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Probably better to call them the "Foreman" or something.

Ideally they'd gather knowledge about other dwarves by socialising with them.

I think the idea of making it a zone is the best method of implementation, as then it is fully scalable to whatever size you want.

If it is zone-style, the interface should be improved with a "Fill Room" option that works like making rooms from furniture.

Otherwise, yeah.

The idea of making bins/barrels of stuff at a time isn't a bad one. Nor is the idea of being able to link the workshop rooms with minecarts when they come in. Being able to set up some kind of production route, Settlers-style, would help with my OCD.

Guildmasters. Nothing makes a fort feel more civilised than having to cater to the whims of a bunch of useless bureaucrats.

The economy was also fun, since I would often unwittingly put my dwarves into 3x3 limestone apartments, only to see a mass eviction as soon as the taxcollector showed up.

Cave-river based agriculture, and the farms drying out every winter.


+1 to Goblin Golf with legendary mace- and hammer-dwarves.

This would make a neat stopgap until room-based workshops come in.

Honestly the whole construction system should be overhauled. Make it so that you need an architect to build proper constructions (and compensate for that by allowing architects to get help from multiple dwarves hauling materials and for constructions to be built all at once). Instead of walls, dwarves can produce barricades out of raw materials and furniture with no designated profession, much like dirt roads, but these can be wrecked by building destroyers.

Probably be worth it to make siegers able to break through fortifications, with time and effort.

While you're waiting, try a self-imposed challenge like pretending to be hobbits.

Tolls are a great idea, since they allow for more fortress varieties than the bog-standard Weapon Factory, but kind of need to have a working money system.

The tech cut-off happens just before movable-type printing showed up in Europe, which I think is there for a reason.

On the other hand there's no reason not to have a Scriptorum for the purpose of copying books, or even just a writing desk that can be put into a library room for that same purpose.

New books could be made in two ways - the records of the book-keeper (and perhaps some kind of Historian noble), and a Strange Mood (Urist McBook-keeper has been Inspired!). Books could then be copied in the Scriptorum or library by a Scribe.

Bookmaking would work as a 3- or 4-stage process similar to pottery - First, produce paper or parchment from cloth or leather (and maybe ink at the mill, though that may not be completely necessary). Next, the scribe makes a manuscript in the scriptorum, or the bookmaker does the same in a study. Finally, you can bind the book at the bookbinders, which requires one manuscript and one unit of leather, and results in a saleable, storable item, like the way you have to glaze certain pots to use them for liquid storage.


As for scrolls, that's really something for interacting out of the fort later on, I think.