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[[Wood cutter]]s who [[immigration|immigrate]] to your fort will often come with an axe of some type. When [[starting build|starting a new fort]], however, you must decide whether or not to "buy" axes out of your starting points for your woodcutters (and early protection). An alternative is to take the necessary raw materials and [[Make your own weapons|forge axes on site]]; this is ''much'' cheaper than buying the actual axe, if you are going to bring along the anvil anyway. The only axes available on embark screen are steel ones, which are expensive at 300 starting-points each, and are only available as standard [[quality]] (the lowest). | [[Wood cutter]]s who [[immigration|immigrate]] to your fort will often come with an axe of some type. When [[starting build|starting a new fort]], however, you must decide whether or not to "buy" axes out of your starting points for your woodcutters (and early protection). An alternative is to take the necessary raw materials and [[Make your own weapons|forge axes on site]]; this is ''much'' cheaper than buying the actual axe, if you are going to bring along the anvil anyway. The only axes available on embark screen are steel ones, which are expensive at 300 starting-points each, and are only available as standard [[quality]] (the lowest). | ||
− | Any [[dwarf]] that performs wood cutting will pick up an axe (if one is available) and not put it down until they are no longer assigned the Wood Cutting [[labor]], whether or not any trees are [[designate]]d for cutting. You can make use of this to arm many (or all) of your non-[[military]] dwarves with axes, although if you do | + | Any [[dwarf]] that performs wood cutting will pick up an axe (if one is available) and not put it down until they are no longer assigned the Wood Cutting [[labor]], whether or not any trees are [[designate]]d for cutting. You can make use of this to arm many (or all) of your non-[[military]] dwarves with axes, although if you do a section of trees for wood-cutting ( {{key|d}}, {{key|t}} ), all those dwarves will soon rush out to cut them down. |
[[other weapon|Other, similar weapons]] are too large for dwarves to use in [[Fortress mode]]. | [[other weapon|Other, similar weapons]] are too large for dwarves to use in [[Fortress mode]]. | ||
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=== Mace === | === Mace === |