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Deteramot

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What is the use of....
« on: March 27, 2010, 11:42:44 pm »
Cinnabar? Is it an ore for a metal? Is it considered a semi-precious stone? What is it good for the use of?
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Quote from: DuncanFrost on December 02, 2007, 04:42:00 am
I'm currently making a nice room for my legendary clerk. I always treat my legendaries with the greatest respect, giving them the best rooms and so on. Although the walls are mostly engraved with pictures of my miner starving to death after he fell down a well, so it's not too cheerful.

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Re: What is the use of....
« Reply #1 on: March 27, 2010, 11:46:18 pm »
Its red. Its not a soil layer. I believe its worth a little more than normal stone. In real life, it contains mercury.
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« Reply #2 on: March 27, 2010, 11:47:43 pm »
Quote from: Deteramot on March 27, 2010, 11:42:44 pm
Cinnabar? Is it an ore for a metal? Is it considered a semi-precious stone? What is it good for the use of?
When its implemented, it will be incredibly poisonous to hold. (Although if you want to have some "fun," get a piece and bake it in the oven.)
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Re: What is the use of....
« Reply #3 on: March 27, 2010, 11:49:12 pm »
Because it contains mercury, correct? But currently, it's mostly pointless, besides for construction. Okay. I'll make my supply into a bunch of statues.
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Quote from: DuncanFrost on December 02, 2007, 04:42:00 am
I'm currently making a nice room for my legendary clerk. I always treat my legendaries with the greatest respect, giving them the best rooms and so on. Although the walls are mostly engraved with pictures of my miner starving to death after he fell down a well, so it's not too cheerful.

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Re: What is the use of....
« Reply #4 on: March 27, 2010, 11:50:09 pm »
Its only point it to be red. That's it.
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Re: What is the use of....
« Reply #5 on: March 28, 2010, 12:22:21 am »
Second question: Do cave spiders kill other vermin? In the area my tree farm will be, olms and cave spiders are coexisting, and it is filled with miasma and olm corpses constantly.
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I'm currently making a nice room for my legendary clerk. I always treat my legendaries with the greatest respect, giving them the best rooms and so on. Although the walls are mostly engraved with pictures of my miner starving to death after he fell down a well, so it's not too cheerful.

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Re: What is the use of....
« Reply #6 on: March 28, 2010, 12:54:41 am »
It was used to build Lenod's temple In the Migrursut Story
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« Reply #7 on: March 28, 2010, 12:58:01 am »
Quote from: Deteramot on March 28, 2010, 12:22:21 am
Second question: Do cave spiders kill other vermin? In the area my tree farm will be, olms and cave spiders are coexisting, and it is filled with miasma and olm corpses constantly.

Do you have cats? They'll kill the shit out of vermin.
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« Reply #8 on: March 28, 2010, 01:18:55 am »
Had one, but it's long dead.
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I'm currently making a nice room for my legendary clerk. I always treat my legendaries with the greatest respect, giving them the best rooms and so on. Although the walls are mostly engraved with pictures of my miner starving to death after he fell down a well, so it's not too cheerful.

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« Reply #9 on: March 28, 2010, 01:23:55 am »
Yeah, I too can attest to the fact that olms will seemingly randomly die with cave spiders around, even if you don't have any cats.

I don't exactly know whether this is caused by cave spiders, but it sure does look like it.
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« Reply #10 on: March 28, 2010, 01:27:01 am »
Hm.... If I had the patience or ingenuity, I'd create a room to test this. But I have neither, and vermin are atomic scale, so they can phase through walls due to quantum tunneling. Bastards.
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I'm currently making a nice room for my legendary clerk. I always treat my legendaries with the greatest respect, giving them the best rooms and so on. Although the walls are mostly engraved with pictures of my miner starving to death after he fell down a well, so it's not too cheerful.

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« Reply #11 on: March 28, 2010, 01:37:13 am »
I can't help with finding out what exactly causes this (though as I said, I experienced something similar when I last embarked on an underground river), but I can recommend a way of getting rid of those remains. The most obvious thing to do would be making a refuse stockpile with no roof.

There might be something better, though. You can set vermin remains to be automatically dumped via standing orders (to wit: dwarves dump other). This also gets rid of chunks created when butchering something.

You probably already know this, but it took me some time to figure that out, so I thought I'd share.
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Re: What is the use of....
« Reply #12 on: March 28, 2010, 02:04:11 am »
Cave Spiders make webs, and webs kill any vermin that run into one. Vermin that have WEBIMMUNE are not affected.
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« Reply #13 on: March 28, 2010, 02:33:56 am »
Aha. That explains it. Thanks.
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I'm currently making a nice room for my legendary clerk. I always treat my legendaries with the greatest respect, giving them the best rooms and so on. Although the walls are mostly engraved with pictures of my miner starving to death after he fell down a well, so it's not too cheerful.

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« Reply #14 on: March 28, 2010, 02:35:36 am »
Quote from: Kyronea on March 27, 2010, 11:47:43 pm
When its implemented, it will be incredibly poisonous to hold. (Although if you want to have some "fun," get a piece and bake it in the oven.)
Oh god. When? Can it be used to make a poisonous mist? That would be epic. :D
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