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[roqi]

Hi all.

I like building out of wood, and I think it's terribly inefficient to use one log per one square of wall. Sawmill is what I'd need, I thought. After searching the forum, I found out some people have spoken of a sawmill, but nobody actually got through it and made it.
So, here it is! A custom Sawmill workshop, a special "plant" with no biome, and a working reaction.
Here's a screenie:



Somehow, it fits. I can see a dwarf refusing to call something made out of (pfft) wood its proper name...



And here's the raws:

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building_sawmill.txt

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building_sawmill

[OBJECT:BUILDING]

[BUILDING_WORKSHOP:SAWMILL]
[NAME:Sawmill]
[NAME_COLOR:7:0:1]
[BUILD_LABOR:CARPENTER]
[BUILD_KEY:CUSTOM_A]
[WORK_LOCATION:2:2]
[DIM:3:3]
[TILE:0:1:45:32:32]
[TILE:0:2:32:32:32]
[TILE:0:3:32:32:128]
[COLOR:0:1:6:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0]
[COLOR:0:2:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0]
[COLOR:0:3:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1]
[TILE:1:1:45:32:32]
[TILE:1:2:128:32:32]
[TILE:1:3:32:205:45]
[COLOR:1:1:6:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0]
[COLOR:1:2:0:0:1:0:0:0:0:0:0]
[COLOR:1:3:0:0:0:7:0:0:6:0:0]
[TILE:2:1:128:32:45]
[TILE:2:2:45:32:32]
[TILE:2:3:213:205:184]
[COLOR:2:1:0:0:1:0:0:0:6:0:0]
[COLOR:2:2:6:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0]
[COLOR:2:3:7:0:0:7:0:0:7:0:0]
[TILE:3:1:45:32:32]
[TILE:3:2:45:0:128]
[TILE:3:3:213:205:184]
[COLOR:3:1:6:0:0:7:0:0:0:0:0]
[COLOR:3:2:6:0:0:7:0:0:0:0:1]
[COLOR:3:3:7:0:0:7:0:0:7:0:0]
[BUILD_ITEM:1:NONE:NONE:NONE:NONE][BUILDMAT][WORTHLESS_STONE_ONLY][CAN_USE_ARTIFACT]
reaction_plank.txt

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reaction_plank

[OBJECT:REACTION]

[REACTION:WOOD_PLANKS]
[NAME:cut logs into planks]
[REAGENT:A:1:WOOD:NO_SUBTYPE:NONE:NONE]
[PRODUCT:100:10:BLOCKS:NO_SUBTYPE:PLANT_MAT:PLANK:WOOD]
[BUILDING:SAWMILL:CUSTOM_P]
[SKILL:CARPENTRY]
"tree" to add at the bottom of plant_standard.txt

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[PLANT:PLANK]
[NAME:wooden plank][NAME_PLURAL:wooden planks][ADJ:wooden plank]
[USE_MATERIAL_TEMPLATE:STRUCTURAL:STRUCTURAL_PLANT_TEMPLATE]
[BASIC_MAT:LOCAL_PLANT_MAT:STRUCTURAL]
[USE_MATERIAL_TEMPLATE:WOOD:WOOD_TEMPLATE]
[STATE_NAME:ALL_SOLID:thin wooden]
[STATE_ADJ:ALL_SOLID:thin wooden]
[PREFIX:NONE]
[TREE:LOCAL_PLANT_MAT:WOOD][TREE_TILE:226]
[PREFSTRING:usefulness]

Also, remember to add this to entity file
[PERMITTED_BUILDING:SAWMILL]
[PERMITTED_REACTION:WOOD_PLANKS]


A person more patient than me could actually write up a dozen plants and reactions to make, say, Maple Logs turn into Thin Blocks Made Out Of Maple Logs. Feel free to, if you'd like; it's quite simple. Creating reactions for plank furniture is entirely possible too.
If somebody wants to take this and put it in their mod, be my guest.

Anyway, enjoy 

[Zaranthan]

There's another issue: your carpenters will start making "a plank made out of wood logs bed," "a plank made out of wood logs barrel,"  "a plank made out of wood logs crutch," and so on. Such are the hazards of a reaction that takes one log and makes ten logs.

[roqi]

You are correct, except "logs" is not included in the plant name so it'd be "a plank made out of wood bed". Well, poo.   
I guess the way to fix it would be disabling the vanilla carpenter's workshop and making a custom one with all the reactions created so there's no stupid names.
But oh well. I guess it is not really usable without micromanaging. And I so liked the look of it...

[Arkenstone]

Why not just limit it to a building material by removing the [WOOD] tag?  WE know the difference between a log and a plank, but the game doesn't.

[Shima]

Could always just call it something like "wooden plank" or "processed wood" or "milled wood".  Wooden plank bed, processed wood bed, milled wood bed.  Those aren't so bad.  I'd go with "processed wood" myself.

Could even get fancy, make another reaction that requires the processed wood and something else, make lacquered wood, which has a higher value than normal woods.  Lacquered wood idols, wave them in the Elves' faces.

[roqi]

Why not just limit it to a building material by removing the [WOOD] tag?  WE know the difference between a log and a plank, but the game doesn't.

Removing the tag from...where? And who would build using it, because I don't think it would be carpenters then

Could always just call it something like "wooden plank" or "processed wood" or "milled wood".  Wooden plank bed, processed wood bed, milled wood bed.  Those aren't so bad.  I'd go with "processed wood" myself.

Could even get fancy, make another reaction that requires the processed wood and something else, make lacquered wood, which has a higher value than normal woods.  Lacquered wood idols, wave them in the Elves' faces.

The game adds "logs" automatically. So it'd be wooden plank logs, processed wood logs, milled wood logs... I decided on planks made out of wood logs because it sounds almost official.  But it's for naught now.

Yeah, the game does need more wood industry. I mean yeah, dwarves are associated with stone, but shoving butchered trees in front of the elves is a valuable experience, too.

[EDIT] Found a solution, edited first post

[DracoGriffin]

Uhm, isn't there a new tag in DF2010 along the lines of "get material from reagent"? Why isn't that used instead?

In 40d, it wasn't possible so you had to mickeymouse it like what's going on here. :X

[roqi]

Uhm, isn't there a new tag in DF2010 along the lines of "get material from reagent"? Why isn't that used instead?

In 40d, it wasn't possible so you had to mickeymouse it like what's going on here. :X

I'm aware of that. But if I used that tag, it'd just be "maple logs" and it wouldn't fit a sawmill, being just a reaction that turns one log into ten... 

I am so misunderstood *sulks in a corner*

[DracoGriffin]

Why wouldn't it be maple planks?

There was a small mod for Kobold Camp just for this purpose but product was blocks. Things look nicer in blocks!

[roqi]

Why wouldn't it be maple planks?

There was a small mod for Kobold Camp just for this purpose but product was blocks. Things look nicer in blocks!

Because there is no such item as planks... I made a custom plant so they would be named "planks" or "thin wooden blocks", but real planks cannot be made.

[Smitehappy]

* I need to read*

[Deon]

I have refined wood too but I didn't include it in the main mod because I haven't decided which route do I want to go... Maybe I will make a separate material template which does not have ITEMS_HARD, ITEMS_WEAPON etc. so you won't have plank armor or weapons. It would work .

* I need to read*

You don't have to.

[Arkenstone]

Why don't you just make a new material template that's made from wood, the same way that leather is made from skin?  You'd even be able to keep the tree name that way!

EDIT: I didn't see that Deon already beat me to it.

[Arkenstone]

Why wouldn't it be maple planks?

There was a small mod for Kobold Camp just for this purpose but product was blocks. Things look nicer in blocks!

Because there is no such item as planks... I made a custom plant so they would be named "planks" or "thin wooden blocks", but real planks cannot be made.

Yeah, if all you want to do with it is build, just make a reaction that produces 5 or 10 blocks of wood.

[roqi]

I have refined wood too but I didn't include it in the main mod because I haven't decided which route do I want to go... Maybe I will make a separate material template which does not have ITEMS_HARD, ITEMS_WEAPON etc. so you won't have plank armor or weapons. It would work .

Do go ahead. It'd be much better than what I've done. I had no idea you could do that 

Why wouldn't it be maple planks?

There was a small mod for Kobold Camp just for this purpose but product was blocks. Things look nicer in blocks!

Because there is no such item as planks... I made a custom plant so they would be named "planks" or "thin wooden blocks", but real planks cannot be made.

Yeah, if all you want to do with it is build, just make a reaction that produces 5 or 10 blocks of wood.

*points to first post*
That's what I've done, now