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Wrex

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Melting Items
« on: August 02, 2012, 04:17:17 pm »
Will dwarves ONLY melt down objects you specify for melting?
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Re: Melting Items
« Reply #1 on: August 02, 2012, 04:19:31 pm »
I'm pretty sure, yes.
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Re: Melting Items
« Reply #2 on: August 02, 2012, 04:24:30 pm »
They should be getting a job cancellation saying something about "no items available to melt" or something if no items are designated for melting.
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Re: Melting Items
« Reply #3 on: August 02, 2012, 04:25:15 pm »
[sarcasm] no , they will melt whatever they see . [/sarcasm]
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Re: Melting Items
« Reply #4 on: August 02, 2012, 04:26:15 pm »
Excellent. The goblin civs I am at war with drop inordinate amounts of iron arrows, so we have plenty of melting fodder.

Actually, this world is strange for many reasons. Dwarves and elves being extremely close, as are humans and goblins. I keep getting engraving's of so and so eating Human McWossname alive.
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Re: Melting Items
« Reply #5 on: August 02, 2012, 08:04:38 pm »
Followup question - dropping metal items into magma (provided not magma-safe)..  is that the same yield after cooling? Or is it less efficient? Are the (molten copper) even usable?
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Re: Melting Items
« Reply #6 on: August 02, 2012, 08:29:56 pm »
Quote from: eRaz0r on August 02, 2012, 08:04:38 pm
Followup question - dropping metal items into magma (provided not magma-safe)..  is that the same yield after cooling? Or is it less efficient? Are the (molten copper) even usable?

No, it's a waste of perfectly good metal. Globs are about the same size as an amulet or book, that is, rather small.
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Re: Melting Items
« Reply #7 on: August 02, 2012, 08:34:10 pm »
I thought stuff was destroyed utterly in magma.
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Re: Melting Items
« Reply #8 on: August 02, 2012, 08:59:17 pm »
Non-magma safe metal items will not be utterly destroyed. They first melt into a puddle of unusable metal.
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Re: Melting Items
« Reply #9 on: August 02, 2012, 09:50:59 pm »
Stuff that falls through the magma and into the magma flow is destroyed. Unless you're moving magma around and dumping into that, dumping into magma is synonymous with dumping into magma flow.
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Re: Melting Items
« Reply #10 on: August 03, 2012, 04:43:56 pm »
- I ask because in a a previous version, you could dump non-magma safe metal items into a magma cistern, drain or cast the chamber into obsidian, and recover some of the metal  (at first it would say (molten copper) or whatever but eventually it would cool).. but my recollection of that process is hazy.. haven't played for a while.

Just thought I'd see if that process was still valid.  Seems like it's a waste of time now.
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