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I've modded my game to allow prospecting metal from random stone. It takes a lot of stones to produce 1 bar of metal, and its vastly less efficient than actually having that particular ore to process, but it both helps keep a constant metal industry going as well as cleaning up all the stone. It also makes sense, in that in most stone you will find trace amounts of all sorts of metals. If you're really desperate you could get gold out of just ordinary ground soil, but its far more efficient to find rich veins of gold ore or quartz.

Alternate uses of stone would be making crafts, training up siege engineers, or building absurdly elaborate surface constructions.

I have an immigrant metalcrafter that has claimed my only forge and anvil. I have a lot of other metal workers who need to get making stuff, but I accidentially forbid the steel bar he was working on while attempting to forbid copper so he'd make a valuable artifact, now he's working away at the workshop without any materials, and he's been at it for well over a season now. He also doesn't appear to be getting hungry or thirsty.

Any way to interrupt him? Dismantle the workshop or outright kill him. I don't care if he dies, I just want him to stop hogging my anvil.



Edit: Nevermind, right after I pushed the submit post button he went insane and my axedorfs redecorated the obsidian metalworking area with a soothing red color.

The best way to farm silk from regular spiders is to dig out a decent area around any chasms or underground rivers/lakes, so that the spiders will go onto the rock and then spin their webs. Just build a bunch of looms and your weavers will automatically harvest the webs and make cloth. Its an absurdly easy way to get massive amounts of silk cloth and highly skilled weavers, which you can then turn into socks to take care of all of those dorfs with sock fetishes, or make silk crafts for export. It helps to clear out any hostile critters in the area first. First send in your military to sanitize the place, then mine out a good area for the spiders and set up the looms, then profit.

For chasms you can also build these web platforms on every level with some stairs for your weavers to access all of that silk.

Often times I need 4 looms running continually just to keep pace.

Toady has indicated that he wants to move more stuff into the raws to allow for more modding possibilities, but thats a long term thing.

They only actually use a single weapon even though they're carrying two. The backup weapon is carried in the right hand, but its not used for combat unless the primary weapon is lost somehow, such as getting stuck in an enemy.

Be cautious with engraving regular bedrooms however. A legendary engraver can very quickly turn a common 3x3 bedroom with simple wooden furniture into something no dorf can afford.

Engraving the dining hall and the rooms of nobles is a great idea, its a very easy way to massively increase the value of the room without having to actually build anything.

What about giving priority to the older hauling jobs first?

For example, a brand new hauling job starts with a priority value of 1 point. Dorfs will only do this if there's absolutely nothing else to do, like the old healthcare system. Every X units of time, the hauling job's priority is increased by 1 point to a maximum value of Y. Thus, an item that was just produced won't be hauled off for a while and then items that have been sitting there for a while will be moved first.

Bruised spines?