adventure mode issue that i had to personally edit the RAW files to change.....

[catanbros]

So after playing for over 10+ hours in adventure mode, I have encountered the same problem i had while playing classic years ago.

For some odd reason, i had created over 40 worlds where each one had an abundance of minerals and also spaced out with populations for each civ to be 1000+ with a total of 10000 in the entire world. Yet, when i check to see if humans have steel production so i can buy them and there is absolutely nothing available.

I searched and clicked and checked multiple forums and webpages of classic dwarf fortress and barely found any helpful info other than to either hope for the best (luck) or i have to mod the game so humans can produce pig iron and also produce steel along with wearing said armaments.

What i did to speed up the process is to just simply the method to make steel "runescape" style.

I removed pig iron COMPLETELY from the entire dwarf fortress files.

NOW, steel is plentiful and abundant within my world.



Oh i forgot, i also removed the ingredient flux as a component to make steel so that helped as well.



EDIT: i had remembered there was only one time where dwarfs actually made steel but it was after world gen stopped at year 800 on a large map back in classic. Many cities were either abandoned or wiped out and only then did steel weapons and armor were seen.


Still no sign of adamantine when i checked but if i did observe any then it would be accompanied by "FUN"

[catanbros]

引用自 Tanagram：

Borax is not a flux stone. There are 5 flux stones in the game right now, Borax is not one of them. Marble, Calcite, Limestone, Dolomite, and Chalk are the flux stones.

I guess runescape went pretty simple on making steel. If you want "runescape style worlds", again, Im actually all for that I think modding this game is super cool, but i thought "runescape approach" had something to do with the way in which you went about editing files, xd.

whops, i got mixed up.


borax is a flux for other metals just not steel.

boarx is a flux irl.

"Fluxing Mechanism

Borates fluxing value has been well known in glass, ceramic and other vitreous applications. That same fluxing action provides value in purifying nonferrous and precious metals (i.e. brass, bronze, copper, gold, platinum, silver, zinc, etc.) by reducing the melting point of the batch. While there are other additives used in the metal recovery process, our focus will be on borates.

Often times these nonferrous and precious metals come from scrap metals or from the slag portion during the primary smelting phase. It is the metal oxides and these other impurities that need to be separated from the pure metal that will generate a higher yield and value to the secondary smelter. One process is to charge the furnace with a borate compound in the bottom. The target scrap metal to be smelted is placed on top of approximately half the borax required with the remainder being added during the refining phase. The ratio of borate to metal scrap into the furnace varies with the metal to be recovered and furnace type. As the borate melts it creates a pool of fluxing material that begins to rise and cover the metal that has already begun to melt. These metal oxides and impurities found within the scrap metal rise to the surface of the melt with the help of the molten borate compound.

Sometimes silica sand at the surface of the melt helps congeal the metallic slurry and increase the viscosity so that these impurities can be scraped from the surface of the purer metal melt.

Once the impurities are removed, the purer metal may be poured from the furnace allowing it to flow into ingot molds where it cools. The above process will typically work for cupola furnaces while other furnace technology may require adding borates with the scrap metal when charging the furnace with the recycled metal scrap."




You can also try to see if you can do better and world gen a bunch and if humans would even make steel earlier.

[catanbros]

引用自 Fel：

Flux can also be close to the surface.
Limestone, dolomite or chalk are in sedimentary layers, which has a 80% chance of being present as the first stone layer under the soil (igneous extrusive making up the rest).

It is foundwhen i made my world from world gens but somehow it is not used to make steel.


For some odd reason.