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Quote from: saka-rauka1 on April 24, 2011, 01:36:33 pm

Could anyone explain how to tell which items are encrusted? I've read (and seen in videos) that they have double brackets around the item name. However, with this graphics set I get square brackets joined together, for example:[]. With truetype turned off I just get tiles where quality markers should be.

Am I right in thinking that the square brackets represent encrusted items? If so, how can I tell which is which when I have truetype disabled?

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if i understand you right, then [] would be the "exceptional" quality. with ironhands tileset (at least with my settings) and truetype enabled and encrusted item would simply have several quality modifiers. each indicating the quality of the work that was done (e.g. quality of main item, quality of first encrust, etc.). as far as I remember (i usually don't care that much about idividual quality then overall item value) the order of the symbols is the same as the order of the work done, e.g. every new quality modifier wraps around the previous item resulting in something like this:

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*[]+ microcline throne +[]*

* = 2nd encrust quality
[] = 1st encrust quality
+ = item quality

Quote from: saka-rauka1 on April 24, 2011, 01:36:33 pm

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Also, a more general question but since I am posting here I might as well ask; how can you sell items from barrels (e.g dwarven wine). With bins you get the items inside displayed underneath the barrel itself in the trade window. But with barrels this isn't the case.

simple answer: you can't sell the items in the barrel without selling the barrel
to free the barrel you would have to dump the stuff in the barrel first, by manually sellecting it

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or area dumb (d-b-d) the barrels you want emptied and then manually undump the barrels (k-d)
the area dump will add the dump tag to every item in the area, e.g. the barrels and everything thats in it; the manual undump will only remove the dump tag from the barrels, which only leaves the items in the barrels selected for dumping

and then reclaim the dumped stuff and tag it for trade. in this case a good location for the garbage dump would be near the trade depot
this only works for some cases though, since dwarfen whine would simply result in a large spill on the floor which I doubt any elf woud trade his exceptionaly encrusted wooden training sword for