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[Urist Imiknorris]

VI.: What's Gnomeblight?

Can be bought in barrels, and I think it was part of an experiment with applying poisons to weapons, but the code was never finished, so it's a useless remnant. Several types of venom and liquid fire can be extracted or bought, but have no purpose.

Same thing with Golden Salve, which was supposed to work as a medicine but never got completed and is also a useless remnant.

What about valley herb?

Golden salve.

VII: Glass is peculiar. Glass items will melt in magma, but buildings made of glass will not. Basically, if you flooded your green glass corkscrew stockpile with magma, the corkscrews would melt, but a weapon trap inside the stockpile filled with green glass corkscrews would not, provided the mechanism is also magma safe. So pump away.

[JacenHanLovesLegos]

Ahhhh.

[Flaede]

VI.: What's Gnomeblight?

Can be bought in barrels, and I think it was part of an experiment with applying poisons to weapons, but the code was never finished, so it's a useless remnant. Several types of venom and liquid fire can be extracted or bought, but have no purpose.

Same thing with Golden Salve, which was supposed to work as a medicine but never got completed and is also a useless remnant.

I thought Gnomeblight is intended to be drunk by the gnomes, as their tags make them steal your alcohol and drink it. Supposedly the 'decoy' barrel of gnomeblight gets drunk and kills the gnomes.

[Shrugging Khan]

God dammit. I bought dozens of barrels of gnomeblight, believing it to be a drink.

[TolyK]

gnomeblight bombs?
or just re-sell it to the dwarves (the price is actually slightly better somethimes... if you encrust it 

[Shrugging Khan]

Anyways, happy days. As soon as I manage to fend off the latest ambush (they always prey on merchants, never coming in range of my traps.), I'll be making an effort to produce 150 green glass pumps, so I can actually get magma from the sea up to the goblins and kobolds. This is going to take years, but I'm too short on resources and having too great ambitions for above-surface buildings to waste metal or magma-safe rock on pumps. Glass it is!


VIII.: How heavily can the merchant caravans be hit by ambushers / sieges until they stop coming? What (aside from saving them) can be done to make them come anyways?

[TolyK]

I think that caravans don't come during sieges. other than that, I dunno. well, actually if you manage to make a path for caravans that's 3 tiles wide and isolate the rest of the fort they should appear where it's accessible. and goblins rarely.

but that is very hard to do, sometimes impossible on a map without using dfhack (tweak)

[Shrugging Khan]

Well, not that hard. I've got a lot of boulders sitting around on one half of the map, so that ought to offer the nicest opportunities.

[TolyK]

making the caravans path is easy. making the path goblin-proof is hard 

you need (map edge is left):

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######## etc. to fort

MAP EDGE! (note: can't build near edge for 5 tiles or dig the last one)

######## etc. to fort

so you have to be either really lucky or use DFhack (tweak) to finish up the edges