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There's an artifact (l)ist?!  When did this happen?  Lol.  I hate it when I miss an entire option in the interface.  Thanks for waking me up.

Surprised you didn't locate it accidentally, it being right next to the default loo(k) key: I didn't know how to make moving records until I built a Farmer's Workshop and hit the wrong key for "process plants (barrel)".

i was under the impression that if you make them backpacks, they'll use them

At the minute, I think backpacks are only used to hold rations (for extended patrols etc.) in Fortress Mode

Experience is also used to gain attribute increases (and this little punk is getting re-drafted as soon as he's done something useful with those rock crystals).
Thanks for the advice, though: I'll see if having a stockpile for them to move the lye to will make any difference.

Update: Would you believe it, moved the lye to a stockpile among the ash bars etc., and I'm still seeing the same "needs lye-bearing item" message. I'm beginning to wonder if I should just cut my losses and go for the quick route to potash before this idiot wastes any more wood/ash...

This got me thinking: how to make an above-ground fort in a wooded area more awesome?

Answer: TREEHOUSES. Yep. Construct ladders/stairs near trees, climb a level, and spread floors around—connecting tree-top to tree-top with floating "bridges" if you feel like it (hmm, are the tops of tree tiles walkable? or would they need to be floored, too?). This method of linking floating platforms above-above-ground should help you save some saplings, too, but remember not to fell the trees that support your tree-houses!

Hi.

Am I missing something, or are those BUCKETS (CONTENTS: LYE) kicking around by my glassmaker's feet there for some other purpose, entirely?

Background: I've opted to set up a very small glass industry to make use of the Normal-skilled Glassmaker immigrants the Mountainhomes keep sending, and the small supply of rock crystals (no sand) I've found on-site. I've basically given this one Glassmaker his own group of workshops so he can work the whole production chain (don't want my farmers wasting their time with more important things to do on the other side of the fort) and activated the relevant labours. I'm making lye for potash rather than going straight from ash->potash, as the wiki suggests that more tasks = more experience—I've only ever made potash directly from ash before, which didn't seem to require buckets.

The problem is, now that I've made some lye (and I don't want to use up any more buckets just storing the stuff... seriously, one unit of lye per bucket? Do I look like I'm made of buckets?!), the lazy stunty glassblower I've assigned to the job doesn't want to turn it into potash for some reason.



...if it turns out that I need to wait for the damn stuff to be taken to a "lye stockpile" before he can do anything with it, I swear that this one is going to find employment in my "Magma Sciences" division.

Well done, Scruga

Wouldn't you be in too much agony to notice the hot babes?

Only if you were GAY. "Hurr hurr" etc.

 

One of my first artifacts was a pig tail cap that menaced with spikes of pig tail cloth. I decided it was meant to be a jester's cap, and interpreted it as maybe having studs of brass for bells.

In order for it to include any tiny brass bells, the loony who made it would have had to pinch at least ten metal bars from your stockpiles, in addition to the cloth

One of mine has just knocked out a pretty face-veil (yes, a pig-tail-face-veil) that references some of the other artifacts my fortress has seen: there's an image of a pig tail shirt (in pig tail), a pig tail dress (in pig tail), and "a diorite mechanisms" (in... diorite. What the hell?!)
...the concept of artistic interpretation is clearly lost on this dwarf.