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[Ubern00b]

Hi,

Noob query here, Ive looked at wiki and it didnt help. WTF is alunite?

Am I right in assuming a generic rock useless in everything?
e.g. I cant use it AT ALL

[slink]

You can build with it.

[Siquo]

You might want to enable it in 'z', 'stones'. Sometimes it's disabled by default.

[Ubern00b]

Well ill be damned, It was disabled.

Thanks
Now my 70 stone masons are cleaning up the huge alunite veien through my workshop floor.

EDIT: While im here, Cinnabar. Whats up with that one?

[Lord Shonus]

At the moment, it's just another rock. Mercury isn't in the game yet.

[Ubern00b]

Damn was hoping for something cool... garbage dump it is

EDIT:

Just to avoid making another thread, Some of my dwarves are flashing between normal colour and grey. also their names.

Im using Maydays graphics and they have no wounds.
Any ideas whats up?

[Skorpion]

Cinnabar. Whats up with that one?

It's bright red. It's just another rock, though. I like to pretend it's toxic, however, and make cinnabar items for export only.
Started by a cinnabar quern, which was a huge WTF, so I decorated it with bone, shell, and toxic (IRL, sadly not in DF) metals, and sold it to the elves.

We have a wiki for rock-related questions, by the way. Just search it for the name of the rock, and you get an instant answer.

[makute]

Some of my dwarves are flashing between normal colour and grey. also their names.

They reached Legendary level in some skill.

BTW, as Ubern00b said, you should give a try to the wiki.

[blue emu]

Alunite is hydrated aluminium potassium sulfate, KAl₃(SO₄)₂(OH)₆.

[Ubern00b]

I looked it up on Wiki but in this case no help, Wiki is good at telling me what is metal ore which helps me.

[Skorpion]

http://dwarffortresswiki.net/index.php/The_Non-Dwarf%27s_Guide_to_Rock

http://dwarffortresswiki.net/index.php/Stone#Other_Stone

[dragon0421]

If you use the Molten Rocks mod, you can use alunite in place of bauxite as magma save material. I can confirm that it works with 40d16.

http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=894

[makute]

I looked it up on Wiki but in this case no help, Wiki is good at telling me what is metal ore which helps me.

The Wiki always helps...

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[Ubern00b]

Yeah but I didnt know about legendary, So I searched:

flashing name
grey
flashing grey

xP

[LegoLord]

You can look at the 'z' 'stones' menu to see what a stone is used for that most stones aren't used for.  In vanilla DF, it only shows stones that actually have a use.  If you have the all economic stone mod, every stone will be on the menu, but if they have no use other than masonry and crafting, it won't list anything.

It sounds like you're using the all-economic mod (which I believe comes with the mayday package).
Personally I don't like the mayday package because it screws around with the controls and puts multiple commands to the same keys.