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[SanDiego]

In uniform designing you can stumble upon raw adamantine items, so it maybe could be possible to make items out of certain rocks.

[silverskull39]

I now have some items with no material, for instance, a goblet. In the description it says "This is a goblet" with no material listed. it is also a no quality item...

[woose1]

Old bug is old.

[alway]

Slade has no metal version or anything like that for a reason. It is unminable. I came across some non-clown HFS in a temple made of slade (see a few pages back), and it can not be designated for mining (much like partially molten rock found at magma seas). However, I would bet removing the [DEEP] tag would change that...

[SkyRender]

My impressions of the new version?

http://mkv25.net/dfma/movie-2062-dwarvesvselves-bloodbathroyale

Made of awesome.

[Aklyon]

Slade has no metal version or anything like that for a reason. It is unminable. I came across some non-clown HFS in a temple made of slade (see a few pages back), and it can not be designated for mining (much like partially molten rock found at magma seas). However, I would bet removing the [DEEP] tag would change that...

I'm going to test that. removing [DEEP_SURFACE] from slade in the raws causes a error box saying Missing Reaction Definition.

[Normandy]

Someone try mining slade with an adamantine pick.

What, it might work!

Either that or slade is probably meant to be a 'drop-only' kind of material, is my guess.

[abculatter_2]

OH GOD OH GOD OH GOD MY DWARVES ARE FLASHING WHITE AND BROWN DOWN ARROWS WHAT DOES IT MEAN OH GOD WHAT DO I DO

EDIT: Also, gypsum plaster?

You need fuel to make rock powder?

[Lemunde]

Just broke into an underground cavern.  So that's what towercaps look like.

[InsanityPrelude]

Looking through the plant raws to get that page of the wiki back up, I've discovered that gnomeblight actually does something now. It... poisons gnomes. Somehow. I'm not sure how you use it, but it does something now!

[alway]

Someone try mining slade with an adamantine pick.

What, it might work!

Either that or slade is probably meant to be a 'drop-only' kind of material, is my guess.

Ya, I was thinking to try with adamantine, but then I figured since it was disallowing the actual designation rather than just an error message, it is probably unminable. Which leaves one experiment to do: mine out under it and drop it.

[Dante]

!!HFS

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I looked in my doctor's likes/dislikes, and he apparently likes "orange demons for their rhythmic undulations."  I cannot wait to find out what an orange demon is, or why it would rhythmically undulate.

HFS!!

Also, first impressions?  Dug into an underground cavern, giant cave spider webs all over the place, and a toad ate my dwarves, while troglodytes beat the snot out of my doctor before chasing after a horse.  I saw a little white "2" that usually represents remains or bones next to the doctor, and when I 'k'ed it, it was his "right front tooth".  If I survive this, I will make it into a totem.

Regarding your !!!STUFF!!!

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Because I'm silly like that, I've been digging to the bottom of the world in a bunch of different worldgens.

Seems the HFS clowns are randomly generated at worldgen, like titans and forgotten beasts. Some are named for the animals they're twisted from (jackal demon, cat monster, etc.) and others are named for their coloration (so a twisted purple gopher demon may just be a Purple Demon). They're also called various things besides just 'demon'. Beasts, devils, monsters, and fiends are the ones I can think up of off the top of my head.

Also, you can get some clowns that aren't based on animals at all. I've had flying blobs of salt, flying blobs of ash, and flying blobs of snow so far.

I need to try and play a serious fort, haha. Can't wait to seriously attempt to tame the underwilds.

Interesting. One of mine likes

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"chocolate demons",

which seemed thematically appropriate for the season.

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I had hopes of finding great egg-shaped bloated rabbits, with delicious scales and fronds of caramel that writhe and squirm ("beware its poisonous whipped cream!"), but I guess they're actually just going to be brown.

[Alkyon]

Someone try mining slade with an adamantine pick.

What, it might work!

Either that or slade is probably meant to be a 'drop-only' kind of material, is my guess.

Ya, I was thinking to try with adamantine, but then I figured since it was disallowing the actual designation rather than just an error message, it is probably unminable. Which leaves one experiment to do: mine out under it and drop it.

I fiddled with reveal2 a bit and found out that while you can't put a dig designation on Slade, you can apparently put a channel one on top of some Slade.  Also, reveal really gives you an idea on how absurdly common the veins and gems are now.

[Dante]

So how are you supposed to make weapons out of slade? It only appears as a rock in the raws, as far as I can tell, not a metal.

Is it [SHARP]? (Can't check myself, not at my home computer.) If so, you could make something similar to obsidian short swords. Other than that, I don't know; maybe it is specially handled like adamantine production?

The [SHARP] Tag appears to be out entirely, Obsidian no longer has it. Slade and Raw Adamantine both use Metal Material Templates though, maybe that has something to do with it?

It may be impossible to actually make anything out of them in Dwarf Mode. Have we seen any outside of the Arena? You can give your combatants weapons and armor made out of any metal in the arena, so I imagine the same thing may be true of Slade.

I remember Toady pondering whether he should allow adamantine titans, but I can't recall how that was resolved. Probably the same thing applies to Slade, in which case you should be able to at least get bits and pieces of it (i.e. severed limbs) to use in adventure mode.

[Ampersand]

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Gened Dungstombs was a forgotten beast. It was the only one of it's kind. A gigantic hairy ceratopsid. It has thin wings of stretched skin and it undulates rhythmically. Its cobalt hair is unkempt. Beware it's fire! Gened was associated with water, disease, and caverns.

Anyway, my best guess is that Slade is hardcoded to be indestructible. If you look in the Raw definitions, it's density, strength in all categories, etc. are all so absurdly high, I'm not sure nuclear fire would melt it.