Second, does amber exist within the game? I see it in the list of material tokens, but nowhere else.
Also, has anyone else considered using catalysts; that is reagents that are also products (or at least usually products)?
[ May 03, 2008: Message edited by: ArchMageOmega ]
Actual amber does not (yet) exist in the game. The color amber can be admired by certain dwarves, however.
Not sure what you mean with the catalysts. Would you mind elaborating?
By catalyst I mean something like this (along with other reagents and products):
[REAGENT:1:BAR:NO_SUBTYPE:METAL:PLATINUM]
[PRODUCT:90:1:BAR:NO_SUBTYPE:METAL:PLATINUM]
[ May 03, 2008: Message edited by: Deon ]
A true catalyst would have almost no chance of being lost but would need to be present for the reaction to take place. In DF a catalyst could be used to make an intermediate product with a second reaction producing the final product as well as reproducing the catalyst. Alternatively it could be both one of the reagents and the products of a single reaction.
DF currently doesn't allow for catalysts that would increase the speed of the reaction.
2) (THIS ONE USES SIMILAR MECHANISM) It takes cinnabar to produce mercury and recieve gold using amalgamation method. Then it makes cinnabar by heating mercury with sulphur. It will take 1 gold nugget and return 1 gold bar and 1 more gold bar with 50% chance. It will return you cinnabar (90% chance) and sulphur (65% chance).
Reactions can be fun.
I want to find some actual "mythical" alchemy recipes though to add them too.
First, is there any way to make a new material explosive, or at least as flamable as alcohol?
Second, does anyone else make use of the reaction_classes for things like [REACTION_CLASS:SULFUR]? I may or may not get around to using it myself, but I was wondering if would make certain things easier or if there's a reason to avoid it.
And no particular reason to avoid reaction classes, just no real use for them. If you can think of any good reaction that can use one stone of a select few types, that cannot be similarly classified through other means, you can use reaction classes.