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Dwarf Fortress => DF Suggestions => Topic started by: Behrooz Wolf on May 19, 2007, 03:12:00 pm

Title: Burn wooden furniture in ashery?
Post by: Behrooz Wolf on May 19, 2007, 03:12:00 pm
On maps without a great deal of wood, it'd be nice to be able to burn wooden furniture in the ashery, like you can re-melt metal items.

That'd be a good way to get rid of all of the low-quality siege engine parts that keep stacking up.

Title: Re: Burn wooden furniture in ashery?
Post by: Tamren on May 19, 2007, 04:16:00 pm
makes sense

i dont see any problem with it at all.

Charcoal would still need a proper log though.

Title: Re: Burn wooden furniture in ashery?
Post by: Genuine on May 19, 2007, 04:23:00 pm
I was thinking about something like this last night as well while playing, as I had made a ton of wooden crossbows to increase a dwarf's bowyer skill and found myself wishing there was something more I could do with them than trade them. Not sure if you'd be able to get a full set of ash from a single crossbow, though..
Title: Re: Burn wooden furniture in ashery?
Post by: Sean Mirrsen on May 21, 2007, 10:30:00 am
If the next version has the stack splitting problems solved (Toady seemed to have considerable trouble solving those), we might see several crossbows made from one log, and numerous charcoal bits from burned crossbows. (As opposed to burning the whole log to get one big charcoal chunk).

Side note: Unless I'm completely mistaken, crossbows require a lot more than wood, so it'd be nice to see composite items from different materials. And then get those materials back, bit by bit. You do know furniture can be made from...  er...  (damn, I don't know the english word for it)...  "compressed small bits of wood"?

Title: Re: Burn wooden furniture in ashery?
Post by: Draco18s on May 21, 2007, 11:02:00 am
quote:
Originally posted by Sean Mirrsen:
<STRONG>You do know furniture can be made from...  er...  (damn, I don't know the english word for it)...  "compressed small bits of wood"?</STRONG>

Partical Board.

Title: Re: Burn wooden furniture in ashery?
Post by: Zhentar on May 21, 2007, 12:51:00 pm
But without faux wood plastic laminate we'll never be able to make proper cheap particle board furniture.
Title: Re: Burn wooden furniture in ashery?
Post by: Veroule on May 22, 2007, 01:06:00 am
They are hearty strong dwarves, they should sleep on stone beds as long as you have well made silk sheets handy.

Partical board doesn't actually need any sort of laminate.  If it is sanded gently with a fine enough grit sand paper it can actually have a very interesting finish.  Add 1 coat of stain and 2 coats of laquer and you usually end up with very beautiful furniture.  It is quite dependent on the partical size though.

Also glue is a readily makeable item from all those horse we have floating around.  A smart dwarf though would realize that if he takes his fresh chopped lumber, saws it into furniture ready boards.  Then chips the scrap odd foot length, adds the saw dust as wll as some water.  He can actually get the resins in those green chips and dust to glue the board back together.  All that is needed is pressure from a nice boulder and a few water treatments repeated alternatingly.

[ May 22, 2007: Message edited by: Veroule ]

Title: Re: Burn wooden furniture in ashery?
Post by: Furious Fish on May 24, 2007, 08:15:00 am
Why the ashery? Surely the wood furnace would make more sense?