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[Griphus]

Hey all,

I've got a dwarf in a strange mood that claimed my Mason's Workshop.  He's drawing pictures of a forest, stacked cloth, and a quarry.  From looking at the wiki, it seems like this would be cloth, wood, and stone.  I've got 414 stones, 142 logs, and 7 cloth.  However, he is still standing there.  Does anyone have any insight about why?  I'm worried he's going to go insane here real quickly.

[crazysheep]

Check the type of cloth that you have, he might be looking for yarn or silk cloth instead of plant fiber cloth.

[Griphus]

hmm, yea I only have pig tail fiber.  probably no way i can get silk or yarn in time.

[crazysheep]

For yarn, shear some farm animals (sheep or alpacas work well), spin the yarn and then weave the yarn into cloth.
For silk, either breach the caverns or wait for a caravan.

[Quietust]

If you have DFHack, the "showmood" command will tell you what the dwarf wants (and the order in which he wants it), and you can use the (t) cursor on the workshop to see what's been collected so far.

[greycat]

and you can use the (t) cursor on the workshop to see what's been collected so far.

This is extremely important.  Use t to see what has been collected (in order top to bottom), and use q to see a cyclic-with-immediate-dupes-removed version of the list of demands.  Then reconcile the two.

If his list of demands, in order, is "stone... wood... cloth..." and he has collected just 1 log so far, then you know two things: (1) the starting point is wood; (2) the next thing he needs is either a second log, or some type of cloth.