Note that this does not apply to wood, glass, or ceramic blocks/bricks, which are only made in sets of 1 metal blocks are also made in sets of 1, but since you get 4 bars at a time from smelting ore, the end result is equivalent to stone.īlocks have less volume, and thus weigh much less than raw forms of construction materials - stone blocks weigh only 6% as much as a boulder, and wooden blocks weigh 12% as much as the log from which they are carved. The clearest distinction between a building built with a boulder and a building built with a stone block is that more buildings can be built of blocks, as each stone produces 4 blocks. Metal blocks can't be used for metalsmith's forge jobs but can be melted down at a smelter. Nor can wooden blocks be used to make furniture, craft goods, tools, siege weapon components, ballista arrowheads, or crossbow bolts, or be burned at a wood furnace. E.g: Stone blocks cannot be used for making furniture or craft goods, tools such as pots or jugs, mechanisms, or catapult ammunition. Additionally, blocks are required to build wells, screw pumps, and asheries.Įven though blocks are quite useful in terms of construction, they cannot replace other functions of the raw material. stone boulder) is used instead, the game will describe the result as "rough", while buildings built from blocks are not given that adjective. Ceramic blocks are called "bricks", though they behave the same as all other blocks.īlocks can be used as building materials for roads, bridges, workshops and constructions. All other materials only produce 1 block/task, but a wood block is lighter than a log, and all blocks share the advantages in construction and value. One stone boulder can be shaped into 4 rock blocks, which makes stone even more attractive to use for larger constructions. Stone, wood, glass, ceramic, and metal blocks can be created respectively in a mason's workshop, a carpenter's workshop, a glass furnace, a kiln, and a forge. This makes blocks especially useful for large construction projects. Blocks are lighter, faster building, and more valuable. Remember that if you have stones marked for dumping, they won't be moved by dwarves trying to construct on the site.A block is a type of building material that is more architecturally efficient than their non-processed counterparts. (You've now got a space below with 2 rocks in it, but it's out of the way.) If you're willing to waste some Z-space, build your rooms or tunnels by channeling, then build floors, The rocks will fall to the level below, and you'll have a nice clean area.
But they'll still do most of them, and you can go back and clean up the suspended jobs later. Unfortunately this needs a little bit of micromanagement, as dwarves will suspend a job as blocked if the spot has a stone on top of it which is earmarked for a different floor square. They can be a bit silly about where they get the rocks, but usually they'll take the closest one.īuild floors where your rocks are, out of the same kind of rocks. That way you're also training your siege operator. To clean out a storage room, build a catapult and have it hurl rocks at the wall. Usually I use the quantum storage method, with an atom smasher to clean up the mess, but there are some other tricks:
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