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Aeon Blue

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Do dwarfs care about the material of walls and floors?
« on: January 23, 2012, 03:08:31 pm »
I'm trying to decide whether to locate my fortress in the layer of mudstone or marble and sphalerite.
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Lmaoboat

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Re: Do dwarfs care about the material of walls and floors?
« Reply #1 on: January 23, 2012, 03:16:44 pm »
Marble and other flux make better rooms than normal stone.
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Re: Do dwarfs care about the material of walls and floors?
« Reply #2 on: January 23, 2012, 03:25:41 pm »
yes they care. Put a noble room on a patch of mined gems and watch him or her gloat about his pretty floor, engrave it with a masterwork engraving and see the value rocket
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Re: Do dwarfs care about the material of walls and floors?
« Reply #3 on: January 23, 2012, 03:31:28 pm »
Thanks, guys. =D
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Re: Do dwarfs care about the material of walls and floors?
« Reply #4 on: January 23, 2012, 03:51:32 pm »
Vast magnetite dining halls FTW!
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Re: Do dwarfs care about the material of walls and floors?
« Reply #5 on: January 23, 2012, 09:39:50 pm »
My best was a legendary unsmoothed dining hall (7x11 tiles) made entirely of olivine.  I think it even had wooden chairs and tables that were only of the bottom two quality levels.
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Re: Do dwarfs care about the material of walls and floors?
« Reply #6 on: January 23, 2012, 10:00:06 pm »
olivine? isn't that just... rock? Was there platinum chunks in it?
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Re: Do dwarfs care about the material of walls and floors?
« Reply #7 on: January 29, 2012, 04:43:42 am »
If they like the material of the floor/wall, then like it even more. That actually caused me problems when my mayor was replaced, as suddenly the room wasn't good enough anymore. The previous mayor particularly liked the type of stone in the room.
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Re: Do dwarfs care about the material of walls and floors?
« Reply #8 on: January 29, 2012, 08:28:53 am »
If you have a broker with the needed skill to know the value of rocks, yes. Material quality matters, but ONLY for Nobles/Happy thoughts: Legendary bedroom, Legendary dining hall...that, if they have their personal rooms.

Rooms made out of metal ore, smoothed and engraved are a haven for them. Even a small 3x3 room can be made Legendary to the dwarf owning it. Believe me.

Magnetite. Sedimentary layer, yay Clusters!
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Re: Do dwarfs care about the material of walls and floors?
« Reply #9 on: January 29, 2012, 09:23:11 am »
Isn't gold much better than magnetite? Is it just that magnetite appears in bigger clumps, making a room of it easier?
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Re: Do dwarfs care about the material of walls and floors?
« Reply #10 on: January 29, 2012, 09:53:29 am »
yes to both
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« Reply #11 on: January 29, 2012, 12:35:15 pm »
You should be careful. I made a bed chamber for my philosopher once in 40d out of an engraved olivine room with a platinum vein running through it. The dungeon master nearly burst a blood vessel in sheer envy every time he walked past it.
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Re: Do dwarfs care about the material of walls and floors?
« Reply #12 on: January 29, 2012, 01:26:49 pm »
If you ever need to drive a room to ludicrous value then install a carpet made of weapon traps. You can easily turn a 2x2 bedroom with so-so furniture and no special minerals into a royal bedroom. Masterwork iron/steel/adamantine/artifact trap components are insanely valuable and you can stack 10 of them plus a mechanism in just a single tile.

It makes perfect sense. What tantruming sociopathic drunk wouldn't be comforted by ten massive spiked iron balls hanging over their cramped living room, waiting to crush them if they lose their mind?

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Re: Do dwarfs care about the material of walls and floors?
« Reply #13 on: January 29, 2012, 09:28:29 pm »
Quote from: NonconsensualSurgery on January 29, 2012, 01:26:49 pm
If you ever need to drive a room to ludicrous value then install a carpet made of weapon traps. You can easily turn a 2x2 bedroom with so-so furniture and no special minerals into a royal bedroom. Masterwork iron/steel/adamantine/artifact trap components are insanely valuable and you can stack 10 of them plus a mechanism in just a single tile.

It makes perfect sense. What tantruming sociopathic drunk wouldn't be comforted by ten massive spiked iron balls hanging over their cramped living room, waiting to crush them if they lose their mind?

This is useful to know. My baroness is currently on a rampage. If anything, it should give her something to mull over before she decides to brain another legendary crafter.
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Re: Do dwarfs care about the material of walls and floors?
« Reply #14 on: January 30, 2012, 01:33:17 pm »
Quote from: Yaotzin on January 29, 2012, 09:23:11 am
Isn't gold much better than magnetite? Is it just that magnetite appears in bigger clumps, making a room of it easier?

If you can find several veins of gold close together, yes. Otherwise, magnetite, as it appears in BIG ASS OVALS OF IRON
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