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Justiceface

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Native copper gizzard stone?
« on: March 12, 2012, 07:04:44 pm »
I've not modded anything in my raws other than changing PET_EXOTIC to PET.  But in one of the butcher shops I built in the caverns where my dwarves have been killing huge numbers of cavern-beasts, I found a "native copper gizzard stone".  There's native copper on my map ... did the elk bird my dwarf just butchered eat a piece of native copper and we found it when cutting it up? 
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Re: Native copper gizzard stone?
« Reply #1 on: March 12, 2012, 07:08:00 pm »
Gizzard stones are lumps of rock or metal some birds swallow to help digest food, IIRC, so yes.
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Re: Native copper gizzard stone?
« Reply #2 on: March 12, 2012, 07:46:54 pm »
Gizzard stones are used by birds to help digest food, essentially like teeth.  Since birds have no teeth, they swallow whole seeds and bugs, which are then crushed in the throat by a small series of stones that are kept in the neck.  Once "chewed" is goes on to the stomach.

Ostriches (and apparently elk bird) can have a gizzard stone made of any stone, cut into a gem of the "gizzard stone" variety.  In theory, you could get platinum, candy, or perhaps even slade gizzard stones.  Unfortunately I don't think they can be smelted, as they're counted as gems.
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Mapleguy555

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Re: Native copper gizzard stone?
« Reply #3 on: March 12, 2012, 07:49:35 pm »
Stud a statue with a slade gizzard stone. Have it built in the circus surrounded by water.
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Re: Native copper gizzard stone?
« Reply #4 on: March 12, 2012, 07:50:23 pm »
Quote from: Girlinhat on March 12, 2012, 07:46:54 pm
Gizzard stones are used by birds to help digest food, essentially like teeth.  Since birds have no teeth, they swallow whole seeds and bugs, which are then crushed in the throat by a small series of stones that are kept in the neck.  Once "chewed" is goes on to the stomach.

Ostriches (and apparently elk bird) can have a gizzard stone made of any stone, cut into a gem of the "gizzard stone" variety.  In theory, you could get platinum, candy, or perhaps even slade gizzard stones.  Unfortunately I don't think they can be smelted, as they're counted as gems.
Are adamantine gizzards possible....
The million dollar elk bird.
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Re: Native copper gizzard stone?
« Reply #5 on: March 12, 2012, 07:52:41 pm »
Well, one cheap way to find out: mod a cheap animal and attach gizzard stones to it (heart stones?).  Then embark with 500 of them and start butchering.  Record your findings.  There's a chance that your DEEP_SPECIAL type of stones aren't on the list.
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