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I like it. I think it should only come around as once in a few generations when a dwarf relearns the art. They can then produce golems. Once they die golems become rarer and rarer until the next one remembers it.

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Do you have enough seeds?

What type of crop are you trying to make?

How many farmers do you have?

How much in a percentage wise do they plant? Is it just a section in a corner or are you talking of splotches here and there?

To delve in a bit deeper I think you need to look at the labour pool as well.  Say you have a fortress of 140 dwarves. Much of what you are doing besides keeping them alive is having them produce something and staying active. Let's say you make 40 of them full time warriors. That leaves you with 100 left to deal with. Let's say 20 are assigned to farming and basic hauling. That leaves you with 80 to deal with. You need to produce 100 pieces of clothing in a year. You need to produce roughly 50 pieces of armour as well. To give your dwarves adequate amounts of furniture you must produce 50 of which 10 are wood and the rest is stone. You also need to make pots and valuable s for trade.

So to  make that 100 pieces of clothing you need about 3 dwarves spinning thread into cloth. You need 2 to dye all that cloth and then you have about 1 or 2 to make the clothing. So that industry takes 6-8 dwarves without counting the input materials.

To make 50 pieces of armour and arms you need 150 bars of metal. Which requires about 4-5 dwarves who forge bars. You then want 3 smiths who each have their own forge to make what they are good at. Lets say that you don't have a magma forge. So for each bar of metal you need 2 logs to make. Which requires another 4-5 wood burners which is about 300 trees you need each year.  So all in all maybe 15 dwarves needed to produce that.

You also need alcohol and food. 3 brewers, 2 cooks, 2-3 pot makers.

You have 2 wood cutters. 3 carpenters. 6 miners. 5 doctors.

So how many dwarves is that?  About 50-60 can be used like that if you have the base materials to keep it running. Which leaves you with well over 20 dwarves who would be idle.

So you should have more then enough masons to do your job.

Build more workshops then, and set it so only high skilled dwarves may use them. Use the other dwarves as haulers, construction workers and block builders.

I usually do a 3 to 2 ratio as well for both my workshops as well as my industries. So I'm producing 3 pig tails in the time it takes to make 2 cloths. 3 cloths in the time it takes to make 2 items of clothing. This way none of my dwarves are ever idle and I can mass draft my peasants without damaging my flow of supply for at least a year.

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I guess other then that drink some more water go for a walk every day and try to get more sleep.

Well instead of being like bins it would be a set amount.

So if you were to buy a cord of oak wood, instead of buying each one either in the bin or the bin as a whole you would just have the price for a cord of wood.

When you take away from the trade depot your dwarfs will carry them as individual logs.

Also this way you could import and export a sizeable amount of materials relatively easily.

For these base resources I don't see why a trader would be willing to sell just one log, they'd probably want to do things in bulk.