40d Talk:Skill

Skill Notes

Miner

Allows a Dwarf to strike the earth at a more rapid pace.

Wood Cutter

Carpenter

Mason

Engraver

Building Designer

Weaponsmith

Bowyer

Armorsmith

Metalsmith

Furnace Operator

Wood Burner

Metal Crafter

Stone Crafter

Wood Crafter

Bone Carver

Gem Cutter

Gem Setter

Mechanic

Fisherdwarf

Miller

Thresher

Grower

Herbalist

Brewer

Cook

Weaver

Clothier

Dyer

Allows a dwarf to dye with honor.

Trapper

Ambusher

Butcher

Tanner

Leatherworker

Fish Dissector

Animal Dissector

Fish Cleaner

Cheese Maker

Milker

Animal Trainer

Animal Caretaker

Soaper

Lye Maker

Potash Maker

Glassmaker

Wrestler

Axedwarf

Swordsdwarf

Macedwarf

Hammerdwarf

Speardwarf

Marksdwarf

Shield User

Armor User

Siege Engineer

Siege Operator

Pump Operator

Swimmer

Gives you a small amount of hope that this dwarf will not drown.

Persuader

Negociator

Typo in the game: ought to be "Negotiator." (Note: Toady has openly noted to fixing this on his dev log.)

Liar

"It's not a carp, it's a gibbon, I swear!"

Intimidator

Judge of Intent

Appraiser

Organizer

Record Keeper

Conversationalist

Comedian

Flatterer

Consoler

Pacifier

Skill Ranks Notes

1. Not Skilled, Dabbling
2. Novice
3. Named, Titular
4. Competent
5. Proficient
6. etc.

It's looking like it's the same as before for rank names. --Shades 05:01, 1 November 2007 (EDT)

User Notes and Changes

Renditelitan 22:01, 29 October 2007 (EDT)

Moved this to the talk page for discussion on what should go on the main skills page User:Alfador. I hope you don't mind. Anyone have ideas on how to categorize the all the skills? Also, would making the list of skills in their place in the game time frame make since? Like founding skills vs. town skills?

It would make sense; Proficient and below are founding skills, Dabbling and anything above Proficient are fortress skills. (Also anything Adamantine-oriented if that's still in.) And of COURSE I don't mind, I'm ecstatic that someone more skilled in wiki format than I took it upon themselves to make something more useful out of my rudimentary list! Alfador 23:02, 29 October 2007 (EDT)

Should we put lists of activities that improve a skill for every skill, or just for the ones that aren't immediately obvious like those new noble skills? --BahamutZERO 16:13, 30 October 2007 (EDT)

I think it's important to enumerate all the activities that give skill, and it would be nice to get numbers on the skill increases for these actions as well. It's especially important to note ALL information for what gives or doesn't give skill points for the new noble skills, but everything is useful. Like, for a miner, do ramps and channels give mining skill? Do floodgates? Does a fisherdwarf get fisherdwarf skill for constructing a fishery? If we can enumerate all possible sources of skill points for a given skill, I think we should definately do so. --Sowelu 16:52, 30 October 2007 (EDT)

One thing we might also want is a listing of what skills are USED by what job tasks. For example: whatever skill is used by the "Strand Extraction" labor, which presumably fulfills "Extract Metal Strands" manager tasks... well, presumably that's the new version of the old Adamantine skills, Adamantine Smelting having been assumed to have been unified with other smelting skill. But whatever skill that is, it can't be had from the starting screen, and so is not listed here. This will naturally require LOTS of testing on the part of all of us, since we're no longer guaranteed to even have a magma flow in a given region, much less pits and adamantine. --Alfador 10:20, 31 October 2007 (EDT)

I almost think that that kind of data should be made into a separate list, as well as listed under each skill's individual page. Lets's not clutter this one up that much. Also, anyone FOUND pits/addy yet? I'm almost certain it's too early for that, but one never knows.--Draco18s 05:07, 1 November 2007 (EDT)

"Also, anyone FOUND pits/addy yet?" Yes. --Alfador 09:10, 1 November 2007 (EDT)

Yes, and there's horrible things under it. Possibly also the adamantine-triggered monarch. --BahamutZERO 15:38, 1 November 2007 (EDT)

Should skills be a category?--BahamutZERO 19:43, 31 October 2007 (EDT)

I made one anyway. --JT 21:31, 31 October 2007 (EDT)

This is too specific

This list is specific to Fortress Mode. It's missing some of the Adventure Mode skills, like Bowman and such, and lists the dwarven names for skills. --JT 21:31, 31 October 2007 (EDT)

administrator

Is there really such a profession? I have been trying to get a dwarf to gain this job title without luck so far. Has anyone managed to do it? VengefulDonut 15:22, 20 December 2007 (EST)

Yes, my leader got the title Administrator briefly from raising his Organizer skill. However, he became a Clerk once his Record Keeping skill surpassed it. --Doniazade 13:54, 10 May 2008 (EDT)

military skills

Shouldn't the weapon skills be classified under their own color/military profession? A swordsdwarf is not a blue peasant, it's a colored military unit. Or is this only for un-drafted military units? It might confuse a newbie. --DDouble 23:43, 3 January 2008 (EST)

Trader

Dwarves which have Appraise (probably others too) skill is called a Trader. It's written in purple, like administrator. --Someone-else

The four "admin" jobs don't really have a single "super"-profession like the others. A dwarf that has those skills is called either

• Architect (Building Designer)
• Trader (Appraiser) aka the Broker
• Administrator (Organizer) aka the Manager
• Clerk (Record Keeper) aka the Bookkeeper

In that order (I may have Administrator and Clerk the other way around). This means that one with all 4 skills on novice, will be called an Architect. If he only had the bottom 3 skills, he'd be called a Trader. And so on. Sergius 21:19, 30 April 2008 (EDT)

Legendary +#

I thought this was totally unnecessary, and it off-balanced the chart anyway. I left the comment about legendary past the first but got rid of it in the skill chart. If it's not displayed anyway, why bother including it?

--Squeegy