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[evileeyore]

POUR MAGMA ON IT

Actually I do believe magma removes mud, so I might be serious

Did I not say PAINT IT WITH MAGMA!   






 

[FuzzyZergling]

If you make an area of smoothed stone/construced flooring a meeting area, dwarves will usually be quick to clean it up.

[Cespinarve]

It'd be nice if you could use dye to change the colour of stone, for symmetry purposes.

I support this idea. It would give me a reason to actually use my dyers shop, or to buy dye from elves. mysteriously discover it in my trade depot.

Dwarves don't use dye. What are you, an elf?

Yes. Yes they do. Why is this even a thing? Why do some players feel the need to claim that only an elf would ever [blank]- blank here meaning every thing in the game that isn't using a pick or making things of stone. And one of these days I'm going to find someone bitching that mining is elfy, and that real dwarves huddle in little surface caves naked and living off of dirt, because that's the only real dwarven way. Seriously, I wonder how bland these people's forts are- nothing but raw pump helmets, and unfurnished rooms. Dull dull dull. Dwarves have STYLE. They're MASTER CRAFTSMEN, of COURSE THEY USE DYE. Rich and fascinating colours in strange and deep symbols, monolithic stone thrones and intricately carved wooden figurines of a plaintive dying dog that make you WEEP.

True dwarves don't live in hovels or pathetic caves, they huge deep mountain halls and fill them with riches and beauty. Dwarves don't drink to become the disgusting drunken retches that human teens are, no. Alchohol gives them no drunkeness, it expands their tastebuds to new levels, and at every meal a Dwarves knows fine cooking if divine.

[Avo]

Yeah. If I'm digging out a close-to-the-surface-completely-stone fort and I suddenly hit a nice, big chunk of DIRT.

I rage. I rage hard.

Typically i can stand a vein of somthing else in my dining hall. It adds character but dirt will not be tolerated in my fortress!

[vhappylurker]

Yeah. If I'm digging out a close-to-the-surface-completely-stone fort and I suddenly hit a nice, big chunk of DIRT.

I rage. I rage hard.

Typically i can stand a vein of somthing else in my dining hall. It adds character but dirt will not be tolerated in my fortress!

But I like having a few dirt rooms in my fort. It gives me a place to stick my egg producing birds and some potential tree farms once I hit a cavern. Now having my front entrance being just dirt walls and floors is a whole 'nother story...

[Avo]

^
Thats why i like to embark somewhere with hills, if that's not possible then i usually end up tearing up my entrance and replacing it with stone from the bowels of my city.

[Saiko Kila]

My dwarves (in .25) so rarely clean mud it remains on smoothed or constructed floors for years. Even when there is not much of it. I find it to be more feasible to construct something (mentioned animal traps are good for that, Trapping need to be enabled) and then remove it, than waiting for dwarves to clean it.

[tolkafox]

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It'd be nice if you could use dye to change the colour of stone, for symmetry purposes.

I support this idea. It would give me a reason to actually use my dyers shop, or to buy dye from elves. mysteriously discover it in my trade depot.

Dwarves don't use dye. What are you, an elf?

Yes. Yes they do. Why is this even a thing? Why do some players feel the need to claim that only an elf would ever [blank]- blank here meaning every thing in the game that isn't using a pick or making things of stone. And one of these days I'm going to find someone bitching that mining is elfy, and that real dwarves huddle in little surface caves naked and living off of dirt, because that's the only real dwarven way. Seriously, I wonder how bland these people's forts are- nothing but raw pump helmets, and unfurnished rooms. Dull dull dull. Dwarves have STYLE. They're MASTER CRAFTSMEN, of COURSE THEY USE DYE. Rich and fascinating colours in strange and deep symbols, monolithic stone thrones and intricately carved wooden figurines of a plaintive dying dog that make you WEEP.

True dwarves don't live in hovels or pathetic caves, they huge deep mountain halls and fill them with riches and beauty. Dwarves don't drink to become the disgusting drunken retches that human teens are, no. Alchohol gives them no drunkeness, it expands their tastebuds to new levels, and at every meal a Dwarves knows fine cooking if divine.

Real dwarves decorate their walls with dye using the help of a nearby river and ~SCIENCE~! Bonus points if you can actually decorate the walls and not have a random paint.

[Endiqua]

Dwarves have STYLE. They're MASTER CRAFTSMEN, of COURSE THEY USE DYE. Rich and fascinating colours in strange and deep symbols, monolithic stone thrones and intricately carved wooden figurines of a plaintive dying dog that make you WEEP.

Awesome.   

[blizzerd]

i generally dont bother with smoothing stone other then smoothing every room just to train my engraver

once a room is smoothed, i dig out the walls and construct new walls from blocks and place stone blocks on the floor... much neater

dont like that i cant engrave those though

[Cespinarve]

i generally dont bother with smoothing stone other then smoothing every room just to train my engraver

once a room is smoothed, i dig out the walls and construct new walls from blocks and place stone blocks on the floor... much neater

dont like that i cant engrave those though

So... then.. what... exactly is the point of you training an engraver in the first place? A simple devotion to really nice slabs?

[Stormfeather]

But I like having a few dirt rooms in my fort. It gives me a place to stick my egg producing birds and some potential tree farms once I hit a cavern. Now having my front entrance being just dirt walls and floors is a whole 'nother story...

You don't need dirt/grass for egg producing birds, unless you've got some elk birds breeding. Chickens/turkeys/ducks/etcetc don't graze.

At least, not yet... guess we shouldn't give Toady ideas. But I like to think that they live on the little bugs that scurry around underground or on the surface or whatever.

[FrankMcFuzz]

Paint.

Paint would be cool. Trade it off the humans. We like humans.

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The elves can keep their dirty dirt dimple dirt cups of dirty dirt

[Blade Master Model 42]

Frankly, I like the designs of mineral veins in large, mined out rooms. Once I've smoothed it of course. After a while, my engravers really do not have enough to do with their time, and if there's one thing I can't stand it's an idle dwarf. Get back to laboring for my amusement!