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[Rigel]

Ok, this seems to be a frequent source of frustration from what I can gather: A dwarf turns moody and the ˇFUN! begins. Now, in this particular case my Gem Setter fell into the possessive mood, claimed a jeweller's workshop and went around the fortress picking up stuff until something wasn't there - so the detective's work begins. Checked the things he's looking for in the workshop's description (in this order, I deduced the first one from the stuff already gathered):

rough... color
stone... rock
bars... metal   
leather... skin
cloth... thread
leather... skin

And the respective stuff that the dwarf had gathered so far:

rough brown zircons x3
tetrahedrite
sterling silver bars
reindeer leather

Now, it would seem like the cloth or leather is the issue so I checked my stacks and found there to be more than I'd like to count of leather (various types), cloth made out of pig fiber&/rope reed fiber and cloth made out of wool but none out of silk or adamantine. Then I checked his personal preferences and found the following:

Light brown
Giant leopard seals
Dogs
Mosquitos
Giant snowy owl tooth
Knuckle worm leather
Faint yellow diamond
Tin
Siltstone
Crowns
Bolts
Llama's milk
Whip wine
Giant ibex

As far as I know, none of these should matter with the cloth part and only one might matter with the leather (and I'm not even sure if preferences matter AT ALL with jewellers...). If the leather preference is an issue then that's probably bad since the vermins in question seem to spawn on evil biomes only and mine isn't of that type. But again since the cloth seems to be the next in order I thought I'd try to make a piece of adamantine cloth quickly to see if the problem were solved - it wasn't. So, could it be that for some unimaginable reason the dwarf wants silk cloth? Or something completely different? Am I missing out on something here? Any suggestions are more than welcome.

[Larix]

A demand for cloth is always for one of the three main "flavours" of cloth - plant, yarn, silk. Secretive and possessed dwarfs won't tell you which of the three they want, but they'll accept only that general cloth type: if a dwarf wants yarn cloth for a project, no amount of pig tail and cave spider silk cloth will do, but llama, alpaca and sheep wool cloth will all be acceptable.

Seems like your dwarf wants silk cloth. You can often acquire some by sending weavers (or haulers with weaving enabled) into the caverns to harvest spiderwebs.

Dwarfs will only claim adamantine cloth if you have some available (i.e. woven _and_ unforbidden) and furthermore only seem to use it as base material, never for decoration.

[Rigel]

Great... to the caverns it is then. Only problem with that - a Forgotten Beast is running around. And I haven't got to meaningful squads yet... oh well.

[Rigel]

Low and behold.. it worked out! Silk cloth it was indeed, you have my gratitude.

[Garath]

It's one of the things I usually trade for with the first caravan, a couple of various kinds of cloth for moods