0003725: Walls of human castles/fortresses made from implausible stones (e.g. native gold/platinum)

(0014193)
Footkerchief (manager)
2010-11-24 12:05

I've seen this too. My guess is that Toady didn't want to write anything fancy for picking the appropriate local stone, since it would just have to be rewritten again for Caravan Arc resource tracking.

(0017102)
Footkerchief (manager)
2011-04-05 14:13

Does this still occur in 0.31.25?

(0017103)
Quietust (reporter)
2011-04-05 14:32
edited on: 2011-04-05 14:37

Generated a 200-year world, and the first fortress I found was made of hornblende; a bit more searching turned up ones made of rutile, tetrahedrite, and garnierite.

(0017104)
Knight Otu (manager)
2011-04-05 14:43

It's still happening, yes. In a vanilla game I just checked I found a tetrahedrite fortress on the first try, and I've seen other valuable ores and minerals in my modded games, including a (supposedly) rare and valuable modded ore.

(0018003)
Coaldiamond (reporter)
2011-06-16 09:38

My favorite implausible castles so far have been a purple pitchblende castle and a red petrified wood castle in a vanilla game.

(0030076)
Khym Chanur (reporter)
2014-09-10 04:59

In 0.40.x I saw a keep with walls of coal.

(0030078)
smjjames (reporter)
2014-09-10 06:44
edited on: 2014-09-10 06:54

I still see keeps and meadhalls with walls of pitchblende in 40.11, or just about anything that you can make into a wall in DF. Even saw a fortress entrance made of native gold, then again, maybe we can give Dwarves a bit of an exception.

(0030083)
ptb_ptb (reporter)
2014-09-10 07:07

Native platinum block fortress.

(0030084)
smjjames (reporter)
2014-09-10 07:14
edited on: 2014-09-10 07:16

@footkerchief: It was probably native gold blocks rather than native gold boulders, but still....

If it was made of gold bars, okay, I'd just assume that have shitloads of gold lying around, but native gold nuggets/blocks? Nah.

Issue History
Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
2010-11-24 11:09	Quietust	New Issue
2010-11-24 12:05	Footkerchief	Note Added: 0014193
2010-11-24 12:05	Footkerchief	Tag Attached: Intentional/Expected?
2010-11-24 12:06	Footkerchief	Tag Attached: Fixed in 0.31.19?
2010-11-26 10:43	Khym Chanur	Issue Monitored: Khym Chanur
2011-04-05 14:12	Footkerchief	Summary	Human castles made from implausible stones => Walls of human castles/fortresses made from implausible stones (e.g. platinum)
2011-04-05 14:12	Footkerchief	Relationship added	related to 0003478
2011-04-05 14:13	Footkerchief	Note Added: 0017102
2011-04-05 14:32	Quietust	Note Added: 0017103
2011-04-05 14:37	Quietust	Note Edited: 0017103	View Revisions
2011-04-05 14:43	Knight Otu	Note Added: 0017104
2011-04-05 14:49	Footkerchief	Tag Detached: Fixed in 0.31.19?
2011-04-05 14:49	Footkerchief	Tag Detached: Intentional/Expected?
2011-06-16 09:38	Coaldiamond	Note Added: 0018003
2014-09-08 14:58	Footkerchief	Tag Attached: Intentional/Expected?
2014-09-10 04:59	Khym Chanur	Note Added: 0030076
2014-09-10 06:44	smjjames	Note Added: 0030078
2014-09-10 06:54	smjjames	Note Edited: 0030078	View Revisions
2014-09-10 07:04	Footkerchief	Assigned To	=> Footkerchief
2014-09-10 07:04	Footkerchief	Status	new => confirmed
2014-09-10 07:04	Footkerchief	Summary	Walls of human castles/fortresses made from implausible stones (e.g. platinum) => Walls of human castles/fortresses made from implausible stones (e.g. native gold/platinum)
2014-09-10 07:07	ptb_ptb	Note Added: 0030083
2014-09-10 07:14	smjjames	Note Added: 0030084
2014-09-10 07:16	smjjames	Note Edited: 0030084	View Revisions
2015-01-14 18:00	lethosor	Relationship added	related to 0005061

Notes
(0014193) Footkerchief (manager) 2010-11-24 12:05	I've seen this too. My guess is that Toady didn't want to write anything fancy for picking the appropriate local stone, since it would just have to be rewritten again for Caravan Arc resource tracking.

(0017102) Footkerchief (manager) 2011-04-05 14:13	Does this still occur in 0.31.25?

(0017103) Quietust (reporter) 2011-04-05 14:32 edited on: 2011-04-05 14:37	Generated a 200-year world, and the first fortress I found was made of hornblende; a bit more searching turned up ones made of rutile, tetrahedrite, and garnierite.

(0017104) Knight Otu (manager) 2011-04-05 14:43	It's still happening, yes. In a vanilla game I just checked I found a tetrahedrite fortress on the first try, and I've seen other valuable ores and minerals in my modded games, including a (supposedly) rare and valuable modded ore.

(0018003) Coaldiamond (reporter) 2011-06-16 09:38	My favorite implausible castles so far have been a purple pitchblende castle and a red petrified wood castle in a vanilla game.

(0030076) Khym Chanur (reporter) 2014-09-10 04:59	In 0.40.x I saw a keep with walls of coal.

(0030078) smjjames (reporter) 2014-09-10 06:44 edited on: 2014-09-10 06:54	I still see keeps and meadhalls with walls of pitchblende in 40.11, or just about anything that you can make into a wall in DF. Even saw a fortress entrance made of native gold, then again, maybe we can give Dwarves a bit of an exception.

(0030083) ptb_ptb (reporter) 2014-09-10 07:07	Native platinum block fortress.

(0030084) smjjames (reporter) 2014-09-10 07:14 edited on: 2014-09-10 07:16	@footkerchief: It was probably native gold blocks rather than native gold boulders, but still.... If it was made of gold bars, okay, I'd just assume that have shitloads of gold lying around, but native gold nuggets/blocks? Nah.