40d Talk:Stone

Where did the ore and economic stones go?

I've moved the economic stone and ore categories to their own articles, as was suggested. I've reorganized this to reflect the change VengefulDonut 22:38, 6 November 2007 (EST)

I notice that Economic stone lists economic + metal ores, my edit to the stone page divides it as the stockpiles do. -- infinity

Is there any kind of stone that isn't mineable? If not, then I don't think that "Mineable Stone" makes sense as a section header. --Peristarkawan 13:36, 31 October 2007 (EDT)

Good point, I think I was trying to separate that from "soil" and other things that don't leave behind anything ... I shouldn't edit so early in the morning. --Infinity 20:45, 31 October 2007 (EDT)

Now all we need is graphical representations! Schm0 16:24, 1 November 2007 (EDT)

What about ICE BLOCKS? those count as stones for some purposes. --Thehunterunseen 19:27, 1 November 2007 (EDT)

I haven't been able to get my dorfs to do anything with ice blocks yet. Haven't managed them to go down (or up) the stairs into the frozen river I had anyway, so... (I was explicitly trying NOT to mine out the side of it)--Draco18s 00:48, 2 November 2007 (EDT)

Shouldn't raw adamantine be under metal ore as opposed to "other stone"? --RedKing 00:43, 2 November 2007 (EDT)

It's probably due to where it's grouped in the raws. --Alfador 14:40, 2 November 2007 (EDT)

Why are we listing platinum nuggets instead of native platinum, when talking about it in it's unmined state? --Trukkle 10:23, 3 November 2007 (EDT)

I am thinking about implementing a more detailed table style for this area. The existing tables are nice, but there should be much more information on this page. Perhaps something like this:

Name	Tile	Type	Uses
Olivine		Generic	Stoneworking

What do you guys think? Schm0 15:41, 3 November 2007 (EDT)

I really like that, Schm0 --Tracker 18:29, 3 November 2007 (EDT)

I agree it looks good, but can it be accomplished without using gifs? we have a raw tile template so we could do something like this:

Name	Tiles	Type	Uses	Value
Olivine	% • ╬║═	Generic	Stoneworking	1
Microcline	% • ╬║═	Generic	Stoneworking	1
Platinum Nuggets (Mined)	* • ╬║═	Metal Ore	Stoneworking, Smelting	40

--Matryx 06:10, 5 November 2007 (EST)

Someone, with correct formatting, add this to the bottom of the page. http://idisk.mac.com/fire_drake-Public/DF_StoneOre_Table.htm -penguin

I'd try, but what does the 'V' or 'C' mean in the table? --Valdemar 10:06, 4 November 2007 (EST)

"vein" and "cluster" VengefulDonut 17:29, 4 November 2007 (EST)

Okay, I've added something like it with some of my own formatting through a program, but it will still need a lot of cleanup. --Valdemar 17:53, 4 November 2007 (EST)

Individual pages

I'm of the opinion that ores and economic stones should probably get their own page, but the rest can just redirect here. There just isn't much to say about cryolite or jet. They're rocks, they have about such-and-such a value, the end. How about it? --Turgid Bolk 20:59, 4 November 2007 (EST)

Yes, the pages about the all the stones in the 'other stone' category should be deleted, any information about them can just be included in the table on this page. All the info from the raws is now summed up in the table. --Valdemar 21:06, 4 November 2007 (EST)

Instead of deleting, let's redirect to this page. Just replace them with #REDIRECT [[Stone]]. (The #R button above the edit box helps with this.) --Turgid Bolk 22:13, 4 November 2007 (EST)

On different note, I think that Ores should be on a separate page to Stone. I don't consider 'Ore' to be stone, although I agree there is little difference in the way that stones and ore operate in the game. One alternative; add information about metal ores to the metals page, which doesn't exist at the moment, ores could more usefully redirect there. I was trying to find out what metals tetrahedtrite produced by starting on the metal page, but found no reference. I was then confused to find myself redirect from ores to stones. --Markavian 21:09, 6 November 2007 (EST)

An ore: A mineral or an aggregate of minerals from which a valuable constituent, especially a metal, can be profitably mined or extracted. Answers.com/ore

Perhaps you would have found the tetrahedrite page helpful. (look at the beautiful template) VengefulDonut 21:18, 6 November 2007 (EST)

Unfortunately, not all of the ores have beautiful templated pages like that just yet. You can help VengefulDonut 21:21, 6 November 2007 (EST)

I did see the tetrahedrite page eventually, it was very plush. I look forward to the other ores exhibiting a similar likeness. :) --Markavian