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It would have to be a furnace. Smelter, Magma Smelter, Glass Furnace, Kiln, etc.. Mills too. Only jobs requiring architecture get the hidden quality mod.
I doubt they have any effect on the workmanship that takes place within, but you never know.
When setting up your doors-only stockpile, did you use the lock key to clear the list? If so, you'll need to go back and
ermit all the materials. The <f>orbid command will only clear the active subset. Keep an eye on the bottom right. There can be and <j> options for some item types or options that are easily overlooked.
To try and fix your doors-only pile, make sure that both type and material are allowed.
Demands:
Stone / Cloth / Gem / Stone / Cloth
In the workshop is Stone and Cloth. The next item could be either Gem or Stone since the list could equally be read
Stone / Cloth / Stone / Cloth / Gem
When I had a dwarf stuck and couldn't correlate it to his list, I was sure I had considered an ambiguous starting point. Based on the 3 or 4 things he had gathered, the next item looked to certainly be stone. I spent like half an hour [k] looking at the stone types in the walls of my fortress and trying to see if any were missing from the huge list of available stone. Anyway, I knew gems were on the list, and I had some glass due for production so I made a could of the raw glass types. He grabbed the glass as soon as it was made.
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[...] do they collect in a certain order so that if, of say 5 items, they are missing the 3rd item, the 4th and 5th items won't be collected?
That is essentially correct. While the order of collection may sometimes be hard to correspond with their list of demands, I've never seen a dwarf stall on an item and then finally once it is available, go and grab some other item available all along. Whatever they are missing is what they will go and collect next, as soon as you've made it available.
Post the list if you need help narrowing it down.
All of which is likely to create a hell of a mess and probably not worth an extra couple weeks of trading.
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Originally posted by Slartibartfast:
Suggestion 2:
Build floodgates like this:code:
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# #
# ..X_________
# #
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This will release a flood both inside and outside the room.
code:
######~~~~~ ######....
#~~~~#~~~ #~~~~##...
#~~~~~0_~_~_~ #~~~~~0~_~_~_~_
#~~~~#~~~ #~~~~##...
######~~flood~~~ ######..dry....0 = Open floodgate
[ June 20, 2007: Message edited by: slMagnvox ]
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Originally posted by Istrian:
<STRONG>You can also quickly train their toughness either by successively appointing each of them bookkeeper.Of course if you want to train them in large numbers, have them become legendary swimmers first. Just station a squad in a 2 or 3-deep water pool and wait.</STRONG>
Remember, that is dangerous. A combination of low combat skill and high XP is more prone to fail practice shots while successfully battering brains.
From thread: "The chance of failing to treat a shot as practice depends only on skill."
Thus, even unarmed, the most dangerous dwarf in the barracks is the dabbling wrestler with a couple strength modifiers. A talented wrestler will succeed in making practice shots, training skill without harming their sparring partner. Dabbling wrestlers are more prone to fail the practice shot test and end up battering spines and kidneys. Luck also has alot to do with it, any shot can fail to be treated as practice and if it slips past armor and bruises someone's brain, then thats it.
Thus, the safest way to train, in my experience, is to only recruit inexperienced dwarves, and let their XP gain as their combat skills are gained. No legendary engravers/dabbling hammerdwarves. That, and waiting for a more comprehensive healing code.
Chairs have a couple important uses. When certain dwarves appear in your fortress, you'll need to use the [q] menu from the chair you've installed to designate them an office. You can also make a throne room for your favorite miner if you felt like it.
And dwarves like to sit when they eat. You should design your dining room so that each table is adjacent to only one chair. Not really a big deal, but your dwarves will complain if they both sit at two different chairs while sharing a single table.
If a chair isn't showing up in the build menu, yeah it is probably being hauled someplace. Don't bother stockpiling your furniture so early. And start getting familiar with custom stockpiles as soon as you can.
The only noticeable effect is dwarves will hang out near their squad leader. Like clustered around his bedroom while he sleeps.
It has not effect what-so-ever on civilians. Other than making them easier to activate.
Once you've caught a fish, or a lobster, it should be assignable to your aquarium.
And fortifications, from the best I've ever observed, if your dwarves can shoot the goblins, the goblins can shoot back.
But, I've noticed the periphery body parts (shoulders, elbows, fingers, etc..) don't always behave like normal wounds. If after activating him he will still not Rest, just try and tune out his blinking + status, be glad he is still a productive member of the fort and I betcha his wound will still heal eventually.
[ June 12, 2007: Message edited by: slMagnvox ]
