How do I manufacture mechanisms from a specific rock? I have a large seam of bauxite, and was hoping to make magma-proof bauxite mechanisms. However, the mechanics workshop option is just "Make rock mechanism" and my mechanic keeps turning out shale mechanisms. I've tried putting the bauxite in a nearby stockpile, but he's still using shale.
Keep in mind that z-axis is not taken into account when measuring distance.
So a piece of shale sitting 10 floors right below your workshop will be 'closer' than a piece of bauxite next to the workshop on the same floor.
And... (And this is an argument to use the locked doors. I think it is annoying because you will have to make your dwarf a soldier to get him to the workshop)
Your mechanic will take the piece of rock that is closest to HIM and not the workshop. So when he initially takes the job, he could take any stone, for he could be anywhere. After that, he is already in the workshop, so closest to him = closest to the workshop.
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Originally posted by Doppel:
<STRONG>Wich color colapses the fortress?</STRONG>
It's needs to be big and red. Like a button.
I had to import the bauxite in small quantities the first time I needed magma-proof mechanisms, and to my chagrin my precious bauxite was used to make some doors and tables I had queued.
That might have been amusing as a way to make a dining room that could be cleansed by a magma flow (like Charlemagne's asbestos tablecloth, but way cooler!), had I not just used up the only bauxite I was able to procure that year.
Of course when I finally had the sense to get things right the next time around my magma pumping system backfired and poured a lava flow over a quarter of my castle. The moral of the story is that I'm clumsy and that DF is not forgiving of clumsiness :p