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[bloop_bleep]

Providing there was enough material you could have melted it, since it's not a alloy. (i apologise if i misunderstood your response on the reliance on ores but im quite sure you can melt copper objects without ore after editing it out if you made them seperately, like cheating bars in a reaction which would still give the civ access to the metal, making a object out of it then melting it again to get the bar back)

This 'could' be a abandoned kobold object with the theory of kobolds visiting and looting objects from vault sites being picked up by elves but i think that would be super unlikely.

'In' the soil is weird and like others have suggested, sounds like some sort of cascading problem with materials being flunked up badly.

The way I understand it, it’s not an item, but rather a vein in the ground.

[anewaname]

You could run a text search on the files in your ../df/raw/object/ files and see if the word "flashing" is found (not case-sensitive search....). It does not exist in the vanilla raw files (it is hard-coded in the df executable).

[blackattack54]

Providing there was enough material you could have melted it, since it's not a alloy. (i apologise if i misunderstood your response on the reliance on ores but im quite sure you can melt copper objects without ore after editing it out if you made them seperately, like cheating bars in a reaction which would still give the civ access to the metal, making a object out of it then melting it again to get the bar back)

This 'could' be a abandoned kobold object with the theory of kobolds visiting and looting objects from vault sites being picked up by elves but i think that would be super unlikely.

'In' the soil is weird and like others have suggested, sounds like some sort of cascading problem with materials being flunked up badly.

it showed up in veins and said "flashing metal wall" when i looked at it. and when mined it made boulders called "flashing metal", and smelting it into bars is impossible.

[feelotraveller]

i believe my save was corrupted, as i have made 10 or 11 other worlds since then and this has not happened since.

We all agree that something strange is going on in that save - that is precisely the reason to upload it!

[Bumber]

Did you mess with your Raw files?

[FantasticDorf]

My suggestion? Reinstall.

Before someone gets the wrong end of the stick with this advice, DF is not a installed application and you should not have to reinstall anything. Akin to the advice given they may say re-extract from ZIP file that DF comes from into a new game-folder to use  or re-download a fresh copy from the site.

[Iduno]

it showed up in veins and said "flashing metal wall" when i looked at it. and when mined it made boulders called "flashing metal", and smelting it into bars is impossible.

Is there a way to designate those boulders as "melt"? If you can do that, set the melt metal object job at the smelter, and ride that train to crazytown.