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If you make blocks & assign a number of semi-useless dwarves to masonry labor, you can set your mason's workshops to 'minimum: novice' and you can throw up constructions extremely fast. I checked and dabbling/no skill masons do not get any experience for this task and furthermore they do not do it slower than real masons. The simple test is to add a single dabbling dwarf to the mason labor and build a wall with a few blocks. If the timing is right all of the dwarves will start at the same time and finish at the same time. These dwarves are literally unskilled labor. --[[User:Riverc|Riverc]] ([[User talk:Riverc|talk]]) 04:19, 2 February 2014 (UTC) | If you make blocks & assign a number of semi-useless dwarves to masonry labor, you can set your mason's workshops to 'minimum: novice' and you can throw up constructions extremely fast. I checked and dabbling/no skill masons do not get any experience for this task and furthermore they do not do it slower than real masons. The simple test is to add a single dabbling dwarf to the mason labor and build a wall with a few blocks. If the timing is right all of the dwarves will start at the same time and finish at the same time. These dwarves are literally unskilled labor. --[[User:Riverc|Riverc]] ([[User talk:Riverc|talk]]) 04:19, 2 February 2014 (UTC) | ||
| + | :Yes, this works. If I'm building a big aboveground project or a long wall, I enable Masonry on my Hauler-class dwarves.<br/>Caveat: certain jobs will cause them to gain a bit of experience in Masonry, which will then guide any strange moods they have. These jobs are basically constructing any building (workshop, trade depot, pump, …) that uses a stone block as a material.<br/>—[[User:0x517A5D|0x517A5D]] ([[User talk:0x517A5D|talk]]) 17:58, 2 February 2014 (UTC) | ||
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4 stone blocks out of 1 stone[edit]
Did anyone else notice, that as of 34_08 one stone is made into 4 stone blocks? Is this meant to happen or a bug? Ashameron 18:42, 16 May 2012 (UTC)
- Definitely intended. You get 1/4 as many stones from mining, and each stone gives 4 blocks. Also each ore stone gives 4 bars now. --Greycat 19:18, 16 May 2012 (UTC)
Can you make furniture out of blocks, or is it still only stone? If it's the former, I might actually start running out of stone for furniture now... --Nyotor Lizardhammers 21:17, 21 May 2012 (UTC)
- You can't make crafts or furniture out of blocks, but most fixed-location objects (walls, workshops, bridges, etc.) can be made from blocks. -- HiEv 00:27, 22 May 2012 (UTC)
Magma Safe Bricks?[edit]
Can anyone say if ceramic blocks (bricks) are magma-safe? Does it depend on type of clay (earthenware/stoneware)? -- Shorr (talk) 21:08, 19 September 2013 (UTC)
- Well, I could not build a magma smelter with fire clay bricks, so the answer is probably "No, they are not". -- Shorr (talk) 23:32, 20 September 2013 (UTC)
Fast Construction with Blocks and Unskilled Labor[edit]
If you make blocks & assign a number of semi-useless dwarves to masonry labor, you can set your mason's workshops to 'minimum: novice' and you can throw up constructions extremely fast. I checked and dabbling/no skill masons do not get any experience for this task and furthermore they do not do it slower than real masons. The simple test is to add a single dabbling dwarf to the mason labor and build a wall with a few blocks. If the timing is right all of the dwarves will start at the same time and finish at the same time. These dwarves are literally unskilled labor. --Riverc (talk) 04:19, 2 February 2014 (UTC)
- Yes, this works. If I'm building a big aboveground project or a long wall, I enable Masonry on my Hauler-class dwarves.
Caveat: certain jobs will cause them to gain a bit of experience in Masonry, which will then guide any strange moods they have. These jobs are basically constructing any building (workshop, trade depot, pump, …) that uses a stone block as a material.
—0x517A5D (talk) 17:58, 2 February 2014 (UTC)