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Chalk
- 14 (3%)
Chert
- 3 (0.6%)
Claystone
- 1 (0.2%)
Conglomerate
- 0 (0%)
Dolomite
- 25 (5.3%)
Limestone
- 17 (3.6%)
Mudstone
- 1 (0.2%)
Rock Salt
- 2 (0.4%)
Sandstone
- 6 (1.3%)
Shale
- 1 (0.2%)
Siltstone
- 0 (0%)
Diorite
- 3 (0.6%)
Gabbro
- 6 (1.3%)
Granite
- 18 (3.8%)
Andesite
- 0 (0%)
Basalt
- 4 (0.9%)
Dacite
- 1 (0.2%)
Obsidian
- 47 (10%)
Rhyolite
- 0 (0%)
Gneiss
- 1 (0.2%)
Marble
- 43 (9.2%)
Phylite
- 0 (0%)
Quartzite
- 0 (0%)
Schist
- 1 (0.2%)
Slate
- 3 (0.6%)
Alabaster
- 1 (0.2%)
Alunite
- 1 (0.2%)
Anhydrite
- 0 (0%)
Bauxite
- 16 (3.4%)
B. Coal
- 12 (2.6%)
Borax
- 0 (0%)
Brimstone
- 3 (0.6%)
Calcite
- 1 (0.2%)
Chromite
- 1 (0.2%)
Cinnabar
- 10 (2.1%)
Cobaltite
- 30 (6.4%)
Cryolite
- 0 (0%)
Graphite
- 0 (0%)
Gypsum
- 2 (0.4%)
Horneblende
- 1 (0.2%)
Ilmenite
- 0 (0%)
Jet
- 12 (2.6%)
Kaolinite
- 14 (3%)
Lignite
- 1 (0.2%)
Kimberlite
- 20 (4.3%)
Marcasite
- 1 (0.2%)
Mica
- 3 (0.6%)
Microcline
- 48 (10.2%)
Olivine
- 26 (5.5%)
Orpiment
- 0 (0%)
Orthoclase
- 6 (1.3%)
Periclase
- 1 (0.2%)
Petrified Wood
- 14 (3%)
Pitcheblende
- 20 (4.3%)
Puddingstone
- 6 (1.3%)
Pyrolusite
- 1 (0.2%)
Realgar
- 4 (0.9%)
Rutile
- 9 (1.9%)
Saltpeter
- 1 (0.2%)
Satinspar
- 0 (0%)
Selenite
- 0 (0%)
Serpentine
- 6 (1.3%)
Stibnite
- 1 (0.2%)
Sylvite
- 0 (0%)
Talc
- 0 (0%)

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Teivel

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Re: Favorite Type of Stone?
« Reply #30 on: May 20, 2010, 09:37:24 am »
Marble; multipurpose, never lets you down and forms the base for so many constructions that i've had to move over to limestone for flux use.
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Alkyon

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Re: Favorite Type of Stone?
« Reply #31 on: May 20, 2010, 09:45:28 am »
Gabbro.

Why would I like a common gray stone with no properties?
It's the layer stone that contains the ore of Nickel, Kimberlite, and often contains Olivine.
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Re: Favorite Type of Stone?
« Reply #32 on: May 20, 2010, 09:59:44 am »
Dolomite, but only because that is what Fry's dog is made of.
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katyrnyn

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Re: Favorite Type of Stone?
« Reply #33 on: May 20, 2010, 11:09:33 am »
Cinnabar - Because everyone wants to be surrounded by bright red blocks of Mercury.  Though I mainly use it for drawbridges - the bright red color should be ample warning to stay away. 
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Re: Favorite Type of Stone?
« Reply #34 on: May 20, 2010, 11:13:41 am »
Kimberlite. Great blue color, and means you could find some diamonds.
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Re: Favorite Type of Stone?
« Reply #35 on: May 20, 2010, 11:31:46 am »
Puddingstone, because I'm currently quite hungry.
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Re: Favorite Type of Stone?
« Reply #36 on: May 20, 2010, 11:52:24 am »
Granite, because i like the color and that was what my first fortress was made out of primarily.

Also, whats with all the microcline love here, why is it winning  :'(
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Re: Favorite Type of Stone?
« Reply #37 on: May 20, 2010, 11:55:12 am »
I've found Chalk to be a nice choice. It has huge deposits, useful materials in those deposits. It's a relativly high-value stone allowing 3x3 rooms to be decent quality with nothing but smoothing. It also makes the area a nice white color, which makes bloodstains and vomit stand out nicely in battles.
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Re: Favorite Type of Stone?
« Reply #38 on: May 20, 2010, 12:20:27 pm »
Pitchblende.
Make mugs and goblets out of it and sell/give to the elves, or make toys so their children can play with them hehe. Also I love purple, now if only there was more of it so that I can build a nice project out of it.

I think I saw rutile once and it was purple too, but it seems to be even more rare than pitchblende. Maybe I should adjust the colors of a few stone types to get some more purple ones.
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Re: Favorite Type of Stone?
« Reply #39 on: May 20, 2010, 12:21:51 pm »
Personally I'm a fan of sandstone. It's nothing fancy, it's the working-dwarfs stone.

(and my house is made of sandstone blocks) :D
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Re: Favorite Type of Stone?
« Reply #40 on: May 20, 2010, 12:27:05 pm »
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I just love Kaolinite's navy blue color.  It goes well with everything!

Wish I could find it more often though...

Kimberlite.
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Re: Favorite Type of Stone?
« Reply #41 on: May 20, 2010, 01:28:29 pm »
My vote goes to Obsidian... In Vanilla DF, but also in my own modded DF.
I would never vote for a flux stone considering I always mod out the existence of flux from my version of DF.

Come to think of it...
In my modded game I only have Sandstone, Slate, Granite, Obsidian and Marble as layers...
I do like the colors like Microcline and OrthoClase (Alunite is too... white and Olivine is a bad color green) but was only allowed to choose 1.  :P
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Re: Favorite Type of Stone?
« Reply #42 on: May 20, 2010, 01:33:25 pm »
Quote from: Rvlion on May 20, 2010, 01:28:29 pm
My vote goes to Obsidian... In Vanilla DF, but also in my own modded DF.
I would never vote for a flux stone considering I always mod out the existence of flux from my version of DF.

Come to think of it...
In my modded game I only have Sandstone, Slate, Granite, Obsidian and Marble as layers...

Erm...


I picked Olivine.  I just like the color green, and now it's magma safe!
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Re: Favorite Type of Stone?
« Reply #43 on: May 20, 2010, 03:08:12 pm »
Why isn't bauxite getting more love? It's magma-safe, a nice blood-red color, contains rubies and sapphires, and is a real-world ore of titanium!
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Re: Favorite Type of Stone?
« Reply #44 on: May 20, 2010, 03:11:41 pm »
its a real world ore of aluminum, but the dwarves aren't nearly advanced enough to extract it. rutile is a real world ore of titanium
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