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Author Topic: Gold... Iron ore... Obsta- Wait. What?  (Read 690 times)

Johnfalcon99977

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Gold... Iron ore... Obsta- Wait. What?
« on: December 16, 2010, 05:38:26 pm »

I was using DF revel when I found something very strange.
There was Obsidian in the mountain. Almost in very spare part.

I had a volcano, but I had assumed that Obsidian would only be near the volcano. WTF is up with this?
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Max White

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Re: Gold... Iron ore... Obsta- Wait. What?
« Reply #1 on: December 16, 2010, 05:40:39 pm »

Na dude, it forms layers. Didn't you check the layers on embark?
You can get tonnes of the stuff, its just look luck finding a layer of obsidian with a layer of sedimentry flux.

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Re: Gold... Iron ore... Obsta- Wait. What?
« Reply #2 on: December 16, 2010, 06:52:41 pm »

In fact, it'll get really fecking irritating if you want stockpile space. Ensure that there are biomes in your embark that won't have obsidian.

P.S. If you don't understand anything about dwarf fortress, that sentence would make me sound like a lunatic. "biomes in your embark" heh.
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