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[Rob Allen]

Bloodstone, AKA Heliotrope, is actually a green mineral.  It gets its name from the red flecks that appear throughout it.  The flecks are either iron oxide or red jasper.

EDIT: Just realized that in Germany Bloodstone refers to Hematite, which can be red, but I think Hematite has its own inclusion elsewhere in DF.

[ December 30, 2007: Message edited by: Rob Allen ]

[penguinofhonor]

If this is changed, then there would be constant spam in the glitch forum "Bloodstone is green when it should be red!"

[Rob Allen]

And that's before the germans get involved...

[Capntastic]

I think goblins have green blood.   PROBLEM SOLVED.

[penguinofhonor]

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[Toady One]

Yeah, I remember looking at the picture from mindat.org back when I was deciding on the colors.  I think I might have even had green in the text file for a sec, but...  it just couldn't stay that way.

[Tyrving]

I gotta agree with it being red, I mean, it's a fantasy game... not everything has  emulate the real world perfectly. Besides, do you really want your Bloodstone Shrine to Armok to be green?

[Tamren]

quote:Originally posted by Tyrving:
<STRONG>I gotta agree with it being red, I mean, it's a fantasy game... not everything has  emulate the real world perfectly. Besides, do you really want your Bloodstone Shrine to Armok to be green?</STRONG>

Why not? I mean as soon as the Elves see it they are going to hurl all over it anyway...  

[Rob Allen]

I would think that your shrine to Armok would be red because of all the blood sacrifices you performed on it.  Nothing beats blood for red paint.

Here's an idea: Why not just call it Red Bloodstone?  People who don't know that Bloodstone is normally green probably won't think anything of it, and people who do know will figure that this is just some fantasy world version of it.

[ January 01, 2008: Message edited by: Rob Allen ]

[Armok]

Make it green.
Realism is the priority when it comes to geology.

Maybe have some in-game mention of it to avoid spam.

[Zaratustra]

Make it a red symbol with green bg. problem solved.

[Red Jackard]

Wow that would be really ugly.

[Helmaroc]

REALLY ugly. I support making it realistic. Green.

[sphr]

As long as the symbol and color associates strongly with what it is trying to represent, I'll say it'd done it's purpose.  Can we expect simply colored ascii symbols to be as reflective as say a picture/photo? Not feasible.

but, if we bug Toady enough, maybe he'll work on custom ore gfx tiles that will allow the red specks in green thing... Just not sure whether this falls under "Item gfx" category...

[Red Jackard]

quote:Originally posted by sphr:
<STRONG>Just not sure whether this falls under "Item gfx" category...</STRONG>

Of course it does.

   

quote:Originally posted by sphr:
<STRONG>but, if we bug Toady enough, maybe he'll work on custom ore gfx tiles that will allow the red specks in green thing...</STRONG>

And I hope he doesn't bother. This is a small issue more of personal preferences*, and better left for when Core50 is complete so people can edit it to suit themselves.

*Is bloodstone modeled off the real thing or a random fantasy gem named for its deep crimson?

[ January 02, 2008: Message edited by: Red Jackard ]