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Marble dwarf fortress.
Like other flux stones it has a material value of 2 which makes it worth twice a much as generic stone as a material for construction crafts furniture and other stone related items.
It s often formed from the.
It also frequently contains a wide variety of gems.
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The geology and stones of dwarf fortress are based to some extent on real world geology and mineralogy.
Marble is one of the types of stone that forms entire layers.
Marble is the only metamorphic rock that also can be used as a flux stone.
It s incredibly complex because the developers only worked on the gameplay elements instead on focusing on the graphics like most other game.
Metamorphic rocks arise from the transformation of existing rock types in a process called metamorphism which means change in form.
It also frequently contains a wide variety of gems.
Dwarf fortress was created by rtyh 12 it looks as if it was made in 1990 but it will eat up all the cpu cycles of your modern high end machine i guarantee.
Furthermore the only metamorphic flux layer stone is marble.
Calcite is a main component of limestone and chalk which in turn can become marble.
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To understand the terms used here you may want to crack open a geology textbook a high school one should suffice.