Bay 12 Games Forum

Please login or register.

Login with username, password and session length
Advanced search  

Author Topic: Can you introduce iron/copper to your civilization?  (Read 622 times)

DTF

  • Bay Watcher
    • View Profile
Can you introduce iron/copper to your civilization?
« on: June 09, 2012, 11:07:21 am »
Sitting on the embark screen right now and I'm baffled. My civ knows how to make steel and bronze, but there is no copper or iron available to select - be it in form of stone or bars.
If I make copper and iron items and become mountainhome, will my civ learn to include these metals?
What about trading - can I request iron items from a civ although it doesnt know how to make them?

I feel kinda iffy planning an embark without being able to produce anything better than copper (no iron or cassiterite on my map).
Logged
(a>b) ? false : true

Quietust

  • Bay Watcher
  • Does not suffer fools gladly
    • View Profile
    • QMT Productions
Re: Can you introduce iron/copper to your civilization?
« Reply #1 on: June 09, 2012, 11:13:22 am »
It would certainly be possible to use DFHack to grant a civilization access to a particular metal, though I don't recall all of the places where it would need to be set.
Logged
P.S. If you don't get this note, let me know and I'll write you another.
Quote from: Lord Dakoth on September 17, 2009, 10:47:58 pm
It's amazing how dwarves can make a stack of bones completely waterproof and magmaproof.
Quote from: Neruz on September 18, 2009, 06:58:26 am
It's amazing how they can make an entire floodgate out of the bones of 2 cats.

neotemplar

  • Bay Watcher
  • The [Weapon] has lodged firmly in the wound!
    • View Profile
Re: Can you introduce iron/copper to your civilization?
« Reply #2 on: June 09, 2012, 12:53:56 pm »
How can they have bronze but no copper?
Logged
If not under Neotemplar look for Vellum.

<22:07:06> "Terry": If a kid is old enough to play D&D
<22:07:20> "Terry": A kid is old enough to experience a dolphin being strangled

DTF

  • Bay Watcher
    • View Profile
Re: Can you introduce iron/copper to your civilization?
« Reply #3 on: June 09, 2012, 01:04:24 pm »
Quote from: neotemplar on June 09, 2012, 12:53:56 pm
How can they have bronze but no copper?

No clue, really. Only 2 out of 10 (? didnt really count) civs on the world had access to iron and copper. The rest only had bronze and steel.
I embarked anyway; not having reliable access to iron is always Fun.

Still, the question whether civs can learn to use the ores stays. I suspect the answer is no, but I'm curious nonetheless.
Logged
(a>b) ? false : true

Askot Bokbondeler

  • Bay Watcher
  • please line up orderly
    • View Profile
Re: Can you introduce iron/copper to your civilization?
« Reply #4 on: June 09, 2012, 01:12:28 pm »
civs have access to materials they have reactions to produce whether or not they have access to the reagents

you can add iron and copper to civs if you add a reaction to produce them to their entity raws. not sure if it requires a regen to take effect
Logged