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bcd1024

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Molten Copper
« on: November 02, 2010, 11:04:29 pm »

My magma trap generates a lot of molten copper from goblinite. When the magma leaves the tile, the molten copper becomes just 'copper.'

Is this usuable, or do I need to make bars out of it, or melt it, or what?
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This is a feature, not a bug, correct?
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NecroRebel

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Re: Molten Copper
« Reply #1 on: November 02, 2010, 11:08:49 pm »

AFAIK, it is unusable. You can't make bars out of it or melt it. When you melted it in magma, you essentially made their metal become lost forever. I don't even know if you can designate it for dumping to take it to an atomsmasher; you might just have to get someone to come and do a Clean job near it, or use dfcleanmap in the dfhack utility set.
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Re: Molten Copper
« Reply #2 on: November 02, 2010, 11:23:48 pm »

Supposedly, if you disable the Cleaning labor on everybody, you actually can melt it down into copper bars.
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