40d:Gem

Small clusters of gems can be found strewn throughout the fortress. Gems can used to encrust furniture, weapons, armor and ammunition, to create windows and as a source material for legendary artifacts.

Value

Gems have no value in rough form. First they need to be cut in a jeweler's workshop. Cut gems have a base value of 5, which is multiplied by appropriate value modifier from the table below. Items can be decorated (encrusted) with cut gems; all such decorations have a value of 10 times the gem type's value multiplier.

Varieties

Gems come in many varieties, with their own color and value multipliers:

V · T · E Gems
Ornamental	Amber opal • Aventurine • Banded agate • Bloodstone • Blue jade • Bone opal • Brown jasper • Carnelian • Cherry opal • Chrysocolla • Chrysoprase • Citrine • Clear tourmaline • Dendritic agate • Fire agate • Fortification agate • Gold opal • Gray chalcedony • Jasper opal • Lace agate • Lapis lazuli • Lavender jade • Milk opal • Milk quartz • Moonstone • Morion • Moss agate • Moss opal • Onyx • Onyx opal • Picture jasper • Pineapple opal • Pink jade • Pipe opal • Plume agate • Prase • Prase opal • Pyrite • Resin opal • Rock crystal • Rose quartz • Sard • Sardonyx • Schorl • Shell opal • Smoky quartz • Sunstone • Tiger iron • Tigereye • Tube agate • Turquoise • Variscite • Wax opal • White chalcedony • White jade • Wood opal • Yellow jasper
Semi-precious	Alexandrite • Almandine • Amethyst • Aquamarine • Bandfire opal • Black opal • Black pyrope • Black zircon • Blue garnet • Brown zircon • Cat's eye • Chrysoberyl • Cinnamon grossular • Claro opal • Clear garnet • Clear zircon • Crystal opal • Demantoid • Fire opal • Golden beryl • Goshenite • Green jade • Green tourmaline • Green zircon • Harlequin opal • Heliodor • Honey yellow beryl • Indigo tourmaline • Jelly opal • Kunzite • Levin opal • Light yellow diamond • Melanite • Morganite • Peridot • Pinfire opal • Pink garnet • Pink tourmaline • Precious fire opal • Purple spinel • Red beryl • Red flash opal • Red grossular • Red pyrope • Red spinel • Red tourmaline • Red zircon • Rhodolite • Rubicelle • Tanzanite • Topaz • Topazolite • Tsavorite • Violet spessartine • White opal • Yellow grossular • Yellow spessartine • Yellow zircon
Precious	Emerald • Faint yellow diamond • Ruby • Sapphire
Rare	Black diamond • Blue diamond • Clear diamond • Green diamond • Red diamond • Star ruby • Star sapphire • Yellow diamond

Glass

• green glass, x2 value, requires only a bag full of sand
• clear glass, x5 value, requires pearlash as well as a bag full of sand
• crystal glass, x10 value, requires pearlash and rock crystal

Like working metal, making glass requires fuel, either coke or charcoal at a normal glass furnace, or magma at a magma glass furnace.

Glass has other uses than as a mere gem, as glass can be used as (a rather odd looking) stone for most buildings, such as Tables or Doors. In addition, Glass can be converted into Trap components, such as large, spiked balls or giant axes. However, this appears to requires a Glass Bar, which is not possible to create at the current time.

Outside of Metal and Wood, Glass is the only readily available material to create Cages out of, as well.