Ash

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Properties
Material value 1 Fire-safe Magma-safe Melting point None Boiling point None Ignition point None Solid density 1200 Specific heat 800

For the tree, see Ash (tree).

Ash is an intermediate good used to make potash, lye, or to glaze ceramics. Ash is produced by burning wood at a wood furnace, and comes in bars, stored in a bar/block stockpile, and viewable in the stocks screen under "bars". Ash bars are a surprisingly-sound structural material, usable for building constructions, workshops and furnaces of equal parity to, say, granite. Although the precise material properties of ash are unknown, it is fire-safe, (somehow) magma-safe, and can even resist the heat of dragonfire, making it a usable material when working with intense heat.

Procedurally-generated creatures (such as titans and forgotten beasts) may occasionally be composed of ash, though killing them will just result in a useless pile of ash for your dwarves to clean up. A killed fire man will leave behind a usable bar of ash, though these creatures are rare.

Ash is one of the few hardcoded materials.

Step 1 - Just add fire to anything.

"Ash" in other Languages Dwarven: ibruk Elven: imeri Goblin: usmdas Human: cish

Raws
[MATERIAL:ASH] - reconstructed from data extracted from memory [STATE_COLOR:ALL:GRAY] [STATE_NAME_ADJ:ALL_SOLID:ash] [STATE_NAME_ADJ:SOLID_PASTE:ash paste] [STATE_NAME_ADJ:SOLID_PRESSED:pressed ash] [BUILD_COLOR:7:0:0] [TILE_COLOR:7:7:1] [SPEC_HEAT:800] [SOLID_DENSITY:1200] [MATERIAL_REACTION_PRODUCT:GLAZE_MAT:INORGANIC:ASH_GLAZE]

V · T · E Materials
More: Gems • Metals • Stones
Creature	Blood • Bone • Cartilage • Cheese • Chitin • Egg • Fat • Feather • Hair (Wool • Yarn) • Hoof • Horn • Ichor • Leather • Milk • Meat • Nail • Nervous tissue • Organs • Parchment • Pearl • Scale • Shell • Silk • Skin • Spit • Sweat • Tallow • Tears • Tooth • Wax
Plant	Fiber (Paper • Slurry) • Flower • Fruit • Leaf • Oil • Plant powders (Dye • Flour • Sugar) • Seed (Press cake) • Wood
Creature/Plant	Alcohol • Cloth/Thread • Extract (Golden salve • Gnomeblight • Honey • Royal jelly • Syrup • Venom) • Glob • Liquids • Soap
Inorganic	Metal • Milk of lime • Soil (Clay • Sand) • Stone (Ash glaze • Earthenware • Gem • Gypsum plaster • Porcelain • Quicklime • Stoneware • Tin glaze)
Hardcoded	Amber • Ash • Coral • Filth • Fuel • Glass • Grime • Ice • Lye • Magma • Mud • Pearlash • Potash • Salt • Unknown substance • Vomit • Water
See also: Material science