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[zilpin]

COBALTITE
Every map, it dominates the metamorphic layers, usually the dominant vein type.
Which does not make sense, as cobaltite is actually fairly rare, compared to other minerals.

Modding in a reductive smelting process + coke to yield 10% iron makes it somewhat useful without being a *blatant cheat, but still, I'd rather it be historically and geologically accurate.

What do you do with your excessive stores of shiny blue cobaltite?
Without modding, I usually make doors, hatches, and constructions from it.

*_{not a blatant cheat because it does contain 10% iron, smelting cobaltite yields oxides of both, which can be reduced using carbon, but IRL smelting cobaltite also produces toxic arsenic gas}

[Ultimuh]

COBALTITE
Every map, it dominates the metamorphic layers, usually the dominant vein type.
Which does not make sense, as cobaltite is actually fairly rare, compared to other minerals.

Modding in a reductive smelting process + coke to yield 10% iron makes it somewhat useful without being a *blatant cheat, but still, I'd rather it be historically and geologically accurate.

What do you do with your excessive stores of shiny blue cobaltite?
Without modding, I usually make doors, hatches, and constructions from it.

*_{not a blatant cheat because it does contain 10% iron, smelting cobaltite yields oxides of both, which can be reduced using carbon, but IRL smelting cobaltite also produces toxic arsenic gas}

I find Cobaltite quite a nice metal.
Even if there are more supperior metals, this one I am glad to encounter in DF.
It has a nice color without being too much of an eyesore.

And what I do with it?
I use it for whatever, if there's enough of it.
If it's like in your world, ALL my metal products are cobaltite.

If it's rare..
First I mod dwarves to be able to make katanas.
Then I make my blacksmiths make as many Cobalt katanas as possible.
My military is then exclusively using these weapons.
If I lose my fort because of y choise in metal and weaponry, tough luck.. I want my cobalt katanas!

[eggrock]

Haven't seen any and I'm swimming in marble, quartzite and schist. (I have the opposite problem--magnetite everywhere and not a stone of lignite or bituminous coal.)

[Matoro]

I love cobaltitefor it's blye color. I make floors, walls, tables, chairs, statues, coffers... everything stone-furniture from it.

[jcnorris00]

Cobaltite is by far the heaviest non-economic stone.  Using that for ammunition makes stone-fall traps and catapults marginally more useful.  I learned to hate it because mechanisms are my main trade good, and cobaltite mechanisms are really heavy, cutting into my trade.  Now I turn cobaltite off in the stones menu.

[Ultimuh]

Cobaltite is by far the heaviest non-economic stone.  Using that for ammunition makes stone-fall traps and catapults marginally more useful.  I learned to hate it because mechanisms are my main trade good, and cobaltite mechanisms are really heavy, cutting into my trade.  Now I turn cobaltite off in the stones menu.

So they make good swords and axes?

[Quantumtroll]

So they make good swords and axes?

Except that you can't make swords or axes with cobaltite stone...

[Ultimuh]

So they make good swords and axes?

Except that you can't make swords or axes with cobaltite stone...

Ah.. Hmm.. Would mods do the trick?

[ASCIt]

Personally, I feel like modding in cobalt, it's a nice color.

[Eoganachta]

Personally, I feel like modding in cobalt, it's a nice color.

I might have to mod that in for my fortresses sometime. Colbalt, uranium, and some other metals from ores that already exist. I wonder if Toady will ever put this in the game. It would be fun to have barrels of Mercery rolling out of your smelters. Although I have no idea what you would use this for.

[ASCIt]

Personally, I feel like modding in cobalt, it's a nice color.

I might have to mod that in for my fortresses sometime. Colbalt, uranium, and some other metals from ores that already exist. I wonder if Toady will ever put this in the game. It would be fun to have barrels of Mercery rolling out of your smelters. Although I have no idea what you would use this for.

Have it deteriorate (rot) and instead of miasma release a syndrome-inducing cloud of radioactive evil?

[Necro910]

Personally, I feel like modding in cobalt, it's a nice color.

I might have to mod that in for my fortresses sometime. Colbalt, uranium, and some other metals from ores that already exist. I wonder if Toady will ever put this in the game. It would be fun to have barrels of Mercery rolling out of your smelters. Although I have no idea what you would use this for.

Barrel Rolls?

[Ultimuh]

Personally, I feel like modding in cobalt, it's a nice color.

I might have to mod that in for my fortresses sometime. Colbalt, uranium, and some other metals from ores that already exist. I wonder if Toady will ever put this in the game. It would be fun to have barrels of Mercery rolling out of your smelters. Although I have no idea what you would use this for.

Barrel Rolls?

Do a barrel roll!

[ASCIt]

Personally, I feel like modding in cobalt, it's a nice color.

I might have to mod that in for my fortresses sometime. Colbalt, uranium, and some other metals from ores that already exist. I wonder if Toady will ever put this in the game. It would be fun to have barrels of Mercery rolling out of your smelters. Although I have no idea what you would use this for.

Barrel Rolls?

Do a barrel roll!

You're lucky I've already been through BitF, or I'd be so pissed about this distraction right now...

[Wannazzaki]

Genesis Mod already lets you smelt cobaltite.

By compressive yield/fracture:
Copper -> Cobalt -> Spellwood -> Black Bronze -> Bismuth Bronze -> Bronze -> Iron -> Sun Gold -> Steel -> Black Steel -> Red Steel -> Adamantine

By weight/density:
Adamantine ->Iron -> Spellwood -> Sun Gold -> Steel -> Black Steel -> Red Steel -> Bismuth Bronze -> Bronze -> Cobalt -> Copper -> Black Bronze

By edge:
Spellwood -> Copper -> Cobalt -> Iron -> Bismuth bronze -> Black bronze -> Bronze -> Sun gold -> Steel -> Black steel -> Red steel -> Adamantine

S'a good hammer material. FEAR THE BLUE HAMMERS