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damocles

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sand, or lack thereof
« on: December 10, 2007, 10:55:00 am »

What do you do if your region has no sand?  There's not one tile of sand on my current map, so I can't make glass.  This means I can't make an alchemist or process plants to vials.  It also causes problems whenever I get a fey mood dwarf who wants "rough colour".

I can't seem to trade for glass or sand, and I don't see any other way to make glass.

Are there any alternatives?

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TeDDD

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Re: sand, or lack thereof
« Reply #1 on: December 10, 2007, 11:07:00 am »

To the best of my knowledge, at this point in time you either have sand (and, by extension, glass) or you don't.  You can't "create" sand, and iirc you can;t buy glass.
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THLawrence

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Re: sand, or lack thereof
« Reply #2 on: December 10, 2007, 11:09:00 am »

Edit the raws to make a layer of soil usable as sand.
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xzzy

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Re: sand, or lack thereof
« Reply #3 on: December 10, 2007, 12:17:00 pm »

In some regions, you can reveal sand by having dwarves walk repeatedly over an area.

"Dry grass" seems to do this a lot.

Eventually grass will start to grow again, so just have dwarves perform some meaningless construction in the area to get them to tromp it back down.

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Asehujiko

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Re: sand, or lack thereof
« Reply #4 on: December 10, 2007, 02:59:00 pm »

Or roof over it.
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