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metime00

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Metal Bins
« on: January 31, 2011, 09:35:51 am »
I looked in the raws and saw that platinum had almost twice the density as lead. Does this mean that a platinum bin would move even less than a lead bin? I don't want my cotton candy to go anywhere but I don't have galena in this embark.
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Re: Metal Bins
« Reply #1 on: January 31, 2011, 10:28:16 am »
Yes.
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Re: Metal Bins
« Reply #2 on: January 31, 2011, 10:51:51 am »
Don't you have other metals for bins? Platinum is one of the rarest there are. Also: what do you mean by move less? As in, be slower to move?
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Re: Metal Bins
« Reply #3 on: January 31, 2011, 10:56:14 am »
Quote from: assimilateur on January 31, 2011, 10:51:51 am
Don't you have other metals for bins? Platinum is one of the rarest there are. Also: what do you mean by move less? As in, be slower to move?
He means if he reclaims it won't be thrown around as much.
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Re: Metal Bins
« Reply #4 on: January 31, 2011, 10:57:06 am »
I stored my weapons and armor in lead bins in the last fort I did, and when I came back as an adventurer none of it had budged a single square. Even the adamantine weapons were in the "vault" I'd built, on the exact spot where I'd left them. Lead's good enough - using platinum would be a waste of a valuable metal.

EDIT: Whoops, didn't see you had no galena. Well, in that case platinum would probably do what you want, if you're willing to use the platinum for that instead of valuable stuff. Go for it, use the platinum. If lead doesn't move, platinum shouldn't.
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Re: Metal Bins
« Reply #5 on: January 31, 2011, 11:07:53 am »
Quote from: Jacob/Lee on January 31, 2011, 10:56:14 am
He means if he reclaims it won't be thrown around as much.

I see, I didn't know about that. Anyway, the original poster should check for gold on their map. It's also denser than lead and is likely more common in most environments.
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Re: Metal Bins
« Reply #6 on: January 31, 2011, 12:20:20 pm »
I normally use copper for my bins and I never had them move when i came back to the fort as adventurer.
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Re: Metal Bins
« Reply #7 on: January 31, 2011, 01:51:21 pm »
If I have the luxury of a booming metal industry, I also use copper or lead because they are abundant and cheap. Weight be damned.
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Re: Metal Bins
« Reply #8 on: January 31, 2011, 02:00:16 pm »
Yeah, I've got so much lead right now that I don't even know what to do with it. That's what I get for embarking on limestone and granite. I'm not exactly drowning in copper, though.
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Re: Metal Bins
« Reply #9 on: January 31, 2011, 06:21:54 pm »
Gold is also a possibility - and there is usually plenty of gold on a given map.
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