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[Bien]

Im trying to mod in uranium and aluminum.

Imagine wielding a uranium pike.

Any way what files do i have to create or edit and what do i have to type.

[Janus]

You can't modify metal ores in the currently released version as far as I know. You will be able to in the upcoming version which Toady is working on.
There are matgloss files in the raws for stone types and gems so you might be able to modify those or add new ones. I don't recall hearing of anyone messing with them though. The obligatory wiki links for editing stone types and gem types: http://dwarf.lendemaindeveille.com/index.php/Stone_Tokens

http://dwarf.lendemaindeveille.com/index.php/Gem_Tokens

[ May 31, 2007: Message edited by: Janus ]

[puke]

i dont know about uranium, but i dont think you can just smelt it out of ore.

and i know that aluminium needs to be extracted out of boxite.  the process was so difficult that aluminium was once more valueable than gold.  probably a job for the alchemist, or something.

[Toady One]

From my (I think wiki) reading, you can find pure aluminum in volcanic mud, and that's where the earlier stuff came from.  The bauxite refining process is quite involved, and beyond the dwarves most likely.

[Leprechaun]

Apart from finding it in volcanic mud, you'd have to either reduce it with a more reactive metal like potassium, sodium, magnesium or calcium etc, or electrolyse it after dissolving it in molten cryolite*. So you'd need to hit the magma first.

*another aluminium compound with a lower melting point

So, to be realistic you'd also have to mod in either more reactive metals, cryolite and electricity (lightning rod and storm, anyone?), or a way to get calcium out of limestone.

Could take quite a bit of doing.

Oh my God. With the new version, if you can add new ores in, someone add caesium and make it explode on contact with water! Water-caesium trap!

[Bien]

Thanks! And can i add more workshops?

[Leprechaun]

Absolutely no idea. I've only just found Teh Search Of Doom myself, so I think the best way to find out would be to ask the devs, if no-one else knows.

[Gaulgath]

Nope, workshops are all hardcoded right now. And probably for a while too, until editors get in.

[Bien]

So how about wood and stone? And thanks by the way!

[Gaulgath]

As one person already answered, you can mod stone. Wood is possible too, yes.