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Smelt special trees into unique metal bars?

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Author Topic: Poll for Interest: Wooden Ores  (Read 3510 times)

denito

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Re: Poll for Interest: Wooden Ores
« Reply #45 on: January 07, 2012, 01:24:54 am »

Reminded of the...flowers from a series of books which may or may not be the sword of shannarah and something to do with elfstones which were metallic, would harvest the suns rays during the day and turn them into Frikkin Laser Beams during the night to create impromptu fertiliser.

I believe you're thinking of Ringworld by Larry Niven.
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Re: Poll for Interest: Wooden Ores
« Reply #46 on: January 07, 2012, 01:45:17 am »

Would it be possible to make it a cavern based tree? Then you could get into the interesting point of being able to farm metals. Certainly placing it in the third layer cavern would ensure that it remains difficult to harvest for any major war effort, likewise, the ability to produce a renewable metal would mean that training metal-smiths would actually be a reasonable effort.
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Re: Poll for Interest: Wooden Ores
« Reply #47 on: January 07, 2012, 02:52:36 am »

Yes, they can be made into cavern trees.  For that matter, cavern bushes could give the same thing.  This is one area where raw modding can be very fun.

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Re: Poll for Interest: Wooden Ores
« Reply #48 on: January 07, 2012, 10:55:51 am »

What about using:
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[POPULATION:5:5]similar to sea serpents? You would then get a few per tropical forest biome, and it would grow back in a couple years?

Edit - Or just up the number of logs required to make a bar.(I test embarked and there were way too many trees for it to be such a good material
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