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Leon Czolgolz

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Cinnabar and Cobaltite
« on: January 05, 2008, 08:42:00 pm »

I was hunting for ores, and found huge veins of cinnabar and cobaltite. Neither of these are in the wiki - what are they for? Are they metal ores like copper, or something else?
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God of Toast

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Re: Cinnabar and Cobaltite
« Reply #1 on: January 05, 2008, 08:49:00 pm »

Pretty sure one of them is extremely toxic, in our world, they won't do anything to your dwarves.

Make a bunch of mugs out of em and sell them to the elves.

Neither can be smelted to make any metal though.

[ January 05, 2008: Message edited by: God of Toast ]

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Tamren

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Re: Cinnabar and Cobaltite
« Reply #2 on: January 05, 2008, 09:13:00 pm »

Cinnabar is mercury ore. Rediculously toxic.

As of yet we have nothing to make with it, although you can mod in smelter reactions.

Theres not much call for mercury, the only thing i can think of is extracting gold, but we have no problems smelting that anyway.

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Skanky

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Re: Cinnabar and Cobaltite
« Reply #3 on: January 05, 2008, 09:25:00 pm »

Maybe with access to mercury our dwarves can start making really cool hats!
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Re: Cinnabar and Cobaltite
« Reply #4 on: January 05, 2008, 09:37:00 pm »

Please. We don't need another reason for dwarves to go insane.
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Re: Cinnabar and Cobaltite
« Reply #5 on: January 05, 2008, 10:23:00 pm »

Cobaltite is also very toxic, being composed of cobalt, arsenic, and sulfur.
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Fenrir

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Re: Cinnabar and Cobaltite
« Reply #6 on: January 05, 2008, 10:26:00 pm »

Cobalt got it's name from kobolds, you know. I ain't kidding.
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