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[Rage Machine]

aside from mega projects or just building above ground this game always leaves you with hundreds if not thousands of stone boulders. Once upon a time I would just quantum stockpile them though recently I have come into a more productive use of them. mugs, thousands and thousands of mugs. why mugs? i don't really know myself it just seems to make the most sense to me.

what do you guys do with all your stone?


ps, i cant find mugs in the 'move to depot' list except under 'all' is that a bug or am I doing it wrong?

[mordrax]

upgrade to 0.34.11 massive reduction in stone drops

then i build a 1x1 dump in my central shaft and assign rooms of stone to be dumped

[Urist Da Vinci]

Build a minecart-powered quantum stone piler so I can quantum pile stone without having to "dump" or "unforbid" it.

[darkrider2]

Build a crapton of furniture a stone crafts.

[hops]

Since I had a bunch of stonecrafters I set them to make lots and lots of crafts.
It's quite lucrative, really. I encrust those marked for the next trade with cheap gems just to multiply the price.

[weenog]

Every dwarf gets a fully furnished bedroom (except married couples, who are happy to share).  Nothing I put outside gets left open to the sky, it's all roofed over.  I have defensive walls including one big wall that encircles everything, and because I like to have some elbow room, that wall is long.  Nearly every non-metallic thing that can be stone is stone, because wood is for elves, beds, and coal.  And of course, there's paying for trade in stone crafts, and I like placing big orders... bring me all the metal our civilization owns, including the anvils.

Also, I've found that when things go bad, they tend to go very, very bad, so I like to have enough coffins ready that if my whole population and the next two migrant waves get wiped out completely, I don't need to make any more right away... I keep slabs in reserve too.  It's one less thing to worry about when I've already got the main calamity plus the consequent tantrum spiral on my hands.

[Darnis]

What I do is get around 4-5 epic masons; create as much furniture as you can; Armor Stands Weapon racks Cabinets Chests Statues Chairs Tables etc  and atom-smash anything that's not masterwork, make 4x4 rooms with all of the stuff you made and voila;No more tantrum spirals.
Also; recently found out that pressing X while choosing furniture lets you choose quality.

[krenshala]

Why atom smash it when you can trade it to the caravan for useful stuff? Or at least metals stuff to be melted.

[Tirion]

34.11: All my stone? Forbid-store some for moody dwarves.

Urist McStonecrafter cancels Make Stone Pot: needs non-economic hard rock.

[Monk321654]

As much as it discomforts me to use certain exploits, I usually quantum stockpile my stone...

[bombzero]

I just move the mason shop to the stone, problem solved.

[saurio]

I generally ignore it. I know, not very exciting, but lazily practical.

[terko]

I've got two legendary masons doing all the important stuff, like statues, weapon racks, doors, tables, thrones and so on, and like 10 others that make blocks and nothing else than blocks. In each z-level is another block stockpile holding only one kind of blocks. Since the changes I did out the whole z-level in the size I need it and then I build walls out of the blocks to for the structure I need.

Quite easy and my idlers got something to do.

You won't believe how fast you can wall off the surface from invaders when 30 masons are working all at once. Flooring takes a bit longer though, but it can be finished in the 2nd half of the third year, having a fine and controlled surface where nothing can break in, except you let it in.


And, for some reason, you can floor rivers up to the map edge, making it impossible for amphibious units to dive into your fort. Another security issue sometimes, especially when the pets coming with a siege are cave crocodiles. Nasty beasts!

[i2amroy]

aside from mega projects or just building above ground this game always leaves you with hundreds if not thousands of stone boulders. Once upon a time I would just quantum stockpile them though recently I have come into a more productive use of them. mugs, thousands and thousands of mugs. why mugs? i don't really know myself it just seems to make the most sense to me.

what do you guys do with all your stone?


ps, i cant find mugs in the 'move to depot' list except under 'all' is that a bug or am I doing it wrong?

Just a note here, but if you are making mugs you realize you end up with 3x as many of them as if you made crafts right? So it's better to make normal crafts or instruments if you are having problems with too much stone. Also for the purposes of trading mugs I usually just type in "mug" on the move to depot list, or store them in bins and then type "finished" to find the bins.

[SmileyMan]

Make them into blocks for minecart-shotgun ammo, with the nice side effects of legendary masons and lots of construction material.