Item value

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Value is determined by the base value of the object with multipliers for the material it is made out of, the quality of its creation, and any decorations on it.

Contents 1 Base values of items 2 Material multipliers 3 Quality 4 Decorations 5 Dyeing 6 Examples

[edit] Base values of items

The base value of an item is found from what the item is, not what it is made out of. For example, a wood block uses the base value for a block, not the one for 'wooden'. A wood log uses the base value for raw material.

Value	Items
0	Bone, Shell, Fat, Mangled Meat...
1	Bolts, Seeds, Tallow, Animals
2	Meat, Fish, Raw Fish, Drinks, Plants
3	Raw Materials - Rough Gems, Stone, Logs etc
5	Bars, Cut Gems, Blocks, Sand, Tanned Hides, Animal Traps
6	Thread
7	Cloth*
10	Coins, All furniture except statues, all crafts, clothes*, Decorations, Prepared meals, large gems, Bucklers
15	Shoes*, Socks*, Boots, Gauntlets, Leggings, Shields, Helms,
20	Leather Armor, Siege Ammo, Flour, Sugar, Syrup
25	Statues, Windows
30	Greaves, Mechanisms, Siege Engine Parts
60	Chain Mail
100	Plate Mail, Anvils

* Cloth items get a free decoration made of the same material. Goods made out of cloth get the following built in as decorations: the cloth (with quality mod), the thread (without quality), and the dye (with quality).

[edit] Material multipliers

The material multiplier of an item is found from what it is made out of. For example, a wood block uses the same multiplier as a log or chest - that for wood. Oddly, burned wood is no longer considered wooden, but has other modifiers.

Multiplier	Materials
1	Common Stone, Bismuthinite, Wood, Turtle Shell, Plants: Muck root, Prickle berry, Rat weed, Hide root, Sliver barb, Sun berry, Whip vine,
2	Charcoal, Green Glass, Silk, Cave Lobster Shell, Plants: Any subterranean crops, Bloated tuber, Wild strawberry, Longland grass, Fisher berry, Rope reed, Blade weed, Stone: any Flux, Metals: Lead, Nickel, Zinc, Bismuth, Copper, Tin, Ores: Garnierite, Malachite, Sphalerite, Cassiterite, Gems: Any agate, Any chalcedony, Blue jade, Lavendar jade, Pink jade, White jade, Morion, Onyx, Schorl, Prase, Variscite, Bloodstone, Carnelian, Sard, Sardonyx, Brown jasper, Smoky quartz, Milk quartz, Moonstone, Rock crystal, Lapis lazuli, Chrysoprase, Chrysocolla, Turquoise, Citrine, Pyrite, Sunstone, Tiger iron, Tigereye, Yellow jasper
3	Obsidian, Potash, Nickel silver, Lay pewter, Tetrahedrite, Aventurine, Picture jasper, Rose quartz
4	Pearlash, Trifle pewter,
5	Fine pewter, Bronze, Galena, Clear Glass, Kobold bulb, Valley herb
6	Billon, Bismuth bronze
7	Brass
8	Sterling silver, Hematite, Limonite, Magnetite
10	Silver, Iron, Crystal Glass, Pig iron, Horn silver, Moss opal, Prase opal, Amber opal, Wax opal, Wood opal, Bone opal, Clear tourmaline, Jasper opal, Milk opal, Onyx opal, Pineapple opal, Pipe opal, Shell opal, Cherry opal, Gold opal, Resin opal
11	Black bronze
15	Melanite, Red tourmaline, Jelly opal, Fire opal, Pink tourmaline
20	Giant cave spider silk, Electrum, Any spessartine, Any beryl, Any grossular, Any spinel, Any pyrope, Black zircon, Brown zircon, Green zircon, Red zircon, Yellow zircon, Clear garnet, Pink garnet, Bandfire opal, Claro opal, Crystal opal, Harlequin opal, Levin opal, Pinfire opal, Precious fire opal, Red flash opal, White opal, Green jade, Chrysoberyl, Heliodor, Peridot, Aquamarine, Rubicelle, Topaz, Topazolite, Green tourmaline, Almandine, Rhodolite, Alexandrite, Amethyst, Kunzite, Morganite, Tanzanite, Cat's eye, Goshenite
23	Rose gold
25	Soap, Indigo tourmaline, Clear zircon
30	Gold, Steel, Black opal, Blue garnet, Demantoid, Tsavorite, Light yellow diamond
40	Platinum, Aluminum, Sapphire, Emerald, Ruby, Faint yellow diamond
60	Black diamond, Blue diamond, Green diamond, Red diamond, Clear diamond, Star sapphire, Star ruby, Yellow diamond
250	Raw adamantine
300	Adamantine
Varies*	Leather, Bone

* Leather and Bone technically have a multiplier of 1, but that is further multiplied by the source creature's mod value. So in practice, there is a very wide range of multiplier values that are actually used when creating goods with these materials.

[edit] Quality

Item value is further increased by applying the quality modifier.

Designation	Description	Value Modifier
Item Name	—	×1
-Item Name-	Well-crafted	×2
+Item Name+	Finely-crafted	×3
*Item Name*	Superior quality	×4
≡Item Name≡	Exceptional	×5
☼Item Name☼	Masterful	×12

[edit] Decorations

Your craftsdwarves can add decorations to your objects. This increases their value. The base value of a decoration is 10. This is multiplied with the material the decoration is made of and the quality of the decoration, and added to the value of the item. For example, a gold stud would be worth 10 (base value for the decoration) times 30 (material multiplier for gold) =300☼. A finely crafted gold stud would be 3*10*30=900☼.

Engravings are decorations that treat all materials as having a modifier of 1- an engraving in mudstone is as valuable as an engraving in obsidian or raw adamantine.

[edit] Dyeing

Value gained by dyeing is added, like that of decorations. Only thread, cloth and its products can be dyed. For details see Dye.

[edit] Examples

Base Object		Material		Quality		Final Value
Anvil	(100)	Steel	(x30)	+Item+	(x3)	9000☼
Door	(10)	Obsidian	(x3)	None	(x1)	30☼
Block	(5)	Wood	(x1)	None	(x1)	5☼
Goblet	(10)	Lead	(x2)	-Item-	(x2)	40☼
Goblet	(10)	Aluminum	(x40)	☼Item☼	(x12)	4800☼