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[smjjames]

Cinnabar is my favorite.  When I strike useful ore and cinnabar at the same time, I mine the cinnabar first!  Red buildings for everyone!  Not to mention it's poisonous; also an ore of mercury - I wish in DF you could smelt cinnabar to make buckets full of mercury, and that it would be a fluid so you could make pools of mercury...

That will be possible in the next release.

[Aspgren]

Mica is nice.

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this is the best and most contributing post i have written anywhere ever

[Nivim]

 Just wondering, has anyone actually seen microcline and orthoclase in real life? If so, have you ever wondered why Toady chose such a bright color for them?

[smjjames]

I've seen pictures of microcline elsewhere on the forums and it's kind of a teal color. No idea about orthoclase.

My guess is that he had to choose something because of the limited palette of colors that DF has.

Doesn't explain why those two are so damn common that they make up at least half of a layers worth of rock.

[Kyronea]

Cinnabar is my favorite.  When I strike useful ore and cinnabar at the same time, I mine the cinnabar first!  Red buildings for everyone!  Not to mention it's poisonous; also an ore of mercury - I wish in DF you could smelt cinnabar to make buckets full of mercury, and that it would be a fluid so you could make pools of mercury...

That will be possible in the next release.

Are you certain? I know there will be more liquids than water and magma available, but mercury?

[smjjames]

Yea, you can have creatures bleed molten rock or even sand. You probably won't be able to make it a liquid in the way water acts if thats what you mean, but you should be able to coat the floor in mercury.... at least until the season changes.

[Kyronea]

Yea, you can have creatures bleed molten rock or even sand. You probably won't be able to make it a liquid in the way water acts if thats what you mean, but you should be able to coat the floor in mercury.... at least until the season changes.

Huh. Neat.

Too bad we can't make it poisonous yet though...

[MacaqueAttack]

I like dolomite, just because it's fun to say "Dolemite's the name, and fucking up motherfuckers is my game".

[stormyseasons]

Obsidian, because I play Dig Deeper, and blackmetal makes my life very happy, what with needing good armour and weapons against orcs and their sort.

[denito]

Cinnabar is my favorite.  When I strike useful ore and cinnabar at the same time, I mine the cinnabar first!  Red buildings for everyone!  Not to mention it's poisonous; also an ore of mercury - I wish in DF you could smelt cinnabar to make buckets full of mercury, and that it would be a fluid so you could make pools of mercury...

That will be possible in the next release.

Are you certain? I know there will be more liquids than water and magma available, but mercury?

I always figured Toady must have once intended for Cinnabar to be an ore - it uses the same funky "L" (British pounds?) that usually designates an ore...

[Loyal]

Flux and Obsidian are merely "useful" to me and I can't really consider them "rocks" like I would other stone layers. I'll use them if I don't have any other plausible choice, but I rather like regular stone layers for general purpose things, "saving" the more valuable stones for their intended purposes, and jacking up the value of furniture, mugs, and furniture.

I rather like Felsite especially. Are there any non-flux 'white' stones?

[SkyRender]

Are there any non-flux 'white' stones?

 Quite a few, including rock salt, quartzite, alabaster, alunite, borax, cryolite, marcasite, periclase, satinspar, selenite, stibinite, and talc.

[Lord Dakoth]

Well, who doesn't like carving a fortress out of rock salt? And in adventure mode, it makes my day if...

You lick the Rock salt.

[Kyronea]

Well, who doesn't like carving a fortress out of rock salt? And in adventure mode, it makes my day if...

You lick the Rock salt.

I actually do not recommend this, as at five years old I licked and even consumed a bit of rock salt from a bag we had for deicing our driveway, and...the results weren't very pleasant. Plus it is incredibly STRONG salty taste. Far stronger than the ocean.

[Exiledhero99]

No idea about orthoclase.

this is orthoclase (it can also come in a pinkish color apparently)

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