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Cthulhu

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How Much Adamantine?
« on: April 19, 2008, 07:16:00 am »

I'm partway through my fortress' second year, and a lucky core sample grazed the very edge of the Adamantine.  I'm wondering, how much Adamantine is usually in a deposit, and how deep in is the Hidden Fun Stuff?  I'm wondering because adamantine seems to serve as an excellent way to get large amounts of stuff from traders, seeing as it's so expensive; and I'm afraid I won't have enough for weapons.
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Re: How Much Adamantine?
« Reply #1 on: April 19, 2008, 07:29:00 am »

adamantine desposites usually have about 200-300 units

they are a little complicated to dig out completely, because unlike normal metal veins, they don't go horizontaly, but verticaly

also, the HIDDEN FUN STUFF is usually surrounded by occasional magma pools, which makes some of the adamantine inaccessible without pumps


the HIDDEN FUN STUFF itself goes down to the lowest Z-level, but starts many levels above it


usually it goes like this:

Z-10
start of the pits

Z-9-5
the pits itself. the best parts are at the lowest part of the pits, where the engravings and the insane humans/elves/dwarves are

the levels below that are just like red glowing chasm tiles that go down to the lowest level

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Re: How Much Adamantine?
« Reply #2 on: April 19, 2008, 07:30:00 am »

whatever you do DO NOT sell adamantite to traders stockpile it all and lock it away until you have a legendary weapon and armorsmith then start making weapons and suits of armor out of it.
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Re: How Much Adamantine?
« Reply #3 on: April 19, 2008, 07:32:00 am »

Alright, I only sold four or five units of raw adamantine, just enough to get my anvil and food/drink supplies.
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Re: How Much Adamantine?
« Reply #4 on: April 19, 2008, 07:41:00 am »

That's roughly one chainmail and one suit of plate armor.  Just get farming/cooking up and sell meals, since you can always make more food.

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Re: How Much Adamantine?
« Reply #5 on: April 19, 2008, 07:48:00 am »

That's another thing I was wondering, I have Quarry bush leaves in a bag, and I'm wondering, how do I use them to cook?  Are they added to other meals, increasing the food yield?(The wiki said 160 units per leaf, or maybe it was bag) Or are they cooked on their own?
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Re: How Much Adamantine?
« Reply #6 on: April 19, 2008, 07:54:00 am »

They are cooked as an ingredient.  If you have multiple bags, you can create meals made entirely from quarry bush leaves.  These are not only highly expensive, they also churn out food in ridiculous quantities.

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Re: How Much Adamantine?
« Reply #7 on: April 19, 2008, 07:57:00 am »

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Originally posted by Kagus:
<STRONG>That's roughly one chainmail and one suit of plate armor.  Just get farming/cooking up and sell meals, since you can always make more food.</STRONG>

you need twice as much adamantine than you would need for the same object made of iron

adamantine plate mail needs 9 waffers

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Re: How Much Adamantine?
« Reply #8 on: April 19, 2008, 08:00:00 am »

I thought you needed three times as much.  Well, technically, wafers are used in the "real" material size, whereas metal bars are one third that number (rounded down).  

Don't tell me adamantine only yields one wafer per stone.

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Re: How Much Adamantine?
« Reply #9 on: April 19, 2008, 08:03:00 am »

yeah, I made a mistake there, it#s 3 times as much


and yes, only one waffer per stone

I think higher skill at strand extraction only makes the process faster, not more efficent

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Re: How Much Adamantine?
« Reply #10 on: April 19, 2008, 08:45:00 am »

Well, I hit the pits, and there's just one kid left, locked in the sheriff's bedroom.  The fleeing haulers led the demons to my fortress.  Only one guy had a chance, because he was mining under the fortress, and I was able to make him remove the staircase.  I was going to make him dig an escape tunnel so I could do a Hermit Challenge, but he walked out right on a (hibernating?  It was in the form of a glowing crystal) Spirit of Fire.  He didn't stand a chance.
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Re: How Much Adamantine?
« Reply #11 on: April 19, 2008, 09:45:00 am »

well thats the end of that
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Re: How Much Adamantine?
« Reply #12 on: April 19, 2008, 10:08:00 am »

And what a spectacular end it was.
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Re: How Much Adamantine?
« Reply #13 on: April 19, 2008, 03:39:00 pm »

The glowing crystal was a fireball.  Yea. put a fork in ya, yer done.
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