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If you link the end-stage stockpile to the workshop that will be using it so that the workshop only takes from that stockpile, I think that should cause the manager to only count the number of raw materials available in that stockpile.

It does.

Now I'd like to automate it, but I'm having trouble working out the best way to set up job manager to keep the system fed without swamping the source stockpiles.

As far as I could tell, there is no way to set up a workshop order to limit output based on a stockpile's contents rather than the fort's contents. And with booze, you cannot tell if the barrel has 5 or 25 drinks in it, so a stockpile might have much fewer drinks than you want on reserve.

If overflowing your source stockpiles is a problem because you never want to recreate all the links to the little stockpiles, then create a reservoir stockpile, that feeds to the central stockpile.

My setup for cooked food and booze is like this. I have one 20 tile stockpile that feeds all of the little stockpiles, and I have one large reservoir that feeds the central stockpile. That 20 tile stockpile is created in the first year and is never replaced. The job manager has one order each for "cooked food", "brew plant", and "brew fruit". Each order has a "quantity < n" condition, and as the fort grows, n is increased (from about 100 to 500 then 1000 and 3000, then it stays there) and the number of workshops are increased, but the job orders are not recreated.

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Is it made of bulky tunnel tubes is it a bulky crossbow made of tunnel tubes? I'm assuming the former.

"Tunnel Tube" logs is the material. I like the "bulky" attribute, as it implies the crossbow is larger than normal, even though it still weighs only 1. Moody dwarfs apparently can make some fancy things. I also have a "sleek steel high boot" but that is more annoying than anything else.

New artifact.... useful and it sounds really cool, like a dwarf decided to make a portable ballista.

I had a couple of rotting cats running around after exposure to weather and they died after about a season.

Currently the "Pickup Equipment" job's subtasks follows this order.
- drop old item
- walk to new item
- equip new item

What if it were ordered as this?
- walk to new item
- drop old item
- equip new item

I see these effects.
a) Dwarfs would no longer drop the 'old item' on the refuse stockpile because the Pickup Equipment job started in that tile. *
b) The 'old item' will be worn longer, leading to fewer concurrent Pickup Equipment jobs. **
c) Players would no longer have to imagine their dwarf walking 200 z's to get new trousers, without trousers. ***

* Refuse stockpiles are my main source of xSuperiorx and xExceptionalx metal armor.
** If a squad's uniform includes "iron helm" and the squad currently has three different quality levels of iron helm equipped, the production of a higher-quality iron helm currently causes three Pickup Equipment jobs to be triggered. Some of these are likely to be concurrent, meaning up to three dwarfs in that example squad are tasked with jobs that they will not untask when you need them to respond to a squad Move/Kill order. It also means that they are still wearing their old item if the new item is misplaced (the locked bin effect or a player forbidding the new item because McAxeman is needed pronto).
*** Shouldn't dwarfs want to wear the old item right up until they get their hands on that new item?

This post is about the order of the subtasks for the Pickup Equipment job, not about other aspects of the job.

Some players assign specific equipment to avoid untimely uniform upgrades, others will produce all of the uniforms before creating the squads.

While there is no way to determine what item they are looking using the job menu, if you are currently forging new items, you might see an item in the forge with "TSK" next to it. That item might be the item.

You can combine that giant cave spider with cage traps to cage that titan. The wiki has "titans and forgotten beasts (as well as certain other types of creatures) are immune to traps entirely and will waltz right past all of your carefully placed cages unless the cage has a giant cave spider web on it." from here. The silk farm explains how to get the spider spitting webs out. Just don't let your spider get punched by the titan.

Quote from: anewaname on May 24, 2017, 11:53:32 pm

The non-DFHack trick would be to build a floor and then deconstruct it.

On which z-lvl? I'm suffering from random caveins in my current 43.05 fort, but I don't know the origin, so can't use the workaround

Well, constructing the floor will clear the mud that the OP was having problems with, see removing mud.

If you are having problems with cave-ins happening in the caves, where you have not explored yet, you cannot do anything until you can see the location. Explore and when you find the spot, use DFHack or the "build a floor" method.