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[boquaz]

Is there a way to distinguish "large armor" from "normal armor" in work order conditions?  I've got just about my entire economy automated, I'd rather not manage my large armor stocks by hand.

[mikekchar]

Unfortunately, I don't believe there is :-(

[tussock]

They need new clothes about every two years to avoid bad thoughts, so I just make enough large stuff for half the humans once a year.

Armour only wears out in fights, but if you set an order to produce a full set or two at a specific workshop each year, forbid it doing anything else, and take from that workshop to a special armour pile that doesn't take from everywhere, you could forbid the workshop to block the order as needed and sell off or melt whatever bits end up being extra.

Shouldn't need checked more than every 5 years or so, give or take for the extra stuff eventually blocking your regular make armour orders.

[Fleeting Frames]

There's the "nearby" condition if you don't mind adding walking distance and another forging/clothing production complex.

[mikekchar]

I hadn't realised there was "nearby".  How far away is "nearby"?  A quick google search came up with the number "20 tiles", but had no justification for it.

[Fleeting Frames]

It's by default butchery condition. And never mind, in testing doesn't seem to work for stuff.

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Here, each of the workshops see the "nearby log", being 20, 40 and 47 tiles away. After the last one, I built a wood furnace on far corner of the 3x3 embark on a different z-level, and...

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This kept happening even after I linked the furnace to coins stockpile and restriced it with a burrow.

(Well, logs in minecarts didn't count though I don't see much use for that. You could potentially use the weight difference to separate large armour from normal into different stockpile, I guess.)

There's also the option of producing size 65 (hyena an cougar men) armour which both humans and dwarves can wield, but bit too late for that now I guess.

(all done on 44.09)

[Incantatar]

Is there a way to have a condition for rock coffers without counting bags? A trait?

[anewaname]

Is there a way to have a condition for rock coffers without counting bags? A trait?

Two ways, "hard boxes and bags" which will include wood chests, or if your order is "Construct Rock Coffer" then use the 'p'roduct option and you will get a specific "rock coffers" (this probably is the only way to get "rock coffers" as the item in the conditions).

[Atarlost]

Is there a way to have bags without chests?  There's a "BAG_ITEM producing item" trait, but no actual bag item trait I can find.

[mikekchar]

Easiest way is to specify the material.  When I'm making large chains of of things that use bags, I often use a different material bag for each (pig tail cloth for one, rope reed cloth for another, etc).  A better (but slightly more effort) way is to sew images on all of your bags and then you can use the "with sewn image" condition.  You *might* be able to do a "without sewn image", but it's been ages since I played DF and I don't have any saved games to try it out.

[Bumber]

You *might* be able to do a "without sewn image", but it's been ages since I played DF and I don't have any saved games to try it out.

"Sewn-imageless"

[Maltavius]

Given that the Steam release is now underway,
It would be nice to include the recipes from this thread in the Wiki (https://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2014:Manager#Work_orders)

Even better would be if we could agree on one or two basic recipes for each workshop and have them included (but inactive) in the game, so that you could activate them to automate stuff.

Also, does anyone have new cool automation chains?

[Shonai_Dweller]

Given that the Steam release is now underway,
It would be nice to include the recipes from this thread in the Wiki (https://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2014:Manager#Work_orders)

Even better would be if we could agree on one or two basic recipes for each workshop and have them included (but inactive) in the game, so that you could activate them to automate stuff.

Also, does anyone have new cool automation chains?

Recipes?
Not sure if you linked to the wrong thread there or if it changed since you posted but that article currently explains how to use the manager and not much else.

[Maltavius]

Given that the Steam release is now underway,
It would be nice to include the recipes from this thread in the Wiki (https://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2014:Manager#Work_orders)

Even better would be if we could agree on one or two basic recipes for each workshop and have them included (but inactive) in the game, so that you could activate them to automate stuff.

Also, does anyone have new cool automation chains?

Recipes?
Not sure if you linked to the wrong thread there or if it changed since you posted but that article currently explains how to use the manager and not much else.

That's exactly my point, we should take some recipes from THIS thread on the forums and put there on the wiki.
I'm not sure on what the protocol for doing this is that's why I didn't do it myself (yet).

[Shonai_Dweller]

Given that the Steam release is now underway,
It would be nice to include the recipes from this thread in the Wiki (https://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2014:Manager#Work_orders)

Even better would be if we could agree on one or two basic recipes for each workshop and have them included (but inactive) in the game, so that you could activate them to automate stuff.

Also, does anyone have new cool automation chains?

Recipes?
Not sure if you linked to the wrong thread there or if it changed since you posted but that article currently explains how to use the manager and not much else.

That's exactly my point, we should take some recipes from THIS thread on the forums and put there on the wiki.
I'm not sure on what the protocol for doing this is that's why I didn't do it myself (yet).

Ah, sorry! I see.