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helmacon

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Knowledge?
« on: October 09, 2016, 03:27:29 pm »
I noticed that a lot of wokshop reactions in various places produce "Knowledge" as a by product. Apparently, this is a stone. It gets stuck in a clay stockpile, and is incredibly heavy. Is this supposed to be slag-equivalent to balance some workshops? So far, i've just been excavating them in the archaeologists workshop to get rid of the stuff. What is this supposed to be?
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« Reply #1 on: October 09, 2016, 04:34:27 pm »
Quote from: helmacon on October 09, 2016, 03:27:29 pm
I noticed that a lot of wokshop reactions in various places produce "Knowledge" as a by product. Apparently, this is a stone. It gets stuck in a clay stockpile, and is incredibly heavy. Is this supposed to be slag-equivalent to balance some workshops? So far, i've just been excavating them in the archaeologists workshop to get rid of the stuff. What is this supposed to be?

I believe it is supposed to evaporate into a gas and initiate syndromes that enable various effects in the mod. It sounds like you have temperature turned off. You absolutely can not play masterwork with temperature turned off, or you will get these stones instead of the proper effects.
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« Reply #2 on: October 09, 2016, 04:37:34 pm »
its a product that is only added to generate XP when a reaction is completed. Its evaporates, you just have to enable temperature.
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« Reply #3 on: October 09, 2016, 04:52:28 pm »
Isn't temperature still a large FPS drain in DF? It would be nice if there were another way to do this...
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« Reply #4 on: October 09, 2016, 04:59:52 pm »
Temperature is a mild FPS drain, but Masterwork boosts FPS in a lot of other ways. Don't worry about it, turn temperature back on. To me, temperature is a crucial aspect, even of the base game, and dwarf fortress with temperature turned off is not dwarf fortress at all.
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« Reply #5 on: October 09, 2016, 06:25:25 pm »
Before I turn temperature back on I think I'm going to make a quantum stockpile of the stuff and stick a dwarf over it.  :P

Anyways, thanks everybody! Problem is solved!
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« Reply #6 on: October 10, 2016, 09:17:30 am »
Quote from: helmacon on October 09, 2016, 06:25:25 pm
Before I turn temperature back on I think I'm going to make a quantum stockpile of the stuff and stick a dwarf over it.  :P

Anyways, thanks everybody! Problem is solved!

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« Reply #7 on: October 10, 2016, 02:50:24 pm »
Quote from: GhostDwemer on October 09, 2016, 04:59:52 pm
Temperature is a mild FPS drain, but Masterwork boosts FPS in a lot of other ways. Don't worry about it, turn temperature back on. To me, temperature is a crucial aspect, even of the base game, and dwarf fortress with temperature turned off is not dwarf fortress at all.

But maybe I'm playing human fortress. :P
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« Reply #8 on: October 10, 2016, 03:13:19 pm »
Okay, but even so, saying the game will run faster with temperature disabled is like saying "Skyrim will run faster with dragons disabled" or "Forza will run faster with the tire friction simulation disabled" or "Simcity runs fastest with no sims in it." Temperature matters.
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