Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

[SirAaronIII]

Yeah, I was talking about Deon.

[Morwaul]

Tomi

Very Cool.  Say, while you are tweaking minerals.  Is there anything you can do to cut back the Feldspar.  It seems like it is or is in half the Z levels on every embark I do.  Maybe just keep it from showing up as a vein.  If not I'll live but it is bugging me for some reason.

[TomiTapio]

I guess I'll reduce feldspar from
   [ENVIRONMENT:IGNEOUS_EXTRUSIVE:VEIN:50]
   [ENVIRONMENT:IGNEOUS_INTRUSIVE:VEIN:50]
to 25 freq.
(actually "microcline and orthoclase belong to the feldspar group of aluminum silicates")

Considering adding http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pegmatite

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

"Most pegmatites are composed of quartz, feldspar and mica; in essence a granite."  "Crystal size is the most striking feature of pegmatites, with crystals usually over 5 cm in size. "
"often contain rare earth minerals and gemstones, such as aquamarine, tourmaline, topaz, fluorite, apatite and corundum, often along with tin and tungsten minerals,"
[INORGANIC:PEGMATITE]
   [USE_MATERIAL_TEMPLATE:STONE_TEMPLATE]
   [STATE_NAME_ADJ:ALL_SOLID:pegmatite]
   [DISPLAY_COLOR:7:7:1]
   [TILE:156]
   [ENVIRONMENT:METAMORPHIC:CLUSTER:6]
   [ENVIRONMENT:GRANITE:CLUSTER:13]
   [ENVIRONMENT:FELDSPAR:CLUSTER:20]
   [ENVIRONMENT:GREENSTONE:CLUSTER:20]
   [IS_STONE]
   [MELTING_POINT:11440]

--maybe todo "Greisen is a highly altered granitic rock or pegmatite."

Feldspar is very useful though, so I would think twice before removing it .

yeah it is a super common group of stuff, feldspar is. And its name basically means "it ain't ore".

Here you go every Genesis user who is going to roll a new world: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8967397/inorganic_stone_genesis.txt

[Deon]

Feldspar is very useful though, so I would think twice before removing it .

[SirAaronIII]

What does it do? I remember hearing it could be used as a glaze or something...

[Deon]

It is a glaze.

[Patchouli]

When can we expect the next version of Genesis to come out?

[Deon]

When can we expect the next version of Genesis to come out?

I was going to finish the first version of Shadowrun tonight, but I was caught by One F Jef's streaming, so I will take a nap, fiddle with Shadowrun and then add multiple creatures which I've made for Shadowrun into Genesis. Then I will look into TomiTapio's tweaks and include them. So it should be it.

[Morwaul]

Hey Tomi

Don't know if you have seen this but if not I thought you might like it.
http://www.minerals.net/MineralMain.aspx

[TomiTapio]

My current Ironhand raws for Deon: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8967397/Genesis_3.25dTT_Ironhand_Bonfires__newmineralsmore_May07.zip
also added some skills to badgers, giantbadgers, badgermen. And there's the Floater fix and Voidmaster's Grand Cross nerfing.
Don't know if I should add some ALLUVIAL minerals, there's none in vanilla but some minerals are coded to appear in alluvial layers (water placed recent sedimentary). Nah, not gonna.

test fort's start:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

(crash in worldgen, other crash in saving genned world)
Rimtomb, Tiristrakust.
3x2 region23, newminerals test, mysettings
3sq temp shrub SMs DMs, 3sq temp conifer SMs DMs
3 with mining skill, 2 axe 4 pick, 10coke 20copper, 4 giantrat

damn, 6 height levels outdoors.
caves1 diorite/gabbro on -12 to -17, very little plants there. garnierite.
gneiss, quartzite, tetra, diorite.
make reservoir, make pasture-cave home?.
out of food, gather plants.
and woodcutting is very stalled, no barrels or beds for us.

damn, a dread troll in home! and just disbanded squad!
many die.
Summer 1.
super costly victory. 3 of us left. no hospital, no beds, no woodcutting.
bury 3.
crippled leatherworker starved.
hooray migrants to give food! we 10. Got a HERO, Datan!
miner-soldier in rest went berserk.
Autumn 1.
oops had no buckets...
slay some badgers, they hurt our rabbits.
hooray mig to 15!
mining is stalled, even after assign two dorfs. have 5 picks, unforbid some. Dig a few cobaltite and tetra. Slow progress.
home caravan. good trade, except they brought no warfare metals. good thing we embarked with copper bars.

[kendo]

No experience using halberds for dwarfs, and my Smith has just made an artifact platinum one.

Would this be good to use?

[Morwaul]

Speaking of which, I am assigning skills in the Embark Screen and want to start with a pikeman but I do not see it in the list.  Does Lasher = Pikeman now?  What about Halbardier?  Is that different?

[Deon]

There's no lasher skill now, and the dwarves do not have pikes (normally), and never had.

[Morwaul]

So Lasher = Halberdier then?  Or is one of the other skills Halberdier?

[SirAaronIII]

Yeah, lasher is now halberdier. Halberds are much cooler anyway, in my opinion.