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[Captain Mayday]

I was just thinking it might be nice to be able to seal smoothed floors and walls in blocks of metal or glass.
Not only would it raise room value, but it would provide an aesthetically pleasing alternative to the stone flooring.
I figure it would be done like roads, but inside.
I'm not sure what should be done about detailing, but I figure it should destroy any detailing beneath it and become detailable itself.

It would allow smaller room sizes for those nobles who demand great extravagance. Like a room tiled entirely in gold, fully detailed.

[Draco18s]

Glass IMO wouldn't destroy the detailing under it, but could be detailed itself too, which if done right can create some pretty cool stuff.  Done poorly it ruins the detail below and ends up total bunk.
Metal would destroy the detail below though.

[Tamren]

Thats a great idea.

To put down tiles you need as flat a floor as you can get, so once you smooth down an area you can tile it with any other material.

You would only be covering up engravings if you put the tiles down on a double detailed floor.

Materials other than stone would take much longer to engrave but would be worth far more.

Come to think of it, there is no reason why you cant do this for walls as well.

[ctrlfrk]

I like this idea. Ive been wanting green glass rewalling for a while... I wonder if i can call my king the wonderful wizard...

[slMagnvox]

Count me in for considering this a sweet suggestion

[Gauteamus]

Also silken carpet tiles would be royal for the nobler suites!

[slMagnvox]

quote:Originally posted by Gauteamus:
<STRONG>Also silken carpet tiles would be royal for the nobler suites!</STRONG>

and its just gotten sweeter

[Keiseth]

Ah, Dwarf Fortress... what other game can make you so excited by interior cavern decoration? =P

Hmm, rewalling with other materials would be awesome. My warrior would have that glass room out of Enter the Dragon.

[Frogman]

quote:Originally posted by ctrlfrk:
<STRONG>I like this idea. Ive been wanting green glass rewalling for a while... I wonder if i can call my king the wonderful wizard...</STRONG>

Green glass windows work sort of like rewalling.

[Tamren]

lol aye but who wants to live in a glass house? No privacy, but then since when has that been an issue? maybe dwarf sensebilities are different, they do seem rather hivelike and communistic, at least in the start.

[Draco18s]

Well, they do get unhappy when their clothes rot away, but they rarely if ever think to replace them.

Maybe they get used to being naked and abhore clothing?

[Tamren]

In most cultures the nudity taboo was picked up from more "refined" cultures.

It was not really a vulgar thing untill we decided to make it so, just look at all the old paintings though the ages.

[DDouble]

I think dwarven beards/body hair count as clothing, so that's why they don't seem to have a problem with their clothes wearing away. Yuck!

[Captain Mayday]

quote:Originally posted by Gauteamus:
<STRONG>Also silken carpet tiles would be royal for the nobler suites!</STRONG>

It would have to be detailed with another cloth, by someone with the weaving skill, or maybe the clothesmaking skill.

[Tamren]

that brings up the possibility of gold thread, possibly made from gold wire first.

or other metals