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letsdance

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destroyed artwork - food or threads?
« on: October 02, 2014, 09:10:54 am »
an artwork of one of my dwarves has been destroyed. is there a way to see which one? the highest skills of the dwarf in question are weaving (11), cooking (8), mining (3) and milling (3). i wouldn't have any of these associated with art defacement (food rotting? threads used in hospital?). any idea what happened and how i could prevent it?

i've also had an art defacement from my stone/bone craftsdwarf a while ago, and no idea how that could happen. destroyed bolts from hunting?
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Re: destroyed artwork - food or threads?
« Reply #1 on: October 02, 2014, 10:08:06 am »
I'm pretty sure master weavers make masterwork cloth, and even that degrades from general wear and tear just as easily as any other cloth, I'd ban your clothiers' stocks from using masterwork cloth and call it good. Then you can use the better stuff to make valuable tradegoods.
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Re: destroyed artwork - food or threads?
« Reply #2 on: October 02, 2014, 11:04:53 am »
just had it again from my cook. cooking is his only skill. must be something with food. i assume it doesn't give him a bad thought if someone eats his masterworks... i don't see any miasma or rotten master food.
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Re: destroyed artwork - food or threads?
« Reply #3 on: October 02, 2014, 11:34:42 am »
food.  I'm pretty sure items made from masterwork cloth don't upset the weaver.
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Re: destroyed artwork - food or threads?
« Reply #4 on: October 03, 2014, 11:39:16 am »
If you had masterwork cloth stolen I know it causes a bad thought.  Monkeys managed to cause my earliest tantrum spiral that way.  I hate monkeys...
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Re: destroyed artwork - food or threads?
« Reply #5 on: October 03, 2014, 12:09:23 pm »
As far as i can tell, rot doesn't count as masterwork destruction. I had tons of high-quality clothes rot away on refuse piles and no clothier/weaver batted an eye.
There are some cases where food can "melt", which counts as destruction. I think that happens when the first item picked up by the cook was some type of frozen liquid. They often succeed in cooking it, but when the food then spends time underground, the liquid melts, turning the entire food item into a puddle.
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Re: destroyed artwork - food or threads?
« Reply #6 on: October 03, 2014, 12:54:03 pm »
I believe prepared meals can trigger masterwork destruction if they are eaten by vermin - do you have enough cats patrolling your food stockpiles?
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Re: destroyed artwork - food or threads?
« Reply #7 on: October 04, 2014, 12:26:11 pm »
i've made my food stockpile a cat pasture. no cook art defacement since then.
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