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Ranzear

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Sometimes you feel like a bonehead.
« on: March 15, 2010, 06:11:58 am »

I just dug out a 20x20 room in solid obsidian with my legendary miners... because I needed space for a stone stockpile for all the obsidian I have laying about. :-X
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Lancensis

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Re: Sometimes you feel like a bonehead.
« Reply #1 on: March 15, 2010, 11:37:57 am »

Well stick a mason's workshop in there, and make some nice doors?
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Grimlocke

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Re: Sometimes you feel like a bonehead.
« Reply #2 on: March 15, 2010, 12:38:00 pm »

Pave the floor with rough obsidian? ;D

Its something I often do when I have a ton of rocks with nothing to do with them.
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Re: Sometimes you feel like a bonehead.
« Reply #3 on: March 15, 2010, 12:50:53 pm »

You have struck irony, curse the miners!
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Re: Sometimes you feel like a bonehead.
« Reply #4 on: March 15, 2010, 12:52:39 pm »

You could also quantum dump them.
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Re: Sometimes you feel like a bonehead.
« Reply #5 on: March 15, 2010, 02:45:26 pm »

Mugs FTW

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Re: Sometimes you feel like a bonehead.
« Reply #6 on: March 15, 2010, 04:04:22 pm »

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Julius Clonkus

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Re: Sometimes you feel like a bonehead.
« Reply #7 on: March 15, 2010, 05:24:22 pm »

The only option is obsidian swords. You can store these in wooden bins until your brave soldiers decide to store them in the head of an unwanted elven visitor instead.
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Re: Sometimes you feel like a bonehead.
« Reply #8 on: March 15, 2010, 05:58:24 pm »

Build a magma dispenser device and add branches to it as needed, meaning whenever you dig out a large room and want to use it for something else except a large room full of rocks.

Bonus points if you don't have any fail-safe systems for keeping the magma flowing out of the room, or keeping dwarves from deciding that all that molten obsidian has to be cleaned.
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Grendus

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Re: Sometimes you feel like a bonehead.
« Reply #9 on: March 16, 2010, 04:53:50 pm »

You have a few options. Magma or atom smashers will take care of the obsidian. So will a chasm, if you have one. You could mass produce obsidian goods and send them away with the trade caravans. Or you could dig out some new storage with unskilled miners.
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