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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Boiling Zinc
« on: December 27, 2009, 02:41:43 pm »
After reading on the wiki that zinc boils in magma (which it technically does), and reading here about boiling zinc mug gas chambers, I decide to create my own. When the zinc mugs were dropped in magma, they only melted, and either took much longer to boil or didn't at all. I didn't bother to find out, as having a five minute warm-up on my gas chamber didn't seem too deadly. I changed the melting point to be much higher in the raws so that it would boil first. I achieved my result of a boiling zinc cloud when the goblets were dropped in magma, but the clouds did not go up through the hole in the floor.

Is there any way to create a barrier that the zinc cloud can go through but not magma, or make the zinc cloud go up/big enough to go up?

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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Thieving dwarf caravan
« on: November 15, 2009, 10:51:30 pm »
After cheating to embark with 1000 dwarven milk, I made it all into two giant roasts and a massive biscuit pile. All together, they were worth around 120 million dwarfbucks. When I offered them to the dwarven caravan in autumn, instead of being ecstatic with my huge offer, it told me that the merchants were "unwilling to trade". Right after leaving the trading screen, the dwarven caravan embarked, with my delicious 120 mill dwarfbuck stack of chopped milk. I couldn't activate the retracting bridge fast enough to drop them into my pit of ballistas and spikes, but I did manage to deconstruct the depot under them before they ran away (softened my losses by about 10,000 dwarfbucks  :-[)

What could have caused the dwarven caravan to make off with my enormous roasts? The extremely high amount of value I traded them might have had some strange overflow effect, making the merchant unwilling/displeased, but that doesn't explain why the caravan immediately started to pack up. (The caravans weren't modded to carry tons of items and therefore be super slow, and it was still mid autumn.)

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