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[mickel]

When I first noticed the game differentiates between different kinds of rock beyond grey, dark, and light, I thought it would have something to do with material strengths, but it didn't. But it could! Especially when you consider other building materials such as wood, steel, and clay.

It makes sense that a natural rock pillar ought to be able to hold up a lot more rock than a flimsy balsawood support beam. And shoring up with mud? Forget it!

[Haedrian]

I think this would greatly complicate matters. I don't think it needs to be complicated.

If you'd like a wooden fortress, so be it.

Hmm, wonder how wood should react to temperature changes  

[Nexus]

Doesn't it already catch fire when exposed to extreme temperatures?  I mean, like  that mysterious lava wave flooding the outside of the fortress just when goblins arrive?

[mickel]

Rock reacts to temperature changes too, quite dramatically actually, which has been used quite a lot in mining.

But to get the thread back on track, if the different materials don't have different strengths, why are some of them there? I mean, why does the game differentiate between e.g. slate and shale if all that does is clutter up the materials list and cause annoyance?

[Mechanoid]

quote:Originally posted by mickel:
why are some of them there?

1. So that they dont have to be put in later.
2. To flesh out a dwarves personality about that material.
3. To provide something for dwarven nobles to bitch about in their mandates.

[mickel]

quote:Originally posted by Mechanoid:
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3. To provide something for dwarven nobles to bitch about in their mandates.</STRONG>

They tend to only differentiate between dark/light/grey stone, don't they? I don't care much about nobles and their requests...

[Pacho]

It depends on the whim of the noble.  Sometimes they ask for something made of a dark stone, other times they want marble toy anvils and red diamond toy boats.

[mickel]

In those cases it'd help if you could actually order something made of a specific stone (marble) and not just a category (light).

Especially for me, since my sense of aesthetics sometimes requires all the doors in the corridors to be made of slate.