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Dwarf Fortress => DF Suggestions => Topic started by: Rinn on November 04, 2007, 04:34:00 pm

Title: Mass Forbid/Dump through the stocks menu
Post by: Rinn on November 04, 2007, 04:34:00 pm
I've come across the problem where I want to use a certian type of rock (like Microline for example) to build items out of, but there's currently no option to use a specific type of stone. My only options then are to build a new mason's workshop in the middle of a vein, or manually forbid some 1500 or so granite. I'd just like to be able to forbid or dump an entire category of something, so I can disallow access to certain types of material when I don't want to build out of them.

Also since I'm talking about rocks, could we get a setting in game to simply not draw certain things to the screen? I don't care that I have a billion stones and ore lying around, I just don't want to see them for a majority of the time I'm playing. I can't just make those tile empty in the tileset I'm using because I'll lose other things as well and it's not really a good solution. Edit: I guess I could also go into the raws and change the item_symbol to something else, but I only see a way to changes ores and not rocks, and I'd like to be able to toggle this on the fly anyway.

[ November 04, 2007: Message edited by: Rinn ]

Title: Re: Mass Forbid/Dump through the stocks menu
Post by: Salmeuk on November 04, 2007, 05:11:00 pm
Yea, I've had that problem too.

Maybe a menu similar to the furnace menu, where you can only smelt the ore's that you have.

Title: Re: Mass Forbid/Dump through the stocks menu
Post by: MindSnap on November 04, 2007, 07:23:00 pm
I too would like this. I want to keep my graniteand claystone for building, and want to use my claystone for crafts. It would be nice if we could specify beyond "rock."
Title: Re: Mass Forbid/Dump through the stocks menu
Post by: Quiltfun on November 04, 2007, 10:09:00 pm
I'd like to be able to link a workshop to a stockpile.  Where dwarfs will only take from that stockpile to use in the workshop.  It would stop them from making toys out of the stone I'm using for walls, and it would make decorating useful.
Title: Re: Mass Forbid/Dump through the stocks menu
Post by: Quintin Stone on November 05, 2007, 12:27:00 pm
My solution so far has been to build small stockpiles near the workshops and set them to allow only certain types of stone.