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[Mustard Elemental]

My current fort has a very standard set up metalworking room. Magma forge, Slag Pit, Magma Smelter and a corridor leading to a bar stockpile.

While messing around trying to set up a whip vine mill I get the message that one of my smiths has gone moody. A quick zoom and i see him running to his forge and starting to gather materials as usual and he quickly gets to work.

Fast forward until a little while after, And he has created a mechanized axe thrower, But something is not quite right. When he started gathering he immediately grabbed the nearest bar to use as the base metal. Can you guess what bar just so happened to be closest? A bar of slag. He used SLAG to make his super artifact doomweapon. I can just imagine a soldier holding this long, crusty black object and firing at a goblin only for the handle to disintegrate and cover his shirt in black dust. Clearly Mr Smithy will pave the way for a new age of cost-effective dwarven weaponsmithing.

[Varyag]

I always stockpile my best weapons grade materials closest to the forge and move the base metals further away, anything that produces slag should be placed some distance away. In my experience this leads to the best artifacts.

If slag is as heavy as it used to be then i can imagine it would make a monster of an artifact warhammer though.

[Meph]

I really have to find a solution for this, but I cant really affect dwarf moods. And I cant affect the normal smelting reaction, thats why I added slag as a mineral. All ores are also ores of slag, which leads to it being recognized as a bar, metal and buildmat.

[ElenaRoan]

I take it you can't just replace the buildings like you did the kiln? Is there a way to hide the vanilla buildings?

[silentdeth]

Could you make slag an organic? They seem to want metal/rock bars.

[Meph]

No, I tried everything I can. Smelter reactions are hardcoded. I can make slag like the "massive slag bars" which are actually tools, but I can only do this with custom reactions. This would mean that the smelter itself does not produce slag anymore, which is silly, because most smelting is done there.

[Crioca]

Remove the SPECIAL tag from slag.

[Meph]

If you'd have checked the raws, you would have found this entry:
Slag:-SPECIAL- => hopefully helps with moods.

Its already removed, didnt help.

[Crioca]

If you'd have checked the raws, you would have found this entry:
Slag:-SPECIAL- => hopefully helps with moods.

Its already removed, didnt help.

I'm still on 3b, but since I removed it from the raws in 3b I haven't had a single slag artifact. Could just be a coincidence though...

[Meph]

3b? Skipping 3c, 3d and 3e? Wow... you must really like that fortress. 

[razorback]

Today my possessed weaponsmith made a slag scimitar completly out of one bar of slag - i'm not evan mad, its 10db worth so it won't pull curious neighbors 

[Apani]

Once a Kobold made me a slag chopper. Looking at the metals table, it seems slag has an extreme density. One should try to get a slag warhammer.

[Mustard Elemental]

Marksdwarves will bash people with their axe throwers if they get too close right? So this could still be useful

[Apani]

It depends on the type of melee attack the weapon has. Vanilla crossbows use a blunt bash attack, while the slings use an edge lashing attack (and are surprisingly painful, from what my adventurer can recall). The axe throwers have one edge attack and two blunt ones.

[Broken]

Steps when a mood occurs.

1: Lock the dwarf in the Workshop. I put doors in all workshops just for this.

2: See what kind of materials he wants.

3: Stock screen, forbid anything you don't want to be used.

4: Enjoy¡