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Scruga

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simple underground
« on: August 15, 2010, 10:36:02 am »

I'm planning to do an underground megaproject and i don't want the walls to have all kind of silly colors. Is there a way to gen a world with less frequent minerals?
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Re: simple underground
« Reply #1 on: August 15, 2010, 10:45:33 am »

I'd like to tone down ore veins and gem clusters as well.

All else fails obsidian, lots of it. Also, obsidian comes in any color you like; as long as that color is black.
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Re: simple underground
« Reply #2 on: August 15, 2010, 12:04:34 pm »

Well you can delete entries from the Matgloss_stone_layer/mineral file until you only have one type of stone left.

Or I think Dtil transmutes things if you really need to go that far.
« Last Edit: August 15, 2010, 12:09:27 pm by darkrider2 »
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Re: simple underground
« Reply #3 on: August 15, 2010, 03:42:43 pm »

You can also use the wiki to look up stone layers that aren't going to contain a lot of veins.
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Re: simple underground
« Reply #4 on: August 15, 2010, 05:12:00 pm »

Chalk this up to another reason I think we should have an in-game paint option.

Like, designate an area to have a certain color and -bam- it's colored. It'd be too much of a hassle for the dwarves to manage in-game painting.
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Re: simple underground
« Reply #5 on: August 15, 2010, 05:16:48 pm »

It'd be too much of a hassle for the dwarves to manage in-game painting.

Oh, but think of the possibilities. All those toxic pigments (arsenic, anyone?). What could possibly go wrong?

Let's face it: If anyone could drown in a paint tray, it'd be Urist McPainter.
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