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Urist is dead tome

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Oil?
« on: December 07, 2010, 05:12:14 pm »

What's your opinion of oil wells being put in?
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Re: Oil?
« Reply #1 on: December 07, 2010, 05:15:51 pm »

I search your forums.   I search them up.

(I'm sure Footkerchief will round this one out, but I just had to get my Plainview on before I head to work.)
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Re: Oil?
« Reply #2 on: December 07, 2010, 06:02:32 pm »

'Thas been suggested, as well as discussed by ToadyOne. Yeah, The search function (in all it's broken glory) is your friend.
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Re: Oil?
« Reply #3 on: December 07, 2010, 06:04:08 pm »

Only problem is that the search function won't accept anything three characters long.
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Re: Oil?
« Reply #4 on: December 07, 2010, 06:06:21 pm »

I can see oil as something that could burn, but is not inherently hot. If you built an oil smelter perhaps it could require one charcoal to start the fire.
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Re: Oil?
« Reply #5 on: December 07, 2010, 09:20:07 pm »

Perhaps it could be some sort of super-fuel with a drawback? It could create miasma when used. Since oil (especially whale oil) has a nasty stench.
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Re: Oil?
« Reply #6 on: December 08, 2010, 12:23:37 am »

Lamp oil? Perhaps for torches? Dwarves complaining of a lack of light would create the need for torches. Also oil would be a good siege weapon. Quite cinematic.
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Re: Oil?
« Reply #7 on: December 08, 2010, 01:04:28 am »

Only problem is that the search function won't accept anything three characters long.

google is a better friend than builtin search functions of the forum

http://www.google.com/search?q=oil+site:http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/

use site:http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/ in the query to limit the results to just the df forum.
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Re: Oil?
« Reply #8 on: December 08, 2010, 11:47:55 am »

google is a better friend than builtin search functions of the forum

http://www.google.com/search?q=oil+site:http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/

use site:http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/ in the query to limit the results to just the df forum.

Yeah, this is a useful technique.  You can further refine the results like so:

http://www.google.com/search?q=oil+%22df+suggestions%22+-%22index.php%3Fboard%22+-%22show+posts%22+site%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.bay12forums.com

However...

Only problem is that the search function won't accept anything three characters long.

Did you try it?  It works fine.

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Oil has been suggested several times:

http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=48528.0
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=3087.0
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=2942.0
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=59679.0
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=68633.0

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Re: Oil?
« Reply #9 on: December 08, 2010, 02:45:00 pm »

Don't know about you guys but I didn't mean like vegetable oil. I meant petroleum oil. Men's oil
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Re: Oil?
« Reply #10 on: December 09, 2010, 04:58:57 pm »

Don't know about you guys but I didn't mean like vegetable oil. I meant petroleum oil. Men's oil

Did you even scroll down past the first ten results?

Problems and solutions for multiple liquid types (mostly problems)
OIL
Salt and Oil

All right there on the first page of results.
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Re: Oil?
« Reply #11 on: December 09, 2010, 11:34:47 pm »

Well since it already been covered than I'm outta here.
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