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Also @crazysheep I'm sorry, I just got all excited thinking I was cool to point out some anecdotal nerdyness.It's cool
Use the manager to forge steel barsThat might work. Brb, will update if that works.
Things to check:1. Hmmm I need to check that.
1. The stock screen. Check the ingredients for steel to mak sure that they are available for use in smelting and have not been dumped, forbidden, used in buildings, or sundry other things that could render them unavailable.
2. Your magma source. Make sure that you have magma with an average depth of 4/7 beneath the smelter. If one of the tiles has less than that, the magma is shifting around and the smelter is occasionally unpowered so it'll list jobs at some times and not at others.
3. Your stockpile. Look to see if a bin(s) were recently placed in a bar stockpile. If so, one or more of the necessary materials might be designated for a Place in Bin job and won't be available until that task is finished.
4. Jobs listing. Check any construction projects to make sure that you didn't use of these materials by accident.
Eh.. lye falls under "Misc. Liquid" in 0.34.10 food stockpiles.Briefly...What version are you running? This was fixed recently.
Needing a good amount of soap for injuries...
Have lots of buckets
Have lots of ash
Have lots of lye
Have lots of tallow
CanNOT make soap. For five in game years. At. All.
Discover that all of the buckets of lye are being put in rock pots in food stockpiles.
...face palm ...
Because hackers are always portrayed as using the command prompt to hack secure networks in movies. Always.A librarian seriously thought I was hacking the school network when I played DF one day on the school computers.Something similar happened to a friend of mine when he was using the MS-DOS prompt. What is it about big, blocky, fixed-width fonts that are so frightening to people who don't understand computers?
Unrelated, but the second result for "asciiphobia" when entered in google is a bay12 thread. I thought that was amusing.
I just lost quite a bit of progress to a crash, caused by what I think is a murderous little bug.I haven't got that problem, but someone posted a while back about this bug.
I was going about my managerial duties, when I noticed a couple dwarves running back and forth in a hallway, or rather zig-zagging back and forth like bees, hauling finished goods bins. Their minds appear to have been broken, and they simply kept buzzing around in that hallway like they couldn't figure out where to go, with their job stating "store item in bin." I did the only logical thing when one encounters dwarves failing at hauling an object: forbid the object they're hauling. However, when I unpaused, the game crashed before even a tick had gone by.
Anybody else had a similar problem? I'm still using 34.09, out of shear laziness to do all the work to update.
It's the fetish for building from the left. I always assume that's a religious thing.Heck, they do a lot of things from the left. Especially channeling out empty spaces. It must be a religious thing with the dwarves D:
BUT WE MUST HAVE ANVILS FIRSTI pose that Dwarves have an innate understanding of how to do things, and simply need the resources to do so.I can imagine the conversation:anvils. think about it for a second. kind of like the question of the chicken or the egg.Mood, duh.
Urist McUrdwarf had made Metalforge the Paradox of Origin, a cat bone anvil!
"Urist, what IS that?" "I dunno, maybe we can make metal things with that?" "Let's try!"
As you can see, the dwarven spirit of industry and adventure may have led to that anvil being the mother of all anvils.
Urist McFey - GIVE ME YOUR SHINY ROCKS! I MUST MAKE AN ANVIL!
Urist McBookkeeper - What's an anvil?
Urist McFey - I DON'T KNOW. BUT IT GOES IN A FORGE.
~meanwhile~
*You have found a series of magma tubes*
WE MUST MAKE MAGMA FORGES
Smoothing stone and then carving fortifications into it helpsMining out my very first piece of candy!
That made me a nervous wreak
I can imagine the conversation:anvils. think about it for a second. kind of like the question of the chicken or the egg.Mood, duh.
Urist McUrdwarf had made Metalforge the Paradox of Origin, a cat bone anvil!
