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[itg]

1. Construct (NOT dig) stairs on the floor of Hell.
2. Dig an up stair directly below.



Seriously, that's all there is to it. It's so easy it should be common knowledge by now, but I couldn't find any post about it.

By the way, it's best to do one shaft at a time, since otherwise digging one staircase will prematurely reveal the slade below the other constructed staircases.

[smurfingtonthethird]

This has been documented before, and slade has been science'd upon to create armor and weapons superior to adamantine.

[itg]

That's good to hear. If the forum had a halfway decent search feature, maybe I'd have been able to find that. Could you provide a link?

Edit: In case it wasn't clear, I'm aware of some of the complicated techniques for slade mining, such as the one listed on the wiki. The reason I posted is that I haven't seen anyone mention this particular, very simple technique.

[wierd]

These are the methods I personally have now seen brooched.

1) stairs
2) upramps/downramps
3) channel over dropped tile
4) magma cast over slade floor with unrevealed wall below, then channel (mod of 3)

To make items from the mined slade, (other than a super deadly minecart loaded with slade boulders, of course) you will need to modify either the inorganic_stone entry for slade to make it have the requisite item type tags for existing stone or metal reactions, OR, will have to create a new reaction specifically for slade boulders.

Personally, I kinda would love to see a smelted and smithed slade battle axe, or a slade lightsaber.

I suppose it might also make good trap components for a weapon trap using an enormous axeblade as well.

[Bonesinger]

Personally, I kinda would love to see a smelted and smithed slade battle axe, or a slade lightsaber.

I suppose it might also make good trap components for a weapon trap using an enormous axeblade as well.

Urist McHammertime swings his ☼Slade Warhammer☼ at the goblin Vixximeu!
It lands squarely on the goblin Vixximeu's upper body!
Vixximeu explodes into a bloody sausage!

[milo christiansen]

I just remove [UNDIGGABLE]

This method is really good for no modding slade mining though.

[KingBacon]

I made slade warhammers once, was not impressed with the results. I think they were so heavy that dorfs really couldn't swing em fast enough. It took longer for things to be killed than with metal hammers.

[wierd]

What about lightsabers? It should have a smaller size, and lower total weight from an axe, but has much smaller contact area.

[Strategia]

Personally, I kinda would love to see a smelted and smithed slade battle axe, or a slade lightsaber.

I suppose it might also make good trap components for a weapon trap using an enormous axeblade as well.

Urist McHammertime swings his ☼Slade Warhammer☼ at the goblin Vixximeu!
It lands squarely on the goblin Vixximeu's upper body!
Vixximeu explodes into a bloody sausage!

The goblin Emxalos triggers a stonefall trap!
The slade boulder falls on the goblin Emxalos's head.
Emxalos undergoes fission at the molecular level!
The goblin Emxalos has changed into the expanding cloud of monatomic particles Emxalos!

[Lav]

Perhaps slade could be useful as catapult ammo?

[BoredVirulence]

Perhaps slade could be useful as catapult ammo?

It would be terribly effective. If you could reliably hit your target.

[itg]

These are the methods I personally have now seen brooched.

1) stairs
2) upramps/downramps
3) channel over dropped tile
4) magma cast over slade floor with unrevealed wall below, then channel (mod of 3)

1) Stairs obviously work if you use the method I described, or if you can get under the slade and dig upward, as per the older method.
2) Designating a ramp just below the surface was a technique I tried. This will dig out a slade tile, but the boulder drops down into a revealed slade wall, making it tough to access.
3) This does not work. It reveals rather than mines the slade wall below the channelled square.
4) Same as 3.

I've also made another discovery which spurred a new semi-megaproject of mine. I don't want to spoil the surprise, but expect a new thread soon.

Perhaps slade could be useful as catapult ammo?

Even better, you can make a slade-filled minecart shotgun.

[wierd]

I said they were ways I have seen brooched-- not ways I have tested.

Slade harvesting isn't something I have really ever tried.

[edgefigaro]

For making Slade Warhammers

Was just messing around with raws and think I might have found something very game breaking. And it most likely will NOT require a world regen.

Under items_weapon there is can_stone tag which "Allows the weapon to be made at a craftsdwarf's workshop from a sharp ([MAX_EDGE:10000] or higher) stone (e.g. obsidian) plus a wood log."

Adding  can_stone to an existing worlds raws enables obsidian war hammers to be made at a craftsdorfshop.

http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/Weapon_token

Slade is MAX_EDGE:1000, changing it to MAX_EDGE:10000 will enable slade short swords (and hammers...)

If you could try this out and then test out the weapon's effectiveness for us it would be much appreciated.

Relevant Thread http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=128990.30

[Zanthra]

I think a slade warhammer in a weapon trap would be better than wielded by a dwarf.  The dwarf swings at a slower velocity because of the weight, but weapon traps are fixed.  That's a lot of kinetic energy.