40d:Bone

Bone can be obtained from the corpses of dead creatures, or from severed body parts. A dead corpse close to a butcher's shop will automatically schedle a butchering job, yielding a number of bones proportional to the creature's size.

Bones are processed at the craftsdwarf's workshop, and can be used to make:

• Bone crafts, which can be sold. Bone crafts have a value dependent on their quality and an inherent number that depends on the creature it came from. Troll and elephant bones are more valuable than goblin or raccoon bones, for example.
• Bone armor. Bone armor is not particularly protective, but is very light, and easy to make early. High quality armor is more protective, and masterwork bone armor is as protective as basic quality iron armor.
• Bone decorations. Any decoratable item can be decorated with bone, which adds to the items' value. No item can have more than one decoration of a certain kind of bone, but can have multiple decorations if the bones come from different kinds of creatures.
• Bone bolts. These bolts are fired through crossbows. They are not valuable, so marksdwarves will use them for practice, as opposed to metal bolts.

The quality of all bone items created depends on the bone carving skill of the dwarf who creates them.

Bone is not a building material.