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[ObeseHelmet]

So basically, I have plenty of nice blocks, RIGHT BY THE MASON WORKSHOPS, but they still use normal stones to construct the tables.

Why, masons? Why?

[Corai]

They dont use blocks I believe.

[ObeseHelmet]

*facepalms*

[Loud Whispers]

Rock blocks are for constructions, not finished goods :£

[Thorik]

and also buildings

[Aspgren]

Out of curiosity... How many unwanted rock blocks are you sitting on right now?

Hundreds?

[Matoro]

Build Giant Temple of Armok outside from those blocks...

[oven_baked]

may i suggest:
dig a quarry, you can use the Blocks you have to build minecart tracks to link it to your fort, have dwarfs load the minecart with stone and then haul it to your fort. Much faster than hauling the stone piecemeal.

I suggest having it a couple of Z-levels down, so you can guide the carts up and push them down! (though you may get the announcement of "*oaken minecart* has collided with an obstacle" followed by "Urist Mc_terrible_dodger has been struck by a minecart")

[slink]

I had thought to myself that it ought to work that way with the new mining drop rate, because surely a chair is smaller than a wall which can be built with a block.  Then I realized that if you can build anything at a mason shop with blocks, then you can build blocks from blocks.  Because multiple blocks are now created that would become an infinite supply of rock.   

[krenshala]

Has anyone tested if craft goods can (still) be created using blocks?  I never got around to verifying that worked prior to the block buff. (Darn day job, that I need to leave for in 5 min.)

[slink]

Has anyone tested if craft goods can (still) be created using blocks?  I never got around to verifying that worked prior to the block buff. (Darn day job, that I need to leave for in 5 min.)

I don't believe that they ever could before, and I just tested in 34.10.  They cannot now either.  My craft workshop was set to make ten rock pots.  It was linked to a stockpile that contained shale blocks, and co-incidentally, two shale rocks.  Two rock pots were made from the shale rocks, and the other eight were cancelled "Needs non-economic hard rock."

[Muffindog]

Blocks are very convenient for megaprojects now with the x4 production rate, but that's about it. They cover only constructions, but you'll have to mine more for furniture and finished goods production. Start producing metal furniture if you can afford that luxury, or switch to wood if you're desperate. Or simply dig out more stone

[krenshala]

Has anyone tested if craft goods can (still) be created using blocks?  I never got around to verifying that worked prior to the block buff. (Darn day job, that I need to leave for in 5 min.)

I don't believe that they ever could before, and I just tested in 34.10.  They cannot now either.  My craft workshop was set to make ten rock pots.  It was linked to a stockpile that contained shale blocks, and co-incidentally, two shale rocks.  Two rock pots were made from the shale rocks, and the other eight were cancelled "Needs non-economic hard rock."

Thank you.  I had thought that was the case, but someone said otherwise and I never got the time (or remembered when I did) to verify through first hand !!science!!.

Me, I tried to build everything out of stone blocks, even before the block output buff, unless I knew for sure its a temp structure, then I tend to use wood logs for it.  The update has definitely increased the amount of blocks I have available for walling off my little piece of the world from the undead.

[Sutremaine]

Blocks are very convenient for megaprojects now with the x4 production rate, but that's about it.

With the new drop rate, doesn't that make them just as available as both rocks and blocks used to be, but without the reuseability of rock?

[slink]

Blocks are very convenient for megaprojects now with the x4 production rate, but that's about it.

With the new drop rate, doesn't that make them just as available as both rocks and blocks used to be, but without the reuseability of rock?

Looks that way to me.  The main difference now is that the rocks weigh a lot more and take more time to move.  Of course, a bin of blocks is probably pretty heavy, too.  I know a bin of metal bars is slow to move now.