40d Talk:Rope reed

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[edit] Is Rope reed a tree?

I just wonder, is rope reed considered a tree now? Because I've just tryed to offer some rope reed goods to elves and they just quit on me!

Did your dwarves chop it down? Then it's not a tree. Did you offer it to them in wooden bin? What was their mood when you made the offer? What did they say when they left? What sort of "goods"? --Albedo 12:39, 25 February 2010 (UTC)

Also, by any chance were your rope reed goods decorated with wood or perhaps clear/crystal glass? --Quietust 14:07, 25 February 2010 (UTC)

[edit] Space filler

So, since there's no discussion on this page, I'll space-fill with something I was thinking about last night.

Let's say we embark with nothing but dwarves and the wagon.

• Use Plant Gathering to find a rope reed plant.
• Use Carpentry to disassemble the wagon (3 wood).
• Use 1 wood and Plant Processing to build a farmer's workshop.
• Use farmer's workshop to turn rope reed plant into rope reed thread.
• Disassemble the farmer's workshop.
• Use 1 wood and Clothesmaking to build a clothier's shop.
• Use the clothier's shop to turn the rope reed thread into a rope reed bag.
• Disassemble the clothier's shop.
• Use 1 wood and Wood Burning to build a wood furnace.
• Use 1 wood at the wood furnace to produce 1 charcoal.
• Disassemble wood furnace.
• Use 1 wood and Glassmaking to build a glass furnace.
• Zone a sand collection area.
• Use the glass furnace to task sand to be collected in the rope reed bag.
• Use the glass furnace with 1 charcoal and 1 rope reed sand bag ...

REJOICE, FOR YOU HAVE PRODUCED 1 PIECE OF GREEN GLASS! --FJH 20:15, 8 March 2009 (EST)

I'm reasonably certain wood cannot be used to build any furnace building. They require fire-safe materials. Wood is not. --Squirrelloid 18:55, 9 March 2009 (EDT)

Yeah, I missed that part. Darn. That did sound too good to be true. --FJH 20:46, 9 March 2009 (EST)

Ash is fire-proof, so before you disassemble the wood furnace, make some ash with one log. I think it would still work.--Kwieland 16:35, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

Chicken-and-egg problem. You can't make the ash in the first place, as you can't make a wood furnace out of wood.
—0x517A5D 19:55, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

[edit] rare

So why is rope reed rare? Is it smth in the raws or just experience? --Höhlenschreck 21:37, 20 July 2009 (UTC)