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[shadowform]

Right now, I have nearly 1900 nickel bars in my stockpiles, 680 nickel bins, and 700 nickel barrels.  All of the basic furniture is carved from marble - graves, residences, barracks, hospital, all of it.  The main dining room has silver tables and chairs.  The dungeon has golden chains (because anyone that disrespects the nobles is treated like a king in this fort).  I still have several hundred brass, silver, and gold crafts, and I don't know how many copper crafts available for trade.

What do I do with all of this excess metal?

[Shaostoul]

Megaconstruction...

[PTTG??]

Yeah, time for a giant nickel robot.

[Ubiq]

Make a giant nickle with Urist Jefferson on one side and a castle on the back.

[Ten_Tacles]

Never make nickel bars, as its pretty useless I think.
Keep the ore as it is the ONLY thing you can build with that is light green.

[Hyndis]

Decorate everything with nickel.

[Sphalerite]

Build a giant nickel disk platform on a lever-controlled support.  Use it to crush an invasion, or a noble you don't like.  Name the dwarf who pulls the lever "Two-face".  Bonus points if all his body parts and limbs on one side of his body are scarred.

[PTTG??]

train up some weaponsmiths by making countless +Enourmous Serrated Nickel Disks+ and line every corridor with dozens of them.

[Misterstone]

I use my waste metals for bins; unlike barrels and cages they don't need to be moved around much, so the heavy weight is not so bad.  THen again, if you have that many bars, you probably already have all the bins you need.

Megaproject then.  Or, you could cover the entire ground level map outside your fortress with nickel by making paved roads everywhere?  (less tedious than floors?)

[Snail Boy]

You should make a hundred thousand nickel coins.
Then whenever you need to get something from the traders, pay for it exclusively in these nickel coins.

[Snook]

Make an arena entirely out of nickel, and call it "Nickelodeon."

*Rimshot*

[shadowform]

Megaconstruction...

I have one temple made from about 280 marble blocks, 20 gold blocks, with 48 faint yellow diamonds as window decoration, a second made with 32 gold blocks, 20 silver blocks, and 520 marble blocks, and a third (small) temple made with 32 marble blocks, 44 gold blocks, and 8 silver blocks, and a grand road lined with columns made from 230 marble blocks, with a gold statue standing on each of the 36 columns.  This is in addition to a 183x4 tile wide wall of solid marble blocks, with a second and third story that are hollowed out to support troops, AND a 12x12, four-story guard tower made from solid gold, doors and all.  The common tombs consists of about 550 marble coffins arranged in a spiral pattern, and a small faux-human town outside the gates that's taken nearly 800 logs (all coming from the surface, for that authentic feel).  Almost every dwarven dwelling has two marble cabinets, chairs, a table, and a coffer.  The dining room has silver furniture, the dungeon is filled with gold chains, and the personal tombs all use whichever metal that noble prefers.

And I still have more marble available than I do nickel and it's every bit as valuable (moreso since it can be used as flux), plus several hundred more gold bars/blocks should I feel the urge to build another monument on the surface.  There are better materials to use for megaconstructions.

I suppose I'll just make more bins and then convert all of my remaining marble into blocks to be hauled away by adventurer for later constructions.  But I do like the Two-Face idea, although Two-Face is usually depicted as using a silver dollar as his coin of choice, which are made of...  well, silver.

[Shaostoul]

I'm making a to scale USS Enterprise from the 2009 movie. For it's base, which isn't even part of the ship, I used now over 16000 granite stones. I have only a half of the saucer done.

[Misterstone]

What, with like interior rooms, etc.?

[Shaostoul]

It's going to have rooms and everything. It's going to take forever. I even modded in Duranium. I was going to add tritanium, but it never says it's used for the whole ship.

Anyways...

I plan on having waterworks and lava (for the nacelles and reactor most likely), engineering, medical, the bridge, etc, etc, etc.