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[Kaelem Gaen]

Anyone got the link to "Molten Rocks" Some how I always managed to pick the Dwarf Civ that doesn't have access to bauxite.   I added reactions to smelter to make Iron and Steel mechanisms  (any_use for either seemed weird to me because the option to make iron clothes would be there, but you couldn't unless you added thread tag)

[Corinthius]

http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=894%22

[Kaelem Gaen]

Thanks!

[Sutremaine]

Economic stones and molten rocks. If they were part of the game, there would be a way of labelling them without having to use a dummy reaction.

I'd also like all three iron ores to be given the reaction class 'foobar' and for a reaction to be added that converts one item of reaction class 'foobar' into a bar of iron. Most players aren't going to care what iron ore they smelt, and I have an AHK script that orders iron ore--> steel --> set of armour. By vanilla the script has to care what ore it smelts, and that's sort of annoying. (It's possible to do this without regen, but it requires reaction hijacking. That's part of the annoyance.)

[happydog23]

I'd also like all three iron ores to be given the reaction class 'foobar' and for a reaction to be added that converts one item of reaction class 'foobar' into a bar of iron. Most players aren't going to care what iron ore they smelt, and I have an AHK script that orders iron ore--> steel --> set of armour. By vanilla the script has to care what ore it smelts, and that's sort of annoying. (It's possible to do this without regen, but it requires reaction hijacking. That's part of the annoyance.)

Thats a mod thats almost worth posting... making it so instead of "smelt ore blah blah blah" that makes iron just having reactions that "Make Iron Bars (from ore)"  or Copper or Bronze, or anything  that has multiple ores that can make the bars.

[Arrkhal]

That reminds me of a mod I did on mine.

I made it so that the ores which contain silver as a secondary ore (and I changed galena to be 20% rather than 50%) can be processed in batches of 5 to produce 1 guaranteed silver, but a reduced and randomized amount of the other metal.

If partial bars from smelting aren't in the next version, then that's a pretty convenient mod if you don't have silver nuggets.

[Slogo]

Economic Stone is a must.
The other mod that is essential to me is one I cooked up. I took all of the stone types and made their symbols more consistent. I grouped the minerals into the same symbol based on types: Soil, Sedimentary, Metamorphosis, Igneous, Non-layer stone, Flux, Ore, Gems, and Other (Obsidian and Bauxite). You lose some information at a glance but it made everything look cleaner and easier to parse.

[Lancensis]

Yeah, that sounds pretty handy. Do you just use the one symbol for ores? I was considering having precious metals as £, and maybe something a bit harder and manlier for iron ore. I guess there's the miscelaneous ores like copper too

[RantingRodent]

For my tileset, I've categorized all stones according to function and given each group a different tile. This makes mining a breeze, as I recognize everything immediately. DF is usually pretty good about giving you information, but in vanilla, I had to resort to 'k' a bit much at times.

There's a tool that allows you to disable auto-pausing in various situations. It would be nice if auto-pausing preferences could be adjusted in the game. Especially when designating for mining.

[Slogo]

Yeah, that sounds pretty handy. Do you just use the one symbol for ores? I was considering having precious metals as £, and maybe something a bit harder and manlier for iron ore. I guess there's the miscelaneous ores like copper too

Only the deep metal had a special symbol. The iron ores had a distinctive color though. Generally, I don't care what ore it is, just whether or not its ore. That way I can spot the ore easily at a glance and plan accordingly.

Once 41 comes out I'm probably going to redo the mod and post it. Ultimately I wanted to reduce the bloat of stone, ores, and gems but there's surprisingly little bloat. Each one has at least something unique about it. Gems may be the only exception, but there's just so many gems it's a pain to deal with.