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40d:Craftsdwarf's workshop
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A Craftsdwarf's workshop is a workshop for any dwarves who can make stone, bone or shell crafts. It can also be used to make a few things that aren't strictly crafts, such as shell armor and bone crossbow bolts.
Craftsworking includes several different skills:
Uses for crafts
Armor
Bone and shell, like any other material other than metal used to create armor, has 50% of the standard protection of iron. While poor in protection value, it is still a good start for protecting your dwarves before you get a metalsmithing operation going. It is not very usefull in the first few years since you aren't likely to be attacked by anything too powerfull but is still a preferable option over leather armor since while bearing the same protection value, leather can be used for more usefull purposes such as bags or leather clothing.
Making bone and shell armor can be an effective way to meet certain nobles' mandates if metal armor production is difficult.
Bolts
Bone and wood bolts for crossbows can be made at a Craftdwarf's workshop and can be inexpensive and plentiful. Dwarves will not use metal bolts to practice, they prefer bone and wooden bolts instead.
Crafts
General crafts, such as idols, scepters, mugs, etc. are only good as trade items. It is a good idea to include a Craftsdwarf with both Bone Carving and Stone Crafting in your beginning party, so you can start producing ammunition and getting rid of those massive piles of rocks. A few bins of well-made trade goods are usually sufficient to buy any vital supplies from the first caravan to arrive at your fortress.
Weapons
You can create stone short swords at the craftsdwarf's workshop out of any sharp stone. In the unmodified game, these short swords can only be made from obsidian. These have the same damage as steel, so they are extremely useful for early traps if you can find or produce obsidian. However, they require one unit of wood in their construction, making them mostly impractical on maps with no or little forestation.
The weapons are described as being clubs with a sharp stone edge affixed to the side. According to Toady One, the weapons are supposed to wear very quickly but this functionality has not yet been implemented.v0.27.169.33a
They are most likely based on Aztec Macuahuitl.
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