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[Bien]

What does it do?

[Sean Mirrsen]

Material size is three times how much material items are required to make this item, or three times the amount of material gotten when, for example, smelting the item.

For metal items, that is. For bone, shell, cloth items, matsize is exactly how many stacks of bones/shell/cloth will be required to make the item.

[Bien]

So if matsize is 9 it will take 9 bars of steel (if metal) to make?

[Kagus]

No, it'll take three.  Material size is  

quote:<STRONG>three times</STRONG>

the amount of metal bars used in its production.  It will take nine adamantine wafers, however (presumably).

[ February 12, 2008: Message edited by: Kagus ]

[Bien]

So how do I make something use only one bar of metal to make, and what will happen if I set it to zero?

[Keilden]

If metal give it size 3.

[beorn080]

Note that it takes exactly as many wafers as the mat size to make an item despite the wafers being metal.

[Bien]

Off topic, how do I get rid of stone? Using a smelter reagent.

[ricemastah]

If you want to keep your current world/fort then you could edit one of the reactions (probably adamantine) to use stone as one of the reagents. You could even have it use multiple pieces of stone. Although I believe you will have to make it specify the type of stone. And you will need to save and EXIT DF before any changes can take place.

[Bien]

So what exactly do I have to do?

[Keilden]

Make stonecrafts and sell them.

[Bien]

I meant using a custom reaction, like stone to nothing.

[Sean Mirrsen]

If you have a specific kind of stone you'd like to get rid of, and that is not used in any of the items you have created, you could edit the material properties of the stone to evaporate at room temperature.

[Metalax]

Just a guess but maybe try

code:

[REACTION:STONE_BE_GONE]
[NAME:destroy stone]
[SMELTER]
[REAGENT:1:STONE:NO_SUBTYPE:STONE:NO_MATGLOSS]

Not sure if this will work, if not you will need to replace NO_MATGLOSS with the stone you want to destroy