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[Agent_86]

How many total gems can you put in one window? I guess that's how many frames you can make.

A gem window is made of 3 gems.

[schismatise]

Now if only you could hook a gem window up to a lever to control the color change manually......

[luppolo]

PARTY HARD

[slothen]

B) Laugh as your dwarves manage to gaze through a window made out of chalk.

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it needs to be said this is a fucking epic window. <3

[schismatise]

it needs to be said this is a fucking epic window. <3

IKR! Rock gem windows have added some much appreciated flair to my otherwise relatively aesthetically bland fortress designs.

[Malarauko]

it needs to be said this is a fucking epic window. <3

IKR! Rock gem windows have added some much appreciated flair to my otherwise relatively aesthetically bland fortress designs.

I too appreciate the sublime beauty of the rock gem window. The subtle interplay of colour and the steady solid dependable blinking.

[Quietust]

B) Laugh as your dwarves manage to gaze through a window made out of chalk.

[picture]

Yes, but Dwarven stone gem windows are also waterproof...

[ASCIt]

... ascit? Any definitive value on slade cabochons? Do they still weight unholy amounts?

Also, value?

An item menacing with spikes of slade would be neat.

I'm ashamed to admit it, but I haven't been able to play with any in this version yet... However, slade is still rather worthless in a monetary sense, and also insanely heavy, so it would be really badass.

B) Laugh as your dwarves manage to gaze through a window made out of chalk.

[picture]

Yes, but Dwarven stone gem windows are also waterproof...

plastic wrap.

[Sutremaine]

I had a dwarf on embark who like tetrahedrite, so I made him a gem cutter. Haven't got round to using him yet, but tetrahedrite is both really really common and more use to me as a gemstone than an ore. Plus a gem cutter can selectively destone your corridors without generating as many items as a stonecrafter.

[wierd]

I have been bulk producing obsidian cabochons out of all the raw obsidian being generated by the mass landscaping task I have set about doing. (I need to clear a suitable working foundation on which to build the necropolis)

They aren't worth a whole lot. A whopping 15 urists each.

The benefit is that they are a useful secondary material for enhancing trade goods, and they weigh only 1 urist each, meaning I can eliminate thousands of them at the caravan if I have too many.

Compared to a 300 urist boulder, it makes it feasible to convert useless stone into an anemic revinue source, instead of simply destroying it in an atom smasher.

Currently, the number of cloth crafts studded with obsidian and green glass gems in my stockpile is outrageous. I have been using the trade goods pretty exclusively to gain metal bars from the caravans, since my workers are all too busy eliminating useless stone, pooping out crafts, cooking green glass blocks, and constructing the main obelisk to have more than a token metal industry at this point.

[Loud Whispers]

I'm looking for Microcline.