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Least favourite building material?
« on: October 20, 2010, 11:56:07 am »

What's your least favourite building material? I hate carving bedrooms out of sand, could you imagine having to sleep somewhere like that!?

Sands in the sheets, sands in my beard. Ugh.

Also Microcline floors are a bit tacky, in my opinion - a poor man's adamantine.
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Re: Least favourite building material?
« Reply #1 on: October 20, 2010, 12:11:08 pm »

I hate slade personally.
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Re: Least favourite building material?
« Reply #2 on: October 20, 2010, 12:29:12 pm »

well, after looking up microline in the wiki it does seem to have a nice blue/green appearance that I suppose could look nice if polished and such... but as portrayed in the game I don't like cyan very much.

Also, after seeing some of these artifacts going around, dwarves have no concept of "tacky".

I am thinking about this... I can find use for just about any stone applied properly and tastefully.  But I tend to shy away from stuff like soap, tin, and zinc.  Yes they aren't quite stones but... a "block" and two metals.

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Re: Least favourite building material?
« Reply #3 on: October 20, 2010, 12:58:37 pm »

Anything grey. I build my forts to look like a crayon factory has just vomited over them.

OLIVINE, KIMBERLITE AND REALGAR EVERYWHERE!
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Re: Least favourite building material?
« Reply #4 on: October 20, 2010, 01:16:12 pm »

Personally I hate granite. It's just so... dull.
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Re: Least favourite building material?
« Reply #5 on: October 20, 2010, 01:34:26 pm »

Soap. The skin irritation alone would drive me stark raving mad!
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Re: Least favourite building material?
« Reply #6 on: October 20, 2010, 01:35:32 pm »

Anything grey. I build my forts to look like a crayon factory has just vomited over them.

OLIVINE, KIMBERLITE AND REALGAR EVERYWHERE!

To add to this:

COBALTITE, GARNIERITE AND ORTHOCLASE TOO!
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Re: Least favourite building material?
« Reply #7 on: October 20, 2010, 01:38:40 pm »

I have started using reveal in a fort so that I can carve rooms out of just one oval of colour. I carefully do it so that the walls are of that material also. Sometimes I leave a gem clusters or a colourful vein in (oh er missus) and polish it up (Fnar) which looks great with my tileset.
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Re: Least favourite building material?
« Reply #8 on: October 20, 2010, 01:45:03 pm »

Adamantine. If those bastard dorfs use it as building material, it isn't being used to slaughter... something  >:(

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Re: Least favourite building material?
« Reply #9 on: October 20, 2010, 01:48:11 pm »

I will refuse to dig out sections of wall in the dwarves living quarters.  So what if i somehow hit a cotton candy stand, some lucky dwarf will just get cotton candy walls.  I dont mind building with any material, but certain materials should not mix.  ie cobaltite and microcline.  That will burn your eyes to look at.
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Re: Least favourite building material?
« Reply #10 on: October 20, 2010, 01:51:11 pm »

Anything grey. I build my forts to look like a crayon factory has just vomited over them.

OLIVINE, KIMBERLITE AND REALGAR EVERYWHERE!

To add to this:

COBALTITE, GARNIERITE AND ORTHOCLASE TOO!

MICROCLINE, BAUXITE, AND BRIMSTONE MUST NOT BE FORGOTTEN!!!!
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Re: Least favourite building material?
« Reply #11 on: October 20, 2010, 02:34:11 pm »

I completely dig out my bedroom areas and build new walls and pave them over with all the same thing.  If an area happens to already be what I want to make it, I'll just smooth the floors but still dig it out - it's really good XP for miners.
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Re: Least favourite building material?
« Reply #12 on: October 20, 2010, 04:33:53 pm »

Mmmmmmmmicroline!
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Re: Least favourite building material?
« Reply #13 on: October 20, 2010, 04:36:10 pm »

Anything grey. I build my forts to look like a crayon factory has just vomited over them.

OLIVINE, KIMBERLITE AND REALGAR EVERYWHERE!

To add to this:

COBALTITE, GARNIERITE AND ORTHOCLASE TOO!

Hell no, I hate orthoclase.
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Re: Least favourite building material?
« Reply #14 on: October 20, 2010, 04:40:49 pm »

Anything grey. I build my forts to look like a crayon factory has just vomited over them.

OLIVINE, KIMBERLITE AND REALGAR EVERYWHERE!

To add to this:

COBALTITE, GARNIERITE AND ORTHOCLASE TOO!

MICROCLINE, BAUXITE, AND BRIMSTONE MUST NOT BE FORGOTTEN!!!!

BRIMSTONE IS FORGETTABLE AS IT IS THE SAME COLOR AS THE MIGHTY ORTHOCLASE.



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