01-10-2013, 06:08 PM | #11 |
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Re: What WOULD you find in a dwarven mine?
Dwarven Porn, Steampunk Marital Aids, Lubrication (for the.. machines and stuff).
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01-10-2013, 06:35 PM | #12 |
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Re: What WOULD you find in a dwarven mine?
Wells or more advanced forms of plumbing. The dwarves have to get their water from somewhere, unless they only drink ale shipped in, relieve themselves in the corners of the cave, never bathe, and so forth.
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01-10-2013, 06:43 PM | #13 |
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Re: What WOULD you find in a dwarven mine?
Unless they are using Destroy Stone to do their excavation, you should find great heaping piles of rock outside. Why doesn't anyone ever include that as a feature of their dungeon?
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01-10-2013, 06:52 PM | #14 |
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01-10-2013, 07:06 PM | #15 |
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Re: What WOULD you find in a dwarven mine?
There's a lot still to do after you have smelted the ore to metal.
You often have to extract the desirable stuff from the dross before you smelt. I'd like to point out that coal is not suitable for metallurgical use until it is made into coke in a coking oven. Coke is a post-mediaeval invention, so I usually depict dwarves using charcoal. In smelting and forging you often find that the amount of fuel (coke or charcoal) needed is vastly greater than that of the ore or metal. Therefore it is common to find that smelters and metal-working industries are located near sources of fuel (forests in mediæval times, coalfields since) or where transport from fuel sources is cheap (i.e. water-borne), rather than near mines. Transporting ore is cheaper than transporting fuel. On another note, your dwarvish underground works are going to need
Near your kitchens and cold stores (pantries) you need
And somewhere or other you need
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Re: What WOULD you find in a dwarven mine?
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01-10-2013, 07:14 PM | #17 |
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Re: What WOULD you find in a dwarven mine?
Check. And great list. Ta muchly mate.
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01-10-2013, 07:52 PM | #19 |
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Re: What WOULD you find in a dwarven mine?
Actually I assume that the underground Dwarves, having a lot of coal and little wood, figured out the coking process much earlier. This is one of the reasons their steel is superior.
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01-10-2013, 08:06 PM | #20 |
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Re: What WOULD you find in a dwarven mine?
If you're going that way, add "coking ovens" to the list, and take extra precautions about ventilation.
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