For ores, this is smelting, and for fluxes, this is steel production. Few of these have a use outside of items and structures ( obsidian being a notable exception).Įconomic stones are types of stone that can be reserved for a special purpose. Rough gems: rough gems can be cut, then used to encrust objects and create windows.Ore: stones that produce metal bars when smelted.
Loose stones are divided into a few key categories: Other types of minable tiles include soil, sand, and clay these tiles do not produce loose stones when mined. Mining a rock tile leaves behind a loose stone (or just "a stone") roughly 25% of the time. As a result, Dwarven steel is far more pure than the period would otherwise suggest (modern steel making wasn't invented till the 17th century).An unmined rock or stone tile is a naturally occurring solid aggregate of minerals. In modern steel making we use burnt lime or dolomite as a flux material.Įven though steel making is an industrial technology, the Dwarves natural instincts with relationship to rock have given them an innate understanding of the necessary complexities of steel making. Additionally, flux is used in smelting to remove impurities from the metal (also to liquefy slag, but that a different discussion). In metallurgy flux is a substance which removes oxidation from metals, usually used in soldering, brazing, and welding. The Flux referred to by DF is the term from Metallurgy. Flux is often an ambiguous term give its preference in different scientific disciplines. So someone asked about Flux and I figured given its importance in DF it might be worthwhile for me to explain what Flux is. Its usually identifiable by the stress lines present.Ĭongrats, that was your crash course in Geology, here is your Diploma. The end result is a new kind of stone called Metamorphic rock (meta is Greek for change, and morph for form). These forces warp Igneous and Sandstone compacting it. This is not a subtle process, but actually a very violent one, with massive forces of pressure, stress and strain. Eventually they cool so much they are subducted by newer Continents. These continents are formed of large rock beds deep within the Earth's crust. In a world without continents that's all there would be, but in our Earth we have massive continents. Sandstone is soil that has been compressed back into rock. Eventually enough pressure builds up and the soil becomes hard and becomes a rock known as Sandstone. These soils build up over time and eventually are submerged below other soil (or sometimes other rock). This weathered down rock becomes sand or soil. So we can say, all rock starts as Magma and becomes Igneous.įrom there it can be weathered down by the elements, earth, rain, water, etc. Whether it becomes Intrusive or Extrusive has to do with whether it makes it all the way to the top. It eventually reaches the surface and becomes Igneous Rock. As Magma is heated by the pressure at the Earth's core it rises (remember 10th Grade Chemistry? Hot things rise!). Sorryįor those of you who actually care more about Rock, I've defined the terms further here.
Only way to tell in a MAYBE circumstance is to dig. If you have at least one then the answer is MAYBE. If you have none of those, then the answer is NO. Marble happens to be a Metamorphic rock, so it can be found if you have other Metamorphic rock, namely: Quartzite, Slate, Phyllite, Schist, and Gneiss. So the next thing you need to look for is a similar stone. So how do you tell if you have Marble? Well if you see Marble on your embark screen, that's a big hint (but you said you didn't). In addition to deposits (Jet, Gold, Hematite, etc) any other type of similar stone can be found. So why describe them as certain stones instead of what the layer is? Well, the stone indicated is the most common stone in that layer, it is NOT the only stone in that layer. Each of these indicates one of the above layers, Now on your embark screen you'll not see these layers, instead you'll see things like: Gabbro, Gneiss, Shale, Basalt, etc. To these layers DF also adds Soil and Aquifers. Dwarf Fortress is modeled on this system but it further breaks Igneous down into Igneous Extrusive and Igneous Intrusive (Lava that cooled on the surface and lava that cooled underground, obviously magma is found in the latter). In traditional Geology there are three kinds of Rock: Sedimentary, Metamorphic and Igneous (actually that's an over simplification, but pretend its true). Ok, I'm going to give you a crash course in Geology.
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