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Only problem with bringing 500ish logs on embark is that you either have to spend about a year hauling them all into your fortress, or let them sit out in the open for ages.  I did exactly what you said once, dumping my anvil and axe and whatnot and just bringing a massive supply of logs.  Maybe I should have just let them all sit outside, because I wasted way too much of my first year dragging them to an indoor stockpile.  I mean it isn't like anything is going to steal them.

Select the bin to sell, and then deselect and re-select an item in the bin.

This should do it.

Huh?  When I hit a bin to sell it only marks the bin for sale (But the bin has the value of everything in it)  If I select an item in the bin, the bin gets deselected and only that single item gets selected.  Mayday making weird stuff happen for me again?

Interesting to see just how many theories there are out there about how to do things.  I guess DF is real cool like that because no one can write down "This is the ultimate build, use it and prosper, don't and die sharp pointy deaths."  For those interested, I've finally settled on:
Mason 5/Intimidator 1/Judge of Intent 1/Appraiser 1/Organizer 1/Record Keeper 1 - basically he administrates when I need him to, and makes doors and tables and chairs and stuff the rest of the time.
Weaponsmith 5/Miller 5 - I plan on doing a ton of smelting, so want a jump start on someone who can make good weapons.  Picked miller so that he may mood to legendary, but is at Proficient already if he has to work for it.
Armorsmith 5/Thresher 5 - Same as the last guy really.
Miner 5/Brewer 5 - No wood on my map, so brewing will have to be regulated anyway, gives him something to do without any mining work.
Miner 5/Cook 5 - Basically the same as the last guy again.
Grower 5 - this is his only purpose in life, to make my guys not starve to death.
Stone Crafter 5/Building Designer 1/Furnace Operator 1/Wood Burner 1/Mechanic 2 - I plan on forging all my starting picks, so I figure being able to smelt my ore quickly would be handy.  He crafts for dwarfbucks most of the time, but can pull him off to other duties when I need to.

Millions of logs, food, anvil, some ore and coal, and a bunch of seeds.  Also quite a few animals, even though I lack a butcher.  I figure I'll make a proper butcher industry with some immigrants eventually.

I think for my next fortress I'm going to forgo all headaches and start with 0 skills and a single pick and see how things go. (Kinda like the hermit challenge except I'm keeping all my dwarves.)

Edit: Woot, DF crashes when I hit 'e'

There's no such thing as useless dorfs. Anytime I get someone with no skills I turn him into a miner and pick a hauling labor for him. I've got a lot of mass-miners for excavating areas for rooms and the like and I NEVER wait for a hauling job anymore.

I'm guessing you've never had a noble.  You can't assign them -any- jobs and for the most part they don't -do any- jobs or have -any- skills.  We aren't talking about peasants who just need to be tasked to do something and they're useful, we're talking about people who do nothing but consume resources and cause problems and throw parties.

The dungeon master since he work and dont ask for much. Also needed to tame exotic stuff.

Actually you don't need to have him around to tame exotic stuff.  As soon as he shows up he instantly shares knowledge of how to tame exotic creatures with the entire fortress.  So, once you get him, you don't need him any more for that purpose.

Hmm, interesting.  I'm surprised you don't at least get the last person to novice in the various little skills you want done.

Quote from: mjo625 on April 03, 2009, 04:32:25 pm

I think carpentry, as they can also make reasonably good furniture to put in a room, and saves you a lot of wood cutting to train to legendary. Assuming it's not a possession.

You assume, of course, that high-quality wooden products are desired. Most of my forts don't have a dedicated carpenter until a migrant shows up with the relevant skill, since the difference in quality between a crappy and a masterwork bed is so small and quality is irrelevant for anything else that gets made out of wood.

Damn, now I'm going to have to rethink my proficent carpenter as well.  I usually bring a good one just so they can work quickly more then anything else.  I tend to need tons of barrels and bins quickly, but your right that quality doesn't really matter for that, and I could use those 40ish points elsewhere.