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Kirkegaard

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Outside wear and rust
« on: November 05, 2013, 01:06:51 pm »
I can see in the wiki http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/Wear that all items left outside will wear down, but what is the rate?

I hate to have goblin gear and corpses laying around outside my fortress entrance, but since they started with invasions it is getting quite a lot of garbage to dump into the atom smasher. So how long will it take if I just left it there? A year, two maybe? or are we talking ages for stuff like armors etc?

Ps. I know I can just hide it or use dfhack to autodump it, but prefare not to.
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Telgin

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Re: Outside wear and rust
« Reply #1 on: November 05, 2013, 01:13:00 pm »
I believe it takes on the order of decades for some material types (cloth and wood), unless you're in a freezing biome, in which case it happens in a year or two if memory serves.  I don't know if metal decays at all like this.
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Re: Outside wear and rust
« Reply #2 on: November 05, 2013, 01:34:01 pm »
There is a tool in dfhack to clean up that stuff.
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Re: Outside wear and rust
« Reply #3 on: November 05, 2013, 03:00:15 pm »
I always overlap garbage zone with refuse stockpile... it supposedly speeds up the process.
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Telgin

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Re: Outside wear and rust
« Reply #4 on: November 05, 2013, 05:45:16 pm »
Anything stored in a stockpile that is set to accept refuse will decay much faster, but I'm not sure on the specifics.  Clothes still seem to rot a lot faster than creature remains for example.
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Kirkegaard

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Re: Outside wear and rust
« Reply #5 on: November 06, 2013, 12:58:29 pm »
Quote from: Telgin on November 05, 2013, 05:45:16 pm
Anything stored in a stockpile that is set to accept refuse will decay much faster, but I'm not sure on the specifics. 

That explains a lot of other problems, no more mixed refuse/other zones then :)
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Re: Outside wear and rust
« Reply #6 on: November 07, 2013, 11:27:00 pm »
Quote from: Finn on November 05, 2013, 01:34:01 pm
There is a tool in dfhack to clean up that stuff.

There is a tool in DF to clean up that stuff.

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