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Although a more intelligent manager or Standing production orders would make this redundant, this could be quite easy to implement:
a new option for workshop, the (f)orce task option.

This means, that this task is not deleted from the orders list when a dwarf cancels it, so that it will be finished when the precondition are met.
A (f) + (r) task will survive forever, thus helping to dye all cloth ever produced forever, to produce infinite bone bolts, to keep you smelter smelting etc.

If this (f)orced task is canceled by a dwarf, it could be put at the last position of the production orders of this workshop that other tasks will be done, too. There should be no warning (on announce some job cancellations), when this is done.

As an addition, there could be a warning like "<task> has not been done for one month"..

I have sewn many plant fiber images, but cannot find them. Where are they? Can't find them in the stocks screen, neither on a stockpile...
Thank you!

As I have many work orders that my manager has to manage, I am loosing the overview since there are some tasks, that shall be done infinity.

To achive this, I order "<Task> (30)" and wait for the "<Task> (30) completed" message. When I check if an order is missing, I am struggling between all those tasks, as there is no option to sort them automatically by alpabet.

edit: A "<Task> (200)" would solve the problem, more or less, too! end_edit

I know that the sorting normally shows the priority of a task, but that is not that important to me. I would like to decide myself, if this is important to me...

Hello!

I searched all the forums and the wiki but this could not answer my questions regarding windmills.

Basically, i found two types of windmills:
1) Windmills that are built on solid ground (3x3 floor tiles). These seem to be completly useless, as it is impossible to transfer power from these. (EDIT: no, because they will transmit power to a machine on level below it if this is constructed AFTER the windmill. It makes no difference if the floor is constructed or original)

2) Windmills built over a gear assembly (or any other machine part) beneath the center tile with no floor between the windmill and the machine part. These transfer the power to the gear assembly under them, but are always in the 'hanging' state. Solid floor around the center tile (basically a tower with a hole in the center) makes no difference.

This type of windmill will automatically be destroyed if the gear assembly below the middle tile is removed. If the gear assembly is disengaged, the windmill will also be disassembled, but it takes some time.


From my understanding, this means the following:
- The dwarven windmills are technically more or less 'horizontal windmills' (although the windmills in the game look like common vertical windmills as the left and right three tiles seem to be unused), where a vertical axle is in the center tile and the wings hover around in the adjacent tiles.
- There is no way to remove/disengage a machine part directly under a hanging windmill without an automatic disassembling of the windmill.

Am I correct?



Another thing I found out:
If you have a windmill above a disassembled gear assembly and another windmill is destroyed because you remove the gear assembly beneath that second one, the first one will also be destroyed at once, although normally it would survive a few more minutes without an engaged machine part under it.

I have a problem understanding the procedure of removing work orders.
Consider the following:

You give the manager a new order to, e.g., make charcoal 4x. Then there will appear four tasks to make charcoal in the furnace. But if you then remove the task in the manager screen, the four tasks will not be removed in the furnace screen.

Is there an option to set this or is a special manager skill needed?

Thanks alot!

My sheriff needs 1 armor stand. It's ok when this thing stands in one of his rooms.
But if I define an Armory from the armor stand and assign this to the sheriff, he tell that he requires an armor stand...