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I wasn't looking outside my fortress, just at the depot area.  All the mules had arrived after wagons got there, so I figured it was time to trade.  They kept saying they weren't ready.

I began a search of the map and sure enough there was the slow poke wagon.  Like really slow.  Like an unconsious dog was moving faster.

It did make it to the depot and allowed me to trade, but when it left, that single wagon still lumbered along after everyone else had left.

Don't have a save of that one, but now I know to keep an eye out for it.  Don't remember if it was anything specific that I requested them to bring that might possibly be causing the wagon to have weight issues.  Anyways, I'll see if I can recreate it.

I designated a huge area for mining and sat a bit the watch the little guys do their thing.  I immediately noticed how even if the diagonal (or even cardinal directions) was available/exposed to the miner, he'd still choose to walk (sometimes way out of the area) to get to the same square from a different angle.  Between the two miners, they did this many times.  Very inefficient.

So your 'set of clothes' would actually be a created item much like a container.

You craft all the individual pieces, and then put them in a 'container' to make a set of clothes (perhaps you can customize your own sets as I like certain items and not others).

Example:

Clothier crafts:
2 silk socks, a silk tunic, a silk cap, and a plant fiber vest.

Leatherworker crafts:
a pair of leather breeches, a pair of leather gloves and a pair of low boots.

Either one then crafts a 'Artisan's Outfit' as a container and loads all the pieces in.

[v]iewing a dwarf's inventory would show their regular list of items but a bit more organized:
Steel Axe
Artisan's Outfit

Upon pressing the

• pand key, you'd see the full list:

  code:

  ---

  Steel Axe
  Artisan's Outfit
    silk cap
    silk shirt
    plant fiber vest
    right leather glove
    left leather glove
    leather breeches
    right silk sock
    left silk sock
    right leather low boot
    left leather low boot

  ---

  
  Etc.

  From then on, you can just use the manager screen and select Make 30 Artisan's Outfits and the two workshops would proceed to make all that was needed.

  [ December 19, 2007: Message edited by: Dwarfu ]