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Alright, thanks =)

Ive not been active in the forums for like, 3 years so im a bit behind on the debate

Most workshops right now in Dwarf Fortress are made magically by a dwarf formaing a piece of wood or stone into shape, creating the workplace for a specific task and all the tools for it.

The workspace creation is fine for me, but i would like to see an addition that would make the dwarven industry more "alive".

What if all workshops required an item called a "toolkit". A toolkit could be used for making any workshop, a toolkit would have a specific amount of times it could be used depending on what it's made out of and it would be created by a carpenter, mason or metalsmith. When a toolkit in a workshop breaks the workshop would need another toolkit to be functional.

Except from the aspect of realism in this feature i think it would be a nice touch to raise the bar on having a self sufficient fortress. Right now about 50%-90% of all the things a fortress produces are raw export goods, which doesn't do wonders for the satisfaction of having a fortress which holds it's own.

Of course the durability of toolkits would have to be high and the worth low in the raws, to make it simple for beginners, and intermediate to expert players could just raise the bar by modifying the raws for a more challenging game. The game is already a hell for new players to start anyways ^^

Any feedback, is this worth anything for anyone but me?
Thanks for your time

Before speaking about a thing such as multiplayer, one should ask himself "what are the benefits of such a feature".
DWARF FORTRESS IS MULTIPLAYER, SINCE THE DWARVES ARE SO COMPLEX THEY ARE ACTUALLY ALIVE!

I really didnt know if i was to post this as a bug or a question, but here goes!

Ive got 3 hoary marmots and a rattlesnake as captured animals from cage traps, ive got plants, meat, a kennel and 4 dorfs with animal training.
When i select "Tame Large Animal" at the kennel none of these captured animals show up?!?
Am i doing something wrong or is this a "feature" since the update ^^ I remember taming animals as easy before

YAY, cage escape! This stuff is some nice developement

One thing i thought about when reading this is that any creature can break out of a cage built inside a workshop if given enough time and if its strength allows it. But if you transfer the creature into a "prison" chamber it will have a really hard time breaking out. Designating a prison could be done by designating by using the door or by a zone.

Additional to this could be improving your prison by crafting some large steel caging, allowing dwarves to imterrogate prisoners from safe distance or just observe the vile beasts. There could be a "prisonmanager" (another name perhaps?) dwarf, who ensures that the prisoners are fed and interrogates them.

Also. Renaming the siege worshop to something else and have it craft parts for everything larger then one tile would also be a nice improvement. I think for example windmills and water wheels would require some parts instead of just 4 logs, and this remade siege workshop could also produce these large metal cage poles.

great system, really great system!
i know i would like this type of a revamp...

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really awesome idea really, and easy to implement!

just add "trade goods" to the stockpile menu, and all items tagged changes into "trade goods". All items recieved at the depot are automatically tagged as well

additionally, the items in the warehouse wouldn't need to be moved to the trade depot before the trade was completed, and still show up when trading at the depot. Dwarves should then move them there when the trade was complete