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[Idiom]

Have you ever wandered down a brick road in adventure mode? How long and wide it is? You know how many thousands of tiles of stone had to have been mined for that? All the stone you import? Where does it come from?

I propose civilizations dig stone quarries for supplies. Firstly for realism. Secondly, it might make a neat place to embark to.

EDIT:
Wayyyy later when the army arc is nearly finished, they would make great targets. If you can interrupt their stone supply and slow the construction of castles and other fortifications of a rivaling civilization.

[Duke 2.0]

 I actually made a suggestion about different sites. Mines, farms, factory towns, residental towns, military towns, etc.

 I would enjoy seeing quests to rid mines and quarries of megabeasts.

[i2amroy]

It is already planned (merchant arc, I think) to add in resource tracking, so that each civ will only be able to use the resources available to them.

[MMad]

It is already planned (merchant arc, I think) to add in resource tracking, so that each civ will only be able to use the resources available to them.

I suspect road construction will still have to "cheat" in this regard though, or (as the OP said) few roads will ever be finished.

[magikarcher]

@ MMad: Possibly one block could construct 9 tiles of road if this implemented?

On Topic: Everyone knows that the stone is taken from the deepest parts of the chasms that scatter the mountains. Sheesh, didn't you pay attention to the tuto- LOL TUTORIAL!

[Granite26]

It is already planned (merchant arc, I think) to add in resource tracking, so that each civ will only be able to use the resources available to them.

Isn't that already the case?

[Mephansteras]

Parts of it are in, but not all of it. For example, a civ without any access to raw aluminum can still send you aluminum bars.

And I wholeheartedly agree with the idea of there being specific mines, logging camps, quarries, etc. They'd probably have small villages attached to them, which then send their raw materials to a nearby town with better merchant access, like rivers.

[Granite26]

sounds like what needs to happen is A: Civs can only use raw materials they produce, and B: expanding civ placement should maximize production.

Maximizing production means fewer good sites for your forts though.  It's a tradeoff...

[Pilsu]

This would result in nothing else but making 90% of all player forts unable to get resource X which is irritating, not interesting

[Granite26]

I take it you are of the 'Civs shouldn't maximize their resources, because I need to be able to get every site feature in a single fort' school?

A:  Start the game earlier
B:  Fight the current occupants for it.

[Lazureus]

Have you ever wandered down a brick road in adventure mode? How long and wide it is? You know how many thousands of tiles of stone had to have been mined for that? All the stone you import? Where does it come from?

Makes me wonder why we can't build roads paved with the bones/skulls of your enemies

[Granite26]

I'm actually wondering if we shouldn't occasionally find quarries at the bottom of DF worlds, or big lumps of 'unmineable stone' that serve as long term quarries for stuff.  Too slow to be unbalanced for the fort, but later on, when you 'retire as outpost' the fort, it will continue producing that stone/ore as an export.

Granite quarries should be common, but there's maybe one diamond quarry in a large world.