

Normal ones are powered by consuming fuel, either charcoal made from wood or coke refined from bituminous coal or lignite. Normal forges and furnaces vs magma powered ones įorges and furnaces need power in order to operate. If you have any sand or clay floors on your site you can collect an endless amount of the materials for making glass and ceramics.If your fortress is at a site with no trees on the surface, like a desert or glacier, you can make bins, buckets, crutches and splints out of metal in order to conserve your supplies of wood (though you can get everything but bins from caravans).Goblets made from gold can be used to buy a lot of stuff from the caravans.Making statues out gold, platinum or aluminum is a good way to make high-value furniture which can be installed into rooms to raise their quality or be put into communal areas so admiring them can give happy thoughts.Some nobles‡ will make demands and production mandates for metal, glass and ceramic items.A military with equipment made entirely from wood, bone and stone isn't going to be very effective. If you have the INVADERS option‡ set to YES then you'll definitely need to make metal armor and weapons.Uses for metalworking, glass making and ceramics 6.1 Green glass, clear glass and crystal glass.4.3 Job canceled: need 150 bars of metal.2.3 Mitigating the problem of magma power.2 Normal forges and furnaces vs magma powered ones.1 Uses for metalworking, glass making and ceramics.
