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They Got Leader

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Smelting turtles?
« on: February 13, 2011, 06:13:08 pm »
I need shell. I am in a freezing biome...

Is there any way to smelt turtles? Or shells? Or should I modify an animal to produce shell??
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Re: Smelting turtles?
« Reply #1 on: February 13, 2011, 07:48:30 pm »
Quote from: They Got Leader on February 13, 2011, 06:13:08 pm
I need shell. I am in a freezing biome...

Is there any way to smelt turtles? Or shells? Or should I modify an animal to produce shell??

do you have turtles? if your fisherdwarves are catching turtles, there should be lots of shells in your fishery.

without catching something that has a material:shell in it, though, there's no way to get shell.

Easiest way is to mod in pet turtles, so your dwarves bring them, and they'll breed in your fortress.

just add the
[PET]
and possibly the
[COMMON_DOMESTIC]
tag to turtles.
Probably have to remove the
[NOT_BUTCHERABLE]
tag, though. Genesis has cave tortoises as pets. you could look at that to see how it's done.
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Re: Smelting turtles?
« Reply #2 on: February 13, 2011, 08:29:03 pm »
I need shell for my dwarf mood. However, there is no water anywhere on the map except the year-round frozen lakes.
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Re: Smelting turtles?
« Reply #3 on: February 13, 2011, 08:43:11 pm »
i'd imagine that moding a reaction to produce shells would be easier than to try and smelt turtles :\
look over on the wiki, they have a neat page on reactions an a buch of pages on the necessary tokens, note though that you should mod an existing reaction, like MAKE_FINE_PEWTER or something, or it would require a regen for it to take effect
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« Reply #4 on: February 14, 2011, 04:39:29 am »
From what I've heard the easiest thing to do would be to add [SHELL] to the material template for hooves.  That way you could quickly butcher a horse, cow, or other hoofed animal to get the required ingredients.
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« Reply #5 on: February 14, 2011, 05:17:58 am »
If all else fails, wall him in his workshop.

Glass if you want to make it so dwarves can take their dwarfren to see the crazy apeman.
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Re: Smelting turtles?
« Reply #6 on: February 15, 2011, 01:21:47 am »
How I smelt for turtle?

sorry, couldnt resist.
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« Reply #7 on: February 15, 2011, 04:22:38 am »
how mine magma?
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Re: Smelting turtles?
« Reply #8 on: February 18, 2011, 03:07:18 pm »
how mine web? need spider man pick
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