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[Rollory]

http://www.wired.com/science/planetearth/magazine/16-12/ff_diamonds?currentPage=1

[Mephansteras]

Hmmm. I'd like to see this part in DF.

Kimberlite pipes are created when magma bubbles up through a craton, expanding and cooling on its way up. If the craton has diamonds in it, the result is either a carrot-shaped, diamond-studded pipe reaching up to the surface or a wide, flat underground structure called a dike.

[Creamcorn]

Hmmm. I'd like to see this part in DF.

Kimberlite pipes are created when magma bubbles up through a craton, expanding and cooling on its way up. If the craton has diamonds in it, the result is either a carrot-shaped, diamond-studded pipe reaching up to the surface or a wide, flat underground structure called a dike.

Yeah more natural cave structures would be intriguing, (if that is how you spell that).

[PTTG??]

Indeed, current DF raws mean that you will only find diamonds inside Kimberlite veins. It's not great, but it's kinda realistic.

[Mephansteras]

I was referring to Kimberlite being either a carrot-shaped pipe or a flat blob, instead of a the vein it is now.

I guess I could mod it to be a blob instead of a vein, which would at least be slightly more realistic.

[eerr]

isn't kimberlite already a lode rock, like microline or magnetite?

[Draco18s]

I was referring to Kimberlite being either a carrot-shaped pipe or a flat blob, instead of a the vein it is now.

I guess I could mod it to be a blob instead of a vein, which would at least be slightly more realistic.

Would be nice to see veins move in the z-axis, in a similar fashion to adamantine.

[Sean Mirrsen]

I think Toady once said that he had kimberlite pipes working at some point, but had to revert to the current system for whatever reasons. I suspect the current plan for underground diversity aims at least partially to fix those "whatever reasons" and we will have the pipes. And speaking of pipes, those should be made working too, I hate to carve channels and tunnels every time I need to move water somewhere.