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gSamp108

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Clay oddness
« on: February 23, 2011, 10:49:03 am »
So it seems the rocks produced from collect clay jobs can be used in making rock crafts but don't seem to work correctly.

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Also clay seems to be exhaustible as I'm now getting constant "cancels collect clay: clay vanished" messages but there doesn't seem to be any way to tell how much clay there is in a tile or if a tile is empty other than this message.
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Vorthon

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Re: Clay oddness
« Reply #1 on: February 23, 2011, 10:54:43 am »
Quote from: gSamp108 on February 23, 2011, 10:49:03 am
Also clay seems to be exhaustible as I'm now getting constant "cancels collect clay: clay vanished" messages but there doesn't seem to be any way to tell how much clay there is in a tile or if a tile is empty other than this message.

The tile eventually gets grown over with grass. The solution: place the clay-collection zone on a stair dug into the clay.
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beorn080

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Re: Clay oddness
« Reply #2 on: February 23, 2011, 01:08:33 pm »
Alternatively, make your clay collection zones pastures. The grazers will eat the grass and leave the clay under them.
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Re: Clay oddness
« Reply #3 on: February 23, 2011, 01:10:02 pm »
Wow, dwarves are so stupid that they can't figure out that clay is under the grass :P

Must be some very dense vegitation in DF.
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Vorthon

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Re: Clay oddness
« Reply #4 on: February 23, 2011, 01:11:17 pm »
Quote from: Megaman3321 on February 23, 2011, 01:10:02 pm
Wow, dwarves are so stupid that they can't figure out that clay is under the grass :P

Must be some very dense vegitation in DF.


No, they're just fekking lazy.
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Re: Clay oddness
« Reply #5 on: February 23, 2011, 02:33:06 pm »
I wouldn't be surprised to see more dedicated sand and/or clay quarries (maybe gravel or others added) down the road.  Would reduce the congestion in your kilns and glass furnaces.
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Re: Clay oddness
« Reply #6 on: February 25, 2011, 07:19:13 am »
I like the idea about digging stairs into the clay, that makes good sense for a clay pit
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