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Quote from: Chilton on January 22, 2012, 08:24:36 am

Aye, twas My first thought. But this is meant to be a Brewing Fort, not a bloody clothes factory

It never hurts to have a couple of sidelines just in case. And if you really don't want to sell it you could always use it to give your militia proper uniforms.

Theyre wearing Leather and Metal

Make cloaks. Those can sometimes block freaking WARHAMMERS.

I already had Cloaks before I had to build a massive bloody Cloth Storage Room

Looms are a liability unless you immediately order up one of each type of job and suspend it so more jobs can't be auto-generated. Otherwise, they use up all the thread for the hospital and weavers go on suicide missions to the caverns to collect webs.

Hospital has its own Thread Supply from the Farmers Market, but in future, I shall be Suspending Work.

Quote from: Chilton on January 22, 2012, 08:53:31 am

Quote from: Garath on January 22, 2012, 08:52:07 am

don't process pig tails or rope read at the workshop, end of problem

I dont have either of those things. Thats why Im confoozled

No thread of any kind?  Loom not set to autoweave the thread?  If not, I am as confuzzled as you are.

I presume its Cave Spider Silk, found in some deep Cavern I dont even know exists. It may have been set to Autoweave it, though Im sure I told it not to. I was polite!

Cloth Crafts - insane value.

Or red cloaks.

Yeah, but theyre not the center of Industry

It sounds like it's auto-gathering silk and making that into cloth. An easy way to fix this is to either turn off auto-collecting, or set it to use dyed cloth / thread only. Hit 'o' and play around with the settings.

Aye

Pro-tipsauce - Go into the (o)rders menu and set the loom to auto-loom dyed thread only. Then have your laziest dorf dye it up

As for disposal of cloth, Set custom cloth only stockpiles, custom crappy clothing stockpiles, and some clothesmakers workshops near your entrance/trade depot. Mass decorate everything and trade away.

So, to make sure I understand: Go to the (o)rders menu, set the loom to only loom dyed Thread, assign the Mayor to do all the work, and go build a Custom Stockpile?

Wasn't the ‼solution‼ already mentioned?

Whats funny about this, is that Ive already burnt it all, and three Dwarfs. 

Bags, ropes for wells, cat bait, and traction benches, and make the rest into socks so dwarves leave their dirty damn socks all over the fortress.

While a Fort full of Socks would be better than a Fort full of Cloth, then Id just be replacing the Cloth Storage Rooms with Finished Good Storage Rooms.

Make cloaks, give every militia dwarf six cloaks to wear on top of their armor.

But thatd take, like, time and effort.   

have you been killing elf caravens? just to take their cloth?

There are no Elves in this World.

don't process pig tails or rope read at the workshop, end of problem

I dont have either of those things. Thats why Im confoozled

Make clothing with it. Sell the clothing to the caravans and buy stuff you actually need.

Aye, twas My first thought. But this is meant to be a Brewing Fort, not a bloody clothes factory

I've just found how great fun is to tear each enemy's ears and nose before killing him, I had a wrestler who had a bag of some 20 noses as souvenirs before he was lashed to death by some overlord something, who did not like to have his face noseless.

A shame - Im sure His Nostrils would have made a great addition to Your mantle

A spiral ramp, except every half-turn there is a bridge over the central shaft instead of the next ramp segment. This is essentially a central shaft (derp) but atleast its different. Actually depending on the scale it could be made to be quite elaborate. Obviously the smallest size would have to be 3x3 but a giant one 7x7 or bigger could be made to be very aesthetically pleasing.

Oh... wow.

Eh... Idea.

Massive Central Shaft with a different district every 10 levels.
With crisscrossing bridges interconnecting them.
And instead of a Roof, theres a big square of Bridges, which serve as Base Defense. If an Enemy triggers a Pressure Pad right next to the front door, the Bridge Retracts, and all my Enemies fall down the Central Shaft, either onto the Bridges or to the bottom, whatever that ends up being. Right, thats what Ill be doing. Thanks!

And yes, i know, i could build the Fort in Progressive Squares, or Stairways leading to Corridors leading to Stairs.
Im trying to think of something more than that.
Obviously, this is all plans for the next Version, and I lack the enthusiasm to actually test stuff.
Im toying with a Triangular Stairway Design, where the Stairways are organised in a Triangular manner, in which the Triangles have streets within then, and get 2 squares smaller every level.

But im just after ideas.

Also, before You ask:

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