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[StagnantSoul]

I keep getting gem cutters and setters, blacksmiths, metal crafters, everything but the moods I want- Leather workers, bowyers, weapon and armour smiths. I have a group of 27 migrants all competent in weapon and armour smith, just hauling and brewing/plant gathering, so if they go into a mood, they should be weapon/armour smith moods. Buuuut, the crafters and cutters are getting all the action. I have three legendary stone crafters, two legendary gem setters, one legendary cutter, one wood crafter, a metal crafter, and a clothesmaker. Is there a way to force a mood onto a dwarf? I really want a good group of military equipment makers, but none of my smiths or leather workers are getting moods. Can I force them to?

[Button]

I believe there's a dfhack command to force a mood to happen, but without specifying a specific dwarf. I guess you could use it a bunch of times until it picked someone you wanted?

[Quietust]

I believe there's a dfhack command to force a mood to happen, but without specifying a specific dwarf. I guess you could use it a bunch of times until it picked someone you wanted?

There is indeed such a command, and it can forcibly override the dwarf, the mood type, and the mood skill. It should be noted, however, that the command doesn't actually "force a mood to happen" so much as it constructs a strange mood from scratch using the same logic as the game itself, and it currently uses the logic from version 0.34.11 (I haven't checked it against the logic from 0.40.xx yet).

[StagnantSoul]

Just tried it out, can't seem to get anything but -force working. I'd like to get force a secretive weapon smith and a secretive armour smith. Maybe keep forcing armour smiths until I have a full set of armor, and weapon smiths until I have artifact weapons for one squad.

[Quietust]

Just tried it out, can't seem to get anything but -force working. I'd like to get force a secretive weapon smith and a secretive armour smith. Maybe keep forcing armour smiths until I have a full set of armor, and weapon smiths until I have artifact weapons for one squad.

For a secretive weaponsmith type "strangemood -type secretive -skill weaponsmith", and for a fey armorsmith type "strangemood -type fey -skill armorsmith". To target a specific dwarf, [v]iew it and specify "-unit" along with the other parameters, and add "-force" to ignore most of the restrictions that would prevent a mood from triggering normally (minimum population, recent mood cooldown, artifact limit, etc.).