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[Kidiri]

That notion is false, I believe. You could make a custom workshop to create metal mechanisms, and even have it use the mechanics skill. They would be quality-less, but that doesn't matter unless you're using weapon traps, in which case, why are you using weapon traps? Wimp. 

In the current version you can have metal mechanisms, made in the forge, with qualitiy modifiers, so I'm not so sure I believe you. The only metal mechanism in vanilla is bright blue and rather valuable, but modders have allowed for others.

I thought the "bright blue" mechanisms were made from raw adamantine rock, and so were "rock" not metal. Just like making one out of Native Gold doesn't make it metal. It's still rock.

Have a look at the raws. Adamantine will have the tag [ANY_USE] this will allow it to be used for, well, anything. Furniture, weapons, armour, clothes and even mechanisms. So if you add that tag to iron or steel, you'll also be able to make iron or steel mechanisms. And clothes, but that's just a minor 'inconvenience'.

[RedKing]

That notion is false, I believe. You could make a custom workshop to create metal mechanisms, and even have it use the mechanics skill. They would be quality-less, but that doesn't matter unless you're using weapon traps, in which case, why are you using weapon traps? Wimp. 

In the current version you can have metal mechanisms, made in the forge, with qualitiy modifiers, so I'm not so sure I believe you. The only metal mechanism in vanilla is bright blue and rather valuable, but modders have allowed for others.

I thought the "bright blue" mechanisms were made from raw adamantine rock, and so were "rock" not metal. Just like making one out of Native Gold doesn't make it metal. It's still rock.

Have a look at the raws. Adamantine will have the tag [ANY_USE] this will allow it to be used for, well, anything. Furniture, weapons, armour, clothes and even mechanisms. So if you add that tag to iron or steel, you'll also be able to make iron or steel mechanisms. And clothes, but that's just a minor 'inconvenience'.

I dunno, I think +Steel toga+ would be the height of dwarf fashion. Especially if it menaces with spikes. (Be glad they don't wear thongs...)

Water and and magma are still the only fluids that will be able to accumulate to an actual depth level, correct? 'Cause it would be a nice megaproject to craft a sea of blood over top of the sea of magma, and wind up with a sea of boiling blood. Because...well, does a sea of boiling blood NEED a reason?

[bombcar]

[ANY_USE]? Urist McDonald prefers to eat raw adamantine and drink dwarven adamantine.

[silverskull39]

Water and and magma are still the only fluids that will be able to accumulate to an actual depth level, correct? 'Cause it would be a nice megaproject to craft a sea of blood over top of the sea of magma, and wind up with a sea of boiling blood. Because...well, does a sea of boiling blood NEED a reason?

I can't speak for anyone else, but if/when other fluids start making depth levels my first mega project is going to be a booze waterfall.

[GRead]

It's been heavily hinted that there are magma seas down below, ones that replenish from off-map.  Should be limitless enough for anyone.

Surely you don't mean to imply that there is ever such a thing as 'enough' magma?

Joking aside, I am somewhat surprised I forgot about that, but it is good to be reminded of just how awesome the new underground is going to be. Even a fully embarkable island should have potential now, on account of the underground.

[Footkerchief]

Water and and magma are still the only fluids that will be able to accumulate to an actual depth level, correct?

Yes.  No booze-fountains or rivers of blood yet.

[Shoku]

That notion is false, I believe. You could make a custom workshop to create metal mechanisms, and even have it use the mechanics skill. They would be quality-less, but that doesn't matter unless you're using weapon traps, in which case, why are you using weapon traps? Wimp. 

In the current version you can have metal mechanisms, made in the forge, with qualitiy modifiers, so I'm not so sure I believe you. The only metal mechanism in vanilla is bright blue and rather valuable, but modders have allowed for others.

There are two ways of changing the items you can make in the current version. The one we call custom refers exclusively to smelter reactions that we can make produce just about whatever we want. The type you've seen is making metal a valid material for mechanisms, which works much like making glass a valid material for beds- the item can be made at the metal/glass building in addition to the usual stone variety workshop, out of whichever material.

[RedKing]

I wonder if you could custom craft an item that bleeds. Like a floodgate which has an outer layer of blood. So that when placed into a water flow, it would contaminate the water. You wouldn't have a river of blood, but rather a river of bloody water. Which is almost as good.

[Spectre]

I belive bleeding is hard-coded. But maybe you can make a corps that doesnt rot?
Although I think they would stop bleeding non the less.

Seems the only method is to make shrine to Armok and sacrifice all those captured elves and goblins into a river.

[tfaal]

You could make a fish that secretes blood, then give it the [SAVAGE] and [EVIL] tags. Then terrifying biomes will have rivers full of bloody water. Only problem would be that immediately after embarking, the river wouldn't be bloody because the fish will only start secreting once you embark. Adventurer mode would also have this problem.

[Spectre]

Only problem would be that immediately after embarking, the river wouldn't be bloody because the fish will only start secreting once you embark. Adventurer mode would also have this problem.

That shouldn't prove too fatal.

[smjjames]

You could make a fish that secretes blood, then give it the [SAVAGE] and [EVIL] tags. Then terrifying biomes will have rivers full of bloody water. Only problem would be that immediately after embarking, the river wouldn't be bloody because the fish will only start secreting once you embark. Adventurer mode would also have this problem.

It would be a minor issue really. May become a bigger problem with oceans unless they are chock full of fish (as lakes usually are) since it could become patchy. Then there's the seasonal cleanup.

I have a question related to custom workshops, but since its a reaction that I'm talking about, modders will probably know this. Does anybody know the maximum number of materials that can be added as required for a reaction?

[dragnar]

You could make a fish that secretes blood, then give it the [SAVAGE] and [EVIL] tags. Then terrifying biomes will have rivers full of bloody water. Only problem would be that immediately after embarking, the river wouldn't be bloody because the fish will only start secreting once you embark. Adventurer mode would also have this problem.

The problem would be that fish (I believe) drown in blood. Often my adventurer is wading through a river, turning it red with the blood of fish, when suddenly the fish in front of me start drowning.

[tfaal]

I believe that if your remove all [BREATHE] parts, they will not need to breathe at all. That may cause your demon fish to walk on land though.

[silverskull39]

actually, I think that just makes them suffocate immediately. Add [NOBREATHE]
 and you should be fine.