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If I'm constructing something on the surface near my wood stockpile, when choosing a material I'll have to scroll past all the different types of logs.  Plus obsidian and flux will often be before the value-1 stone that I actually want to use.  I could mass forbid obsidian/flux/wood, do my construction, and then unforbid them, but it'd be better if I could simply say "never use these things for construction", or "put non-metal/non-economic stone at the top of the list, even if other things are closer".

But that was my point.  Most of the rock in the magma-tunnel is listed as molten, but one solitary rock is listed as a glob instead.

I was trying to search the forums for exactly the string "glob", so I did "glob -global".  However, this leads to the error: "The database value you're trying to insert does not exist: all_word_body_2".  I get the same error for any search that uses "-" to exclude a string.

The first elven caravan spawned in the north-west corner of the map and made it's way south to my trade depot.  I got my trader there, traded, dismissed my trader... and then I see a few elves with pack-animals in tow coming up to the depot from the south.  Is this something that's known to happen?  Or was I just misreading the screen?

My first wave of immigrant refuse to haul, even though all of them have all hauling related labors enables, the jobs screen shows plenty of waiting hauling jobs, and my original 7 dwarves are willing to haul.  However, the migrant ranger is perfectly willing to hunt.

Also, my carpenter among the original 7 dwarves refuse to either do carpentry or cut trees, even though he has both labors enabled.

Plus, when I try to construct anything, it only lets me make things out of logs and some tin bars, even though there's plenty of rocks available to use.  From other posts I've gotten the impression that sometimes if even one item of a certain type is forbidden that the dwarves won't touch any item of that type, but I've reclaimed every single item in the fortress, and they still won't go.

Hmmm, for Dwarf Fortress, how do you draw the line between "unintuitive behavior which is a bug" and "unintuitive behavior for which fixing it is a feature request"?

In my most recent game I found out only by accident that my stonecrafter's workshop was completely cluttered with finished goods, and I sometimes forget to turn on "Dwarves gather refuse from outside", leading to my outside butcher's shop becoming cluttered with bones.  It would be nice if it would be announced when a workshop's clutter-level increases,  so you'd know when there's a problem.

With a single magma glass workshop with both "Make Raw green glass" and "gather sand" set to repeat, my glassmaker would only periodically produce raw green glass, with large stretches of idleness in between.  When I turned off the repeated "gather sand" task from the magma glass shop (leaving the three normal ones which only exist to issue "gather sand" tasks) he started working continuously.  Note that he never canceled the task because he ran out of sand; the "Make Raw green glass/R" task was always there in the workshop whenever he was jobless.