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Architects/masons build smelters, not metalcrafters, they do forges.  :x

If it's made out of a metal bar, it needs a metalcrafter or smith, or I think even a furnace operator can do it.  The same with any designed building -- after the architect designs it, the material determines the labour needed to finish its construction.

You also never cut an underground tree?

Does that really upset the elves?  It shouldn't be any of their business what happens down there!

Regarding the disgusting soot: do dwarves use soap to Clean (as opposed to Clean Self)?  I thought they just mopped and scrubbed with their beards.  And I have never known them to clean anything above ground.


The most remarkable thing to happen in my fort lately was that I lost the Swordmaster militia commander and an Axe Lord to dreadful circumstances.  I have barracks surrounding the bottom layer of the cistern: an arrangement I thought was aesthetically pleasing, unaware of the dodge-teleport bug.  Out of nowhere I see miasma funking up the drinking supply, and in its midst are their corpses, right next to the wall.  Both of these dwarves were seasoned veterans of many sieges who immigrated to the fort in its first years.  They deserved better than this ignominious and undignified end!

I'm in the process of relocating the barracks to a different floor, but I'm at a loss how to engineer a recovery of the bodies and equipment.  The cistern was designed to be a closed system: the pipes through which I filled it are blocked; the whole fort is below the third cavern, and there is nowhere to drain it down into.  It would also be tough to bring power down from the surface to power a pump stack.

Isn't it much simpler just to not give your dwarves cabinets in the first place?  Then they can't store used clothing, so it loses ownership in a couple weeks.

Anytime I haven't given dwarves cabinets, then they leave heaps of clothes all over their bedrooms and meeting areas.  The ownership never seems to go away.

I'm going to try this -- I have 200-some dwarves in a fort now 16 years old with a very active clothing industry, and the laundry list has grown staggering.  I'm just curious though, what is it about forbidding the cabinet that causes ownership to decay?  i.e. why does this work?

If you were to forbid a dwarfs bed, would they still use it to sleep? Or do I need to select every cabinet individually for this to happen correctly?

You could forbid the cabinets from the stocks menu more efficiently.

edit  Oh wait, is the idea that you forbid the clothes inside as well as the cabinet itself?

You're playing this game at a level I aspire to.  Applause.

If it helps your science -- I recently had a wild giant mole chained in a tavern who sat directly on the restraint "wallowing in misery."  I, too, had never seen that before.

I had an animal training zone designated around him, but either the trainer hadn't gotten around to him yet or being inside the dining room/tavern designation interfered with his job.  I ended up moving him to a totally different area to do proper training, and the wallowing went away.