shearyield=115|shearfracture=130|shearelasticity=100
}}

{{v0.31 material metal table row|name=Obsidian|color={{Tile|/|0:1}}7:7:1|source=Lava|notes= Only available for Short Swords.|soliddensity=2.67|mp=13600|val=3|valinc=+0|impactyield=120|impactfracture=120|impactelasticity=100|shearyield=15|shearfracture=15|shearelasticity=100
}}

{{v0.31 material metal table row|name=Crystal glass|color={{Tile|/|7:1}}7:7:1|source=Sand|notes= Only available as Trap Components.|soliddensity=2.6|mp=13600|val=10|valinc=+0|impactyield=1000|impactfracture=1000|impactelasticity=2222|shearyield=33|shearfracture=33|shearelasticity=113
}}

{{v0.31 material metal table row|name=Clear glass|color={{Tile|/|3:0}}7:7:1|source=Sand|notes= Only available as Trap Components.|soliddensity=2.6|mp=13600|val=5|valinc=+0|impactyield=1000|impactfracture=1000|impactelasticity=2222|shearyield=33|shearfracture=33|shearelasticity=113
}}

{{v0.31 material metal table row|name=Green glass|color={{Tile|/|2:0}}7:7:1|source=Sand|notes= Only available as Trap Components.|soliddensity=2.6|mp=13600|val=2|valinc=+0|impactyield=1000|impactfracture=1000|impactelasticity=2222|shearyield=33|shearfracture=33|shearelasticity=113
}}

|}

*''Combat information'' is used internally by the game to determine the combat properties of weapons and armor made from this metal:
**'''Density''': Used in conjunction with other factors - heavier weapons (higher numbers) hit with more force, light weapons tend to have less penetration. Value shown here is g/cm3, which is the raw value divided by 103
**'''Impact yield''': Used for blunt-force combat; ''higher'' is better. This is the raw value divided by 103 (i.e., kPa).
**'''Impact fracture''': Used for blunt-force combat; ''higher'' is better. This is the raw value divided by 103 (i.e., kPa).
**'''Impact strain at yield''': Used for blunt-force combat; ''lower'' is better. This is the raw value.
**'''Shear yield''': Used for cutting calculations in combat; ''higher'' is better. This is the raw value divided by 103 (i.e., kPa).
**'''Shear fracture''': Used for cutting calculations in combat; ''higher'' is better. This is the raw value divided by 103 (i.e., kPa).
**'''Shear strain at yield''': Used for cutting calculations in combat; ''lower'' is better. This is the raw value.

*General Term Explanations (From Wikipedia)
**'''Yield Strength''' - The stress at which material strain changes from elastic deformation to plastic deformation, causing it to deform permanently.
**'''Fracture Strength''' - The stress coordinate on the stress-strain curve at the point of rupture.
**'''Stress''' - Force per area = F/A
**'''Strain''' - Deformation of a solid due to stress = Stress/Young's Modulus

=== Explanation ===
* '''Yield Strength''' is the amount of stress required to permanently deform (bend) a material (plastic deformation).
* '''Fracture Strength''' is the amount of stress required to permanently break (rupture) a material.
* '''Strain at yield''' is the amount of deformation (bending) that occurs at the yield point.

=== Inmplications ===
Yield strength combined with strain at yield can tell what a material will do under stress (be it from a hammer, axe, or arrow); higher yield means that it takes more stress to deform, while lower strain at yield means that it will deform less when stress is applied.

== Combat Testing & Analysis ==
[[Adamantine]] and [[steel]] take first and second place respectively, with [[iron]] the third best material in the game. Beyond which, bronze is in a close tie with copper as to being the second worst material. Silver is the worst weapon material available (and due to the existence of training weapons, not even useful in that regard) in regards to edged weaponry.

Additionally, with regards to blunt weapons almost all of the non-adamantine materials perform equally well, with a very slight edge towards steel and silver. Here is the thread with the details: [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=53571.0].

Keep in mind with how unbelievably complicated this system is nothing should be taken as word of law yet.

{| {{prettytable}}
|- bgcolor="#999999"
!
! Best
! Better
! Good
! Fair
! Poor
! Terrible
! Notes

|-
| Armor
| Adamantine
| Steel
| Iron
| Bronze, Bismuth Bronze
| Copper
|
|

|-
| Edged Weapons
| Adamantine (worst for missiles)
| Steel
| Iron
| Bronze, Bismuth Bronze
| Copper
| Silver
| For piercing iron armor, copper is better than bronze. For piercing copper or bronze armor, bronze is better than copper.
|-
| Blunt Weapons
| Steel, Silver
| Copper, Bismuth Bronze, Bronze, Iron
| ---
| ---
| ---
| Adamantine
| All six non-adamantine metals perform nearly identically. Steel has a slightly higher rate of critical wounds, while silver is slightly more likely to penetrate armor.

|}

Cross refrencing this table with the table at the top of this section seems to indicate that low densities, high impact fractures, and high shear fractures contribute to the killing power of edged weapons.

===Arena Testing===

Testing of weapons (15 dwarves vs. 15 dwarves combats) in the [[object testing arena]] shows that the best dwarven-made weapon against humanoids is the [[silver]] war hammer {{version|0.31.12}}.

Even in 15×(steel armor+silver war hammer) versus 15×(adamantine armor+adamantine battle axe) matches, hammerdwarves won with less than 50% casualties (mostly one-strike kills). However, when the dwarves in question were without armor or only wearing leather/cloth, the result was inverted — axedwarves won with less than 50% casualties. In battles against megabeasts, 6 silver hammerdwarves were barely able to scratch a [[bronze colossus]] (attacks were glancing away) due to bronze being a better "weapon" material.

This is because silver has the highest solid density of all materials that can regularly be made into weapons by dwarves. Tests show that indeed [[gold]] and [[platinum]] (increasingly dense) do increasing amounts of damage, and that war hammers remain the tool of choice, however they can only be produced by a moody dwarf (and a very lucky one at that).

More arena tests are available in the [[Main:Military testing|Military testing]] article.

==Bugs==
*Equipping weapons/armor on military is erratic{{Bug|535}}

==See also==
* [[User:Shinziril#Weapons_and_Armor|Outstanding research]] on weapons and armor by Shinziril

[[Category:Weapons]]

v0.34 Talk:Mechanical logic

2012-05-21T02:07:50Z

TerryDactyl:

v0.34 Talk:Mechanical logic

2012-05-21T02:07:14Z

TerryDactyl: Created page with "<div style="position:relative; float:none;"> '''Cart-based power-to-signal converter (cross-section)''' {| cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-spacing:0; border-style:s..."

v0.34 Talk:Weapon

2012-05-20T17:56:13Z

TerryDactyl: Material densities

== Material densities ==

What is the material densities for leather armour? Is it better to use a birch breastplate or a leather?

v0.34:Werebeast

2012-05-19T23:07:27Z

TerryDactyl:

{{quality|Fine|18:41, 24 March 2012 (UTC)}}{{av}}

'''Werebeasts''' are a variant of [[night creature]] that are procedurally created during worldgen. [[Deity|Deities]] may curse sentient creatures (including any animal man) to transform into an animal form on the night of a full moon. Creatures bitten by werebeasts are cursed to become werebeasts themselves.

<s>All werebeasts seem to be based upon DF mammals.</s> Werebeasts may take the form of mammals or reptiles.

The behaviour of vanilla werebeasts in worldgen (i.e. fleeing town upon being cursed and conducting raids from their new lair) appears to be caused by the cursed individual's beast form having the [NIGHT_CREATURE_HUNTER] tag; removal of this tag from a generated werebeast extracted from a world.dat file and jimmied into the standard raws caused those cursed to behave no differently from any other unnaturally-immortal individual.

Even if the werebeast is dispatched while in animal form, werebeast kills are listed as being of the original race.

All werebeasts are described as having glowing eyes of some random cold, and are "crazed for blood and flesh" meaning they attack everything that is not it's own race, including undead.

==Werebeasts in Fortresses==

In some regions, the full moon will herald the attack of werebeasts upon your fortress (triggering a message similar to the one that is shown when a Megabeast attacks), or instead the unwilling transformation of your own citizens into their bestial forms. The cursed will attack anyone they can find for the duration of the full moon, spreading their affliction even further.
Werebeasts of the same species will cooperate with each other and not normally fight, but those of different species will treat each other no differently than enemies.

==Werebeasts Abroad==

In adventurer mode, werebeasts are usually found living in small lairs on the edges of civilization. Young adventurers will often be called upon to slay them, with instructions along the line of 'he assumes a bestial form' along with a description of what type of metal they are vulnerable to. However, as long as they are not visited on the night of their transformation, they are just common peasants, and can be dispatched easily. It would behoove these individuals to hide themselves among townsfolk, but what can ya do?

The transformation to a Werebeast seems to only affect physical attributes, mental attributes are not changed though the descriptions will be relative to the Wereform's average. A Werebeast never gets hungry, thirsty or drowsy, and will not drown when in Wereform. When transforming to Wereform and back, all health regenerates, including missing limbs. All carried items will be dropped as soon as the beast enters a fight, making only the natural abilities of the creature available for combat. These abilities differ from creature to creature (Claws/Hooves/venomous Bite etc.) Your wereadventurer still can pick up his weapon and shield back, but, seeing as werebeasts seem to have minimum body size of about 80000, armor will become too [[Clothing#Size|small]] for you to fit in. Hauled items will also be dropped on Fast Travel, potentially lost forever if traveling from a location that doesn't save.

{{D for Dwarf}}

Sometimes a werebeast arrives in humanoid form, the game predictably announces the arrival of a normal, intelligent creature like it was some terrible beast, and the naked, confused creature runs away, probably scared away by your dwarves's laughter.

Werebeasts also tend to change back into humanoid form at the worst moment, like when they are charging a group of axedwarves.

Sometimes a werebeast's humanoid form is more dangerous than the werebeast form, most obviously for [[snake man]] werewolves.

v0.34 Talk:Wool

2012-03-02T23:56:13Z

TerryDactyl: Created page with "It takes 2 weeks for animals to regenerate the milk. How long until they can be sheared? --~~~"

It takes 2 weeks for animals to regenerate the milk. How long until they can be sheared? --[[User:TerryDactyl|TerryDactyl]]

v0.31:Mechanical logic

2012-02-21T05:47:56Z

TerryDactyl: /* Mechanical logic versus fluid logic */

{{quality|Exceptional|16:06, 11 August 2010 (UTC)}}

{{av}}

Mechanical logic is one discipline of [[computing]] using mechanical [[power]] to perform logical operations. In this case powered or unpowered [[machine component|machine components]] represent the binary information.

The principles of mechanical logic are simple. [[Gear assembly|Gear assemblies]] linked to [[trigger]]s will be toggled between disengaged and engaged when they receive an on/off signal. In this manner, you can conditionally attach power supply from [[windmill]]s or [[water wheel]]s to specially arranged gears to build logic gates.

== Mechanical logic versus fluid logic ==
* Mechanical logic is very fast. Gears don't have a reaction delay of 100 steps like most other components used by [[fluid logic]]. So if a gear is toggled the flow of power will change immediately.
* Mechanical logic is very flexible. Gears can toggle, so inverting signals is easy and you don't have to deal with different machine components.
* Mechanical logic is very reconfigurable. You don't have to deal with [[creature|creatures]] or fluid before changing anything.

* Mechanical logic needs a substantial amount of wood to create and transmit power. (So what?)
* Mechanical logic still needs [[water|fluid]] to build converter to trigger something else than machine components. (If you really want to be fluid free you'll have to stick to [[animal logic]].)
* <s>Mechanical logic needs a substantial amount of mechanism.</s> (Only if you stick to [[mechanical logic#Load based|load based mechanical logic]].)

== General concepts ==
There are two general conceps. The older and inadvisable one is the so called load based mechanical logic. The other one is the so called toggle based mechanical logic.
=== Load based ===
Load based mechanical logic uses single logic gates with a defined amount of power. They have an additional amount of load in terms of mechanism or other machine components, consuming all of the power if connected. The gates are designed in a way that the load is disconnected while the output shall be true, and connected when the output shall be false. Every logic gate has to have its own power supply. Compact complex logic gates are very hard to design, utterly impossible.

=== Toggle based ===
Toggle based mechanical logic works more like [[fluid logic]], not controlling the flow of fluid but the flow of power. It uses the fact that gears don't have a defined state when recieving an on or an off signal, but toggle between connected and dismanteled, independent of the type of signal. It normaly uses a central power supply. It is quite easy to create very complex gates with multiple output signals like for example a binary to decimal converter.

=== Example ===
The first example shows a load based XOR gate. It takes input signals from two different triggers. It's output gear (O) is powered when exactly one of the two input triggers is on and the other one is off. This is done as follows: The power will be connected to the gear with the P (from the bottom of the diagram or another z-level). One input is linked to gear 1 the other to gear 2. This way power will flow from P to O if either one of the input signals is off. Aditionally both inputs are linked to gear 3, that is connected to the load L. Since gears toggle the gear will be active if both singals where off (or on), and the load will stop any flow of power then. You can build this on top of a [[Mechanical logic#Power to signal converter|power to signal converter]] as shown on this page. As you can see you will need many mechanism to build this gate. 5 for the gears, 8 to connect to the input in addition to all the components needed for the converter and the load.
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 A toggle based XOR gate looks much simpler:
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Yes, that's right. You'll need only one gear. This is how it works: Connect it to your source of power, and link it to one of your input triggers. Build a temporary lever anywhere and connect it, too. Pull the lever once. You can deconstruct the temporary lever now. Now the gear is dismanteled, and you link the second input trigger to it. Since gears toggle, everytime your trigger changes state and sends a signal the gear will change state. Initially both triggers are off, and the gear is dismanteled. When one trigger changes state, it will activate gear. Independent of whitch trigger changes next, both will have the same state afterwards, and the gear will be dismanteled again. So the gear will transport power when both input troggers are at different state: XOR. You can build this on top of a [[Mechanical logic#Power to signal converter|power to signal converter]] as shown on this page. As you can see you will need little mechanism to build this gate. 1 for the gear, 4 to connect to the input and 1 will be lost after disconnecting the temporarry lever (that needs 3 temporarry). And of course you will need all the components for the converter, but no load.

== Power to signal converter ==
When you are dealing with mechanical logic, you'll finally want or have to trigger something else than machine components like doors or bridges. Currently, there doesn't exist any [[trigger]] in dwarf fortress that reacts on the working state of machine components, thus power on/off. So, you'll have to convert power via pressure plates, screw pumps and fluid into an on/off signal.
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When the pump is connected to power, it will suck water from the pressure plate and pump it to the right. The water level on the pressure plate will fall to 0. The plate can be constructed to react on 0…3 water. You can invert it to get an off signal instead setting it to 4…7. In both cases the ''off signal'' will have a delay of 100 steps.{{Verify}} This gate is fluid conserving.

==Load based Mechanical signal-input power-output gates==
* These gates can be used either by adding a power -> link signal converter (also known as a "rotation sensor"), or directly used to control pumps, such as in other logic gates (the unsourced fluid logic gates use these, for instance). The conventional "rotation sensor" consists of a pump powered by the gate's OUTPUT gear, pumping an infinite supply of water onto a water-sensing pressure plate with an infinite drain.
* There are certain things important to all the gates:
* Each gate has an OUTPUT gear, which will be placed next to a pump which the gate will control.
* In diagrams, the OUTPUT gear is below the 'O' gear, connected to it by gears or vertical axles. The P indicates where you should hook power up, and L indicates where load (gears or pumps that don't have a water source) should be connected, and ¦ and - are horizontal axles. The Is are gears linked to INPUTs (some gates have one input, but most have two).
* Gates which incorporate a NOT will have the power network branch off from the 'O' gear, and have a train of power-draining stuff connected to the input gears, whereas gates which do not incorporate a NOT will have the power connected to the input gears instead. The principle behind normal gates is that when the INPUTs are ON, power is connected. The principle behind the NOT gates is that power is always connected, but when the INPUTs are ON, a large enough power requirement is connected to send the power requirements above the power supply, shutting down the system.
* If your windmills produce no power, you'll have to come up with some way to use water wheels for power instead.
* You should build only enough windmills (or water wheels) to power the system, and should not connect the network for one gate to another gate's network, since that would both gates up.
* The gates' instructions will explain how much load and power you need to have at each P and L in the more complicated gates.

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|-
| {{diagram|[#aaf]I}}
| A gear connected to an INPUT. In most gates you will have two Is, with each one connected to a different input.
|-
| {{diagram|-}} and {{diagram|¦}}
| Horizontal axles
|-
| {{diagram|[#0f0]P}}
| Power goes here
|-
| {{diagram|[#aaf]i}}
| Two more gears, each connected to the two different inputs.
|-
| {{diagram|[#f00]L}}
| a chain of gears or pumps which serve to add load to the system, generally shutting it off when connected.
|-
| {{diagram|*}}
| A gear which isn't linked to any inputs or outputs and just serves to connect the power or whatever.
|}

===Mechanical identity gate ===
{{diagram|
[#ff0]O[#aaf]I--[#0f0]P}}

* This takes an linked input signal and converts it to power without changing it.
* Connected to the input gear, such that they will only be connected to the system if the input gear is receiving an ON signal, are gears with windmills on top of them. Build only enough windmills to power the devices that the gate's OUTPUT gear are connected to (and the gears/axles).
* When the INPUT is ON, the INPUT gear will be active, and the network will provide power to the OUTPUT. When the INPUT is OFF, it will not provide power to the OUTPUT.

===Mechanical NOT gate===
{{diagram|
[#ff0]O[#aaf]I[#f00]L
¦
¦
[#0f0]P}}

* When the INPUT is ON, the INPUT gear will be active, and the network should need more power than is available. The devices connected to OUTPUT should shut down. When INPUT is OFF, the devices should have power since the INPUT gear will be disconnected.

===Mechanical NAND gate===
{{diagram|
[#ff0]O[#aaf]I[#aaf]I[#f00]L
¦
¦
[#0f0]P}}

* This works just like the NOT gate, except that there are two inputs and both have to be active to shut down the system instead of one. Make sure you have enough power to run the system when one of the input gears is active.

===Mechanical AND gate===
{{diagram|
[#ff0]O[#aaf]I[#aaf]I[#0f0]P}}

* This works like the identity gate, except that there are two inputs and both have to be active for the system to get power.

===Mechanical OR gate===
{{diagram|
[#ff0]O[#aaf]I
[#aaf]I*[#0f0]P}}

* This works like the identity gate, except that there are two inputs, and if either is active, the system receives power. Note that the entire power network is connected to both inputs, such that if either input is active the entire power network is powering the system.

===Mechanical NOR gate===
{{diagram|
[#aaf]I*[#f00]L
[#ff0]O[#aaf]I
¦
¦
[#0f0]P}}

* This works like the NOT gate, except that there are two inputs, and if either is active, the gear train or pump stack signified by the 'L' will be connected to the system. You need to have enough load to push power requirements above the amount of power produced by the power supply, shutting the system down.

===Mechanical XOR gate===
{{diagram|
[#ff0]O[#aaf]I
[#aaf]I*-[#0f0]P
[#000].[#aaf]i
[#000].[#aaf]i
[#000].[#f00]L}}

* Except for the 'i's and 'L', this gate is identical to the OR gate. The additional components add the 'exclusive' part of the 'XOR' to the gate.
*The 'i's are additional gears connected to each of your inputs, and the L is additional load (large enough to stop the system, of course).

===Mechanical XNOR gate===
{{diagram|
[#000].[#000].[#aaf]I*[#f00]L
[#000].[#000].[#ff0]O[#aaf]I
[#000].[#000].¦
[#0f0]P[#aaf]-*
[#000].[#000].[#aaf]i
[#000].[#000].[#aaf]i
[#000].[#000].[#0f0]P}}

{| class="wikitable" border="1"
|-
! A
! B
! Drain
! Power
! Extra Power
! Result
|-
| 0
| 0
| No
| Yes
| No
| 1
|-
| 0
| 1
| Yes
| Yes
| No
| 0
|-
| 1
| 0
| Yes
| Yes
| No
| 0
|-
| 1
| 1
| Yes
| Yes
| Yes
| 1
|}

* The XNOR gate is an equality gate: The output is ON when both inputs are equal, and OFF when they are not equal.
* This gate may be '''even more complicated''' to build than the XOR gate!
* First, your 'i's are again gears connected to your two inputs. The extra P below them is additional power source, ideally only one windmill.
* Here's where it gets complicated. The load has to be sufficient to shut down the system when additional power supply is disconnected. However, when BOTH inputs are on, there needs to be enough power from additional P to bring the system back online.
* Thus our gate does what it is supposed to: Produce enough power to have the OUTPUT gear be ON when both A and B are either 0 or 1, but not when they are not equal.

{{Category|Computing}}

v0.31:Utilities

2012-02-20T18:25:07Z

TerryDactyl: /* Dwarf Therapist */

{{Quality|Exceptional}}{{av}}
Please only list utilities that are known to work with the newest version here.

:''You may also like to see the [[Main:Tileset repository|Tileset repository]] or [[Main:Graphics set repository|Graphics set repository]].''

Here are third party applications useful for Dwarf Fortress players and modders.
__TOC__

==Dwarf Fortress filesharing services==

=== [http://dffd.wimbli.com/ Dwarf Fortress File Depot] ===
The Dwarf Fortress File Upload Service - an excellent place to store mods, community games, tilesets and other files. Courtesy of [[User:Janus|Janus]]; for files related to Dwarf Fortress only.

=== [http://mkv25.net/dfma/ DF Map Archive] ===

* http://mkv25.net/dfma/

The Dwarf Fortress Map Archive is a large collection of user-submitted maps and a nice flash viewer for perusing them.
Maps are uploaded, stored, and downloaded in a special compressed format created by the DF Map Compressor (see below).

Read more about the [[User:Markavian/DF_Map_Archive|DF Map Archive]] on [[User:Markavian|Markavian]]'s User page.

=== DF Map Compressor ===

*[http://shadowlord13.googlepages.com/dfmap-index.html SL's DF Map Compressor - Website] (currently not accessible)
*Download from [http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=997 DF File Depot]

The DF Map Compressor encodes multiple bitmaps exported from Dwarf Fortress into a single, very compressed, .fdf-map file, and functions as a viewer for this format. It can also export the maps to PNG format.

The .fdf-map file can then be shared with your friends by uploading to the [http://mkv25.net/dfma/ DF Map Archive] that features an online viewer (written in Flash).

The map compressor was created by Shadowlord in May 2007. The web site is currently not accessible. Extract from the website :
<blockquote>
"The '''DF Map Compressor''' is a program I made to encode Dwarf Fortress fortress or world map images into a much smaller format than is possible with normal image formats. Here's a quick summary of how it works: It determines the size of your tiles from your DF font file (or asks you), splits the map up into tiles, identifies duplicate tiles, writes out every unique tile image, and then writes out a list of ID#s for each tile position which points to the tile image for that tile. What it outputs is piped through the LZMA compressor (the one used in 7-zip), to compress it further. The .df-map file which it writes out is usually less than 100 KB in size. (By comparison, a PNG of the same map can exceed 2 megabytes, depending on how well you compress it, whether you change the color depth, and whether you are using a graphical tileset or detailed font)."
</blockquote>

There is a little bit of information at the [http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=997 DF File Depot] page, where the compressor can be downloaded:
<blockquote>
"It requires either .NET 2.0 or newer (If you have Windows Vista, you already have this, if not, you might need to get it), or if you're on Linux or a Mac or other non-Windows OS, requires Mono.
* .NET 2.0: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=0856eacb-4362-4b0d-8edd-aab15c5e04f5
* Mono: http://www.mono-project.com/"
</blockquote>

To get it working on OSX, according to [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=64174.msg1511109#msg1511109 this forum post]:
:1. [http://www.go-mono.com/mono-downloads/ download the Mono Framework] and install it. If you're on a modern Mac, you want the [http://ftp.novell.com/pub/mono/archive/2.8.1/macos-10-x86/3/MonoFramework-2.8.1_3.macos10.novell.x86.dmg latest Intel version], which requires OSX 10.5 or 10.6. [http://www.mono-project.com/OldReleases Older versions are available] but no longer supported.
:2. export your map from Dwarf Fortress (Esc -> Export Local Image)
:3. download the [http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=997 DF Map Compressor from the DF File Depot].
:4. open the terminal, navigate to the DF Map Compressor folder and type:
mono DwarfFortressMapCompressor.3.3.4.exe
:5. WAIT a bit for the DF Map Compressor windows to appear (''I almost thought it had crashed, it's rather slow'')
:6. follow the on screen instructions

== 3D Visualizers ==

=== [[Utility:Stonesense|Stonesense]] ===
[[File:stonesense.jpg|208px|thumb|right|Stonesense Screenshot]]
''by Jonask, Solifuge, Kaypy and Japa''

Stonesense is a third party real-time visualizer that lets you view your Dwarf Fortress world in a classic isometric perspective.

More information is available in [http://www.bay12games.com/forum/index.php?topic=43260.0 this forum thread].

Stonesense is now in version 2.3 Slate, supports v0.31.21 - [http://stonesense.googlecode.com/files/Stonesense_Slate_2.3.zip Download]

----
It is possible to get a quick working version of Stonesense for versions up to v0.31.21, without compiling the SVN development version (or downloading the new non SVN version), by downloading the updated [http://stonesense.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/Memory.xml Memory.xml] and overwriting the file of the same name in the base directory of Stonesense 2.2. If (and only if), this does not work, download and replace [http://stonesense.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/dfhack.dll dfhack.dll]. If it still doesn't work, replace [http://stonesense.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/stonesense.exe stonesense.exe]. If it displays a problem with missing dlls, download these .dll files [http://stonesense.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/allegro-5.0.dll 1], [http://stonesense.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/allegro_dialog-5.0.dll 2], [http://stonesense.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/allegro_font-5.0.dll 3], [http://stonesense.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/allegro_image-5.0.dll 4], [http://stonesense.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/allegro_primitives-5.0.dll 5], [http://stonesense.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/allegro_ttf-5.0.dll 6] and place them in the Stonesense base directory.

=== [[Utility:Overseer|Fortress Overseer]] ===
''by thewonderidiot and sexymustard''

Overseer is a full 3D visualizer for v0.31 using the DFHack library. Its appearance is highly customizable and will be even more so in the near future. Check out its [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=63484.0 forum thread] for more details or download it from [http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=3882 here].

== Music and Sounds ==

=== [[Utility:SoundSense|SoundSense]] ===

SoundSense is a tool that parses game logs and reacts to game events with sound effects, incidental music and dwarfy comments.

[http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=60287 forum thread], download at [http://df.zweistein.cz/soundsense/ homepage].

== Interface tools ==

===[http://www.bay12games.com/forum/index.php?topic=50643.0 Dfterm2]===

Dfterm2 is a tool to run Dwarf Fortress via terminals remotely. Multiple people can connect and watch or join in.

Main article here: [[Utility:Dfterm2]].

== Game manipulation tools ==

=== [http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=645 Reveal] ===

The standalone Reveal utility is obsolete due to missing source code. [[v0.31:Utilities#DFHack|DFHack]]'s dfreveal module works like Reveal did, and has built-in undo capability.

Reveal (or Reveal.exe as it is commonly referred to) is a program that runs alongside Dwarf Fortress and shows all "unexplored" or "undug" tiles of the map (in fortress mode). To reveal entire map designate the entire bottom level to be mined and then remove designation before running reveal (Not required in the latest version using the parameters below, simply start the .exe file.). Playing on revealed map might ''(read "will")'' cause some bugs (like not being able to build magma buildings or a tower-cap farm, losing all plants/trees on the map, and a lot more). '''Using Reveal has been known to corrupt saved game folders.''' and, as such, it is highly recommended to only use Reveal to preview a biome's layout and then restart without running Reveal.


===[http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=66525 Dwarf Therapist]===

Dwarf Therapist gives you an advanced GUI to manage and check dwarf job allocations, military assignments (40d), statistics (such as attributes, personality traits and happiness), plus sort dwarves by various criteria (eg. profession, migration wave, happiness, number of assigned jobs etc.) and generally manage the Dwarven Resources of your fortress in a very convenient way.

Version 0.6.12 is out. This version supports DF builds up to 0.34.02..

''NOTE'': DwarfEngineer has taken over chmod's task in maintaining this MOD.

New dedicated support forum: http://code.google.com/p/dwarftherapist/

Read the full changelog here: http://code.google.com/p/dwarftherapist/source/browse/CHANGELOG.txt



Instruction for making it work with new versions here: http://code.google.com/p/dwarftherapist/wiki/MappingNewVersions This page also tends to have the new addresses within an hour or two of new releases of Dwarf Fortress.
N.B. Dwarftherapist appears to be automatically updating; 0.6.9 updated automatically from 0.31.19 to 0.31.21 on Windows SDL.

'''For Mac users''': A mac version of this utility (built by ghalidrim and compatible with the latest DF version, 31.25) is free for download at [http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=4463 the DF file depot]. Beware though : this is a test build, so there may be bugs, use with care!

'''For Linux users''': There is a repository with a Linux version of DwarfTherapist available for download.
====Instructions (Ubuntu)====
Run "Software Sources" (super/windows key, type "software s" and click) [System->Administration->Software Sources]
Click Other Software, then Add
Paste: <pre>deb http://dwarftherapist.com/apt maverick universe</pre>
Click on line that says (Source Code) on the end; Remove.
Open a terminal and
<pre>sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install dwarftherapist</pre>
To run, run "dwarftherapist" from the terminal or create a shortcut on the desktop.
When you run, a box asking for root privileges should pop up.

See http://code.google.com/p/dwarftherapist/wiki/LinuxVersion for updates.

=== [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=59056.0 Runesmith] ===
Runesmith is a Dwarf information viewing and editing tool inspired by the original Dwarf Companion. It uses the DFHack library to interface with Dwarf Fortress and Qt to provide a robust and professional looking cross-platform GUI. http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=59056.0

Version 0.1.9 is out for Windows, currently supporting 0.31.25. Since it uses DFHack, all versions of DF that DFHack supports, Runesmith supports!

* Windows: http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=2538
* Linux: to follow (the windows one is reported to work fine under wine though)

"A tool that allows smithing (editing) of the digits and runes (letters) that control all life in DF. By smithing these runes, the metagods (players) can meddle with DF mortals to suit their games, be it recasting a soul into a new species body, blessing and cursing indiviudals or just to make predictions of when a mortal will attain the next degree of competence to guide them on how they should spend their limited time." - Psieye - (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=57003.msg1324765#msg1324765)

=== [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=58809 DFHack] ===

DFHack is a Dwarf Fortress memory access library and a set of basic tools using this library. The library is a work in progress, so things might change as more tools are written for it. Releases support versions up through 0.31.25 (as of April, 2011). Runs on both Windows and Linux.

Code and binary releases are available from the [http://github.com/peterix/dfhack/downloads Github site].

=== DFhack tools for DF 2010 ===
==== dfcleanmap ====
Cleans all the bloodsmears that get scattered all over the map.
==== dfliquids ====
Allows creating liquids (water and magma), making them flow or preventing them from flowing. Newly also allows making obsidian walls. It's a command-prompt style utility where you type in very simple commands. Replaces the older magma_create tool.

Use like this:

game: place 'k' cursor on the tile or on the upper left corner of the area to manipulate.

tool: enter 'range' in the tool and specify width and height of the rectangle.

- remove water

'w'
'0'
's-'
<ENTER>

- create obsidian wall (only works for a single tile, even if a range is specified)

'o'
'1'
's.'
<ENTER>

note that previously existing water or magma still stays at this spot.

- create magma

'm'
'7'
's+'
<ENTER>

==== dfprospector ====
Lists all available minerals on the map and how much of them there is.
==== dfreveal ====
Pauses the game and reveals the whole map, then unreveals it afterwards (unless you press Ctrl+C). Use with caution, releases [[HFS]]! Same warnings as to the original Reveal tool apply.

==== dfvdig ====
Designates a whole vein for digging. When using the '-x' option, it will dig stairs into other z-levels. Point the cursor at a vein and run this thing :)

=== [[Utility:DwarfForeman|Dwarf Foreman]] ===
Dwarf Foreman is a third party program to automatically dispatch jobs to your workers.

=== [[Utility:DwarfScript|Dwarf Script]] ===
Dwarf Script is a program and allows you to manipulate DF's memory using a script.

== Fortress layout tools ==

=== [http://sun2design.com/quickfort/ Quickfort] ===

Quickfort is an AutoHotkey-based utility for Dwarf Fortress that helps you build fortresses from "blueprint" .CSV files (comma separated values). These files are easily created and edited in an app like Excel. Most building-oriented DF commands are supported through the use of multiple .CSV files to describe the different phases of DF construction (designation, building, stockpiles, and making adjustments. Also see [[Main:Quickfort Community Blueprints|Quickfort Community Blueprints]].

=== [[User:Soundandfury/DF_Designer|DF Designer]] ===
DF Designer, by [[User:Soundandfury|soundnfury]] is a fort layout planning tool. It enables you to work out your designs before you start to build, and even see how they look in 3-D.
It's written in C with SDL, and both Linux and Windows builds are available. The source code is freely available under the GPL.
Since DF Designer does not 'talk to' Dwarf Fortress, it is version-independent. Supports exporting to Quickfort-compatible CSV files.

=== [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=55025.0 ChromaFort] ===
Chromafort allows you to convert 24-bit bitmap (.bmp) images into Quickfort-compatible CSV files.

=== [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=64723.15 DF Architect] ===
DF Architect is a short cut to using Chromafort in conjunction with DF Designer. It uses 24-bit bitmap files and directly designates them into Dwarf Fortress. It is an early release program and currently only supports digging, stairs (up, down, and both), and ramps. Its defining feature is the use of an 'index' which allows for the designer to visually connect the cursor to the image. Be careful when using this program as it had no abort or terminating ability while designating, nor will it check to see if you've uploaded correct formats.

=== [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=87731 DF Designator] ===
DF Designator helps you build fortresses from either image files or Quickfort .CSV files. It also has a user interface that allows you to assign hotkeys to blueprints and to combine blueprints in multi z-level designs. Windows, Mac and Linux versions are available.

=== [http://www.nickskvarla.com/dwarf/ Quickfort Mapping Tool] ===
Quickfort Mapping Tool is a simple to use web app for creating Quickfort blueprints graphically.

== Modding tools ==

=== [http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=2068 Custom Workshop Workshop] ===
WYSIWYG editor for designing the raws for a custom workshop.
(Not all raws, just the tiles and colors) Lets you see how it will look at each stage of construction. Comes with the default 16x16 CURSES font built in, but you can load any .BMP formatted DF font you like, keeping in mind that if its bigger than 16x16 it won't fit.

Accommodates up to 32x32 workshops, not that there's any reason for such a large workshop, right?

=== [http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=1996 Uristmod] ===
A program which uses text files to automatically change/update raw files. Makes installation of mods easier. However at this time, the documentation is a little confusing and makes creating mods harder for beginners. [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=53028.0 Forum Thread]

=== [http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=2088 Accent replacement tool] ===
A small application to remove accented characters from a file. A quick solution if you need the language files for a tileset that has images in place of special characters.
Alternatively, you can use this 20-line perl script: http://github.com/rofl0r/df-mayday/blob/master/charfix.pl

=== [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=90725.0 NightS' Easy metal creator] ===
A small script in batch which lets you make new metals easily by introducing their raw values. It provides values of ingame metals as example for the most obscure values.

== Raw tile tools ==

=== [[Utility:Raw tile selector]] ===

Provides an easy to use graphical interface to select which tiles and colors should be displayed for plants, stones and small creatures.

Made to ease the job of creators of tilesets with edited raws. It will also be useful for users that dislike decisions made by tileset creators or users that could not find the edited raws for a tileset.

[http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=2113 Download]

Currently for windows only.

=== Raw tile merger ===
Provides an easy to use interface to change the tile and color data of raws to match the data of another set of raw files.

Made to ease the job of creators of tilesets with edited raws when new versions of df are released. The edited raws for your tileset for a new df version can now be created with a few clicks.

[http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=2178 Download]

== World Map / World Gen Tools ==

=== [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=57428 PerfectWorldDF] ===
Very detailed Windows program to help create customize world gens.
 [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=57428 Bay 12 forum link]
 [http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=2354 Dwarf Fortress File Depot link (may be old version)]
 [http://dffd.wimbli.com/who.php?id=1314 Dwarf Fortress File Depot listing for the author]

It is a Windows program but can also be run under Linux with help of Mono. You can install the required Mono packages by typing this into the terminal:
sudo apt-get install libmono-system-windows-forms4.0-cil libmono-system-core4.0-cil
After installing this you should be able to double-click on the exe and it should work.

=== [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=73095.msg2261106#msg2261106 Map Maker] ===
Tool to create realistic-looking fantasy maps out ouf worldgen export. [http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=4359 download link]

== Other/miscellaneous ==

=== [http://www.mindwerks.net/projects/exita/ Exita] ===
Exita is a python program that takes your DF world map exports and dump them into several different text outputs.

=== [http://winmerge.org/ WinMerge] ===
Winmerge allows you to compare the contents of folders or files. It highlights any differences between files and allows you to merge them. It is most useful for modders or users of mods. If you compare modified raw files with unmodified ones you can quickly see any differences.

=== [http://kmkeen.com/df2ttf/ df2ttf] ===
df2ttf allows you to convert any Dwarf Fortress tileset (png or bmp) into a TrueType Font equivalent. It's great for running Dwarf Fortress in ncurses mode.

=== [http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=4238 Dwarven Guidance Counselor] ===
The Dwarven Guidance Counselor is a JavaScript/HTML page that lets you input a dwarf's attributes and traits, and gives an estimate of how well that dwarf will serve in a particular job.

=== [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=59026.0 Lazy Newb Pack] ===
Everything you could possible ever need all in one handy program. It includes graphics packs, DF Hack tools, StoneSense, and much more.

=== [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=72702.0 Legends Viewer] ===
Recreates Legends Mode from exported data. Browser like navigation, including tabs, allows to easily view other people/places/entities by just clicking names in the event logs or search lists.

= Tools under development =

'''The tools listed below are under development for DF 2010, but cannot perform the task they are intended for at this time.'''

=== [[Utility:Obsidian|Obsidian]] ===
''by Skeggox''

Obsidian is a toolset for converting DF maps into a renderable scene, manipulating the result, and displaying it directly in 3D or exporting to 3rd party renderers and raytracers.

Its a modular Lua framework, using Open Scene Graph for rendering and DFHack for talking with Dwarf Fortress.

This [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=57920.0 forum thread] has more detail.

v0.31:Utilities

2012-02-20T18:24:42Z

TerryDactyl: /* Dwarf Therapist */

{{Quality|Exceptional}}{{av}}
Please only list utilities that are known to work with the newest version here.

:''You may also like to see the [[Main:Tileset repository|Tileset repository]] or [[Main:Graphics set repository|Graphics set repository]].''

Here are third party applications useful for Dwarf Fortress players and modders.
__TOC__

==Dwarf Fortress filesharing services==

=== [http://dffd.wimbli.com/ Dwarf Fortress File Depot] ===
The Dwarf Fortress File Upload Service - an excellent place to store mods, community games, tilesets and other files. Courtesy of [[User:Janus|Janus]]; for files related to Dwarf Fortress only.

=== [http://mkv25.net/dfma/ DF Map Archive] ===

* http://mkv25.net/dfma/

The Dwarf Fortress Map Archive is a large collection of user-submitted maps and a nice flash viewer for perusing them.
Maps are uploaded, stored, and downloaded in a special compressed format created by the DF Map Compressor (see below).

Read more about the [[User:Markavian/DF_Map_Archive|DF Map Archive]] on [[User:Markavian|Markavian]]'s User page.

=== DF Map Compressor ===

*[http://shadowlord13.googlepages.com/dfmap-index.html SL's DF Map Compressor - Website] (currently not accessible)
*Download from [http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=997 DF File Depot]

The DF Map Compressor encodes multiple bitmaps exported from Dwarf Fortress into a single, very compressed, .fdf-map file, and functions as a viewer for this format. It can also export the maps to PNG format.

The .fdf-map file can then be shared with your friends by uploading to the [http://mkv25.net/dfma/ DF Map Archive] that features an online viewer (written in Flash).

The map compressor was created by Shadowlord in May 2007. The web site is currently not accessible. Extract from the website :
<blockquote>
"The '''DF Map Compressor''' is a program I made to encode Dwarf Fortress fortress or world map images into a much smaller format than is possible with normal image formats. Here's a quick summary of how it works: It determines the size of your tiles from your DF font file (or asks you), splits the map up into tiles, identifies duplicate tiles, writes out every unique tile image, and then writes out a list of ID#s for each tile position which points to the tile image for that tile. What it outputs is piped through the LZMA compressor (the one used in 7-zip), to compress it further. The .df-map file which it writes out is usually less than 100 KB in size. (By comparison, a PNG of the same map can exceed 2 megabytes, depending on how well you compress it, whether you change the color depth, and whether you are using a graphical tileset or detailed font)."
</blockquote>

There is a little bit of information at the [http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=997 DF File Depot] page, where the compressor can be downloaded:
<blockquote>
"It requires either .NET 2.0 or newer (If you have Windows Vista, you already have this, if not, you might need to get it), or if you're on Linux or a Mac or other non-Windows OS, requires Mono.
* .NET 2.0: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=0856eacb-4362-4b0d-8edd-aab15c5e04f5
* Mono: http://www.mono-project.com/"
</blockquote>

To get it working on OSX, according to [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=64174.msg1511109#msg1511109 this forum post]:
:1. [http://www.go-mono.com/mono-downloads/ download the Mono Framework] and install it. If you're on a modern Mac, you want the [http://ftp.novell.com/pub/mono/archive/2.8.1/macos-10-x86/3/MonoFramework-2.8.1_3.macos10.novell.x86.dmg latest Intel version], which requires OSX 10.5 or 10.6. [http://www.mono-project.com/OldReleases Older versions are available] but no longer supported.
:2. export your map from Dwarf Fortress (Esc -> Export Local Image)
:3. download the [http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=997 DF Map Compressor from the DF File Depot].
:4. open the terminal, navigate to the DF Map Compressor folder and type:
mono DwarfFortressMapCompressor.3.3.4.exe
:5. WAIT a bit for the DF Map Compressor windows to appear (''I almost thought it had crashed, it's rather slow'')
:6. follow the on screen instructions

== 3D Visualizers ==

=== [[Utility:Stonesense|Stonesense]] ===
[[File:stonesense.jpg|208px|thumb|right|Stonesense Screenshot]]
''by Jonask, Solifuge, Kaypy and Japa''

Stonesense is a third party real-time visualizer that lets you view your Dwarf Fortress world in a classic isometric perspective.

More information is available in [http://www.bay12games.com/forum/index.php?topic=43260.0 this forum thread].

Stonesense is now in version 2.3 Slate, supports v0.31.21 - [http://stonesense.googlecode.com/files/Stonesense_Slate_2.3.zip Download]

----
It is possible to get a quick working version of Stonesense for versions up to v0.31.21, without compiling the SVN development version (or downloading the new non SVN version), by downloading the updated [http://stonesense.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/Memory.xml Memory.xml] and overwriting the file of the same name in the base directory of Stonesense 2.2. If (and only if), this does not work, download and replace [http://stonesense.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/dfhack.dll dfhack.dll]. If it still doesn't work, replace [http://stonesense.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/stonesense.exe stonesense.exe]. If it displays a problem with missing dlls, download these .dll files [http://stonesense.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/allegro-5.0.dll 1], [http://stonesense.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/allegro_dialog-5.0.dll 2], [http://stonesense.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/allegro_font-5.0.dll 3], [http://stonesense.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/allegro_image-5.0.dll 4], [http://stonesense.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/allegro_primitives-5.0.dll 5], [http://stonesense.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/allegro_ttf-5.0.dll 6] and place them in the Stonesense base directory.

=== [[Utility:Overseer|Fortress Overseer]] ===
''by thewonderidiot and sexymustard''

Overseer is a full 3D visualizer for v0.31 using the DFHack library. Its appearance is highly customizable and will be even more so in the near future. Check out its [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=63484.0 forum thread] for more details or download it from [http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=3882 here].

== Music and Sounds ==

=== [[Utility:SoundSense|SoundSense]] ===

SoundSense is a tool that parses game logs and reacts to game events with sound effects, incidental music and dwarfy comments.

[http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=60287 forum thread], download at [http://df.zweistein.cz/soundsense/ homepage].

== Interface tools ==

===[http://www.bay12games.com/forum/index.php?topic=50643.0 Dfterm2]===

Dfterm2 is a tool to run Dwarf Fortress via terminals remotely. Multiple people can connect and watch or join in.

Main article here: [[Utility:Dfterm2]].

== Game manipulation tools ==

=== [http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=645 Reveal] ===

The standalone Reveal utility is obsolete due to missing source code. [[v0.31:Utilities#DFHack|DFHack]]'s dfreveal module works like Reveal did, and has built-in undo capability.

Reveal (or Reveal.exe as it is commonly referred to) is a program that runs alongside Dwarf Fortress and shows all "unexplored" or "undug" tiles of the map (in fortress mode). To reveal entire map designate the entire bottom level to be mined and then remove designation before running reveal (Not required in the latest version using the parameters below, simply start the .exe file.). Playing on revealed map might ''(read "will")'' cause some bugs (like not being able to build magma buildings or a tower-cap farm, losing all plants/trees on the map, and a lot more). '''Using Reveal has been known to corrupt saved game folders.''' and, as such, it is highly recommended to only use Reveal to preview a biome's layout and then restart without running Reveal.


===[http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=66525 Dwarf Therapist]===

Dwarf Therapist gives you an advanced GUI to manage and check dwarf job allocations, military assignments (40d), statistics (such as attributes, personality traits and happiness), plus sort dwarves by various criteria (eg. profession, migration wave, happiness, number of assigned jobs etc.) and generally manage the Dwarven Resources of your fortress in a very convenient way.

Version 0.6.12 is out. This version supports DF builds up to 0.34.02, if you have the right [http://code.google.com/p/dwarftherapist/issues/detail?id=328&can=1&q=31.25 files]..

''NOTE'': DwarfEngineer has taken over chmod's task in maintaining this MOD.

New dedicated support forum: http://code.google.com/p/dwarftherapist/

Read the full changelog here: http://code.google.com/p/dwarftherapist/source/browse/CHANGELOG.txt



Instruction for making it work with new versions here: http://code.google.com/p/dwarftherapist/wiki/MappingNewVersions This page also tends to have the new addresses within an hour or two of new releases of Dwarf Fortress.
N.B. Dwarftherapist appears to be automatically updating; 0.6.9 updated automatically from 0.31.19 to 0.31.21 on Windows SDL.

'''For Mac users''': A mac version of this utility (built by ghalidrim and compatible with the latest DF version, 31.25) is free for download at [http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=4463 the DF file depot]. Beware though : this is a test build, so there may be bugs, use with care!

'''For Linux users''': There is a repository with a Linux version of DwarfTherapist available for download.
====Instructions (Ubuntu)====
Run "Software Sources" (super/windows key, type "software s" and click) [System->Administration->Software Sources]
Click Other Software, then Add
Paste: <pre>deb http://dwarftherapist.com/apt maverick universe</pre>
Click on line that says (Source Code) on the end; Remove.
Open a terminal and
<pre>sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install dwarftherapist</pre>
To run, run "dwarftherapist" from the terminal or create a shortcut on the desktop.
When you run, a box asking for root privileges should pop up.

See http://code.google.com/p/dwarftherapist/wiki/LinuxVersion for updates.

=== [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=59056.0 Runesmith] ===
Runesmith is a Dwarf information viewing and editing tool inspired by the original Dwarf Companion. It uses the DFHack library to interface with Dwarf Fortress and Qt to provide a robust and professional looking cross-platform GUI. http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=59056.0

Version 0.1.9 is out for Windows, currently supporting 0.31.25. Since it uses DFHack, all versions of DF that DFHack supports, Runesmith supports!

* Windows: http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=2538
* Linux: to follow (the windows one is reported to work fine under wine though)

"A tool that allows smithing (editing) of the digits and runes (letters) that control all life in DF. By smithing these runes, the metagods (players) can meddle with DF mortals to suit their games, be it recasting a soul into a new species body, blessing and cursing indiviudals or just to make predictions of when a mortal will attain the next degree of competence to guide them on how they should spend their limited time." - Psieye - (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=57003.msg1324765#msg1324765)

=== [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=58809 DFHack] ===

DFHack is a Dwarf Fortress memory access library and a set of basic tools using this library. The library is a work in progress, so things might change as more tools are written for it. Releases support versions up through 0.31.25 (as of April, 2011). Runs on both Windows and Linux.

Code and binary releases are available from the [http://github.com/peterix/dfhack/downloads Github site].

=== DFhack tools for DF 2010 ===
==== dfcleanmap ====
Cleans all the bloodsmears that get scattered all over the map.
==== dfliquids ====
Allows creating liquids (water and magma), making them flow or preventing them from flowing. Newly also allows making obsidian walls. It's a command-prompt style utility where you type in very simple commands. Replaces the older magma_create tool.

Use like this:

game: place 'k' cursor on the tile or on the upper left corner of the area to manipulate.

tool: enter 'range' in the tool and specify width and height of the rectangle.

- remove water

'w'
'0'
's-'
<ENTER>

- create obsidian wall (only works for a single tile, even if a range is specified)

'o'
'1'
's.'
<ENTER>

note that previously existing water or magma still stays at this spot.

- create magma

'm'
'7'
's+'
<ENTER>

==== dfprospector ====
Lists all available minerals on the map and how much of them there is.
==== dfreveal ====
Pauses the game and reveals the whole map, then unreveals it afterwards (unless you press Ctrl+C). Use with caution, releases [[HFS]]! Same warnings as to the original Reveal tool apply.

==== dfvdig ====
Designates a whole vein for digging. When using the '-x' option, it will dig stairs into other z-levels. Point the cursor at a vein and run this thing :)

=== [[Utility:DwarfForeman|Dwarf Foreman]] ===
Dwarf Foreman is a third party program to automatically dispatch jobs to your workers.

=== [[Utility:DwarfScript|Dwarf Script]] ===
Dwarf Script is a program and allows you to manipulate DF's memory using a script.

== Fortress layout tools ==

=== [http://sun2design.com/quickfort/ Quickfort] ===

Quickfort is an AutoHotkey-based utility for Dwarf Fortress that helps you build fortresses from "blueprint" .CSV files (comma separated values). These files are easily created and edited in an app like Excel. Most building-oriented DF commands are supported through the use of multiple .CSV files to describe the different phases of DF construction (designation, building, stockpiles, and making adjustments. Also see [[Main:Quickfort Community Blueprints|Quickfort Community Blueprints]].

=== [[User:Soundandfury/DF_Designer|DF Designer]] ===
DF Designer, by [[User:Soundandfury|soundnfury]] is a fort layout planning tool. It enables you to work out your designs before you start to build, and even see how they look in 3-D.
It's written in C with SDL, and both Linux and Windows builds are available. The source code is freely available under the GPL.
Since DF Designer does not 'talk to' Dwarf Fortress, it is version-independent. Supports exporting to Quickfort-compatible CSV files.

=== [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=55025.0 ChromaFort] ===
Chromafort allows you to convert 24-bit bitmap (.bmp) images into Quickfort-compatible CSV files.

=== [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=64723.15 DF Architect] ===
DF Architect is a short cut to using Chromafort in conjunction with DF Designer. It uses 24-bit bitmap files and directly designates them into Dwarf Fortress. It is an early release program and currently only supports digging, stairs (up, down, and both), and ramps. Its defining feature is the use of an 'index' which allows for the designer to visually connect the cursor to the image. Be careful when using this program as it had no abort or terminating ability while designating, nor will it check to see if you've uploaded correct formats.

=== [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=87731 DF Designator] ===
DF Designator helps you build fortresses from either image files or Quickfort .CSV files. It also has a user interface that allows you to assign hotkeys to blueprints and to combine blueprints in multi z-level designs. Windows, Mac and Linux versions are available.

=== [http://www.nickskvarla.com/dwarf/ Quickfort Mapping Tool] ===
Quickfort Mapping Tool is a simple to use web app for creating Quickfort blueprints graphically.

== Modding tools ==

=== [http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=2068 Custom Workshop Workshop] ===
WYSIWYG editor for designing the raws for a custom workshop.
(Not all raws, just the tiles and colors) Lets you see how it will look at each stage of construction. Comes with the default 16x16 CURSES font built in, but you can load any .BMP formatted DF font you like, keeping in mind that if its bigger than 16x16 it won't fit.

Accommodates up to 32x32 workshops, not that there's any reason for such a large workshop, right?

=== [http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=1996 Uristmod] ===
A program which uses text files to automatically change/update raw files. Makes installation of mods easier. However at this time, the documentation is a little confusing and makes creating mods harder for beginners. [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=53028.0 Forum Thread]

=== [http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=2088 Accent replacement tool] ===
A small application to remove accented characters from a file. A quick solution if you need the language files for a tileset that has images in place of special characters.
Alternatively, you can use this 20-line perl script: http://github.com/rofl0r/df-mayday/blob/master/charfix.pl

=== [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=90725.0 NightS' Easy metal creator] ===
A small script in batch which lets you make new metals easily by introducing their raw values. It provides values of ingame metals as example for the most obscure values.

== Raw tile tools ==

=== [[Utility:Raw tile selector]] ===

Provides an easy to use graphical interface to select which tiles and colors should be displayed for plants, stones and small creatures.

Made to ease the job of creators of tilesets with edited raws. It will also be useful for users that dislike decisions made by tileset creators or users that could not find the edited raws for a tileset.

[http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=2113 Download]

Currently for windows only.

=== Raw tile merger ===
Provides an easy to use interface to change the tile and color data of raws to match the data of another set of raw files.

Made to ease the job of creators of tilesets with edited raws when new versions of df are released. The edited raws for your tileset for a new df version can now be created with a few clicks.

[http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=2178 Download]

== World Map / World Gen Tools ==

=== [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=57428 PerfectWorldDF] ===
Very detailed Windows program to help create customize world gens.
 [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=57428 Bay 12 forum link]
 [http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=2354 Dwarf Fortress File Depot link (may be old version)]
 [http://dffd.wimbli.com/who.php?id=1314 Dwarf Fortress File Depot listing for the author]

It is a Windows program but can also be run under Linux with help of Mono. You can install the required Mono packages by typing this into the terminal:
sudo apt-get install libmono-system-windows-forms4.0-cil libmono-system-core4.0-cil
After installing this you should be able to double-click on the exe and it should work.

=== [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=73095.msg2261106#msg2261106 Map Maker] ===
Tool to create realistic-looking fantasy maps out ouf worldgen export. [http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=4359 download link]

== Other/miscellaneous ==

=== [http://www.mindwerks.net/projects/exita/ Exita] ===
Exita is a python program that takes your DF world map exports and dump them into several different text outputs.

=== [http://winmerge.org/ WinMerge] ===
Winmerge allows you to compare the contents of folders or files. It highlights any differences between files and allows you to merge them. It is most useful for modders or users of mods. If you compare modified raw files with unmodified ones you can quickly see any differences.

=== [http://kmkeen.com/df2ttf/ df2ttf] ===
df2ttf allows you to convert any Dwarf Fortress tileset (png or bmp) into a TrueType Font equivalent. It's great for running Dwarf Fortress in ncurses mode.

=== [http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=4238 Dwarven Guidance Counselor] ===
The Dwarven Guidance Counselor is a JavaScript/HTML page that lets you input a dwarf's attributes and traits, and gives an estimate of how well that dwarf will serve in a particular job.

=== [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=59026.0 Lazy Newb Pack] ===
Everything you could possible ever need all in one handy program. It includes graphics packs, DF Hack tools, StoneSense, and much more.

=== [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=72702.0 Legends Viewer] ===
Recreates Legends Mode from exported data. Browser like navigation, including tabs, allows to easily view other people/places/entities by just clicking names in the event logs or search lists.

= Tools under development =

'''The tools listed below are under development for DF 2010, but cannot perform the task they are intended for at this time.'''

=== [[Utility:Obsidian|Obsidian]] ===
''by Skeggox''

Obsidian is a toolset for converting DF maps into a renderable scene, manipulating the result, and displaying it directly in 3D or exporting to 3rd party renderers and raytracers.

Its a modular Lua framework, using Open Scene Graph for rendering and DFHack for talking with Dwarf Fortress.

This [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=57920.0 forum thread] has more detail.

v0.31:Utilities

2012-02-20T18:23:55Z

TerryDactyl: /* Dwarf Therapist */

{{Quality|Exceptional}}{{av}}
Please only list utilities that are known to work with the newest version here.

:''You may also like to see the [[Main:Tileset repository|Tileset repository]] or [[Main:Graphics set repository|Graphics set repository]].''

Here are third party applications useful for Dwarf Fortress players and modders.
__TOC__

==Dwarf Fortress filesharing services==

=== [http://dffd.wimbli.com/ Dwarf Fortress File Depot] ===
The Dwarf Fortress File Upload Service - an excellent place to store mods, community games, tilesets and other files. Courtesy of [[User:Janus|Janus]]; for files related to Dwarf Fortress only.

=== [http://mkv25.net/dfma/ DF Map Archive] ===

* http://mkv25.net/dfma/

The Dwarf Fortress Map Archive is a large collection of user-submitted maps and a nice flash viewer for perusing them.
Maps are uploaded, stored, and downloaded in a special compressed format created by the DF Map Compressor (see below).

Read more about the [[User:Markavian/DF_Map_Archive|DF Map Archive]] on [[User:Markavian|Markavian]]'s User page.

=== DF Map Compressor ===

*[http://shadowlord13.googlepages.com/dfmap-index.html SL's DF Map Compressor - Website] (currently not accessible)
*Download from [http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=997 DF File Depot]

The DF Map Compressor encodes multiple bitmaps exported from Dwarf Fortress into a single, very compressed, .fdf-map file, and functions as a viewer for this format. It can also export the maps to PNG format.

The .fdf-map file can then be shared with your friends by uploading to the [http://mkv25.net/dfma/ DF Map Archive] that features an online viewer (written in Flash).

The map compressor was created by Shadowlord in May 2007. The web site is currently not accessible. Extract from the website :
<blockquote>
"The '''DF Map Compressor''' is a program I made to encode Dwarf Fortress fortress or world map images into a much smaller format than is possible with normal image formats. Here's a quick summary of how it works: It determines the size of your tiles from your DF font file (or asks you), splits the map up into tiles, identifies duplicate tiles, writes out every unique tile image, and then writes out a list of ID#s for each tile position which points to the tile image for that tile. What it outputs is piped through the LZMA compressor (the one used in 7-zip), to compress it further. The .df-map file which it writes out is usually less than 100 KB in size. (By comparison, a PNG of the same map can exceed 2 megabytes, depending on how well you compress it, whether you change the color depth, and whether you are using a graphical tileset or detailed font)."
</blockquote>

There is a little bit of information at the [http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=997 DF File Depot] page, where the compressor can be downloaded:
<blockquote>
"It requires either .NET 2.0 or newer (If you have Windows Vista, you already have this, if not, you might need to get it), or if you're on Linux or a Mac or other non-Windows OS, requires Mono.
* .NET 2.0: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=0856eacb-4362-4b0d-8edd-aab15c5e04f5
* Mono: http://www.mono-project.com/"
</blockquote>

To get it working on OSX, according to [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=64174.msg1511109#msg1511109 this forum post]:
:1. [http://www.go-mono.com/mono-downloads/ download the Mono Framework] and install it. If you're on a modern Mac, you want the [http://ftp.novell.com/pub/mono/archive/2.8.1/macos-10-x86/3/MonoFramework-2.8.1_3.macos10.novell.x86.dmg latest Intel version], which requires OSX 10.5 or 10.6. [http://www.mono-project.com/OldReleases Older versions are available] but no longer supported.
:2. export your map from Dwarf Fortress (Esc -> Export Local Image)
:3. download the [http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=997 DF Map Compressor from the DF File Depot].
:4. open the terminal, navigate to the DF Map Compressor folder and type:
mono DwarfFortressMapCompressor.3.3.4.exe
:5. WAIT a bit for the DF Map Compressor windows to appear (''I almost thought it had crashed, it's rather slow'')
:6. follow the on screen instructions

== 3D Visualizers ==

=== [[Utility:Stonesense|Stonesense]] ===
[[File:stonesense.jpg|208px|thumb|right|Stonesense Screenshot]]
''by Jonask, Solifuge, Kaypy and Japa''

Stonesense is a third party real-time visualizer that lets you view your Dwarf Fortress world in a classic isometric perspective.

More information is available in [http://www.bay12games.com/forum/index.php?topic=43260.0 this forum thread].

Stonesense is now in version 2.3 Slate, supports v0.31.21 - [http://stonesense.googlecode.com/files/Stonesense_Slate_2.3.zip Download]

----
It is possible to get a quick working version of Stonesense for versions up to v0.31.21, without compiling the SVN development version (or downloading the new non SVN version), by downloading the updated [http://stonesense.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/Memory.xml Memory.xml] and overwriting the file of the same name in the base directory of Stonesense 2.2. If (and only if), this does not work, download and replace [http://stonesense.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/dfhack.dll dfhack.dll]. If it still doesn't work, replace [http://stonesense.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/stonesense.exe stonesense.exe]. If it displays a problem with missing dlls, download these .dll files [http://stonesense.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/allegro-5.0.dll 1], [http://stonesense.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/allegro_dialog-5.0.dll 2], [http://stonesense.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/allegro_font-5.0.dll 3], [http://stonesense.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/allegro_image-5.0.dll 4], [http://stonesense.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/allegro_primitives-5.0.dll 5], [http://stonesense.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/allegro_ttf-5.0.dll 6] and place them in the Stonesense base directory.

=== [[Utility:Overseer|Fortress Overseer]] ===
''by thewonderidiot and sexymustard''

Overseer is a full 3D visualizer for v0.31 using the DFHack library. Its appearance is highly customizable and will be even more so in the near future. Check out its [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=63484.0 forum thread] for more details or download it from [http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=3882 here].

== Music and Sounds ==

=== [[Utility:SoundSense|SoundSense]] ===

SoundSense is a tool that parses game logs and reacts to game events with sound effects, incidental music and dwarfy comments.

[http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=60287 forum thread], download at [http://df.zweistein.cz/soundsense/ homepage].

== Interface tools ==

===[http://www.bay12games.com/forum/index.php?topic=50643.0 Dfterm2]===

Dfterm2 is a tool to run Dwarf Fortress via terminals remotely. Multiple people can connect and watch or join in.

Main article here: [[Utility:Dfterm2]].

== Game manipulation tools ==

=== [http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=645 Reveal] ===

The standalone Reveal utility is obsolete due to missing source code. [[v0.31:Utilities#DFHack|DFHack]]'s dfreveal module works like Reveal did, and has built-in undo capability.

Reveal (or Reveal.exe as it is commonly referred to) is a program that runs alongside Dwarf Fortress and shows all "unexplored" or "undug" tiles of the map (in fortress mode). To reveal entire map designate the entire bottom level to be mined and then remove designation before running reveal (Not required in the latest version using the parameters below, simply start the .exe file.). Playing on revealed map might ''(read "will")'' cause some bugs (like not being able to build magma buildings or a tower-cap farm, losing all plants/trees on the map, and a lot more). '''Using Reveal has been known to corrupt saved game folders.''' and, as such, it is highly recommended to only use Reveal to preview a biome's layout and then restart without running Reveal.


===[http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=66525 Dwarf Therapist]===

Dwarf Therapist gives you an advanced GUI to manage and check dwarf job allocations, military assignments (40d), statistics (such as attributes, personality traits and happiness), plus sort dwarves by various criteria (eg. profession, migration wave, happiness, number of assigned jobs etc.) and generally manage the Dwarven Resources of your fortress in a very convenient way.

Version 0.6.10 is out (March 15, 2011). This version supports DF builds up to 0.34.02, if you have the right [http://code.google.com/p/dwarftherapist/issues/detail?id=328&can=1&q=31.25 files]..

''NOTE'': DwarfEngineer has taken over chmod's task in maintaining this MOD.

New dedicated support forum: http://code.google.com/p/dwarftherapist/

Read the full changelog here: http://code.google.com/p/dwarftherapist/source/browse/CHANGELOG.txt



Instruction for making it work with new versions here: http://code.google.com/p/dwarftherapist/wiki/MappingNewVersions This page also tends to have the new addresses within an hour or two of new releases of Dwarf Fortress.
N.B. Dwarftherapist appears to be automatically updating; 0.6.9 updated automatically from 0.31.19 to 0.31.21 on Windows SDL.

'''For Mac users''': A mac version of this utility (built by ghalidrim and compatible with the latest DF version, 31.25) is free for download at [http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=4463 the DF file depot]. Beware though : this is a test build, so there may be bugs, use with care!

'''For Linux users''': There is a repository with a Linux version of DwarfTherapist available for download.
====Instructions (Ubuntu)====
Run "Software Sources" (super/windows key, type "software s" and click) [System->Administration->Software Sources]
Click Other Software, then Add
Paste: <pre>deb http://dwarftherapist.com/apt maverick universe</pre>
Click on line that says (Source Code) on the end; Remove.
Open a terminal and
<pre>sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install dwarftherapist</pre>
To run, run "dwarftherapist" from the terminal or create a shortcut on the desktop.
When you run, a box asking for root privileges should pop up.

See http://code.google.com/p/dwarftherapist/wiki/LinuxVersion for updates.

=== [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=59056.0 Runesmith] ===
Runesmith is a Dwarf information viewing and editing tool inspired by the original Dwarf Companion. It uses the DFHack library to interface with Dwarf Fortress and Qt to provide a robust and professional looking cross-platform GUI. http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=59056.0

Version 0.1.9 is out for Windows, currently supporting 0.31.25. Since it uses DFHack, all versions of DF that DFHack supports, Runesmith supports!

* Windows: http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=2538
* Linux: to follow (the windows one is reported to work fine under wine though)

"A tool that allows smithing (editing) of the digits and runes (letters) that control all life in DF. By smithing these runes, the metagods (players) can meddle with DF mortals to suit their games, be it recasting a soul into a new species body, blessing and cursing indiviudals or just to make predictions of when a mortal will attain the next degree of competence to guide them on how they should spend their limited time." - Psieye - (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=57003.msg1324765#msg1324765)

=== [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=58809 DFHack] ===

DFHack is a Dwarf Fortress memory access library and a set of basic tools using this library. The library is a work in progress, so things might change as more tools are written for it. Releases support versions up through 0.31.25 (as of April, 2011). Runs on both Windows and Linux.

Code and binary releases are available from the [http://github.com/peterix/dfhack/downloads Github site].

=== DFhack tools for DF 2010 ===
==== dfcleanmap ====
Cleans all the bloodsmears that get scattered all over the map.
==== dfliquids ====
Allows creating liquids (water and magma), making them flow or preventing them from flowing. Newly also allows making obsidian walls. It's a command-prompt style utility where you type in very simple commands. Replaces the older magma_create tool.

Use like this:

game: place 'k' cursor on the tile or on the upper left corner of the area to manipulate.

tool: enter 'range' in the tool and specify width and height of the rectangle.

- remove water

'w'
'0'
's-'
<ENTER>

- create obsidian wall (only works for a single tile, even if a range is specified)

'o'
'1'
's.'
<ENTER>

note that previously existing water or magma still stays at this spot.

- create magma

'm'
'7'
's+'
<ENTER>

==== dfprospector ====
Lists all available minerals on the map and how much of them there is.
==== dfreveal ====
Pauses the game and reveals the whole map, then unreveals it afterwards (unless you press Ctrl+C). Use with caution, releases [[HFS]]! Same warnings as to the original Reveal tool apply.

==== dfvdig ====
Designates a whole vein for digging. When using the '-x' option, it will dig stairs into other z-levels. Point the cursor at a vein and run this thing :)

=== [[Utility:DwarfForeman|Dwarf Foreman]] ===
Dwarf Foreman is a third party program to automatically dispatch jobs to your workers.

=== [[Utility:DwarfScript|Dwarf Script]] ===
Dwarf Script is a program and allows you to manipulate DF's memory using a script.

== Fortress layout tools ==

=== [http://sun2design.com/quickfort/ Quickfort] ===

Quickfort is an AutoHotkey-based utility for Dwarf Fortress that helps you build fortresses from "blueprint" .CSV files (comma separated values). These files are easily created and edited in an app like Excel. Most building-oriented DF commands are supported through the use of multiple .CSV files to describe the different phases of DF construction (designation, building, stockpiles, and making adjustments. Also see [[Main:Quickfort Community Blueprints|Quickfort Community Blueprints]].

=== [[User:Soundandfury/DF_Designer|DF Designer]] ===
DF Designer, by [[User:Soundandfury|soundnfury]] is a fort layout planning tool. It enables you to work out your designs before you start to build, and even see how they look in 3-D.
It's written in C with SDL, and both Linux and Windows builds are available. The source code is freely available under the GPL.
Since DF Designer does not 'talk to' Dwarf Fortress, it is version-independent. Supports exporting to Quickfort-compatible CSV files.

=== [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=55025.0 ChromaFort] ===
Chromafort allows you to convert 24-bit bitmap (.bmp) images into Quickfort-compatible CSV files.

=== [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=64723.15 DF Architect] ===
DF Architect is a short cut to using Chromafort in conjunction with DF Designer. It uses 24-bit bitmap files and directly designates them into Dwarf Fortress. It is an early release program and currently only supports digging, stairs (up, down, and both), and ramps. Its defining feature is the use of an 'index' which allows for the designer to visually connect the cursor to the image. Be careful when using this program as it had no abort or terminating ability while designating, nor will it check to see if you've uploaded correct formats.

=== [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=87731 DF Designator] ===
DF Designator helps you build fortresses from either image files or Quickfort .CSV files. It also has a user interface that allows you to assign hotkeys to blueprints and to combine blueprints in multi z-level designs. Windows, Mac and Linux versions are available.

=== [http://www.nickskvarla.com/dwarf/ Quickfort Mapping Tool] ===
Quickfort Mapping Tool is a simple to use web app for creating Quickfort blueprints graphically.

== Modding tools ==

=== [http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=2068 Custom Workshop Workshop] ===
WYSIWYG editor for designing the raws for a custom workshop.
(Not all raws, just the tiles and colors) Lets you see how it will look at each stage of construction. Comes with the default 16x16 CURSES font built in, but you can load any .BMP formatted DF font you like, keeping in mind that if its bigger than 16x16 it won't fit.

Accommodates up to 32x32 workshops, not that there's any reason for such a large workshop, right?

=== [http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=1996 Uristmod] ===
A program which uses text files to automatically change/update raw files. Makes installation of mods easier. However at this time, the documentation is a little confusing and makes creating mods harder for beginners. [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=53028.0 Forum Thread]

=== [http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=2088 Accent replacement tool] ===
A small application to remove accented characters from a file. A quick solution if you need the language files for a tileset that has images in place of special characters.
Alternatively, you can use this 20-line perl script: http://github.com/rofl0r/df-mayday/blob/master/charfix.pl

=== [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=90725.0 NightS' Easy metal creator] ===
A small script in batch which lets you make new metals easily by introducing their raw values. It provides values of ingame metals as example for the most obscure values.

== Raw tile tools ==

=== [[Utility:Raw tile selector]] ===

Provides an easy to use graphical interface to select which tiles and colors should be displayed for plants, stones and small creatures.

Made to ease the job of creators of tilesets with edited raws. It will also be useful for users that dislike decisions made by tileset creators or users that could not find the edited raws for a tileset.

[http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=2113 Download]

Currently for windows only.

=== Raw tile merger ===
Provides an easy to use interface to change the tile and color data of raws to match the data of another set of raw files.

Made to ease the job of creators of tilesets with edited raws when new versions of df are released. The edited raws for your tileset for a new df version can now be created with a few clicks.

[http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=2178 Download]

== World Map / World Gen Tools ==

=== [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=57428 PerfectWorldDF] ===
Very detailed Windows program to help create customize world gens.
 [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=57428 Bay 12 forum link]
 [http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=2354 Dwarf Fortress File Depot link (may be old version)]
 [http://dffd.wimbli.com/who.php?id=1314 Dwarf Fortress File Depot listing for the author]

It is a Windows program but can also be run under Linux with help of Mono. You can install the required Mono packages by typing this into the terminal:
sudo apt-get install libmono-system-windows-forms4.0-cil libmono-system-core4.0-cil
After installing this you should be able to double-click on the exe and it should work.

=== [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=73095.msg2261106#msg2261106 Map Maker] ===
Tool to create realistic-looking fantasy maps out ouf worldgen export. [http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=4359 download link]

== Other/miscellaneous ==

=== [http://www.mindwerks.net/projects/exita/ Exita] ===
Exita is a python program that takes your DF world map exports and dump them into several different text outputs.

=== [http://winmerge.org/ WinMerge] ===
Winmerge allows you to compare the contents of folders or files. It highlights any differences between files and allows you to merge them. It is most useful for modders or users of mods. If you compare modified raw files with unmodified ones you can quickly see any differences.

=== [http://kmkeen.com/df2ttf/ df2ttf] ===
df2ttf allows you to convert any Dwarf Fortress tileset (png or bmp) into a TrueType Font equivalent. It's great for running Dwarf Fortress in ncurses mode.

=== [http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=4238 Dwarven Guidance Counselor] ===
The Dwarven Guidance Counselor is a JavaScript/HTML page that lets you input a dwarf's attributes and traits, and gives an estimate of how well that dwarf will serve in a particular job.

=== [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=59026.0 Lazy Newb Pack] ===
Everything you could possible ever need all in one handy program. It includes graphics packs, DF Hack tools, StoneSense, and much more.

=== [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=72702.0 Legends Viewer] ===
Recreates Legends Mode from exported data. Browser like navigation, including tabs, allows to easily view other people/places/entities by just clicking names in the event logs or search lists.

= Tools under development =

'''The tools listed below are under development for DF 2010, but cannot perform the task they are intended for at this time.'''

=== [[Utility:Obsidian|Obsidian]] ===
''by Skeggox''

Obsidian is a toolset for converting DF maps into a renderable scene, manipulating the result, and displaying it directly in 3D or exporting to 3rd party renderers and raytracers.

Its a modular Lua framework, using Open Scene Graph for rendering and DFHack for talking with Dwarf Fortress.

This [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=57920.0 forum thread] has more detail.

v0.31 Talk:Melt item

2011-10-23T20:05:16Z

TerryDactyl: /* Base values wrong */

Using version 0.31.25, I only melted 2 copper battle axes, and I got a copper bar. So the ones I used must have yielded more than 4/10 of a bar each. They were starting equipment, if that makes any difference. -- JasonMel

== Base values wrong ==
In the "buying to melt" table, seems to me the base values are off. According to the table, scimitar and mace are both 10 base value, while what I get is 14 and 17, respectively. Also, if an iron anvil does indeed give a whole bar back, then they're not relative value of 100, they're an absolute steal at 10 (i.e. someone forgot that the value of an iron anvil is 10 base * 10 material (iron), not 100 base value), and as good a value as cages.

:If you're importing anvils, you can turn a massive profit through resale, when your master blacksmith produces high-quality furniture. The only problem is with their weight; you might be better importing lots of lightweight crafts and improving them for resale instead.

v0.31 Talk:Wood

2011-10-20T00:19:18Z

TerryDactyl: /* Training Weapons */ new section

==Exotic Woods==
Given the relative expansion of underground wood-bearing substances, which possess unusual properties or colors, and the utility of some woods for certain products over others (blood thorn and glumprong for ballista bolts, feather-tree for barrels, buckets, sparring weapons, etc.), would it be worth expanding this article to talk about that in more detail? I've also been playing a bit with trading (i.e. you can trade for feather tree wood but not glumprong); trying to see if Dwarf civilizations will trade blood thorn logs or the like, but haven't had any luck. Guess they don't hit those deep down caverns, eh? -- [[User:Ancient History|Ancient History]] 22:38, 22 July 2010 (UTC)
:They trade tower-cap, don't they? Well, your wagon is usually tower-cap. I'm preety sure it's cause Glumprong and Blood Thorn are [EVIL] woods, and dwarves don't settle in [EVIL] areas. --[[Special:Contributions/174.113.156.80|174.113.156.80]] 16:31, 29 July 2010 (UTC)
::Blood thorns aren't evil, they're just found only in the lowest cavern level. Presumably, dwarven civilizations only have access to the 1st cavern layer, which is what prevents them from offering anything other than tower-caps and fungiwood. --[[User:Quietust|Quietust]] 19:59, 29 July 2010 (UTC)

== Wood Colors ==

This isn't particularly important but I'm pretty obsessed with making objects of all the different colors. So when I realized that fungiwood barrels were brown instead of yellow, I looked into how the colors work. Apparently most items made out of wood preserve the color and the brightness of the wood, but a certain few items preserve the color but always set the brightness to 0. These are: barrels, doors, cages, bins, floodgates, and hatch covers. If you build any of those out of fungiwood, they'll be brown. If you build anything else out of fungiwood, it will be yellow. Similarly, tower-cap barrels are light gray and not white.

I don't know if this is even worth including, or if it should go in carpentry or what, but I figured I'd mention it somewhere so if anyone else thinks it's important enough to include they can.

Also, bags preserve the brightness of the thread, so it doesn't seem to be related to containers. --[[Special:Contributions/75.183.164.142|75.183.164.142]] 02:43, 31 July 2010 (UTC)
:Barrels are just a "division" symbol "÷" with a colored background, and background colors can only be "dark": black, dark red, dark green, dark blue, purple, teal, brown, and ''light'' gray (dark gray is actually "bright black"). --[[User:Quietust|Quietust]] 02:52, 31 July 2010 (UTC)

::I use a graphics set so I wasn't aware that there was any background stuff going on. I guess that answers my question. I still wish I could get brightly-colored barrels, though. --[[Special:Contributions/75.183.164.142|75.183.164.142]] 04:09, 31 July 2010 (UTC)
: mod colors if you really wanted to.

== Underground Saplings ==
"Underground areas will only start to sprout saplings once you have hit the caverns."

I've had my last couple of fortresses start growing saplings from the moment I muddied my farming areas, just before I actually built the plots. Is it a bug or not? I usually irrigate right out of a brook, if it makes a difference.

== Bituminous coal, lignite vs. wood ==
"Bituminous coal without magma triples the effective output of wood, lignite doubles it." I havn't played much, but coal and lignite doubles and matches wood output. Am I missing something? [[User:Taerh|Taerh]] 18:15, 6 September 2010 (UTC)
:One wood log can be burned to produce one unit of charcoal, good for one metalworking job. If you use that unit of charcoal to process bituminous coal, you get 3 units of coke, enough for 3 metalworking jobs (hence tripling the effective output). --[[User:Quietust|Quietust]] 23:06, 6 September 2010 (UTC)
:according to [[DF2010:Bituminous coal]] you need a coal for the stone coals -- therefore 3-1 =2 (doubling) and lignate matches by the same math. -- which is correct -- this page or that one?
::You don't need any fuel to make charcoal, you just need a wood log. You DO need a unit of fuel to make coke, but the output is 3 bars of fuel.--[[Special:Contributions/208.81.12.34|208.81.12.34]] 18:56, 16 September 2010 (UTC)
:::In other words, 1 wood log by itself makes 1 unit of fuel, 1 hunk of lignite plus 1 wood log (burned into charcoal) makes 2 units of fuel, and 1 hunk of bituminous coal plus 1 wood log (burned into charcoal) makes 3 units of fuel. --[[User:Quietust|Quietust]] 19:09, 16 September 2010 (UTC)
::::That math is off, here's how it works. In the case of wood, 1 wood = 1 charcoal. In the case of Bituminous coal, 1 wood = 1 charcoal = 3 coke; the math in this reaction is 1 - 1 + 3. When using Lignite, it's similar; 1 wood = 1 charcoal = 2 coke; 1 - 1 + 2. So bituminous coal triples the effect of wood, because you end up with 3 fuel rather than 1. Lignite doubles the effect of wood, because you end up with 2 fuel rather than 1.--[[User:Eurytus|Eurytus]] 20:09, 16 September 2010 (UTC)
:::::Um, I'm on a coalless embark at the moment, so I can't verify this with the current version (.31.25), but unless the reactions have changed since v. .31.16 coal does ''not'' "triple wood".. it infinitely multiplies it. All you need is a seam of coal, and ''one'' charcoal, and you can burn the whole seam into coke - using the coke from the seam itself - and carve the rest of your wood into beds.. I see the {{l|Fuel}} page hasn't changed significantly, so I'm pretty confident this is still true with v. .31.25 [[Special:Contributions/218.186.8.11|218.186.8.11]] 06:08, 8 September 2011 (UTC)

==Temperature==
The article states that all woods are functionally identical except for their densities. But, that's not true. Nethercaps have a fixed temperature of 10,000 U. Worth noting? Has anyone experimented with Nethercaps versus fire or magma? --[[User:Oddrune|Oddrune]] 04:29, 3 December 2010 (UTC)
:Yeah - over on the {{l|Nether-cap}} page and its Talk page. --[[User:DeMatt|DeMatt]] 05:14, 3 December 2010 (UTC)

== Training Weapons ==

Wooden training weapons are useful for military training started shortly after embark should you feel the need

Not sure why I was edited out here:
"Training weapons have uses in arena combat, but military dwarves no longer suffer sparring injuries."

My point is that live-training exercises against captive opponents raises skills much faster than conventional martial-training. The use of wooden 'training weapons' greatly improves the viability of this practice, as the damage done with each hit is greatly reduced.

It should also be noted that wooden training weapons are useful for law enforcement.

v0.31 Talk:Wound

2011-10-20T00:12:39Z

TerryDactyl: /* Function Loss */

==Broken heart?==
I have seen a creature, while testing in the arena, with a broken heart.
My creature was modded to have a uncontrolled dust attack with a humanoid body without arms and with 4 legs. As 7 of them fought against a dragon, one of the surviving creatures had a broken heart. Either it has lost a loved one, or it had just broken its heart!--[[User:Niggy|Niggy]] 18:13, 16 June 2010 (UTC)

One of my dwarves got a broken liver. Because liver is the most important part of the dwarven metabolism, adamantine sutures were used to fix it.--[[User:Aavemursu|Aavemursu]]

==Inhibited Dwarves==
Dwarves with some kinda of lasting status such as inhibited flash with a yellow '+'. How this effects the dwarf is on the hospital screen (weak grasp, etc.) Do not know to what extent inhibited dwarves are effected in work and combat.--[[Special:Contributions/99.67.238.66|99.67.238.66]] 04:06, 15 June 2010 (UTC)

== Lasting Injuries ==

One of my dwarfs has injuries to her left arm and lower leg. These are listed in her personality section as "tiny curving scars" rather than dents or bruises as would be the case for combat injuries. Scarring causes permanent injuries? Needs corroboration.--[[User:Nimblewright|Nimblewright]] 09:54, 21 April 2010 (UTC)

:After checking around this applies to all my dwarves that have scars. Scarred areas are listed in the personality section, and remain permanently brown or yellow - i.e. minor/inhibited.--[[User:Nimblewright|Nimblewright]] 09:54, 21 April 2010 (UTC)

== Function Loss ==

"From the description above, the new cyan "Function loss" appears to be paralyzation or numbness."

I've had about fifteen dwarves wrestling an ettin for about a month now, and the only things that turn cyan are internal organs (pancreas, kidney, lung). No limb or appendage has turned cyan that I've seen. I suspect that it is used for things that would not be, say, bruised or broken, but otherwise damaged. --[[User:Zombiejustice|Zombiejustice]] 18:40, 10 April 2010 (UTC)

:After another week and some dogs joining in, the eyes went cyan, too. So it's not just /internal/ organs, but I think my earlier conclusion is still sound. --[[User:Zombiejustice|Zombiejustice]] 21:55, 10 April 2010 (UTC)

::I have a dwarf whose lower spine /was/ broken, but then after it was healed (somewhat), it turned cyan. He still can't walk - but this says that cyan is more than just internal organs, but also for other permanent injuries that affect the dwarf somehow. --[[User:Drake1500|Drake1500]] 21:24, 19 June 2011 (UTC)

:::This function loss thing is a little puzzling. I bruised an enemy's heart in the combat logs. It appears cyan, implying function loss... but the beakwolf is still running around. Impairment, maybe, but even then it doesn't seem to be slowing him down much. --[[User:TerryDactyl|TerryDactyl]]

== Post Traumatic Stress ==

I've only found limited references to what I think is a bug: after one of my military dwarves was brain-damaged during a goblin ambush (and after the goblins were dead or long-gone) she kept spamming "Urist McMacedwarf cancels rest: interrupted by goblin mace man". Although sporting a whole range of grievous wounds, she would ''not'' be carried to a hospital bed as the rest of the wounded, since she apparently retained consciousness albeit a strange dementia wherein she kept thinking goblins were still all around her. I thought this a bit comical at first, and after all, suffering brain damage could now be liable for myriad of behavioral quirks but when the spam messages -- about 5 per second -- went into the 1,000 range, and the dwarf kept sitting there, not having eaten or drank for over a month, I began getting concerned (especially when this eventually led to the game crashing, I assume from congestion of the spam messages). Recently, however, I had the same thing happen to a dwarf who had ''not'' suffered any brain or head injury, and yet the same thing's happening with her, leading me to believe it's a bug. The only solutions offered on the Bay12 forums involve deconstructing the bed of or killing the said dwarf on the pretense that he/she is underground, in one's fortress, specifically in the hospital. My wounded hospital dwarves have never spammed these messages (and why would they -- they're already resting) and both these instances occurred with dwarves still outside. I cannot have my squads kill them and see no way of ending the stream of messages. Any ideas? --[[User:Bronzebeard|Bronzebeard]] 12:45, 4 May 2010 (UTC)

:Good news: I've found a way to fix this bug! Apparently, the confused (or bugged, as the case may be) dwarves have to sustain another injury to snap them out of it. With a heavy heart, I built a menacing spike right under the troubled dwarf and connected it to a lever nearby, and had it pulled. To my disappointment, as I wanted to at least afford her a quick death, it only wounded her. I was going to have it pulled again before I discovered the spam messages had stopped and, despite the dire injuries, she was no longer trying to rest but attend a combat drill, but nonetheless, a dwarf nearby headed toward her to carry her off to a hospital bed. Problem solved, evidently. --[[User:Bronzebeard|Bronzebeard]] 02:59, 5 May 2010 (UTC)

== Broken Skulls? ==

I've been controlling creatures in the Arena, and something strange happened. I was wandering around with nothing but a maul, trashing goblins because I could, and I hit a goblin in the head. It said that it broke its skull, so I moved on to another creature, and didn't notice that it started following me. Focusing on the actual threats, I killed everything else, and then it killed me by stabbing me in the lung. Has this happened to anyone else?--[[User:Mad Fencer|Mad Fencer]] 23:02, 22 May 2010 (UTC)

:Propably you damaged only the cranial bone, but left the brain intact enough to not kill him instantly.--[[User:Gnarker|Gnarker]] 20:02, 28 May 2010 (CEST)

== Pale ==
Just discovered a Hoary Marmot badly wounded by a Troglodyte, which had the 'pale' descriptor in the wounds-screen. I think that came from the heavy blood loss.--[[User:Gnarker|Gnarker]] 20:06, 28 May 2010 (CEST)
:Yah, that was present in 40d as well. It goes 'Faint', then 'Pale', and then the creature dies. Sorta the same way 'Hungry' and 'Starving' work, except it's referring to running out of blood instead of running out of food. Happens to your dwarves too, along with every creature that bleeds. --[[User:DeMatt|DeMatt]] 20:31, 28 May 2010 (UTC)

== This page needs more info ==

RIght now it should say what different injuries effects are.--[[User:Toybasher|Toybasher]] 12:10, 29 May 2010 (UTC)

I added in a section describing what effects missing limbs (specifically, arms) have. --[[User:Existent|Existent]] 15:44, 11 August 2010 (UTC)

== Death by workshop? ==

So, my woodcutter is happily working on some bins, when suddenly an announcement pops up. "Cog Dalzatkikrost, Woodworker has bled to death." His corpse is still in his workshop. There appears to be no units on the unit list aside from my dwarves and embark animals. This workshop is outside, but very close to a meeting zone that has other dwarves on break and animals present. The Thoughts and Preferences screen says "His upper body is gone". Being the woodworker, he had a copper battle axe, but I'm not sure if that's relevant. What on earth happened here? --[[Special:Contributions/174.0.202.59|174.0.202.59]] 22:21, 17 June 2010 (UTC)
:A few seconds after this happened, a stray dog just randomly died in what I can only assume is a similar fashion. "His upper body is gone" --[[Special:Contributions/174.0.202.59|174.0.202.59]] 22:27, 17 June 2010 (UTC)
::A horse standing in the same general area as both the dog and the woodcutter just got some random leg wounds, but didn't die. I was sitting here watching this happen. I didn't see anything approach it, and neither did my dwarves apparently. It just suddenly ran off in one direction, leaving a trail of blood, and stopped a few tiles away closer to my other dwarves which were in the meeting area on break.
:::Can be magma one level below, or melting rain bug, or other temperature bug. -Afoninv
::::Or El Chupacabra.
:All dead dwarves show with "upper body is gone" afterwards, it's not an actual indicator of what killed them. You can now press R to get combat reports though with the same details from adventure mode. [[User:Scikar|Scikar]] 18:42, 8 August 2010 (UTC)

== Colossus of Socks ==

Apparently a cave spider silk sock can be used as an improvised weapon by the colossus if stolen from one of the dwarves... Its been three years, and the colossus has never once stopped beating my hammerdwarf with it. I just left them alone in a secluded room together. Its entertaining. It seems a dwarf can take damage to every piece of his body without dying. Especially if its constant, and with a sock.
:This brings another thing to mind. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VDvgL58h_Y
:--[[User:Axussriddare|KETHCHUP BERSERK!!!]] 16:04, 21 October 2010 (UTC)

Yes, I spent over a year fighting a Bronze Colossus who insisted on bashing elves and my adventurer eventually to death with a Pig tail skirt...--[[User:Haydosss|Haydosss]] 08:13, 3 November 2010 (UTC)

== Limb Loss ==
I've just had a Speardwarf have his arm cut off in battle (he continued fighting and ended up killing about 10 goblins) and he survived the entire fight. Now he is wandering around as though there is (almost) nothing wrong, he hasn't gone to the Hospital once despite there being many beds. I think the section on missing limbs needs to be changed just to point out that not all dwarves will linger in the hospital after losing a limb.
By the way, he is pretty much doing the exact same thing as he did before losing his arm.

: NEVER UNDERESTIMATE A DWARF! I noticed one of the dwarves in my army had no arms. After several failed attempts to retire him to a desk job I put him back in the military with no armor or equipment expecting him to die in the next siege. He didn't die. Instead he has gone on to survive several sieges and get at least seven kills that I know of AFTER losing both his arms. He is a legendary fighter with some other assorted combat skills at talented and below. He currently has 28 kills and 10 other kills. He's not dead yet. --[[User:Doctorzuber|Doctorzuber]] 06:33, 23 February 2011 (UTC)

:: "Come back here and take what's coming to you! I'll bite your legs off!!"

== Making nerve damage healable ==

The article says you can make nerve damage healable by editing the raw files. Do you have to do this before creating the world? I edited the tissue_template_default.txt file in raw/objects and in the save folder. But the nerve damage remains. [[Special:Contributions/220.253.87.249|220.253.87.249]] 03:07, 5 January 2011 (UTC)
:I believe so, but haven't verified. —[[Special:Contributions/98.221.97.100|98.221.97.100]] 06:30, 5 January 2011 (UTC)

It was suggested that nerves are only ever severed, so they do not heal, and adding this tag does nothing. Can someone confirm? --[[User:Naros|Naros]] 03:30, 12 February 2011 (UTC)
:Confirmed. The line [TISSUE_NAME:nervous tissue:NP] may suggest that it only applies to spinal nerves, since those are the only nerves which I've seen being referred to as "nervous tissue". --[[User:Eepkeep|Eepkeep]] 16:36, 21 February 2011 (UTC)

== Scarring ==

Thanks to this discussion page I've learned that it leaves the body part that's scarred permanently marked as wounded. Is there any way to disable the scars doing this? It makes me constantly think my adventurer has taken FAR more damage than he actually has.

:The scarring is due to the body part being permanently injured. If you check your adventurer's health screen, you will see possibly nerves still wounded, and maybe just skin and fat. --[[User:Dsarker|Dsarker]] 14:18, 14 June 2011 (UTC)

== Labor ==

I have an apparently heavily injured potter who refuses to give up picking up some equipment. He has tried 221 times and counting. the flood of messages is keeping me from reading the other more important messages from a an ongoing tantrum spiral. Anyone know any way to stop this? [[Special:Contributions/70.132.3.212|70.132.3.212]] 04:47, 13 June 2011 (UTC)
:By the way, turning off all of his labors didn't work. [[Special:Contributions/70.132.3.212|70.132.3.212]] 04:54, 13 June 2011 (UTC)

== Middle Spine Damage ==
From this log, I have proved that middle spine damage leads to lung loss:

You stab The Rhesus Macaque in the upper body with your copper spear, tearing apart the muscle and shattering the right false rib!
An artery has been opened by the attack!
A tendon in the right false rib has been torn!
You stab The Rhesus Macaque in the upper body with your copper spear, tearing apart the muscle and tearing apart the middle spine's nervous tissue!
An artery has been opened by the attack!
A tendon in the middle spine has been torn!
The Rhesus Macaque falls over.
The Rhesus Macaque has suffocated.

That's the entire fight. Hope that helps people in future --[[Special:Contributions/82.26.111.166|82.26.111.166]] 23:30, 9 July 2011 (UTC)

v0.31 Talk:Wound

2011-10-20T00:10:50Z

TerryDactyl: /* Function Loss */

==Broken heart?==
I have seen a creature, while testing in the arena, with a broken heart.
My creature was modded to have a uncontrolled dust attack with a humanoid body without arms and with 4 legs. As 7 of them fought against a dragon, one of the surviving creatures had a broken heart. Either it has lost a loved one, or it had just broken its heart!--[[User:Niggy|Niggy]] 18:13, 16 June 2010 (UTC)

One of my dwarves got a broken liver. Because liver is the most important part of the dwarven metabolism, adamantine sutures were used to fix it.--[[User:Aavemursu|Aavemursu]]

==Inhibited Dwarves==
Dwarves with some kinda of lasting status such as inhibited flash with a yellow '+'. How this effects the dwarf is on the hospital screen (weak grasp, etc.) Do not know to what extent inhibited dwarves are effected in work and combat.--[[Special:Contributions/99.67.238.66|99.67.238.66]] 04:06, 15 June 2010 (UTC)

== Lasting Injuries ==

One of my dwarfs has injuries to her left arm and lower leg. These are listed in her personality section as "tiny curving scars" rather than dents or bruises as would be the case for combat injuries. Scarring causes permanent injuries? Needs corroboration.--[[User:Nimblewright|Nimblewright]] 09:54, 21 April 2010 (UTC)

:After checking around this applies to all my dwarves that have scars. Scarred areas are listed in the personality section, and remain permanently brown or yellow - i.e. minor/inhibited.--[[User:Nimblewright|Nimblewright]] 09:54, 21 April 2010 (UTC)

== Function Loss ==

"From the description above, the new cyan "Function loss" appears to be paralyzation or numbness."

I've had about fifteen dwarves wrestling an ettin for about a month now, and the only things that turn cyan are internal organs (pancreas, kidney, lung). No limb or appendage has turned cyan that I've seen. I suspect that it is used for things that would not be, say, bruised or broken, but otherwise damaged. --[[User:Zombiejustice|Zombiejustice]] 18:40, 10 April 2010 (UTC)

:After another week and some dogs joining in, the eyes went cyan, too. So it's not just /internal/ organs, but I think my earlier conclusion is still sound. --[[User:Zombiejustice|Zombiejustice]] 21:55, 10 April 2010 (UTC)

::I have a dwarf whose lower spine /was/ broken, but then after it was healed (somewhat), it turned cyan. He still can't walk - but this says that cyan is more than just internal organs, but also for other permanent injuries that affect the dwarf somehow. --[[User:Drake1500|Drake1500]] 21:24, 19 June 2011 (UTC)

:::This function loss thing is a little puzzling. I bruised an enemy's heart in the combat logs. It appears cyan, implying function loss... but the beakwolf is still running around. Impairment, maybe, but even then it doesn't seem to be slowing him down much.

== Post Traumatic Stress ==

I've only found limited references to what I think is a bug: after one of my military dwarves was brain-damaged during a goblin ambush (and after the goblins were dead or long-gone) she kept spamming "Urist McMacedwarf cancels rest: interrupted by goblin mace man". Although sporting a whole range of grievous wounds, she would ''not'' be carried to a hospital bed as the rest of the wounded, since she apparently retained consciousness albeit a strange dementia wherein she kept thinking goblins were still all around her. I thought this a bit comical at first, and after all, suffering brain damage could now be liable for myriad of behavioral quirks but when the spam messages -- about 5 per second -- went into the 1,000 range, and the dwarf kept sitting there, not having eaten or drank for over a month, I began getting concerned (especially when this eventually led to the game crashing, I assume from congestion of the spam messages). Recently, however, I had the same thing happen to a dwarf who had ''not'' suffered any brain or head injury, and yet the same thing's happening with her, leading me to believe it's a bug. The only solutions offered on the Bay12 forums involve deconstructing the bed of or killing the said dwarf on the pretense that he/she is underground, in one's fortress, specifically in the hospital. My wounded hospital dwarves have never spammed these messages (and why would they -- they're already resting) and both these instances occurred with dwarves still outside. I cannot have my squads kill them and see no way of ending the stream of messages. Any ideas? --[[User:Bronzebeard|Bronzebeard]] 12:45, 4 May 2010 (UTC)

:Good news: I've found a way to fix this bug! Apparently, the confused (or bugged, as the case may be) dwarves have to sustain another injury to snap them out of it. With a heavy heart, I built a menacing spike right under the troubled dwarf and connected it to a lever nearby, and had it pulled. To my disappointment, as I wanted to at least afford her a quick death, it only wounded her. I was going to have it pulled again before I discovered the spam messages had stopped and, despite the dire injuries, she was no longer trying to rest but attend a combat drill, but nonetheless, a dwarf nearby headed toward her to carry her off to a hospital bed. Problem solved, evidently. --[[User:Bronzebeard|Bronzebeard]] 02:59, 5 May 2010 (UTC)

== Broken Skulls? ==

I've been controlling creatures in the Arena, and something strange happened. I was wandering around with nothing but a maul, trashing goblins because I could, and I hit a goblin in the head. It said that it broke its skull, so I moved on to another creature, and didn't notice that it started following me. Focusing on the actual threats, I killed everything else, and then it killed me by stabbing me in the lung. Has this happened to anyone else?--[[User:Mad Fencer|Mad Fencer]] 23:02, 22 May 2010 (UTC)

:Propably you damaged only the cranial bone, but left the brain intact enough to not kill him instantly.--[[User:Gnarker|Gnarker]] 20:02, 28 May 2010 (CEST)

== Pale ==
Just discovered a Hoary Marmot badly wounded by a Troglodyte, which had the 'pale' descriptor in the wounds-screen. I think that came from the heavy blood loss.--[[User:Gnarker|Gnarker]] 20:06, 28 May 2010 (CEST)
:Yah, that was present in 40d as well. It goes 'Faint', then 'Pale', and then the creature dies. Sorta the same way 'Hungry' and 'Starving' work, except it's referring to running out of blood instead of running out of food. Happens to your dwarves too, along with every creature that bleeds. --[[User:DeMatt|DeMatt]] 20:31, 28 May 2010 (UTC)

== This page needs more info ==

RIght now it should say what different injuries effects are.--[[User:Toybasher|Toybasher]] 12:10, 29 May 2010 (UTC)

I added in a section describing what effects missing limbs (specifically, arms) have. --[[User:Existent|Existent]] 15:44, 11 August 2010 (UTC)

== Death by workshop? ==

So, my woodcutter is happily working on some bins, when suddenly an announcement pops up. "Cog Dalzatkikrost, Woodworker has bled to death." His corpse is still in his workshop. There appears to be no units on the unit list aside from my dwarves and embark animals. This workshop is outside, but very close to a meeting zone that has other dwarves on break and animals present. The Thoughts and Preferences screen says "His upper body is gone". Being the woodworker, he had a copper battle axe, but I'm not sure if that's relevant. What on earth happened here? --[[Special:Contributions/174.0.202.59|174.0.202.59]] 22:21, 17 June 2010 (UTC)
:A few seconds after this happened, a stray dog just randomly died in what I can only assume is a similar fashion. "His upper body is gone" --[[Special:Contributions/174.0.202.59|174.0.202.59]] 22:27, 17 June 2010 (UTC)
::A horse standing in the same general area as both the dog and the woodcutter just got some random leg wounds, but didn't die. I was sitting here watching this happen. I didn't see anything approach it, and neither did my dwarves apparently. It just suddenly ran off in one direction, leaving a trail of blood, and stopped a few tiles away closer to my other dwarves which were in the meeting area on break.
:::Can be magma one level below, or melting rain bug, or other temperature bug. -Afoninv
::::Or El Chupacabra.
:All dead dwarves show with "upper body is gone" afterwards, it's not an actual indicator of what killed them. You can now press R to get combat reports though with the same details from adventure mode. [[User:Scikar|Scikar]] 18:42, 8 August 2010 (UTC)

== Colossus of Socks ==

Apparently a cave spider silk sock can be used as an improvised weapon by the colossus if stolen from one of the dwarves... Its been three years, and the colossus has never once stopped beating my hammerdwarf with it. I just left them alone in a secluded room together. Its entertaining. It seems a dwarf can take damage to every piece of his body without dying. Especially if its constant, and with a sock.
:This brings another thing to mind. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VDvgL58h_Y
:--[[User:Axussriddare|KETHCHUP BERSERK!!!]] 16:04, 21 October 2010 (UTC)

Yes, I spent over a year fighting a Bronze Colossus who insisted on bashing elves and my adventurer eventually to death with a Pig tail skirt...--[[User:Haydosss|Haydosss]] 08:13, 3 November 2010 (UTC)

== Limb Loss ==
I've just had a Speardwarf have his arm cut off in battle (he continued fighting and ended up killing about 10 goblins) and he survived the entire fight. Now he is wandering around as though there is (almost) nothing wrong, he hasn't gone to the Hospital once despite there being many beds. I think the section on missing limbs needs to be changed just to point out that not all dwarves will linger in the hospital after losing a limb.
By the way, he is pretty much doing the exact same thing as he did before losing his arm.

: NEVER UNDERESTIMATE A DWARF! I noticed one of the dwarves in my army had no arms. After several failed attempts to retire him to a desk job I put him back in the military with no armor or equipment expecting him to die in the next siege. He didn't die. Instead he has gone on to survive several sieges and get at least seven kills that I know of AFTER losing both his arms. He is a legendary fighter with some other assorted combat skills at talented and below. He currently has 28 kills and 10 other kills. He's not dead yet. --[[User:Doctorzuber|Doctorzuber]] 06:33, 23 February 2011 (UTC)

:: "Come back here and take what's coming to you! I'll bite your legs off!!"

== Making nerve damage healable ==

The article says you can make nerve damage healable by editing the raw files. Do you have to do this before creating the world? I edited the tissue_template_default.txt file in raw/objects and in the save folder. But the nerve damage remains. [[Special:Contributions/220.253.87.249|220.253.87.249]] 03:07, 5 January 2011 (UTC)
:I believe so, but haven't verified. —[[Special:Contributions/98.221.97.100|98.221.97.100]] 06:30, 5 January 2011 (UTC)

It was suggested that nerves are only ever severed, so they do not heal, and adding this tag does nothing. Can someone confirm? --[[User:Naros|Naros]] 03:30, 12 February 2011 (UTC)
:Confirmed. The line [TISSUE_NAME:nervous tissue:NP] may suggest that it only applies to spinal nerves, since those are the only nerves which I've seen being referred to as "nervous tissue". --[[User:Eepkeep|Eepkeep]] 16:36, 21 February 2011 (UTC)

== Scarring ==

Thanks to this discussion page I've learned that it leaves the body part that's scarred permanently marked as wounded. Is there any way to disable the scars doing this? It makes me constantly think my adventurer has taken FAR more damage than he actually has.

:The scarring is due to the body part being permanently injured. If you check your adventurer's health screen, you will see possibly nerves still wounded, and maybe just skin and fat. --[[User:Dsarker|Dsarker]] 14:18, 14 June 2011 (UTC)

== Labor ==

I have an apparently heavily injured potter who refuses to give up picking up some equipment. He has tried 221 times and counting. the flood of messages is keeping me from reading the other more important messages from a an ongoing tantrum spiral. Anyone know any way to stop this? [[Special:Contributions/70.132.3.212|70.132.3.212]] 04:47, 13 June 2011 (UTC)
:By the way, turning off all of his labors didn't work. [[Special:Contributions/70.132.3.212|70.132.3.212]] 04:54, 13 June 2011 (UTC)

== Middle Spine Damage ==
From this log, I have proved that middle spine damage leads to lung loss:

You stab The Rhesus Macaque in the upper body with your copper spear, tearing apart the muscle and shattering the right false rib!
An artery has been opened by the attack!
A tendon in the right false rib has been torn!
You stab The Rhesus Macaque in the upper body with your copper spear, tearing apart the muscle and tearing apart the middle spine's nervous tissue!
An artery has been opened by the attack!
A tendon in the middle spine has been torn!
The Rhesus Macaque falls over.
The Rhesus Macaque has suffocated.

That's the entire fight. Hope that helps people in future --[[Special:Contributions/82.26.111.166|82.26.111.166]] 23:30, 9 July 2011 (UTC)

v0.31:Wood

2011-10-19T05:08:31Z

TerryDactyl: /* Reasons you want wood */

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{{Quality|Exceptional}}

'''Wood''' is produced by {{L|designation|{{Key|d}}esignating}} {{L|tree|{{Key|t}}rees}} to be chopped down. Any {{L|dwarf}} with the {{L|wood cutting}} {{L|labor}} enabled and access to a {{L|battle axe}} will cut down the trees, which will turn one tree into one '''log''', the raw form of wood.

"'''Timber'''" is the name of the ninth month of the dwarven {{L|calendar}}, covering late Fall.

==Growing==

{{L|Tree}}s start their lives as saplings. Saplings cannot be cut down until they mature into full-grown trees, which can take several years. Saplings will randomly appear in appropriate {{L|soil}} (above and below ground) and {{L|mud}}dy underground rock (underground areas will only start to sprout saplings once you have hit the {{L|caverns}}) to provide a slow (but steady) supply of wood. Fully-grown trees will impede units' movement, so be sure to clear them out of active corridors.

==Sources==

Besides cutting down trees, wood (and some wooden goods, such as {{L|barrel}}s) is often available from the {{L|elf|elven}}, {{L|dwarf|dwarven}} and {{L|human}} {{L|caravan}}s. Wood can also be purchased before embarking. Wood is quite inexpensive, costing only 3☼ per log, and you may wish to bring a large number of logs when embarking in order to jump-start your {{L|wood industry}}. The {{L|wagon (embark)|wagon}} you start the game with can also be dismantled for three logs.

==Considerations==

===Reasons you need wood===
*To build {{L|bed}}s
**Without beds your dwarves will get unhappy thoughts from sleeping on the ground
*To build {{L|water wheel}}s and {{L|windmill}}s, as well as {{L|axle}}s
**Without wood, you cannot generate ''or'' transfer {{L|power}}.
*To build {{L|siege engine}}s and ballista bolts
**These can be very effective defenses when traps fail.
*If you want {{L|obsidian}} {{L|short sword}}s, they require one obsidian stone and one wood each (these swords likely consist of a wooden hilt with an obsidian blade or, as a more exotic alternative, a thin wooden "paddle" with sharp flakes of obsidian forming sharp edges, like the Aztec [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macuahuitl macuahuitl]).
**If you have access to obsidian, these can be a great source of quick weaponry early in the game, before any steel works are up to speed. Even on a tree-lite map, each weapon takes less wood to produce than a steel weapon (unless you are using {{L|magma}} to fuel your {{L|smelter}}s and {{L|forge}}s and have access to {{L|bituminous coal|bituminous coal}} and {{L|lignite|lignite}}).
*To be burnt for {{L|ash}}, which is used in {{L|Glass_industry|glass making}}, {{L|Soap|soap making}}, {{L|Glazing|glazing}}, and for fertilizing crops.

===Reasons you want wood===
*It is simpler to make items from wood.
**For instance, it only takes one log to produce a {{L|bin}}, {{L|barrel}}, {{L|bucket}}, or {{L|cage}}; but if you forge them instead then they'll take three metal {{L|bar}}s. (In version 31.14+ metal items seem to take only 1 bar)
*All metalworks ({{L|smelter}}s, {{L|forge}}s), {{L|glass}}works and {{L|ceramic}} {{L|kiln}}s are either coal-{{L|fuel}}ed or magma-fueled. If you are planning on having any sort of serious metal or glass production, then you're going to need either a lot of wood, or {{L|magma}} (and {{L|charcoal}} or {{L|bituminous coal|coal}} for {{L|steel}}).
*<s>Wooden training {{L|weapon}}s are useful for reducing {{L|sparring}} injuries among your military dwarves (and to get military training started shortly after embark should you feel the need).</s> Training weapons have uses in arena combat, but military dwarves no longer suffer sparring injuries.
*{{L|Crossbow}}s can be made from wood (or {{L|bone}}) and may be preferred if you have a skilled {{L|bowyer}} but not a skilled {{L|weaponsmith}}.

===Reasons you don't need much wood===
*Everything other than beds, axles, windmills, water wheels, ''obsidian'' shortswords, siege engine parts, and ballista bolts can be made without the use of wood.
** In particular, {{L|barrel}}s can be replaced by stone {{L|pot}}s without having to use either fuel or magma.
*Once you have {{L|magma}} then you don't need wood for fuel. If you have coal, you don't need (as much) wood to produce {{L|charcoal}} for {{L|steel}}. If you have both, you don't need wood to produce metal or steel products.
**({{L|Bituminous coal}} ''without'' magma triples the effective output of wood, {{L|lignite}} doubles it.)

==Weight==
Every different type of log (chestnut, ash, maple, tower cap, etc.) is functionally identical except for their weight. The weight of a 'unit' of each type of wood is half their density; the densities for each individual type of wood is listed under the appropriate {{L|tree}}. Wood has a default [SOLID_DENSITY] of 500, making it about three times lighter than most stone and fifteen times lighter than iron. Feather tree wood is extremely light, with a density of 100, and blood thorn wood is the heaviest, with a density of 1250. However, since average wood is relatively light to begin with, with the possible exception of wood {{L|hauling}}, this makes (almost?) no practical difference in the daily routine of a fortress or your dwarves.

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|-
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|-
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|-
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| {{L|Palm}}
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|-
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| {{L|Rubber tree|Rubber}}
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|-
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| {{L|Alder}}
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|-
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| {{L|Birch}}
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|-
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|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| 650
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| {{Tile|Black|0:1}}
|-
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| {{L|Acacia}}
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|-
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| {{L|Cacao tree|Cacao}}
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|-
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| {{L|Cedar}}
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|-
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|-
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|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| {{Tile|Lemon|6:1}}
|-
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| {{L|Glumprong}}
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| 1200
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| {{Tile|Purple|5:0}}
|-
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| {{L|Goblin-cap}}
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| 600
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| {{Tile|Red|4:1}}
|-
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| {{L|Highwood}}
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| 500
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| {{Tile|Brown|6:0}}
|-
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| {{L|Kapok}}
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| 500
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| {{Tile|Brown|6:0}}
|-
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| {{L|Larch}}
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| 590
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| {{Tile|Brown|6:0}}
|-
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| {{L|Mahogany}}
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| 600
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| {{Tile|Brown|6:0}}
|-
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| {{L|Mango}}
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| 500
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| {{Tile|Brown|6:0}}
|-
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| {{L|Mangrove}}
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| 500
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| {{Tile|Brown|6:0}}
|-
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| {{L|Nether-cap}}
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| 550
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| {{Tile|Dark Indigo|1:0}}
|-
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| {{L|Pine}}
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| 560
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| {{Tile|Brown|6:0}}
|-
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| {{L|Spore tree|Spore}}
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| 600
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| {{Tile|Teal|3:0}}
|-
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| {{L|Tower-cap}}
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| 600
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| {{Tile|White|7:1}}
|-
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| {{L|Tunnel tube|Tunnel Tube}}
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| 500
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| {{Tile|Violet|5:1}}
|-
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| {{L|Willow}}
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| 420
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| {{Tile|Brown|6:0}}
|-
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| {{L|Blood thorn}}
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| 1250
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| {{Tile|Crimson|4:0}}
|}

== Biomes ==
*{{L|Temperate}} forest
*{{L|Tropical}} forest
*{{L|Taiga}}
*{{L|Flatland}}
*{{L|Swamp}}
*{{L|Desert}}

'''See also:'''
:* {{L|Wood industry}}.

{{Wood FAQ}}

{{Category|Materials}}

v0.31:Wood

2011-10-19T05:06:54Z

TerryDactyl: /* Reasons you want wood */

{{av}}
{{Quality|Exceptional}}

'''Wood''' is produced by {{L|designation|{{Key|d}}esignating}} {{L|tree|{{Key|t}}rees}} to be chopped down. Any {{L|dwarf}} with the {{L|wood cutting}} {{L|labor}} enabled and access to a {{L|battle axe}} will cut down the trees, which will turn one tree into one '''log''', the raw form of wood.

"'''Timber'''" is the name of the ninth month of the dwarven {{L|calendar}}, covering late Fall.

==Growing==

{{L|Tree}}s start their lives as saplings. Saplings cannot be cut down until they mature into full-grown trees, which can take several years. Saplings will randomly appear in appropriate {{L|soil}} (above and below ground) and {{L|mud}}dy underground rock (underground areas will only start to sprout saplings once you have hit the {{L|caverns}}) to provide a slow (but steady) supply of wood. Fully-grown trees will impede units' movement, so be sure to clear them out of active corridors.

==Sources==

Besides cutting down trees, wood (and some wooden goods, such as {{L|barrel}}s) is often available from the {{L|elf|elven}}, {{L|dwarf|dwarven}} and {{L|human}} {{L|caravan}}s. Wood can also be purchased before embarking. Wood is quite inexpensive, costing only 3☼ per log, and you may wish to bring a large number of logs when embarking in order to jump-start your {{L|wood industry}}. The {{L|wagon (embark)|wagon}} you start the game with can also be dismantled for three logs.

==Considerations==

===Reasons you need wood===
*To build {{L|bed}}s
**Without beds your dwarves will get unhappy thoughts from sleeping on the ground
*To build {{L|water wheel}}s and {{L|windmill}}s, as well as {{L|axle}}s
**Without wood, you cannot generate ''or'' transfer {{L|power}}.
*To build {{L|siege engine}}s and ballista bolts
**These can be very effective defenses when traps fail.
*If you want {{L|obsidian}} {{L|short sword}}s, they require one obsidian stone and one wood each (these swords likely consist of a wooden hilt with an obsidian blade or, as a more exotic alternative, a thin wooden "paddle" with sharp flakes of obsidian forming sharp edges, like the Aztec [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macuahuitl macuahuitl]).
**If you have access to obsidian, these can be a great source of quick weaponry early in the game, before any steel works are up to speed. Even on a tree-lite map, each weapon takes less wood to produce than a steel weapon (unless you are using {{L|magma}} to fuel your {{L|smelter}}s and {{L|forge}}s and have access to {{L|bituminous coal|bituminous coal}} and {{L|lignite|lignite}}).
*To be burnt for {{L|ash}}, which is used in {{L|Glass_industry|glass making}}, {{L|Soap|soap making}}, {{L|Glazing|glazing}}, and for fertilizing crops.

===Reasons you want wood===
*It is simpler to make items from wood.
**For instance, it only takes one log to produce a {{L|bin}}, {{L|barrel}}, {{L|bucket}}, or {{L|cage}}; but if you forge them instead then they'll take three metal {{L|bar}}s. (In version 31.14+ metal items seem to take only 1 bar)
*All metalworks ({{L|smelter}}s, {{L|forge}}s), {{L|glass}}works and {{L|ceramic}} {{L|kiln}}s are either coal-{{L|fuel}}ed or magma-fueled. If you are planning on having any sort of serious metal or glass production, then you're going to need either a lot of wood, or {{L|magma}} (and {{L|charcoal}} or {{L|bituminous coal|coal}} for {{L|steel}}).
*Wooden training {{L|weapon}}s are useful for reducing {{L|sparring}} injuries among your military dwarves (and to get military training started shortly after embark should you feel the need).
*{{L|Crossbow}}s can be made from wood (or {{L|bone}}) and may be preferred if you have a skilled {{L|bowyer}} but not a skilled {{L|weaponsmith}}.

===Reasons you don't need much wood===
*Everything other than beds, axles, windmills, water wheels, ''obsidian'' shortswords, siege engine parts, and ballista bolts can be made without the use of wood.
** In particular, {{L|barrel}}s can be replaced by stone {{L|pot}}s without having to use either fuel or magma.
*Once you have {{L|magma}} then you don't need wood for fuel. If you have coal, you don't need (as much) wood to produce {{L|charcoal}} for {{L|steel}}. If you have both, you don't need wood to produce metal or steel products.
**({{L|Bituminous coal}} ''without'' magma triples the effective output of wood, {{L|lignite}} doubles it.)

==Weight==
Every different type of log (chestnut, ash, maple, tower cap, etc.) is functionally identical except for their weight. The weight of a 'unit' of each type of wood is half their density; the densities for each individual type of wood is listed under the appropriate {{L|tree}}. Wood has a default [SOLID_DENSITY] of 500, making it about three times lighter than most stone and fifteen times lighter than iron. Feather tree wood is extremely light, with a density of 100, and blood thorn wood is the heaviest, with a density of 1250. However, since average wood is relatively light to begin with, with the possible exception of wood {{L|hauling}}, this makes (almost?) no practical difference in the daily routine of a fortress or your dwarves.

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|- style="background:#F2F2F2;text-align:center;"
!style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| Wood Type
!style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| Density
!style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| Color
|-
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| {{L|Ash}}
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| 620
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| {{Tile|Brown|6:0}}
|-
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| {{L|Saguaro}}
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| 500
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| {{Tile|Brown|6:0}}
|-
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| {{L|Oak}}
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| 700
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| {{Tile|Brown|6:0}}
|-
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| {{L|Maple}}
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| 755
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| {{Tile|Brown|6:0}}
|-
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| {{L|Chestnut}}
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| 500
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| {{Tile|Brown|6:0}}
|-
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| {{L|Candlenut}}
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| 500
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| {{Tile|Brown|6:0}}
|-
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| {{L|Palm}}
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| 500
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| {{Tile|Brown|6:0}}
|-
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| {{L|Rubber tree|Rubber}}
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| 500
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| {{Tile|Brown|6:0}}
|-
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| {{L|Alder}}
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| 410
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| {{Tile|Brown|6:0}}
|-
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| {{L|Birch}}
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| 670
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| {{Tile|Brown|6:0}}
|-
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| {{L|Black-cap|Black-Cap}}
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| 650
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| {{Tile|Black|0:1}}
|-
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| {{L|Acacia}}
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| 500
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| {{Tile|Brown|6:0}}
|-
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| {{L|Cacao tree|Cacao}}
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| 500
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| {{Tile|Brown|6:0}}
|-
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| {{L|Cedar}}
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| 380
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| {{Tile|Brown|6:0}}
|-
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| {{L|Feather tree|Feather Tree}}
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| 100
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| {{Tile|Cream|7:1}}
|-
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| {{L|Fungiwood}}
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| 600
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| {{Tile|Lemon|6:1}}
|-
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| {{L|Glumprong}}
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| 1200
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| {{Tile|Purple|5:0}}
|-
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| {{L|Goblin-cap}}
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| 600
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| {{Tile|Red|4:1}}
|-
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| {{L|Highwood}}
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| 500
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| {{Tile|Brown|6:0}}
|-
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| {{L|Kapok}}
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| 500
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| {{Tile|Brown|6:0}}
|-
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| {{L|Larch}}
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| 590
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| {{Tile|Brown|6:0}}
|-
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| {{L|Mahogany}}
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| 600
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| {{Tile|Brown|6:0}}
|-
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| {{L|Mango}}
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| 500
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| {{Tile|Brown|6:0}}
|-
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| {{L|Mangrove}}
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| 500
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| {{Tile|Brown|6:0}}
|-
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| {{L|Nether-cap}}
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| 550
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| {{Tile|Dark Indigo|1:0}}
|-
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| {{L|Pine}}
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| 560
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| {{Tile|Brown|6:0}}
|-
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| {{L|Spore tree|Spore}}
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| 600
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| {{Tile|Teal|3:0}}
|-
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| {{L|Tower-cap}}
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| 600
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| {{Tile|White|7:1}}
|-
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| {{L|Tunnel tube|Tunnel Tube}}
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| 500
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| {{Tile|Violet|5:1}}
|-
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| {{L|Willow}}
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| 420
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| {{Tile|Brown|6:0}}
|-
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| {{L|Blood thorn}}
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| 1250
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| {{Tile|Crimson|4:0}}
|}

== Biomes ==
*{{L|Temperate}} forest
*{{L|Tropical}} forest
*{{L|Taiga}}
*{{L|Flatland}}
*{{L|Swamp}}
*{{L|Desert}}

'''See also:'''
:* {{L|Wood industry}}.

{{Wood FAQ}}

{{Category|Materials}}

v0.31:Trading

2011-10-19T04:29:10Z

TerryDactyl: /* Miscellaneous Trading Advice */

{{quality|Exceptional|07:56, 19 January 2011 (UTC)}}{{av}}
{{Buggy}}

'''Trading''' in Dwarf Fortress first occurs in the first {{L|Calendar|autumn}} after establishing your fortress, with the arrival of the {{L|dwarf|Dwarven}} {{L|Trading#Caravans|caravan}}. Trading is a good way to acquire resources that are not available or are rare in the local area. It also allows for more freedom in selecting starting gear or purchase of additional skills for the expedition party, because items can always be obtained through trade later.

'''Trader''' is the term used at your Trade Depot to refer to your fortress {{l|Broker}} when dealing with merchants in a visiting caravan ({{key|r}} - "''Trader requested at Depot"''). As a {{L|profession}}, the term usually only applies to visiting merchants, or to a dwarf whose highest {{L|skill}} is {{L|Appraiser}}.

== Trade Depot ==
Building a {{L|Trade depot}} is a requisite for trade with caravans that arrive at your fortress.

While it may be convenient to build a Trade Depot outside at first, it is usually a really good idea to move it inside or build walls, bridges and other fortifications around it to protect caravans and your goods from animals (guzzlers), {{L|thief|thieves}} and {{L|goblin}}s.

Everything that is on your map belongs to you, except:
* the items of non-fortress members (only if they are alive, when they are dead they belong to you if you claim the items),{{Verify}}
* the items that are on merchant animals{{Verify}}
* the items that are on the trade depot (they belong to the caravan until they are moved out of it)

See the {{L|Trade depot}} article for more information on how to interact with it.

==Trading Flowchart ==
{{:Trading/Flowchart}}
After entering the trade menu, select the items to offer from the right, and the desired items from the left. All caravans have a weight limit which cannot be exceeded, and the allowed additional weight is displayed in the lower right corner. If the acting broker has at least Novice or better {{L|Appraisal}} skill, the value of all items will be displayed. Once the proposal is ready, press {{K|t}} to propose the trade, but merchants will not agree unless they make adequate profit. Be sure to use '''trade''', not '''offer''' {{K|o}}, as this will make a gift of the selected items. The amount of acceptable profit is determined by the broker's {{L|Broker skills|skills}} and the merchant's mood, described below. Merchants may attempt to propose counteroffers if they do not accept the proposal, which can then be accepted, rejected, or further amended by the broker.

With more experienced brokers or pleased merchants, even marginally profitable trades can be successful, and counterproposals can be rejected safely, offering the same trade again. Note however that a low profit margin for the traders may not be desirable - it has been suggested that both export and profit numbers influence the size of next years caravan and, in the case of the dwarven caravan, immigration numbers.{{Verify}}

Goods brought by caravans do not have base quality higher than superior, but decorations on a good may be of any quality.{{Verify}}

== Trading cue colors ==

* '''Brown''' Items have been created (or modified) by your fortress. They can be traded away or offered as a gift.
* '''White''' Items were created by another source. They can be traded, but if one of these items has been selected, the entire selection cannot be offered as a gift.
* '''Purple''' Items are under a no-export mandate. If they are traded away it will result in disciplinary action (see [[justice]]) against the dwarf that brought the item to the depot.{{Verify}}
* '''Green''' Items have just been gifted to the caravan and they will not trade it back.
* '''Red''' Items have been seized from another caravan and cannot be traded as is; you will need to decorate them or turn them into other items for them to become "valid" trading items. However, a caravan from a different civilization ''may'' accept stolen goods without changing them first.{{verify}}

Note that containers (barrels, bins, etc) will be displayed according to the origin of the container, not the contents. So a foreign barrel holding locally-produced beer will display as foreign (white). Once you {{k|v}}iew the container, the locally-made contents are displayed as local (brown).

== Merchant mood ==
If your broker has Novice or better {{L|Judge of intent}} skill, there will be a line added below the merchant's dialogue describing the caravan's attitude. Their attitude rises with successful trades (especially if they get lots of profit) and falls when you propose deals they don't like.

* (trader) seems ecstatic with the trading
* (trader) seems very happy about the trading
* (trader) seems pleased with the trading
* (trader) seems willing to trade (Default, at least for humans)
* (trader) seems to be rapidly losing patience
* (trader) is not going to take much more of this
* (trader) is unwilling to trade

The happier you make a merchant, the less profit margin he will demand in a trade. If merchants reach the lowest level, no further trade will be possible, and they will immediately pack up and leave your depot. Since annoyed traders are more likely to reject deals, you should be generous in initial negotiations. Skilled negotiators seem less likely to offend traders with unsuccessful deals.

An easy way to capitalize on this mood system is to perform several partial trades. First trade for a few items, offering goods twice the value of the items you ask for (eg, offer 2000☼ for 1000☼ of his stuff). This will likely make the merchant ecstatic about trading with you. Exit the trade screen, unpause briefly, and then return to trading with a vengeance. With the merchant in such a good mood, he is more likely to counteroffer than reject a trade outright.

== Seizing items ==

Pressing {{K|s}} from the trade menu will seize the selected items of the merchant's. If you seize goods from a caravan, the merchant will respond "Take what you want. I can't stop you." and then leave immediately without the seized goods. Items cannot be seized from the dwarven caravan, and other races will not buy goods stolen from one of their caravans (then marked in red) unless they are tricked into asking for them via counteroffer, or the items are "laundered" by decoration or used to create other goods. Seizing goods will hurt diplomatic relations, but is not grounds for an automatic {{L|siege}}.{{Verify}}

Pressing the seize button while no goods are selected will result in the merchant interpreting your seizure as a joke. This apparently does nothing to benefit or hinder your trading.{{Verify}}

As a side note, if you deconstruct your trade depot with a caravan in it, all the caravan's items will drop to the ground, to be readily hauled away by your Dwarves. This does not mark the items as stolen, and the caravan will leave. However, ''next'' year's caravan is partly based on the profits from the previous year - so if you are relying on that race's caravans for needed items, you're hurting yourself in the long run.{{Verify}}

Another way to steal without marking as stolen is to forbid the trade depot just before they leave, causing them to leave their goods at the depot.{{Verify}}

Note that the civilization attached to a particular caravan will keep track of the value of items the caravan was carrying when they set out to trade, and they will compare this value with the value of items they return home with. Regardless of what method you use to confiscate items from a caravan, even if you came to possess the goods through no fault of your own (an {{L|ambush}} killed the caravaners, for example) the parent civilization may decide that you stole from them and send a {{L|siege}} instead of a caravan the following year. It is prudent to take measures to protect caravans visiting your lands!{{Verify}}

==Offering items==

{{key|o}} You can also give away items, as gifts to the leaders of the {{L|civilization}} you are trading with. This presumably helps relations between yourself and the other faction, though there is not yet a clear correlation between the value of the offerings and the improvement to relations. The exact effects of offerings on trading are unknown but it is believed due to the offerings' net trade value being counted towards the traders' profit, possibly with a modifier (possibly a multiplier of more than 1 as a bonus or less than 1 to compensate for the improved relations){{Verify}}, which in turn increases the quantity and variety of trade goods brought by next year's caravan. Also the {{L|King}} requires offerings to be made before his arrival.(5,000 in 0.31.25) You cannot offer items that were not made at your fortress; the traders do not want your spare goblin harvest clothes.

'''''Note:''' There are currently no benefits to offering goods to your king; the game developers have stated that this is to be changed in future versions.'' ("''Req174, REASON FOR OFFERING, (Future): There's no point of offering goods to your own king right now.)"''

Unless you are looking for [[fun]], under no conditions should you offer or trade items which are wooden or used wood in their creation (glass, for example) to [[elves]], as this will insult the traders, and may cause them to leave or even damage relations enough to provoke a war between you and the elven civilization you traded with. They will be equally insulted by you trading back their wood-related items - their refusal to accept back their wooden items is probably a bug which will be removed in a later release, though this has not been verified. It is also worth noting that in-game the only way to acquire wood is by chopping down trees, so it is likely that the elves have developed a method of growing and acquiring wood without killing trees which will be included in later development (unless they are just cutting down trees that have already died naturally).

== Miscellaneous Trading Advice ==

* Several small trades, exiting the trade window each time, '''no longer''' increases the Broker's relevant skills during the early game. {{Verify}}
* Food inside the Trade Depot can go bad. Have a food stockpile nearby so you can quickly haul goods inside.
* Thieves and thieving critters tend to follow caravans. Expect assaults and intruders.
* Be careful about asking traders to bring lots of individual lightweight items (such as meat and fish) as it can result in traders taking a very long time to unload their goods. Unless the path to your depot is extremely long, though, this is unlikely to cause significant problems.{{Verify}}
* Create your trading depot inside your fort, preferably in the beginning. Place a 3-tile wide path (which must be free of obstructions such as stairways) to the entrance of the fort and line this with traps; this will help to protect the traders and keep the depot close to your supplies.
* All caravans will bring extra food (meat and edible plants) and wooden logs if the supplies of your fortress are low enough, independent of whether or not you requested them. This does not apply in the case that the weight limit is exceeded by (other) items you requested. The supply situation, as observed by traders, is based solely on the number of unforbidden items in your fortress, whether stockpiled or utilized in buildings (such as wooden axles, water wheels, windmills, or workshops); thus, it is possible to trick caravans into thinking your supplies are low by {{L|forbid}}ding all of your relevant stocks immediately prior to their arrival.  This also seems to apply to elven caravans bringing {{L|cloth}} (except that cloth that's turned into {{L|clothing}}, {{L|bag}}s or {{L|rope}} isn't counted). So if you want elven caravans to ''stop'' bringing cloth, buy up all the cloth that the first few caravans bring and stash them somewhere.
* Define your trade depot as a burrow. When traders arrive, you can add your broker or another dwarf, perhaps one you want to train in trading, to the burrow. They will head to the depot immediately, and stay there until you remove them from the burrow.

== Caravans ==
Each friendly race will send a caravan per year, linked to one season, which is autumn for dwarves, summer for humans, spring for elves. In rare cases, goblins will show up in winter.{{verify}} However, in the first year only a dwarven caravan will arrive, although it will tend to arrive later than mid-autumn, unlike previous versions {{verify}}. Caravans will only show up if that race considers the fortress site accessible (as denoted on the embark screen), with the exception of dwarves, who always arrive unless they are extinct.{{verify}} Caravans appear to enter the map from a random direction which does not coincide with the relative direction of the originating {{L|civilization}}, and they may appear from different directions or z-levels each year. Caravans may leave without trading if it takes too long to reach the trade depot. Caravans will embark on their journey back exactly one month after their arrival, whether they have succeeded in reaching the depot or not.{{Verify}}

Note that if traders or their animals are prevented from leaving, they will eventually go {{L|insane}}.

Also worth mention is the pathing behavior of the entire caravan. If one member of the caravan reaches a block in their chosen path (ie. a raised drawbridge that was lowered when they entered the map) the entire caravan will re-path, instead of encountering the obstacle one by one.

== Liaisons ==
{{L|Liaison}}s may be sent with caravans to speak to important dwarves (and they ''will'' speak to those dwarves, even if they have to wait at their bedside in the hospital for months after the caravan has left). Liaisons allow you to choose the type of items that your fortress is interested in, and will focus on bringing more of that kind of item on the next caravan (however, those items will also be more expensive). In turn, they will present a list of the items they're willing to pay more for, which will be effective upon their next arrival.

Trade agreements can be viewed at a later time through the Civilization menu ({{k|c}}). These trade agreements are cleared when a liaison of the corresponding civilization enters the screen, so they are generally not accessible after the caravan has arrived.

If a liaison is prevented from leaving, they will eventually go {{L|insane}}. {{Verify}}

==== {{L|Dwarves}} ====
:''"Our fortunes rise and fall together"''

The dwarven caravan:
* arrives in {{L|Calendar|autumn}}.
* carries metal bars, {{L|leather}}, weapons and armor, food and booze, and more. Dwarves alone may bring {{L|steel}} and steel goods. They can still bring steel (and steel goods) and {{L|pig iron}} bars even if they do not have access to {{L|iron}}, but will not bring iron products.
* is well guarded.
* sends a liaison who will speak with the {{L|Expedition leader}}, {{L|Mayor}}, {{L|Baron}}, {{L|Count}}, or {{L|Duke}} to negotiate an import-export agreement (unless the {{L|Monarch}} is present).
* influences the number of immigrants received (if the caravan leaves intact).{{verify}}
* will not cause sieges when repeatedly destroyed or lost.
* is the only caravan to arrive during a fortress' first year.
* always arrives regardless of embark location, as long as the dwarven civilization is not extinct.{{verify}}
* cannot have its goods seized from the trade menu.
* may not arrive if your civilization lacks any notable figures.

==== {{L|elf|Elves}} ====
[[Image:Evil_elves.png|thumb|400px|A typical elven caravan.]]

The elven caravan:
* arrives in the {{L|Calendar|spring}}.
* carries {{L|cloth}}, {{L|rope}}s, various above-ground seeds, {{L|plant}}s and their byproducts, {{L|log}}s, {{L|wood}}en goods & {{L|weapon}}s, clothing and {{L|armor}}, and may carry tame exotic {{L|creature}}s.
* is unguarded.
* does not accept some items in trade:

Elven traders do not like to be offered any tree byproducts. Forbidden items include:

* {{L|Wood}}en items (including subterranean mushrooms such as {{L|tower-cap}}s)
* Items derived from wood - {{L|ash}} and {{L|charcoal}}, as well as {{L|lye}}, {{L|potash}}, and {{L|pearlash}}
* Items made from clear and crystal {{L|glass}} (due to the {{L|pearlash}} used) - green glass appears to be perfectly acceptable
* Items {{L|decoration|decorated}} with any of the above materials
* {{L|Obsidian}} shortswords (since they have wooden handles)
* {{L|Soap}} (made with {{L|lye}})

Offering or trading forbidden items will cause the mood of the trader to drop rapidly, causing them to refuse to trade any more that season and leave immediately. Additionally you will be called uncouth, crude, and barbaric for not understanding their customs.

However, {{L|stone}} and {{L|metal}} items, even when {{L|charcoal}} is used in production, are acceptable. Items made from {{L|silk}} are acceptable, as are all non-wooden plant-derived products such as {{L|cloth}} and {{L|thread}}. Items made of bone (totems too), horn, shell or leather are acceptable, so are meat and fish. You can also transport your goods to the {{L|trade depot}} in a wooden {{L|bin}}, as long as you do not try to sell the bin. Living animals are acceptable, as long as the {{L|cage}} or {{L|trap}} is not made of {{L|wood}}.

Be especially careful with reselling decorated items from other caravans, as non-wood/glass items may have decorations of wood or clear/crystal glass. All such items that elven caravans sell are also unacceptable to sell back to elves, as the dwarves have no means of proving that they were made in an "elf kosher" way — and all dwarves know that elves have terrible memory.

==== {{L|Human}}s ====
The human caravan:
* arrives in {{L|Calendar|summer}}.
* carries metal bars, sand, {{L|leather}}, cloth, wood, food and booze, ropes, waterskins, quivers, backpacks, metal weapons and clothing and armor, cages and a few domestic animals.
* is moderately guarded.

==== {{L|Goblin}}s{{Verify}} ====
A goblin caravan ''may'' arrive if your civilization is at peace with the goblins.

The goblin caravan:
*will arrive every season, four times per year{{verify}}
*unguarded
*brings mostly food and cloth
*does not send a liaison or a guild representative
*does not make import/export agreements

== Destruction ==
If caravans are destroyed (intentionally or unintentionally), the items may remain for use. Traders caught in a {{L|cave-in}} will flee as if they were attacked, but will leave all the items dropped by the caravan behind. Pack animals carrying items are affected just like a normal tamed {{L|mule}} and must be killed in the cave-in for them to drop items on the ground. It is however much more likely that the pack animals will only be stunned or rendered unconscious, and flee shortly after recovering from the hit.

While caravans can defend themselves, they don't like being ambushed. An encounter with unfriendly creatures resulting in the death of any merchant or pack animal will cause them to retreat and forget about trading with you for the season. Repeated caravan destruction (intentional or unintentional) will strain diplomatic relations and may result in a {{L|siege}}.

== Caravan Delay ==
If a caravan has arrived at your trade depot and is unable to leave for about six months after they arrived, the merchants and animals will go insane. This can result in a bunch of merchants attacking your dwarves, or just standing around moping until they starve to death. It is not known for certain if this hurts diplomatic relations, but most likely it's the same as any case where the entire caravan fails to return home.{{Verify}}

If you have locked the caravan into your fortress to hold out against a siege, it's a good idea to station a squad of soldiers near the trade depot in case the merchants {{L|Insanity#Types|go berserk}}. You may also want to make the depot a restricted area to encourage civilians to go around it. Alternatively, you can design the trade depot using drawbridges, so that it can be sealed off from the rest of the fortress during a siege.

If you want the merchants to leave safely, you can build four or more tunnels to each corner of the map, connected to your fortress only by drawbridges. As long as there is no other way to enter and exit your fortress, invaders and merchants will both go towards any tunnel that you activate. You can lock the merchants into the trade depot, and then open a tunnel entrance on one side of the map to make the invaders head towards that tunnel. When they get close to it, you can close it, and then open the entrance on the other side of the map, and let the traders out of the depot. If your fortress and depot are in the middle of the map, this will give the traders quite a head-start to get away.{{Verify}}

Merchants can leave the map from any map edge-- including underground map edges. If an unobstructed path through your fortress reaches an edge, then blocking an overland path will cause the merchants to travel underground. This can be useful, if you're suffering a prolonged siege; it can also be dangerous, if your underground regions are less secure than your surface.

Caravan guards cannot be starved, dehydrated, or driven to insanity if prevented from leaving, their employers and animals will however.

== Bugs ==

*''Sometimes'' no one brings wagons, even if there is a clear path to your depot. {{bug|197}}
*Wild animals cannot be traded; when a dwarf attempts to move the caged animal to the Depot, the creature is set free.Only aggressive animals?
*If your {{L|hospital}} isn't already stocked with the specified amount of thread/cloth, your dwarves will carry off as much from the caravan as they need to fill it. {{Bug|66}}
*Caravans show up very late in the season. {{Bug|1756}}

== Loyalty cascade ==
*If you order your military to kill merchants from your own civilization, your soldiers will simultaneously become members ''and'' enemies of your civilization, resulting in a civil war within your fortress. When this happens, all current members of the fortress (excluding incoming migrants) will turn on each other yet they will still be seen as normal working dwarves in the status screens. This will only last for those who were alive ''during'' the attack, they will always be hostile to everyone including incoming migrants (yet they still do their jobs/ follow military orders and work as dwarves although they will interrupt other's work. They will not be shown as enemies in the Units screen).

== Exploits ==

*If you destroy the Depot while they are unloaded you will get the leaving message but they will leave before the building is completely destroyed, so they will not reclaim any of their stuff because it is not available until the building is fully deconstructed. However any animals they had caged will only become friendly, you won't actually own them.

If you wait some time (2-3 months{{verify}}), you can "claim" animals by linking a lever to the cage and opening it, the animals will be released in a tamed state. Check the 'u'nit screen before releasing them; if the creatures still show as Merchant creatures, they will wander off the map when released; if they show as Tame creatures, they will stay once released.

v0.31:Trading

2011-10-19T04:28:28Z

TerryDactyl: /* Miscellaneous Trading Advice */

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'''Trading''' in Dwarf Fortress first occurs in the first {{L|Calendar|autumn}} after establishing your fortress, with the arrival of the {{L|dwarf|Dwarven}} {{L|Trading#Caravans|caravan}}. Trading is a good way to acquire resources that are not available or are rare in the local area. It also allows for more freedom in selecting starting gear or purchase of additional skills for the expedition party, because items can always be obtained through trade later.

'''Trader''' is the term used at your Trade Depot to refer to your fortress {{l|Broker}} when dealing with merchants in a visiting caravan ({{key|r}} - "''Trader requested at Depot"''). As a {{L|profession}}, the term usually only applies to visiting merchants, or to a dwarf whose highest {{L|skill}} is {{L|Appraiser}}.

== Trade Depot ==
Building a {{L|Trade depot}} is a requisite for trade with caravans that arrive at your fortress.

While it may be convenient to build a Trade Depot outside at first, it is usually a really good idea to move it inside or build walls, bridges and other fortifications around it to protect caravans and your goods from animals (guzzlers), {{L|thief|thieves}} and {{L|goblin}}s.

Everything that is on your map belongs to you, except:
* the items of non-fortress members (only if they are alive, when they are dead they belong to you if you claim the items),{{Verify}}
* the items that are on merchant animals{{Verify}}
* the items that are on the trade depot (they belong to the caravan until they are moved out of it)

See the {{L|Trade depot}} article for more information on how to interact with it.

==Trading Flowchart ==
{{:Trading/Flowchart}}
After entering the trade menu, select the items to offer from the right, and the desired items from the left. All caravans have a weight limit which cannot be exceeded, and the allowed additional weight is displayed in the lower right corner. If the acting broker has at least Novice or better {{L|Appraisal}} skill, the value of all items will be displayed. Once the proposal is ready, press {{K|t}} to propose the trade, but merchants will not agree unless they make adequate profit. Be sure to use '''trade''', not '''offer''' {{K|o}}, as this will make a gift of the selected items. The amount of acceptable profit is determined by the broker's {{L|Broker skills|skills}} and the merchant's mood, described below. Merchants may attempt to propose counteroffers if they do not accept the proposal, which can then be accepted, rejected, or further amended by the broker.

With more experienced brokers or pleased merchants, even marginally profitable trades can be successful, and counterproposals can be rejected safely, offering the same trade again. Note however that a low profit margin for the traders may not be desirable - it has been suggested that both export and profit numbers influence the size of next years caravan and, in the case of the dwarven caravan, immigration numbers.{{Verify}}

Goods brought by caravans do not have base quality higher than superior, but decorations on a good may be of any quality.{{Verify}}

== Trading cue colors ==

* '''Brown''' Items have been created (or modified) by your fortress. They can be traded away or offered as a gift.
* '''White''' Items were created by another source. They can be traded, but if one of these items has been selected, the entire selection cannot be offered as a gift.
* '''Purple''' Items are under a no-export mandate. If they are traded away it will result in disciplinary action (see [[justice]]) against the dwarf that brought the item to the depot.{{Verify}}
* '''Green''' Items have just been gifted to the caravan and they will not trade it back.
* '''Red''' Items have been seized from another caravan and cannot be traded as is; you will need to decorate them or turn them into other items for them to become "valid" trading items. However, a caravan from a different civilization ''may'' accept stolen goods without changing them first.{{verify}}

Note that containers (barrels, bins, etc) will be displayed according to the origin of the container, not the contents. So a foreign barrel holding locally-produced beer will display as foreign (white). Once you {{k|v}}iew the container, the locally-made contents are displayed as local (brown).

== Merchant mood ==
If your broker has Novice or better {{L|Judge of intent}} skill, there will be a line added below the merchant's dialogue describing the caravan's attitude. Their attitude rises with successful trades (especially if they get lots of profit) and falls when you propose deals they don't like.

* (trader) seems ecstatic with the trading
* (trader) seems very happy about the trading
* (trader) seems pleased with the trading
* (trader) seems willing to trade (Default, at least for humans)
* (trader) seems to be rapidly losing patience
* (trader) is not going to take much more of this
* (trader) is unwilling to trade

The happier you make a merchant, the less profit margin he will demand in a trade. If merchants reach the lowest level, no further trade will be possible, and they will immediately pack up and leave your depot. Since annoyed traders are more likely to reject deals, you should be generous in initial negotiations. Skilled negotiators seem less likely to offend traders with unsuccessful deals.

An easy way to capitalize on this mood system is to perform several partial trades. First trade for a few items, offering goods twice the value of the items you ask for (eg, offer 2000☼ for 1000☼ of his stuff). This will likely make the merchant ecstatic about trading with you. Exit the trade screen, unpause briefly, and then return to trading with a vengeance. With the merchant in such a good mood, he is more likely to counteroffer than reject a trade outright.

== Seizing items ==

Pressing {{K|s}} from the trade menu will seize the selected items of the merchant's. If you seize goods from a caravan, the merchant will respond "Take what you want. I can't stop you." and then leave immediately without the seized goods. Items cannot be seized from the dwarven caravan, and other races will not buy goods stolen from one of their caravans (then marked in red) unless they are tricked into asking for them via counteroffer, or the items are "laundered" by decoration or used to create other goods. Seizing goods will hurt diplomatic relations, but is not grounds for an automatic {{L|siege}}.{{Verify}}

Pressing the seize button while no goods are selected will result in the merchant interpreting your seizure as a joke. This apparently does nothing to benefit or hinder your trading.{{Verify}}

As a side note, if you deconstruct your trade depot with a caravan in it, all the caravan's items will drop to the ground, to be readily hauled away by your Dwarves. This does not mark the items as stolen, and the caravan will leave. However, ''next'' year's caravan is partly based on the profits from the previous year - so if you are relying on that race's caravans for needed items, you're hurting yourself in the long run.{{Verify}}

Another way to steal without marking as stolen is to forbid the trade depot just before they leave, causing them to leave their goods at the depot.{{Verify}}

Note that the civilization attached to a particular caravan will keep track of the value of items the caravan was carrying when they set out to trade, and they will compare this value with the value of items they return home with. Regardless of what method you use to confiscate items from a caravan, even if you came to possess the goods through no fault of your own (an {{L|ambush}} killed the caravaners, for example) the parent civilization may decide that you stole from them and send a {{L|siege}} instead of a caravan the following year. It is prudent to take measures to protect caravans visiting your lands!{{Verify}}

==Offering items==

{{key|o}} You can also give away items, as gifts to the leaders of the {{L|civilization}} you are trading with. This presumably helps relations between yourself and the other faction, though there is not yet a clear correlation between the value of the offerings and the improvement to relations. The exact effects of offerings on trading are unknown but it is believed due to the offerings' net trade value being counted towards the traders' profit, possibly with a modifier (possibly a multiplier of more than 1 as a bonus or less than 1 to compensate for the improved relations){{Verify}}, which in turn increases the quantity and variety of trade goods brought by next year's caravan. Also the {{L|King}} requires offerings to be made before his arrival.(5,000 in 0.31.25) You cannot offer items that were not made at your fortress; the traders do not want your spare goblin harvest clothes.

'''''Note:''' There are currently no benefits to offering goods to your king; the game developers have stated that this is to be changed in future versions.'' ("''Req174, REASON FOR OFFERING, (Future): There's no point of offering goods to your own king right now.)"''

Unless you are looking for [[fun]], under no conditions should you offer or trade items which are wooden or used wood in their creation (glass, for example) to [[elves]], as this will insult the traders, and may cause them to leave or even damage relations enough to provoke a war between you and the elven civilization you traded with. They will be equally insulted by you trading back their wood-related items - their refusal to accept back their wooden items is probably a bug which will be removed in a later release, though this has not been verified. It is also worth noting that in-game the only way to acquire wood is by chopping down trees, so it is likely that the elves have developed a method of growing and acquiring wood without killing trees which will be included in later development (unless they are just cutting down trees that have already died naturally).

== Miscellaneous Trading Advice ==

* Several small trades, exiting the trade window each time, will increase the Broker's relevant skills during the early game. {{Verify}}
* Food inside the Trade Depot can go bad. Have a food stockpile nearby so you can quickly haul goods inside.
* Thieves and thieving critters tend to follow caravans. Expect assaults and intruders.
* Be careful about asking traders to bring lots of individual lightweight items (such as meat and fish) as it can result in traders taking a very long time to unload their goods. Unless the path to your depot is extremely long, though, this is unlikely to cause significant problems.{{Verify}}
* Create your trading depot inside your fort, preferably in the beginning. Place a 3-tile wide path (which must be free of obstructions such as stairways) to the entrance of the fort and line this with traps; this will help to protect the traders and keep the depot close to your supplies.
* All caravans will bring extra food (meat and edible plants) and wooden logs if the supplies of your fortress are low enough, independent of whether or not you requested them. This does not apply in the case that the weight limit is exceeded by (other) items you requested. The supply situation, as observed by traders, is based solely on the number of unforbidden items in your fortress, whether stockpiled or utilized in buildings (such as wooden axles, water wheels, windmills, or workshops); thus, it is possible to trick caravans into thinking your supplies are low by {{L|forbid}}ding all of your relevant stocks immediately prior to their arrival.  This also seems to apply to elven caravans bringing {{L|cloth}} (except that cloth that's turned into {{L|clothing}}, {{L|bag}}s or {{L|rope}} isn't counted). So if you want elven caravans to ''stop'' bringing cloth, buy up all the cloth that the first few caravans bring and stash them somewhere.
* Define your trade depot as a burrow. When traders arrive, you can add your broker or another dwarf, perhaps one you want to train in trading, to the burrow. They will head to the depot immediately, and stay there until you remove them from the burrow.

== Caravans ==
Each friendly race will send a caravan per year, linked to one season, which is autumn for dwarves, summer for humans, spring for elves. In rare cases, goblins will show up in winter.{{verify}} However, in the first year only a dwarven caravan will arrive, although it will tend to arrive later than mid-autumn, unlike previous versions {{verify}}. Caravans will only show up if that race considers the fortress site accessible (as denoted on the embark screen), with the exception of dwarves, who always arrive unless they are extinct.{{verify}} Caravans appear to enter the map from a random direction which does not coincide with the relative direction of the originating {{L|civilization}}, and they may appear from different directions or z-levels each year. Caravans may leave without trading if it takes too long to reach the trade depot. Caravans will embark on their journey back exactly one month after their arrival, whether they have succeeded in reaching the depot or not.{{Verify}}

Note that if traders or their animals are prevented from leaving, they will eventually go {{L|insane}}.

Also worth mention is the pathing behavior of the entire caravan. If one member of the caravan reaches a block in their chosen path (ie. a raised drawbridge that was lowered when they entered the map) the entire caravan will re-path, instead of encountering the obstacle one by one.

== Liaisons ==
{{L|Liaison}}s may be sent with caravans to speak to important dwarves (and they ''will'' speak to those dwarves, even if they have to wait at their bedside in the hospital for months after the caravan has left). Liaisons allow you to choose the type of items that your fortress is interested in, and will focus on bringing more of that kind of item on the next caravan (however, those items will also be more expensive). In turn, they will present a list of the items they're willing to pay more for, which will be effective upon their next arrival.

Trade agreements can be viewed at a later time through the Civilization menu ({{k|c}}). These trade agreements are cleared when a liaison of the corresponding civilization enters the screen, so they are generally not accessible after the caravan has arrived.

If a liaison is prevented from leaving, they will eventually go {{L|insane}}. {{Verify}}

==== {{L|Dwarves}} ====
:''"Our fortunes rise and fall together"''

The dwarven caravan:
* arrives in {{L|Calendar|autumn}}.
* carries metal bars, {{L|leather}}, weapons and armor, food and booze, and more. Dwarves alone may bring {{L|steel}} and steel goods. They can still bring steel (and steel goods) and {{L|pig iron}} bars even if they do not have access to {{L|iron}}, but will not bring iron products.
* is well guarded.
* sends a liaison who will speak with the {{L|Expedition leader}}, {{L|Mayor}}, {{L|Baron}}, {{L|Count}}, or {{L|Duke}} to negotiate an import-export agreement (unless the {{L|Monarch}} is present).
* influences the number of immigrants received (if the caravan leaves intact).{{verify}}
* will not cause sieges when repeatedly destroyed or lost.
* is the only caravan to arrive during a fortress' first year.
* always arrives regardless of embark location, as long as the dwarven civilization is not extinct.{{verify}}
* cannot have its goods seized from the trade menu.
* may not arrive if your civilization lacks any notable figures.

==== {{L|elf|Elves}} ====
[[Image:Evil_elves.png|thumb|400px|A typical elven caravan.]]

The elven caravan:
* arrives in the {{L|Calendar|spring}}.
* carries {{L|cloth}}, {{L|rope}}s, various above-ground seeds, {{L|plant}}s and their byproducts, {{L|log}}s, {{L|wood}}en goods & {{L|weapon}}s, clothing and {{L|armor}}, and may carry tame exotic {{L|creature}}s.
* is unguarded.
* does not accept some items in trade:

Elven traders do not like to be offered any tree byproducts. Forbidden items include:

* {{L|Wood}}en items (including subterranean mushrooms such as {{L|tower-cap}}s)
* Items derived from wood - {{L|ash}} and {{L|charcoal}}, as well as {{L|lye}}, {{L|potash}}, and {{L|pearlash}}
* Items made from clear and crystal {{L|glass}} (due to the {{L|pearlash}} used) - green glass appears to be perfectly acceptable
* Items {{L|decoration|decorated}} with any of the above materials
* {{L|Obsidian}} shortswords (since they have wooden handles)
* {{L|Soap}} (made with {{L|lye}})

Offering or trading forbidden items will cause the mood of the trader to drop rapidly, causing them to refuse to trade any more that season and leave immediately. Additionally you will be called uncouth, crude, and barbaric for not understanding their customs.

However, {{L|stone}} and {{L|metal}} items, even when {{L|charcoal}} is used in production, are acceptable. Items made from {{L|silk}} are acceptable, as are all non-wooden plant-derived products such as {{L|cloth}} and {{L|thread}}. Items made of bone (totems too), horn, shell or leather are acceptable, so are meat and fish. You can also transport your goods to the {{L|trade depot}} in a wooden {{L|bin}}, as long as you do not try to sell the bin. Living animals are acceptable, as long as the {{L|cage}} or {{L|trap}} is not made of {{L|wood}}.

Be especially careful with reselling decorated items from other caravans, as non-wood/glass items may have decorations of wood or clear/crystal glass. All such items that elven caravans sell are also unacceptable to sell back to elves, as the dwarves have no means of proving that they were made in an "elf kosher" way — and all dwarves know that elves have terrible memory.

==== {{L|Human}}s ====
The human caravan:
* arrives in {{L|Calendar|summer}}.
* carries metal bars, sand, {{L|leather}}, cloth, wood, food and booze, ropes, waterskins, quivers, backpacks, metal weapons and clothing and armor, cages and a few domestic animals.
* is moderately guarded.

==== {{L|Goblin}}s{{Verify}} ====
A goblin caravan ''may'' arrive if your civilization is at peace with the goblins.

The goblin caravan:
*will arrive every season, four times per year{{verify}}
*unguarded
*brings mostly food and cloth
*does not send a liaison or a guild representative
*does not make import/export agreements

== Destruction ==
If caravans are destroyed (intentionally or unintentionally), the items may remain for use. Traders caught in a {{L|cave-in}} will flee as if they were attacked, but will leave all the items dropped by the caravan behind. Pack animals carrying items are affected just like a normal tamed {{L|mule}} and must be killed in the cave-in for them to drop items on the ground. It is however much more likely that the pack animals will only be stunned or rendered unconscious, and flee shortly after recovering from the hit.

While caravans can defend themselves, they don't like being ambushed. An encounter with unfriendly creatures resulting in the death of any merchant or pack animal will cause them to retreat and forget about trading with you for the season. Repeated caravan destruction (intentional or unintentional) will strain diplomatic relations and may result in a {{L|siege}}.

== Caravan Delay ==
If a caravan has arrived at your trade depot and is unable to leave for about six months after they arrived, the merchants and animals will go insane. This can result in a bunch of merchants attacking your dwarves, or just standing around moping until they starve to death. It is not known for certain if this hurts diplomatic relations, but most likely it's the same as any case where the entire caravan fails to return home.{{Verify}}

If you have locked the caravan into your fortress to hold out against a siege, it's a good idea to station a squad of soldiers near the trade depot in case the merchants {{L|Insanity#Types|go berserk}}. You may also want to make the depot a restricted area to encourage civilians to go around it. Alternatively, you can design the trade depot using drawbridges, so that it can be sealed off from the rest of the fortress during a siege.

If you want the merchants to leave safely, you can build four or more tunnels to each corner of the map, connected to your fortress only by drawbridges. As long as there is no other way to enter and exit your fortress, invaders and merchants will both go towards any tunnel that you activate. You can lock the merchants into the trade depot, and then open a tunnel entrance on one side of the map to make the invaders head towards that tunnel. When they get close to it, you can close it, and then open the entrance on the other side of the map, and let the traders out of the depot. If your fortress and depot are in the middle of the map, this will give the traders quite a head-start to get away.{{Verify}}

Merchants can leave the map from any map edge-- including underground map edges. If an unobstructed path through your fortress reaches an edge, then blocking an overland path will cause the merchants to travel underground. This can be useful, if you're suffering a prolonged siege; it can also be dangerous, if your underground regions are less secure than your surface.

Caravan guards cannot be starved, dehydrated, or driven to insanity if prevented from leaving, their employers and animals will however.

== Bugs ==

*''Sometimes'' no one brings wagons, even if there is a clear path to your depot. {{bug|197}}
*Wild animals cannot be traded; when a dwarf attempts to move the caged animal to the Depot, the creature is set free.Only aggressive animals?
*If your {{L|hospital}} isn't already stocked with the specified amount of thread/cloth, your dwarves will carry off as much from the caravan as they need to fill it. {{Bug|66}}
*Caravans show up very late in the season. {{Bug|1756}}

== Loyalty cascade ==
*If you order your military to kill merchants from your own civilization, your soldiers will simultaneously become members ''and'' enemies of your civilization, resulting in a civil war within your fortress. When this happens, all current members of the fortress (excluding incoming migrants) will turn on each other yet they will still be seen as normal working dwarves in the status screens. This will only last for those who were alive ''during'' the attack, they will always be hostile to everyone including incoming migrants (yet they still do their jobs/ follow military orders and work as dwarves although they will interrupt other's work. They will not be shown as enemies in the Units screen).

== Exploits ==

*If you destroy the Depot while they are unloaded you will get the leaving message but they will leave before the building is completely destroyed, so they will not reclaim any of their stuff because it is not available until the building is fully deconstructed. However any animals they had caged will only become friendly, you won't actually own them.

If you wait some time (2-3 months{{verify}}), you can "claim" animals by linking a lever to the cage and opening it, the animals will be released in a tamed state. Check the 'u'nit screen before releasing them; if the creatures still show as Merchant creatures, they will wander off the map when released; if they show as Tame creatures, they will stay once released.

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==Trader's won't show goods==
Traders from my home civ show up, and they have loads upon loads of goods, but the trade window says they have nothing. I really need the goods they have. Help?--[[User:HugoLuman|HugoLuman]] 00:38, 10 April 2011 (UTC)

==Colors of Containers==
Question regarding the coloring of the items being traded, It says that items in white are are created by a source other then your fortress, while brown is fortress created goods. In my first trade with the dwarven caravan two goods I know I created, a barrel holding donkey cheese and a barrel with cow's milk were colored in white. I mean, it's not exactly an issue, but is this because they an animal derived source or what? --[[User:AdmiralDread|AdmiralDread]] 05:15, 12 April 2010 (UTC)
:I believe for liquids in barrels it looks at whether you made the barrel, not the contents. Perhaps for all barrel items, I'm not sure. I personally don't trade food or drinks --[[User:Todestool|Todestool]] 14:49, 12 April 2010 (UTC)
:The color of a container is based on what it's made of. Anything made from [[tower cap]] will be white. Normal wood is brown. --[[User:Strangething|Strangething]] 02:29, 14 July 2010 (UTC)
::Note that AD was talking about the color displayed in the trading screen, not the color of the item. Any container will display according to the origin of the container, regardless of the contents. So your barrel was foreign (listed in white), despite the fact that the cheese was local. When you (v)iew the item, the contents are listed, colored according to their origin (regardless of the container's origin). [[Special:Contributions/202.156.10.234|202.156.10.234]] 01:14, 16 October 2010 (UTC)

==No Dwarves==
It seems to be possible in DF2010 to have no trade from the dwarves. If their civilization is too small to have any leaders of note, then there will be no caravans.

* always arrives regardless of embark location, as long as the dwarven civilization is not extinct.Verify
-- This doesn't make sense either. If dwarfs are dead, who's embarking?
::I've never seen no-trade from the dwarves. Also, I second the comment about embarking. Isn't the fail condition for a world if the dwarfs don't survive?--[[User:Kwieland|Kwieland]] 17:46, 23 May 2011 (UTC)
:::It's entirely possible to generate a world where all dwarf civilizations are no more. In this case, you still get two waves of immigrants but no caravans will come. For some this is a very desirable play scenario. The end of all dwarf civilizations does not necessarily mean that all dwarfs are dead. --[[User:Jwest23|Jwest23]] 20:31, 23 May 2011 (UTC)

==Vermin in caravans?==
I wanted to release the bought warthogs out of their cages, tame bats and fluffy wamblers were in my list. I haven´t caught any vermin yet, so I put them in that cage, too. When I looked at the (elven) caravan they "stole" the vermin from them. Anyone has seen this, too?
:I can confirm that elven caravans offer cages containing vermin. This vermin isn't shown in thr trade screen list, unless you view these cages separately. This vermin is ''not'' shown in your animal list of the status screen (hit {{k|z}} and then {{k|return}} to get there). It ''is'', however, shown in the list of creatures assignable to a cage. (hit {{k|q}}, select a cage, hit {{k|a}}, and there they are.) --[[User:Doub|Doub]] 17:47, 2 May 2010 (UTC)
::I agree. The cages are not labeled as anything but normal cages. However, if you view the item in the trade depot screen ({{k|v}} when highlighting the "empty" cage) the vermin will be shown as a content.--[[User:Kwieland|Kwieland]] 16:29, 19 May 2010 (UTC)

==No Wagons with Caravans==
I never had wagons with DF2010. Is it just me or is there something needed except a 3wide path to one edge? Its always there and there is never a caravan with wagons, only with traders!--[[User:Niggy|Niggy]] 20:32, 12 April 2010 (UTC)
: I've not had wagons in this current fort either. Think it may be because I'm in a mountain biome...--[[User:Nimblewright|Nimblewright]] 10:11, 14 April 2010 (UTC)

::Yes, Wagons are out for now. This is most likely a bug as the access check screen is still in. Hm..or not? --[[User:Birthright|Birthright]] 20:00, 14 April 2010 (UTC)
:::They're still in the raws - see creature_equipment.txt. --[[User:Quietust|Quietust]] 21:11, 14 April 2010 (UTC)
::::It still checks if a wagon could make it to the dapot, but for me a caravan (Without wagons obviously) went through a two-wide tunnel[[User:GiantTiger11|GiantTiger11]] 08:01, 24 April 2010 (UTC)

== Late caravan ==

The caravan used to arrive for me at exactly mid-autumn. I got my caravan in the new version at just a few days before autumn ended. Is this the case with everyone? [[User:Greep|Greep]] 03:56, 17 April 2010 (UTC)
:can confirm, caravans now always come late. --[[User:Confused|Confused]] 14:08, 17 April 2010 (UTC)
::maybe this is intentional as a "delay" from where they travel from? --[[User:Eroing|Eroing]] 17:41, 17 April 2010 (CET)
:::It's <s>my first Mid-Winter</s> the spring of the year after embarking now and i haven't seen just a wheel. Should I begin to worry? --[[User:Gnarker|Gnarker]] 11:37, 30 May 2010 (CEST)
::::Caravans have been appearing consistently on (roughly) the 15th of late-season months for the past several versions. I'm not sure that this is really a bug. [[User:TerryDactyl|TerryDactyl]]

== Merchants going underground. ==

I just had a dwarven caravan leave the fortress through an underground edge of the map. Spawned from the top though.--[[User:Droid|Droid]] 04:07, 21 April 2010 (UTC)
: In my fortress even an elven caravan took the way through the caverns! --[[User:Doub|Doub]] 07:57, 24 April 2010 (UTC)
: Confirmed. Humans entered from the top, and left through the first cavern. Killed an Serpent man tribe on the way out. 05:10, 18 July 2010 (UTC)

== Multiple Trade Depots ==

Has there been any change for this?

== Traders go insane and starve ==

"If a caravan has arrived at your trade depot and is unable to leave for about six months after they arrived, the merchants and animals will go insane. This can result in a bunch of merchants attacking your dwarves, or just standing around moping until they starve to death."
Is this correct? Traders can starve? Or do they only gain the ability to starve when insane?
:I've only had this happen once. They went crazy after a while, and then starved. I don't know if it was exactly six months, but probably similar time scale. Experiment. Try locking the caravan on your map. Find out if it is really 6 months, if they go crazy, stave, and what happens!--[[User:Kwieland|Kwieland]] 18:10, 23 July 2010 (UTC)
: Verified (in .13.12), caravan (and their pack animals) went insane, they could not handle 1-tile wide bridges over our river. Probably expected 3-6 tiles wide bridges! Looks like they drop their items upon going insane.--[[User:TomiTapio|TomiTapio]] 23:00, 29 July 2010 (UTC)
: In .31.25 I've just had a merchant and his pack animal go stark raving mad without holding the merchants hostage. I had no Trade Depot. I usually build a depot so I'm left scratching my beard on this. Is this new behavior? --[[User:Jwest23|Jwest23]] 18:42, 3 April 2011 (UTC)

== First Caravan Brings Nothing? ==

I've had this happen twice, where the dwarven caravan brings a whole lot of nothing. Is this to be expected? I generaqlly give them something nyways, in hope that the next year will be better.

== No Dwarven Caravan ==

I'm in mid-summer of my third year and the only caravans I have been getting have been elven ones once a year. I Still haven't had a dwarven caravan show up ever. In the Civ screen it says that there are no important people in the civ.

My first year I got 7 migrants in total and haven't got any since. Does this mean my parent civ has been eradicated?
--[[User:Flying Dwarves Hurt|Flying Dwarves Hurt]] 14:13, 16 June 2010 (UTC)

:The same thing happened to me. My fortress is in a "small region"-sized world-- I'm beginning to wish I'd paid more attention while the world was created; maybe there just aren't any other dwarves inside it?

== Caravan leaving through cave ==

I just had a caravan leave through a cave. I had a clear path to a ground exit from my trade depot, even for wagons. This was not the case for the cave level, as it was only reachable by stairs. I don't know if this is a bug or not. Strange, anyhow. /[[User:Josj|Josj]] 06:20, 28 June 2010 (UTC)
:Probably not a bug, as such. Firstly, because caravans don't currently use wagons, but only pack animals, they can path up and down stairs. Secondly... they probably picked the shortest path to an exit, and that just happened to be the cave level. Was the ground exit on the other side of the screen, or temporarily blocked by a drawbridge or something? --[[User:DeMatt|DeMatt]] 18:24, 28 June 2010 (UTC)
::The ground exit was quite close--about a screen away from the depot. It could've been temporarily blocked by a barrage of haulers or something. I don't quite remember. But it would have had to be blocked as they went down some fifty levels or so. Even if the caravan used my traffic designations (which I don't believe they do) that wouldn't have been a closer route. It makes me wonder if it's possible for the caravans to appear in the caves. /[[User:Josj|Josj]] 19:00, 28 June 2010 (UTC)

== Forbidden Depots ==
I used the ' d:b:f ' command to forbid all items on my depot so that they would not have to haul all the stuff back, subsequently forbidding the 3 pieces mahogany that made up the depot itself. When the human caravan showed up, the game gave me a message that said they need a depot to trade at. I used the ' t ' command to unforbid each piece, and they instantly started to move to it. This might be worth mentioning as a troubleshooter, or something, if I can get confirmation on it. --[[User:Bungler|Bungler]] 03:45, 1 July 2010 (UTC)
:I can confirm that behavior. I used it all the time in 40d.--[[User:Kwieland|Kwieland]] 18:10, 23 July 2010 (UTC)
::I had traders go insane, probably because the depot was bulk-forbidden. --[[User:TomiTapio|TomiTapio]] 20:59, 5 September 2010 (UTC)

== Traders taking forever to load up==
The other lifesaver I found on this wiki somewhere relates to when you are trading a large number of items. I had the problem where caravans would take months and months to load up and get out. Once this lead to two caravans being on the map at the same time, (humans and dwarfs, I think) trying to load/unload at the same time and it was a mess (FPS suffered, too) However, there is way to prevent this. Pause the game after you get the "caravan has embarked" message, then go do {{k|d}}-{{k|t}} to designate trees (or mining, or whatever) and then hold down the mouse button. Watch the depot at the same time and you'll see the items dance as they get loaded up while the game is paused. Once the depot stops blinking, they're done and you can let go of the mouse. It took my traders 1.5 minutes real life to load up. But, then they take off on their merry way.--[[User:Kwieland|Kwieland]] 18:10, 23 July 2010 (UTC)

== Accessible and Inaccessible Depots ==

Im very new to the game and have been having trouble with making my depot wagon-accessible.

In the wiki it says that a 3-square wide corridor is needed to fit a trade wagon through(XWX in the D overlay). My problem is that Ive made a corridor 3 squares wide to my depot, but with the D command it still says my depot is inaccessible.

In the D overlay should there be 3 W makers side by side(XWWWX) for the depot to be accessible? If this is the case then the hall needs to be 5 squares wide...

Whatever the fix is, its not clear/helpful on the wiki. – [[template:unsigned|unsigned]] comment by [[User:173.217.232.2|173.217.232.2]]
:The D overlay only requires a path of Ws '''one''' tile wide, but it must be continuous and orthogonal (i.e. no diagonal-only gaps). Trace it out from the depot to find what's blocking the rest of the way (probably a boulder or a tree outside). --[[User:Quietust|Quietust]] 01:22, 9 July 2010 (UTC)
::You might need to smooth some boulders, cut down some trees, or add some ramps.--[[User:Kwieland|Kwieland]] 18:10, 23 July 2010 (UTC)
== Experience ==
From the article: ''Several small trades, exiting the trade window each time, will increase the Broker's relevant skills during the early game. ''
This isn't true for 40d. The experience was based solely on the number and value of the items brought by the trade caravan once a single trade was completed. Has this changed for 31.xx?--[[User:Kwieland|Kwieland]] 18:10, 23 July 2010 (UTC)
:Agreed. But the biggest thing was that it seemed like if you made that first trade for ''exactly'' 30%, your trader could get immense experience, even legendary. But it didn't seem to work when I tried it in .12 of late. [[User:Dorf and Dumb|Dorf and Dumb]] 05:25, 26 August 2010 (UTC)

My experience, when I've checked through dwarf therapist, is that a dwarf will get points in appraisal once, and only once, some time (within seconds) after the completion of the first trade with a particular caravan. Tested using dwarfs with 0 experience in appraisal, haven't tested if changing dwarfs at the trade depot will allow you to train more than one dwarf per caravan, will do so later today, if future caravans remain free of goblins/magma/other fun.--[[User:MadGreyOne|MadGreyOne]] 17:25, 1 December 2010 (UTC) Or they gain their experience on the first time looking at the goods, as I now remember it saying, somewhere... only one dwarf per caravan though =( And no experience gains shown at all for trading of items, so unless someone has seen clear evidence of multiple trades boosting experience gains we should probably remove that line.--[[User:MadGreyOne|MadGreyOne]]

== Random breaking of "Trader Requested at Depot"? ==

I have the Broker's labors all turned off barring cleaning and the default health care entries. When a caravan arrives, he'll happily ignore my initial switching of the Depot status requesting his presence and continue to haul items to the depot (despite having all hauling labors off). I have to toggle it back to not requested and then back to requested and he's fine, he'll sit and trade...for a while. Then if he goes to get a drink, eat, or sleep, his action when he gets up will be to haul items again. Anyone else having this issue? [[User:Chronin|Chronin]] 18:46, 20 August 2010 (UTC)

:Never have "only broker" set. It slows things down, and the benefit is, you don't get more than one dorf trained with appraiser skill (which means if the broker dies, you don't even see a price on anything). And the other benefit is, you can drive a harder bargain with the traders and therefore not get as much stuff brought in next time. What's the point? [[User:Dorf and Dumb|Dorf and Dumb]] 05:27, 26 August 2010 (UTC)

:almost all dwarves "bring items to depot", I guess it's part of the non-toggleable jobs. --[[User:TomiTapio|TomiTapio]] 21:03, 5 September 2010 (UTC)

: Even after turning off all other jobs, including hauling, I still get this problem. Even after confining him to a burrow consisting of nothing but the Depot, he'll still try to run off. The best solution is to request him as soon as the caravan is on the map, and it'll slide to the top of his job queue before it's gone. If you make a trade, he may run off again, so you might want to wait until everything you're trading away is there. [[User:Uzu Bash|Uzu Bash]] 14:10, 20 October 2010 (UTC)

:I'm not certain(otherwise known as WAG time), but it seems like the trade at depot job doesn't become a priority until everything marked pending for trade has been hauled to the depot.--[[User:MadGreyOne|MadGreyOne]]

== Emergency Supplies ==

It's fairly well known that caravans will bring lots of wooden logs if you don't have any in your fortress (including machine parts) or if you've forbidden all of them (something I've personally used numerous times - in my latest fort in 0.31.12, I managed to get elven and human caravans to bring over 200 logs each). It might be worth testing to see if caravans bring "emergency supplies" of things other than wooden logs - when I cooked all of my meat into prepared meals, the next human caravan decided to bring over 200 stacks of meat and prepared organs (it was enough to instantly overfill both of my 11x11 meat stockpiles, since my barrels were all full of booze). --[[User:Quietust|Quietust]] 18:37, 13 September 2010 (UTC)
:I believe I've got reasonable evidence that meat '''is''' considered an emergency good - when the human caravan arrived, the first horse was loaded up with wood logs and plants (which I had requested from the modded-in guild representative) and tons of meat (which I did '''not''' request), and the second horse was loaded up with a bunch more meat finally followed by several bins of cloth and leather, and the 3rd horse was carrying the rest of the leather; the rest of the caravan also held some stacks of random types of meat. Normally, binned goods are loaded at maximum priority, but liaison requests and emergency supplies both seem to override that. --[[User:Quietust|Quietust]] 04:24, 27 October 2010 (UTC)
::A quick test suggests that there are quite a few other emergency supplies - when I forbade '''everything''' in my fortress just before the Elven caravan arrived, the first horse was carrying nothing but plants, and the 2nd horse was carrying 50 bins of cloth plus lots of wooden logs, the 3rd horse was carrying the rest of the logs and the mostly normal trade goods, and the 4th horse had the usual assortment. Repeating with everything unforbidden resulted in a much more "normal" caravan - 5 horses carrying 12 ropes, 9 instruments, 12 toys, 10 pets (7 large creatures, 3 vermin), 11 cages, 21 booze barrels, 18 empty barrels, 8 buckets, 7 weapons, 12 body armor, 8 pairs of footwear, 13 shields, 8 headgear, 12 pairs of handwear, 11 seed bags, 10 mill bags (all dye), 12 sand bags, 13 empty bags, 14 bins of cloth (all of which were on the first horse), 8 crafts, 13 stacks of arrows, 24 stacks of plants, 11 threads, 10 legwear, 11 splints, and 6 crutches. --[[User:Quietust|Quietust]] 03:40, 6 November 2010 (UTC)

== recent trading changes? ==

Has anyone else seen changes to the way traders trade? Looks to me like in .31.16 (as compared to .12) the acceptable markup is much higher (45% compared to as little as 10-15%), and appraisal and other broker experience seems to be deferred now (appraisal skill not rising with each trade anymore, it rises sometime after the caravan leaves)[[Special:Contributions/202.156.10.234|202.156.10.234]] 01:04, 16 October 2010 (UTC)

== King offering ==

It looks like an offering of 5k is required to promote the city from barony. I sure would like to verify, but goblin seiges have pre-empted the liaison visits since becoming a barony. [[User:Uzu Bash|Uzu Bash]] 13:29, 20 October 2010 (UTC)

== No Elven Cloth? ==

Something very interesting has happened in my current fortress - last Autumn, I captured a giant cave spider and started a silk farm, and so far I've woven over 200 pieces of cloth (and have plenty of thread ready to weave), and the Elven caravan just arrived in the Spring with '''zero bins of cloth''' (and about 11 of everything else they usually bring). Maybe they were only bringing cloth in the first place because I wasn't producing any of my own? Maybe they brought it as emergency supplies? More testing is definitely in order. --[[User:Quietust|Quietust]] 03:16, 10 November 2010 (UTC)

:Just not an Elven Caravan without the useless bits of string, eh?

== Tunnel paths? ==

There's a few spots on this page and others where it mentions caravans coming from the edge of the map, and some people mentioning underground tunnels, but the game wont let me mine at the edge of the map, am I misinterpreting things or is that info out of date?--[[User:Twilightdusk|Twilightdusk]] 03:04, 24 November 2010 (UTC)

:You can't mine the edge of the map, but you ''can'' dig a tunnel all the way up to 1 square away, ending in a ramp to the surface. I think that's what the "Caravan Delay" section is suggesting. Also, above-ground walls and drawbridges cannot be built within 5 squares of the edge, but ''below'' ground ones can. Finally, if you've opened the caverns, it's reported (though I haven't seen it) that caravans can enter or exit there, so you may (or may not, I haven't tested this) be able to build a reasonably safe exit down there - i.e. you could wall up a path all the way to the edge - unless of course that Forgotten Beast happens to enter just where and when the caravan is exiting... [[Special:Contributions/202.156.10.234|202.156.10.234]] 08:16, 27 November 2010 (UTC)

==Doors and traders==
I had my depot safely locked behind a set of doors, mainly to keep my stupid cats from wandering outside and getting mauled by the wild life. This was fine for the first two caravans (dwarf and elf, respectively), but the third one (a human one), while able to arrive just fine, was not able to leave until I removed the doors. Is this just a quirk? --[[User:Shatari|Shatari]] 04:41, 27 January 2011 (UTC)
:After playing around a bit, I think the problem was simply a matter of the humans taking forever to leave after their 'departing' message had popped up. I've not run into this problem since. --[[User:Shatari|Shatari]] 02:59, 15 February 2011 (UTC)

== Traders forgot stuff ==

They left their stuff behind. Quite a lot of it. I consider it a windfall, considering we had nothing left to eat or trade on the first caravan, so intent were we on our build.

== Traders won't accept 1:1 trade? ==

I just tried to trade with a dwarven caravan, and it wouldn't accept it. "With your trade goods such as they are, I cannot fathom you ending up with these items." The trade was 1:1; no profit or loss for either side.
They wouldn't trade for a -1 loss either, saying they wouldn't trade for a loss.
.....Why? --[[User:Ruan942|Ruan942]] 12:20, 13 February 2011 (UTC)
:To my knowledge, traders prefer to make a profit, especially if your broker is lacking in social skills. --[[User:Shatari|Shatari]] 03:01, 15 February 2011 (UTC)
:Traders demand about 5-10% profit - after all they took the risk of traveling to your fortrees.

I can say that they WILL accept a 1:1 trade, give or take a few 10's IF and only IF your trader is nearly Legendary in his skill and is great in social skills (Negotiator mostly)

The ratio of profit grows smaller when the merchant (trader) becomes happier with his profits and if your broker is blessed with a silver tongue. If the trader is ecstatic, you may trade for 1:1 deals if the above is present. Merchants '''never''' accept a loss in profits, no matter how happy he is and how good your broker is. --[[User:Tir|Tir]] 11:04, 19 July 2011 (UTC)

== Childish Games? ==

Hey, I've just recently started playing Dwarf Fortress. I've traded with caravans before, but on a new fortress the traders instantly said "Enough of your childish games." and set off, even though they had about a 100 DB profit. Help?

--100DB out of what, though? Out of 100DB, fine. Out of 2000DB? Only once you've traded a while with them. Give them lots of profit (200%) for the first few trades. Even if they are smaller amounts. Once you notice they're willing to trade, you can reduce the percentage of profit. Also, note that the caravan trader will get more and more upset for each unacceptable trade. I make (or goblins give me) so much cra..er junk in my fort that I'm usually trading 200,000DB for 5000DB back. Later in the game, you don't really need much from the traders. I use them to remove stuff I don't want anymore, like *Large Rope Reed Trousers*.--[[User:Kwieland|Kwieland]] 17:13, 8 April 2011 (UTC)

==Dwarven Caravan Every Other Year==

As the title says. It seems that they only come once every two years. Has anyone else seen this?--[[User
:Mirthmanor|Mirthmanor]] 03:32, 5 April 2011 (UTC)
:Only when I'm under siege. Traders won't some if a siege comes when they would have. [[User:GhostDwemer|GhostDwemer]] 14:59, 5 April 2011 (UTC)

== Wild Animal Trading ==

I can verify that benign wild animals are also released when trying to trad, not just aggressive animals. I tried to sell some traders some wild unicorns, and the dwarfs set them free.
But question, will Seizing an item warrant a siege, even if you already traded them lots of stuff and give them a huge profit? I'm trying to get rid of caravans as soon as I've traded everything I've wanted without making them too angry.--[[Special:Contributions/69.135.213.251|69.135.213.251]]

I've wondered the same thing. Find out for us! My guess is seizing things will not result in a siege as long as the caravan turns a profit.--[[User:Kwieland|Kwieland]] 17:08, 8 April 2011 (UTC)

== Repeatedly massacring the dwarven caravan ==

I heard that you can massacre the dwarven caravan repeatedly and there would be no repercussions. One, is this true, and two, [[DF2010:!!SCIENCE!!|can ballistas hurt the caravan]]? --[[Special:Contributions/71.180.66.233|71.180.66.233]] 20:10, 25 May 2011 (UTC)

You can't have a war against your own race, so so long as you don't trap them (and make them go insane), then nothing will happen to piss off your civ.
Second, Ballistas can damage ANYTHING they can go through, including trees, so that would be a definite yes.
[[Special:Contributions/107.9.22.199|107.9.22.199]] 02:03, 16 June 2011 (UTC)

== unconscious pack animals ==

I just had a merchant yak ko'd by a goblin but the guy leading it just pulled the unconscious animal onwards with all it's stuff still on it. It got diced up when it got to my weapon traps though because of the unconsciousness triggering traps thing. weird.--[[Special:Contributions/70.79.199.141|70.79.199.141]] 19:26, 13 July 2011 (UTC).
:Yeah, I reported that bug. Good to know I'm not the only one seeing it. I don't think it is a major bug, though. {{bug|3129}}--[[User:Kwieland|Kwieland]] 13:32, 14 July 2011 (UTC)

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'''Trading''' in Dwarf Fortress first occurs in the first {{L|Calendar|autumn}} after establishing your fortress, with the arrival of the {{L|dwarf|Dwarven}} {{L|Trading#Caravans|caravan}}. Trading is a good way to acquire resources that are not available or are rare in the local area. It also allows for more freedom in selecting starting gear or purchase of additional skills for the expedition party, because items can always be obtained through trade later.

'''Trader''' is the term used at your Trade Depot to refer to your fortress {{l|Broker}} when dealing with merchants in a visiting caravan ({{key|r}} - "''Trader requested at Depot"''). As a {{L|profession}}, the term usually only applies to visiting merchants, or to a dwarf whose highest {{L|skill}} is {{L|Appraiser}}.

== Trade Depot ==
Building a {{L|Trade depot}} is a requisite for trade with caravans that arrive at your fortress.

While it may be convenient to build a Trade Depot outside at first, it is usually a really good idea to move it inside or build walls, bridges and other fortifications around it to protect caravans and your goods from animals (guzzlers), {{L|thief|thieves}} and {{L|goblin}}s.

Everything that is on your map belongs to you, except:
* the items of non-fortress members (only if they are alive, when they are dead they belong to you if you claim the items),{{Verify}}
* the items that are on merchant animals{{Verify}}
* the items that are on the trade depot (they belong to the caravan until they are moved out of it)

See the {{L|Trade depot}} article for more information on how to interact with it.

==Trading Flowchart ==
{{:Trading/Flowchart}}
After entering the trade menu, select the items to offer from the right, and the desired items from the left. All caravans have a weight limit which cannot be exceeded, and the allowed additional weight is displayed in the lower right corner. If the acting broker has at least Novice or better {{L|Appraisal}} skill, the value of all items will be displayed. Once the proposal is ready, press {{K|t}} to propose the trade, but merchants will not agree unless they make adequate profit. Be sure to use '''trade''', not '''offer''' {{K|o}}, as this will make a gift of the selected items. The amount of acceptable profit is determined by the broker's {{L|Broker skills|skills}} and the merchant's mood, described below. Merchants may attempt to propose counteroffers if they do not accept the proposal, which can then be accepted, rejected, or further amended by the broker.

With more experienced brokers or pleased merchants, even marginally profitable trades can be successful, and counterproposals can be rejected safely, offering the same trade again. Note however that a low profit margin for the traders may not be desirable - it has been suggested that both export and profit numbers influence the size of next years caravan and, in the case of the dwarven caravan, immigration numbers.{{Verify}}

Goods brought by caravans do not have base quality higher than superior, but decorations on a good may be of any quality.{{Verify}}

== Trading cue colors ==

* '''Brown''' Items have been created (or modified) by your fortress. They can be traded away or offered as a gift.
* '''White''' Items were created by another source. They can be traded, but if one of these items has been selected, the entire selection cannot be offered as a gift.
* '''Purple''' Items are under a no-export mandate. If they are traded away it will result in disciplinary action (see [[justice]]) against the dwarf that brought the item to the depot.{{Verify}}
* '''Green''' Items have just been gifted to the caravan and they will not trade it back.
* '''Red''' Items have been seized from another caravan and cannot be traded as is; you will need to decorate them or turn them into other items for them to become "valid" trading items. However, a caravan from a different civilization ''may'' accept stolen goods without changing them first.{{verify}}

Note that containers (barrels, bins, etc) will be displayed according to the origin of the container, not the contents. So a foreign barrel holding locally-produced beer will display as foreign (white). Once you {{k|v}}iew the container, the locally-made contents are displayed as local (brown).

== Merchant mood ==
If your broker has Novice or better {{L|Judge of intent}} skill, there will be a line added below the merchant's dialogue describing the caravan's attitude. Their attitude rises with successful trades (especially if they get lots of profit) and falls when you propose deals they don't like.

* (trader) seems ecstatic with the trading
* (trader) seems very happy about the trading
* (trader) seems pleased with the trading
* (trader) seems willing to trade (Default, at least for humans)
* (trader) seems to be rapidly losing patience
* (trader) is not going to take much more of this
* (trader) is unwilling to trade

The happier you make a merchant, the less profit margin he will demand in a trade. If merchants reach the lowest level, no further trade will be possible, and they will immediately pack up and leave your depot. Since annoyed traders are more likely to reject deals, you should be generous in initial negotiations. Skilled negotiators seem less likely to offend traders with unsuccessful deals.

An easy way to capitalize on this mood system is to perform several partial trades. First trade for a few items, offering goods twice the value of the items you ask for (eg, offer 2000☼ for 1000☼ of his stuff). This will likely make the merchant ecstatic about trading with you. Exit the trade screen, unpause briefly, and then return to trading with a vengeance. With the merchant in such a good mood, he is more likely to counteroffer than reject a trade outright.

== Seizing items ==

Pressing {{K|s}} from the trade menu will seize the selected items of the merchant's. If you seize goods from a caravan, the merchant will respond "Take what you want. I can't stop you." and then leave immediately without the seized goods. Items cannot be seized from the dwarven caravan, and other races will not buy goods stolen from one of their caravans (then marked in red) unless they are tricked into asking for them via counteroffer, or the items are "laundered" by decoration or used to create other goods. Seizing goods will hurt diplomatic relations, but is not grounds for an automatic {{L|siege}}.{{Verify}}

Pressing the seize button while no goods are selected will result in the merchant interpreting your seizure as a joke. This apparently does nothing to benefit or hinder your trading.{{Verify}}

As a side note, if you deconstruct your trade depot with a caravan in it, all the caravan's items will drop to the ground, to be readily hauled away by your Dwarves. This does not mark the items as stolen, and the caravan will leave. However, ''next'' year's caravan is partly based on the profits from the previous year - so if you are relying on that race's caravans for needed items, you're hurting yourself in the long run.{{Verify}}

Another way to steal without marking as stolen is to forbid the trade depot just before they leave, causing them to leave their goods at the depot.{{Verify}}

Note that the civilization attached to a particular caravan will keep track of the value of items the caravan was carrying when they set out to trade, and they will compare this value with the value of items they return home with. Regardless of what method you use to confiscate items from a caravan, even if you came to possess the goods through no fault of your own (an {{L|ambush}} killed the caravaners, for example) the parent civilization may decide that you stole from them and send a {{L|siege}} instead of a caravan the following year. It is prudent to take measures to protect caravans visiting your lands!{{Verify}}

==Offering items==

{{key|o}} You can also give away items, as gifts to the leaders of the {{L|civilization}} you are trading with. This presumably helps relations between yourself and the other faction, though there is not yet a clear correlation between the value of the offerings and the improvement to relations. The exact effects of offerings on trading are unknown but it is believed due to the offerings' net trade value being counted towards the traders' profit, possibly with a modifier (possibly a multiplier of more than 1 as a bonus or less than 1 to compensate for the improved relations){{Verify}}, which in turn increases the quantity and variety of trade goods brought by next year's caravan. Also the {{L|King}} requires offerings to be made before his arrival.(5,000 in 0.31.25) You cannot offer items that were not made at your fortress; the traders do not want your spare goblin harvest clothes.

'''''Note:''' There are currently no benefits to offering goods to your king; the game developers have stated that this is to be changed in future versions.'' ("''Req174, REASON FOR OFFERING, (Future): There's no point of offering goods to your own king right now.)"''

Unless you are looking for [[fun]], under no conditions should you offer or trade items which are wooden or used wood in their creation (glass, for example) to [[elves]], as this will insult the traders, and may cause them to leave or even damage relations enough to provoke a war between you and the elven civilization you traded with. They will be equally insulted by you trading back their wood-related items - their refusal to accept back their wooden items is probably a bug which will be removed in a later release, though this has not been verified. It is also worth noting that in-game the only way to acquire wood is by chopping down trees, so it is likely that the elves have developed a method of growing and acquiring wood without killing trees which will be included in later development (unless they are just cutting down trees that have already died naturally).

== Miscellaneous Trading Advice ==

* Several small trades, exiting the trade window each time, will increase the Broker's relevant skills during the early game.
* Food inside the Trade Depot can go bad. Have a food stockpile nearby so you can quickly haul goods inside.
* Thieves and thieving critters tend to follow caravans. Expect assaults and intruders.
* Be careful about asking traders to bring lots of individual lightweight items (such as meat and fish) as it can result in traders taking a very long time to unload their goods. Unless the path to your depot is extremely long, though, this is unlikely to cause significant problems.{{Verify}}
* Create your trading depot inside your fort, preferably in the beginning. Place a 3-tile wide path (which must be free of obstructions such as stairways) to the entrance of the fort and line this with traps; this will help to protect the traders and keep the depot close to your supplies.
* All caravans will bring extra food (meat and edible plants) and wooden logs if the supplies of your fortress are low enough, independent of whether or not you requested them. This does not apply in the case that the weight limit is exceeded by (other) items you requested. The supply situation, as observed by traders, is based solely on the number of unforbidden items in your fortress, whether stockpiled or utilized in buildings (such as wooden axles, water wheels, windmills, or workshops); thus, it is possible to trick caravans into thinking your supplies are low by {{L|forbid}}ding all of your relevant stocks immediately prior to their arrival.  This also seems to apply to elven caravans bringing {{L|cloth}} (except that cloth that's turned into {{L|clothing}}, {{L|bag}}s or {{L|rope}} isn't counted). So if you want elven caravans to ''stop'' bringing cloth, buy up all the cloth that the first few caravans bring and stash them somewhere.
* Define your trade depot as a burrow. When traders arrive, you can add your broker or another dwarf, perhaps one you want to train in trading, to the burrow. They will head to the depot immediately, and stay there until you remove them from the burrow.

== Caravans ==
Each friendly race will send a caravan per year, linked to one season, which is autumn for dwarves, summer for humans, spring for elves. In rare cases, goblins will show up in winter.{{verify}} However, in the first year only a dwarven caravan will arrive, although it will tend to arrive later than mid-autumn, unlike previous versions {{verify}}. Caravans will only show up if that race considers the fortress site accessible (as denoted on the embark screen), with the exception of dwarves, who always arrive unless they are extinct.{{verify}} Caravans appear to enter the map from a random direction which does not coincide with the relative direction of the originating {{L|civilization}}, and they may appear from different directions or z-levels each year. Caravans may leave without trading if it takes too long to reach the trade depot. Caravans will embark on their journey back exactly one month after their arrival, whether they have succeeded in reaching the depot or not.{{Verify}}

Note that if traders or their animals are prevented from leaving, they will eventually go {{L|insane}}.

Also worth mention is the pathing behavior of the entire caravan. If one member of the caravan reaches a block in their chosen path (ie. a raised drawbridge that was lowered when they entered the map) the entire caravan will re-path, instead of encountering the obstacle one by one.

== Liaisons ==
{{L|Liaison}}s may be sent with caravans to speak to important dwarves (and they ''will'' speak to those dwarves, even if they have to wait at their bedside in the hospital for months after the caravan has left). Liaisons allow you to choose the type of items that your fortress is interested in, and will focus on bringing more of that kind of item on the next caravan (however, those items will also be more expensive). In turn, they will present a list of the items they're willing to pay more for, which will be effective upon their next arrival.

Trade agreements can be viewed at a later time through the Civilization menu ({{k|c}}). These trade agreements are cleared when a liaison of the corresponding civilization enters the screen, so they are generally not accessible after the caravan has arrived.

If a liaison is prevented from leaving, they will eventually go {{L|insane}}. {{Verify}}

==== {{L|Dwarves}} ====
:''"Our fortunes rise and fall together"''

The dwarven caravan:
* arrives in {{L|Calendar|autumn}}.
* carries metal bars, {{L|leather}}, weapons and armor, food and booze, and more. Dwarves alone may bring {{L|steel}} and steel goods. They can still bring steel (and steel goods) and {{L|pig iron}} bars even if they do not have access to {{L|iron}}, but will not bring iron products.
* is well guarded.
* sends a liaison who will speak with the {{L|Expedition leader}}, {{L|Mayor}}, {{L|Baron}}, {{L|Count}}, or {{L|Duke}} to negotiate an import-export agreement (unless the {{L|Monarch}} is present).
* influences the number of immigrants received (if the caravan leaves intact).{{verify}}
* will not cause sieges when repeatedly destroyed or lost.
* is the only caravan to arrive during a fortress' first year.
* always arrives regardless of embark location, as long as the dwarven civilization is not extinct.{{verify}}
* cannot have its goods seized from the trade menu.
* may not arrive if your civilization lacks any notable figures.

==== {{L|elf|Elves}} ====
[[Image:Evil_elves.png|thumb|400px|A typical elven caravan.]]

The elven caravan:
* arrives in the {{L|Calendar|spring}}.
* carries {{L|cloth}}, {{L|rope}}s, various above-ground seeds, {{L|plant}}s and their byproducts, {{L|log}}s, {{L|wood}}en goods & {{L|weapon}}s, clothing and {{L|armor}}, and may carry tame exotic {{L|creature}}s.
* is unguarded.
* does not accept some items in trade:

Elven traders do not like to be offered any tree byproducts. Forbidden items include:

* {{L|Wood}}en items (including subterranean mushrooms such as {{L|tower-cap}}s)
* Items derived from wood - {{L|ash}} and {{L|charcoal}}, as well as {{L|lye}}, {{L|potash}}, and {{L|pearlash}}
* Items made from clear and crystal {{L|glass}} (due to the {{L|pearlash}} used) - green glass appears to be perfectly acceptable
* Items {{L|decoration|decorated}} with any of the above materials
* {{L|Obsidian}} shortswords (since they have wooden handles)
* {{L|Soap}} (made with {{L|lye}})

Offering or trading forbidden items will cause the mood of the trader to drop rapidly, causing them to refuse to trade any more that season and leave immediately. Additionally you will be called uncouth, crude, and barbaric for not understanding their customs.

However, {{L|stone}} and {{L|metal}} items, even when {{L|charcoal}} is used in production, are acceptable. Items made from {{L|silk}} are acceptable, as are all non-wooden plant-derived products such as {{L|cloth}} and {{L|thread}}. Items made of bone (totems too), horn, shell or leather are acceptable, so are meat and fish. You can also transport your goods to the {{L|trade depot}} in a wooden {{L|bin}}, as long as you do not try to sell the bin. Living animals are acceptable, as long as the {{L|cage}} or {{L|trap}} is not made of {{L|wood}}.

Be especially careful with reselling decorated items from other caravans, as non-wood/glass items may have decorations of wood or clear/crystal glass. All such items that elven caravans sell are also unacceptable to sell back to elves, as the dwarves have no means of proving that they were made in an "elf kosher" way — and all dwarves know that elves have terrible memory.

==== {{L|Human}}s ====
The human caravan:
* arrives in {{L|Calendar|summer}}.
* carries metal bars, sand, {{L|leather}}, cloth, wood, food and booze, ropes, waterskins, quivers, backpacks, metal weapons and clothing and armor, cages and a few domestic animals.
* is moderately guarded.

==== {{L|Goblin}}s{{Verify}} ====
A goblin caravan ''may'' arrive if your civilization is at peace with the goblins.

The goblin caravan:
*will arrive every season, four times per year{{verify}}
*unguarded
*brings mostly food and cloth
*does not send a liaison or a guild representative
*does not make import/export agreements

== Destruction ==
If caravans are destroyed (intentionally or unintentionally), the items may remain for use. Traders caught in a {{L|cave-in}} will flee as if they were attacked, but will leave all the items dropped by the caravan behind. Pack animals carrying items are affected just like a normal tamed {{L|mule}} and must be killed in the cave-in for them to drop items on the ground. It is however much more likely that the pack animals will only be stunned or rendered unconscious, and flee shortly after recovering from the hit.

While caravans can defend themselves, they don't like being ambushed. An encounter with unfriendly creatures resulting in the death of any merchant or pack animal will cause them to retreat and forget about trading with you for the season. Repeated caravan destruction (intentional or unintentional) will strain diplomatic relations and may result in a {{L|siege}}.

== Caravan Delay ==
If a caravan has arrived at your trade depot and is unable to leave for about six months after they arrived, the merchants and animals will go insane. This can result in a bunch of merchants attacking your dwarves, or just standing around moping until they starve to death. It is not known for certain if this hurts diplomatic relations, but most likely it's the same as any case where the entire caravan fails to return home.{{Verify}}

If you have locked the caravan into your fortress to hold out against a siege, it's a good idea to station a squad of soldiers near the trade depot in case the merchants {{L|Insanity#Types|go berserk}}. You may also want to make the depot a restricted area to encourage civilians to go around it. Alternatively, you can design the trade depot using drawbridges, so that it can be sealed off from the rest of the fortress during a siege.

If you want the merchants to leave safely, you can build four or more tunnels to each corner of the map, connected to your fortress only by drawbridges. As long as there is no other way to enter and exit your fortress, invaders and merchants will both go towards any tunnel that you activate. You can lock the merchants into the trade depot, and then open a tunnel entrance on one side of the map to make the invaders head towards that tunnel. When they get close to it, you can close it, and then open the entrance on the other side of the map, and let the traders out of the depot. If your fortress and depot are in the middle of the map, this will give the traders quite a head-start to get away.{{Verify}}

Merchants can leave the map from any map edge-- including underground map edges. If an unobstructed path through your fortress reaches an edge, then blocking an overland path will cause the merchants to travel underground. This can be useful, if you're suffering a prolonged siege; it can also be dangerous, if your underground regions are less secure than your surface.

Caravan guards cannot be starved, dehydrated, or driven to insanity if prevented from leaving, their employers and animals will however.

== Bugs ==

*''Sometimes'' no one brings wagons, even if there is a clear path to your depot. {{bug|197}}
*Wild animals cannot be traded; when a dwarf attempts to move the caged animal to the Depot, the creature is set free.Only aggressive animals?
*If your {{L|hospital}} isn't already stocked with the specified amount of thread/cloth, your dwarves will carry off as much from the caravan as they need to fill it. {{Bug|66}}
*Caravans show up very late in the season. {{Bug|1756}}

== Loyalty cascade ==
*If you order your military to kill merchants from your own civilization, your soldiers will simultaneously become members ''and'' enemies of your civilization, resulting in a civil war within your fortress. When this happens, all current members of the fortress (excluding incoming migrants) will turn on each other yet they will still be seen as normal working dwarves in the status screens. This will only last for those who were alive ''during'' the attack, they will always be hostile to everyone including incoming migrants (yet they still do their jobs/ follow military orders and work as dwarves although they will interrupt other's work. They will not be shown as enemies in the Units screen).

== Exploits ==

*If you destroy the Depot while they are unloaded you will get the leaving message but they will leave before the building is completely destroyed, so they will not reclaim any of their stuff because it is not available until the building is fully deconstructed. However any animals they had caged will only become friendly, you won't actually own them.

If you wait some time (2-3 months{{verify}}), you can "claim" animals by linking a lever to the cage and opening it, the animals will be released in a tamed state. Check the 'u'nit screen before releasing them; if the creatures still show as Merchant creatures, they will wander off the map when released; if they show as Tame creatures, they will stay once released.

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These tokens define positions in entity_*.txt files. See {{l|Entity token}}.
==Position Tokens==
These tokens belong in an entity definition. These tokens apply to a position (such as monarch, dungeon master, etc) and should follow the [POSITION:POSITION_NAME] token.

{| {{prettytable}}
|- bgcolor="#dddddd"
! Token
! Arguments
! Description

|-
| ACCOUNT_EXEMPT
|
| The position holder is not subjected to the Dwarven Economy.

|-
| ALLOWED_CLASS
| CREATURE_CLASS Token
| Only creatures with the specified class token can be appointed to this position in Fortress Mode. Has no effect on world generation.

|-
| ALLOWED_CREATURE
| ???
| Unknown - may restrict position holders by CREATURE type.

|-
| APPOINTED_BY
| position
| The position used as an argument selects creatures to fill the role in question. For example, the GENERAL is [APPOINTED_BY:MONARCH].

|-
| BRAG_ON_KILL
|
| A creature that kills this position will be sure to talk about it a lot.

|-
| CHAT_WORTHY
|
| In adventure mode, when referencing locations an NPC may mention this position holder living there or having done some deed there.

|-
| COLOR
| color
| Creatures of this position will have this colour, instead of their profession colour. e.g. [COLOR:5:0:1]

|-
| COMMANDER
| position:ALL
| This position will act as a commander of the specified position{{verify}}. E.g. GENERAL is [COMMANDER:LIEUTENANT:ALL]. Unknown if values other than ALL work.

|-
| CONQUERED_SITE
|
| This position will be available to creatures when the site has been taken over by another civilisation.

|-
| DEMAND_MAX
| number (0-100)
| How many demands at one time the position can make of the population.

|-
| DETERMINES_COIN_DESIGN
|
| Coins minted will have images that reflect the personality of this position holder.

|-
| DO_NOT_CULL
|
| The position won't be culled during world generation.{{verify}}

|-
| DUTY_BOUND
|
| Members of this position will never agree to 'join' your character during adventure mode.

|-
| ELECTED
|
| The population will periodically select the creature to fill this position.

|-
| EXPORTED_IN_LEGENDS
|
| The various members who have filled this role will be listed in the civilisation's history.

|-
| FLASHES
|
| The creature holding this position will flash on the display.

|-
| GENDER
|
*MALE/FEMALE
| The position can only be held by specified gender.

|-
| KILL_QUEST
|
| The position can assign quests to adventurers.

|-
| LAND_HOLDER
| number
| The position will arrive when the LAND_HOLDER_TRIGGER in the entity definition has been met.

|-
| LAND_NAME
| string
| The name the area takes on when under the control of a LAND_HOLDER. E.g. for the DUKE, [LAND_NAME:a duchy]

|-
| MANDATE_MAX
| number (0-100)
| The maximum number of mandates the position can make at once.

|-
| MENIAL_WORK_EXEMPTION
|
| The position cannot be assigned labours, and will generally just lounge around like nobles do. Currently does not actually work. {{bug|3721}}

|-
| MENIAL_WORK_EXEMPTION_SPOUSE
|
| The spouse of the position holder doesn't have to work, either. Also doesn't work either. {{bug|3721}}

|-
| MILITARY_SCREEN_ONLY
|
| The position only shows up in the Military screen.{{verify}}

|-
| NAME
| singular:plural
| The name of the position.

|-
| NAME_MALE
| singular:plural
| If the creature holding the position is male, this is the position's name. E.g. for MONARCH, [NAME_MALE:king:kings]

|-
| NAME_FEMALE
| singular:plural
| If the creature holding the position is female, this is the position's name. E.g. for MONARCH, [NAME_FEMALE:queen:queens]

|-
| NUMBER
|
* number/AS_NEEDED
| How many of the position there should be. If the [SITE] token exists, this is per site, otherwise this is per civilisation.

|-
| PRECEDENCE
| number (0-30000)
| How important the position is in society; a lower number is more important. For MONARCH it's 1, for MILITIA_CAPTAIN it's 200.

|-
| PUNISHMENT_EXEMPTION
|
| The position holder will not be held accountable for his or her crimes. Does not appear to work. {{bug|4589}}

|-
| QUEST_GIVER
|
| The position holder can give quests in Adventurer mode. Functionality in 0.31.13 and later is uncertain.

|-
| REJECTED_CLASS
| CREATURE_CLASS Token
| Creatures of the specified class cannot be appointed to this position in Fortress Mode. Has no effect on world generation.

|-
| REJECTED_CREATURE
| ???
| Unknown - may restrict position holders by CREATURE type.

|-
| REPLACED_BY
| position
| For when one position is a lesser form of another. For example, expedition leader is [REPLACED_BY:MAYOR].

|-
| REQUIRED_BEDROOM
| number (0-1000000)
| The position holder requires a bedroom with at least this value.

|-
| REQUIRED_BOXES
| number (0-100)
| The position holder requires at least this many boxes.

|-
| REQUIRED_CABINETS
| number (0-100)
| The position holder requires at least this many cabinets.

|-
| REQUIRED_DINING
| number (0-1000000)
| The position holder requires a dining room with at least this value.

|-
| REQUIRED_OFFICE
| number (0-1000000)
| The position holder requires an office with at least this value.

|-
| REQUIRED_RACKS
| number (0-100)
| The position holder requires at least this many weapon racks.

|-
| REQUIRED_STANDS
| number (0-100)
| The position holder requires at least this many armour stands.

|-
| REQUIRED_TOMB
| number (0-1000000)
| The position holder requires a tomb with at least this value.

|-
| REQUIRES_POPULATION
| number
| The position requires the population to be at least this number before it becomes available or before the position holder will move in.

|-
| RESPONSIBILITY
| responsibility
| See the table below for the available responsibility tokens. E.g. [RESPONSIBILITY:TAME_EXOTICS]

|-
| RULES_FROM_LOCATION
|
| Unknown{{verify}}

|-
| SITE
|
| The civilisation will attempt to have this position separate for each site.

|-
| SLEEP_PRETENSION
|
| The position holder will get upset if someone with a higher precedence holds quarters with a greater value than their own.

|-
| SPOUSE
| singular:plural
| The name of the position holder's spouse.

|-
| SPOUSE_FEMALE
| singular:plural
| If the spouse of the creature holding the position is female, this is the spouse's position name.

|-
| SPOUSE_MALE
| singular:plural
| If the spouse of the creature holding the position is male, this is the spouse's position name.

|-
| SQUAD
| number:singular:plural
| The position holder will be accompanied by this many whatevers; e.g. for HAMMERER, [SQUAD:10:royal guard:royal guards]

|-
| SUCCESSION
|
* BY_HEIR / BY_POSITION:position
| How a new position holder is chosen.

|}

== Responsibilities ==
{| {{prettytable}}
|- bgcolor="#dddddd"
! Argument
! Description

|-
| ACCOUNTING
| Found on bookkeeper. Position will keep track of socks.

|-
| ATTACK_ENEMIES
| Found on elven ranger captain and human warrior. Effect{{verify}}

|-
| BUILD_MORALE
| Found on champion. Effect{{verify}}

|-
| COLLECT_TAXES
| Found on tax collector. Will collect taxes in further versions, when economics are back.

|-
| EQUIPMENT_MANIFESTS
| Found on arsenal dwarf. Effect{{verify}}

|-
| ESCORT_TAX_COLLECTOR
| Found on hammerer. Position will accompiany the COLLECT_TAXES position{{verify}}

|-
| ESTABLISH_COLONY_TRADE_AGREEMENTS
| Found on outpost liaison. Position will make trade agreements with the civilisation's colonies.

|-
| EXECUTIONS
| Found on hammerer. Position will deliver beatings for great justice.

|-
| HEALTH_MANAGEMENT
| Found on chief medical dwarf. Enables the {{key|z}} menu health screen. Other effect{{verify}}

|-
| LAW_ENFORCEMENT
| Found on sheriff/captain of the guard. Position is in charge of imprisoning criminals.

|-
| LAW_MAKING
| Found on monarch/landholders. Effect{{verify}}

|-
| MAKE_INTRODUCTIONS
| Found on diplomat. Effect{{verify}}

|-
| MAKE_PEACE_AGREEMENTS
| Found on diplomat. Required for a civilisation to end a war{{verify}}

|-
| MAKE_TOPIC_AGREEMENTS
| Found on diplomat. Effect{{verify}}

|-
| MANAGE_PRODUCTION
| Found on manager. Position will verify work orders.

|-
| MEET_WORKERS
| Found on expedition leader/mayor. Dwarves want one of these around to complain to{{verify}}

|-
| MILITARY_GOALS
| Found on monarch/landholder/leaders. Effect{{verify}}

|-
| MILITARY_STRATEGY
| Found on general/militia commander. Effect{{verify}}

|-
| PATROL_TERRITORY
| Found on elven ranger captain and human warrior. Effect{{verify}}

|-
| RECEIVE_DIPLOMATS
| Found on monarch/landholder/leaders. Position will hold meetings with incoming diplomats/liaisons.

|-
| RELIGION
| Found on elven druid. Possibly it's the one who can tell you information about worship cults{{verify}}

|-
| SORT_AMMUNITION
| Found on arsenal dwarf. Effect{{verify}}

|-
| TAME_EXOTICS
| Found on dungeon master. Position will tame creatures with the [PET_EXOTIC] token.

|-
| TRADE
| Found on broker. Position will trade at the depot when set to broker only. When applied to other civilizations, the position will arrive with the caravan to make trade agreements.

|-
| UPGRADE_SQUAD_EQUIPMENT
| Found on arsenal dwarf. Effect{{verify}}

|}

== Related Tokens ==
The following two ENTITY tokens are not actually position tokens, but bear mentioning on this page because they can modify the way that a civilization's positions behave:

{| {{prettytable}}
|- bgcolor="#dddddd"
! Token
! Arguments
! Description

|-
| LAND_HOLDER_TRIGGER
|
* land holder number
* population
* wealth exported
* created wealth
| Defines when a particular land-holding noble (baron, count, duke in vanilla) will arrive at a fortress.

|-
| VARIABLE_POSITIONS
| Position responsibility or ALL
| Allows a responsibility to be taken up by a dynamically generated position (such as Law-maker).

|}

== Why Won't My Positions Appear? ==
The way DF determines what positions will actually ''appear'' in your fortress is somewhat counterintuitive and fairly limiting. This guide should help you understand what you can do to actually get your positions working properly.

There are five tokens governing which positions appear in your fortress - LAND_HOLDER, REQUIRES_POPULATION, APPOINTED_BY, ELECTED, and REPLACED_BY. The first two determine when your fortress is eligible for a new position, the next two determine how a new position for which your fortress is eligible can be added, and the fifth allows you to clear up obsolete positions. Unfortunately, they also interact in some strange ways that makes creating interesting position structures difficult.

When you start a new fortress, DF compiles a list of your initial positions. To do this, it looks at the requirements for each position - any position whose only requirement is less than seven dwarves (either because they have no requirement tokens, or because their only requirement tokens are [REQUIRES_POPULATION: =< 7] or [LAND_HOLDER:some trigger whose only requirement is some number of dwarves equal to or less than 7]). Most importantly, ''any'' position whose only requirement is a LAND_HOLDER requirement, regardless of what the trigger for that requirement is, will be added if another eligible starting position is REPLACED_BY it. '''A non-LAND_HOLDER position that is REPLACED_BY a LAND_HOLDER position will never appear.''' With this list compiled, the game culls all positions that are REPLACED_BY another eligible position, and then culls all positions that have the APPOINTED_BY token. '''You may not embark with any appointed positions.''' Any remaining positions are then filled by a dwarf chosen at random.

'''Positions do not automatically appear when you reach their requirements.''' For example, if you remove the ELECTED token from the Mayor, then the Mayor will never appear, even once you reach his required number of dwarves. '''For a position that does not appear at embark to appear in your fortress, it must be APPOINTED_BY another position or ELECTED.'''

Naturally, this is more complicated than it looks. '''APPOINTED_BY positions must be appointed by another position already in your fortress, or a civ-level position. Only LAND_HOLDER positions may be appointed by civ-level positions.''' LAND_HOLDER positions that are APPOINTED_BY civ-level positions are inherently tied to civ-level tokens with the ESTABLISH_COLONY_TRADE_AGREEMENTS responsibility. If a fortress meets the LAND_HOLDER_TRIGGER for a new LAND_HOLDER tier when a caravan leaves, then the next time the outpost liaison or equivalent arrives, he will offer to make you an official colony, which will allow you to select all positions for that LAND_HOLDER level. '''Each time he appears, the outpost liaison will only promote your fortress one tier up the LAND_HOLDER track.''' The biggest problem with this system is that you may set your LAND_HOLDER_TRIGGERS such that you are eligible for the first tier of LAND_HOLDER positions at embark. '''If you are eligible for the first tier of LAND_HOLDER positions at embark, then all first-tier positions will appear twice - once at embark, and again when the outpost liaison comes to appoint you to the first tier.'''

{{Category|Modding}}
{{Category|Tokens}}

v0.31 Talk:Ettin

2011-10-06T17:40:13Z

TerryDactyl:

"Can be easily stopped with weapon trap armed with large serrated discs."

Indeed, just now an ettin fell to my first line of stonefall traps, having suffered a broken rib which pierced the heart. I <s>laughed</s> truly wept, having carefully prepared a cage trap to <s>enslave</s> befriend the creature.

''Died of a broken heart''

[[User:TerryDactyl|TerryDactyl]] 07:05, 6 October 2011 (UTC)

v0.31 Talk:Ettin

2011-10-06T07:05:50Z

TerryDactyl:

"Can be easily stopped with weapon trap armed with large serrated discs."

Indeed, just now an ettin fell to my first line of stonefall traps, having suffered a broken rib which pierced the heart. I truly wept, having carefully prepared a cage trap to <s>enslave</s> befriend the creature.

''Died of a broken heart''

[[User:TerryDactyl|TerryDactyl]] 07:05, 6 October 2011 (UTC)

v0.31 Talk:Ettin

2011-10-06T07:03:18Z

TerryDactyl:

"Can be easily stopped with weapon trap armed with large serrated discs."

Indeed, just now an ettin fell to my first line of stonefall traps, having suffered a broken rib which pierced the heart. I truly wept, having carefully prepared a cage trap to <s>enslave</s> befriend the creature.

''Died of a broken heart''

--~

v0.31 Talk:Ettin

2011-10-06T07:03:10Z

TerryDactyl:

"Can be easily stopped with weapon trap armed with large serrated discs."

Indeed, just now an ettin fell to my first line of stonefall traps, having suffered a broken rib which pierced the heart. I truly wept, having carefully prepared a cage trap to <s>enslave</s> befriend the creature.

''Died of a broken heart''

~~-

v0.31 Talk:Ettin

2011-10-06T07:02:53Z

TerryDactyl: Created page with '"Can be easily stopped with weapon trap armed with large serrated discs." Indeed, just now an ettin fell to my first line of stonefall traps, having suffered a broken rib which …'

"Can be easily stopped with weapon trap armed with large serrated discs."

Indeed, just now an ettin fell to my first line of stonefall traps, having suffered a broken rib which pierced the heart. I truly wept, having carefully prepared a cage trap to <s>enslave</s> befriend the creature.

''Died of a broken heart''

v0.31 Talk:Bridge

2011-10-04T15:37:35Z

TerryDactyl: /* Foolproof defenses! */ new section

==Recent Proofing==
Hi! I proofed this for non-loltardedness, but I actually just started playing DF again, so I have no idea if the facts in this article are still true. Also, I'm too drunk to go test them. Someone more experienced/sober than me should probably give this a look-over to make sure that all is kosher!

==Raised bridges make walls==
Do raised bridges still make walls in this version? My bridge raises into place but there is no "wall" there and enemies can stand where the wall should be. --[[User:Bporgn|Bporgn]] 03:12, 18 January 2011 (UTC)
:Yes. Of course, that only applies to non-'''retracting''' drawbridges. Retracting drawbridges effectively vanish. --[[User:DeMatt|DeMatt]] 06:51, 18 January 2011 (UTC)
::Yeah you know, somehow it must have ended up as retracting, but I was pretty positive I had it set. I made a new fort and it works so must have been my mistake. All the mobs that were on it when it raised/retracted would fly up into the air and very far outward as opposed to straight down, however. --[[User:Bporgn|Bporgn]] 06:01, 20 January 2011 (UTC)

==Bridges and Titans==
I can verify that drawbridges still won't raise when a Titan is on them. {{version|31.01}} --[[User:Akhiros|Akhiros]] 07:47, 11 April 2010 (UTC)

==Working under bridges==
I just noticed the statement, "It is impossible to channel out stone that is directly under a raiseable bridge when its in the raised position." I don't think it is a bug, but an implementation choice. --[[User:PencilinHand|PencilinHand]] 13:05, 29 April 2010 (UTC)
:The same thing happens with any other building or workshop - it just won't let you place the designation. If you try to ramp from underneath, the floor won't be removed simply because the building was present, whether the "building" was a bridge (even if raised or retracted), a workshop, or even a stockpile. --[[User:Quietust|Quietust]] 14:57, 29 April 2010 (UTC)

==Bridges block liquids==
Does the "wall" created by raising a bridge block liquids? --[[User:Telarin|Telarin]] 19:00, 9 June 2010 (UTC)
:Yes. I've used them before to seal elves into my depot before flooding it. --[[User:Kyle Solo|Kyle Solo]] 15:48, 10 June 2010 (UTC)

==Designating bridges along the map edge==
What do you mean by "a wall along the edge selected with the wadx keys when placing the bridge"?
I don't see any shortcuts when placing the bridge... are they just hidden or what? DF 31.10 [[User:Manslay|Manslay]] 07:27, 31 August 2010 (UTC)
:Wait, nevermind, BEFORE placing the bridge :/ [[User:Manslay|Manslay]] 07:29, 31 August 2010 (UTC)

== Heat Sensitivity ==
I have reason to believe that only the '''center''' tile of a bridge is sensitive to heat (when dealing with exposure to magma) - this is mostly based on the fact that if you use d-b-[whatever] to mass forbid/melt/dump/hide the components of a bridge, it only responds to the center tile which affects every single component. --[[User:Quietust|Quietust]] 19:35, 28 September 2010 (UTC)
: What counts as the center tile if your bridge has an even number of tiles? (say, a 4x4 bridge)--[[User:Twilightdusk|Twilightdusk]] 04:06, 24 November 2010 (UTC)

== Bridge vs Building destroyer ==
I read that buildings cannot be destroyed from below. If this is still true, then a LOWERED bridge (or a locked hatch) is a destroyer immune barrier if you put it over a ramp entrance to your fort. Can anyone confirm? Also, it's still unclear to me from reading forums how building destroyers interact with raised bridges. From what I read they will path to it and get stuck, or (if the bridge was in the lowered position when the path was calculated (as in when you unlock the clowns)) then they will destroy the bridge. I've only started playing recently, and so I'm still working on testing this. Can anyone with a readily available fort test this? – [[template:unsigned|unsigned]] comment by [[User:Lightswitch|Lightswitch]]

Also, can the bridge be destroyed by a building destroyer when raised? --[[User:Telarin|Telarin]]
:I don't know, but if my current fort is any indication, building destroyers do not appear to destroy '''lowered''' drawbridges that block their path, such as one covering a set of ramps leading into one's fortress. I've got all 3 cavern levels sealed this way, and nothing has yet gotten inside, including several forgotten beasts. --[[User:Quietust|Quietust]] 20:03, 26 August 2010 (UTC)
::this is because nothing creature, not even building destroyers, can destroy a building 1 z level above them. – [[template:unsigned|unsigned]] comment by [[User:99.111.154.190|99.111.154.190]]

The wiki says <blockquote>the bridge becomes a wall along the edge selected with the wadx keys when placing the bridge</blockquote> by this and something I read in the forums I got the impression that the bridge when raised have two sides the outter side that acts as a wall and the inner side that acts as what??? a building?? can it be destroyed by building destroyers from one side and not from the other?? if so which side is which??--[[User:Kaos|Kaos]] 00:04, 20 April 2011 (UTC)
== Bridge displacing water ==

If a bridge is being raised, will it displace the water on the part that becomes a wall? -like it displaces items-, or does it destroy the water, like floodgates do when they are raised? [[User:Rogue ork|Rogue ork]]

:No, it will destroy the water, just like a raising drawbridge destroys everything short of a Titan in the tiles where the raised bridge will be. So to clarify items will NOT be displaced, they will be destroyed when the drawbridge opens.{{version|31.25}} I have seen this happen many times in my current fort. --[[User:Egodeus|Egodeus]] 10:11, 6 June 2011 (UTC)

== Foolproof defenses! ==

Are not quite so! I was surprised, recently, to discover in game of DFMP, that tantruming dwarfs will, occasionally, find their way to the front of the fort and dismantle the only bridge keeping a violent horde of angry siegers at bay. There should definitely be a note on this, somewhere.

v0.31 Talk:Trade depot

2011-05-06T15:06:16Z

TerryDactyl: /* How can I buy sth (in trade depot)? */

==Zero Trade Depot Access==

Recently started a new fort, and the entire map is red/inaccessible. What could cause that? [[User:Pathaugen|Pathaugen]] 19:32, 10 November 2010 (UTC)
:Have you actually built the trade depot yet? Depot accessibility is traced from the '''depot''' to the map edge, not vice-versa, so if there's no finished depot then nothing'll be accessible. --[[User:Quietust|Quietust]] 20:23, 10 November 2010 (UTC)

== No subsection for mugs? ==

When trading in my Trade Depot, I have to go to the "All" category to find the mugs that have been produced (0.31.18) - is this happening with everyone else, or is it just me? --[[User:Drake1500|Drake1500]] 05:44, 4 December 2010 (UTC)

== How can I buy sth (in trade depot)? <newbie question> ==

I see that by g menu I can sell sth. But how I can buy sth? [[Special:Contributions/213.134.175.225|213.134.175.225]] 15:25, 20 December 2010 (UTC)
:Read the article - the answers are all there. Also, is it that hard to spell out the word "something"? --[[User:Quietust|Quietust]] 16:44, 20 December 2010 (UTC)
::Thanks Q, I had no idea what this chap was talking about. --[[User:TerryDactyl|TerryDactyl]] 15:06, 6 May 2011 (UTC)
:Also, is it that hard to use dashes properly? No, but seriously, there's no need to act like a grammar nazi douche. The dude just wanted some help, and he did at least punctuate and use capital letters when proper. [[Special:Contributions/82.182.171.126|82.182.171.126]]
:There is more good info in the {{L|Trading}} page --[[User:MathFox|MathFox]] 20:04, 20 December 2010 (UTC)

v0.31:Decoration

2011-04-19T00:09:36Z

TerryDactyl: /* Types of decoration */

{{av}}{{Quality|Exceptional}}

A decorative image raises the {{L|value}} of an object by adding another material to the base item. Decorations have quality levels. The base value of a decoration is 10☼, multiplied by its {{L|Item_value#Material_Multipliers|material multiplier}} and {{L|Quality|quality multiplier}} that are separate from the item itself.

Adding decorations to an item does not increase its weight.

When an item is decorated, it is shown with double angle brackets - for example, a (no quality) decorated +steel battle axe+ becomes a «+steel battle axe+». Decorations are outside the double angle-brackets, the item quality remains within them with the item. So if you have *«+steel battle axe+»*, you have a +steel battle axe+ with *decorations* on it. When an item has more than one decoration the quality level of the best one is shown. Decorations do not affect combat multipliers.

You cannot stud a metal object with the type of metal it is made out of. For example, you could not stud a Rose Gold statue with Rose Gold.

You cannot specify a specific object for a dwarf to decorate. Dwarves will use the closest suitable object. The exception is when encrusting something with gems, where you are able to specify a category of goods to be decorated. Of course you can always seal in (forbidden doors) your artisan Rumpelstiltskin style, complete with workshop, the materials you want him to use and the objects you want decorated (dumping them inside the to-be-sealed-off area might work best) to ensure proper conduct.

For more information regarding the different types of decorations, see {{L|value}}.

== Types of decoration ==

;Bone, Hoof, Ivory or tooth, Pearl, Shell,
: At a {{L|craftsdwarf's workshop}}, objects can be decorated with {{L|bone}}, {{L|hoof}}, {{L|ivory}} or {{L|tooth}}, {{L|pearl}}, and {{L|shell}}. Requires {{L|bone carving}}.

;Gem
: At a {{L|jeweler's workshop}}, objects can be encrusted with {{L|Gem|cut gem}}s (including cut glass). You may specify whether to decorate furniture, finished goods or ammo. Requires {{L|gem setting}}.

;Metal studs
: At a {{L|metalsmith's forge}}, objects can be studded with various metals. Requires {{L|metalcrafting}}, but '''does not''' require {{L|fuel}}.

;Cloth
: At a {{L|clothier's shop}}, {{L|cloth}} images (plant fiber, silk and yarn) can be sewn onto clothing items (including leather armor) and bags. Requires {{L|clothier|clothesmaking}}.

;Leather
: At a {{L|leather works}}, leather images can be sewn onto clothing items in the same manner as cloth, with the same restrictions. Requires {{L|leatherworking}}.

== Tips and tricks ==

'''Makeshift tapestries''' 
If your fortress is above ground or you otherwise have inadequate natural rock walls to {{L|engraving|engrave}}, {{L|Restraint|rope}}s or {{L|bag}}s sewn with images can be a way of recording your fortress' history instead of {{L|stone detailing}}. When built as {{L|restraint}}s (for decorated ropes), or as {{L|container}}s (for decorated {{L|bag}}s), dwarves can gain happy {{L|thought}}s by admiring them, so they can function as makeshift tapestries.

[[Category:Items]]

v0.31 Talk:Floodgate

2011-04-05T14:54:03Z

TerryDactyl: /* Jamming Floodgates, Unjamming Them */

==Jamming Floodgates, Unjamming Them==

There is some question for verification of whether or not floodgates in 2010 re-shut themselves without needing an additional "close" input. If you see the version of the page that was there before my edits, someone has left info claiming that it is the case and that it indeed changed from 40d, but no citation. Someone please verify. [[User:Minus|Minus]] 06:33, 21 May 2010 (UTC)

It is useful to note that dwarves will not be crushed by jammed floodgates as they would with bridges thus enabling your miner to dig into fluids without spillage by ensuring the gate is triggered while Urist McMiner is in position on his dig square. I had engineered a set of levers and gate to breach a magma tube. It is a frustrating and difficult 2-dwarf job. I will try a pressure plate paired with a burrow order, next time.

==Building Floodgates on Floors==

Floors will count as an item blocking it, jamming any floodgate you build on top. Is this worth adding to the main article, or is it taken pretty much as read (as it does say 'all items')? I assumed that floors wouldn't block them after reading this, but it seems I was wrong.
:That seems counter-intuitive to me as well, and possibly a bug. --[[User:Jwest23|Jwest23]]
::You're doing something wrong - I just built a floodgate on a constructed floor and was able to open/close it just fine. --[[User:Quietust|Quietust]] 20:22, 25 October 2010 (UTC)
:::Yes, but have you tried constructing a floor on top of a floodgate? [[Special:Contributions/173.14.75.181|173.14.75.181]] 20:48, 25 October 2010 (UTC)

v0.31 Talk:Floodgate

2011-04-05T14:51:59Z

TerryDactyl: /* Jamming Floodgates, Unjamming Them */

==Jamming Floodgates, Unjamming Them==

There is some question for verification of whether or not floodgates in 2010 re-shut themselves without needing an additional "close" input. If you see the version of the page that was there before my edits, someone has left info claiming that it is the case and that it indeed changed from 40d, but no citation. Someone please verify. [[User:Minus|Minus]] 06:33, 21 May 2010 (UTC)

It is useful to note that dwarves will not be crushed by jammed floodgates as they would with bridges thus enabling your miner to dig into fluids without spillage by ensuring the gate is triggered while Urist McMiner is in position on his dig square.

==Building Floodgates on Floors==

Floors will count as an item blocking it, jamming any floodgate you build on top. Is this worth adding to the main article, or is it taken pretty much as read (as it does say 'all items')? I assumed that floors wouldn't block them after reading this, but it seems I was wrong.
:That seems counter-intuitive to me as well, and possibly a bug. --[[User:Jwest23|Jwest23]]
::You're doing something wrong - I just built a floodgate on a constructed floor and was able to open/close it just fine. --[[User:Quietust|Quietust]] 20:22, 25 October 2010 (UTC)
:::Yes, but have you tried constructing a floor on top of a floodgate? [[Special:Contributions/173.14.75.181|173.14.75.181]] 20:48, 25 October 2010 (UTC)

v0.31:Activity zone

2011-04-04T04:34:54Z

TerryDactyl: /* Garbage Dump */

{{quality|Fine|08:37, 14 September 2010 (UTC)}}{{av}}

'''Activity zones''' are areas in which {{l|dwarf|dwarves}} are instructed to perform specific tasks, such as {{l|fishing}}, dumping objects, or collecting {{l|water}}. While activity zones are optional for the performance of certain tasks (fishing, collecting water) and obligatory for certain others (dumping), they can also be used to help keep dwarves out of {{l|fun|danger}}.

Activity zones can be placed in any {{l|revealed tile}}, including in {{l|open space}} or over a {{l|river}} or on top of a {{l|building}} or {{l|stockpile}}. They are placed in one of three ways: rectangular, flow, or floor flow. From within the Zones {{l|menu}}, ({{K|i}})Pressing {{K|e}} in the Zones menu cycles through each method, and pressing {{K|Enter}} begins designation. Rectangular zones are placed in the same manner as stockpiles, specifying two corners of the rectangle. Flow and floor flow are placed similarly to designating rooms from pieces of furniture using {{K|+}}/{{K|-}} to adjust the size (floor flow excludes walls). After that the zone has to be assigned to one of the listed tasks to become functional, by pressing the proper key. In some cases ({{l|healthcare|hospital}}, pit/pond) additional orders can then be set from the same menu.

The location of a zone is only visible while in the Zones menu, and any object lying on the ground will hide the presence of a zone tile.

== Water Source ==
:Shortcut {{k|w}}
Dwarves will draw water from this zone to satisfy their thirst, to tend to another thirsty dwarf, or to fill a Pond zone.

Only tiles '''adjacent''' to water qualify as usable water sources - thus, if you want to place a single-tile zone, place the zone onto a ground tile next to the water, not over the water itself.

== Fishing ==
:Shortcut {{k|f}}
The same above advice for '''water source''' zones is applicable to fishing zones. You cannot fish through a {{L|grate}} or {{L|well}} {{verify}}, it must be an open source of water.

== Garbage Dump ==
:Shortcut {{k|g}}

Garbage dump zones are areas in which dwarves will throw items specifically designated by using {{k|k}} then {{k|d}} for single items at a time, or {{key|d}}, {{key|b}}, {{key|d}} to designate a larger area to be dumped (or use the mouse to point and click). Garbage dumps are not the same as {{l|Refuse#Refuse|refuse}} stockpiles, which can be designated to accept any specific type(s) of refuse-type item, such as animal {{l|corpse}}s or {{l|bones}}, and then are randomly filled by haulers as the items become available on the map.

Garbage dumps:
:* Only accept items that have been marked for dumping.
:* Require dwarfs to have {{L|refuse hauling}} {{L|labor}} enabled.
::* Are subject to refuse orders (''{{k|o}}: Set Orders and Options -> {{k|r}}: Refuse Orders''). Most notably, dwarves will not dump items that are outside unless you allow them to ({{k|o}}->{{k|r}}->{{k|o}}).

To place a garbage dump, trace a zone on either a relatively empty plot of land or adjacent to a cliff face or hole. If a garbage zone is designated beside a {{L|cliff}} or hole (both natural or dwarf made) garbage will be thrown off/in the z-space. Each ground tile within that zone is considered a garbage dump tile; thus, if you want to place a single-tile zone, place the zone onto a ground tile (optionally adjacent to a cliff or {{L|pit}}), not onto an {{L|open space}}.
Items dumped into {{L|magma}} (provided they are not {{L|magma safe}}) will disappear permanently. Otherwise a single tile (either a dump zone, or the ground below the open space) will hold any number of dumped objects.

Once items are dumped they are automatically marked as "{{l|forbid}}den" however they will not dump items that are also forbidden. If you wish to use dumped items, you need to reclaim them. Press {{k|k}} to view the item and {{k|f}} to toggle forbid status. You may also use the reclaim {{L|designation}} to reclaim simultaneously all of the items dumped by using {{key|d}}, {{key|b}}, {{key|c}} and tracing the designation over top of the objects.

If a garbage dump is located next to open space, dwarves will always stand on a garbage dump square when throwing ''into that open space'', even if it could potentially be done more efficiently. If a garbage dump is located next to multiple tiles of open space, they seem to prefer the one farthest to the northwest. If a tile to the north and a tile to the west are the only tiles available, they will throw to the west. Since falling objects do not hurt dwarves, such garbage dumps can be a very efficient method of moving materials to the lower levels of your fortress.

Dwarves seem to throw dumped items in the nearest available garbage dump, although this is probably not reliable given that they don't always use the nearest available item to make things at workshops. If a nearer zone becomes available as they are traveling to a zone they will ignore it. Also, they seem to prefer dumps that allow them to throw things in to open space regardless of how far away they are.

Probably due to a bug, dwarves periodically ignore items that are meant to be dumped. Viewing the item by pressing {{k|k}} then toggling forbid and dump status on, then off again {{k|f}}->{{k|f}}->{{k|d}}->{{k|d}} seems to correct this problem.

Previously dumped items are regarded as 'refuse' and will not be recognized (or re-dumped) unless 'gather refuse from outside' is enabled in your orders.

== Pen/{{L|Pasture}} ==
:shortcut {{k|n}}

A pen or a pasture is used to contain tame animals. Once one is created, animals must be assigned to it individually by pressing {{k|N}} from the zone information screen. Dwarves will drag the assigned animals to the pen or pasture automatically. As of version .31.19, many domestic animals will become hungry and starve if not assigned to a pasture with [[grass]] or fungus. Any tame creature with the "grazer" token in the raws should be assigned to a pasture. This includes pigs, mules, cows, goats, horses, yaks, unicorns etc. Animals will not typically wander out of their assigned pasture even if it is not walled in, however an exposed pasture may lead to premature slaughter at the hands of invaders.

== Pit/Pond ==
:Shortcut {{k|p}}

A Pit/Pond requires a {{L|ramp}} or hole with adjacent flooring on which a dwarf can stand. Designate the zone from the top of the ramp or hole. By default, the zone will be a pit. To change it to a pond, press {{k|P}} then {{k|f}}. It can be changed back to a pit the same way.

Animals can be assigned to a pit through the {{k|P}} menu. A dwarf will lead the beast to the pit and leave it there. (If the pit is a ramp rather than a hole, the animal will then wander off.)

Dwarves will attempt to fill a pond with {{L|water}}, carried by {{L|bucket}} from a water-gathering zone. They will stand on the floor adjacent to the top of the ramp or hole, and toss the water onto the ramp or into the hole. Each bucketful increases the depth of the water in the tile below by 1/7. Once the water is dumped from the bucket, the dwarf will either drop the bucket and perform a different task, or choose to fill a pond zone tile again using the bucket (s)he currently holds.

Dwarves will stop scheduling the Fill Pond job when the water depth reaches 6/7.

This is one technique used for {{L|farming}}, in order to make {{L|mud}}.

Currently, no matter how large the designated pond area,{{verify}} only one dwarf at a time will try to fill the pond. In order to fill a large area quickly, it is necessary to designate multiple smaller pond zones (or several zones overlapping the same area).

If you have more than one pond designated as a water source, your dwarves may endlessly try to fill each pond with the other pond's water, making a loop of useless duty.

== Sand Collection ==
:Shortcut {{k|s}}

Sand collection zones are important in the {{L|glass industry}}. They may be placed anywhere, but are only useful when actually placed on {{L|sand}}.

== Clay Collection ==
:shortcut {{k|c}}

Clay collection zones are important in the [[ceramic industry|ceramics industry]].

== Meeting Area ==
:Shortcut {{k|m}}

Meeting area zones are zones in which idle dwarves and animals will congregate, similar to meeting halls. Additionally, immigrants will collect at a meeting area until their "migrant" status wears off.

Note that the {{l|wagon (embark)|wagon}} you {{l|embark|arrive with}} constitutes a meeting area until you designate the first meeting area of your own. If you start in hostile surroundings it is important to get your dwarves and animals out of danger quickly.

It is a good idea to have at least one meeting area, of one form or another: it allows you to make off-duty dwarves and animals gather in an area where they are not vulnerable, such as within the fortress.

There are several ways to designate a meeting hall. The preferred method is to use an Activity zone; type {{k|i}}, set up a zone, and mark it both "active" and "meeting". {{L|Sculpture garden|Statue gardens}} and {{L|zoo}}s are intrinsically meeting halls, as are {{L|room}}s defined from a {{L|well}}. However, you can also create a Meeting Hall.

A meeting area filled with dwarves increases the social skills of idlers. It makes idle dwarves a little less idle, and makes selecting a replacement broker easier. Because almost every dwarf visits a meeting hall at least occasionally, it's an ideal place to site valuable objects and buildings. A meeting hall exposed to sunlight will prevent dwarves from becoming {{L|cave adaptation|cave-adapted}}.

Be warned that having dwarves socialize will often result in them becoming {{L|friend}}s (or forming a {{L|grudge}}).

== Hospital ==
:Shortcut {{k|h}}

A Hospital zone is an area designated for the {{L|Healthcare|care and treatment}} of sick and {{L|Wound|wounded}} dwarves.

===Setting up a Hospital===

While there are no particular restrictions on the areas that can be set as hospital zones, a hospital requires certain {{l|furniture}} and supplies to function properly:

{| class="wikitable" cellspacing="0" border="1" cellpadding="5"
|-
! Furniture
! Function
|-
| {{L|Bed|Beds}}
| Allow sick dwarves to {{L|Rest|rest}}
|-
| {{L|Table|Tables}}
| Used in surgery{{Verify}}
|-
| {{L|Traction bench|Traction benches}}
| Immobilize dwarves who need to stay still to heal
|-
| {{L|Container|Boxes/Bags}}
| Storage for medical supplies
|}

{| class="wikitable" cellspacing="0" border="1" cellpadding="5"
|-
! Medical equipment
! Function
! Unit quantity*
|-
| {{L|Thread}}
| Required for suturing wounds
| 15000
|-
| {{L|Cloth}}
| Required for bandages
| 10000
|-
| {{L|Splint|Splints}}
| Used to bind broken bones{{verify}}
| 1
|-
| {{L|Crutch|Crutches}}
| Walking aid for dwarves with leg injuries
| 1
|-
| {{L|Gypsum plaster|Powder for casts}}
| Used to make plaster casts for setting bones{{Verify}}
| 150{{Verify}}
|-
| {{L|Bucket|Buckets }}
|
*Used by doctors to carry water for cleaning patients
*Used by dwarves with the Feed Patients/Prisoners labor to water patients
| 1
|-
| {{L|Soap }}
| Used to reduce infections when washing patients
| 150{{verify}}
|}

''*The unit quantity is the quantity of each item that appears in the Hospital Information screen when one object of that type is stored. For example, if one bolt of cloth is stored in the hospital zone, the hospital will report that it contains 10000 cloth.''

In addition to furniture and medical supplies, a {{L|Water|source of water}} is more or less mandatory, as sick dwarves need it for drinking as well as cleaning. The water source need not be in the hospital zone, although the shorter the distance between the two the better.

When the Zones menu ({{k|i}}) is open and the cursor is in a hospital zone, {{k|H}} will bring up the Hospital Information screen. This screen shows the quantity of each type of furniture piece and medical equipment present in the Hospital, and allows you to set the desired quantity of each type of equipment. Note that you must have boxes or bags constructed in the hospital zone for supplies to be stored for medical use; items in a stockpile do not count for the hospital, even if the stockpile is in the hospital zone.

===Hospital Beds===

When a dwarf becomes sick or {{l|wound}}ed, he will be carried to a {{l|bed}} in a hospital zone by a dwarf with the Recovering Wounded labor set, assuming such a bed is available; otherwise, he may be carried to a bed in a {{L|barracks}} or {{L|dormitory}}, or to an unassigned bed. If an injured dwarf is resting in a bed outside a hospital zone, he will remain there even if hospital beds become available. Deconstructing the sick dwarf's bed may cause him to be move to a hospital bed, however, and it may be possible for doctors to treat patients who are resting outside of a hospital zone, so long as adequate supplies are available.{{verify}}

v0.31:Advanced world generation

2011-04-03T02:16:07Z

TerryDactyl: /* Temperature */

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:''This article contains information on advanced world generation. For information on basic world generation, see {{L|World generation}}.''
:''See {{L|World token}} to more easily find information by the names used in the world_gen.txt file.''
:''See {{L|World rejection}} for information on solving problems related to worlds always being rejected.''

When you want more control of what your world looks like, it's time for '''advanced world generation'''. Help with this is provided below. This article assumes that you are already familiar with {{L|World generation|'''basic''' world generation}}. If you are not then please read about that first.

= Advanced World Generation Screen =

Once you select {{DFtext|Design New World With Advanced Parameters}} from the main menu, a screen that looks something like this will appear:

[[File:AdvancedWorldGen.png‎]]

This screen is relatively intuitive but some parts could use some explanation.

== Parameter Sets ==

The list of already defined parameter sets is in the upper right corner. You can select the current set that you want to work with using the up and down directional keys.

Hitting {{K|a}} will add a new set to the end of the list. You can also {{K|c}}opy an existing set to a new one allowing you to base a new set on an existing one. Using {{K|t}} you can change the name of the parameter set but note that this will not effect the name of the world that is generated.

Parameter sets are stored in the <tt>data/init/world_gen.txt</tt> file in the main DF directory. The {{K|F1}} and {{K|F6}} keys will load and save '''all''' of the parameter sets to this file. You will need to save the world gen parameters to this file before you hit {{K|Enter}} to generate the world.

The <tt>world_gen.txt</tt> file can also be edited with a text editor. This is particularly useful because people will often post their parameter sets on the forum or wiki in text form. (See below for more info.) The {{K|F1}} key comes in handy when editing this file while the game is still running.

The tokens used in <tt>world_gen.txt</tt> are at the bottom of each parameter description. Here's the one for title.

{| {{prettytable}}
|- bgcolor="#ddd"
! Token
! Example
! Notes
|-
| <tt><nowiki>[TITLE: <name>]</nowiki></tt>
| <tt><nowiki>[TITLE:MEDIUM ISLAND]</nowiki></tt>
| Required
|}

== World Name ==

As previously mentioned, the title of the parameter set doesn't affect the name of the world. You can force a particular name for your world using {{K|n}} or set it back to the default random setting using {{K|N}}.

{| {{prettytable}}
|- bgcolor="#ddd"
! Token
! Example
! Notes
|-
| <tt><nowiki>[CUSTOM_NAME: <name>]</nowiki></tt>
| <tt><nowiki>[CUSTOM_NAME:Realm of Cheese Engravings]</nowiki></tt>
| For a random name, simply don't use this token.
|}

== World Dimensions ==

The size of the map to be generated can be selected with {{K|u}} {{K|i}} {{K|o}} {{K|p}}. Larger maps take longer to generate and may limit {{L|Frames per second|FPS}} in game.

Changing the dimensions of the world will reset the parameters because many of them have different defaults depending on the surface area available.

{| {{prettytable}}
|- bgcolor="#ddd"
! Token
! Example
! Notes
|-
| <tt><nowiki>[DIM:<width>:<height>]</nowiki></tt>
| <tt><nowiki>[DIM:129:129]</nowiki></tt>
| Valid values are 17,33,65,129, and 257. Others may not work.
|}

== Seed Values ==

The world generation process uses a PRNG (Pseudo Random Number Generator) algorithm. A PRNG will produce a sequence of numbers that "looks" random even though the actual sequence of numbers will always be the same if the PRNG is started with the same seed value. Basically this means that if you run word generation with a certain seed value on your computer, and someone else runs world generation with the same seed value on their computer, the same sequence of random numbers will be generated on both computers. The practical impact of this is that someone else can generate exactly the same world that you generated by entering the same seed value that you used.

A specific seed value can be entered with {{K|s}}. This will change '''all''' of the seed values to the value you enter. If you need to enter different seed values for each type of see, use {{K|e}}.

In order to find out what seed values were used for the last world you generated you can look at this screen. If you want to be able to tell someone else how to generate exactly the same world that you just generated, they will need all of the seed value listed under Last Param Set.

Normally you don't enter these seed values and the world generation process comes up with seed values based on some sort of "true" random information from things like random values in uninitialized memory, the current date/time, etc. If you have entered a seed value you can revert back to all seeds being random using {{K|S}}.

== Entering Advanced Parameters and Generating a World ==

Unless you're using an already defined parameter set you will probably want to {{K|e}}dit the parameters. Select the set you want to edit using the up/down directional keys and press {{K|e}}. Information about each parameter is documented below.

Once you are happy with the parameters you have set, hit {{K|Esc}} to get back to this screen, hit {{K|F6}} to save the values you just edited, and hit {{K|Enter}} to start. The rest of the process is the same as basic {{L|World generation}}.

The phases of the world generation process are (this order is not completely correct):
* Preparing elevation...
* Setting temperature...
* Running rivers...
* Forming lakes and minerals...
* Growing vegetation...
* Verifying terrain...
* Importing wildlife...
* Recounting legends...
* Placing civilizations...
* Making cave civilizations...
* Making cave pops...
* Placing other beasts...
* Placing megabeasts...
* Placing good/evil...
* Placing caves...
* Prehistory generation
* Finalizing civ mats...
* Finalizing art...
* Finalizing uniforms...
* Finalizing sites...

== World Painter ==
:''Main article {{L|World painter}}
The '''world painter''' tool allows you to paint features onto a map that is then used when generating a world. It is very difficult to use properly, and tends to result in endless rejected worlds, unless you loosen or remove the restrictions placed on biomes and civilizations in the advanced settings. That being said it is also a very powerful tool, and allows you to generate worlds more to your liking.

To access the world painter, hit {{k|e}} to start editing the advanced parameters and finally hit {{k|p}} to open world painter. How to use the world painter is not entirely obvious so please check out the {{L|World painter}} documentation to avoid frustration. (Losing may be fun, but frustration is not.)

== Editing the Parameters Init File Directly ==

Parameter sets are stored in ''world_gen.txt'' in the ''\data\init'' folder, using {{L|world token}}. You can copy and paste other player's sets of parameters into your ''world_gen.txt'' to use their parameter sets, and some are provided at [[Pregenerated worlds]]. Another place to find parameter sets is the [http://www.bay12games.com/forum/index.php?topic=20638.0 Worldgen cookbook] thread on the official forums.

= Advanced Parameters =

To access advanced parameters, press {{key|e}} when at the screen for creating new worlds with parameters screen. This will bring you to an editable list of various guidelines the world-gen process will use when creating your new world.

The parameters are described below in the order that they appear in the list in the UI, not necessarily the other they appear in the configuration file. See {{L|world token}} for an index that will help you look things up by token name.

== Seed Values ==

Here you can enter specific seed values for different parts of the world generation process. Different sequences of pseudorandom numbers are used for different parts, so you can use this to reproduce only the particular part of world generation from some previously generated world if you want.

Normally you will want to leave all of these set to Random unless you're specifically trying to reproduce the results of another world generation run.

{| {{prettytable}}
|- bgcolor="#ddd"
! Token
! Example
! Notes
|-
| <tt><nowiki>[SEED:<number>]</nowiki></tt>
| <tt><nowiki>[SEED:31337]</nowiki></tt>
| rowspan="4" |
For each of these not in the config file, a random seed will be used.
|-
| <tt><nowiki>[HISTORY_SEED:<number>]</nowiki></tt>
| <tt><nowiki>[HISTORY_SEED:31337]</nowiki></tt>
|-
| <tt><nowiki>[NAME_SEED:<number>]</nowiki></tt>
| <tt><nowiki>[NAME_SEED:31337]</nowiki></tt>
|-
| <tt><nowiki>[CREATURE_SEED:<number>]</nowiki></tt>
| <tt><nowiki>[CREATURE_SEED:31337]</nowiki></tt>
|}

== Embark Points ==

This controls the number of points that you have for skills and equipment when you embark in fortress mode. Turning this value up will allow games started in this world to start with more skilled dwarves with better equipment. Normally you can do just fine by leaving this value set to default, but you might want to up it for experimental/testing purposes or to help dwarves survive in a particularly evil world.

{| {{prettytable}}
|- bgcolor="#ddd"
! Token
! Example
! Notes
|-
| <tt><nowiki>[EMBARK_POINTS:<number>]</nowiki></tt>
| <tt><nowiki>[EMBARK_POINTS:1274]</nowiki></tt>
| Required
|}

== End Year ==

This is how many years of history are generated for the world. This is basically the same as the History parameter in basic world gen, except that you can enter an exact value for number of years. See {{L|World_generation#History|History}} for more info.

{| {{prettytable}}
|- bgcolor="#ddd"
! Token
! Example
! Notes
|-
| <tt><nowiki>[END_YEAR:<number>]</nowiki></tt>
| <tt><nowiki>[END_YEAR:1050]</nowiki></tt>
| Required
|}

== Population Cap After Civ Creation ==

This determines the population cap of a civilization after it's been created. It should usually be kept the same value as the appropriate sized standard map. Turning the value up will result in larger civilizations. You can enter -1 to make population unlimited {{Verify}} in which case populations will only be limited by factors like biome and available space.{{Verify}}

{| {{prettytable}}
|- bgcolor="#ddd"
! Token
! Example
! Notes
|-
| <tt><nowiki>[TOTAL_CIV_POPULATION:<number>]</nowiki></tt>
| <tt><nowiki>[TOTAL_CIV_POPULATION:15000]</nowiki></tt>
| Required
|}

== Site Cap After Civ Creation ==

This controls the maximum number of towns and similar sites for all civilizations. {{Verify}} Raising the number will allow for more towns, etc though the number of sites will still be limited by space and terrain.{{Verify}}

{| {{prettytable}}
|- bgcolor="#ddd"
! Token
! Example
! Notes
|-
| <tt><nowiki>[SITE_CAP:<number>]</nowiki></tt>
| <tt><nowiki>[SITE_CAP:1040]</nowiki></tt>
| Required
|}

== Beast Control ==

These parameters don't usually matter too much, but may matter for small numbers of beasts.

=== Percentage of Beasts Dead for Stoppage ===

The world starts out with a certain number of megabeasts in existence. If this percentage of megabeasts dies during history generation, then history generation will stop early. For example if the value is 80, if history starts with 200 megabeasts and 160 of them are killed by historical events or otherwise die before End Year is reached, history generation will stop early.

=== Year to Begin Checking Megabeast Percentage ===

The percentage of dead megabeasts for stoppage will not be checked until this year is reached in history generation. The usefulness of this parameter is unknown.{{Verify}}

{| {{prettytable}}
|- bgcolor="#ddd"
! Token
! Example
! Notes
|-
| <tt><nowiki>[BEAST_END_YEAR:<year>:<percentage or -1>]</nowiki></tt>
| <tt><nowiki>[BEAST_END_YEAR:200:80]</nowiki></tt>
| Use -1 as percentage to disable. Year must still be at least 2.
|}

== Cull Unimportant Historical Figures ==

Whether or not the game ignores unimportant figures in history generation. The culling is many CPU-intensive steps in history generation but it saves memory and will speed up loading/saving games a bit. This does mean that the "unimportant" figures will not appear in Legends mode or in things like dwarf engravings, but they might not appear in engravings anyway.

Unimportant figures are people or creatures who suffer early deaths, never having offspring or killing anything named during history generation. For example, residents of goblin towers may get murdered by demons at a young age. After culling unimportant figures, Legends mode would say something like the demon has killed "a creature at Eviltower in the year 102."

{| {{prettytable}}
|- bgcolor="#ddd"
! Token
! Example
! Notes
|-
| <tt><nowiki>[CULL_HISTORICAL_FIGURES:<0 or 1>]</nowiki></tt>
| <tt><nowiki>[CULL_HISTORICAL_FIGURES:0]</nowiki></tt>
| 0 = No, 1 = Yes
|}

== Reveal All Historical Events ==

Setting this to Yes will allow access to all information about the history of the world in Legends mode. If set to No, then you will have to discover historical information in adventure mode or by instructing dwarves to make engravings.{{Verify}}

{| {{prettytable}}
|- bgcolor="#ddd"
! Token
! Example
! Notes
|-
| <tt><nowiki>[REVEAL_ALL_HISTORY:<0 or 1>]</nowiki></tt>
| <tt><nowiki>[REVEAL_ALL_HISTORY::1]</nowiki></tt>
| 0 = No, 1 = Yes
|}

== Terrain Parameters ==

These determine how random values for terrain elevation, rainfall, temperature, drainage, volcanism, and savagery are generated. What biomes exist are then determined by how these factors overlap with each other.

=== Minimum and Maximums ===

These are the absolute minimum and maximum values that can ever be generated for a particular map square characteristic. Changing these can cause the occurrence of certain {{L|Biome|biomes}} to become impossible, so modify these with care. Because of this problem, you may want to use [[#Weighted Ranges|Weighted Ranges]] instead.

By ''subtly'' tweaking the min and max values, vastly different maps can be made.

=== X and Y Variance ===

These control how wildly things like elevation and rainfall can vary between adjacent map squares. For example, if these values are set to the maximum of 3,200 for elevation then you will end up with more very low areas right next to very high areas. The number for X determines the east-west variance and the number for Y determines the north-south variance. By setting only one of these to a high value you can, for example, create horizontal or vertical bands of areas which are more similar to each other.

Generally speaking, raising both of these values will create a more random "patchwork" of many small biomes while setting both x and y values to 0 will cause every square on the map to use a single random value for the given characteristic.

For "patchwork" worlds to avoid being rejected, [[#Maximum_Number_of_Subregions|Maximum Number of Subregions]] will probably need to be increased from the default.

=== Elevation ===

This controls the range of terrain elevations that can occur in the world.

Usually you just want to leave the min/max values alone. Raising the minimum elevation can, for example, make it impossible for oceans to exist. This does '''not''' directly control the number of available Z-levels at a particular site, though high maximum values may contribute to peaks which can raise the number of above ground Z-levels. In other words, a maximum elevation of 400 and minimum of 1 does not mean you get 400 Z-levels but it might increase the number of Z-levels somewhat in some regions compared to others.

Raising the variance will result in a more bumpy uneven landscape.

Some biomes/features that are impacted by elevation:
* A high minimum (above 99) means no oceans as they need elevations below 100.
* A low maximum (below 300) means no mountains as mountains need elevations above 300.
* River start locations need a minimum elevation of 300. Therefore, a world with a maximum elevation of 299 everywhere prevents river generation, but rivers can still occur if maximum elevation is set to 300.
*Mountain peaks can only form in squares with an elevation of 400.

=== Rainfall ===

Controls the amount of rainfall in each map square (Region?){{Verify}} Setting the minimum too high or the maximum too low can make the formation of certain biomes impossible. Rainfall causes it to {{L|Rain}} more in a given area, which can have effects on dwarves.

=== Temperature ===

These parameters control how hot or cold various areas will be. If you lower the minimum and maximum values, the world will be colder overall, for example. As with the others, changing these values too much could make it impossible for certain biomes to exist. See {{L|Climate}} for more info.

Temperature appears to always be a vertical gradient of some sort no matter how these parameters are set, but if the values are lower then the gradient could be from "cold" to "colder" rather than "cold" to "warm" for example.

So, the value from the temperature rolling process is ''not the absolute temperature value the region will get, but rather local variation.'' The "base" temperature for an area is derived from its latitude (and maybe elevation{{Verify}}), and then the random value determined by these parameters are applied to it to make it vary a bit. The local variation is fairly small compared to the base temperature, which appears to be hard coded.

=== Drainage ===

Changing drainage parameters will change the way water-affected biomes are formed. Low drainage will contribute to the formation of {{L|Lake|lakes}}, {{L|River|rivers}}, and {{L|Swamp|swamps}}. High drainage will cause water to sink into the ground rather than sit on the surface, which is important for forming hills.

Lower drainage values have been reported to contribute to the formation of thicker soil layers though it is currently unknown exactly how other factors (such as elevation or perhaps rain) impact soil formation.

=== Volcanism ===

Volcanism controls the occurrence of Igneous {{L|Layer|Layers}}, and the formation of volcanoes. For a volcano to form, a square must have a volcanism value of 100 so reducing the maximum from 100 will make volcanoes impossible. Rising the minimum will increase the rarity of non-igneous layers.

Setting minimum to high value is not a good way to produce multiple volcanoes as you are likely to get a "Volcanism not evenly distributed" rejection. Instead use the Minimum Number of Volcanoes parameter and possibly adjust the weighted ranges for volcanism as described below.

=== Savagery ===

These parameters control the level of {{L|Surroundings#Savage|savagery}} on the map. Raising the minimum savagery too high may make it impossible for certain races to exist, and similarly lowering the maximum too far can make it impossible for certain creatures to exist. The largest chance of having unusable maps comes from too high of a savagery value.

=== Configuration Tokens ===

{| {{prettytable}}
|- bgcolor="#ddd"
! Token
! Example
! Notes
|-
| <tt><nowiki>[ELEVATION:<min>:<max>:<x variance>:<y variance>]</nowiki></tt>
| <tt><nowiki>[ELEVATION:1:400:401:401]</nowiki></tt>
| Range: 0 to 400 Maximum of 400 required for mountain peaks.
|-
| <tt><nowiki>[RAINFALL:<min>:<max>:<x variance>:<y variance>]</nowiki></tt>
| <tt><nowiki>[RAINFALL:0:100:200:200]</nowiki></tt>
| Range: 0 to 100
|-
| <tt><nowiki>[TEMPERATURE:<min>:<max>:<x variance>:<y variance>]</nowiki></tt>
| <tt><nowiki>[TEMPERATURE:25:75:200:200]</nowiki></tt>
| Range: -1000 to 1000
|-
| <tt><nowiki>[DRAINAGE:<min>:<max>:<x variance>:<y variance>]</nowiki></tt>
| <tt><nowiki>[DRAINAGE:0:100:200:200]</nowiki></tt>
| Range: 0 to 100
|-
| <tt><nowiki>[VOLCANISM:<min>:<max>:<x variance>:<y variance>]</nowiki></tt>
| <tt><nowiki>[VOLCANISM:1:100:200:200]</nowiki></tt>
| Range: 0 to 100 Maximum of 100 required for volcanoes.
|-
| <tt><nowiki>[SAVAGERY:<min>:<max>:<x variance>:<y variance>]</nowiki></tt>
| <tt><nowiki>[SAVAGERY:1:100:200:200]</nowiki></tt>
| Range: 0 to 100
|}

== Terrain Mesh Sizes and Weights ==

These parameters make it possible to influence the number of squares in a particular range without making conditions outside of that range impossible. For example, you can make it possible for more many more low elevation squares to exist without making it impossible for high elevations to form. Changing these parameters is often preferable to simply changing the min/max values.

[[File:World_map-large-32x32-elevation-mesh.png|thumb|300px|A large world generated with an Elevation Mesh Size of 32x32 and range weights set to 1:0:0:0:1 (i.e., only extreme high and low elevations). Notice that with this coarse mesh, the terrain seems to appear almost like a grid of "pyramids" that are smoothed together. With a finer mesh size, these pyramids will be smaller, more numerous, smoother, and less apparent.]]
=== Mesh Size ===

Mesh size determines how "finely grained" weighted ranges will be applied. Setting this to Ignore will cause the weighted range settings to be ignored for that terrain characteristic.

Mesh Size affects the smoothing brush in the world painter.

=== Weighted Ranges ===

If mesh size is set to something other than Ignore, these weights will be applied at the granularity of the selected mesh size for purposes of generating random values in each range. This allows random number generation to be non-linear for the given terrain characteristic.

For example, if the Elevation Weighted Range parameters were set to (starting with the 0-20 range) 60:10:10:10:10 (these values do not have to add up to any particular number) then about 60% of the map squares (on average) will have an elevation in the range of 0-20, and the other ranges will be represented by around 10% of the map squares each. The exact distribution is still left up to chance though ''on average'' it will be close to this specification.

The way the process appears to work is that the map is divided into a "wireframe mesh" where the lines are Mesh Size number of tiles apart. Each intersection of the "wires" is randomly assigned an elevation (or whatever) and then the tiles between these points are smoothed out. See the image on the right for an example.

Weighted ranges do not make rejection checks, although they can be responsible for many rejections if you neglect to adjust or disable some of the [[#Minimum Number of Mid/Low/High Characteristic Squares|Minimum Number of Mid/Low/High Characteristic Squares]] for example.

=== Configuration Tokens ===

{| {{prettytable}}
|- bgcolor="#ddd"
! Token
! Example
! Notes
|-
| <tt><nowiki>[ELEVATION_FREQUENCY:<mesh>:<0-20 weight>:<20-40 weight>:<40-60 weight>:<60-80 weight>:<80-100 weight>]</nowiki></tt>
| <tt><nowiki>[ELEVATION_FREQUENCY:2:1:2:3:4:5]</nowiki></tt>
| rowspan="6" | Valid mesh values:

1 = Ignore

2 = 2x2

3 = 4x4

4 = 8x8

5 = 16x16

6 = 32x32

(limited by world size)
|-
| <tt><nowiki>[RAIN_FREQUENCY:<mesh>:<0-20 weight>:<20-40 weight>:<40-60 weight>:<60-80 weight>:<80-100 weight>]</nowiki></tt>
| <tt><nowiki>[RAIN_FREQUENCY:3:1:2:3:4:5]</nowiki></tt>
|-
| <tt><nowiki>[DRAINAGE_FREQUENCY:<mesh>:<0-20 weight>:<20-40 weight>:<40-60 weight>:<60-80 weight>:<80-100 weight>]</nowiki></tt>
| <tt><nowiki>[DRAINAGE_FREQUENCY:4:1:2:3:4:5]</nowiki></tt>
|-
| <tt><nowiki>[TEMPERATURE_FREQUENCY:<mesh>:<0-20 weight>:<20-40 weight>:<40-60 weight>:<60-80 weight>:<80-100 weight>]</nowiki></tt>
| <tt><nowiki>[TEMPERATURE_FREQUENCY:1:1:1:1:1:1]</nowiki></tt>
|-
| <tt><nowiki>[SAVAGERY_FREQUENCY:<mesh>:<0-20 weight>:<20-40 weight>:<40-60 weight>:<60-80 weight>:<80-100 weight>]</nowiki></tt>
| <tt><nowiki>[SAVAGERY_FREQUENCY:5:1:2:3:4:5]</nowiki></tt>
|-
| <tt><nowiki>[VOLCANISM_FREQUENCY:<mesh>:<0-20 weight>:<20-40 weight>:<40-60 weight>:<60-80 weight>:<80-100 weight>]</nowiki></tt>
| <tt><nowiki>[VOLCANISM_FREQUENCY:1:1:1:1:1:1]</nowiki></tt>
|}

== Minimum Mountain Peak Number ==

This will cause the world to be rejected if fewer than this many peaks (based on elevation) are present on the map. Elevations of 400 must be possible for mountain peaks to occur. If set to zero then worlds will not be rejected based on number of peaks.

You may need to adjust elevation parameters, such as the highest weighted range, in order to get the desired number of elevation 400 squares needed for larger numbers of peaks. Like volcanoes, mountain peaks can make embark zones more interesting but other than that they don't appear to "do" anything special. Reportedly they do increase the highest Z-level above ground in all embark zones in the same region even if the selected embark zone does not include the peak.

{| {{prettytable}}
|- bgcolor="#ddd"
! Token
! Example
! Notes
|-
| <tt><nowiki>[PEAK_NUMBER_MIN:<number>]</nowiki></tt>
| <tt><nowiki>[PEAK_NUMBER_MIN:20]</nowiki></tt>
| Elevations of 400 must occur for peaks to form.
|}

== Minimum Partial Edge Oceans ==

This will cause a world to be rejected unless there are at least this many oceans touching an edge of the map. If set to zero then worlds will not be rejected based on this criterion. Setting both this parameter and Minimum Complete Edge Oceans to values that total more than 4 when added together may cause all worlds to be rejected as you can't have both a partial and complete edge ocean on a given edge.{{Verify}}

{| {{prettytable}}
|- bgcolor="#ddd"
! Token
! Example
! Notes
|-
| <tt><nowiki>[PARTIAL_OCEAN_EDGE_MIN:<number>]</nowiki></tt>
| <tt><nowiki>[PARTIAL_OCEAN_EDGE_MIN:2]</nowiki></tt>
| Maximum of 4
|}

== Minimum Complete Edge Oceans ==

This will cause a world to be rejected unless there are at least this many oceans which completely cover an edge of the map. Since a square map only has 4 edges, the maximum value possible is 4. If set to zero then worlds will not be rejected based on this criterion but still might end up with complete edge oceans by chance.

Note that the ability for this many edge oceans to exist will be limited by elevation. Therefore to actually create large oceans you will probably need to change things like the Elevation Mesh Size and Weighted Ranges to increase the number and distribution of very low elevation squares on the map.

Given appropriate weight, range, and variance values for things like elevation, a setting of:
*1 results in a world that seems like a chunk of coastline. One edge of the map will be completely underwater and there will be ocean taking up much of the map on that side. Think the east or west coast of the United States, the north coast of Canada, or southern Europe. If your edge ocean happens to pick your world's frozen side most of it will be glacier.
*2 results in another coastline along with the first one. The map could end up looking something like Panama if the oceans pick opposite sides of the map.
*3 results in a peninsula, like Florida in the US. There will be oceans surrounding 3 sides of the map, and land touching only one side of the map.
*4 results in one or more island(s) depending on things like elevation variance and weights. Regardless of whether you get one island or multiple islands, the entire map will be surrounded by water.
Unfortunately there's no easy way to control which oceans end up on which edges, except perhaps setting X and Y variance to different values.

Edge oceans will take up part of the other edges too. For example a full edge ocean on the east side will have part of the north and south sides underwater, but that does ''not'' add to the ''partial'' edge oceans count.

{| {{prettytable}}
|- bgcolor="#ddd"
! Token
! Example
! Notes
|-
| <tt><nowiki>[COMPLETE_OCEAN_EDGE_MIN:<number>]</nowiki></tt>
| <tt><nowiki>[COMPLETE_OCEAN_EDGE_MIN:0]</nowiki></tt>
| Maximum of 4
|}

== Minimum Volcano Number ==

Worlds with less than this number of volcanoes will be rejected. Note that this will not just create this many volcanoes at random; there must be at least this many squares with a Volcanism of 100. Therefore adjusting Weighted Range for 80-100 to some higher value is recommended if you want to facilitate a large number of volcanoes. In addition, Maximum Volcanism must be set to 100 or squares with volcanism of 100 will be impossible making volcanoes impossible.

{| {{prettytable}}
|- bgcolor="#ddd"
! Token
! Example
! Notes
|-
| <tt><nowiki>[VOLCANO_MIN:<number>]</nowiki></tt>
| <tt><nowiki>[VOLCANO_MIN:15]</nowiki></tt>
| Volcanoes require a volcanism of 100 to occur.
|}

== Mineral Scarcity ==

Controls the frequency at which minerals occur. Setting this value lower will increase the amount of ore present on a map, the number of different types of ore, and the number/types of gems. The default value will result in a maximum of 2-4 metal ores per map (assuming you choose a good embark location) which may be limiting until the economy is fully implemented and desired metals can be traded for.

According to research by [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?action=profile;u=36045 Shandra] on v0.31.25, this is the relationship between the value of this setting and the approximate number of gems and ore:

[[File:MineralSetting_v25_limit10k.png]]

This is for the same 8x8 embark region in a world which is otherwise the same except for the mineral scarcity parameter. See [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=79018.msg2063804#msg2063804 this forum thread] for detailed information on peoples' experiments and possible changes to newer versions.

{| {{prettytable}}
|- bgcolor="#ddd"
! Token
! Example
! Notes
|-
| <tt><nowiki>[MINERAL_SCARCITY:<number>]</nowiki></tt>
| <tt><nowiki>[MINERAL_SCARCITY:2500]</nowiki></tt>
| Range: 100 to 100,000
|}

== Max Megabeast Caves ==

This is the maximum number of caves that will be inhabited by {{L|Megabeast|megabeasts}}. Even though the parameter uses the word "caves" it appears to impact the number of sites (lairs) of different types.{{Verify}} If there are more megabeasts than "caves", megabeasts will suffer from a housing shortage and you may end up with things like 10 dragons sharing a lair.

{| {{prettytable}}
|- bgcolor="#ddd"
! Token
! Example
! Notes
|-
| <tt><nowiki>[MEGABEAST_CAP:<number>]</nowiki></tt>
| <tt><nowiki>[MEGABEAST_CAP:75]</nowiki></tt>
| Number of caves/labyrinths/lairs, not beasts.
|}

== Max Semi-Megabeast Caves ==

The maximum number of caves that will be inhabited by {{L|Creature#Semi-Megabeasts|semi-megabeasts}}. If there are more semi-megabeasts than caves, semi-megabeasts will be forced to cohabitate and you may end up with 10 minotaurs in one labyrinth (for example).

{| {{prettytable}}
|- bgcolor="#ddd"
! Token
! Example
! Notes
|-
| <tt><nowiki>[SEMIMEGABEAST_CAP:<number>]</nowiki></tt>
| <tt><nowiki>[SEMIMEGABEAST_CAP:150]</nowiki></tt>
| Number of caves/labyrinths/lairs, not beasts.
|}

== Titan Parameters ==

=== Number ===

This controls the number of megabeasts and semi-megabeasts that exist at the beginning of history. Note that they can get killed or die later due to events during history generation. The number of forgotten beasts is unaffected by this parameter.

{| {{prettytable}}
|- bgcolor="#ddd"
! Token
! Example
! Notes
|-
| <tt><nowiki>[TITAN_NUMBER:<number>]</nowiki></tt>
| <tt><nowiki>[TITAN_NUMBER:33]</nowiki></tt>
| 0 is a valid number
|}

=== Attack Population Requirement ===

Megabeasts will begin to attack your fort once at least this many dwarves inhabit it, regardless of whether any other attack criteria have been met. This number defaults to 80 which isn't usually too difficult to deal with.

=== Exported Wealth Requirement ===

Megabeasts will begin to attack your fort once you have exported at least this many {{L|Currency|dwarfbucks}} worth of merchandise, regardless of whether or not any other criteria have been met. This parameter defaults to None (disabled).

=== Created Wealth Requirement ===

Megabeasts will begin to attack your fort once the fort's total wealth has reached this many {{L|Currency|dwarfbucks}} in value. This happens regardless of whether any of the other criteria, such as population, have been met. Therefore even with 1 dwarf a fort could be attacked if the fort were worth at least this value.

{| {{prettytable}}
|- bgcolor="#ddd"
! Token
! Example
! Notes
|-
| <tt><nowiki>[TITAN_ATTACK_TRIGGER:<population>:<exp wealth>:<created wealth>]</nowiki></tt>
| <tt><nowiki>[TITAN_ATTACK_TRIGGER:80:0:100000]</nowiki></tt>
| 0 = None (disabled). Only one requirement must be met for an attack.
|}

== Number of Demon Types ==

{{L|Demon|Demons}} are similar to titans and forgotten beasts in that they are procedurally generated, but unlike titans they are not unique. This many different types of demons will exist in the world but there will be many members of each type. Setting this to zero means no demons will exist, limiting the amount of fun you can have.

{| {{prettytable}}
|- bgcolor="#ddd"
! Token
! Example
! Notes
|-
| <tt><nowiki>[DEMON_NUMBER:<number>]</nowiki></tt>
| <tt><nowiki>[DEMON_NUMBER:52]</nowiki></tt>
| 0 to 1000
|}

== Number of Night Creature Types ==

The number of different {{L|Night creature|night creatures}} that will exist in the world. Setting this to zero means that the world will have no night creatures.

{| {{prettytable}}
|- bgcolor="#ddd"
! Token
! Example
! Notes
|-
| <tt><nowiki>[NIGHT_CREATURE_NUMBER:<number>]</nowiki></tt>
| <tt><nowiki>[NIGHT_CREATURE_NUMBER:52]</nowiki></tt>
| 0 to 1000
|}

== Desired Good/Evil Square Counts ==

These values change the amount of {{L|Surroundings#Good|good or evil}} tiles on the map, depending on the size of the region they are being considered for.

Though the exact size of small, medium, and large are unknown, the counts used here will always be restricted to regions of the given size no matter how large the number. Also, the count is more of a goal than a minimum or maximum. As a result you can end up with many more or many fewer than the requested number of squares in some situations.

In particular, if you have something like case where only 3 large regions exists in a world, and you request "1 evil square" in large regions, you will end up with one of the large regions being ''entirely evil''. So any non-zero value in one of these settings essentially means "force at least one region of this size to be all good/evil."

Note that the "evilness" of evil biomes is also impacted by savagery.

Certain civilizations can not exist in good and/or evil squares, so too many of one or the other may limit the size of certain types of civilizations. Dwarves, for example, need non-aligned biomes.

{| {{prettytable}}
|- bgcolor="#ddd"
! Token
! Example
! Notes
|-
| <tt><nowiki>[GOOD_SQ_COUNTS::<med region>:<lg region>]</nowiki></tt>
| <tt><nowiki>[GOOD_SQ_COUNTS:100:1000:2000]</nowiki></tt>
| rowspan="2" | Set count to zero to disable for that region size.
|-
| <tt><nowiki>[EVIL_SQ_COUNTS::<med region>:<lg region>]</nowiki></tt>
| <tt><nowiki>[EVIL_SQ_COUNTS:100:1000:2000]</nowiki></tt>
|}

== Minimum Biome Square Counts ==

These numbers control whether or not a world will be rejected based on a lack of different {{L|biome|biomes}}. Raising these numbers will '''not''' automatically generate the given number of squares of the given biome! For a biome to exist, certain conditions like elevation and rainfall must exist.

These parameters simply filter out worlds that (for example) randomly fail to have enough high elevation squares to support a given number of mountains, etc. Some settings may cause worlds to always be rejected. For example, if for some reason the maximum elevation parameter is set to a value below what will support mountain biomes, it will be impossible to satisfy a non-zero requirement for mountain squares. The same principle goes for other conditions and biomes such as low elevations and oceans, etc.

Certain civilizations require different biomes to exist (such as dwarves and mountains), so eliminating certain biomes will make it impossible for certain civilizations to form.

These parameters often result in infinite world rejection problems. See {{L|World rejection}} for information on solving problems related to worlds always being rejected due to one or more of these parameters.

0 means no minimum for rejection. Setting to 0 does not guarantee 0 squares of that biome.

=== Biome Type Requirement Table ===

Terrain requirements for various biomes are described below.{{Verify}} Note that some of the exact ranges are unknown.

{| {{prettytable}}
|- bgcolor="#ddd"
! rowspan="2" | Biome
! colspan="4" | Terrain Requirement
|-
! Elevation
! Rainfall
! Temperature
! Drainage
|-
| Swamp/Marsh
| 100-300
| 33-100
| Non-Freezing
| 0-32
|-
| Desert/Badland
| 100-300
| 0-15(?)
| non-freezing
| N/A
|-
| Forest
| 100-300
| 66-100
| non-freezing
| 66-100
|-
| Mountains
| 300-400
| N/A
| N/A
| N/A
|-
| Ocean
| 0-99
| N/A
| N/A
| N/A
|-
| Glacier
| 100-300
| N/A
| Freezing
| 80(?)-100
|-
| Tundra
| 100-300
| N/A
| Freezing
| 0-66
|-
| Grassland
| 100-300
| 0-66
| Non-Freezing
| 0-66
|-
| Hills
| 100-300
| 0-66
| Non-Freezing
| 66-100
|}

=== Minimum Initial Square Count ===

This is the minimum number of squares of the given biome that must exist before things like erosion take place.

One thing to keep in mind is the maximum number of squares on a map of a given size. If the total number of squares on a map is lower than the sum of all square count parameters then you will get infinite world rejection.

To determine the number of squares on a map, just multiply the dimensions. In practice these parameters will need to sum to lower than the maximum because some space is needed for "slack".

{| {{prettytable}}
|- bgcolor="#ddd"
! Map Size
! Number of Squares
|-
| 17x17
| 289
|-
| 33x33
| 1089
|-
| 65x65
| 4225
|-
| 129x129
| 16614
|-
| 257x257
| 66049
|}

=== Minimum Initial Region Count ===

This is the minimum number of regions of contiguous biome squares that must exist before other processes such as erosion take place.

=== Minimum Final Region Count ===

This many regions of the given biome must exist after erosion and similar phases of generation have been completed.

{| {{prettytable}}
|- bgcolor="#ddd"
! Token
! Example
|-
| <tt><nowiki>[REGION_COUNTS:SWAMP:<init sq>:<init rg>:<final rg>]</nowiki></tt>
| <tt><nowiki>[REGION_COUNTS:SWAMP:1032:7:6]</nowiki></tt>
|-
| <tt><nowiki>[REGION_COUNTS:DESERT:<init sq>:<init rg>:<final rg>]</nowiki></tt>
| <tt><nowiki>[REGION_COUNTS:DESERT:1032:7:6]</nowiki></tt>
|-
| <tt><nowiki>[REGION_COUNTS:FOREST:<init sq>:<init rg>:<final rg>]</nowiki></tt>
| <tt><nowiki>[REGION_COUNTS:FOREST:4128:13:12]</nowiki></tt>
|-
| <tt><nowiki>[REGION_COUNTS:MOUNTAINS:<init sq>:<init rg>:<final rg>]</nowiki></tt>
| <tt><nowiki>[REGION_COUNTS:MOUNTAINS:8256:9:9]</nowiki></tt>
|-
| <tt><nowiki>[REGION_COUNTS:OCEAN:<init sq>:<init rg>:<final rg>]</nowiki></tt>
| <tt><nowiki>[REGION_COUNTS:OCEAN:8256:7:6]</nowiki></tt>
|-
| <tt><nowiki>[REGION_COUNTS:GLACIER:<init sq>:<init rg>:<final rg>]</nowiki></tt>
| <tt><nowiki>[REGION_COUNTS:GLACIER:0:0:0]</nowiki></tt>
|-
| <tt><nowiki>[REGION_COUNTS:TUNDRA:<init sq>:<init rg>:<final rg>]</nowiki></tt>
| <tt><nowiki>[REGION_COUNTS:TUNDRA:0:0:0]</nowiki></tt>
|-
| <tt><nowiki>[REGION_COUNTS:GRASSLAND:<init sq>:<init rg>:<final rg>]</nowiki></tt>
| <tt><nowiki>[REGION_COUNTS:GRASSLAND:8256:13:12]</nowiki></tt>
|-
| <tt><nowiki>[REGION_COUNTS:HILLS:<init sq>:<init rg>:<final rg>]</nowiki></tt>
| <tt><nowiki>[REGION_COUNTS:HILLS:8256:13:12]</nowiki></tt>
|}

== Erosion Cycle Count ==

Tells the world-generator how long the world has to erode its tall peaks down to mountainsides during the 'running rivers...' stage of world creation. The higher this number, the less jagged the world will be, and the more wide the major rivers will be. If you use the maximum number, your mountains will dissolve before your eyes into plains which can lead to rejections if there aren't enough mountains to use for river start points and dwarven civilization origin points.

{| {{prettytable}}
|- bgcolor="#ddd"
! Token
! Example
! Notes
|-
| <tt><nowiki>[EROSION_CYCLE_COUNT:<number>]</nowiki></tt>
| <tt><nowiki>[EROSION_CYCLE_COUNT:250]</nowiki></tt>
| Range: 0 to 1000
|}

== Minimum/Desired River Start Locations ==

This is the minimum number of riverheads that must exist before and after erosion takes place. Worlds will be rejected if they fail to meet these numbers. As with minimum biome counts, raising this number doesn't automatically create this many riverheads. Other conditions like terrain and rainfall must exist for rivers to form.

Extremely high pre-erosion values speed erosion greatly, while low post erosion values are useful for limiting rejects due to lack of river origin points. One can try the 800 value to get more lakes.

{| {{prettytable}}
|- bgcolor="#ddd"
! Token
! Example
! Notes
|-
| <tt><nowiki>[RIVER_MINS:<min pre-erosion>:<des post-erosion>]</nowiki></tt>
| <tt><nowiki>[RIVER_MINS:200:400]</nowiki></tt>
| Range: 0 to 800
|}

== Periodically Erode Extreme Cliffs ==

This parameter, when set to 1, will smooth out extremely high cliffs during world generation, making them more slope-like and and accessible in adventurer or dwarf fortress mode. The exact mechanism by which this works is unknown.

Normally this is set to Yes (1).

{| {{prettytable}}
|- bgcolor="#ddd"
! Token
! Example
! Notes
|-
| <tt><nowiki>[PERIODICALLY_ERODE_EXTREMES:<1 or 0>]</nowiki></tt>
| <tt><nowiki>[PERIODICALLY_ERODE_EXTREMES:1]</nowiki></tt>
| 1/0 = Yes/No
|}

== Do Orthographic Precipitation and Rain Shadows ==

Toggle that allows terrain height to affect rainfall. For example, moist air coming from the ocean blows over the land. As the terrain gets higher, it forces the moist air up, causing it to rain on the seaward side of a mountain. Eventually, all the rain has fallen if the mountain is tall enough. So, when the breeze goes over the top, there's no moisture left to fall on the other side, creating a rain-shadow. This should create a tendency for more extreme rainfall in regions, creating more forests, deserts, marshlands, and grasslands. Turning it off should result in more controllable, less complex rainfall conditions based on rainfall parameters.

{| {{prettytable}}
|- bgcolor="#ddd"
! Token
! Example
! Notes
|-
| <tt><nowiki>[OROGRAPHIC_PRECIPITATION:<1 or 0>]</nowiki></tt>
| <tt><nowiki>[OROGRAPHIC_PRECIPITATION:1]</nowiki></tt>
| 1/0 = Yes/No
|}

== Maximum Number of Subregions ==

This is the number of separate biomes (the flashing regions you see on embark when you hit F1, F2, etc when there's more than one biome on the embark location) that are allowed to exist on the entire map.

Setting this to very low values will result in numerous rejections depending on [[#X and Y Variance|variance parameters]]. If variance values are set to high numbers, many small biomes will be created causing rejection if this parameter value is not increased beyond the default.

Increasing the value of this tag is oten a must when generating "patchwork" worlds with lots of biome variance, but simply increasing it without increasing variance parameters will not guarantee more biomes.

{| {{prettytable}}
|- bgcolor="#ddd"
! Token
! Example
! Notes
|-
| <tt><nowiki>[SUBREGION_MAX:<number>]</nowiki></tt>
| <tt><nowiki>[SUBREGION_MAX:2750]</nowiki></tt>
| Range: 1 to 5000
|}

== Cavern Parameters ==
[[File:Open00Density100.jpg|thumb|200px|Cavern slice with Openness of 0 and Density of 100]]
[[File:Open100Density00.jpg|thumb|200px|Cavern slice with Openness of 100 and Density of 0]]
[[File:Open100Density100.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Cavern slice with Openness of 100 and Density of 100]]
[[File:Open50Density50.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Cavern slice with Openness of 50 and Density of 50]]

{{L|Caverns}} are the hollow areas underground which dwarves tend to encounter when they're digging around.

=== Cavern Layer Number ===

This parameter determines how many cavern systems will be generated, not including the Magma layer or the Bottom layer. Defaults to three. Setting it to lower values could help FPS.

'''Warning:''' If this is 0 then you will not have caverns on your map. Note that disabling caverns will make it impossible to grow any underground plants because none will exist for your civilization to cultivate. (Underground plants will not be available on embark.) If set to 1 then you will not have underground trees.{{Verify}}

{| {{prettytable}}
|- bgcolor="#ddd"
! Token
! Example
! Notes
|-
| <tt><nowiki>[CAVERN_LAYER_COUNT:<number>]</nowiki></tt>
| <tt><nowiki>[CAVERN_LAYER_COUNT:3]</nowiki></tt>
| Range: 0 to 3
|}

=== Cavern Layout Parameters ===

Open caverns and dense passageways are not mutually exclusive. When both are raised, bizarre results can occur, such as layers showing a combination of open caverns, a cluster of network passages, and natural walls sprinkling the inside of an otherwise open cavern. [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=76355.msg1936859#msg1936859 Reference]

If you want the largest open spaces possible, then decrease the density and increase the openness. If you want a labyrinth of passageways, lower the openness and raise the passage density.

Another interesting note about the cavern layers is that the seed and number of demon types effect the layout of the caverns.

==== Layer Openness Min/Max ====

Dictates the size of cavern passages. When Passage Density (see below) is set to minimum (0), caverns will be open expanses. Raising the maximum will increase the size of the caverns.

{| {{prettytable}}
|- bgcolor="#ddd"
! Token
! Example
! Notes
|-
| <tt><nowiki>[CAVERN_LAYER_OPENNESS_MIN:<number>]</nowiki></tt>
| <tt><nowiki>[CAVERN_LAYER_OPENNESS_MIN:0]</nowiki></tt>
| rowspan="2" | Range: 0 to 100
|-
| <tt><nowiki>[CAVERN_LAYER_OPENNESS_MAX:<number>]</nowiki></tt>
| <tt><nowiki>[CAVERN_LAYER_OPENNESS_MAX:100]</nowiki></tt>
|}

==== Layer Passage Density Min/Max ====

This determines how many passages form the cavern. If openness (see above) is set to minimum and density increased then you will get a maze like network of small criss-crossing passages. Raising the values further increases the number of the maze-like passages.

Caverns will be large, open spaces at 0, and comprised of many small vertical shafts of rock at 100. Setting both values to be the same results in a uniform look for the caverns.{{Verify}}

{| {{prettytable}}
|- bgcolor="#ddd"
! Token
! Example
! Notes
|-
| <tt><nowiki>[CAVERN_LAYER_PASSAGE_DENSITY_MIN:<number>]</nowiki></tt>
| <tt><nowiki>[CAVERN_LAYER_PASSAGE_DENSITY_MIN:0]</nowiki></tt>
| rowspan="2" | Range: 0 to 100
|-
| <tt><nowiki>[CAVERN_LAYER_PASSAGE_DENSITY_MAX:<number>]</nowiki></tt>
| <tt><nowiki>[CAVERN_LAYER_PASSAGE_DENSITY_MAX:100]</nowiki></tt>
|}

See [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=76355.0 this forum thread] for more information on openness and density including many more images.

==== Layer Water min\max ====

Determines how many caverns will have water at the bottom. Note that, even at 100, there will be some amount of ground in caverns, but each cavern 'bubble' will contain some amount of water.

At 0, there will be no water in your caverns. This may impact future underground plant growth, although maps will still start with underground flora.{{Verify}}

{| {{prettytable}}
|- bgcolor="#ddd"
! Token
! Example
! Notes
|-
| <tt><nowiki>[CAVERN_LAYER_WATER_MIN:<number>]</nowiki></tt>
| <tt><nowiki>[CAVERN_LAYER_WATER_MIN:0]</nowiki></tt>
| rowspan="2" | Range: 0 to 100
|-
| <tt><nowiki>[CAVERN_LAYER_WATER_MAX:<number>]</nowiki></tt>
| <tt><nowiki>[CAVERN_LAYER_WATER_MAX:100]</nowiki></tt>
|}

=== Magma Layer ===

This parameter controls whether the {{L|magma sea}} exists.

Setting 1/Yes causes the magma layer to exist, value 0/No prevents it. Appears not have impact on volcanoes, nor vulcanism, so even if 0/No there will still be emark locations with magma. If a {{L|volcano}} exists, it appears to always tap the magma sea, but the magma sea will not be revealed by revealing the volcano.

{| {{prettytable}}
|- bgcolor="#ddd"
! Token
! Example
|-
| <tt><nowiki>[HAVE_BOTTOM_LAYER_1:<1 or 0>]</nowiki></tt>
| <tt><nowiki>[HAVE_BOTTOM_LAYER_1:1]</nowiki></tt>
|}

=== Bottom Layer ===

Determines if the space below the magma sea exists. If Yes the "HFS" layer is always present. Normally you want to leave this set to Yes for maximum fun.

If enabled, this will force the magma layer above it. (Unknown whether this has any impact on occurrence of HFS "temple".){{Verify}}

{| {{prettytable}}
|- bgcolor="#ddd"
! Token
! Example
|-
| <tt><nowiki>[HAVE_BOTTOM_LAYER_2:<1 or 0>]</nowiki></tt>
| <tt><nowiki>[HAVE_BOTTOM_LAYER_2:1]</nowiki></tt>
|}

== Z Levels (Depth) Settings ==

These parameters control the "thickness" of various "layers" on the map. Note that a "layer" in this case does not refer to one Z-level, but refers to a number of related Z-levels such as "levels above ground".

The following table assumes that you have 3 cavern layers. The Levels Above Layer settings control how many Z-Levels are above each layer. A layer may itself consist of multiple Z-Levels (and almost always does).

{|style="margin:1em 1em 1em 0;background:#F9F9F9;border:1px #AAA solid;border-collapse:collapse;" class="wikitable"
|-style="background:#F2F2F2;text-align:center;"
!style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;" width="120"|Setting Name
!style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;" width="200"|Token
!style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| Description
|-
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| Above Ground
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| <nowiki>[LEVELS_ABOVE_GROUND:<number>]</nowiki>
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| The number of Z-Levels of air above the highest surface level. Has no impact on how many Z-levels deep the surface layer is.
|-
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| Above layer 1
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| <nowiki>[LEVELS_ABOVE_LAYER_1:<number>]</nowiki>
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| Z-Levels of stone above the first cavern layer. Making this higher will guarantee ''at least'' this many levels to build your fortress, but will have no impact on how many z-levels thick the surface layer is. Also, the top of a cavern may be higher than the rest of a cavern, so in practice there will be more "solid" levels than this above the cavern.
|-
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| Above Layer 2
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| <nowiki>[LEVELS_ABOVE_LAYER_2:<number>]</nowiki>
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| Z-levels of earth between very top of second cavern and very bottom of first cavern.
|-
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| Above Layer 3
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| <nowiki>[LEVELS_ABOVE_LAYER_3:<number>]</nowiki>
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| Z-levels of earth between very top of third cavern and very bottom of second cavern.
|-
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| Above Layer 4
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| <nowiki>[LEVELS_ABOVE_LAYER_4:<number>]</nowiki>
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| Z-Levels of earth between very highest magma and very bottom of third cavern. Spoiler Hidden (select invisible text to read): Making this high will give a large area for HFS veins, so that it never touches caverns, giving more to mine '''if''' it was impacting the cavern previously.
|-
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| Above Layer 5
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| <nowiki>[LEVELS_ABOVE_LAYER_5:<number>]</nowiki>
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| Uncertain. May control the number of levels of "Semi Molten Rock" between HFS and Magma, may control number of levels of magma, may impact both. In experimentation, the overall depth of all magma sea and semi-molten rock levels appears to increase, but not consistent enough to say for certain. Only valid if Magma Layer present. Spoiler Hidden:Often the HFS vein will only extend as high as the highest magma, making this the only guaranteed way to increase amount of HFS to mine, but unfortunately also creating enormous useless semi-molten z-levels
|-
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| At Bottom
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| <nowiki>[LEVELS_AT_BOTTOM:<number>]</nowiki>
|style="border:1px #AAA solid;padding:0.2em;"| Appears to be number of levels of HFS chamber. Only valid if Bottom Layer present. Often has no impact. Values larger than default results in strange things.
|}

Some implications:
* The number of surface layers (e.g. soil), at this time, can not be controlled. For example, on a map with 1 layer of Peat, then a layer of Silt, then a layer of Obsidian, there is no control to let you increase either one to be, say, 20 z-levels. (though you may get lucky with the Obsidian).
* There can be multiple stone layers between the cavern and the surface. So increasing Levels Above Layer 1 may give you more Conglomerate, or more Granite, and you have no control over which stone layer spans those Z-Levels.
* The layers shown on embark span across the cavern layers in an unknown and inconsistent way. Sometimes those 10 different layers of stone are evenly distributed over your 400 z-level deep map, sometimes the first 9 get 1 z-level each and the last gets the other 391 levels. No way to control found yet.
* The HFS temple, if present, will always extend into the rock layers, and appears to always make contact with the bottom cave. Large values for levels above layer 5 and layer 4 can result in enormous temples, but the number of levels at the top (the part with undead) appears to be unaffected.
* Unconfirmed whether number of levels between caverns has any impact on cavern height. There will be connecting ramps and/or shafts between cavern layers no matter how many levels are between them.
* '''Very Important''': These values appear to apply across a whole 16x16 Region, not just embark areas. That means that if a 16x16 region is completely flat, but has one tall mountain in one far corner, even if you set Levels Above Ground low (e.g. 2 z-levels) you still have all the empty air of the highest mountain in every embark tile (e.g. 200 z-levels). Also can happen to the semi-molten layer, and can lead to unexpected behavior.
* Very large values can cause strange things to happen. Even more true for small values.

== Cave Parameters ==

Caves are sort of like caverns except that they have a passage to the surface and are generally much smaller. Caves can connect to caverns if they are sufficiently deep.

=== Minimum/Maximum Natural Cave Size ===

These parameters appear to control the length and depth of caves.

{| {{prettytable}}
|- bgcolor="#ddd"
! Token
! Example
! Notes
|-
| <tt><nowiki>[CAVE_MIN_SIZE:<number>]</nowiki></tt>
| <tt><nowiki>[CAVE_MIN_SIZE:5]</nowiki></tt>
| rowspan="2" | Range: 1 to 500
|-
| <tt><nowiki>[CAVE_MAX_SIZE:<number>]</nowiki></tt>
| <tt><nowiki>[CAVE_MAX_SIZE:25]</nowiki></tt>
|}

=== Number of (Non-)Mountain Caves ===

These are the numbers of mountain and non-mountain caves that will be placed. These parameters will cause this number of caves to be placed, but rejections may occur if a world has an insufficient number of mountain or non-mountain squares to place the caves in.

{| {{prettytable}}
|- bgcolor="#ddd"
! Token
! Example
! Notes
|-
| <tt><nowiki>[MOUNTAIN_CAVE_MIN:<number>]</nowiki></tt>
| <tt><nowiki>[MOUNTAIN_CAVE_MIN:100]</nowiki></tt>
| rowspan="2" | Range: 1 to 800
|-
| <tt><nowiki>[NON_MOUNTAIN_CAVE_MIN:<number>]</nowiki></tt>
| <tt><nowiki>[NON_MOUNTAIN_CAVE_MIN:200]</nowiki></tt>
|}

=== Make Caves Visible ===

If set to no (default) then the location of caves will not be marked on the map. If set to yes, caves will appear on the map as {{Raw Tile|•|#808080|#00DD00}} symbols so that they may be sought out or avoided as desired.

{| {{prettytable}}
|- bgcolor="#ddd"
! Token
! Example
! Notes
|-
| <tt><nowiki>[ALL_CAVES_VISIBLE:<1 or 0>]</nowiki></tt>
| <tt><nowiki>[ALL_CAVES_VISIBLE:0]</nowiki></tt>
| 1/0 = Yes/No
|}

== Allow Init Options to Show Tunnels ==

This parameter doesn't do anything in DF2010.{{Verify}} In older versions, tunnels could be built between dwarven settlements and these could appear on the map similarly to roads.

{| {{prettytable}}
|- bgcolor="#ddd"
! Token
! Example
! Notes
|-
| <tt><nowiki>[SHOW_EMBARK_TUNNEL:<0-2>]</nowiki></tt>
| <tt><nowiki>[SHOW_EMBARK_TUNNEL:2]</nowiki></tt>
| 0 = No 1 = Only in Finder 2 = Always
|}

== Number of Civilizations ==

This number of civilizations will be placed on the map before history generation begins. These civilizations may later die out due to historical events.

Note that a high value here can cause lots of map rejections, particularly on smaller maps as there simply isn't enough room or regions to put them all in.

{| {{prettytable}}
|- bgcolor="#ddd"
! Token
! Example
! Notes
|-
| <tt><nowiki>[TOTAL_CIV_NUMBER:<number>]</nowiki></tt>
| <tt><nowiki>[TOTAL_CIV_NUMBER:40]</nowiki></tt>
| Range: 0 to 300
|}

== Playable Civilization Required ==

If this is set to yes (default) then worlds will be rejected if no civilization with {{L|Entity token|CIV_CONTROLLABLE}} exists or if all such civilizations die out. In an unmodded game, only the dwarves have this token.

If set to no, the result may be a world that cannot be played in Fortress Mode.

{| {{prettytable}}
|- bgcolor="#ddd"
! Token
! Example
! Notes
|-
| <tt><nowiki>[PLAYABLE_CIVILIZATION_REQUIRED:<1 or 0>]</nowiki></tt>
| <tt><nowiki>[PLAYABLE_CIVILIZATION_REQUIRED:1]</nowiki></tt>
| 1/0 = Yes/No
|}

== Minimum Number of Mid/Low/High Characteristic Squares ==

Sets the minimum possible number of squares of certain ranges of each of the region qualities, such as elevation, rain, drainage, volcanism, savagery, and temperature. These need to be changed to reflect your regional meshes and weights. These are responsible for a HUGE number of map rejections. These values can all be set to 0 for much fewer map rejections, particularly in the case of more wacky, non-standard maps.

These values will cause worlds to be rejected unless at least the given number of squares of the given type are randomly generated. Setting these values too high could result in worlds always being rejected if other parameters such as the maximum/minimums for elevation, etc, don't allow enough of those squares to get generated.

{| {{prettytable}}
|- bgcolor="#ddd"
! Token
! Example
! Notes
|-
| <tt><nowiki>[ELEVATION_RANGES:<low sq>:<mid sq>:<high sq>]</nowiki></tt>
| <tt><nowiki>[ELEVATION_RANGES:8256:16512:8256]</nowiki></tt>
| rowspan="5" | Minimum number of squares that must have low, medium, and high amounts of the given attribute. 
0 = No minimum
|-
| <tt><nowiki>[RAIN_RANGES:<low sq>:<mid sq>:<high sq>]</nowiki></tt>
| <tt><nowiki>[RAIN_RANGES:8256:16512:8256]</nowiki></tt>
|-
| <tt><nowiki>[DRAINAGE_RANGES:<low sq>:<mid sq>:<high sq>]</nowiki></tt>
| <tt><nowiki>[DRAINAGE_RANGES:8256:16512:8256]</nowiki></tt>
|-
| <tt><nowiki>[SAVAGERY_RANGES:<low sq>:<mid sq>:<high sq>]</nowiki></tt>
| <tt><nowiki>[SAVAGERY_RANGES:8256:16512:8256]</nowiki></tt>
|-
| <tt><nowiki>[VOLCANISM_RANGES:<low sq>:<mid sq>:<high sq>]</nowiki></tt>
| <tt><nowiki>[VOLCANISM_RANGES:8256:16512:8256]</nowiki></tt>
|}

="The World Generator is having trouble placing..."=

:''Main article {{L|World rejection}}''

If you are having the common problem of your generated worlds always being rejected by the world generator, see {{L|World_rejection#Solving_World_Rejection_Problems|Solving World Rejection Problems}} as it contains many detailed suggestions on how to troubleshoot and solve these issues.

= Default Worldgen Parameters =

There is no single default for each parameter. Several advanced world generation profiles come with the game by default. See {{L|world_gen.txt|Default world_gen.txt}} to take a look at this file.

= Parameter Set Examples =

If you're trying to do something specific then the {{L|Worldgen examples|}} might be helpful. These are complete parameter sets that can be copied directly into your ''world_gen.txt'' file and customized as desired.

For many many more examples see:
* [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=64032.0 DF2010 WorldGen "Cookbook" Thread]

{{World}}
[[Category:World]]

v0.31:Large pot

2011-03-28T23:18:20Z

TerryDactyl:

{{Quality|Fine|18:07, 16 March 2011 (UTC)}}{{av}}

'''Pots''' are basically stone versions of {{L|barrel}}s. They can be made from {{L|ceramic}} at a {{L|kiln}}, from stone by a {{L|stone crafter}} at a {{L|craftsdwarf's workshop}}, or from {{L|glass}} at a {{L|glass furnace}}. Pots made from stone, {{L|stoneware}}, {{L|glass}} or {{L|glaze}}d {{L|earthenware}} are water-tight and can be used to store liquids, and even for {{L|brewing}}. Unglazed earthenware can only be used for storing dry items.

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v0.31 Talk:Copper

2011-03-12T15:11:36Z

TerryDactyl: /* edge / impact */ new section

* Brought most information over from [[40d:Copper]], but verified all the alloys info in the raws just to make sure nothing had changed. Not certain if the Properties section should contain info about the melting point, etc. on metals: [[Bronze]] does not, but since these metals can be used in [[construction]], I believe it should be included... Any thoughts? [[User:Zanziik|Zanziik]] 00:27, 17 April 2010 (UTC)

* Because copper is so very useful, anyone who is modding might want to make it three times as valuable as in vanilla DF. --[[User:TomiTapio|TomiTapio]] 15:52, 6 July 2010 (UTC)

== edge / impact ==

I'm still a little confused about yield, shear and density. Does copper make better bludgeoning weapons or better cutting weapons? --[[User:TerryDactyl|TerryDactyl]] 15:11, 12 March 2011 (UTC)

v0.31:Capybara

2011-03-09T05:43:23Z

TerryDactyl:

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v0.31:Capybara

2011-03-08T17:27:17Z

TerryDactyl:

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* Wetland
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|lung=2
|brain=1
|intestine=1
|liver=1
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|spleen=1
|kidney=2
|bone=12
|skull=1
|skin=hide}}
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