Bay 12 Games Forum

So in my latest world gen I turned off "Simple Minerals", keeping all of the other "Simple" options turned on. I now have a fort with tons of Adamantine rock the way I would normally have marble or gabbro, etc. I can't use it to make strands and wafers, and hence no metal stuff, but I can use it to make awesome furniture and trade goods.

Can we get an option for how DF sorts items/stone while building things? Right now it sorts by distance to the item making the list jump around while building plus having to scroll to it each time. I propose making an option somewhere on how sorting happens:

1) Sort by distance
2) Sort by last used
     This would keep the last used item type under the cursor. If the last built thing was a Dolomite Door then the next time I build a door the Dolomite doors will be at the top of the list.
3) Sort alphabetically
4) Sort by quality (in eXtended lists only)

I don't really care too much about the last two much, but the ability to keep the stone type or item type I've building at the top of the list would be great and less carpal-tunnel-ly.

I can't seem to place a bridge over the lava at all only get red X's, am I doing somehting wrong? I've tried many different ways of placing it.