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goudegamer

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Need access to magma-safe non-economic item
« on: March 14, 2012, 09:42:32 pm »
Just came back to DF after not playing for a while since I heard a whole bunch of cool goodies were added since last time I played, and I embarked on a Volcano with play now! and I cannot for the life of me build anything magma related. I can select them but I always get the title's name error. There are no locked doors in the way, an abundance of stones, nothing forbidden, they can reach the area and build other workshops in the exact same place, I've tried everything!
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MetalGear

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Re: Need access to magma-safe non-economic item
« Reply #1 on: March 14, 2012, 09:48:42 pm »
I'm not entirely certain, but I think in the newer version, the magma-safe properties of some materials were changed. I think there are less of them now. When I tried to build a magma smelter, it only let me select gabbro, despite the fact that I had plenty of other stones.
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Re: Need access to magma-safe non-economic item
« Reply #2 on: March 14, 2012, 10:00:21 pm »
I hate to ask the obvious question, but do you have magma-safe non-economic stone available?
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goudegamer

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Re: Need access to magma-safe non-economic item
« Reply #3 on: March 14, 2012, 10:02:58 pm »
I have loads of Rhyolite, and even if that is as of the new version magma unsafe, I have a lot of tetrahedrite as well which I would think is magma safe.
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Re: Need access to magma-safe non-economic item
« Reply #4 on: March 14, 2012, 10:05:46 pm »
Neither of those are magma-safe.  Consult this page:

http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/Magma-safe
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goudegamer

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Re: Need access to magma-safe non-economic item
« Reply #5 on: March 14, 2012, 10:08:24 pm »
Wow, I even check the wiki but the first page it brought up was for DF2010 and I probably didn't notice. Thanks much.
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Re: Need access to magma-safe non-economic item
« Reply #6 on: March 15, 2012, 09:33:33 am »
I think there are now *more* magma-safe materials than before, at least the wiki mentions that somewhere.

Anyways, if you have water somewhere it should not be that much of a problem to make some obsidian to get magma-safe building material.
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Re: Need access to magma-safe non-economic item
« Reply #7 on: March 15, 2012, 09:51:16 am »
You have a volcano, just dig out it's walls for some obsidian, what could go wrong?
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Re: Need access to magma-safe non-economic item
« Reply #8 on: March 15, 2012, 04:50:18 pm »
you could toggle the economic status in the stones menu.
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Re: Need access to magma-safe non-economic item
« Reply #9 on: March 15, 2012, 09:39:00 pm »
Version 0.31 made lots more stones magma-safe, but version 0.34.02 fixed a very long-standing bug where magma forges/furnaces didn't actually require magma-safe building materials like they were supposed to (nor did normal forges/furnaces require fire-safe materials).
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