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[schnobs]

I tried to make that point in one of the numerous rewalling threads, but somehow it appears to have drowned in the noise. Or maybe it's not even new. Either way:

If a bit of smoothed rock is precious, a carefully worked out vein ought to be even more impressing. Dwarves really should be capable of making something worthwhile of a rock crystal where it is; why mine it and put a dull wall in it's place?

I'm so tempted to quote Gimli's glittering caves rant all over again.

(Of course, there would be quite a few instances where I'd rather have a dull wall instead. But that's not what this post is about.)

[ March 21, 2007: Message edited by: schnobs ]

[LordBucket]

Allow ore to be smoothed? Sounds great to me. Plus, it seems like it would be much simpler to implement than tunneling ai's.

Bucket Man

[JT]

The most important reason for this feature is that you can't carve fortifications onto ore veins or gem lodes.  A fortified entrance passageway often looks pathetic when there are ore lodes breaking up the fortifications and causing blind spots.

[prklts]

I would very heartily support this too. Sometimes you'd like to leave a whole section of wall in place for structural or defensive reasons, and after that you'd like to be able to finish it for obvious reasons.

Tim

[Fenek]

Yeah, that would be *awsome*.

[schnobs]

And again, the fortifications crowd takes over. Well, I certainly won't complain if as a side benefit you could carve fortifcations into ores. But the main point I was trying to get at was that a gem logged in the wall of your dining room should be a boon, not a burden.

[Asehujiko]

seems like a good idea
"had admired a masterfuly engraved copper ore lately"

[Scribble]

Smoothing ores and gems would be wonderfull...