Little known fact: it's only due to DF that you can find the solid density for Saguaro wood online.
It's ~430 kg/m^3 dry and this was determined empirically by players.
EDIT: Fixed units.
It's ~430 kg/m^3 dry and this was determined empirically by players.
EDIT: Fixed units.
It's only thanks to DF that I know things like this.
I believe lignum vitae is just about the densest commercially available wood. Definitely sinks.
That said, what actually prompted the raws to get updated was this: http://imgur.com/EPtgt
And the jokes on that page will only make sense if you play DF.
You can see an example of what they look like here, on the DF wiki - http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/v0.34:Saguaro/raw
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Density was determined experimentally. Contact Uristocrat for a sample if you want to verify this yourself. A 6g (+/- 0.1g) piece of dry Saguaro wood had a volume of approximately 14 cm^3 (+/- 1 cm^3) [SOLID_DENSITY:430]