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[Insanegame27]

What if, Instead of having to turn mason on for everyone when you want to build a stone wall, or carpenter on for a wood wall, what if there as a building labor just for constructions. that way, you don't have a novice mason doing rock statues job while your legendary +5 is hauling stone to a wall halfway across the map into dangerous terrain.

I know it's possible to do with workshop profiles, but I really don't liike that kind of micromanagement

[smjjames]

Wouldn't that actually just increase the micromanagement? There's also already an architect skill.

[Bumber]

They should be labors rather than skills. It makes sense to keep the current skill associations.

Architect is more for planning than actually building.

I know it's possible to do with workshop profiles, but I really don't liike that kind of micromanagement

You also need burrows to keep your legendary from building the walls.

[Deboche]

Maybe the architect skill could be expanded. At this point, I usually have several architects because it doesn't really matter who goes, the skill never gets trained very high and doesn't seem to change much.

The mug example wasn't the best because that's not the mason's job but there should definitely be a difference between the builder of walls/floors/etc and the craftsman who makes statues/thrones/doors/etc..

In the case of rock, it'd be easy to make the mason a builder and give thrones/doors/statues/etc to the stonecrafter. But carpenters do build stuff and make chairs/tables/etc, some separation should also be implemented.

All in all, good suggestion

[Icefire2314]

The architect skill is honestly useless I think, might increase designing speed but otherwise no. One potential use for the skill could be that a workshop could have quality like an item, higher quality workshop increases production speed, max clutter, etc, combined with a legendary craftsdwarf could mean a veritable factory. Could be OP but would have to be looked at.

[Chevaleresse]

High quality bridges/furnaces/etc, anything that requires architecture, can result in happy thoughts from admiring a fine Bridge/etc lately, if I recall correctly.

[Insanegame27]

High quality bridges/furnaces/etc, anything that requires architecture, can result in happy thoughts from admiring a fine Bridge/etc lately, if I recall correctly.

Really? I usually just go:
Computer: a migrant wave has arrived.
Me: Finally! Alt+tab to therapist, read dwarves, scroll doen and assign everyone to architecture- Wait. Fuck.You. Game. You're telling me that out of thirty-two migrants, thirty are children!?

Either way I usually get a good thought and i never "train" my architects

[Deboche]

Either way I usually get a good thought and i never "train" my architects

Same here.

Maybe in the future dwarves will require temples, palaces and other marvelous works of masonry and we'll just assign an architect to the job, then he'll take care of the design. It could even be moodable. It would create all the designations for walls, floors, stairways, ramps and ceilings and you'd be free to change it of course but dwarves producing their own construction would be pretty cool.

[nanomage]

I really like this suggestion. Construction-related activities could be split from the main corresponding labour and grouped into their own submenu. It would really save much micromanagement because we not only wouldn't be required to attach profiles to the workshops, but also wouldn't have to add our legendary crafters to burrows (which can have lots of side-effects) in order to prevent them from venturing outside to build that palm log wall. Two labours (making wooden stuff+building wooden log constructions) could still be governed by the same skill (carpentry, in this example), or different skills (making glass bricks + building a wall with glass bricks).