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I'm not sure labormanager is ready to be the default job-assignment manager at this point.  I've just started using this latest Starter Pack and dwarves utterly refuse to haul anything that isn't food to stockpiles.  Disable labormanager and enable autolabor and *boom* everything gets done.

It's the same as all the other hotkey tokens. For m, you want CUSTOM_M.

Huh, I had no idea there was a particular format for those.  Thanks!  Is that tucked in some obscure corner of the wiki?

Maybe a silly question, but when a work order says (for example), "Restarts if completed, rechecked daily", does this mean that if the work order completes in less than a day it will start over again?  Or will it only complete the work order once and then wait for the next check (ie. the next day)?

For a lark I decided to mod in glass weapons and armor (Morrowind, ho!), but I've noticed that glass crossbow bolts neither get equipped nor stored in ammo stockpiles.  Are they just not functional in the current hodgepodge of code?

Does anyone have any ideas how the manager might be tracking the quantity of dye powder?  Using what makes sense, "Item: powder; Material: dimple dye" doesn't work at all.  Using "Item: none; Material: dimple dye" does sort-of work, but the values it tracks don't seem to match the amount I have in stock even remotely accurately.  If I have 8 units of dimple dye, the manager thinks that's 85 units; if I have 4 units of redroot dye, it thinks that's 70 units.  Halp? 

Quote from: Snafu on August 15, 2016, 09:30:17 am

Quote from: lcy03406 on August 14, 2016, 09:19:16 pm

Any ideas about dwarven syrup? I want to process all pods to syrup, and mill wheat to flour, but don't mill pods to sugar. How?

I think add (i)tem condition or possibly (r)eagent should cover that, as 2 different orders

Nop, you can specify reagents in orders, but the Mill Plants job itself cannot set details. So, as long as you have a cave wheat, the stupid dwarves will mill all pods until one happens to take the wheat to mill.

Set up a sweet pods-only stockpile linked to a quern/millstoneFarmer's workshop (also link a barrel stockpile to it).  Go into the workshop's Profile, Work Orders tab.  Press [enter] which will disallow the workshop from accepting general work orders.  Create a new work order there to mill plants extract to barrel.  Set the conditions to track the number of sweet pods (and barrels), so it only activates when you have them available.

Edit: corrected because I derped and thought 'milling' instead of 'extracting'.

What stockpile stores empty bags? I setup a furniture stockpile which accept only 'boxes and bags' and material cloth, but the stupid dwarves fill it with gypsum and quicklime bags.

Yeah, quicklime bags and gypsum powder bags fall under the 'boxes and bags' category, annoyingly enough.  No way to filter them out automatically.  I usually dump those two (but not their contents!) into a tiny stockpile elsewhere and forbid them until I need them.

That's under 'workflow', largely replaced by the vanilla manager now

I used to use workflow constantly until the new manager came out, and this seemed completely unfamiliar to me.  Also, I don't have workflow enabled or any hotkey set... 

Not sure if this is the correct thread to ask this, but it's driving me nuts.  I'm playing the latest Windows LNP, and I could swear last night I accessed some DFHack extension with an option to set the general minimum item quality for 'decorate item' jobs.  Be darned if I can find it now.  Or have I just started having very vivid DF-related dreams?