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Don't feel like you have to stockpile everything.  Clothing is fine laying around in the clothier workshop.  It doesn't need a stockpile.  Same with cloth and most things produced in workshops.  If you put your farmer's shop, weaver, dyer, and clothier in a row, raw materials can pass effortlessly between them without any need for stockpiles.

Stone doesn't have to be stockpiled.  You can get away with a small stone stockpile near (say) your mason workshop, that is linked to the workshop so that the mason takes ONLY from the stockpile, while the rest of your goofs refill it from around the fort.  Stone that isn't needed yet can stay where it is until you learn how to quantum stockpile it.  This saves your mason from having to travel and haul stone, but minimizes the stockpiling needed.  Remember that a huuuuuuge stockpile has tiles that are faaaaaar away from the workshop, and getting stone from the opposite side of a massive stockpile is hauling time that is keeping your mason from doing better stuff.

Some of the stone sitting around is indeed gypsum.  Is it effectively "forbidden?"  I understand (I think) what you're saying about the reserved use stones, but I guess I assumed they'd at least pick it up and put it in a stock pile!

So many other questions--you guys make it sound like a breeze. 

Here's a (probably) simple one.  Clothes and Armor:  Do I just need to basically stockpile clothing articles and armor (I'm sticking mostly to leather for now, because my steel industry is still pretty slow)?  Will dwarfs come and get stuff as they need it?  Or, do I have to assign "Farmer Betty" a new pair of socks when her old ones are deteriorated?

They are fine like they are. Only I would like bags to be able to fit in bins and belonging to the finished goods piles instead of furniture (despite being able to be built like furniture) because empty bags should occupy the same room as a bed, a bin or a box (coffer, chest, whatever). Also I find that eventually you'll end up using more and more bags.

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Quote from: lcy03406 on July 28, 2016, 11:46:23 pm

So this thread is not for talking about a necromancer raises giant cave spider silk threads into zombie giant cave spiders?

Or how to raise multiple undead in parallel? Or undead hair basket weaving?

Nope. Threadnomancy.

Assuming a beast doesn't have any projectile attacks, could I just smooth and fortify the walls of the cavern and have my marksdwarves take potshots at it until it dies?

I dunno. Theres plenty of forums i frequent where people get prissy if you nevro a thread even 2 weeks old.

Meanwhile they also get bitchy if you try and start a new thread on the same topic as a thread a year or so old because "God weve already talked about this. There must be absolutely nothing else to say".

Personally. Id rather a degree of necromancy instead of spamming the same topics over and over.