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Author Topic: is there anyuse with liquid metal?  (Read 874 times)

ranger22550

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is there anyuse with liquid metal?
« on: August 31, 2012, 08:42:14 am »

like can you make pure silver walls or us it to make a floor or something? or is it just another name for a dwarf killer?
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Azated

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Re: is there anyuse with liquid metal?
« Reply #1 on: August 31, 2012, 08:44:38 am »

As far as I know, there's no such thing as liquid metal.

You can make metal walls, though. Just smelt the ore down and use the bars.
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Then it happened. Then I cringed. Then I picked it up and beat him to death with it, and then his buddies, too.
You beat a man to death with his dick?

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Re: is there anyuse with liquid metal?
« Reply #2 on: August 31, 2012, 08:47:59 am »

non magma safe bars in lava melt but don't get destroyed its called molten <metal name here> aka liquid metal
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Re: is there anyuse with liquid metal?
« Reply #3 on: August 31, 2012, 08:49:15 am »

non magma safe bars in lava melt but don't get destroyed its called molten <metal name here> aka liquid metal

That's basically the same as being destroyed. They have no purpose.
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Then it happened. Then I cringed. Then I picked it up and beat him to death with it, and then his buddies, too.
You beat a man to death with his dick?

"I don't feel like myself. Maybe I should have Doc take a look at me" ~ Dreamy
 "You're gonna trust a dwarf that got his medical degree from a pickaxe?" ~ Bossy

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Re: is there anyuse with liquid metal?
« Reply #4 on: August 31, 2012, 11:23:20 am »

But what happens if that magma evaporates, and the liquid metals are left to cool down? Do they become solid? If yes, in what form?
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Re: is there anyuse with liquid metal?
« Reply #5 on: August 31, 2012, 11:27:14 am »

But what happens if that magma evaporates, and the liquid metals are left to cool down? Do they become solid? If yes, in what form?

Nope, dwarf will come to clean it up, though!

I'm curious what you want to do that'd involve magma melting metals?
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ranger22550

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Re: is there anyuse with liquid metal?
« Reply #6 on: September 02, 2012, 11:25:16 am »

to make statues of invaders that fall in a pit of molten metal of course
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Re: is there anyuse with liquid metal?
« Reply #7 on: September 02, 2012, 11:27:18 am »

Well, I'm sure dwarves will be happy to engrave or make statue of that event, when you finds the right type to do it. Then again, you could obsidian cast the invaders and it'd work better than unusable metal :D
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