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Soap Bars => Soap Blocks?
« on: November 07, 2008, 12:47:23 pm »
I'm making a Soap Fortress. Is there any way I could make a smelter reaction to turn Soap bars (the normal form) into Soap Blocks?

Also, I'm thinking of making soap "stone" that can be used in crafts and doors. Is there a non-labor-intensive way to make the soap "stones" be made of whatever animal the soap originally was, i.e., allowing one to make a +Kitten Tallow Soap Door+?
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Re: Soap Bars => Soap Blocks?
« Reply #1 on: November 07, 2008, 01:05:19 pm »
Two questions:
1. Why do you need them to be blocks?
2. Is this an attempt to piss off those snobby elves, by using the one material in the game made from both dead animals AND trees?
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Re: Soap Bars => Soap Blocks?
« Reply #2 on: November 07, 2008, 01:14:25 pm »
Some workshops need blocks, such as the ashery, and I want to make all the parts of the process out of soap (which, oddly enough, is fireproof).

And yes, yes it is.
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Re: Soap Bars => Soap Blocks?
« Reply #3 on: November 07, 2008, 03:26:12 pm »
Quote from: Gobbo on November 07, 2008, 01:05:19 pm
Two questions:
1. Why do you need them to be blocks?
2. Is this an attempt to piss off those snobby elves, by using the one material in the game made from both dead animals AND trees?

Elves don't hate soap because it's made out of animals and trees. They just hate being clean.
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Re: Soap Bars => Soap Blocks?
« Reply #4 on: November 07, 2008, 04:11:41 pm »
This should work, but I don't think you can preserve the record of the animal the soap came from, so it might lose value.

[REACTION:SOAP_BLOCKS]
[NAME:make soap blocks]
[SMELTER]
[REAGENT:1:BAR:NO_SUBTYPE:SOAP:NO_MATGLOSS]
[PRODUCT:100:1:BLOCKS:NO_SUBTYPE:SOAP:NO_MATGLOSS]
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Re: Soap Bars => Soap Blocks?
« Reply #5 on: November 07, 2008, 05:38:23 pm »
Many thanks to Footkerchief, man of the impatient businessman.
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Re: Soap Bars => Soap Blocks?
« Reply #6 on: November 07, 2008, 07:16:29 pm »
You could also make real Soap Bars, a metal made of soap.  Then you could build bins and barrels out of it.  My only qualm would be dwarves standing on them preaching all the time.
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Re: Soap Bars => Soap Blocks?
« Reply #7 on: November 07, 2008, 10:01:54 pm »
^I see what you did there^

Oh, and Footkerchief; that produces "blocks" that appear to be made of some kind of soap, but they aren't happy. I believe I will create a Soap stone that has all the same properties as soap (weight, ect...) and go with that. This will create more regular blocks.
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Re: Soap Bars => Soap Blocks?
« Reply #8 on: November 08, 2008, 02:04:12 am »
Quote from: PTTG?? on November 07, 2008, 10:01:54 pm
^I see what you did there^

Oh, and Footkerchief; that produces "blocks" that appear to be made of some kind of soap, but they aren't happy. I believe I will create a Soap stone that has all the same properties as soap (weight, ect...) and go with that. This will create more regular blocks.

Just out of curiosity, what does "not happy" mean?
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