40d Talk:Economic stone

This was vital knowledge for me to figure out: I started on a marble plateau (which despite the designation of "Heavily Forested" had NO TREES!!! I must have messed something up in the starting locale...) and had to undesignate marble as a flux in order to build anything.

That's funny. I started on a volcano and had no trouble whatsoever building stuff out of obsidian. Is obsidian not economic? --Peristarkawan 23:42, 29 October 2007 (EDT)

Apparently not! I'll have to build a workshop and see if we can still build dark stone short swords? --Alfador 23:49, 29 October 2007 (EDT)

I made several rock short swords and the craftsdwarf used obsidian for all of them. But I only have two stone types available, so it could just be chance. --Peristarkawan 00:32, 30 October 2007 (EDT)

I too started in a 'heavily forested' area, which looked like trees on the map, and had not a single tree in sight on any of the z-levels. I don't know if it's a bug or if I managed to snag a part that had no trees (I picked the smallest start size possible to minimize lag). --BurnedToast 00:11, 30 October 2007 (EDT)

Look over your Z-Levels again... or perhaps their are already trees inside the mountain? Or even better, perhaps you have a 1 in a million chance secenario, where heavily forested = 10 x Random Tree # = number of trees in region, and the random number you rolled was 0? Perhaps not? Perhaps you misread "Heavily Forested"? Perhaps... Yesh...Perhaps... -- Bovinepro

I don't know if this is the place to mention it but shouldn't the stone pages have easier to understand data. Just copying and pasting data from the source isn't very helpful to new players. --Lucid 20:34, 31 October 2007 (EDT)

Seconded; there should be more information about the uses of the different types of stone. If not on each and every stone page, then at least one page with all of it and references to that page on each and every stone page. --BDR 19:18, 2 November 2007 (EDT)